Iconic restaurant haunted by tragedy looks for latest reboot
It was once one of Melbourne’s most popular restaurants — and remains the topic of an enduring crime mystery — but the Cuckoo has suffered another false start.
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Rule: Who killed Colonel Duncan? A swinging sixties murder mystery
It was a society crime replete with affairs, scandal and a trail of blood. Andrew Rule examines a killing that shocked a state.
Geoff Clark’s criminality as ingrained as his belligerent sneer
As a boy, Geoff Clark was so embarrassed by the sandy hair and blue eyes he’d inherited from his Glaswegian father that he’d rub mud on his face. That distress might explain what turned him into a rapist, a thug and a brazen thief.
How freak with the streak galloped into sporting history
Tensions rose with every Winx victory as her unbeaten streak stretched from 2015 to 2019, but while the Bradman of racing could take the stain, her connections couldn’t.
Mafia bosses play it safe after fatal ambush on Latorre
If you rule by the gun you die by the gun, which fruiterer John Latorre learnt the hard way. His murder has rattled some Italian organised crime players and now one top mafia figure has taken security to a new level.
Hammer set to fall on former bureaucrat turned bodybuilder
It wasn’t his love of brothels or his penchant for topping up his testosterone that brought this former education department bureaucrat down, but a passion for “cooking”.
It’s taken 10 years, but even the diehards admit we’ve got a youth crime problem
An explosion of carjackings, muggings and aggravated burglaries across Melbourne is finally being acknowledged by those who spent years pretending there was no youth crime problem.
‘Greatest of all time’: Black Caviar a champion beyond compare
Bart Cummings said you shouldn’t compare the champions. But Black Caviar, the greatest racehorse of all-time, must be celebrated.
You’ve probably never heard this suburban horror story. But the killer is still out there
The murders of Margaret Tapp and her young daughter in their Ferntree Gully home never caught public attention the way the Easey St killings did. But 40 years on, the monster who killed them has never been held to account.
Old judge learns new trick on Victoria’s youth crime wave
Lex Lasry once took to social media to mock suggestion of a youth crime issue in Victoria. Now the former Supreme Court judge is on the airwaves speaking of the “horrifying” problem plaguing the state.
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