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Andrew Rule has reported on life and crimes and catastrophes (and sometimes sport) for more than 45 years. He has worked for each of Melbourne’s daily newspapers and also spent time in radio and television production and making documentaries on subjects ranging from crime to horse racing. His podcast Life & Crimes is one of News Corp’s most listened-to products.

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Youth crims posting and boasting from Gippsland to Goldy

Old-time crooks would keep a low profile to avoid the fuzz. Not so the new breed of home invaders and luxury car thieves.

Andrew Rule

3Nov97. 'Just a dash' with John Patterson. Two old Timers. former Melbourne Cup winer "Just a Dash" with Flemington clerk of course John Patterson at his flemington stables. The two will be together again for the Parade of Champions through the streets of Melbourne at midday today, as a prelude to this years Melbourne Cup./horseracing

Tough but never mean: Beloved Flemington horseman at the final furlong

Australia will lose one of its few remaining true originals when Flemington’s longest-serving clerk of the course John “Patto” Patterson passes the ultimate final post.

Police & Courts

Murals and menace at swank Prahran soiree

Mark Balsillie is a bikie who likes the finer things in life, and while police may have seized his Lamborghini, they can’t take away his appreciation of fine art and cuisine.

Andrew Rule

BALLARAT, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 25 SEPTEMBER, 2024: POOL IMAGE (VICTORIA POLICE). Police with dogs join a search in an area around Enfield State park in Victoria on a new search for the body of Samantha Murphy who went missing after going for a run in February. Wednesday, September 25. 2024. Picture: NewsWire /pool / David Crosling

Rule: Two serious investigations highlight why Victoria needs trained tracker dogs

The search for missing Ballarat mum Samantha Murphy and the case of the mushroom lunch deaths in South Gippsland underline Victoria’s puzzling lack of trained sniffer dogs.

Andrew Rule

Angie BartkowiakAntje Jones with ex-husband Clifford Jones

The man who ordered the hit on a young mum finally unmasked

Antje Jones was gunned down in a calculated contract killing 43 years ago. But it’s only now that the full, sad story can be told.

Andrew Rule

Dead ends and false leads before huge Easey St breakthrough

After 47 years, forensic police work and a stroke of luck have led to a massive breakthrough in one of Australia’s biggest and oldest murder mysteries.

Police & Courts

Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were killed at a property on Easey St in Collingwood in January 1977. Picture: Supplied

The Easey St murders: A horror crime unsolved for almost 50 years

The Easey Street murders remain one of Victoria’s most baffling unsolved cold cases — what happened to two women found dead in a Collingwood home almost 50 years ago?

Police & Courts

A blowtorch, a coat hanger and an X-rated scar

Life in the criminal world can leave its mark on you in more ways than one. Just ask the crook walking around with large phallic symbol branded on his skin.

Andrew Rule

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024. Geoffrey Clark leaves the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne

Rule: Wheels of justice finally turn for Clark after vile crimes

As Geoffrey Clark awaits sentencing for crimes including perjury and serious fraud, people he has hurt or threatened along the way are happy to see him get what they view as a long overdue comeuppance from the law.

Andrew Rule

Youth crime has always existed, but now it's an epidemic.

Youth crime: brutal, dangerous and out of control

Nobody can say when and how the youth crime crisis will end. Maybe only when the victim of a serious crime lawyers up and finds a loophole to sue the state, writes Andrew Rule.

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