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Andrew Rule
Andrew RuleAssociate editor, columnist, feature writer

Andrew Rule has been writing stories for more than 30 years. He has worked for each of Melbourne’s daily newspapers and a national magazine and has produced television and radio programmes. He has won several awards, including the Gold Quills, Gold Walkley and the Australian Journalist of the Year, and has written, co-written and edited many books. He returned to the Herald Sun in 2011 as a feature writer and columnist. He voices the podcast Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule.

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Crime in Focus
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The savage murder that shocked Victoria

THE violent murder of this young mother in front of her children was so disturbing that it shocked and sickened not only the experienced Supreme Court judge presiding over it, but the accused man’s defence counsel and everyone in court. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

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Centrelink hiding behind privacy laws instead of helping

SOME people on the margins of society have substantial financial inheritances owed to them, but rather than helping efforts to track these people down and ultimately get them off the streets, Centrelink believes it is easier to hide behind privacy laws, writes Andrew Rule.

Cold Cases
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Was Jane Thurgood-Dove murdered by mistake?

JANE Thurgood-Dove was a suburban mother gunned down in her driveway in front of her three children. Her brutal murder remains unsolved, but police and others linked to the case believe she could have been killed in a fatal case of mistaken identity. LISTEN NOW.

Cold Cases
Police media press conference to appeal to the public for information on the 21st anniversary of the discovery of Fiona Burns and John Lee's bodies.

New clue in teen runaway slayings

SOMEBODY stabbed two teenagers to death and left their bodies at a Victorian rest stop. But does a new witness raise the awful possiblity there was a third victim of this horrific crime? ANDREW RULE PODCAST

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Family picture of Cheryl Grimmer (right) pictured with her brother Paul, before she went missing in 1970 who disappeared from Fairy Meadow Beach, NSW.

Hope of cracking Cheryl Grimmer cold case

Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer vanished from a NSW beach in 1970. For five decades her loss has haunted her surviving family and taunted cold case detectives — until the arrest of a man last February.

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Childishly ignorant warping the animal welfare debate

AS the urban majority in mega-cities like ours become marooned from real life — life as it has been for thousands of years — formerly intelligent and informed people are revealed as childishly ignorant, even delusional, about our relationship with animals, writes Andrew Rule.

Cold Cases
Undated. John Landos, 13. He has been missing since Jan 8th 1973, during a holiday at Lorne, he ran off into the bush & has not been seen since.

Little John Landos lost, but not forgotten

JOHN Landos was just 13 when he went missing during a family holiday in Lorne in 1973. It wasn’t until the death of another boy a year later at the hands of a notorious paedophile, that police started to believe John might have suffered a similarly horrendous fate. NEW PODCAST – LISTEN NOW.

Cold Cases
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The hitman and the housewife

FOR years they said a burglar had killed young mum Angie. But it was an ice-cold execution, hardly the work of a bumbling thief. Now Andrew Rule uncovers the shocking secret that has haunted someone for decades. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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