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Andrew RuleAssociate editor

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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NSW
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.

VIC News
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When a whole school was kidnapped — twice

IT was crazy enough the first time an ambitious but bumbling criminal kidnapped an entire Victorian school at gunpoint, only to be foiled by a teacher and her knee-high boots. But then he went back and did it again.

Law & Order
Man behind the Chopper mask

Man behind the Chopper mask

LIKE most crooks, Chopper Read was a lying and manipulative egotist. He was also intelligent, funny and hadn’t been raised to be a criminal. This is the Chopper I knew, writes Andrew Rule.

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Still haunted by a little girl lost

Still haunted by a little girl lost

IT’S seven years since 13-year-old schoolgirl Bung Siriboon walked out of her house and out of her loved ones’ lives but the pain of her loss has not diminished, writes Andrew Rule.

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