LITTLE Cheryl Grimmer vanished from a NSW beach in 1970 at just three-years-old. For five decades her loss has haunted her surviving family and taunted cold case detectives — until the arrest of a man in Frankston in February last year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
THE row over faked breath tests has shone a light on other occasions cops and statistics have been an uncomfortable mix, writes Andrew Rule.
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.
A TODDLER cowered in his cot as his mum and her friend were butchered nearby, in a horror kill spree that has baffled police for years. And there’s one suspect who can’t really be ruled out.
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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