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Jen KellyIn Black and White columnist

Jen Kelly has been the Herald Sun’s In Black and White columnist since 2015, sharing our readers’ quirky and amusing stories from the past and present. She also writes and hosts a weekly history podcast called In Black and White on Australia’s forgotten characters, featuring interviews with a range of historians, authors and experts. Jen has previously covered general news, features, health, city affairs, state politics, travel, parenting and books over more than 25 years at the Herald Sun.

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Mug Shot of Edward Morey who was found guilty of the human glove murder. The "human glove" case where the body of Percy Smith was found in the Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga in 1933. Edward Morey was found guilty at trial in May 1934. The two main detectives were Joseph "Joe" Ramus and Thomas McRae.

How ‘human glove’ helped police solve murder mystery

After the intact skin of a dead man’s hand was found, it was left to a fingerprint expert with a cast-iron stomach to crack the case.

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Sovereign Hill tourism pic for Bush Summit feature. Genazzano FCJ College students Eliza Hughes, Grace Lui, Sonia Zhuang and Isabella Emmitt dress up in costume on Main Street. Picture: David Caird

Visitors splash cash in regional tourism boom

Fewer tourists may be visiting the regions post-pandemic but they aren’t afraid to spend big during their stay, a new reports shows.

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Jack Saywell, a key suspect in the brutal attack of his parents in 1932 with a claw hammer, later became a famous racing car driver.

Son probed over ‘hammer horror’ attack on wealthy couple

Was the murder motive a family quarrel, a forbidden romance, or a financial scandal that reached all the way up to the premier?

George Calombaris has spoken on camera. Picture: ABC/7.30

Celeb chefs support Calombaris after ‘foolish’ racist review

High profile celebrity chefs have called out the diner who left a racist one-star review of George Calombaris’s new Greek restaurant to show their support for the friend.

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Celebrities during their Melbourne school days.

What our biggest celebrities were like as school kids

One got expelled for being a troublemaker, while another swapped fashion for footy. See what these celebrities were like during their Melbourne school days.

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Charles Sydney Johnson, who killed his partner Kathleen Price in front of her daughter.

A blood-soaked cocaine frenzy on the streets of Carlton

A World War I veteran turned addict committed a shocking murder in Lygon St, but once he sobered up had no memory of his crime.

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Mapped: Melbourne’s best kept secrets

From secret bars that can only be entered through bookcases and wardrobes to secret libraries and lawns, Melbourne has a wealth of hidden places to discover. See our interactive map.

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The first Australian women’s soccer team, who competed in the 1975 Asian Ladies Championship in Hong Kong, with coach Joe O'Connor in the middle. Pictured at Sydney Airport. From book The First Matildas.

Trailblazing squad who paved the way for the Matildas

Australia’s “first Matildas” ran car washes and appeared on a TV dating show to fulfil their dream of competing on the world stage.

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An 1888 illustration of Thomas Austin, an early pastoralist who introduced feral rabbits to Australia.

Was this rich settler Australia’s greatest environmental idiot?

Thomas Austin built a mansion fit for royalty but he will forever be remembered for one of history’s biggest bungles: not keeping the rabbits out.

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Author Marcus Clarke, aged 20 in 1866. State Library of Victoria

The colourful life of old Melbourne’s larrikin boozy bard

Born into wealth and power, Marcus Clarke never adjusted to life as a working man after the family fortune vanished into thin air.

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