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Mark Buttler is an award-winning crime journalist for the Herald Sun.

Police “never been closer” to solving the mystery disappearance of Russell Hill and Carol Clay thanks to a breakthrough with this clue.

Police are pursuing one theory of why a gas bottle was placed inside the tent of missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay.

Two men have been busted with what a police officer described as “more knives and weapons than you would find in Rambo’s arsenal”.

Victoria’s top cop has confirmed he’s ordered an assessment of IBAC testimony surrounding Labor’s “red shirts” scandal.

Detectives are “very close” to cracking the case of missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay, 20 months after the duo vanished.

Victoria’s corruption watchdog is appealing for public information after police allegedly shared photos of former AFL coach Dani Laidley.

A man has been charged with murdering missing Lakes Entrance man Dale Pantic in a breakthrough arrest 31 months after he was last seen alive.

A Bayside cyclist who left a driveway deposit is being hunted by local snoops keen to see the culprit in the messy case canned.

Three men have been arrested after police raided homes in Melbourne’s southeast over extortion allegations linked to the Comanchero bikie gang.

Reviled murderer and sex offender Robert Arthur Selby Lowe has died in jail serving a life sentence for the murder of six-year-old Sheree Beasley.