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

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Unsolved crimes of 2018. Sarah Gatt, Robert Ale and Jonathan Dick

The horrific crimes police continue to probe into 2019

Sarah Gatt was brutally murdered before her body was found in the bathtub of a Kensington house, while Comanchero Robert Ale was shot nine times at a Hampton Park tattoo parlour. Detectives are still hunting those responsible. And then there’s Jonathan Dick.

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SUSPECTED MELBOURNE BOURKE STREET DRIVER . Dimitrious Gargasoulas . Source: Facebook

From petty crime to murderous rampage

Mass murderer James Gargasoulas’ delusions led him to believe a policeman was planning to kill him in the weeks before his deadly rampage, but police who knew him from years earlier say he was calculating, not crazy.

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Victorian "Rebels" President Colin Websdale talking to Police at Ryans Creek wayside stop 10 km South of Wedderburn.

Rebels bikie boss fights gun ban

A BOSS of a bikie club involved in a bloody turf war that led to a rival’s shooting death is challenging a gun ban that would make it easier for police to search him, saying it means he cannot visit his trainer or play paintball.

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