As Geoffrey Clark awaits sentencing for crimes including perjury and serious fraud, people he has hurt or threatened along the way are happy to see him get what they view as a long overdue comeuppance from the law.
Nobody can say when and how the youth crime crisis will end. Maybe only when the victim of a serious crime lawyers up and finds a loophole to sue the state, writes Andrew Rule.
It was a society crime replete with affairs, scandal and a trail of blood. Andrew Rule examines a killing that shocked a state.
As a boy, Geoff Clark was so embarrassed by the sandy hair and blue eyes he’d inherited from his Glaswegian father that he’d rub mud on his face. That distress might explain what turned him into a rapist, a thug and a brazen thief.
Phoenix Cooper was the victim of toxic gender politics tinged with class snobbery when he was forced to stand trial for a rape that never happened.
Christos Pittas’ presumed death is the latest in a string of events emphasising the danger of the great outdoors— and how slow police are to adopt life-saving measures.
A stunning claim from a dying criminal may provide the best lead yet to identifying the child-abducting murderer known as Mr Cruel.
A DNA bungle and disrupted crime scene have left the Tapp murders almost forgotten but could intriguing evidence link a charming deviate to one of Victoria’s worst unsolved cases?
A serial child abductor, a triad execution or a kidnap for ransom? Thirty years on, a cunning killer and police missteps have kept Karmein Chan’s death a mystery.
An ABC podcast rehashing one of the worst scandals in Australian sports history — and cost the price of a Rolls Royce — reeks of horse manure.
Al Capone didn’t wake up one day with a machine gun and barrels full of prohibition whisky. So where does the story of the Mafia begin?
In 1965 hardened criminal Ronald Ryan plotted an escape from Pentridge Prison — Peter Walker made the greatest mistake of his life by joining him.
Ben Buckley was a country pilot with a maverick streak of mischief, but under the bulldust and barnstorming he was a local hero.
When ice-smoking cop Dave Branov was nabbed he was shown hundreds of telephone intercepts — conversations with his mother and crims — but not one between him and a crooked inspector or senior sergeant. Funny about that.
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