By the time Andrew “Benji” Veniamin confronted Mick Gatto at the back of his Carlton restaurant on this day 20 years ago, the hitman had become a liability to a growing list of enemies and anyone who had done “business” with him.
John Latorre was a friendly Epping greengrocer to those who didn’t really know him, and a capo in the mafia to those who did. But even captains have a boss, and when the big bucks stop, the buck stops with someone.
For Middle-Eastern organised crime groups embroiled in a vicious war over Melbourne’s illicit tobacco trade, revenge has become a more potent motivation than profit.
No one wants to spell out the bitter truth in cases like Samantha Murphy’s disappearance — when people vanish for more than a few days, the odds against their return grow longer with every hour.
A new national body aimed at protecting the welfare of racehorses has been proposed — but not everyone in the industry is getting behind the move.
They embarked on an adventure into living hell but stuck together until the end. Now two brothers from rural Queensland will be immortalised at the haunting battlefields of the Great War.
Robert Arthur Selby Lowe was a husband, father, cricket coach and church elder. But behind the facade, he was devious, damaged and dangerous.
There are a few people who should be rattled by the Cleo miracle — those behind the disappearance of Victoria’s high country campers.
There is a story behind every Melbourne Cup winner and the story behind Verry Elleegant is as unusual as the spelling of her name.
Could a retired pimp’s sob story to his favourite publican be the missing link in the 33-year mystery of the missing Walsh St revolver?
Commercial child abuse is metastasising like cancer via the internet and involves evil beyond belief. But this crack team of specialist investigators are saving thousands of children.
Femme fatale Robyn Lindholm tried to recruit both a Hells Angel bikie and a new flame to bash her boyfriend months before she had him killed instead.
A missing glass dish has a lot to tell about the final moments of a woman’s life in a murder mystery that sticks in the mind of Ron Iddles.
Few people seemed to care when teenager Suzie Lawrance went missing from Healesville one Saturday night in 1987. Finally, her grieving mother may get answers.
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