An explosion of carjackings, muggings and aggravated burglaries across Melbourne is finally being acknowledged by those who spent years pretending there was no youth crime problem.
The murders of Margaret Tapp and her young daughter in their Ferntree Gully home never caught public attention the way the Easey St killings did. But 40 years on, the monster who killed them has never been held to account.
A mum and son wake to muffled voices in the corridor outside the hotel room and know death could be moments away. Welcome to the terrifying childhood of Larry Blair, who somehow found an escape hatch from life in a criminal family.
From a shot in the dark to a daily diet of arsenic, three Victorian women resorted to their own DIY methods to make their husbands vanish.
Like a doctor or priest, George Joseph knew a lot of secrets. And to the end, he feared that one of them might get him killed.
Like the police file on her LA murder, Patricia Galea’s memory was wiped clean from her husband’s funeral in Queensland last week, but the former escort was done away with long before that.
Twenty one years after Mike Lowry was gunned down in his Korumburra pub, a new tip claims eavesdropping from a hidden room in his bar proved fatal for the popular publican.
Slug Gate didn’t really begin the day the slug was “found”. This unresolved saga seems to involve orchestrated industry sabotage. So who is behind it?
It’s a long road to justice for a woman pursuing a businessman and racehorse owner over the abuse carried out against her as a seven-year-old.
Dodging divorce settlements is an eerily common theme in cases in which women die violently or vanish. These are the tragic stories of the real dead housewives of Melbourne.
The brilliance of modern policing methods was on display in Victoria’s high country and the WA search for Cleo Smith. Let’s hope the William Tyrrell case is the next breakthrough, writes Andrew Rule.
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.
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