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.
It was a big day for crime news when serial self-mutilator Garry David died, sadistic sex offender Ian Melrose Pattison succumbed to cancer and the man dubbed “the Ascot Vale rapist” was finally arrested.
If Greg Lynn appeals, which he almost certainly will, the wife-bashing, pet-killing, car-painting, camouflage-wearing gun crank could soon be back on the street.
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.
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.
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