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.
When Roger Rogerson turned up at the dressing room door of sultry Welsh singer Shirley Bassey, for once he didn’t have a gun in his pocket. But he did have her stolen handbag.
A decade ago Rosie Batty saw her only child die in unspeakable circumstances, but through her unthinkable loss she has continued to find a way to help others.
Gary Lawrence was a crook with a moral compass whose roughcast chivalry underpins Boy Swallows Universe — it’s why the former robber with a head like a robber’s dog can be played by a male model in the hit Netflix show.
It’s hard to know who wants to cover up Slug Gate most. But some big players give the impression of trying to nobble effective investigation of who stood to gain from the saga.
Cloned number plates are helping ‘brazen chancers’ and criminals disguise a car’s identity to get away with everything from paying toll fees and speeding fines, to murder.
Bikie Shane Bowden’s brutality left a trail of destruction, but when the past caught up with him on a Gold Coast street, his execution was a cliche straight from the manual of organised crime.
Garry “Shorty” Dubois the child rapist ended it all two weeks ago, making the world a better place. He joins a long list of crooks who do the right thing by leaving jail in a pine box.
Despite the caricature he defiantly maintained, those who knew Geoffrey Edelsten paint a picture of a complex man whose private persona clashed with his public image.
Underworld figure Evangelos Goussis was convicted of the murders of Lewis Caine and Lewis Moran, but was he a heartless hitman or just a gullible goose?
The gruesome murder of Melbourne schoolgirl Alma Tirtschke inspired a famous Charles Blackman painting series, but the man hanged for her death, was innocent.
How high or wide the conspiracy surrounding one of Australia’s worst mass killings goes is still unknown. And certain old guard cops seem determined to keep it that way.
Former NSW premier Neville Wran orchestrated a closed circle of intrigue, influence, cronyism and veiled blackmail and knew how to milk the system.
Laurie Larmer, now 98, was just 21 when he skippered a bomber during WWII and learnt he would not have a funeral if he died.
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