That Peter Forni is accused of plotting to import half a tonne of Peruvian marching powder will have shocked friends, students he taught at St Kevin’s College and the homebuyers he lent money to.
War is not glorious but galloping horses are, which is why the stories of the men and horses who lived and died charging the wells of Beersheba in the Palestine desert endure more than 100 years later.
Wrongly accused of heroin trafficking, Japanese tourist Chika Honda — and five others — paid an appalling price for the presumed guilt of one. Thirty years on, the police case still reeks.
It’s all but certain one of two violent men who accompanied a crime writer to Julie Garciacelay’s North Melbourne flat murdered her. But 48 years on, we’re no closer to the truth.
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.
A slug, Brett Sutton and accusations of a slimy cover-up. Claims of a high-level plot to crush a family’s food business look headed for court.
Malcolm Turnbull’s mentor Neville Wran is part of the murky chain leading back to the Luna Park ghost train cover up.
Abe Saffron, the evil man linked to Luna Park’s fatal Ghost Train fire, had a long history of ‘silencing’ people, Andrew Rule tells.
Former Olympian Nathan Baggaley could “do a Bradbury” and skate around criminal charges.
This rugged 4WD is owned by thousands of Aussies, including hundreds of high country hunters — and it’s helping police close in on a suspect in the case of the missing campers.
Harold Janman trying to pick up women at bus stops doesn’t make him the Tynong North killer. But the fact he lied about it might.
Ex-cop Joe Noonan has seen enough young dead people to last a few lifetimes — his tough new book is about how violent death deeply affected a lawman.
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