Some of the country’s biggest elite cycling names have made headlines for more than winning world championships and Olympic medals when they took a wrong turn towards drugs, violence, lies and cheating.
Graham Kinniburgh and his crew were long gone by the time a police inspector stuck his head through a hole in the safe and uttered a line that would appear on front pages across Australia: “They got the lot”.
The collection of cretins and imbeciles who kidnapped an innocent man they believed to be a paedophile called themselves the Australian Freedom Fighters, but one detective had a different title for them: “drug-f—ed white trash.”
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.
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.
Sean Buckley the enigmatic UltraTune tycoon has been hard to miss this year. With skin is so tight, his hair so black and his teeth so white that wags have dubbed him “Waxworks”, who is he?
Insiders from a Melbourne-based Christian sect claim followers were urged to live in poverty and donate organs.
Is there a link between a series of slick Melbourne heists and two unsolved underworld murders? We may never know.
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