Dirty dentist another creep who should have known better
The law is clumsy at weighing the damage done by someone in a position of trust who sexually assaults someone vulnerable — which is exactly what sleazy dentist George Koudos did.
Andrew Rule
If Lewis Moran didn’t want to live, final seconds didn’t show it
Just days after hit man “Benji” Veniamin was shot in Carlton, Lewis Moran took a disturbing phone call as he sat at the bar of the Brunswick Club — moments later he was dead.
Hitman hurtling towards tragedy in tortured final days
By the time Andrew “Benji” Veniamin confronted Mick Gatto at the back of his Carlton restaurant on this day 20 years ago, the hitman had become a liability to a growing list of enemies and anyone who had done “business” with him.
‘It’s a family thing’: Those who rule by the gun can die that way too
John Latorre was a friendly Epping greengrocer to those who didn’t really know him, and a capo in the mafia to those who did. But even captains have a boss, and when the big bucks stop, the buck stops with someone.
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Sins of ‘a pimp and a rat’ exposed
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4WD key as police close on high country suspect
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Murder suspect a prude with secret taste for porn, prostitutes
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The cop who saw too many die too young
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