The strangest of many strange things in the murder of Salvatore Rotiroti — found beaten to death in his Geelong driveway — is that only one of the dead man’s extended family seems willing to find the killer.
Aussie Rules attracts people from every level of society, so it’s hardly surprising that among the hundreds of players at the top level there have been some serious rogues.
The morning after Chris Glasl and his SOG crew shot a crook, they were losing the adrenaline buzz of the kill — so he racked up a line of cocaine to fill the void.
Will a triple murderer go free some day because the Andrews government “did a Bolte” and used a killer as a political pawn?
Coach Denis Pagan came out of retirement to turn his hand to horse training and after just 12 starts he snatched a fairytale triumph. Here’s how he achieved the dream, writes Andrew Rule.
Another Sergi from the infamous Calabrian family just died at aged 81, a “nonno” of 15 grandchildren and one great grandchild, reaching all the milestones that their honest victim Donald Mackay didn’t, with the Sergis never charged thanks to the cops and pollies in their pockets.
From crooked cops to conmen, kid snatchers to killers, these are the crimes and villains of the past 30 years that shocked us and forever changed Victoria.
Reporter Adrian Tame had no idea who Kath Pettingill was when she called him up and launched into an expletive-riddled tirade. But the bizarre conversation kicked off an odd-couple relationship that has outlasted three of the crime matriarch’s sons.
The strange disappearance of Australia’s first celebrity chef, Willi Koeppen, involves a thriving Dandenong restaurant, a fractured marriage, illicit lovers, and some shoddy police work. But was it a mystery or a murder? Or both?
The Sunshine Boys were killers and drug dealers that liked Tarantino movies and had a taste for their own product. Andrew Rule explains why the murder that marked their downfall remains a mystery 20 years on.
It is a rare offender who can keep a secret so tightly for decades that no one gets a whiff of it. And police are hoping for that whiff with the reward for information in the case of Thomas Cooper, the 18-year-old plumber shot by the “Cowboy killer” in 1980.
‘Society Murders’ killer Matthew Wales cuts a lonely figure in prison, with guards labelling him a polite, model prisoner. But fellow inmates have a different view of the ‘poor little rich boy’ and his gardening companion, Russell St bomber Craig Minogue.
It’s been 40 years since terrified mum Lindy Chamberlain told the world a dingo stole her baby. Now a new documentary unpicks the grotesque perversion of justice the Chamberlains faced.
Disgraced harness trainer-driver Rod Weightman started to associate with serious crooks after he was disqualified on doping charges in 2004. And he soon found out such alliances can make you a jailhouse target.
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