How The Punisher became latest casualty in deadly fight game
Kickboxer Sam Abdulrahim has joined a long list of nasties who reached the lethal end of the crime caper via the boxing scene, Andrew Rule writes.
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How Joey and Shirley Hamilton fought the law, and the law mostly won
The annals of Australian true crime history aren’t filled with too many romantic tales. But one of the most sweet – and violent – is the ballad of Joey and Shirley Hamilton.
How a simple twist of fate led Deb Gray to become a rebel with a cause
Deb Gray was born with no arms and tiny deformed legs amid suspicions her mum — and many others — were medical guinea pigs. But she has been determined to live a life of courage.
How a Lambo led cops to mistake this average Joe for an ace crook
Joe Taranto was a respectable, hardworking young man with a good job and an exotic Italian car. Little did he know selling the lambo for some extra cash would see him mixed up with Michael Sullivan.
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Tough but never mean: Beloved Flemington horseman at the final furlong
Australia will lose one of its few remaining true originals when Flemington’s longest-serving clerk of the course John “Patto” Patterson passes the ultimate final post.
Rule: Two serious investigations highlight why Victoria needs trained tracker dogs
The search for missing Ballarat mum Samantha Murphy and the case of the mushroom lunch deaths in South Gippsland underline Victoria’s puzzling lack of trained sniffer dogs.
Dead ends and false leads before huge Easey St breakthrough
After 47 years, forensic police work and a stroke of luck have led to a massive breakthrough in one of Australia’s biggest and oldest murder mysteries.
The man who ordered the hit on a young mum finally unmasked
Antje Jones was gunned down in a calculated contract killing 43 years ago. But it’s only now that the full, sad story can be told.
Rule: Wheels of justice finally turn for Clark after vile crimes
As Geoffrey Clark awaits sentencing for crimes including perjury and serious fraud, people he has hurt or threatened along the way are happy to see him get what they view as a long overdue comeuppance from the law.
Youth crime: brutal, dangerous and out of control
Nobody can say when and how the youth crime crisis will end. Maybe only when the victim of a serious crime lawyers up and finds a loophole to sue the state, writes Andrew Rule.
Rule: Who killed Colonel Duncan? A swinging sixties murder mystery
It was a society crime replete with affairs, scandal and a trail of blood. Andrew Rule examines a killing that shocked a state.
Geoff Clark’s criminality as ingrained as his belligerent sneer
As a boy, Geoff Clark was so embarrassed by the sandy hair and blue eyes he’d inherited from his Glaswegian father that he’d rub mud on his face. That distress might explain what turned him into a rapist, a thug and a brazen thief.
How freak with the streak galloped into sporting history
Tensions rose with every Winx victory as her unbeaten streak stretched from 2015 to 2019, but while the Bradman of racing could take the stain, her connections couldn’t.
It’s taken 10 years, but even the diehards admit we’ve got a youth crime problem
An explosion of carjackings, muggings and aggravated burglaries across Melbourne is finally being acknowledged by those who spent years pretending there was no youth crime problem.
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