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.
The murders of Margaret Tapp and her young daughter in their Ferntree Gully home never caught public attention the way the Easey St killings did. But 40 years on, the monster who killed them has never been held to account.
A mum and son wake to muffled voices in the corridor outside the hotel room and know death could be moments away. Welcome to the terrifying childhood of Larry Blair, who somehow found an escape hatch from life in a criminal family.
From a shot in the dark to a daily diet of arsenic, three Victorian women resorted to their own DIY methods to make their husbands vanish.
History is littered with outrageous miscarriages of justice — but whether it’s stuff-up or conspiracy, for those convicted on dodgy evidence, the results are harrowing.
A career crook caught up in a massive drug bust implicating the Calabrian mafia ’Ndrangheta has walked free after a suspiciously short stint in jail.
A small fire lit on a hot day in a national park quickly turned to disaster. Here a former AFP officer uncovers the laziness and blunders that led to catastrophe.
Neighbours actor Madeleine West has detailed how childhood sex abuse changed her as an adult. Listen to the podcast. Warning: GRAPHIC.
It seems no one loves imposing laws quite as much as the lawless — and when it comes to bikie gangs, these rules are enforced with an iron fist.
When the wife of Victoria’s chief secretary died outside her grand Kew house, the investigation raised suspicions of political tampering that still loom a lifetime later.
Katherine Knight decapitated her partner and cooked his head in a pot with vegetables and gravy. Was it nature or nurture that made her such a monster?
Among the few sorry possessions Colleen South left with her abandoned car was her journal. On the last page, she had scrawled “Help me please.” In the end, no one did.
In the months before he vanished, Mark Jansen was a degenerate gambler betting black money for a “syndicate” run by a disbarred lawyer. His sisters are still trying to piece together the dangerous maze his life had become.
Could the tragic tale of a sex worker found down a mineshaft begin in an act of brutality at a police station in the sleaziest sex-and-drugs scene between King’s Cross and Antarctica?
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