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.
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.
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.
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.
Will a triple murderer go free some day because the Andrews government “did a Bolte” and used a killer as a political pawn?
Twenty years ago, homicide detective Rowland Legg arrived at a blood-spattered van in an Essendon park and one of the most horrific murder scenes in his 30 years on the job.
A City of Dandenong health inspector has accused council staff of being manipulative and corrupt, alleging they cooked up a scheme to shut down a family business by planting a slug.
It’s July 22, 1991 and a crook pinned to the roof of a bank by bulletproof shutters is slowly dying — it’s the day that symbolises the end of bank robbery’s golden era.
Soaring meat prices have made livestock theft one of the most profitable crimes, but little is being done to stop it in Victoria — a far cry from when it was a hanging offence.
Exactly one year ago, Christos Pittas put down his sudoku puzzle, kissed his wife and set off for a walk in rough country near the Dinner Plain village. He was never seen again.
Despite tough gun laws, criminals seem to be more armed and more dangerous than ever. And too often it’s blameless civilians who pay the ultimate price.
Only a few former cops are old enough to have known Brian “The Skull” Murphy in his prime, but right up until his death — on Anzac Day — he divided opinion.
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.
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