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.
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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.
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Madeleine West: I refused to do this before I was 20
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The strict rules outlaw motorcycle gangs must live by
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.
Powerful figures helped Kew murder charge disappear
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.
The making of Australia’s cannibal killer
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?
What went wrong in tragic case of missing grandmother?
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.
The missing fishmonger and the disbarred lawyer
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.
Does tale of sex worker in mine shaft start in St Kilda station?
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?
Hardmen of forgotten footy era delivered broken jaws and dreams
The VFL in the 70s was the aggro stepfather of the AFL, where rank amateurism and brutal professionalism combined in king hits that would get you jailed if they were thrown off-field.
Bikie on lam sweating bullets over North Cyprus bust
He’s a hothead bikie, who reputedly sprayed bullets around Melbourne, but he’d be sweating them now after his clubmate was nabbed in Europe.
How mafia boss was nailed three decades after bombing
It took 28 years, a million-dollar undercover budget and the most covert sting in police history to finally nail notorious mafia boss Domenic Perre.
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