Thirty years ago this month, savage serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed. Now, the lawyer who represented him through his final appeals has told why — and how it felt to look evil in the eye.
A flood of stolen abalone trafficked to organised crime outfits — with outlaw bikies riding shotgun — is being enabled by jittery prosecutors and politicians wary of volatile Indigenous politics.
The law is clumsy at weighing the damage done by someone in a position of trust who sexually assaults someone vulnerable — which is exactly what sleazy dentist George Koudos did.
Just days after hit man “Benji” Veniamin was shot in Carlton, Lewis Moran took a disturbing phone call as he sat at the bar of the Brunswick Club — moments later he was dead.
Ben Buckley was a country pilot with a maverick streak of mischief, but under the bulldust and barnstorming he was a local hero.
When ice-smoking cop Dave Branov was nabbed he was shown hundreds of telephone intercepts — conversations with his mother and crims — but not one between him and a crooked inspector or senior sergeant. Funny about that.
Scent hounds are phenomenal trailing machines used to great effect in the US to find missing people and save lives. So why aren’t they here?
Like a doctor or priest, George Joseph knew a lot of secrets. And to the end, he feared that one of them might get him killed.
Like the police file on her LA murder, Patricia Galea’s memory was wiped clean from her husband’s funeral in Queensland last week, but the former escort was done away with long before that.
Twenty one years after Mike Lowry was gunned down in his Korumburra pub, a new tip claims eavesdropping from a hidden room in his bar proved fatal for the popular publican.
Slug Gate didn’t really begin the day the slug was “found”. This unresolved saga seems to involve orchestrated industry sabotage. So who is behind it?
It’s a long road to justice for a woman pursuing a businessman and racehorse owner over the abuse carried out against her as a seven-year-old.
Dodging divorce settlements is an eerily common theme in cases in which women die violently or vanish. These are the tragic stories of the real dead housewives of Melbourne.
The brilliance of modern policing methods was on display in Victoria’s high country and the WA search for Cleo Smith. Let’s hope the William Tyrrell case is the next breakthrough, writes Andrew Rule.
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