Stephen Chowis murdered his wife Tania with a candlestick but the victim’s mother says a letter he wrote from jail reveals he’s not sorry for brutally killing their daughter — as he faces the parole board later this year.
The legal team of Karl Hague has argued a jury’s decision to convict him of the 1995 murder of Geelong teenager Ricky Balcombe in Market Square was a “substantial miscarriage of justice” and that his trial was “unfair”.
After the young woman’s body was found weighed down in a Canberra lake with more than 60 stab wounds, theories ranged from a twisted love triangle to marauding bikies. Today key players don’t want “to re-live any of this s—”, but her parents hold out fresh hope for answers.
A new witness has emerged who could hold answers into Tasmania’s most documented cold case investigation — the disappearance of Tasmanian model Lucille Butterworth.
THEY embarked on a crime spree committing desperate offences that included robbery, arson, assaults and even murder. This is how a female constable “kicked the hornet’s nest”.
JOHN Landos was just 13 when he went missing during a family holiday in Lorne in 1973. It wasn’t until the death of another boy a year later at the hands of a notorious paedophile, that police started to believe John might have suffered a similarly horrendous fate. NEW PODCAST – LISTEN NOW.
ON one side was a “wannabe gangster” lawyer and his associate the infamous Neddy Smith. On the other a loved up male model trying to reclaim his cash. The lawyer’s main concern? Not to get blood on his wife’s carpet.
A FATHER searches for his daughter. A daughter searches for her sister. When they separately consult different psychics on opposite sides of the world the result is extraordinary — and devastating.
FOR years they said a burglar had killed young mum Angie. But it was an ice-cold execution, hardly the work of a bumbling thief. Now Andrew Rule uncovers the shocking secret that has haunted someone for decades. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.
THE cops know how big time drug dealer Raphael Joseph spent his last day on Earth and which rival syndicate killed him to avoid paying him. They just need someone to help complete the jigsaw puzzle and claim the $1 million reward.
A PROMINENT Italian mobster with many seemingly legitimate Victorian businesses is suspected of murdering his rival during a fight to be Godfather decades ago.
A MOTHER and son have pointed the finger at one of their relatives they believe responsible for the cold case abduction and suspected murder of 16-year-old Gordana Kotevski.
BRISBANE can pinpoint the day it lost its innocence. When the dark shadow of evil darkened the door of every household. When one innocent woman’s name came to signify terror.
IT should be one of Melbourne’s most infamous unsolved cases: a mum murdered and her little girl raped and strangled in her bed. So why have we forgotten the Tapp murders? Andrew Rule investigates.
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