GRIEF flowed after Kaye King died in a dirty pit on her family farm. It was only later, when her children compared stories on exactly what happened that day, that clues came together to suggest foul play, possibly at the hands of their father.
IT’S one of the most enduring unsolved crime mysteries in Townsville. How was this woman left to die on a roadside and who caused her death?
FOR the past year, The Courier-Mail has tracked down witnesses, statements and documents relating to the death of young scientist Jeffrey Brooks. These are the pictures that tell the story.
A CONTROVERSIAL police officer who would go on to become one of the state’s top cops threatened the father of a shooting victim who was critical of the investigation, an inquest was told.
PABLO Picasso’s Weeping Woman was the most expensive painting ever bought by an Australian art gallery. Then it was stolen, sparking a frenzied search. The thieves were never caught.
A TOP cop turned private investigator uncovered a trail of unauthorised cash sales and deceit at the Queensland crayfish farm where a young scientist died in mysterious circumstances. LATEST PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW
THE farmhand at the centre of the Jeffrey Brooks investigation has revealed he now believes the young scientist could have been murdered and thinks it’s possible he was “set up” as the likely suspect by whoever shot the 24-year-old.
SOMEWHERE in the hinterland hides the answers to a dark secret. Now new evidence reveals that the manager of a farm where a worker died of a gunshot wound had earlier threatened to shoot a neighbour. EPISODE 3 AVAILABLE NOW
LITTLE Cheryl Grimmer vanished from a NSW beach in 1970 at just three-years-old. For five decades her loss has haunted her surviving family and taunted cold case detectives — until the arrest of a man in Frankston in February last year.
A KEY suspect in the murder of mafia lawyer Joe “Pino’’ Acquaro says there is “no way’’ he pulled the trigger on the marked man, as detectives say an arrest is near.
DRUG trafficker Eric Lynch was executed 14 years ago and despite Major Crime detectives building an overwhelming case against his suspected killers, they remain free.
MISSING Brunswick man Nick Falos — whose torched Porsche was found in the Yarra Ranges 15 years ago — may have been alive for two days after receiving a mystery call from a pay phone as police launch a fresh push to find his killers.
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.
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