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The ‘bastard cop’ turned serial killer

PROLOGUE: He was the ‘bastard cop from Bankstown’ who loved booze and women and saw himself as Australia’s answer to Dirty Harry. Cold, pragmatic, evil, Roger Rogerson loved nothing more than killing crooks and boasting about it.

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Ashley Coulston, right, with police in 1993.

Motive for share house executions still baffles

THEY were random victims — three young people set on a collision course  with a deadly stranger by an innocent ad for a housemate. Just weeks after the chilling killings, the cold-blooded murderer was ready to strike again, only to be thwarted by exceptional acts of bravery. 

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