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Candace is an award-winning journalist and true crime author with more than 30 years’ experience in covering international and national events. She has worked as a foreign correspondent in the US, South East Asia, Africa and Europe. She now specialises in crime and court reporting, with a focus on murder trials and unsolved cold cases.

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Lesbian vampire killer drank victim’s blood

Tracey Wigginton, dubbed the “lesbian vampire killer” led a pack of girls as she hunted down a victim. Warning: Confronting

Crime

Retired Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham at a farewell ceremony in Sydney, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Woodham's career in NSW Corrective Services spanned 46 years. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Feared prison boss ‘Big Ron’ dead

Hated by gangsters, feared by outlaw inmates, the legendarily gruff and tough prisons boss Ron Woodham has died, aged 75.

Crime

26/08/1996. Aboriginal James Hudson Savage convicted in Florida over the brutal rape and murder of 46-year-old businesswoman Barbara Ann Barber in 1988. Russell Moore.

The only Aboriginal on US death row

Russell Moore was condemned to the electric chair in America for the brutal murder of a rich socialite. This is what he told us from there.

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Serial killer Regina Arthurell, formeely known as Reginald Arthurell

Judge rejects serial killer’s freedom bid

A judge has rejected outback serial killer Regina Arthurell’s bid for softer conditions, saying the 75-year-old must wear a tracking anklet, and not drink alcohol.

Courts & Law

*** PICTURE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES ON SUNDAY 24TH APRIL 2011 - PLEASE SEE PICTURE EDITOR JACKSON FLINDELL *** NEWS SAS Corporal Ben (Benjamin) Roberts-Smith VC, at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. PICTURE : RAY STRANGE. ( Pic from The Daily Telegraph )

Bombshell as Afghan witness slips up

A witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith trial has insisted the “big soldier” gave him instructions in Pashto, which the soldier does not speak.

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STM ONLY Army Corporal Ben Roberts Smith ( Roberts-Smith ) VC with wife Emma at home (Painting of Army patrol in Afghanistan and T&I flag from Ben's time in East Timor on wall behind) Ben received the VC for bravery in 2010. REPORT Gail Williams PIC Karin Calvert

Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife’s secret text

A secret text from Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife Emma has been released for the first time, with an interview about their marriage separation.

Courts & Law

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos June 11, 2021: Highly decorated SAS soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court today. He is suing Nine's Newspapers for defamation. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

Second Afghan says ‘big soldier’ hit him

A second Afghan witness has told the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial that a “big soldier” hit him during an interrogation in 2012.

Courts & Law

Photographs released by the Federal Court on July 27, 2021, showing photographs taken by SAS soldiers during a raid., The weapons were photographed after allegedly being found on Taliban combatants or inside the compound known only as Whiskey 108. , Ben Roberts-Smith is accused of killing an older man with a prosthetic leg at Whiskey 108, he denies that saying the man was carrying a bolt action rifle. PIcture: Federal Court of Australia

Secret Taliban weapons cache revealed

Never-before-seen photographs of weapons used by the Taliban and seized in Afghanistan by Ben Roberts-Smith have been released.

Courts & Law

Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) soldiers move to board a United States UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Soldiers from the Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) and the Afghan Provincial Response Company (PRC) recently conducted partnered operations in the Shah Wali Kot Region of northern Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The missions, a continuation of the strike and disrupt activities conducted previously, saw the partnered forces successfully capture insurgents, numerous weapons and material for the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Partnered operations between SOTG and the PRC place pressure on the insurgency and have an impact on the Taliban's ability to threaten the lives of Afghan civilians, the Afghan Forces and members of the International Stabilisation Assistance Force (ISAF). Photo by: Corporal (CPL) Chris Moore.

Afghan says Aussie soldiers are ‘infidels’

An Afghan villager and star Nine Newspapers witness has told the Ben Roberts-Smith trial Australian soldiers are “infidels” who “come into our houses … to our women”.

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Australian Army soldier Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG, with the Special Operations Task Group, moves away from a United States UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during preparations for the Shah Wali Kot Offensive in southern Afghanistan. *** Local Caption *** In June 2010, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) partnered with Australian special forces from the Special Operations Task Group to conduct a deliberate operation to clear a Taliban insurgent stronghold in the Shah Wali Kot region of northern Kandahar province. The Shah Wali Kot Offensive comprised synchronised and deliberate clearance operations involving Australian commandos combined with a number of surgical helicopter-born assaults from Special Air Service (SAS) troops on key targets. Removing Taliban insurgents from Afghan communities allows the Government of Afghanistan to establish a presence and gain the trust of the community to provide them with necessary infrastructure and security that was not provided by the insurgents. The Shah Wali Kot Offensive was part of Australiaâs contribution to Operation Hamkari, an ISAF operation to extend the Government of Afghanistanâs influence into Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan. Picture: Department of Defence

Afghan claims ‘big soldier’ beat him

An Afghan villager has described a “big soldier with blue eyes” who allegedly beat him and kicked his uncle at Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial.

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