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Swingers, sex and death: Sydney mystery inspires new drama

It is one of Sydney’s most puzzling unsolved mysteries — the deaths of a physicist and his lover in 1963. The mystery, which involves a swingers party and wild espionage conspiracy theories, is the inspiration behind a new audio drama from renowned Australian playwright Louis Nowra.

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Pay phone call may be key to cold case enigma

Pay phone call may be key to cold case enigma

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.

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Undated. John Landos, 13. He has been missing since Jan 8th 1973, during a holiday at Lorne, he ran off into the bush & has not been seen since.

Little John Landos lost, but not forgotten

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.

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Matrk Johnston Neddy Smith story

Slain model ‘buried in killing fields’

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.

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Spookiest moment in missing girl search

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.

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Headshot of murder victim  Betty Thomson Shanks whose body was found at Thomas St. Grange  1952.

The day a city lost its innocence

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.

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Tapp murder victims Margaret Seana

Why have these murders been forgotten?

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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Copy picture of missing schoolgirl Siriyakorn 'Bung' Siriboon. (Supplied by her father Fred Patterson).

Still haunted by a little girl lost

IT’S seven years since 13-year-old schoolgirl Bung Siriboon walked out of her house and out of her loved ones’ lives but the pain of her loss has not diminished, writes Andrew Rule.

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