The execution-style killing of Croydon man Paul Virgona on the EastLink freeway shook Victoria. More than a month has passed since the shock shooting, but these are the questions that still need answering, Charlie Bezzina says.
Despite a nearly 100 per cent clean-up rate for murders in 2019, Queensland detectives continue to be frustrated by these unsolved cases.
A woman’s body set on fire after being raped and murdered, and another found in a chest freezer in an apartment. These are some of the horrific crimes that shocked the nation in 2019.
Her husband might be behind bars for her manslaughter, but Gold Coast mother Novy Chardon has never been found. And the lead investigator on her case has a message for her grieving family.
PATRICIA Margaret Byers — the ‘Black Widow’ killer — could be free in months. The body of her murdered de facto has never been found. Now, her surviving victim claims he knows where it is.
THREE desperados on the ground, cops with guns drawn and a terrified girl rescued from the back of a car. This is the moment a perilous outback manhunt ended in a police ambush and shootout.
THE truck hit the wall like a bomb going off; 25 tonnes of metal smashing into a pub at high speed. Five people would die, but the driver just smiled as he stepped over a survivor and ran into the night.
HELLS Angels bikie Christopher Hudson was fuelled by drugs and anger the morning he went on a terrifying shooting rampage in Melbourne’s CBD, just days after a wild night with AFL star Alan Didak.
IT was crazy enough the first time an ambitious but bumbling criminal kidnapped an entire Victorian school at gunpoint, only to be foiled by a teacher and her knee-high boots. But then he went back and did it again.
TWO bodies in the bush. A rapist terrorising the young mothers of Donvale. And the clue kept secret for 16 years that finally led to the man responsible for all of it.
THEY were among the most notorious gangsters in Melbourne’s history — but for all bar one, in death these underworld figures’ graves resemble those of saints. SEE THE PICTURES
Twenty years ago, Katherine Knight committed the unspeakable crime that would see her dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter and locked up, never to be released. Why then do fellow inmates see her as a kind-hearted “Nanna”? WATCH NOW
SEVEN young women were kidnapped, raped, murdered and dumped north of Adelaide by a charming young psychopath and his doting accomplice. This is the inside story of how police finally solved the Truro serial killings.
THIRTY-TWO years ago an Australian-born American appeared in Manly Court to answer charges that he had sexually assaulted two girls.
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