Crime
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Missing person
‘Suffering no more’: Details emerge of missing teen Isla Bell’s final days alive
The Brunswick teenager was murdered last month before her body was dumped at a Dandenong tip, police believe.
- by Erin Pearson, Cassandra Morgan, Lachlan Abbott and Brittany Busch
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Face behind the flyer: The gentle life and cruel death of Melbourne’s ‘missing’ teenager
For six weeks, Isla Bell became the teen everyone knew as “missing” – but to her loved ones, the 19-year-old was so much more.
- by Cassandra Morgan
Drug squad officer jailed for falsifying DNA evidence in trafficking case
A detective will spend at least 18 months in jail after falsifying evidence to charge a single mother with drug trafficking.
- by Erin Pearson
Italian government approves extradition of Easey Street accused to Australia
The extradition will still need the final approval from a Rome judge which is expected to be within days.
- by Josephine McKenna
Vicky’s home was open to anyone who needed her. Then she was killed on her doorstep
The death of Vicky Apostolopoulos, who was allegedly murdered by her neighbour, has sent her loved ones into shock.
- by Cassandra Morgan
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Courts
Murder accused fronts court after woman stabbed to death in front of children
A man has fronted court after three teenagers witnessed the fatal stabbing of a 51-year-old woman inside her Bayswater home.
- by Cassandra Morgan
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Melbourne
Woman stabbed to death in front of kids in Melbourne’s east; man arrested
Three teenage witnesses were at the Bayswater home at the time of the stabbing, with one receiving a minor injury.
- by Sherryn Groch
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Naked City
The cop, the career and the cold case that exonerated a mother
The original investigators believed they knew the killer of six-year-old Bonnie Clarke, but lacked sufficient evidence. They were horribly wrong.
- by John Silvester
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Victoria
Accused arsonist allegedly claimed Burgertory firebombing was linked to Palestine conflict
The Victoria Police court brief details the claim allegedly made to an undercover officer as the force maintains there was no political or religious link to the fire.
- by Chris Vedelago
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Coroners Court of Victoria
Noeline wasn’t warned her ex had been released from jail early. Soon after, she was murdered
The case has prompted the state coroner to call for an overhaul of the way Victoria deals with family violence perpetrators.
- by Erin Pearson
‘I’ll kill you if you come inside’: Father describes window rescue of toddler during siege in Melbourne’s west
A Weir Views father has told of waking from a nap with his young child to find an armed intruder in his daughter’s bedroom.
- by Patrick Hatch and Marta Pascual Juanola
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/melbourne-crime-5zc