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The A to Z of crime, 2024 style
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The A to Z of crime, 2024 style

From the torching of tobacco stores to High Country killings, mushroom mysteries and cold cases solved: John Silvester reviews the year in crime.

  • by John Silvester

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Finger-pointing and blame: The ugly attempts to gain votes from a terror event
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Analysis

Finger-pointing and blame: The ugly attempts to gain votes from a terror event

For some reason, the most urgent issue after the Ripponlea synagogue firebombing was to declare a terrorist attack, even before investigators finished examining the crime scene.

  • by John Silvester
The high-tech sleuthing banks are using to help cops catch crooks
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The high-tech sleuthing banks are using to help cops catch crooks

Former AFP officer turned bank executive Chris Sheehan says banks and law enforcement have a common interest.

  • by John Silvester
Schoolies for detectives: When police and suspects are on the loose

Schoolies for detectives: When police and suspects are on the loose

In the more robust days, a trip interstate or overseas to grab a crook was a liquid holiday. Which proves one of the iron rules of crime: never get between a detective and a good rort.

  • by John Silvester
The war hero who became a father of fingerprints
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The war hero who became a father of fingerprints

A gang of diamond thieves looked to have pulled off the perfect heist in Melbourne, until a resourceful detective started to softly breathe on the metal surface of a door – and found three perfect fingerprints.

  • by John Silvester
Pass the pita: Where does the Mokbel fiasco go from here?
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Analysis

Pass the pita: Where does the Mokbel fiasco go from here?

Retrial, deal, compensation? John Silvester on what could happen in the Tony Mokbel saga.

  • by John Silvester
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It’s a cliche that prisons are ruled by the laws of the jungle, but also true
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It’s a cliche that prisons are ruled by the laws of the jungle, but also true

Some crooks see jail as their natural domain, but most have no sense of history so are doomed to repeat the mistakes of other generations.

  • by John Silvester
The cop, the career and the cold case that exonerated a mother
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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
Police setting up global net to catch child abusers
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Police setting up global net to catch child abusers

Law enforcement agencies around the world came to Melbourne this week to discuss ways to prevent abuse and pursue those responsible.

  • by John Silvester
Bodyguards for billionaires: Inside the secret world
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Billionaires

Bodyguards for billionaires: Inside the secret world

The super rich are spending big on super security, including elite protection teams with counter-surveillance skills to thwart kidnappings, and panic rooms marketed as nuclear and germ-warfare resistant.

  • by John Silvester
Attention Australian criminals, you need to learn from this bloke
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Attention Australian criminals, you need to learn from this bloke

“John, there is a bloke here who would kill for the phone. And I mean that literally.” Ringing international drug smuggler Howard Marks in a Florida prison, John Silvester had his world scoop, and a lesson for the underworld.

  • by John Silvester

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