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David MurrayNational Crime Correspondent

David Murray is The Australian’s National Crime Correspondent. He was previously Crime Editor at The Courier-Mail and prior to that was News Corp’s London-based Europe Correspondent. He is behind investigative podcasts The Lighthouse and Searching for Rachel Antonio and is the author of The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay.

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Daniel Morcombe was killed by a convicted child sex offender.

Dutton spruiks public register to track child-sex offenders

Parents of Daniel Morcombe, murdered by a convicted child-sex offender, fought for national public register for years. Now it seems they’ll get one.

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Immigration

Tribunal rejects violent Sudanese man’s visa plea

A violent South Sudanese man who moved to Australia when he was 10 has lost his bid to have his visa reinstated.

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The Nation

Peter Dutton, Federal Minister for Home Affairs is seen during a press conference in Brisbane, Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Minister Dutton spoke to the media about the citizenship status of the terrorist Neil Prakash. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

800 more criminals shown the door

More than 800 people including child sex offenders and killers were stripped of their visas and faced deportation last year.

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A man looking at his laptop whilst holding his credit card

Cold-call scammers net $100m in plunder

A South Australian detective has warned of staggering losses to offshore investment scams.

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The Nation

Johann Weissensteiner, convicted of a double murder at a 1991 Queensland trial. Supplied

Seemingly silent on murder mystery, but convicted killer did tell

Two people go missing from a yacht fortified for war but their travelling companion refuses to tell a jury what happened.

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03/01/2019. Dr Jodie Ward, Forensic DNA specialist pictured in a DNA lab at NSW Health Pathology in Lidcombe in Sydney's West. DNA robot which extracts DNA samples from bones pictured in backround left. Jodie is an advocate for the use of DNA data banks to help solve long-term missing person cases. Britta Campion / The Australian

Cold case: DNA expert urges national ID centre

Joyce Baxter went missing in Hobart in 1955. Boys playing on a track on Mount Wellington in 1972 found a skull and some bones.

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Ebonie Perks and her mother Melanie Perks who were both stabbed to death by Queensland teenage killer Mitchell Perks. Mitchell was Melanie's son. Supplied

Killer son denied insurance win

Teenage killer Mitchell Perks has been found to be ineligible for a life insurance payout after stabbing to death his mother and sister.

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Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from film The Wolf of Wall Street Pic. Supplied Pic. Supplied

Aussies top target of scams

Australians have become the ‘No 1 target’ of investment scams run by a web of foreign nationals operating from The Philippines.

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Generic photo of the drug ice. - meth. Picture: iStock

Cheap ice imports close drug labs

Clandestine drug labs are vanishing as international crime syndicates flood the country with imported ice.

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The Nation

TODAY - 19.12.06 - BCM - SCENES OF SUMMER - Sunset on Surfer's Paradise Beach. Copyright Megan Cullen (DO NOT ARCHIVE).

Beach baby’s mum charged

The mother of a baby girl found dead on a Surfers Paradise beach was arrested and charged after her release from hospital.

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