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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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The Nation

National Missing Persons Week 2018: Constance Watcho from QLD. Picture: Supplied

Killing left 10 kids without mother

A woman whose remains were found in a bag at Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point cliffs was a mother of 10.

David Murray

State Politics

Lee Jonsson was bitten by a shark at Ballina. Source: Twitter

Jaws attack raises questions

Holes have been exposed in the NSW government’s shark strategy after a surfer was mauled by a 2.6m great white.

MARK SCHLIEBS, David Murray and Remy Varga

SHARK ATTACKThe Nation

Dan Christidis who was killed in a shark attack in Cid Harbour in the Whitsunday Island. Supplied

Colleagues mourn young doctor

Colleagues of the young doctor fatally mauled in the Whitsundays shark attack have praised him as a “consummate professional”.

David Murray and Mark Schliebs

The Nation

Cid Harbour where the man was killed in a shark attack.

‘Shark drumlines won’t help’

The Queensland government will not set up drumlines in response to the third shark attack in the region in less than two months.

David Murray and Charlie Peel

ExclusiveState Politics

29/10/2018: 94 yr old Evan Griffiths retired Police Murder Detective, with a period photograph of himself (2nd from R) and other members of the squad and memorabilia, at his home on Bribie Island, north of Brisbane. Evan worked on the successful Whiskey Au Go Go fire case that killed 15 people in the early 1970's. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

No retreat for club bomb cop: we got the right man

A retired Queensland detective has laughed off claims police fabricated a confession to the Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing.

David Murray

The Nation

Doctor William Russell Pridgeon leaves the Brisbane Watchhouse.

Abduction group to be charged

The alleged network was headed by GP William Pridgeon, helping mothers hide from authorities with their children.

David Murray

exclusiveThe Nation

10/10/18 : William Stokes, former publisher of the Port News, and potential witness at the upcoming inquest into the Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing, at his home in New Farm, Brisbane. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Killer-editor prepares to the spill beans

William Stokes is ready to testify at an inquest that will probe one of the darkest chapters in Queensland’s criminal history.

David Murray

Podcasts

Director of the DPP Lloyd Babb SC enters the inquest .pic John Grainger

DPP’s Dawson conflict noted 2011

Details have emerged of how NSW DPP Lloyd Babb handled his conflict of interest in the case of missing mother Lyn Dawson.

David Murray

The Nation

2/10/2018: Greven Breadsell talks about the day he found a piece of Marilyn Wallman's skull and being a friend of Person of interest to the police, Noel Morris 72, who is under investigation over the disappearance of schoolgirl Marilyn Wallman in 1972 when she was aged 14, at his home in Mirani, outside Mackay. The disappearance and death of Marilyn is Queensland longest running cold case. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Marilyn mystery ‘no longer murder’, says man who found her skull

Detectives investigating the disappearance of a schoolgirl Marilyn Wallman 46 years ago now believe she was hit by a car.

David Murray

exclusiveHealth and Science

Dr Linzi Wilson-Wilde has been inducted to the womens honour roll. She is the most senior woman forensic scientist in Aus and NZ.Picture: Paul Loughnan

DNA upgrade to solve cold cases

Police are set to crack some of Australia’s toughest homicides after major enhancements to the national DNA database.

David Murray

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