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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

First pictures of the mystery modified smugglers boat alleged to have been used to carry $50 million worth of cocaine of the coast near remote Papua New Guinea island. Boat was booby trapped and left run aground on a reef.

Cocaine boat booby-trapped

A booby-trapped boat linked to $50m worth of cocaine that had gone missing in PNG could pose a major environmental hazard.

Rory Callinan and David Murray

The Teacher’s PetPodcasts

13/09/2018: DAY 2 - A sniffer dog arrives at 2 Gilwinga Dr, Bayview. NSW Police from the NSW homicide squad conduct a forensic search at the home of Lynette Joy Dawson's former home. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Sniffer dog joins dig

A labrador has joined about ten homicide detectives at a Bayview property in a revived search for the body of Lyn Dawson.

ELIAS VISONTAY and David Murray

The Teacher’s PetPodcasts

13/09/2018: DAY 2 - NSW Police from the NSW homicide sort through dirt from near the pool area as part of forensic search at the home of Lynette Joy Dawson's former home at Bayview. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Body ‘could be in loose soil’

A concreter who worked at the former Dawson home says areas of loose soil around the house could conceal a body as the search enters its second day.

David Murray and ELIAS VISONTAY

The Teacher’s PetPodcasts

12/09/2018 Lynette Dawson's brother Greg Simms and his wife Merilyn at their home in Eleebana, Lake Macquarie. NSW Police have commenced a forensic search at the former home of Dawson in Bayview, on Sydney's northern beaches. Liam Driver/The Australian

‘We’re taking it day by day’

Lyn Dawson’s family is braced for a second day of digging at her former home at Bayview, 36 years after her disappearance.

David Murray

THE TEACHER’S PETPodcasts

23/05/2018: Robyn Wheeler at home in Hamilton South, Newcastle, and at Bar Beach, Newcastle. To go with upcoming Hedley Thomas podcast on the disappearance of Lyn Dawson in 1982. Her husband at the time was Chris Dawson, a former Rugby League player. Robyn is a former student of Chris Dawson at Cromer High School in the early 1980s. Liam Driver for The Australian

More ex-students accuse teachers

Blanket media coverage of the Lyn Dawson cold case is prompting more people to come forward about historical sexual assaults.

David Murray

The Teacher’s PetThe Nation

Bricks are removed from and area near the pool at the Dawson home in Bayview. Picture: Hollie Adams

‘This is about justice for Lyn’

Police want to end the 36-year mystery of Lyn Dawson’s disappearance, as they comb the backyard of her former Sydney home for any trace of the mother of two.

David Murray

Podcasts

05/09/2018: Former head of Department of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery in Lane Cove. He has turned his legal expertise to the controversial Pasadena development in the affluent Northern Beaches suburb of Church Point. The site has become an unlikely battleground between locals and developers, who commenced work on the site without DA approval. Mr Cowdery says he blames the council for the ÒdisastrousÓ construction that impinges on Crown lands and has eaten up valuable parking spaces for islanders living on Scotland Island.Pic by James Croucher

Family appalled by DPP remarks

Nicholas Cowdery has come under fire over ‘infuriating’ comments about the Lyn Dawson cold case.

David Murray

exclusiveThe Nation

Two men have been arrested by the Queensland Joint Organised Crime Task Force (QJOCTF), following an alleged conspiracy to import 300 kilograms of cocaine into Australia from Peru via Singapore and Papua New Guinea (PNG). One woman has also been arrested and charged with dealing in proceeds of crime.The estimated street value of the cocaine; had it reached Australian communities, is $105 million.Picture: AFP

‘Drug runners tried bribery’

A syndicate accused of conspiring to import 300kg of cocaine into Australia tried to bribe officials in PNG, police allege.

David Murray and RORY CALLINAN

ExclusiveThe Nation

Generic photo of drugs and cash. Picture: iStock

Cocaine boat lost off PNG

Authorities in Papua New Guinea and Australia appear to have lost track of more than $50 million in cocaine.

RORY CALLINAN and David Murray

News

ESCAPE - Travel - Conflict Islands in Papua New Guinea, where P&O Cruisescalls. Pic supplied.

Paradise lost to a dirty trade

It was the piece of rope on the remote beach that first caught the young shark fisherman’s eye. It would only lead to trouble.

Rory Callinan and David Murray

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