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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

SUNDAY MAIL ONLY Rachel Antonio feeding a wallaby , 1997

‘We can’t unscramble the egg’

A coroner’s findings that missing schoolgirl Rachel Antonio died in an altercation with her secret older boyfriend has been upheld.

David Murray

The Nation

Former Mater Hospital worker Evan Leslie Kajewski, 39, leaves the Police watch-house in Brisbane after being granted bailed, Brisbane, Thursday, October 26, 2017. Mr Kajewski is accused of stealing painkillers while employed as a anaesthetic technician earlier this year. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Pain drugs stolen from surgery

Patients’ painkillers were swapped with saline by a drug-abusing staff member while they were on the operating table.

David Murray

The Nation

Staffer switched syringes

An anaesthetic technician at a major hospital stole painkillers from patients including a “non verbal” woman with cerebral palsy.

David Murray

inside storyState Politics

28/3/2018: Task Force Argos head Jon Rouse in his office at Police Headquarters, Brisbane. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

‘It’s a war and kids are losing’

Task Force Argos has been instrumental in the undoing of some of the world’s worst pedophiles.

David Murray

The Nation

Sally Faulkner, and Iryna Tarakan bioth had their children taken from them by their estranged husbands.

Mum feared Faulkner’s fate

Iryna Tarakan was willing to go to any lengths to retrieve her two children from Lebanon, fearing the same fate as Brisbane mum Sally Faulkner.

David Murray

The Nation

01/04/2018. Iryna Tarakan has successfully extracted her two sons from an estranged partner and father in Lebanon. Iryna with her sons Ghattas, 8, and Michael, 5 and her daughter Maria, 10. Photographed near their home in Merrylands in the west of Sydney. Britta Campion / The Australian

Mum’s mission to retrieve kids

A Sydney mother has pulled off an “impossible’’ mission, retrieving her two young sons from the Middle East.

David Murray

exclusiveThe Nation

PRIDE OF AUSTRALIA...Taskforce Argos officer Paul Griffiths at Police HQ. Pic Annette Dew

Dark web sting rescues 100 kids

More than 100 children have been rescued after a Queensland police squad secretly took over a dark web child-abuse forum.

David Murray

The World

FILE - In this Sunday, July 20, 2014 file photo Ukrainian Emergency workers carry a victim's body in a body bag as pro-Russian fighters stand guard at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. Vladimir Putin looks more invincible than ever before in his 18 years in power, after Russians invaded Ukraine, blanket-bombed Syria and hacked the U.S. election campaign. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, file)

MH17 killers may be tried in absentia

Dutch prosecutors may go ahead with a trial of suspects in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 atrocity in their absence.

David Murray

The Nation

Supplied undated image obtained Wednesday, March 21, 2018 of Canberra businessman Rohan Arnold (centre) being arrested by police at Sydney Airport after being extradited to Australia over his alleged involvement in a $500 million international cocaine-smuggling ring. Australian Federal Police on Wednesday released footage of the 43-year-old saleyards director and steel importer being lead through Sydney Airport by detectives. Arnold was one of three Australians arrested at gunpoint at a five-star hotel in the Serbian capital Belgrade in January over a syndicate that allegedly tried to bring more than a tonne of cocaine into Sydney via China last year. (AAP Image/Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

‘Crime does not respect borders’

Australian livestock figure Rohan Arnold used his business links to facilitate the importation of $500 million worth of cocaine, police allege.

David Murray

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Missing teen, her secret lover

A coroner’s findings that schoolgirl Rachel Antonio died at the hands of the local surf lifesaving captain is being challenged in court.

David Murray

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