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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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Byron Bay resident Noeline Smith was one of the first people to look for missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen

Spiked drink fears drove Theo search

A Byron Bay resident feared the missing tourist’s drink had been spiked | NEW PODCAST EPISODE

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28/10/2019 Jean-Philippe Pector with his wife Julia Malcolm and their children Morgane, 9, and Felix, 2 on their property in the Otway ranges in Victoria.Picture: David Geraghty, The Australian.

Breaking rules helped family trace last steps

A bank broke the rules to help the family of missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez.

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The LIGHTHOUSE PODCASTNation

CCTV footage from Byron Bay on the night Theo Hayez vanished.

CCTV clue in search for Theo

EXCLUSIVE: This is the footage that convinced searchers that missing backpacker walked back towards his Byron Bay hostel the night he vanished.

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THE LIGHTHOUSE PODCASTPodcasts

30/10/2019: Concerned locals who began a spontaneous and ongoing search effort Sheri D'Rosario and twin sisters (L-R) Jaclyn Scott (in white shirt) and Renee Scott, when Belgian national Theo Hayez went missing in strange circumstances near the light house on Cape Byron at Byron Bay, northern NSW. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Locals keep spotlight on missing Theo

Ground zero in the disappearance of Belgian tourist Theo Hayez is a small bar in the centre of Byron Bay.

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Missing Theo was ‘just living backpacker life’

Theo Hayez’s disappearance is investigated in a new podcast by The Australian, as new video emerges. | LISTEN

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Ivan Milat’s final insultNation

‘People die, they should get over it’

In his final days, police appealed for a death-bed confession. To the end, he showed no mercy.

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Inside StoryNation

From age 10, he was always going to kill: Milat brother

Bruce Pryor has no regrets about his role in stopping a serial killer, despite the heavy personal price he paid.

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23/5/2019 : Brian Letcher, the father of murdered NSW man Peter Letcher, with period newspaper cuttings of the death, at his home on the Gold Coast. Peter is suspected to be one of Ivan Milat's other unknown victims. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

‘He couldn’t have made it worse’

The father of one of Ivan Milat’s suspected victims says he can’t understand why the serial killer failed to confess.

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Copy pic of Ivan Milat convicted of the murders of seven backpackers, wearing a sheriff's badge, poses in his lounge room with firearms.

Milat lets torture go on

Australia’s most notorious serial killer, Ivan Milat, has died under suspicion of committing many more murders than his seven known victims.

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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

Murderer ‘tells all’ on nightclub bomb saga

A former magazine editor has written a book detailing his involvement in one of the darkest chapters in Queensland criminal history.

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