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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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detective speaksNation

‘No chance’ he’ll confess

Ivan Milat won’t admit to the backpacker murders: he thinks he’s “still winning”.

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serial killerNation

Convicted backpacker murderer Ivan Milat in undated copy photo, found guilty of at least seven deaths and began his life sentence on 27/07/1996.

Milat has ‘little chance’

Serial killer Ivan Milat has tumours in his throat and stomach, a relative says.

David Murray and Jessica Cortis

Politics

Police Commissioner Ian Stewart posing at Police Headquarters, Brisbane 15th of May 2019. (AAP Image/Josh Woning)

Cop ‘grateful we’ve avoided attack’

Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart says he’s grateful every day that there hasn’t been a terror attack in the state.

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Politics

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is seen during Question Time at Parliament House in Brisbane, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

‘This is a serious allegation’

Queensland premier questioned over claim a girl was left with accused sex offenders in a watch house.

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Nation

Australian border force officer Sanjay checks packages from overseas for illegal substances using X-ray at the Australia post processing facility in Granville, Sydney, January 12, 2018. Photo by Damian Shaw

35 stopped in ‘boiler room op’

Border Force officers have intercepted a group of Taiwanese nationals over their intended involvement in scams.

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cold casePolitics

Cheryl Grimmer (3), disappeared from a Fairy Meadow beach near Wollongong in 1970. The case remains unsolved. *Colourised image*

Family pleads for justice

The NSW Attorney-General is awaiting further advice on the 1970 abduction and murder of three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer.

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ExclusiveNation

Teachers’ abuse of teens targeted

A law firm acting for six victims will pursue allegations of historical abuse at schools on Sydney’s northern beaches.

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exclusiveNation

8/5/2019: Rosemary Bidgood and her daughter Tara Bidgood in front of the flats where they used to live next to murder victim Deborah Smykalla, in Windsor, Brisbane. Rosemary was close friends with Deborah, murdered in 1981, who often babysat Tara, with new leads being generated by Deborah's sister Elke Hall. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Family told: I know who did it

The sister of Deborah Smykalla, brutally murdered in her Brisbane home 38 years ago, is urging police to reopen the case.

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grisly findNation

Police tape surround the property of 14 Jillinda Place in the Brisbane West suburb of The Gap today. Queensland Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 56 year old female whose body was discovered on the morning of Friday 28th of October. Pictures: Jack Tran

Body found at sewer pump

Police have launched an investigation after the discovery at Wynnum on Brisbane’s bayside.

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exclusiveNation

Fresh information has led to a new development in a 46-year mystery in the state’s Illawarra: the kidnapping and suspected murder of three-year-old, Cheryl Grimmer. *File photo of Cheryl Grimmer*

Family seeks A-G briefing

The family of Cheryl Grimmer, killed in 1970, want a full briefing on the collapse of the case.

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