Abuse victims named online in bungle
Former students sexually abused by a paedophile brother at Adelaide’s St Ignatius’ College are outraged after the Jesuit order inadvertently named some of his victims on their website.
Crime In Focus
What happens after MH370 is found
A lawyer for MH370 families says – like the Titanic – the aircraft will be found eventually. But if the truth is to come out, Australia needs to stop being afraid of insulting Malaysia.
Revealed: Overlooked clues in the search for MH370
Hundreds of personal items — including bags and dentures — linked to MH370 passengers could hold vital clues to the doomed flight’s fate, but experts say they have been completely overlooked.
Consul gunned down in MH370 murder mystery
A “cool, professional” hit which saw a key official in the MH370 investigation die in a hail of bullets has had a devastating impact on the quest for answers about the lost flight.
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New ‘El Chapo’ makes Australia top target
MEXICO’S deadliest drug lord has ordered his cartel to target Australia, forge closer ties with outlaw bikie gangs and open regional meth labs in a move that has already pushed ice use in this country to the second highest level in the world.
Aussie kids rescued in sex exploitation probe
MORE than forty children have been rescued from sexual exploitation across Australia in just four months — while police investigations with overseas partners have uncovered many more youngsters still in danger.
Crime gangs target backpackers in visa rort
BACKPACKERS are handing over thousands of dollars in a visa fraud allowing them to stay in the country to work on farms when in reality they never leave the city — with one traveller sucked into the scheme admitting: “I was completely stupid.”
Mum hopes for answers after cold case murder charge
THE heartbroken mother of a young woman who disappeared without trace in 2012 is hoping she will finally learn what happened to her daughter and be able to lay her to rest after a man was charged with murder.
‘I bet they’re nervous’: Making a Murderer 2’s new evidence
CONVICTED killer Steven Avery undergoes a “brain fingerprinting” test providing “very powerful evidence” of his innocence in just one development in the new series of true crime sensation Making a Murderer.
It’s a wild ride on outlaw bikie runs
THE national run is part of a bikie’s duty to their club. But things don’t always end well when Australia’s outlaw bikies get together and hit the road. PICTURE SPECIAL
How three very different crims gave themselves away
ONE wrote an extortion demand, another a love letter — in both cases leaving a vital clue for police. The third bizarrely penned a note directly to officers in a murder case — but it was his triple-0 call that really brought him unstuck.
Morcombes’ first brush with murder
IT SHOCKED a nation and devastated a family, but the abduction and murder of Daniel Morcombe wasn’t his father Bruce’s first experience of the evil that men do.
Justice denied as accused killer husband dies in jail
A “MONSTER” accused of killing his wife in her Hampton Park home, while their daughter was nearby, has died while on remand in jail, robbing her family of justice.
Why Keli Lane should be released now
THE trial of convicted child killer Keli Lane had ‘significant problems’ constituting a miscarriage of justice and warranting her release, an expert says.
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