Ice islands bring drugs worth $377 a gram to Australia
The war on drugs has taken Australia’s Federal Police and the Australian Defence Force to the Pacific, where five syndicates are bringing drugs to the streets of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Crime In Focus
The questions remaining over EastLink shooting
The execution-style killing of Croydon man Paul Virgona on the EastLink freeway shook Victoria. More than a month has passed since the shock shooting, but these are the questions that still need answering, Charlie Bezzina says.
Unsolved killings: The ones that got away in 2019
Despite a nearly 100 per cent clean-up rate for murders in 2019, Queensland detectives continue to be frustrated by these unsolved cases.
Horrific crimes that shocked Australia in 2019
A woman’s body set on fire after being raped and murdered, and another found in a chest freezer in an apartment. These are some of the horrific crimes that shocked the nation in 2019.
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The bank robber convicted by his own arrogance
FOR two police officers, the call out seemed like a simple enough request. Instead, it brought them into the crosshairs of one of Australia’s most successful bank robbers — but exceptional police work wasn’t the only thing that finally ended Harry Nylander’s string of violent hold-ups. It was his own arrogance.
Black Widow’s ex: Woman I loved shot me in the head
PATRICIA Margaret Byers — the ‘Black Widow’ killer — could be free in months. The body of her murdered de facto has never been found. Now, her surviving victim claims he knows where it is.
Gunfight on the Birdsville Track
THREE desperados on the ground, cops with guns drawn and a terrified girl rescued from the back of a car. This is the moment a perilous outback manhunt ended in a police ambush and shootout.
Mass murderer in a Mack truck
THE truck hit the wall like a bomb going off; 25 tonnes of metal smashing into a pub at high speed. Five people would die, but the driver just smiled as he stepped over a survivor and ran into the night.
What really happened inside Lizard Man’s lair
TWO people cowered in the apartment as Bronson ‘Lizard Man’ Ellery beat his ex Shelsea Schilling to death, only coming out once the screaming had stopped. For the first time, new details can be revealed about one of the Gold Coast’s most shocking murder-suicides.
Footy star, strippers and the deadly bikie
HELLS Angels bikie Christopher Hudson was fuelled by drugs and anger the morning he went on a terrifying shooting rampage in Melbourne’s CBD, just days after a wild night with AFL star Alan Didak.
When a whole school was kidnapped — twice
IT was crazy enough the first time an ambitious but bumbling criminal kidnapped an entire Victorian school at gunpoint, only to be foiled by a teacher and her knee-high boots. But then he went back and did it again.
How Mr Stinky got his name
TWO bodies in the bush. A rapist terrorising the young mothers of Donvale. And the clue kept secret for 16 years that finally led to the man responsible for all of it.
Where underworld killers and mafia dons rest
THEY were among the most notorious gangsters in Melbourne’s history — but for all bar one, in death these underworld figures’ graves resemble those of saints. SEE THE PICTURES
Depraved killer’s shocking prison persona
Twenty years ago, Katherine Knight committed the unspeakable crime that would see her dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter and locked up, never to be released. Why then do fellow inmates see her as a kind-hearted “Nanna”? WATCH NOW
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