Cold case
‘Callous and cowardly’: Hunt for killer of taxi driver shot down in cold blood
William Rogers was shot in the chest and left for dead in Sydney’s inner west. Police are offering a $500,000 reward for information to help catch his alleged killer.
- by Jessica McSweeney
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$500,000 reward offered over cold case blaze
Twenty-eight people were living in an Ipswich boarding house when it burnt down in a suspected 1990 arson attack.
- by William Davis
Madeleine McCann prime suspect acquitted of separate charges
Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner could be released from prison next year after he was acquitted of separate rape charges by a controversial German judge.
- by Rob Hyde
Podcast
Naked City
‘The consequences are much greater’: John Silvester on the Easey Street secret he kept
The Age crime columnist unpacks the major breakthrough in the notorious Easey Street cold case – and takes us behind the scenes of the long police operation that led to it.
- by Samantha Selinger-Morris
Misinformation falsely linked motor racing legend to Easey Street murder probe
Unfounded tip-offs wasted police time, wrongly pointing the finger at dozens of men in the case, including late motor racing legend Peter Brock.
- by Cameron Houston
Exclusive
Naked City
Easey Street suspect unmasked as link to victims emerges
Perry Kouroumblis, now 65, is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.
- by John Silvester, Sherryn Groch, Ashleigh McMillan and Hannah Kennelly
Mystery endures as couple acquitted of missing teen’s murder
Robert and Anne Geeves were found not guilty of murdering Amber Haigh, 19, whose disappearance has haunted a rural town for more than two decades.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and The Visual Stories Team
Husband arrested after quarter of a century of suspicion in Sydney cold case
Something about Aaron Govendir’s story didn’t quite add up for police investigating his wife’s murder in their Dover Heights home. He has been charged with killing her.
- by Riley Walter and Jessica McSweeney
‘Her family deserve answers’: Significant developments over teen’s disappearance
Rose Howell vanished on the Mid North Coast days before her 19th birthday. Police have searched a property near where she was last seen alive, 21 years ago.
- by Riley Walter
‘A motive to lie for podcast’: Coroner doubts man’s evidence in Sharron Phillips case
The man who accused his father of murdering Sharron Phillips, who vanished in May 1986, had a commercial motive to lie, the state’s coroner has found.
- by Rex Martinich
Barbara waved goodbye to Sydney and set off to see Australia. She hasn’t been seen since
The 23-year-old American was travelling around the country when she went missing from Beecroft 46 years ago. Now two women are determined to find out what happened.
- by Neil Mercer
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