The man who hunted humans
IN scenes eerily reminiscent of the movie Wolf Creek, German tourist Josef Schwab roamed the Kimberley, executing five strangers in cold blood before dying in a firefight with cops.
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The grandmother who just vanished
PODCAST: A loving grandmother went for a walk to the shops and was never seen again. The only sign of her, a handbag found in the bush. Her family said she fell in with ‘undesirables’ but haven’t given up hope after 15 years. Listen to Lost in Sydney podcast episode IV.
The mystery of Bradford Pholi’s disappearance
IT IS Boxing Day, 1982, a young indigenous boy jumps the back fence of his Dundas Valley home to scurry off to Eastwood station — he is on a mission to borrow money for his mother — minutes later his brother goes after him, but Bradford Pholi is never seen again.
Animal welfare concern over Sydney Zoo business model
A NEWS Corp investigation can reveal fresh concerns about the new Sydney Zoo’s industry impacts, and lift the lid on experts’ fears around its animal welfare preparations.
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Top 20 destinations for 2015
ALL packed with nowhere to go? Find out which places are hitting the spot for Aussie travellers seeking a bona fide adventure.
When the Easter Bunny’s out to get you
EASTER: It’s when myths collide. So what are the origins of the mishmash of marketing, fable and religion we get fed at this time every year?
Enjoy Easter. It could be your last
“THE sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord comes.” That day could be this Sunday.
Place nobody could hear her scream
“IT MUST have been terrifying. In a foreign land, in a small windowless vault, subjected to serious violence by a stranger … and no way anyone could help her.”
Unleashing our most fearsome weapon
THEIR bite has twice the pressure of a regular dog’s and they have the training and intelligence to work in warzones. This is the ferocious side of man’s best friend.
Creepy killer called himself ‘the lover’ online
SPECIAL REPORT: Daniel Kelsall revealed to his psychiatrist a fascination in death, discussing how he would like to knife ‘a random’ while at night he watched sick porn and played violent fantasy games.
Baby-faced bookworm with an evil stare
DANIEL Kelsall had everything. Adopted by a wealthy family, he had the run of a sprawling house, summer holidays at beach house and was in the best schools. But classmates remember a strange child with a penetrating stare.
How police stopped a serial killer in the making
POLICE are confident the conviction of Daniel Kelsall has prevented further killings, as it emerged he stalked another man and followed him to his front door just a week after murdering Morgan Huxley.
A sick father, work strife and a tricky love life
TO crack the case of the murder of Morgan Huxley, police had to hold every piece of his life up to the light- and the dating life of the comfortably single man suddenly became front page news.
Finding Genghis Khan’s forbidden tomb
GENGHIS Khan really, really didn’t want his body to be found. But now the 800-year-old murderous wall of deception he built up around his final resting place is starting to crumble.
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