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Police shocked by massive rise in family violence

TWENTY nine people were killed in family violence attacks in Victoria last year, shocking new police figures show.

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Warwick Capper sex tape row

Warwick Capper, Anthony Swords

A DEBT collector who uses Mick Gatto's name to intimidate people has been convicted after threatening the wife of Warwick Capper's agent.

Man charged after tent sleeper run over

Man charged after tent sleeper run over

UPDATE: A MAN faces a string of charges including culpable driving and failing to help after a woman was fatally run over as she slept at a music festival.

Man run over after wild servo argument

Man run over after wild servo argument

CONFRONTING footage shows a man being run down by a car at a petrol station this morning after an argument escalated into a violent standoff.

'Darcey's bridge horror still haunts us'

'Darcey's bridge horror stil...

ANNIVERSARY REPORT: THE first on the scene after a father threw his own daughter from the West Gate Bridge will never forget the awful day five years on.

Which crime flicks are the best?

Which crime flicks are the best?

CRIMES ON CELLULOID: OUR writers reveal their favourite crime flicks of all time. Kicking off this week's five-part series is Underbelly author Andrew Rule.

Jealous lover hurls grenade at wedding

Grenade

A GRENADE was lobbed at wedding party, killing nine people and injuring 30 others, in an attack apparently carried out by a jealous lover.

Specials

Sew much fuss about lopped Bobbitt

Sew much fuss about lopped Bobbitt

SPECIAL: TWENTY years after John Wayne Bobbitt's wife was cleared over severing his penis, the case still has everyone cringing - and not just at the mutilation.

Ice queen put freeze on rival

Ice queen put freeze on rival

IT'S 20 years since champion figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was almost crippled when her rival's husband had her kneecapped before the Olympics.

Meet Victoria's Hannibal Lecter

Meet Victoria's Hannibal ...

GONE TROPPO: A CLEAN shirt gave away this killer who mutilated his victim and boasted that killing a person was just like thumping on a cockroach.

Cruel crooks kill family's chooks

Cruel crooks kill family's...

A FAMILY was left terrified after their chickens were stolen from their backyard only to be decapitated and the bodies littered in their front yard.

Woman dragged off street, assaulted

Woman dragged off street, assaulted

A WOMAN who was walking along Burwood Hwy was dragged into an empty house and sexually assaulted in Melbourne's east.

Help solve these murder mysteries

Help solve these murder mysteries

THEY died in places they should have been safe. Finding the killers of these three women is a priority for police, reports Anthony Dowsley.

The night police opened fire on a boy

The night police opened fire on a boy

SPECIAL: IT was an incident that divided Victorians. Police had shot dead an armed boy, age 15. This is how the tragedy unfolded. Were police justified?

Books

Nightmare in the strawberry patch

Nightmare in the strawberry patch

CRIME WEEK PART 6: The inside story of how two lesbian prostitutes buried a dismembered transvestite pro-wrestling truck driver in a backyard strawberry patch.

Don't roll the dice with ice

Don't roll the dice wit...

COMMENT: FOR those who think the so-called "recreational drug" ice is harmless, let me take you on a journey. Hopefully you won't like what you read.

'Darcey's bridge horror still haunts us'

'Darcey's bridge horror stil...

ANNIVERSARY REPORT: THE first on the scene after a father threw his own daughter from the West Gate Bridge will never forget the awful day five years on.

Queen advertises for a new maid

Queen Elizabeth

BUCKINGHAM Palace needs for a new housekeeping assistant, who for $27,300 a year will run the royal baths and arrange serving the tea.

Turtur: Time to welcome O'Grady

Turtur: Time to welcome ...

TOUR Down Under director Mike Turtur says it is time to forgive Stuart O'Grady for his drug indiscretions.

Cory in Grammy grammar blunder

Cory in Grammy grammar blunder

OOPS - Grammy producers have copped criticism from fans of Cory Monteith on social media after they accidentally misspelled his name.

AFL

Equalisation will be the issue of 2014

Equalisation will be the issue of 2014

IT doesn't nearly have the zest of a doping scandal, but equalisation is set to be THE issue this AFL season.

'My journey from prostitution to Harvard'

'My journey from prostitution to...

LEAH Vincent was cast out by her ultra-Orthodox parents at 16 because she bought a tight-fitting jumper. How did she go from being 'crazy and broken-down' to a Harvard grad?