Case Files
Shot, burnt and left in a ditch
WHO was the “Pyjama Girl”? Her body was found badly disfigured in a ditch. For 10 years, her identity remained a mystery and she became the centre of our most baffling crime.
Cruel horror of little girl’s violent end
A LONELY road. A dusty case. And a tiny girl who met the most horrific of ends. ANDREW RULE reports on the sad mystery gripping a tiny town.
Who knocked Mr Rent-A-Kill?
WAS Christopher Flannery dumped at sea, encased in concrete, or chopped and mulched? One crime vet says he knows the truth about a hitman some think killed 14.
Why was this charmer driven to kill?
SHE was a well-bred thief with a knack for conning strangers. But when words failed her, the attractive young Melbourne lass pulled a gun ...
Did this bandit spark Melbourne cop murders?
IF you saw this man in the street, would you pick him for one of Australia’s most wanted linked to a crime wave some think led to cold-blooded cop killings?
How Google search foiled tomato tin mafia
BIG READ: HOW the Aussie Mr Bigs behind the world’s biggest ecstasy haul and $13b drug plot were busted. Video: The surveillance tapes
How '30s CSI cops nabbed brutal chimney sweep killer
A young Melbourne girl was raped and murdered and her aunt left in a pool of blood. But what were the old-school "CSI" methods used to capture a killer?
Triple killer chose victims at random
WHAT drove Ashley Mervyn Coulston to execute three young strangers in Melbourne’s east after responding to a housemate-wanted ad?
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Crime boss played politics of murder
POLITICIAN and crime boss Phuong Ngo wasn’t going to let anyone stand in the way of his ambitions but when MP John Newman was shot dead, fingers pointed his way.
Victoria’s most infamous (not-so-subtle) jail killings
DOUBLE murderer Barry Robert Quinn was set alight inside Pentridge Prison 30 years ago today. We take a look back at the state’s most infamous jail murders.
Stake through heart of vampire case
IT was a murder Victorian police had been desperate to solve for a decade but as PADRAIC MURPHY reports, the notorious vampire gigolo case seemed cursed from the start | Juror threatened by text
Slain bub’s mum haunted by screams
WHENEVER Casey Veal shuts her eyes, the horrors of the morning she found her infant son slain come rushing back.
Ice cream turf war’s chilling end
FOR most of us, the sound of an ice cream truck triggers memories of suburban childhood treats, but in this case, it sparked jealously, greed and murder.
‘We still hope and believe she’s alive’
IT’S five years since Siriyakorn “Bung’’ Siriboon left her Boronia home to walk to school, vanishing without a trace. But her family say they will never give up hope.
When henpecked hubby turns killer
HE was even banned from using his own toilet, but when Anthony Sherna’s controlling wife spooked his beloved dog Hubble, that was the last straw ...
$1m lure aims to catch cleaner’s killers
POLICE offer $1m to solve the murder of a “mild mannered” cleaner found in a bush grave, as they revealed leads stretch from Ballarat, to Moe and Tasmania.
‘The terrible things I have done’
HE let another man rape his girlfriend then stabbed her 157 times — just one of his many killings. This is the mass murderer Paul Haigh.
