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| UpdatedFour days into a new century, Marc Mietus left Melbourne to move to Queensland to begin a new life, but his family never saw him again and still don't know what happened.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, missing-person, booyal-4671, qld, australia, bundaberg-4670, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe white woman who testified black boy Emmitt Till had physically and verbally harassed her, resulting in the boy's brutal murder, has confessed she lied.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, rights, united-states
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| UpdatedA father who tortured and killed his newborn daughter in her home in Gympie in south-east Queensland is sentenced to nine years in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, gympie-4570, qld, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedThe family of a man killed by former fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco break down in a Sydney court as they describe the impact of the murder by the father and son, who were on the run from police for eight years.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, nsw, wagga-wagga-2650
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A man who beat his partner to death with a metal pole and left her body in a car park storeroom is sentenced to at least 20 years in jail.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, drugs-and-substance-abuse, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe man charged over the infamous Claremont serial killings makes his second court appearance in Perth, with the case adjourned for eight weeks.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, wa, perth-6000, claremont-6010
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The trial of a Byron Bay woman and her British boyfriend over the alleged murder of a Bali police officer continues, with the court hearing she cut up the officer's identification to protect him from identity theft.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, bali
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| UpdatedThe British man accused of murdering a Bali police officer tells a court his Australian girlfriend cut up the officer's identification to "protect him" from identity theft, and reenacts his fatal fight with the policeman.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, bali, indonesia
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| UpdatedMembers of the public donate almost $500,000 to go with $200,000 from the federal and Victorian governments to help the victims of last week's tragedy in Melbourne.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, road, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe three-month-old victim of Melbourne's Bourke Street rampage is identified as Zachary Bryant, a "beautiful, loving, happy and perfect little baby" who his family say was the light of their lives.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPolice search a suburban Perth home owned at the time of the Claremont serial killings in the 1990s by Bradley Robert Edwards, the man accused of two of the murders.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, huntingdale-6110, perth-6000, claremont-6010, wa
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| UpdatedPolice are appealing for fresh information about the murder of a school boy in Rockingham almost 20 years ago. Here is how the case has unfolded.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, rockingham-6168, perth-6000
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| UpdatedSeveral new persons of interest are identified in the unsolved murder of 11-year-old schoolboy Gerard Ross in the Perth suburb of Rockingham in 1997, police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, rockingham-6168, wa, baldivis-6171
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| UpdatedA Perth drug dealer is jailed for life after admitting his part in the murder of a 40-year-old man who was bashed to death and dismembered with a chainsaw.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, perth-6000
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Police interview Robert Xie in March 2010 as part of their investigation into the Lin family murders.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, epping-2121
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| UpdatedBlood stains, shoeprints and a slip of the tongue were among the key pieces of evidence used by investigators to prove Robert Xie was guilty of Sydney's shocking Lin family murders.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, epping-2121, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA Halls Head man is charged with the murder of another man and the attempted killing of a woman after an alleged fight at a block of units in Mandurah, south of Perth.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, police, halls-head-6210, mandurah-6210, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA $1 million reward will be offered as part of an investigation into the murders of two women in their inner-Melbourne home, who were killed while one of their sons lay asleep in his cot, 40 years ago.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, collingwood-3066
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| UpdatedA drug-using Perth couple is jailed for killing their infant daughter who suffered what a judge described as "shocking and horrific" injuries while being cared for in a home covered in filth and cockroaches.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, st-james-6102, perth-6000
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Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik says he feels he has become "stranger and stranger" and more radical in his right-wing views in jail, blaming it on his near-isolation since he massacred 77 people in 2011.
Topics: terrorism, prisons-and-punishment, murder-and-manslaughter, norway
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| UpdatedSri Lankan-born doctor Chamari Liyanage, who killed her abusive husband in Western Australia in 2014, will be allowed to stay in the country after the Department of Immigration reinstated her visa.
Topics: domestic-violence, murder-and-manslaughter, immigration, community-and-society, geraldton-6530, australia
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A Perth man who murdered his friend and dismembered him with a chainsaw is sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 22 years.
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| UpdatedThe deaths of five members of the Lin family, including two children, marked the start of a tragic story that led to four murder trials and the eventual conviction of killer Robert Xie.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, epping-2121
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| Updated"I am innocent," Robert Xie claims as a jury finds him guilty in a majority verdict of creeping into his brother-in-law's house in the middle of the night and bludgeoning to death five family members, including his nephews.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, epping-2121, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe bus which was torched during an attack that claimed the life of driver Manmeet Alisher will be destroyed, the Brisbane City Council says.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, local-government, moorooka-4105, brisbane-4000, qld