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The Towitta murder mystery that took place in regional South Australia during 1902 gripped the nation, and more than 100 years later the case remains as compelling as ever.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, sedan-5353, sa
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| UpdatedPolice charge a man with the murder of his partner, who was fatally stabbed in Sydney's west overnight in what is being described as a case of domestic violence.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, police, domestic-violence, parramatta-2150
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| UpdatedA man is shot in the leg after two men force their way into his St Clair home in Adelaide's north-west in what police consider to be a targeted attack.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA mortgage broker and a property developer are among the four men charged with more than 650 offences over an alleged Hells Angels-linked cocaine and ice operation on the Gold Coast.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, southport-4215
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An 87-year-old woman in Alice Springs has her front tooth broken with a golf club after challenging intruders in her home, the second time she was targeted by thieves in a week.
Topics: crime, alice-springs-0870
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North Korea says it will "categorically reject" Malaysia's autopsy report on the death of the man identified by Malaysian authorities as Kim Jong-nam, as South Korean and US officials maintained he was assassinated by North Korean agents.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, world-politics, korea-republic-of, malaysia
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Four Canberra youths — including two teenage brothers — who are accused of running a blackmail scam targeting gay men on dating apps are denied bail.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, states-and-territories, community-and-society, crime, canberra-2600, act
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Teenage detainees at Victoria's maximum-security Barwon prison have been pinned down in their cells, punched and kicked by adult prison guards, human rights lawyers claim.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, crime, judges-and-legal-profession, human, anakie-3221, vic
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Home detention bail is granted to a man charged over a two-year-old boy's death in an alleged hit-run at Dover Gardens in Adelaide.
Topics: courts-and-trials, traffic-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, dover-gardens-5048, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA potentially lethal drug that can "bring down elephants" and is 10,000 times more potent than morphine is discovered at a Brisbane mail centre, sparking urgent police warnings.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, drug-use, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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A woman is charged with the murder of a mother whose body was found on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula more than six months after she was reported missing.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sorrento-3943, vic
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A high-ranking police officer in WA's Pilbara says Australians have a "militant" response to the prospect of alcohol restrictions.
Topics: crime, police, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedIt will likely be 18 months before the man accused of the deadly Bourke Street rampage faces a Supreme Court trial, with prosecutors telling the court there are more than 1,000 witnesses.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedPolice missed multiple opportunities to prevent Liam Humbles, who was believed to have been in possession of a gun and selling drugs at a high school, from killing teenager Lewis McPherson, a South Australian coroner says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, warradale-5046, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA 54-year-old man appears in court accused of trying to kill a woman with a claw hammer in far west New South Wales.
Topics: crime-prevention, crime, law-crime-and-justice, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedA former Bairnsdale dentist is expected to face deportation after being jailed for a crash that killed an off-duty police officer.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, police, morwell-3840, lindenow-south-3875
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| UpdatedA man is charged with murder following the discovery of another man's body at Goodwood, in Adelaide's inner south.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, goodwood-5034, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA Bendigo man admits to corruptly paying a former Ballarat council worker thousands of dollars in exchange for employment contracts.
Topics: corruption, crime, fraud-and-corporate-crime, ballarat-3350, north-bendigo-3550, bendigo-3550, ballarat-north-3350, ballarat-west-3350
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Two men accused of killing another man after one held him in headlock are acquitted of murder, with an Adelaide judge deciding they did not intend harm.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedHollywood actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher tells a US Senate committee about the children his anti-trafficking organisation has rescued, saying "I've seen things no person should ever see".
Topics: actor, arts-and-entertainment, human-trafficking, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, crime, child-abuse, united-states
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| UpdatedMalaysian police detain the boyfriend of a second woman arrested over the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, malaysia
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Two police officers are charged over an alleged assault on a female former police officer in custody at the Ballarat police station two years ago.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, ballarat-3350, vic
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| UpdatedRicky Ciano, who survived an attempt on his life and subsequently relocated to Queensland, is found dead in a car in the NSW Central Tablelands, the ABC understands, with a friend saying he "ran out of places to hide".
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, death, police, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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ACT police investigate a fire that destroyed a residential unit in Waramanga and caused smoke damage to a neighbouring unit.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, fires, waramanga-2611, act
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Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, waramanga-2611, act, australia, canberra-2600