Killer caught by new-age science, old-fashioned policing
For decades, Gregory Davies must have been confident that he would take his secret to the grave.
John Silvester is a Walkley-award winning crime writer and columnist. A co-author of the best-selling books that formed the basis of the hit Australian TV series Underbelly, Silvester is also a regular guest on 3AW with his "Sly of the Underworld" segment.
For decades, Gregory Davies must have been confident that he would take his secret to the grave.
The consensus is young, violent offenders are bailed too easily, punished too lightly and the courts are out of step with the community.
It was the armed robbery from heaven. The bandits had inside information on a million-dollar target where the guards would be unarmed and there was an easy escape route.
Sometimes bargain deals aren't worth the long term costs.
Rocco Arico rose from bumbling boob to feared gangster and police believe he is implicated in two homicides.
The father of Eloise Worledge, the eight-year-old taken from her Beaumaris home in January 1976 has died with police no closer to knowing what happened to his daughter.
I had lunch with some old homicide detectives the other day, which seemed appropriate because by 6pm the table resembled a crime scene after one knucklehead spilled a bottle of red over me (luckily he missed the cheese).
Establishing Karen Ristevski's cause of death will be crucial in charging her killer, one of Melbourne's top criminal lawyers says.
I had a brief chat with a government minister at a social event the other day. This was unusual for two reasons: 1) I don't get out much and 2) most would rather take on the Apex gang in their own lounge room than get cornered in a conversation with me.
Mercedes-Benz experts have cast doubt on a key claim made by Boris Ristevski, named by his own lawyer as the police's "number-one suspect" in the murder of his wife, Karen.
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