Men accused of Mokbel jailhouse attack revealed
Latest The two inmates accused of trying to kill drug lord Tony Mokbel as he walked back to his Barwon prison cell have been revealed, as the men prepare to face court on attempted murder charges.
Milat top cop’s near encounter with death
Former detective and Assistant Commissioner Clive Small, who led the team that captured Ivan Milat, has revealed his near brush with his own mortality.
Crime cartels target Generation Selfie
Teens wanting to look good for school formals or boost stamina for the weekend footy match are being targeted by crime gangs, notably bikies, as part of the lucrative trade in performance and image-enhancing drugs.
Was Franco burned to death for a bag of opals?
Franco Murat was an invalid pensioner who was fatally set on fire by three people who broke into his Adelaide home — they were never caught. However, a cache of opals may be the key to solving his callous murder.
How cunning sting trapped a monster
He’d raped and killed before, but somehow Puffing Billy volunteer Malcolm Clarke escaped suspicion when a little girl was murdered at the house where he’d once lived. It would take a cunning undercover sting to finally catch him.
‘Shocking’ new twist in Rotiroti murder cold case
Murder victim Salvatore “Sam” Rotiroti’s daughter Maria is living with the man accused by Victoria Police of killing her father in what is just the latest twist in the 1988 cold case.
Mystery seven minutes key to underworld killing
The final moments of Julian Neuendorf’s life were horrifyingly violent. After he was viciously beaten and shot, his lifeless body was dumped in the Logan River. Police believe a seven minute window holds the key to catching his killers.
Dip king’s family offers $1m to catch his killer
It has been nearly two decades since Black Swan dip tycoon Christos Saristavros was ambushed and gunned down in Box Hill. Eighteen years after the businessman died in wife Tammy’s arms, his family is offering $1 million of their own money to anyone who can provide information leading to the killer’s conviction.
Grieving families to get their day in court
Some of Queensland’s most enduring mysteries and high-profile investigations could finally be brought to a close in the coroner’s court in 2019.
Husband can’t afford to join search for wife
A Vietnam veteran now living in southeast Queensland says he hopes police find the body of his wife, who disappeared in 1982, but says he can’t afford to travel to help look for her.
Aussies who never made it home for Christmas
The festive season is meant to be a time for family, but for some, Christmas is a reminder of when their daughters, brothers, mothers and friends vanished without a trace.
The powerful prison gangs of Melbourne
They’re feared and ferocious. From the Prisoners of War to the pair responsible for Tony Mokbel’s stabbing, these are the most notorious and feared gangs in our state’s prisons.
Secret NSW spot where 19 bodies are decomposing
Some are concealed in shallow graves, others in a mass burial. Some are naked on the ground. It sounds macabre but the bodies were donated by their former owners. Gillian McNally goes behind the scenes of Australia’s only human ‘body farm’.
‘Why I’m going to the body farm when I die’
For Marilyn Thomas, the decision to donate her remains to the body farm was a “no-brainer”. But the 65-year-old Sydney grandmother had one condition — “a room with a view”. She tells why she has become a body donor and her family’s reaction. SEE OUR EXCLUSIVE VIDEO AND INTERACTIVE.
Inside the team keeping kids safe from online predators
Ten years ago, a Federal Government program was set up to better educate Australians on the dangers to children on the internet. Chris Clarke has been given a terrifying insight into just how depraved the world beyond our computer screens can be.
Exclusive: Crime scene and trauma cleaners tell all
Meth labs, hoarders and bloody crime scenes - all of the details normally kept behind closed doors.
Hitman’s jailhouse magazine protest shot down
Gerald Preston is one of South Australia’s most notorious killers and he’s trying to overturn a new prison policy which he likens to those found in a “third-world gulag”.
Australia pioneers the great drain robberies
Bank robbers don’t always come through the front door, guns at the ready. The more cunning come in through the floor after digging tunnels through the sewers — and it turns out Australia was a pioneer of the method.
Watch as gunmen shoot up home of bikie boss
Dramatic CCTV showing the moment gunmen sprayed bullets into the Melbourne home of feared Finks bikie leader Brent James Reker after setting fire to his car can now be revealed. Watch it here.
What the jury didn’t know about wife killer
Just four days after Ian Riggs killed his wife Patricia in their Margate home, and only a day after he reported her missing, he was already starting to erase her from his life. It set off her father’s cruel 18-year ordeal to get justice for his daughter.
Associates exposed after death of ‘bikie’ Ace Hall
The man accused of killing an alleged bikie has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after Ace Hall was found in the emergency department of a northern NSW hospital with gunshot wounds to his stomach. HERE IS HOW THE SHOOTING UNFOLDED.
Why you could be the next hacking victim
Sextortion, theft, and fraudulent transactions are expected to soar after the publication of billions of passwords in an act security experts say was most likely the work of organised criminal gangs.
Crooked cops: Australia’s good guys gone bad
Many were celebrated as crime-busting top cops, but with rap sheets ranging from bribery and drugs rip-offs to armed robbery and murder, they were as bad as, if not worse than, the crims we expected them to catch.
Politicians warned of crime lords’ selfie trick
Long before Australia’s political leaders were warned about agents of influence from China, police had detected another worrying threat.
Former Victorian top cop set to tell all on Lawyer X
Former Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Ken Jones is ready to testify on Lawyer X and other corruption matters at the royal commission.
Aussie gang terrorised San Francisco
Extortion, gambling halls, sex clubs, child prostitution, brothels, animal fighting, murder, arson and rampant looting. This is how an Aussie gang held an American city captive for four years.
The gang of amputee thugs who terrorised Melbourne
In an age when people with disabilities were pitied, a gang of men on crutches struck fear into the people of Melbourne. Members required a missing limb and a taste for grog and violence.
How the Kingsgrove Slasher terrorised a city
It was a bizarre and frightening crime spree the likes of which police had never encountered before — sleeping women and girls repeatedly cut in their own beds before their stealthy attacker fled into the night.
Withheld evidence may prove who murdered top cop
It is 30 years since the most senior police officer ever murdered in Australia was gunned down outside his Canberra home. The man charged over his murder was acquitted last month — but senior police believe this withheld evidence would have seen a different result.
Sisters’ killer the one that got away
Almost 50 years ago Townsville was the scene of one of the most heinous crimes in Australian history when two innocent girls were taken from a bus stop, raped and murdered. This is their story.
Convicts’ first Christmas marred by crime
Eleven months after the First Fleet landed, Christmas was “observed with proper ceremony” according to a report from the time. But not all the convicts were prepared to make do with their extra ration of rum.
