John Silvester
John Silvester is a columnist.
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‘To see him lying there, dead on the nature strip ... I really did have to steel myself’
Former homicide detective Sol Solomon recounts the hunt for killers in the cases that have shocked and haunted him.
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Murder, Carl Williams and a gun under the table: Inside the career of a ‘killer catcher’
After 35 years in the homicide squad, Sol Solomon opens up about why the gangland kingpin’s death was so “devastating”.
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A cold case, a new suspect, and fresh hope for a mother desperate for answers
For three decades, Joy has been hunting for answers over the murder of 22-year-old Elisabeth. There have been false dawns but she’s never given up.
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‘Norm’s a bit short’: The history lessons Victoria failed to learn
In 1981, it was $20,000 cash and a beach house. Today, it’s organised crime infiltrating the CFMEU – and a toothless watchdog. It’s time to fix it. John Silvester outlines how.
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The underworld’s coldest killers … and how they were caught
From secret tapes to the detectives who stood face-to-face with hitmen, a new documentary series hosted by John Silvester goes inside Melbourne’s gangland war.
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A bloody mafia war, a heist and a courthouse execution: The secrets bubbling below a city’s surface
Coffee with Carl Williams, sacred sites where gangsters roam free: This is the dark history of Australia’s underbelly
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‘My mother poisoned my father, and I had to live with the aftermath’
Long before Erin Patterson used poisonous mushrooms to kill three family members with deadly beef Wellingtons, Lorraine Moss was lacing her husband’s food with arsenic.
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Who planted the seeds of hate?
Pound for pound, people from a Jewish background have done more to drive progress in modern Australia than any other minority.
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Security warning to lawyers, police and judges ahead of arsonist’s release
A specialist threat assessment centre has been contacting the group of law and justice figures about their personal security ahead of the man’s release from jail this week.
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Naked Sport: Why a crime reporter is investigating England’s Ashes fiasco
There is a precedent. After all, Richie Benaud had a stint as a crime reporter.
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