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Police at the scene of the Silk-Miller shooting in 1998.

‘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.

  • John Silvester

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Former homicide detective Sol Solomon and Carl Williams.

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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Joy and Roger Membrey in 2005, with a picture of their daughter, Elisabeth, who was killed in 1994. There is a million-dollar reward for information on the Membrey murder.

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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Victoria failed to learn the lessons from the past and arm its corruption watchdog with teeth.

‘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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John Silvester (left) and Stuart Bateson feature in Naked City: Hit Men.

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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Judy Moran’s last ride from freedom in 2009. In police car with Stuart Bateson

A shooting in front of children at a footy clinic shifted everything in the notorious Underbelly war

The gangland wars between Carl Williams and the Moran family dominated Melbourne for years. Now, John Silvester talks to one of the lead police investigators about what it took to put some of them behind bars.

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John Silvester’s Naked City: Market Murders, The Great Bookie Robbery, Russell Street bombing, Neighbourhood Wine, coffee with Carl Williams and the Black Prince of Lygon Street, St Mary Star of the Sea.

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

  • John Silvester and Pablo Barnes
Smiling assassin. Lorraine Moss with two of her children.

‘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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Flower tributes at the footbridge where the Bondi shootings took place.

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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Tim Peck (left) graduates from the Police Academy.

At first, being part of the work-hard, play-hard club suited detective Tim Peck. Then it crushed him

Tim Peck worked on some of the country’s most notorious murder investigations. He was old-school police, rising through the ranks, until he had to face his wife after a car crash.