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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.
- John Silvester
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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”.
- John Silvester
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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.
- John Silvester
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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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
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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.
- John Silvester
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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.
- John Silvester
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.