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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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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
John Taylor says being little has its advantages when you’re a cop. You can be ‘pushed through small windows’
As part of the elite special operations group, John Taylor chased criminals, defused bombs, and navigated deadly sieges, never letting the fact that he “didn’t look the part” get in the way.
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.
High IQ, need for control, clean: Criminal profiler John Kelly on the notorious Mr Cruel
In his Naked City podcast, veteran crime reporter John Silvester talks to criminal profiler John Kelly about Mr Cruel and why no one has caught him yet.
A young girl was abducted and police named a suspect fast. Too fast for some
The abduction of Karmein Chan in 1991 changed Melbourne forever. Veteran crime reporter John Silvester talks to the police officer who was first on the scene, and first to question the “Mr Cruel” theory.
It took 20 years to find six-year-old Bonnie Clarke’s killer. The cold case detective tells why
As a young detective, Tim Day was only meant to “get a feel” for murder investigations when he was handed the dusty files from the cold case of Bonnie Clarke.
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The 10 hurdles Erin Patterson needed to jump. She hit every one
Despite the marathon legal arguments and the testimony of expert witnesses, the Morwell jury needed to use common sense rather than common law to examine 10 key questions.
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‘The consequences are much greater’: John Silvester on the Easey Street secret he kept
The Age crime columnist unpacks the major breakthrough in the notorious Easey Street cold case – and takes us behind the scenes of the long police operation that led to it.
- Samantha Selinger-Morris