It is labour-intensive and, in reality, like trying to stop a river with a tea-strainer. How police try to identify the obsessed who have the potential to become violent.
Before his mysterious death, one of Australia’s most famous escapees blew the lid on armed robbery, framed crooks and the Walsh Street fallout.
Facing armed crooks and bent police, undercover cop Todd Maguire was looking for an escape from his personal tragedy.
He died homeless in a Melbourne suburb after surviving World War II. It took a global genetic search across seven countries to uncover his past.
Wayne Gatt’s police and industrial relations background will mean he takes an aggressive approach to the scandal plagued construction sector.
For 18 years, Ben Crawford believed his mother died changing a tyre. Then he unpicked his father’s deadly lie.
The prosecutor who put him away for a double murder had no doubt Alistair MacRae should never be released. Back then, even the killer agreed.
The AFL had a $6 million bribe, a new jumper, and a plan for Melbourne to swallow the Hawks. They didn’t count on people power.
John Silvester revisits the haunting cold cases that continue to obsess Melbourne.
Kath Pettingill would turn up at court often wearing a T-shirt that read, “Life’s A Bitch. Then You Die”. She lived the slogan more than most and died at the weekend, aged 91.
