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This is what festers in a culture of secrecy, shame, a fear of speaking out, a lack of transparency and when the powerful are left to take control of a narrative that does NOT belong to them. Stamp a foot and the rats scurry to hide behind suppression orders. Frank Arkell: How a vicious...

UPDATE Richard Allen receives a sentence of 130 years. It's been more than a year since the Delphi murders, when the bodies of Indiana teens Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, were discovered near a wooded creek. Abby and Libby went missing on Feb. 13, 2017, when they were dropped...

The official line from the police is that they do not seek the advice of psychics. But they do. On Australia's Deb Malone. One skeptic swayed by Malone's insights is former Lake Illawarra detective Jeff Little. In 2005 he was investigating the murder of South Coast woman Maria Scott when he...

Hannah Quinn sobbed into her hands as she was granted bail over the samurai sword murder of Sydney rapper Jett McKee. The 23-year-old and her boyfriend Blake Davis are accused of murdering McKee after he broke into their Forest Lodge home in broad daylight last Friday. Quinn was today also...

Australia's 'most hated woman' Kathleen Folbigg. Convicted of killing her four children, Australia's worst female serial killer, Kathleen Folbigg's legal team fights for a judicial review of her case. Fresh forensic opinion argues natural causes are a plausible explanation for their deaths...

TRUE CRIME PODS. Serial season one The pod that started it all, Serial’s first season deals with the disappearance and murder of high school senior Hae Min Lee in 1999 — and the subsequent conviction of her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. Reporter and host Sarah Koenig...

The Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research with the convenient acronym of AFTER. (A body farm studies the five stages of human decompositon.) Opened 2016 with thirty donated bodies. Now there are 850 pledged. "I will be out there daily tracking the odour, and figuring out...

Mums who spend all Christmas Day looking out the window expecting their son to walk up the path. Dads who refuse to update the family car that keeps breaking down in case their daughter sees and recognises it. Sunday marks the launch of National Missing Persons Week for 2018. The AFP are...

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Three years ago, former Perth schoolgirl Marli van Breda was the only survivor of an axe attack that killed her parents and brother. Now her only remaining brother has been convicted of their murders and sentenced to three life terms. Marli has no memory of what happened that night. In a Cape...

Samantha Fraser, 38, a local psychologist recently changed the locks at her home and expressed fears for her safety in the months before her murder by "assault injuries". The mother of three was found dead at the Seagrove Way property in the seaside town of Cowes on Monday after she did not...

Laa Chol died in the early hours of Saturday during an altercation between two groups in a short-stay apartment on A'Beckett Street, in Melbourne's CBD. A group of young people had rented the apartment where the dispute broke out. Senior police have dismissed suggestions the killing of the 19...

Blame South Australia's reputation as serial killer central on three really horrendous cases. The 'Truro murders' was the name given to a series of murders uncovered in the 1970s. The remains of seven girls were found; five in Truro in regional SA, one at Wingfield and one at Port Gawler. The...

Senior homicide detective described the scene as possibly the most horrific he has seen in his career. Homicide squad detectives are trying to piece together what they have described as the "horrific" murder of three people at a home in Ellenbrook in Perth's north-eastern suburbs. Assistant...

Jennifer Ruth TANNER died on the 14th November 1984 at the Tanner family farm from two gunshots to the brain including one gunshot through each hand, between the index finger and thumb (webbing) as if she was in a defensive position. It's argued that Jennifer committed suicide and also argued...

* Chris Dawson - CONVICTED Lyn’s husband, who denies murder lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with his third wife. A former first grade rugby league player for the Newtown Jets in the 1970s, was a sports teacher at Sydney’s Cromer High School in 1980 when he started a sexual relationship...

EMINENT QC Malcolm McCusker believes that “significant evidence” was withheld from the 1994 trial of notorious child killer Arthur Greer, who is still in jail for the mutilation murder of schoolgirl Sharon Mason 35 years ago...

The 31-year-old man has been missing since October 23 and Major Crime Squad detectives announced earlier this week that they were now treating Mr Pruiti's disappearance as a suspected homicide. https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/body-believed-to-be-that-of-missing-man-ng-ya-264423 Police...

Fingers have been pointed at someone who has been in prison for the murder of someone else. Sarah vanished on November 8, 2000, after leaving work in Claremont about 5pm to meet someone in the Bassendean area. Her car was later found abandoned at the old Swan District Hospital site but her...

Given the 100 metre radius of Glyde st has seen so many murders and now an accused who potentially spent some time at a french restaurant within that radius this is getting worse. ABC journalist Sue Short gives evidence to Rochford inquest...

Kerryn Tate Personal Details Last seen: 28-Dec-79 Employment: Age: 22 Year of birth: 57 Height: Build: Eyes: Hair: Fair Complexion: Fair Gender: Female Distinguishing Feature: Circumstances: Kerryn Tate disappeared from the Perth metropolitan area on the 28th of December 1979. Her remains were...

Claremont serial killer-accused court case delayed until next year Joanna Menagh Updated about an hour ago http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-23/claremont-killer-accused-trial-delayed-to-next-year/9077770?pfmredir=sm

Lisa Brown has been missing since 12.30am on 10 November 1998 from the Palmerston Street, Perth City area. She was last seen wearing casual blue denim jeans, a black T-shirt and black high heeled boots. https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/who-missing/wa/brown-lisa

Born in Perth on the 20th of August 1975, Deborah moved to the United Kingdom in 1990 to be with her mother, returning nine years later in August 1999 to re-unite with her father and commence a cooking course at the Australian School of Tourism and Hotel Management. Scheduled to return to...

* UPDATE: The case has been referred to the Coroner Julie Leanne CUTLER Age at time of disappearance: 22 years Build: Medium Height: 162 cm Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Julie was last seen leaving the Parmelia Hilton Hotel WA at 12.30am on 20 June 1988 after a staff function. Her car was found 2...

KERRY Turner was going to come home for dinner that Saturday night but changed her plans at the last minute go clubbing with her best mate Kylie. On that June 30 night in 1991, the teenagers ended up at Perth CBD nightspot Pinocchio’s (Magnet House on Murray St) but were separated once inside...

THE family of missing Bannockburn mother Lorrin Whitehead fear her bizarre disappearance may be linked to the historic Claremont murders in Western Australia. On the first anniversary of her disappearance, Lorrin’s eldest daughter Amelia revealed the family were following the new lead after...

What is amazing is that they both left tyranny for a better life only to end up in the country, at least Corryn sought political refuge. Ciara Glennon grew up on an African mission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_serial_murders "Corryn Veronica Ann Rayney, née Da Silva, (born 1963)...