Contents

Glossary

Timeline

Introduction

Prologue

Chapter 1 The killings

Chapter 2 Back at the beginning

Chapter 3 The Lorimer Taskforce

Chapter 4 The streets of Brunswick

Chapter 5 The Drug Squad

Chapter 6 Terry Hodson

Chapter 7 Operation Galop

Chapter 8 The Oakleigh robbery

Chapter 9 Dangling carrots and clichés

Chapter 10 Putting together the brief

Chapter 11 The first arrest

Chapter 12 A dangerous game

Chapter 13 Carl Williams observed

Chapter 14 Harp Road, Kew

Chapter 15 Who knew?

Chapter 16 The second arrest

Chapter 17 Stooks and the forgotten bullet

Chapter 18 Dale vs Chief Commissioner of Police

Chapter 19 Abbey Haynes’s next statement

Chapter 20 The Queen vs Dave Miechel

Chapter 21 The Australian Crime Commission

Chapter 22 Courting Carl

Chapter 23 The Petra Taskforce

Chapter 24 Nicola Gobbo and the OPI

Chapter 25 Sam Jennings again

Chapter 26 Family ties

Chapter 27 Star witness

Chapter 28 The Acacia Unit

Chapter 29 Bail applications

Chapter 30 Ten months on the taxpayer

Chapter 31 The committal

Chapter 32 The killing of Carl

Chapter 33 The new charges

Chapter 34 Media moves

Chapter 35 The usual suspects

Chapter 36 The beginnings of vindication

Chapter 37 The Queen vs Paul Noel Dale

Chapter 38 Mum and Dad

Chapter 39 Divide and conquer

Chapter 40 The challenge

Notes

Acknowledgements

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