Contents

Introduction

1 ‘I Forgave My Daughters’ Killer’

2 Who Murdered Sallie-Anne?

3 The Wicked Witch of Kings Cross

4 ‘Darling, you do the renovating and just give me the bills’

5 The Avoca Gold Heist

6 A Trout to Die For

7 Azaria – How Could They Have Got It So Wrong?

8 The Family Law Court Murders

9 The Postcard Bandit

10 The Deadly Love Quadrangle

11 Likely to Offend Again

12 ‘Jockey’ Smith – Cop Hater

13 The Strathfield Massacre

14 ‘Last Resort’ Laurie Connell

15 Australia’s First Bank Robbery

16 Bodiless Murder Convictions

17 Not Your Normal Tourist

18 The Outlaw Folk Hero

19 Rex ‘Buckets’ Jackson and the Prisoner Early-Release Scheme

20 The Mount Rennie Rape Case

21 The Charismatic Crooked Cop

22 Murder Beyond Belief

23 The Suitcase Killer

24 Eddie ‘The Fireman’ Birchley

25 The Frank Butler Murders

26 A Murder Like No Other

27 The Poisoner of Frog Hollow

28 The Glenfield Siege

29 The Joke – The Crimes of Sir Terence Lewis, Police Commissioner

30 The Jimmy Governor Murders

31 Women Serial Killers

32 The Shooting of Arthur Caldwell

33 Getting Away with Murder

34 I Told You I Was Sick

35 The Massacre at Hope Forest

36 The End of Katingal

37 ‘I Want My Mummy’

38 The Legend of Hollywood George

39 Going Out in Style

40 Murder North of Sundown

41 The Port Arthur Massacre

42 George Freeman – King of the SP Bookies

43 Alan Bond – Crook or Hero?

44 The Case of the Smiling Arsonist

45 The Melbourne Police Strike

46 The Infamous Dr Reginald Stuart -Jones

47 The Murder of Ebony Simpson

48 The Deep-Sea Contract

49 A Terrible Way to Die

50 Murder Through the Classifieds

51 The Reputable Firm of Crowley and Buckley

52 The Sins of the Father

53 Horror in the Hamlet of Carcoar

54 The Peter Huxley Scandal

55 Celluloid Serial Killers

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