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In a world of two-bit gangsters, Charlie Wootton was the last old-school crook
One of the underworld's old guard passed away quietly this year. Charlie Wootton didn't need to be well known to be well respected in shadow...
My brother, the Great Bookie robber
On April 21, 1976, six bandits raided the Victoria Club where Melbourne's biggest bookies were settling their accounts with cash. No one kno...
Naked City special: A conversation with John Silvester
A couple of months ago we held a night for subscribers to The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, a conversation with John Silvester, hosted by c...
Don’t play god, don’t mess with their mail – in prison with the worst of the worst
Brian Coghlan is laid back, an asset he was able to use in his workplace. As a prison officer, he quickly learnt that being seen as a good g...
The champion boxer and the crime boss who wanted him dead
Barry Michael was a professional boxer who made his name in the ring as a smart and brave fighter with a kit of wicked body punches. Alphons...
The cop, the sovereign citizen and the arrest that ruined a life
Michael Aston loved being a cop, or more specifically, a road policing officer. He said it was the best job in the world, until it wasn't. A...
The top cop who used his music career to find Tony Mokbel
Former deputy commissioner and counter-terrorism boss Ross Guenther had a unique life before policing, playing in big bands with music great...
They were violent young offenders. But something happened to these ‘lost boys’ of Port Phillip
Anne Hooker worked as a prison officer for 13 years for Corrections Victoria, and Port Phillip Prison for a further 23 years. She also set u...
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True detective, Part 2: Hunting a cannibal, and other tales of homicide
Sol Solomon has investigated some of the country's worst, most high-profile and just plain bizarre homicides. In part two of his interview w...
True detective, Part 1: The hitman, and the corruption case of the century
For former homicide detective Sol Solomon, there was only one Carl. Underworld heavy and gangland killer Carl Williams who was to be the sta...
A cold case, a new suspect, and a mother who has never given up
For more than 30 years, Joy and Roger Membrey – before he died in 2023 – have been hunting for answers over the murder of their...
The cop, the actor and the true tale of the Underbelly series
Melbourne's gangland war in the early 2000s captured the country's imagination. People like Carl and Roberta Williams became household names...
The real story of Melbourne’s gangland war
The gangland war has become like folklore in the tale of crime in Australia. From 1995, dozens of murders occurred in Melbourne in a wrestle...
Armed robbers and detonating bombs: Inside the elite police squad
John Taylor is one of the longest-serving and smallest (in stature) Special Operations Group members, and its longest-serving bomb disposal...
He lived by the three rules of policing, before it all came undone
Tim Peck was an experienced homicide detective who worked on some of the country's most notorious murder investigations, including the Maria...
Mr Cruel, Part 2: Criminal profiler John Kelly on Australia's most notorious child kidnapper
John Wayne Gacy, the Zodiac Killer, the Green River Killer (aka Gary Leon Ridgway) – name a serial killer, criminal profiler and psych...
Mr Cruel, Part 1: The case of Karmein Chan and whether detectives got it right
When a third girl was kidnapped in just a few years, police suspected one offender: Mr Cruel. Before Karmein Chan, 13, in 1991, there was 10...
He was an international thief targeting wealthy Australian homes, until one slip-up
During the span of one week in July 2020, designer goods, cash and jewellery were stolen from eight homes in Melbourne's affluent Toorak. It...