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Unsolved Serial Killers of Juarez - Cross border cities of Texas & Mexico
Juarez is a border crossing town only eleven miles from Al Paso Texas. Since 1993 when corrupt authorities some of whom are accused of being involved in the killings began the record of counting bodies (counting bodies not the missing) 200 women and young girls have been found dumped in... -
Unsolved Boat Trailer Tampering Warning - Tasmanian fishers call for CCTV monitoring
"With that situation, the brakes failed, and as soon as I put my foot on the brake I realised I had no trailer brakes with the extra weight on the back." Fishers across Tasmania are warning it is only a matter of time before someone is killed or seriously hurt... -
Current Australian Crime Biographies
Twisting and rewriting the history in many of them I suspect but I'd probably be tempted to write myself into a more flattering, or 'good chick' frame. Some of them are a great read if not nearly always as 'unflinching' as described. And winning literary prizes! Judy Moran's book wasn't one... -
Current Trial Cambodia finds Australian filmmaker James Ricketson guilty of espionage
Local pro-government media had labelled the filmmaker as a spy acting to promote revolution, but Mr Ricketson expressed only disbelief at the charge. "Which country was I conducting espionage for?" he said in court after the verdict was announced, Reuters news agency reports. "The Phnom Penh... -
Current True Crime Afficionados - Are they men or women?
Overwhelmingly, it's women. Women are the main consumers of true crime, from podcasts, books, documentaries to browsing crime forums. Why? It teaches women survival skills. (Ted Bundy killed at least 30 of us) It allows women to tap into their revenge and anger fantasies without actually... -
Current Murder of Mayor of Wollongong Frank Arkell - Dirty secrets & the road to redemption
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... -
Current Trial Advocating Terrorism - Adelaide man charged as a first in Australia
A South Australian man accused of posting videos online encouraging violent acts against Jewish people has pleaded not guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to advocating terrorism. The 51-year-old Flinders Park man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was charged late last year with... -
Current Psychics, Astrology and Crime
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... -
Current Australia's Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives - Mugshots
From left: Brendan Lees, Antonio Toliseli, Alex Egan, Warren Leslie Scrivener, Thomas Peter Walsh. From left: John Victor Bobak, Jonathan Dick, Jonathon Grey, Kathleen Ann Grey, Kayne Edwards. From left: Clint Brilley, Gene Nicholas Hawkins, Henry Jonathon Evans, Jayson Aworth. From... -
Current Samurai Sword Murder of Rapper Jett McKee
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... -
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Current General Crime Chat: disturbing killers, other crimes and miscellaneous stuff
A man has been sentenced to prison for "spitting." Meanwhile we have police too squeamish to shoot dead a terrorist or call in a Counter Terroism Unit at the least until 18 hours after the fact (circa 2014 Lyndt siege) and a Cardinal (one of the most powerful men in the world) in one of the most...- Run n Spread
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Current Trial Tattooist & 'Body Modifier' charged with manslaughter after a client died
A body modifier charged with manslaughter after a plastic snowflake he allegedly implanted in a NSW mother's hand caused a fatal infection has been refused bail. Brendan Leigh Russell, 37, who worked as body modifier on the Central Coast, also faces a charge of grievous bodily harm following an... -
Current Kathleen Folbigg * Convictions Overturned
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... -
Current True Crime Podcasts
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... -
Current Australia's First Body Farm - Producing groundbreaking results in local climate
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... -
Unsolved National Missing Persons Week
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... -
Current Kalgoorlie Gold Heist - Robbers on the runs in a stolen sewage truck
The hunt is on for the brazen bandits who used a sewage truck to suck up gold-rich liquid from a Kalgoorlie mine site. The liquid waste truck, which was reported stolen last week, was backed up to a dam and filled with gold-bearing concentrate at the Kanowna Belle mine, 630km east of Perth... -
Solved Killer Couples - The Birnies & others
Judith and Alvin Neelly. ... Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. ... Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. ... Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke. ... Charlene and Gerald Gallego. ... Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. ... Fred and Rosemary West. .. David and Catherine Birnie. (Australia) Most often we... -
Current 26 yo man charged with murder of a toddler - Mother now charged with manslaughter
A 26-year-old man has been charged with murdering a toddler following her suspicious death in the NSW Hunter region seven weeks ago. Emergency services were called to a house in Tarro, near Newcastle, in June after reports a 20-month-old child was in cardiac arrest. She died... -
Current Trial The Van Breda Family Axe Murders
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... -
Unsolved Phillip Island Murder - Samantha Fraser
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... -
Current Pregnant woman stabbed six times in home invasion - 14yo arrested - Another Peter Dupas?
The condition of her unborn child is not known. Neighbours rushed to help a heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed six times by a teenage boy during a violent home invasion in Sydney's north last night. The attack began when the victim, aged 33, disturbed an intruder inside her Mt Colah home... -
Unsolved The Killing of Laa Chol - EQ Tower Melbourne
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... -
Current Is WA Australia's New Murder Capital - SA wants to know
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... -
Current Trial Lindy Williams headless torso surprise & other wacky murder defences
"She said she headed down towards the bedroom … and she discovered his torso, she says, wrapped in plastic on the floor." The prosecution said Ms Williams told police she didn't know what to do with the torso, so she wrapped it in a tarp, dumped it on the side of the road and set the remains... -
Current Triple Murder Perth NE Suburbs - 19yo in custody.
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... -
Current Murder of Cecilia Haddad
The body of Cecilia Haddad, mining executive was found in Lane Cove River in Sydney's North just a day after friends reported her missing in April. Suspicions were raised immediately as Ms Haddad was found fully clothed, with weights inside each pocket of her cargo pants. Police in Rio de... -
Current Murder by poison - Novichok nerve agent in the UK and other deadly toxins
UK police and counter-terrorism officers race to find source of new nerve agent poisoning. More than 100 officers were looking for clues in a race to understand how two local people were exposed to a nerve agent that was produced in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. . British Home... -
Unsolved Madeleine McCann
Ah, firstly, we're not going to descend into the battle we had before. So, I'm going to frame this thread very carefully - so don't deviate - this thread is about new evidence/leads into the case. We're not going over the old battle ground, nor do I want to read about the various individuals... -
Carl Williams
https://www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/Publications/Parliamentary-Reports/The-death-of-Mr-Carl-Williams-at-HM-Barwon-Prison Found this at lunch time today and thought I'd share it out of interest. Surprised Carl didn't already have his own thread on this board, but here you go. Anyway, what got me...- Tyrone Time
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