Twenty-eight people were living in an Ipswich boarding house when it burnt down in a suspected 1990 arson attack.
Convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brückner could be released from prison next year after he was acquitted of separate rape charges by a controversial German judge.
The Age crime columnist unpacks the major breakthrough in the notorious Easey Street cold case – and takes us behind the scenes of the long police operation that led to it.
Unfounded tip-offs wasted police time,wrongly pointing the finger at dozens of men in the case,including late motor racing legend Peter Brock.
Perry Kouroumblis,now 65,is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.
Robert and Anne Geeves were found not guilty of murdering Amber Haigh,19,whose disappearance has haunted a rural town for more than two decades.
Something about Aaron Govendir’s story didn’t quite add up for police investigating his wife’s murder in their Dover Heights home. He has been charged with killing her.
Rose Howell vanished on the Mid North Coast days before her 19th birthday. Police have searched a property near where she was last seen alive,21 years ago.
The man who accused his father of murdering Sharron Phillips,who vanished in May 1986,had a commercial motive to lie,the state’s coroner has found.
The 23-year-old American was travelling around the country when she went missing from Beecroft 46 years ago. Now two women are determined to find out what happened.
Toni Tiki’s battered body was left in scrubland at Maroubra. Police believe a local sex offender may be the culprit as a $1 million reward is offered.