Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule

Self-described 'mad scientist' Rory Jack Thompson decided to make his wife vanish by cutting her into tiny pieces. The grotesque crime committed exactly 40 years ago is one of many carved into Tasmania's dark history. 

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The Higgins family was filled with media high-flyers. But when a stranger entered their lives, a storm started brewing.

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When concreter Salvatore Rotiroti was found bashed to death outside his Geelong home, it opened up fractures in his sprawling family. And it left a son searching for answers.

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. Reporter Douglas Smith joins the show to outline his new podcast series about investigations into the deaths of indigenous women across Australia.

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. In the depths of the 1930s depression, a grusome find shocked the nation. And it would take a true detective and some brand new technology to crack the case. Host of the In Black and White podcast, Jen Kelly, joins the show with more.

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It's been 60 years since perhaps the most famous heist in the world. Andrew Rule tells the story of the crime and its links very close to home.

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Last year the late gangland lawyer sat down with Andrew Rule to talk about the crooks he defended and his own problems with the law. This episode was first published for subscribers at heraldsun.com.au and the Crime X+ channel. 

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Last year the late gangland lawyer sat down with Andrew Rule to talk about the crooks he defended and his own problems with the law. This episode was first published for subscribers at heraldsun.com.au and the Crime X+ channel. 

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Last year the late gangland lawyer sat down with Andrew Rule to talk about the crooks he defended and his own problems with the law. This episode was first published for subscribers at heraldsun.com.au and the Crime X+ channel. 

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Last year the late gangland lawyer sat down with Andrew Rule to talk about the crooks he defended and his own problems with the law. This episode was first published for subscribers at heraldsun.com.au and the Crime X+ channel. 

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Last year the late gangland lawyer sat down with Andrew Rule to talk about the crooks he defended and his own problems with the law. This episode was first published for subscribers at heraldsun.com.au and the Crime X+ channel. 

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What happens when footy players fall in with bad company? Andrew Rule tells more tales of on field champions who turned off-field felons.

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Jack Richardson was an ace player who turned to crime and made enemies of powerful people. And now police have a new clue to who gunned him down

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To most Willie Thompson was just another name to add to the bloodbath that was the Melbourne gangland war. But his death may have brought about the end of one of that war's top kingpins.

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A brazen payroll robbery sets off a tangled investigation, a long courtroom drama and a glimpse into the crooks who prey on crooks.

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Vince and Gerado were shot dead in their respective driveways nine months apart. Nobody has ever been charged, and it is unlikely anybody will be. 

Andrew Rule tells the tale.

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Andrew Rule introduces the first episode of the new podcast The Missing Australia. Find the show ad-free on the CrimeX channel, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. The recent podcast series The Missing Australia leads Andrew Rule to examine the confronting case of a baby sent in the post.

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More on the Folbigg story:
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Subscribe to Crime X+ today.  WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. As politicians debate what to do with our most notorious prisoners, Andrew Rule tells the backstory of one of Australia's most shocking serial killers.

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Andrew Rule introduces an extract from the Audible recording of his book: Chance, a collection of stories about grit and gamblers and the romance of the racing life.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. It's 20 years ago that Melbourne's gangland war was supercharged when Jason Moran was gunned down at a suburban Melbourne park.

And the fact that it was done in front of small kids, shows how calous the tit-for-tat battle had become.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. Andrew Rule is joined by Meni Caroutas, former detective and host of the new podcast The Missing Australia.
They discuss some of Australia's most disturbing missing persons cases.
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Knocking off banks and armoured cars to fuel addiction or obsession is one thing - but turning it into your day job is another.

Andrew Rule chronicles the cruel and calculating men who made robbery their career.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today.Before the networked world, bank heists were a good way to make a bad dollar. Andrew Rule introduces some of the crooks who took the money and ran.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. While cowboys and cattle thieves sound like a thing of the past, Andrew Rule explains that it's very much a part of modern rural Australian crime. 

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. After several heartbreaking missing persons tragedies, Australian police forces might finally be employing a new four-legged tool in their hunt to find the lost.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. Mark Morri, host of the new podcast series Crim City, joins Andrew Rule to talk about when underworld gunmen get the wrong target.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Forget the bikies and the mafia - some of Australia's most captivating crimes have been perpetrated with a canvas and an easel.

Author Mark Holsworth joins the show with more.

More about The Picasso Ransom: https://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/the-picasso-ransom/

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Brian Murphy was a hard cop with a hard nickname. And when he passed away on Anzac Day, he left behind a pile of intriguing tales. Many of them may even be true.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Detective Lachlan McCulloch closes in on the shadowy fraudsters who have been ripping off banks throughout Melbourne.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Detective Lachlan McCulloch is called to a lawyer's office over some missing documents. But what starts off looking like a clerical error will fast turn into a major case of  fraud.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Lachlan McCulloch was tasked with bringing down some of Australia's most notorious criminals using only his wits and a wig.

Now, in this special Life and Crimes series, Andrew Rule talks with the former undercover cop about some of the heart-pounding moments in his clandestine career.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Peter 'Crackers' Keenan is a former AFL hard man who also knew his way around horse racing. He outlines some of the characters he met - both on the footy ground and on the racetrack.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Guest host Anthony Dowsley is joined by the Herald Sun's crime team to discuss some of the news that has crossed their desk so far this year.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Over two books, author and journalist Abraham Maddison told the definitive story of the charismatic crook, Brendan James Abbott.

He wrote those books under another name - Derek Pedley. Why he changed his name is the topic of his new book: Crazy Bastard: A Memoir of Forced Adoption 

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Investigative journalist Stephen Drill joins the show to talk about his new podcast series: Faith on Trial.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Douglas Kay Morgan, one half of the infamous 'after dark bandit' crew, continues the discussion about his crimes, his time behind bars and his artistic post-prison life.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Former 'after dark bandit' twin Douglas Kay Morgan joins the show again to talk more about his time as a bank robber, as well as his road to redemption.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. When Elisabeth Membrey went missing from her outer suburban flat in 1994, police investigators leapt into action.

But after many leads and much grief,  there' still no closure on the case.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Author Tony Wilson is back to discuss more of football's greatest scallywags and scoundrels.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Andrew is joined by investigative journalist Anthony Dowsley to talk about the new true crime podcast series: The Devil's Apprentice.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. With another AFL season on the horizon, broadcaster and author Tony Wilson joins the show to talk about some of the scallywags, rogues and scoundrels that have played the great game.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Long-time listeners will know the tale of Aubrey Broughill - AKA the beanie bandit. This episode we explore the crimes of the man who could well be the last to see old Aubrey alive.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. When his house was gutted by a national park fire, former AFP officer John Shobbrook used all his detective skills to investigate what went wrong.

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Nearly 50 years ago, a little girl disappeared without trace from a quiet Melbourne suburb. Now her aunt speaks for the first time about the events of the night and the ongoing search for answers. 

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT Actor Madeline West joins the show to talk about her new podcast series Predatory - an investigation into preventing child abuse.

She discusses the dangers online and on the streets - as well as the trauma that drives her to speak out.

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In the second of our short series inspired by the Herald Sun's Deadline column, Andrew Rule, Mark Buttler and Anthony Dowsley outline the inner workings of Melbourne's Notorious Crime Family.

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In the first of a run of episodes inspired by the Herald Sun's Deadline column, crime reporters Mark Buttler and Anthony Dowsley sit down with Andrew to talk about the bikie news of 2022 and what's brewing in '23.

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As the year draws to a close, Andrew remembers some of the names in and around the world of crime who have passed away in the last 12 months

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Lady Ann Rylah was a very accomplished woman married to a very powerful man. And when their marriage soured, she was met with tragedy and he was met with questions. Questions, that despite his power, he couldn't quite make go away.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. In between the shootings at Hoddle Street and the horrors of Port Arthur, there was a rampage that has largely drifted from the public consciousness.

But for the families of those lost, the killings at Queen St are forever etched in their memory.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. What started as a one night stand in an inner-city pub saw a young tradie fighting for years to clear his name.

Andrew Rule talks with him about his case.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Gold Coast-based journalist Greg Stolz joins the show to outline his new investigation Mayhem in the Mongols.

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Colin Creed was a tough Adelaide cop who turned to the wrong side of the law and ended up hunted by his own.

Andrew Rule outlines the story of a man, who for a hot minute, was Australia's most wanted criminal.

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Donald Tate lived a life of light planes, narcotics busts and death sentences.

And while he got himself into his fair share of scrapes, he always seemed to have an angle on an out.

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It's a shadowy world where cool customers slip past international authorities to import contraband for the highest bidder.

But it's not drugs or guns they are dealing, but rare and exotic eggs.

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While the world of racing is full of colourful characters, it also has its fair share of miracles - both at the finishing post and the betting ring.

Andrew Rule tells of two memorable moments.

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Samantha Wilson was a mystery figure with a chequered past when she appeared in a small town in Victoria's high country.

And when she went missing, the mystery only deepened.

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They may have sounded like a boy band, but for a hot minute, this group of frenemies terrorised Melbourne's western suburbs - before turning on themselves.

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Lawyer Andrew Fraser represented the top of the criminal foodchain before sinking to the depths of addiction and imprisonment. In the first of a special series, Fraser joins Andrew Rule to talk cops, crims and AK 47s

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. Katherine Mary Knight was an abattoir worker in country New South Wales, who had a fondness for knives and tempestuous relationships with men.

And one day this volatile mix turned deadly, in one of Australia's most notorious crimes.

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Andrew outlines the colourful lives of two colourful characters: John Kizon and Tom Erikson.

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Revelle Balmain was a dancer and model who turned to escort work to make ends meet.

But when she went missing, police searched from Sydney's sprawling nightlife, to the wilds of Tasmania, in search of answers.

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Brenden James Abbott was a smart kid with a habit for burglary. But it was his ingenious escapes and a single roll of film that would make him famous.

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In 2014, an excavator made a grisly find that reopened a very cold case.

What followed is a story of gambling, drugs and the echoes of a most notorious crime.

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In the vast plains of western Victoria, police, family and concerned locals hunted for missing Adelaide grandmother Colleen South in vain. But Andrew Rule argues there was one critical element missing that could have changed the outcome.

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In a step away from crime, Andrew sits down with author Anston Cameron to talk about the new biography Neil Balme, A Tale of Two Men.

The memoir chronicles Balme's journey from footy hard man to a source of calm in a turbulent sport.

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Investigative journalist Stephen Drill joins the show to introduce his new podcast series Bikies Inc - a series that lifts the lid on Australia’s outlaw motorcycle gangs, who now control more than $3 billion worth of illegal drugs each year.

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT On the second part of our Q&A special, Andrew answers questions about chilling crimes, missing people and old-time crooks

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On this milestone episode, Andrew Rule answers your questions about charming crooks, the underbelly war, crime masterminds and more.

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Investigative reporter Anthony Dowsley joins the show to outline the aftermath of the acquittal of Jason Roberts ove the Silk/Miller police shootings.

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In this short episode, we outline the short crime spree of Pavel Marinof - and how his propensity for violence against cops left long shadows over the police force.

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When South Australian police needed to infiltrate the Adelaide mafia, an undercover veteran assembled a team to pull off a remarkable sting.

And after twists and turns in the legal system, their efforts resulted - only days ago - in a major conviction.

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT When Sue was only 19 years old, she sought sanctuary at an inner-Melbourne police station. What followed has been a 40-year ordeal as she has searched for the policeman who assaulted her.

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In Sydney's south west, a deadly blood feud has broken out between rival crime families. Daily Telegraph crime writer Mark Morri joins the show to talk about his new documentary series, exposing this latest fracture in Sydney's underworld.

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Andrew Rule explores the utter tragedy when old crooks induct young kids into their life of crime.

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In the last in our series on great prison escapees, Andrew outlines the colourful crimes and daring prison break of 'Doc' Smith.

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Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox's exploits are well known, but this week, we focus on his extraordinary escape from Sydney’s Long Bay jail.

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Recent events has Andrew Rule recounting the most famous jailbreaks by three of Australia's most colourful crooks.

This week: the daring flight of David McMillan from the infamous 'Bangkok Hilton' prison.

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The wilderness search for a missing man has Andrew Rule asking why authorities continue to refuse the help of expert trackers - even when time, money and perhaps lives are in the balance.

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A chance find on a hard drive brings new revelations to an ongoing legal and political drama.

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Novelist Adrian McKinty went from writing crime thrillers in Melbourne to blockbusters in the US. He sits down with Andrew to tell the story of his eclectic career.

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When a young train driver moved into an unassuming house in an inner western suburb of Melbourne, little did he know it may have had links to one of the country's greatest heists.,

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Andrew Rule uncovers a new and compelling theory as to the true identity of one of Australia's most notorious monsters.

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Don Winslow is a best-selling American crime author whose new book City on Fire is the first in a saga about Irish and Italian crime syndicates in 1980s and '90s New England.

He talks with Andrew about drug wars, the opioid epidemic and the craft of writing crime.

City on Fire is out soon. Go to https://www.donwinslow.com/ for more information and to preorder.

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Karmein Chan was abducted in 1991. Just over a year later her remains were found in northern Melbourne. Was Mr Cruel responsible and what did the police overlook?

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. They spend their working lives keeping the bad guys on the inside, but who's helping them cope on the outside? Counsellor Bruce Perham joins the show to talk about his work helping prison guards deal with the pressures of their job

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George Brown was a country boy with big dreams of training winners at the track. But he met a tragic end after getting caught up in racing's violent underworld.

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This week, from the vault, we bring you the story of a little guy with big plans - that mostly involved stealing. (First released Jan 19, 2019)

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Last week, we looked at the murder  that saw Ronald Ryan hanged. This week we tell the story of what became of the young man who shared Ryan's crimes.

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The execution of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia, shocked and captivated the nation. But his partner in crime, Peter Walker, has a violent and tragic tale all of his own.

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Colin McLaren spent a career in undercover law enforcement infiltrating the mafia in Australia. Now as an author, he has travelled to Italy to uncover the origins of the mob. Andrew Rule explains.

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Ben Buckley was a rogue of the sky and no stranger to scrapes with authority. But beyond his many misdemeanors, he also saved lives with his aerial exploits.

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John and Lorraine Moss lived a quiet life in central Victoria until John became mysteriously ill. But behind all Lorraine's concern for her husband's health, lay a wicked plan - and a fondness for arsenic.

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They're a mainstay of film, TV and news reports worldwide: the hound dogs that can hunt through the wilderness to find the lost. But if they're so effective, why aren't they here?
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When the mafia needed a man to help get rid of a problem, they turned to a Melbourne gun dealer - a man who may just have taken one of crime's biggest mysteries to his grave.

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When Australian woman Patricia Galea was shot dead in an LA apartment, it looked like a robbery gone wrong. But the true reasons for her death might just wind their way back  to Sydney's gambling underworld.

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When publican Mike Lowry was shot in the head with a small calibre bullet, police were left with a question: who was the mysterious woman who pulled the trigger?

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Andrew Rule offers up some crime gems in this rough guide to summer reading and viewing.

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