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Remembering Anita Cobby: the case, the husband, the aftermath - 30 years on
Par Mark Morri. 2016
John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita. On 4 February 1986, John…
Cobby's life imploded. He was driving up the coast looking for his missing wife, Anita, when over the radio he heard: 'The body of a naked woman has been found in a paddock in western Sydney.' . . . As details emerged of the rape and murder of the gentle nurse and former beauty queen, outrage engulfed Australia. Five men were caught and, amid unprecedented security, jailed for life. For young reporter Mark Morri, the case was a baptism of fire. Told to 'find the husband', he despaired: Cobby had changed his name and disappeared. But the Daily Mirror found him, and Morri's interviews sold like hotcakes. For nearly 30 years, Morri and Cobby kept in touch. In this book John finally opens up, recounting how he and Anita fell in love, suffered the pain of miscarriage and then went travelling. He also explains why they were apart at the time of the murder. Weaving in chilling material from the autopsy and police files, and interviews with detectives who hunted down the killers, Mark Morri explores the ripple effects of the murder that still shocks a nation.The Satin Man: uncovering the mystery of the missing Beaumont children
Par Alan Whiticker, Stuart Mullins. 2013
On Australia Day, 1966, the Beaumont children - Jane, Arnna and Grant - disappeared from an Adelaide beach. Despite a…
large-scale police investigation and extensive media coverage, the case went unsolved and remains so to this day, bogged down by false leads and dead ends. Key eyewitness accounts that placed the children with a potential suspect, a tall man seen playing with them the day they went missing, came to nothing, and the Beaumont children were never seen again. Forty years later, in 2006, author Alan Whiticker, assisted by researcher Stuart Mullins, wrote the definitive account of the siblings' disappearance in Searching for the Beaumont Children. With the publication of that book and a subsequent feature in television program Crime Investigation Australia, people began to come forward with new information. These fresh leads were skeptically received, until one family in particular presented a remarkable possibility. They suspected that their family patriarch - a man with a peculiar predilection for satin - might have been involved.This book, The Satin Man, is the result of the six years that followed, in which Mullins continued Whiticker's hunt for the truth, and lobbied the South Australian Police to open a coronial inquiry to the original investigation.Anita Cobby: the crime that shocked the nation
Par Alan Whiticker. 2015
February 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of one of the shocking murders in Australia's criminal history. On a hot summer…
night in 1986, beautiful young Sydney nurse Anita Cobby alighted from a train at Blacktown station and set off to a horrific fate. Updated with more information, previously unpublished, about the crime, this book is a must-have for those with an interest in the more morose details of human nature and crime.Stolen time: the inspiring story of an innocent woman condemned to death
Par Sunny Jacobs. 2008
Sunny spent five years on death row in solitary confinement. In a cell the width of her arm-span, her only…
lifeline was the stream of letters between herself and Jesse, offering love and strength, each echoing the other's conviction that the truth would soon be revealed. She refused to lose hope, even though the state had allowed falsified testimonies to condemn her and Jesse, disregarding hidden evidence and the true murderer's confession.The Australian crime file: more stories from Australia's best true crime collection
Par Paul B Kidd. 2012
Finally - the third and final collection of true crime from Paul B. Kidd's Crime File. Hours more entertaining reading…
from Australia's biggest and best collection. Was retired Chief Justice Marcus Einfeld deliberately dishonest or was it all just a mistake? How did Peter Foster, Australia's 'International Man of Mischief' wind up in jail on three continents? When Warren Lanfranchi was shot dead by police officer. Was it self-protection or 'suicide by cop'?The matriarch: the Kathy Pettingill story
Par A. S Tame. 2002
Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in…
the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved around murder, drugs, prison, prostitution and bent coppers - and the intrigue and horror that surround such crimes. Kathy reveals the chilling truth behind many of the myths and legends that surround her family, including her experiences in the blood-spattered charnel house at the centre of Dennis's empire of drugs and violence.Lambs to the slaughter: inside the depraved mind of child-killer Derek Ernst Percy
Par Debi Marshall. 2009
In this definitive, graphically chilling account of Percy's life, a man dubbed by a prison officer as 'Australia's answer to…
Hannibal Lecter', Debi Marshall applies her investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of the crimes, the man and his modus operandi. Informed by exclusive material never before seen, Marshall also takes us on her personal journey as she seeks to unravel the truth about the monster whose lonely, idiosyncratic character has deceived the best psychiatric minds for 40 years.The devil's garden: the Claremont serial killings
Par Debi Marshall. 2007
The State of Western Australia was in shock. Claremont is a salubrious suburb of Perth. Three lovely young women disappearing…
from relatively safe streets without a trace was very disturbing. The investigation has continued full-time over ten years, the biggest in the history of the WA police. And it is now Australia's longest running and most expensive murder investigation. Controversy surrounding the Claremont killings has not faded with time. There are a number of suspects. Bodies of the three missing women have been found. But what about all those other young women in Western Australia who have not been seen for years. Are they also victims of the Claremont serial killer? Debi Marshall looks critically at the police investigation and 16 other disappearances in Western Australia. She talks to everyone involved from forensic investigators, criminologists, the police, the media, and the victims' parents. The results of her investigation should not be ignored.Edward Koiki Mabo: his life and struggle for land rights
Par Noel Loos, Eddie Mabo. 1996
Here is the story of Edward Koiki Mabo. It covers his childhood on the island of Mer through to his…
struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement, to his untimely death in 1992, just months before the High Court decision destroyed forever the concept of 'terra nullius'.The Skull: informers, hit men and Australia's toughest cop
Par Adam Shand. 2009
There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian "Skull" Murphy. This is the story…
of the last of the super cops, collaring big-time crims and small-time thugs, rubbing shoulders with corrupt officials and flashy assassins, and using a combination of old-school persuasion and self-styled 'slychology' to recruit his network of informers. In the '70s and '80s, The Skull enters the shady world depicted in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, and we see many of its key villains - Christopher Dale Flannery, the Kane brothers and Ray Chuck - from Murphy's perspective as he plays them off against each other and fights to stay on top.Gangland Sydney
Par James Morton, Susanna Lobez. 2011
With its intake of English criminals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Sydney had a ready-made criminal class in operation.…
From the Razor Gang Wars of the 1920s and 1930s through to the rise of the East Coast Milieu in the 1970s and the intense rivalry between outlaw motorcycle gangs in the 1980s, Gangland Sydney puts Sydney's criminal past under the microscope. Also under examination is Sydney's notorious crime hotspot Kings Cross, as well as the role the New South Wales police force has played in both helping and hindering the growth of Sydney's criminal empires.Gangland Queensland (Gangland Ser.)
Par James Morton, Susanna Lobez. 2012
Gangland Queensland heads north of the border to tell exploits of a colourful pantheon of mobsters, shysters, club owners, drug…
dealers, black hand gangs, crooked police, and bikers over the last century.Beginning with the drug and sex trades of the early 1900s, and including the infamous fire at the Whiskey Au Go Go club, the explosive revelations of The Fitzgerald Inquiry and organized crime syndicates like Japan’s Yakuza, authors James Morton and Susanna Lobez examine the scale of Queensland’s crime scene in forensic and fascinating detail. Gangland Queensland is compulsive reading.Gangland Melbourne (Gangland Ser.)
Par James Morton, Susanna Lobez. 2011
Throughout the past century, Melbourne has spawned its fair share of notorious criminals some more infamous than others. In this…
compelling and comprehensive book, James Morton and Susanna Lobez take you on a tour of Melbourne's criminal past, visiting Australia's favourite larrikin Squizzy Taylor, career criminals Chopper Read and the Pettingill family, as well as chronicling the long-running Painters and Dockers' Union and recent Melbourne gang wars.The hit men: Australia's contract killers
Par John Kerr. 2011
We think of human life as priceless, but there are men among us who will end a life for a…
fistful of dollars. These men are the hit men, striking a contract with someone who has a target - and the cash. The Hit Men tells the stories of some of Australia's most ruthless contract killers - their plots, accomplices, victims, crimes and punishments - and of the people who saw fit to employ them. John Kerr dissects a parade of hits, from the days of Sydney's razor gangs in the 1930s to modern times. He gives unflinching accounts of a man who killed his granny, wives who shopped for their husband's killers, and cashed-up criminals who called in favours to arrange the deaths of their enemies. A chilling account of how quickly ordinary people can turn to extreme violence to get what they want.Tamam Shud: the Somerton man mystery (Historical Crime #2)
Par Kerry Greenwood. 2012
In 1948 a man was found dead on an Adelaide beach. Well-dressed and unmarked, he had a half-smoked cigarette by…
his side, but no identity documents. Six decades on we don't know who he was, how he got there or how he died. Somerton Man remains one of Australia's most mysterious cold cases. Yet it is the bizarre details of this case that make it the stuff of a spy novel. The missing labels from all his clothing. The tiny piece of paper with the words 'Tamam Shud' found sewn into the lining of the dead man's coat. A mysterious code found etched inside the very book of Persian poetry from which this note was torn. Brimming with facts that are stranger than fiction, the case has intrigued novelist Kerry Greenwood for almost her whole life. She goes on a journey into her own past to try to solve this crime, uncovering a new way of writing about true crime - and herself - as she goes.Tampering with asylum: a universal humanitarian problem
Par Frank Brennan. 2003
By denying the Tampa and its cargo of asylum seekers permission to dock at the nearest landfall of Christmas Island,…
Australia signalled that it was dramatically closing its national borders. Trading on fear, and using mandatory detention in the Pacific, John Howard and Philip Ruddock effectively excluded asylum seekers from the Australian courts. Frank Brennan argues that the Australian government’s response was a massive overreaction, possible only because Australia is a remote country with few asylum seekers and no land borders. Governments around the world are understandably anxious to maintain orderly migration programs in the face of unscrupulous people-smuggling operations. Brennan compares Australia’s response with that of the United States and Europe and provides a practical blueprint for countries wanting to humanely protect asylum seekers.Heart of stone: justice for Azaria
Par Michael Chamberlain. 2012
The story of the Chamberlains has been the one subject that has divided many a dinner party throughout Australia and…
the world. They were a young family who loved the outdoors. When they took their two young children and baby to Ayers Rock they never knew their lives would be forever changed. Michael's own determination for justice has led to a fourth inquest in the Northern Territory of Australia into the death of Azaria. It has taken almost 32 years, 10 court cases, tens of millions of dollars, more than a dozen books, untold magazine articles and scores of television programmes, movies and this book to tell the saga of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain's fight to get justice in the Northern Territory courts of law. This book is a missing link in the story of Azaria, written in his own hand by her father.Jacks and jokers (Three Crooked Kings #2)
Par Matthew Condon. 2014
Continuing on from the bestselling Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers opens in 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland,…
is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of 'The Joke', while Glen Hallahan, retired from the force, begins to show a keen interest in the emerging illicit drug trade. Meanwhile, ex-cop and 'Bagman' Jack Herbert collects the payments and efficiently takes police graft to a whole new level.The Joke heralds an era of hard drugs, illegal gambling and prostitution, and leaves in its wake a string of unsolved murders and a trail of dirty money. With the highest levels of police and government turning a blind eye, the careers of honest police officers and the lives of innocent civilians are threatened and often lost as corruption escalates out of control.The Coves - San Francisco's first organised-crime gang - were Australians- men and women with criminal careers in Australia who…
had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of which America had never seen. Robbery, murder, arson and extortion were the Coves' stock-in-trade, and it was said that the leader of the gang, Jim Stuart, had killed more men than any man in California. The gang's base, in the waterfront district, came to be known as Sydney Town. The area was a no-go zone for police - many of whom were in Stuart's pocket anyway - so, just as Capone would one day rule Chicago, the Coves ruled San Francisco. And more than once, just to make sure there was no doubt that Frisco was their town, they burnt it down. The Coves were hated and feared by the respectable citizens of San Francisco - who derisively called them 'Sydney Ducks' but never to their faces - and, realising that the forces of the law could not, or would not, take them on, decided lynch law was the only solution, and formed a vigilante group. The streets of San Francisco became a battlefield as the Coves and the vigilantes fought for control of the city, with gunfights and lynchings almost daily spectacles as the police stood idly by. Jim Stewart was arrested in Sacramento for killing a sheriff, but escaped to be involved in one the most celebrated cases of mistaken identity in the annals of American crime. When the smoke cleared, the Coves' reign of terror was over. Some were strung up from storefronts in the street, some fell in a deadly gunfight with Jonathan R. Davis, one of the fastest guns in the west, others escaped capture and returned to Australia. The story of the Sydney Coves is little-known, fascinating and well worth telling.Kidnapped: the crime that shocked the nation
Par Mark Tedeschi. 2015
Mark Tedeschi, QC has prosecuted many people who were prepared to kill to acquire the object of their desires. As…
such he is uniquely placed to present an insight into the mind of Stephen Bradley. A man so motivated by greed and self-entitlement that when he read about the winner of the Opera House Lottery, his first thought was how much more he deserved the money. From there he located the Thorne family in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs and proceeded to plan the kidnap and ransom of their young son, Graeme.The taking of Graeme off a Sydney street in daylight hours caused shock and horror across the nation and when his body was found the police used all means available, both old and new, to track down Stephen Bradley and convict him. Many of the techniques of scientific detection used to implicate Bradley had never before been used in a police investigation, but have since become commonplace. Certainly, there had never before been a case in which so many methods of forensic investigation had been used in combination to detect and implicate the perpetrator of this terrible crime. This case therefore marks a watershed in the annals of modern criminal investigation.