CSI Told You Lies: Giving victims a voice through forensics. by Meshel Laurie
Category: True Crime
Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forensic pathologists, homicide detectives, defence barristers and victims’ families in this moving and gripping study of violent crime and largescale natural disaster. CSI Told You Lies is a gripping account of ...Show more
Clues From Beyond by Debbie Malone
Category: True Crime | Series: True Crime Stories from Australia's #1 Psychic Detective
In Clues From Beyond psychic medium Debbie Malone seeks the truth about some famous real-life Australian crimes. In this follow-up to her bestselling book Never Alone she shares more personal experiences with the spirit world, conveys messages from the departed and describes the ripple effects they crea ...Show more
Dead Man Walking: The Murky World of Michael Mcgurk and Ron Medich by Kate McClymont
Category: True Crime
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would come from a Point Piper millionaire. Kate McClymont is Australia?s ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane by Christopher Berry-Dee
Category: True Crime
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complic ...Show more
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
Category: True Crime
One FBI Agent. One Boston Gangster. One Deal. The greatest and bloodiest story of corruption ever told. James 'Whitey' Bulger and John Connolly grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston ...Show more
Smoke and Mirrors Stuart Rattle and Michael O'Neill A Tragedy of Love and Murder by Robin Bowles
Category: True Crime
Interior designer to the rich, the fabulously talented and flamboyant Stuart Rattle, and his loyal partner Michael O'Neill were to their friends the perfect couple. Lifelong members of Australia's exclusive A-Gays set, bon vivants and lovers. Together they created the stunning Musk Farm. Then, one morni ...Show more
Playing Dead by Wendy Lewis
Category: True Crime
Pretending to be dead is one of the most bizarre ways to opt out of society. Despite the obvious risks, a surprising number of people attempt to leave their old life behind by faking suicide. And the results can be unbelievably madcap.
Kill the Morans by Ben Wrout
Category: True Crime
Kill the Morans is essential reading for anyone half serious about the real Melbourne Gangland War. Bert Wrout was shot while at the heart of Australia's bloodiest ever drugs turf war, with a tally of 39 bodies at last count. Bert enlisted formerly retired Melbourne crime journalist, Brett Quine, to hel ...Show more
Taken in Contempt: When Parents Abduct Their Own Children by Robin Bowles
Category: True Crime
Imagine coming home from an unremarkable day at work and finding your partner has left you and taken your child or children overseas. On 11 March 1999, this happened to Robin Bowle's son.
Meaner Than Fiction: Powerful Australian True Crime Stories of Failed Justice by Lindy Cameron (ed)
Category: True Crime
A fascinating yet unsettling look at the Australian justice system, one that many believe is a system to be trusted and relied on to convict the guilty and free the innocent. Not so, according to the true crime stories in this book.