Crime

A 12-year-old US boy could be sentenced to life in prison after he was charged as an adult for his brother’s murder. Cristian Fernandez is alleged to have beaten his two-year-old brother David to death at their family home in Jacksonville, Florida, in March. Prosecutor Angela Corey decided to charge Fernandez as an adult in […]

The history of Pakistan’s powerful Bhutto family is written in blood, with murder, assassination and mysterious death commonplace. A young member of this cursed clan, Fatima, born to privilege but now in constant peril, tells the shocking inside story to William Langley. Fatima Bhutto is chic, petite and beautiful, but the story she tells is […]

The strange case of Keli Lane, the mother who murdered her two-day-old baby 14 years ago, is one of the most bizarre and perplexing crimes ever to happen in Australia. Sue Williams delves into the mind of a baby killer and the mystery she unleashed. There were always two Keli Lanes. On the outside, there […]

Keli Lane has been jailed for at least 13 years and five months for murdering her newborn baby Tegan. The former water polo champion was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court today. Justice Anthony Whealy set a maximum term of 18 years, with no possibility of parole until 2023. Lane, 35, was found guilty last […]

In an exclusive extract from her moving book, Helen Cummings talks about the terror of her abusive marriage and the realisation that she too could have ended up dead had she not left her ex-husband. It started out as an ordinary Newcastle day, one weekend early in March 1984. Something was creating a strange sense […]

When Jeanette met David, he was a tough criminal who was wanted in Australia and facing the death penalty in Thailand. So why did she marry him? William Langley investigates. Where do they end up, those shadowy super-villains and criminal geniuses whose lives seem to have been lifted from movie scripts? Usually behind bars, dead, […]

Being imprisoned for a crime you did not commit is the stuff of nightmares. Sue Williams talks to the wrongly convicted about their call for justice reforms. Alexis Keogh is curled up in a chair, looking through a big box of letters. She smiles as she re-reads some, a shadow of sadness passes over her […]

Last month, a jury found Des Campbell guilty of murdering his wife, Janet. While she paid the ultimate price, Janet was not the only woman he lied to, manipulated and cheated out of large amounts of money. June Ingham wishes that she had never met Des Campbell, the man at the centre of one of […]

Forgot your PIN? Entered a room, only to realise you have no idea what you went in there for? The scariest thing about lapses like these is that they start happening long before you’re due for senior-citizen discounts. The good news is that even if your memory is dodgy, you can strengthen it in the […]