Murder

The man who murdered nine-year-old Ebony Simpson has applied to take work and rehabilitation courses in prison, leading to fears that he may one day be released.

You tried to take him away from me. You failed. I didn’t.

The death of a three-year-old boy who found dead in a swing, still being pushed by his mother, has been ruled a homocide.

Marcus Stanford, the identical twin brother of Stephanie Scott's alleged killer will appear in a Sydney court this afternoon.

Baby Angel made headlines when he was rescued from a dumpster. Tragically, police have now discovered the body of his five-year-old brother.

“I just could not see my little girl hurt for one more second,” he wrote, “I took a gun and shot her in the head and now she is migraine free.”

A 51-year-old woman has died of her injuries in Quaker's Hill, after a domestic violence attack.

The sister of murdered Leeton school teacher, Stephanie Scott has shared touching childhood memories ahead of her funeral which took place today.

Your morning news on Stephanie Scott, the Victorian lake tragedy and everything else you need to know today.

A body believed to be the remains of teacher and bride-to-be Stephanie Scott has been found in a national park in the NSW Riverina region.

One of Australia’s most infamous serial killers has penned his thoughts on women, politics and even The Weekly in a series of letters published into a book by his nephew, Alistair Shipsey.

Anyone who says that journalism is dead wants to have a good, hard look at The Jinx, a six-part series on the Manhattan multimillionaire Robert Durst, who was arrested last night for the crime of murder.

A former police chief involved in investigating the death of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, has said the murder was mishandled.

It was the murder that shocked the nation, but Anita Cobby’s memory still shines bright. Kathryn Szyszka still vividly remembers the day that Detective Inspector Ian Kennedy arrived at her parents’ humble weatherboard home in Sydney’s outer western suburbs. It was February 4, 1986, and the family hadn’t seen or heard from her big sister […]

Farmer Geoff Hunt shot his wife and three children dead before turning his gun on himself after years of stress in dealing with his wife’s brain injuries, an inquest is expected to hear. In a murder-suicide case that shocked the nation, the 44-year-old killed his wife Kim, son Fletcher, 10, and daughters Mia, 8, and […]

Oscar Pistorius is free to compete for his country again, despite being convicted of culpable homicide.

UPDATE: Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide, over the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa convicted him of culpable homicide (manslaughter) in the Pretoria High Court today. The judge, who also found him guilty of one firearm charge, said Pistorius was “negligent” and acted “too hastily” in firing the shots […]

Police have pulled a body and a firearm from the Lockhart dam after a woman and her three children were found shot dead in their home. UPDATE: The man’s body and the firearm were recovered from a dam where police divers had been searching for Geoff Hunt. Hunt, a sheep and grain farmer went missing […]

Keli Lane, the woman sent to jail for killing her baby girl, Tegan, has had her application to appeal her murder conviction refused by the High Court.

The trial of accused murderer Oscar Pistorius drew one step closer to its dramatic finale in South Africa yesterday as prosecutors summed up their arguments with yet another assault on the former Olympic sprint star's credibility.

The legal team representing Gerard Baden-Clay have filed an appeal against his murder conviction.

Queensland real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay has been found guilty of his wife's murder and sentenced to life in prison.

The Denise Morcombe story is in the end one of hope. It's also the story of love

The NSW Legislative Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to support the inquiry, after relentless lobbying by the families. Colleen Walker, 16, Evelyn Greenup 4, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, 16, were murdered over an eight-month period between 1990 and 1991 in the largely Aboriginal town of Bowraville, in NSW. A white man, who had been living in […]

Fifty years ago, Jacqueline Kennedy's life fell apart in the most horrific and public of ways.

The mother of abused six-year-old Kiesha Weippeart has today been sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in jail for her murder, triggering outrage from the little girl’s supporters. Kristi Abrahams, 30, and her boyfriend Robert Smith took Kiesha’s body into the bush and buried her in a shallow grave three years and three days […]

The man who raped and killed Jill Meagher in a brutal attack that shocked the nation is appealing his life sentence for murder. Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, was sentenced to life in jail, with a non-parole period of 35 years, for the attack on the popular ABC employee in Melbourne last year. Bayley admitted to […]

Two teenage girls have been shot dead in Pakistan, apparently because of a video of them dancing in the rain. The girls, aged 15 and 16, were filmed laughing and dancing in the rain in full traditional dress, including headscarves, outside their stone hut in the country’s north six months ago. Last Sunday, they were […]

A terrifying arranged marriage, an evil mother-in-law and a chilling murder. Sarbjit Kaur Athwal talks exclusively to Juliet Rieden about how she risked her life to testify against her family in a landmark honour killing trial that shocked the world

Tom Meagher’s life was destroyed when his wife, Jill, was raped and murdered nine months ago, in a crime that shocked the nation. Jill’s killer, Adrian Ernest Bayley, has pleaded guilty to murder and has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum non-parole period of 35 years. He could be back on the […]

The man who fatally punched teenager Thomas Kelly during a night out in Sydney’s Kings Cross has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kieran Loveridge, 19, entered the plea at Sydney’s Central Local Court this morning. He was originally charged with murder, but the prosecution accepted the lesser plea. Loveridge was accused of assaulting five males, including […]

Family and friends of murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher have appeared in court to voice the impact the horrendous crime has had on their lives. The husband, father and mother of the ABC employee who was attacked in Melbourne last September, submitted emotional victim impact statements at the plea hearing for the man who admitted […]

The ex-boyfriend of murdered Sydney girl Kate Malonyay plunged to his death this afternoon after being chased by police seeking to arrest him. Elliot Coulson leapt from 26th floor balcony of a luxury Gold Coast hotel this morning as homicide detectives were trying to get into his hotel room. The tragic twist comes the same […]

Oscar Pistorius has broken his silence, telling a court what he claims is the “truth” about what happened the night he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead. Pistorius was too upset to speak in court yesterday, instead asking his lawyer to read out his account of the events that led to Steenkamp’s death. In the […]

Ben Ryan was just 24 years old when his father Jeffrey was murdered by a contract killer paid for by his ex-wife and her cold-blooded family. Jeffrey, 48, a respected grazier and cattle breeder died alone in the darkness at his 485-hectare property, Callemondah, at Duri, near Tamworth in northern NSW, after a 12-gauge shotgun […]

The beauty queen wife. The successful husband. And the three sweet little girls, whose lives will never be the same after their father was accused of murdering their mother. Queensland is gripped by the case of Allison Baden-Clay, the young mother whose body was found on the side of a creek 10 days after her […]

For Gordon Wood, going to jail was traumatic. But it was nothing compared to how he felt the night his girlfriend, Caroline Byrne, died. He still grieves for her, and wonders whether he could have done anything to prevent her death. “It still weighs heavily on me, whether I could have done more in the […]

Four years after she was jailed for the murder of Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox returned to America a free woman. But what really happened on that fateful night? Amanda Bower investigates. Devoted murder mystery readers know that a satisfying story has a tragic beginning and a tidy end. In the middle is the investigation, during […]

He said the mysterious death of his two wives was just bad luck, but “evil husband” Tom Keir was finally brought to justice after 15 years, thanks to a tireless police officer and devoted mum. Here, they tell their story to Jordan Baker. She was marrying the man she loved, the man who had been […]

It’s a dream that haunts Annette Foster. Her youngest daughter, Carita, then 19, was sitting with a group of Asian men. “Everyone seemed in good spirits,” recalls Annette, now in her 60s. “Carita was laughing, but then I realised that there was nothing happy about what was happening. “The men wanted Carita to choose one […]