By I Munro, G Tippet
ISBN-10: 0730449904
ISBN-13: 9780730449904
True crime with a twist. here's the felony underground at paintings: gangland warriors, serial killers, drug buyers and thieves. Melbourne gangland figures Mick Gatto and Andrew ′Benji′ Veniamin and their final, deadly come upon; Peter Dupas, the nerdish-looking serial killer who makes your pores and skin move slowly; in addition to other, lesser-known names -- sex-killer Derek Percy who haunted a misplaced little boy to his dying; the fellow of God who broke the 8th commandment; the murders in the back of the notorious Arnott′s poisoned biscuit extortion. There also are these whose lives straddle either side of the legislations: homicide barristers; backstreet burglars and back-block magistrates; murder detectives and neighborhood police who move the place the worst occurs; pensioners who thrive at the theatre of the court; the psychologist who seems to be into the minds of mass murderers; and intercourse workers, from streetwalkers, pupil strippers and fetish types to...
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The police argued that Gatto’s story does not ring true: more likely that he would draw Veniamin to his home turf, than that Veniamin would go in trying to hide a one-kilogram weapon in those light clothes. But then, there is one more truism that Mick Gatto might adopt: ‘history is written by the victors’. ’TIL DEATH US DO PART On the barest telling of the events – and it’s not the facts that are in dispute here – the killing of Frank Osland was just one more sordid domestic murder. 45 pm Frank Osland arrived home from his job at the Waterfall Quarries in Axedale, 20 kilometres to the east, foul-tempered and belligerent as usual.
And there she remained, until 22 August that year. In her newspaper article Heather had written: ‘I ask, in my wisdom now: should my original counsel have persuaded me to plead manslaughter? Should I have had a strong, aggressive, male barrister to fight my defence in the Bendigo Supreme Court? Would my life be different now? I might be lucky and home free. But I never felt I was guilty of murder. Frank was the guilty one – he “murdered” us every day we were with him. ’ CRIME IS HIS MISTRESS This is The Fear.
Not just hiding the body in her car boot or burgling her father’s place, probably for running money, or even trying to bury her four days later on the south coast of Victoria, near Lorne and assaulting the copper who discovered him there. But the thing with the meat tenderiser. He doesn’t understand quite why, but to see if she was really dead, he hit her with a small aluminium meat tenderiser. Not hard. Just taps, he says, demonstrating with little forward prods. ‘I don’t think a jury’s gunna wear that,’ says Smallwood.