Серия "Crime Shots"

The brutal bashings of a five-year-old Cody Hutchings by his step-father promoted a major change in state legislation in Australia.<br /> <br />After Stuart John McMaster was found guilty manslaughter, the Victorian State Government introduced the new offence of child homicide.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia&apos;s past and present.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend time with a convicted serial killer?<br /> <br />Or how you would feel when they told you what it was like to take a life?<br /> <br />Don&apos;t Ever Call Me Helpless is a powerful, chilling true crime story that offers a rare glimpse into the mind of convicted murderer Catherine Birnie.<br /> <br />In the late 1980s, Catherine and her defacto partner David Birnie went on a killing spree that shocked and...

I Got the Shit Car: On Father&apos;s Day in Australia in 2005, Robert Farquharson drove his car and three sons in a dam in country Victoria. The estranged husband and loving father was the only one to survive.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia&apos;s past and present.

More than 35 years after one of Australia&apos;s most baffling and brazen child abductions, journalist John Allin returned to Adelaide to talk with Greg and Christine Gordon.<br /> <br />In this compelling and deeply personal story, Allin tells how a simple but precious gift kept their daughter Kirste&apos;s disappearance high in his mind for so many years.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia&apos;s past and present.

A country GP found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when an angry patient went looking for someone with whom he could share his pain.<br /> <br />Dr Andrew Taylor was working an ordinary Saturday morning shift when he was shot repeatedly by an armed and deluded man who simply needed to show any doctor he could find, just how upset he was with the world at large.<br /> <br />Random shootings like this are unusual in Australia and the bizarre unfairness of what...

In 1996 a neighbour spies three Asian men running out of a court in Glen Waverley. It looks like two chasing one. But when they head towards a nearby car with an open boot, and suddenly the boot closes and there are only two men standing there, the chase takes on a more sinister aspect.<br /> <br />Young Steve Tragardh joined the police force when he was 18 and a half; he&apos;d tried uni for a while, but it wasn&apos;t for him. He had come through the private school system and while...

In the early 1950s, Rod Braybon&apos;s father died, leaving his mother with eight children she couldn&apos;t care for.<br /> <br />As a ward of the state, Rod ended up at the notorious Bayswater Boys&apos; Home, run by the Salvation Army, near Melbourne.<br /> <br />Rod endured years of ill-treatment at the hands of the Salvation Army, then spent a life-time repressing the memories that haunted him.<br /> <br />Finally, after seeing an article in a newspaper,...

It took an extraordinary effort by police task forces in Australia and America to take down an international child pornography ring.<br /> <br />But Rescuing Tara is so much more than bringing some truly reprehensible men – one of whom was &quot;Tara&apos;s&quot; own father – to justice.<br /> <br />Rescuing Tara is the story of how dedicated police officers on opposite sides of the world used the paedophile ring&apos;s own playroom – cyberspace itself – along...

Forensic evidence is known as the &apos;silent witness&apos;. Crime scene examiners make the silent witness speak.<br /> <br />Sergeant Trevor Evans has been a crime scene examiner for 17 years, and worked the notorious case of murdered baby Jaidyn Leskie in Moe. He also examined the scene of the intriguing, still-unsolved murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove, a mother gunned down in the driveway of her home in Niddrie.<br /> <br />Evans also used his wealth of experience when he...

In 1986 a bomb went off outside the main police headquarters in Russell Street Melbourne.<br /> <br />The Russell Street Bombing looks at the consequences of this shocking act of violence from the point of view of an entire city, the police force that was targeted, and in particular one 19-year-old victim.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia&apos;s past and present.