On This Day in True Crime History - 18 October

1826: The Informer Who Refused to Kill: Two Bushrangers Hanged Near Sydney

Patrick Sullivan and James Moran led a gang of bushrangers who terrorised the Bathurst district through 1826, raiding stations and homes for firearms, horses and supplies. Read more →

1909: The Bushranger Who Vanished: Larry Cummins Died in Wodonga Under a Stolen Name

Lawrence Cummins once rode as a bushranger across New South Wales, but by the time disease caught up with him he had spent decades as someone else entirely. Read more →

1977: The Hillside Stranglers Claim Their First Victim in Los Angeles

Nineteen-year-old Yolanda Washington was last seen getting into a car near a Los Angeles intersection one October evening in 1977. Read more →

1989: The Granny Killer Survivor Whose Broken Memory Sent Police the Wrong Way

John Wayne Glover, later known as the Granny Killer, followed 86-year-old Doris Cox along Spit Road in Sydney's Mosman to her retirement village in 1989, then dragged her into a secluded stairwell and smashed her face into a brick wall. Cox survived, one of the few to live through an attack that would later be linked to a string of killings targeting elderly women. Read more →

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