1858: He Swallowed Her Earrings to Hide the Evidence: Hanged at Geelong for the Green Tent Murder
Owen McQueeny was a wandering Irish robber with one sightless eye who spent weeks haunting the proprietress of the Green Tent, a grocery and tavern serving gold diggers on a track near Geelong, Victoria. Read more →
1878: "Hung for Her Like a Man": The Vow Before a Brutal Axe Murder and Hanging in Hobart
Richard Copping was jealous that his sweetheart, Susannah Stacey, had grown tired of him. Read more →
1902: The Light in the Window: Hanged in Melbourne for a Plot Hatched with His Married Lover
August Tisler worked for market gardener Edward Sangal, and became his employer's wife's lover long before Sangal's body was pulled from the family well outside Melbourne, his throat cut. Read more →
1986: Forced to Write Home That She Had Gone Away: a Perth Murder by the Birnies
Susannah Candy was walking home along Stirling Highway in Perth when she accepted a lift from David and Catherine Birnie, unaware of the danger awaiting her. Read more →
1988: Harold Shipman Killed His 55th Patient, a Decade Before Anyone Stopped Him
Alice Prestwich was just another house call for a family doctor trusted by an entire community. Read more →
1999: Melbourne Gangland War: Gerardo Mannella Gunned Down Fleeing His Brother's Killers
Gerardo Mannella, 31, tried to run when two gunmen came for him outside his brother's home in Melbourne, but they caught him in the street and shot him dead on this day in 1999. The ambush was no isolated act. Read more →
