On a September night in 1986, two police officers climbed through a barbed-wire fence beside the F4 freeway at Minchinbury in Sydney’s west.

Rodney Francis Cameron was dubbed ‘The Lonely Hearts Killer’ after he used a radio match-making program in 1990 to lure an unsuspecting woman to her death. Incredibly, he had only just been released from prison for two other killings in 1974.

John Paul Newman was a member of the New South Wales state parliament and a member of the seat of Cabramatta.

On July 10, 2001, Sef Gonzales murdered his sister Clodine, 18, mother Mary Loiva Josephine, 43, and his father Teddy, 46, in their North Ryde home.

We investigate the story of David and Catherine Birnie, Australia's most sadistic husband and wife killing team, who tortured, raped and murdered four women in 1986.

We examine two notorious abduction cases. The first case is the Graeme Thorne ransom kidnapping at Bondi in 1960. Thorne, aged eight, was the son of winners of the Sydney Opera House Lottery.

A young Sydney man was found guilty of strangling his ex-girlfriend and stuffing the teenager's body in a cricket bag.

The backpacker murder case in the Belanglo State Forest, south west of Sydney, has entered Australian criminal folklore.

A small group of local criminals with mafia connections were making vast fortunes in the famous NSW Riverina irrigation district from marijuana plantations.

In 1981, the headless and fingerless body of 19-year-old Kim Narelle Barry was found dumped in the bush at a mountain lookout near Wollongong, south of Sydney.

In 1965, when Australian teenage culture was centred on sun, sand, and surf, the nation was shocked by the brutal bashing, rape and murder of two 15-year-old girls in the sand hills at Sydney's Wanda Beach.

The highest ranking police officer in Australia to be murdered, Assistant Federal Police Commissioner Colin Winchester was shot twice in the head at point blank range as he was getting out of his car outside his Deakin home on 10 January 1989.

We examine two notorious abduction cases. The first case is the Graeme Thorne ransom kidnapping at Bondi in 1960. Thorne, aged eight, was the son of winners of the Sydney Opera House Lottery.