On Easter Sunday 2002, on sleepy Norfolk Island in the south west Pacific, the body of 29-year-old Janelle Patton was found lying in an open field.

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.

The bloodied, semi-naked body of 30-year-old Donna Wheeler is discovered by her estranged husband Keith Bond and 12-year-old son.

The horrific story of killers Allan Baker and Kevin Crump who began their murderous spree in rural NSW by killing a complete stranger for $20, a packet of cigarettes and a couple of litres of petrol.

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.

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.

Serial killer Leonard Fraser was suspected of killing at least five women over a 17 year period but took the complete truth about his life of crime to his grave.

Crime Investigation Australia has conducted a major investigation which reveals the inside story of the Megan Kalajzich murder and the extraordinary police investigation which will rock the Harbour City's elite to the core.

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.

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.

In 1959, the carefree culture of Perth changed forever when a plague of crime hit the city. By early 1963, the crime wave had escalated to serial murder.

The quick mind of a country telephone exchange supervisor led to a horrific discovery at a NSW country homestead in 1978.

On the night of 4 May 1982, 13-year-old Terry Ryan rushed into his family home in Marsden, a suburb of Brisbane, and told his mother an astonishing story.

Michael Kanaan was an angry young man in a hurry to make a name for himself in Sydney’s underworld. But his volatile temper and penchant for violence soon led him to kill three men before he was finally captured in a wild shootout with Sydney police.