Why is it that Adelaide - a beautiful city of churches and lush gardens, a place renowned for its support of the arts and culture - has become better known as the epicentre of some of Australia's weirdest and most brutal crimes? One of its denizens se.
Some crimes are so mysterious or ghastly that they take on a legendary status, and Adelaide seems to have had more than its fair share of them.
"Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers at the local police station found Dulcie witty and charming, and looke…
William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydney's Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years. His crime was the brutal rape and murder of 21-year-old Dorothy Ruth Denzel and the vicious beating and killing of her boyfriend, Frank Barnby Wilkinson. H…
An investigative account describing how some of the biggest names in American defense and intelligence were involved in dope trade, tax evasion, and gunrunning.