In the 70's and 80's, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp and Juanita Nielsen drove King's Cross' scene. But challenging the status quo only led to their mysterious and violent deaths.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s a series of violent murders took place near Sydney's famous Bondi Beach. Three innocent men were attacked and thrown to their deaths from a clifftop. The murders were part of a much wider wave of violent hate crimes as gangs of youths roamed Sydney's inner suburbs randomly bashing and killing gay men for sport.
29-year-old Patton had been stabbed to death in a frenzied attack that had left more than 60 wounds from her head to her feet. She had multiple bruises and broken bones and it was clear she had bravely fought back against a sustained attack. What followed were years of difficult investigations plagued by numerous false leads based mainly on gossip.
In 1997, 14-year-old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Collins disappeared while walking towards home along the Snowy Mountains Highway. A huge manhunt by police and the girls' families and friends failed to find any trace of them. The girls had been abducted by Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay Beckett who had a combined record of more than 200 convictions.
On 27 November 1987, 12-year-old Noosa schoolgirl Sian Kingi was grabbed off her push bike by Valmae Fay Beck and Barrie John Watts as she rode home from school. Beck and Watts gagged the innocent, terrified child. Watts then raped and bashed her. He then callously, and without remorse, cut her throat while his cowardly wife and mother of six watched on.
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. Cameron's psychopathic tendencies appeared early in his life. At the age of ten, he tried to strangle a young girl.
This chilling CIA episode details the long and difficult investigation which began with the disappearance of 18-year-old secretary Sarah Spiers from a night club in the up-market Perth suburb of Claremont on Australia Day, 1996. The new information has been kept secret by police until now for fear its release could jeopardize the investigation.
Michael Kanaan is an angry young man wanting to make a name for himself in the underworld. His penchant for violence soon led him to kill three men before his capture in a wild shoot out with police.
Crime Investigation Australia brings again another shocking and true story about two 13 year old boys abducted and tortured by two psychotic and naive killers.
The quick mind of a country telephone exchange supervisor led to a horrific discovery at an NSW country homestead in 1978. The supervisor had been checking complaints that the phone line to "Summerfield" station, near the southern town of Jerilderie, was out of order. Living at the old homestead was a celebrated "gun" shearer Mick Lewis, his wife Sue and their two small children.
