A German tourist randomly shoots dead five people in a series of mysterious attacks across the Top End of the Northern Territory and the vast Kimberley region of Western Australia.
A young Sydney woman dies a violent death on a remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. Everyone expects police to quickly solve the case. But it takes four years and involves new DNA technology.
On a Melbourne 'lonely hearts' talkback radio show a trap is laid by a psychopathic murderer recently released from jail and hunting for his next victim.
In Australia's only assassination of a serving politician, NSW MP John Newman, is gunned down outside his Sydney home. A tip off leads police to a political rival, a Vietnamese club owner, Phuong Ngo.
