Crime

A woman with severe medical complications and amnesia has been found in Southern California - have you seen her?

A former intern has been awarded $23 million after being publicly harassed and defamed by her CEO boss.

We wish, we pray, we cry every night for him.

The man responsible for the 2013 Boston Bombings begs forgiveness from his victims as he is sentenced to death.

A man has allegedly murdered his entire family before turning his gun on himself after Father’s Day celebrations “went really wrong”.

If William were home, he would be beside himself with excitement.

In shocking news, a man has been arrested and charged after assaulting a baby outside of a Sydney train station.

Marcus Stanford, the identical twin brother of Stephanie Scott's alleged killer will appear in a Sydney court this afternoon.

Claims of molestation have prompted networks TLC and Foxtel to pull show, 19 Kids and Counting, from the air.

As Catching Milat is beamed into lounge rooms across the country, Australia’s worst serial killer is back in the headlines.

The man who murdered 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe in 2003 has lost his appeal before a Queensland court.

A woman in the US has been charged and jailed for feeding her daughter breast milk watered down with water.

As Baden-Clay’s appeal date is set to August 7, Allison’s parents have released a statement saying “we still have a long road ahead.”

You have apps to play music, and apps to surf the web, but do you have an app to keep you safe?

A month-old baby has been found alive after being buried in a graveyard in China for more than a week.

“I just could not see my little girl hurt for one more second,” he wrote, “I took a gun and shot her in the head and now she is migraine free.”

A horrifying new report suggests that women and children who survived the earthquake may be being targeted for sex trafficking.

Chris Brown has been named as a suspect in an alleged assault in Las Vegas, barely one month after his parole was lifted for assaulting Rihanna in 2009.

The Daniel Morcombe Foundation launches 'Help Me' app to keep kids safe and The Weekly's 2011 interview Daniel's twin brother, Bradley Morcombe.

A 7-year-old boy has died in Sydney as fears emerge he swapped medication for bizarre slapping therapy.

A 51-year-old woman has died of her injuries in Quaker's Hill, after a domestic violence attack.

In the wake of William Tyrell's parents desperate plea to their child's abductor, police revealed they may have a new lead. Read The Weekly's investigation into the case of the boy no one can find.

The sister of murdered Leeton school teacher, Stephanie Scott has shared touching childhood memories ahead of her funeral which took place today.

As colourful senior prosecutor Margaret Cunneen celebrates a High Court victory against the corruption watchdog, we take a look back at the letter she wrote for The Weekly to her 16-year-old self.

“You have to really beat him up because I want him to suffer from unbearable pain”.

TV’s top interviewer has unmasked Defence Minister Kevin Andrews on ABC’s 7:30 report on Tuesday night. The Defence Minister, who was on the program after the government announced they were sending 300 Australian Defence Force personnel to Iraq to help train Iraqi soldiers, could not name the leader of the Islamic State militant group despite […]

Policing is usually serious business but the Queensland police are apparently keen on having a laugh while they enforce the law.

As a journalist there are some stories that change your life. For Channel Nine police reporter Dimity Clancey, the case of Stephanie Scott's disappearance this week has been one of them.

An RSL's call out to find the woman who allegedly stole ANZAC badges.

Your morning news on Stephanie Scott, the Victorian lake tragedy and everything else you need to know today.

After three children lost their lives when a car plunged into a Melbourne lake, The Weekly recalls its interview with a police diver who was on the scene at an eerily similar tragedy in 2005.

Friends and family are mourning Anger, Madit and Bol the three children killed when the car in which they were travelling plunged into a lake in the Victorian town of Wyndhamvale.

A body believed to be the remains of teacher and bride-to-be Stephanie Scott has been found in a national park in the NSW Riverina region.

WARNING: Content contains graphic and disturbing cases of sexual assault.

Missing autistic boy, Luke Shambrook, has been found alive, reports say.

A Los Angeles court will decide if two alleged victims of child abuse by Michael Jackson can plead their case this week. Wade Robson and James Safechuck filed claims against Jackson’s estate in 2013 and 2014 for sexual abuse. But because both claims were filed more than a year after the King of Pop’s death […]

Victoria Police have reportedly dropped their investigation into the wellness blogger.

One of Australia’s most infamous serial killers has penned his thoughts on women, politics and even The Weekly in a series of letters published into a book by his nephew, Alistair Shipsey.

As the nation's heart breaks watching the coronial inquest into the Hunt family tragedy, The Weekly investigates how a parent can be driven to kill their entire family.

Anyone who says that journalism is dead wants to have a good, hard look at The Jinx, a six-part series on the Manhattan multimillionaire Robert Durst, who was arrested last night for the crime of murder.

Award winning author Hannah Kent wrote her first book Burial Rites as a fictionalised account of the last days of Agnes Magnusdottir, a servant beheaded in Iceland in 1828 for her alleged role in a double murder.

Police have raided two homes in a town not far from the township of Kendall on the NSW North Coast where missing boy William Tyrell disappeared in September last year. Local Police and members of the Sex Crimes Squad reportedly raided two properties in Laurieton yesterday, and removed a number of items of examination. The […]

The execution of two Australians from the Bali Nine appears imminent as Indonesia announces plans to send six people on drugs charges to a firing squad this weekend. In what has been described as an ominous statement, officials have said convicted masterminds Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be executed once both have had their […]

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has revealed that her recent crime novels are heading for the small screen.

The man who murdered 13-year-old Sunshine Coast boy Daniel Morcombe wants his conviction quashed despite a videotaped confession to the crime famously obtained in an elaborate sting by undercover police.

The canary yellow Holden Torana - which was central to the infamous conviction and eventual exoneration of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain following the 1980 disappearance of their daughter Azaria - has been sold to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

A rogue doctor who cut off the entire external genitalia of a woman admitted to hospital to have a tiny lesion removed has had his minimum sentence reduced today, sparking anger and dismay from his victim.

Gable Tostee, the man at the centre of an on-going police investigation into the death of a New Zealand woman on the Gold Coast last week, has been charged with murder.

Keli Lane, the woman sent to jail for killing her baby girl, Tegan, has had her application to appeal her murder conviction refused by the High Court.

The daughter of the late NSW premier Neville Wran has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of 48-year-old Daniel McNaulty in Redfern on Sunday night.

What kind of woman has an affair with a married man? It's not an easy question to answer but Toni McHugh did it.

The legal team representing Gerard Baden-Clay have filed an appeal against his murder conviction.

Queensland real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay has been found guilty of his wife's murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Disgraced Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has written a vile song from prison, mocking his victims.

Australian swimming champion Geoff Huegill and his wife have apologised to all the people we have let down after pleading guilty to cocaine possession.

With high-profile child sex abuse cases causing fear among Australian parents we investigate what causes paedophilia and what can we do about it.

On an April morning last year, four-year-old Aron Siermans sat alone by his dead mother's body as day broke in Ballarat, Victoria.

In what could lead to the first arrests in the case, the Met want to question the three men who were in the area of the Portuguese resort in Praia da Luz where the British girl vanished while on a family holiday on May 3, 2007. Mobile phone records show the men, who are believed […]

The NSW Legislative Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to support the inquiry, after relentless lobbying by the families. Colleen Walker, 16, Evelyn Greenup 4, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, 16, were murdered over an eight-month period between 1990 and 1991 in the largely Aboriginal town of Bowraville, in NSW. A white man, who had been living in […]

Let’s say you’re a shonky property developer, or maybe a shady businessman, a dodgy politician, a union official with your snout in the trough and your hands deep in other people’s pockets. Maybe you’re somebody whose expense claims don’t add up; maybe you live in an extravagant mansion that you could not, given that you […]

The mother of abused six-year-old Kiesha Weippeart has today been sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in jail for her murder, triggering outrage from the little girl’s supporters. Kristi Abrahams, 30, and her boyfriend Robert Smith took Kiesha’s body into the bush and buried her in a shallow grave three years and three days […]

The man who raped and killed Jill Meagher in a brutal attack that shocked the nation is appealing his life sentence for murder. Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, was sentenced to life in jail, with a non-parole period of 35 years, for the attack on the popular ABC employee in Melbourne last year. Bayley admitted to […]

As news breaks of another female journalist being gang-raped in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egyptian writer Sonia Dridi tells the story of Yasmine El-Baramawy, who was sexually assaulted by a violent mob last November.

Two teenage girls have been shot dead in Pakistan, apparently because of a video of them dancing in the rain. The girls, aged 15 and 16, were filmed laughing and dancing in the rain in full traditional dress, including headscarves, outside their stone hut in the country’s north six months ago. Last Sunday, they were […]

A terrifying arranged marriage, an evil mother-in-law and a chilling murder. Sarbjit Kaur Athwal talks exclusively to Juliet Rieden about how she risked her life to testify against her family in a landmark honour killing trial that shocked the world

Tom Meagher’s life was destroyed when his wife, Jill, was raped and murdered nine months ago, in a crime that shocked the nation. Jill’s killer, Adrian Ernest Bayley, has pleaded guilty to murder and has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum non-parole period of 35 years. He could be back on the […]

The husband of murdered rape victim Jill Meagher has slammed the justice system that he says failed to protect his wife. In an interview following the conviction of Adrian Ernest Bayley, the man who raped and murdered his 29-year-old wife, Tom Meagher described Jill’s killer as “unreprentantly evil” saying he had been let off too […]

Serena Williams has sparked outrage for making critical comments about a 16-year-old rape victim saying she “shouldn’t have put herself in that position”, but the head of Australia’s rape crisis authority says unfortunately “victim-blaming” views are shared by a large section of the population. Speaking with Rolling Stone magazine, 31-year-old tennis star Serena questioned the […]

The man who fatally punched teenager Thomas Kelly during a night out in Sydney’s Kings Cross has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kieran Loveridge, 19, entered the plea at Sydney’s Central Local Court this morning. He was originally charged with murder, but the prosecution accepted the lesser plea. Loveridge was accused of assaulting five males, including […]

Family and friends of murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher have appeared in court to voice the impact the horrendous crime has had on their lives. The husband, father and mother of the ABC employee who was attacked in Melbourne last September, submitted emotional victim impact statements at the plea hearing for the man who admitted […]

For the eight years she has been in Kerobokan prison, convicted drug mule Renae Lawrence has been mostly ignored, her plight overshadowed by that of fellow inmate, Schapelle Corby. But, when The Weekly visited her, it was to discover a young woman ashamed of what she’s done, embarrassed for her family — and terrified to […]

The ex-boyfriend of murdered Sydney girl Kate Malonyay plunged to his death this afternoon after being chased by police seeking to arrest him. Elliot Coulson leapt from 26th floor balcony of a luxury Gold Coast hotel this morning as homicide detectives were trying to get into his hotel room. The tragic twist comes the same […]

The family of Allison Baden-Clay have marked the anniversary of her death with moving written tribute.

Rolf Harris has been named in a UK newspaper as the Australian arrested last month over an alleged sexual abuse scandal. The Sun reports the 83-year-old entertainer was taken into police custody and questioned over decades-old sex abuse allegations. Detectives first raided Harris’ home in Berkshire, England, on November 24 last year. He was not […]

A 22-year-old mother has tried to sell her two kids on Facebook for $5000. Hilarious, right? That’s probably what she thought. Until she was arrested. Misty VanHorn allegedly tried to sell her two-year-old for $1,000, and asked for $4,000 for her four-year-old to get enough cash to bail her boyfriend out of jail. Hollywood Life […]

Even police were shocked by the horrific gang rape of a young woman in Baulkham Hills over the weekend but many people are already blaming the unnamed victim. She was probably drunk, they say, and wearing a short skirt and high heels. And what was she doing walking home alone at 1am? She was practically […]

Keli Lane has been denied bail in a bid for release ahead of her upcoming appeal in the NSW Supreme Court over her conviction for murdering her newborn baby. The former elite water polo player was sentenced to at least 13 years and five months in jail in April 2011 over the disappearance and murder […]

Oscar Pistorius has broken his silence, telling a court what he claims is the “truth” about what happened the night he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead. Pistorius was too upset to speak in court yesterday, instead asking his lawyer to read out his account of the events that led to Steenkamp’s death. In the […]

Thandie Newton has revealed she was sexually abused on the casting couch as a teenager.

Elijah Rainbow was not yet seven months old when he fell to his death from a footbridge over Brisbane’s Logan River last June, the fourth child in as many years to die in such circumstances. Elijah’s father, David Fisher, has since been charged with murder. His mother, Lauren Fisher has taken her grief onto the […]

Joanna Lumley has sparked widespread outrage by suggesting that women who wear short skirts and get drunk put themselves at risk of being raped. The Absolutely Fabulous actress — who played the constantly drunk Patsy Stone in the TV sitcom — lashed out at “trashy” girls, reigniting the old “uncovered meat” debate about whether women […]

Detective Inspector Bryson Anderson, who died yesterday after becoming embroiled in a violent neighbourhood dispute on the outskirts of Sydney, was the kind of police officer other cops try to emulate. I spoke to him several times last year while working on a story about Catherine Smith, a woman who endured 30 years of violent […]

Nine years to the day since Daniel Morcombe went missing, his family has finally laid him to rest. Since the 13-year-old disappeared in 2003, Daniel’s parents Bruce and Denise Morcombe haven’t tired in their perseverance to find Daniel, and since an arrest was made over the matter in August last year, to find his remains […]

For three long hours on the afternoon of August 3, 2011, police officer Karen Lowden sat with Madeleine Pulver, neither of them sure whether the device strapped to the schoolgirl’s neck would explode. Here, Karen tells her story. When Karen Lowden took her two-year-old son, Lachlan, to his playgroup in early August, she was given […]

Relief has finally come for Sydney girl Madeleine Pulver and her family today as the man who strapped a fake collar bomb around her neck holding her hostage in the family’s Mosman home was jailed for at least ten years. Paul Douglas Peters was given a maximum sentence of 13 years and six months in […]

Xitclalli “Chilli” Vasquez is nine years old. She lives in Texas, loves her family, enjoys school, and hopes to one day become a doctor. Last year, Chilli’s hopes were all but dashed when a young drunk driver hit her mother’s car as they were driving from the local shopping mall where she had her hair […]

Australia’s first public sex offenders register has gone live in Western Australia. State authorities have created a website that provides the public with photographs and information on the state’s worst sexual offenders, and Queensland may follow suit. Related: What every parent needs to know about online safety The initiative has been touted as legislation that […]

Crimes that captured the nation

Ben Ryan was just 24 years old when his father Jeffrey was murdered by a contract killer paid for by his ex-wife and her cold-blooded family. Jeffrey, 48, a respected grazier and cattle breeder died alone in the darkness at his 485-hectare property, Callemondah, at Duri, near Tamworth in northern NSW, after a 12-gauge shotgun […]

In the wake of yet another random mass shooting in America, people’s thoughts are undoubtedly with the families of the victims — but what about the family of the perpetrator? More often than not, a large part of the blame is reserved for the parents of these violent offenders. But in our hurry to point […]

A child sex offender fighting for the right to have IVF treatment has ignited a fierce debate about the rights of convicted criminals in Victoria. The 34-year-old man — known only as ABY for legal reasons — had sex with a 16-year-old girl in his care while working as a teacher’s aide in 2009. He […]

A UK schoolboy who raped a five-year-old girl he was babysitting has escaped jail after a judge ruled he had been “corrupted” by pornography. The 14-year-old boy — who cannot be named for legal reasons — blindfolded the girl before forcing her to perform an indecent act on him last December. The boy appeared in […]

The beauty queen wife. The successful husband. And the three sweet little girls, whose lives will never be the same after their father was accused of murdering their mother. Queensland is gripped by the case of Allison Baden-Clay, the young mother whose body was found on the side of a creek 10 days after her […]

Quentin Bryce has called on the Royal Humane Society to strip a bravery award from a jailed Black Saturday fire fighter who kicked his partner in the head so hard he snapped her optic nerve and left her blinded in one eye. The Governor-General, a patron of the Royal Humane Society, wrote to the society […]

Sharon Stone's former live-in nanny has accused the actress of racism, religious persecution and unfair dismissal.

Schapelle Corby is looking forward to ‘the sand between her toes” and a “cleansing swim” at her favourite beach when she returns home to Australia. Corby’s plea for clemency was approved by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday and her family is hopeful she could be back home by August. A letter confirming the clemency […]

Schapelle Corby has been granted clemency by the Indonesian government and could be free within three months. The 34-year-old could be released from Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Jail as early as August, the Daily Telegraph reports. Schapelle will apparently receive a letter approving the clemency later today. The clemency will see Schapelle’s sentence slashed by five […]

For Gordon Wood, going to jail was traumatic. But it was nothing compared to how he felt the night his girlfriend, Caroline Byrne, died. He still grieves for her, and wonders whether he could have done anything to prevent her death. “It still weighs heavily on me, whether I could have done more in the […]

George Clooney has given women everywhere another reason to adore him - while in prison last week he used his only phone call to ring his mum to tell her he loved her.

Domestic violence kills an Australian woman almost every week but Jordan Baker doesn't think we take it seriously enough.