Crime

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.

Gordon Wood, the man accused of pushing model Caroline Byrne off a cliff almost 20 years ago, has been acquitted of her murder. Wood has spent more than three years in jail after a jury found he had killed Caroline, his girlfriend, by throwing her off Sydney’s notorious suicide spot, The Gap, in 1995. Related: […]

A Black Saturday fire-fighter who kicked his former partner in the head so hard it snapped her optic nerve and blinded her in one eye has been given a bravery award by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia. In a ceremony attended by Victorian Governor Alex Curnov and other dignitaries at Melbourne Town Hall on […]

Tania Herman, the woman serving at least nine years in jail for trying to kill Maria Korp, her lover Joe’s wife, has spoken for the first time from prison. In an interview published exclusively in The Australian Women’s Weekly, Herman — who shares a unit with Herman Rockefeller killer Bernadette Denny — says she was […]

Troubled actor Matthew Newton failed to appear in court today on charges of assaulting a taxi driver, with his lawyer saying his mental health issues would be aggravated by the media attention.

Lana Wood’s most memorable role might be the sexy Bond girl Plenty O’Toole from Diamonds Are Forever, but she’s aware the most significant part she’s played has been fighting for the truth about the tragic drowning of her sister, Natalie Wood. “For the past 30 years, it’s eaten at my soul, not knowing what happened […]

An estimated one in 100 men is a psychopath — remorseless, heartless and destructive. They can be our bosses, husbands or neighbours and often we don’t realise until the damage has been done. When Walter Marsh applied for a nursing job in Sydney, his résumé was so impressive — a career in the US Marines, […]

The Costa family enjoyed an idyllic country lifestyle with their precious children — until a knife-wielding intruder destroyed their sanctuary. Jordan Baker visits a family trying to put the pieces of their life back together. The Costa family considered their farm their refuge, a place where five-year-old Valentina and two-year-old Mikos could forget the punishing […]

She’d always feared the deep ocean. But in 1981, that’s where Hollywood actress Natalie Wood died. She had been sailing on the yacht Splendour with her husband and a friend. They thought she had gone to bed, but she was later found floating in the water, wearing only her nightgown, a down jacket, and socks. […]