Crime

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.