Crime

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 […]