Crime in Focus

Behind every gangland story - there's a family. When Mario Condello was brutally slain in Melbourne in 2006, Enzo Condello, the brother of Mario, could have followed a similar path but chose to become a writer. He reflects on his brother's murder and his role as Australia's ambassador to the mafia.

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Australia’s war in Afghanistan has had a devastating influence on suicide and depression among our veterans upon their return. Dr Dan Mealey, who fought for a Royal Commission into veteran suicide, says some Australians have turned on our soldiers while the Taliban continue to commit atrocities against innocent people.

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With evidence of police corruption, the Jailhouse Lawyer’s determination to give it over is silenced by an old adversary. Investigative Reporter Adam Shand reports on the arrest of  David McCulloch and how he was deported to a home he left 50 years ago.

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Forming key alliances with powerful inmates and prison staff to bring peace to Barwon Prison, Jailhouse Lawyer David McCulloch faced new charges after a former friend Carl Williams betrayed him with false evidence.

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How would you survive time in prison? As a former asssociate of some of Melbournes key underworld figures, David McCulloch reveals how he survived in a jail by helping others to fight for freedom - becoming the Jailhouse Lawyer.

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Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read is a name we associate with crime and violence in Australian society. Chopper confessed to a number of horrific crimes, but how much of it was true? His first manager Andrew Roper explains the beginning of Chopper's rise to fame.

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After nearly destroying his life with drugs, Chopper Read finds a new manager, Andrew Parisi, and plots a course for his revival including books, documentaries and a TV deal for a tell-all interview weeks before his death.

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The Children in the Pictures is the story you weren’t allowed to hear, and now it's is finally out in the open. It’s a silent epidemic— and it’s coming for our kids.

Australian documentary-maker Akhim Dev follows the Queensland Police investigation of a notorious child exploitation website. ‘The Love Zone’ hosts thousands of members around the world creating, uploading, and sharing videos and photographic material of unimaginable acts against children.

This dark web network is infiltrated by an elite team of Australian investigators— Taskforce Argos. Argos use their global connections and controversial undercover strategies to take down hands-on abusers in order to save The Children in the Pictures. 

This 8 part series is a powerful examination into how child abuse has become endemic online, and what we can all do to fight it.

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How easy is it to forge money? Australia introduced the worlds first plastic banknote in 1988, new money that the Government believed couldn't be forged. Hear about about the 1966 crime that sparked the creation of these new $10 notes, and the co-conspirator and financier of the crime 'Mr. Big'. Although if you're going to do something shady - don't involve your family.

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Suffering years of harrowing abuse from growing up in Melbourne's underworld, Kellie Carter Bell needed to break the cycle, becoming an advocate for domestic violence victims. A chance meeting with Investigative Reporter Adam Shand leads to a quest to find Kellie’s father - a policeman, who left her nearly five decades before. Hear the amazing story of survival and what it was like living day to day with some of Melbourne's most notorious criminals

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