True Crime Island

It’s the 7th July 1986. Kevin John Barlow and Brian Geoffrey Shergold Chambers are escorted to the gallows at Pudu Prison Kuala Lumpur after being sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

Despite appeals from as high up as the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Barlow and Chambers would be the first westerners to hang under Malaysia’s tough new drug laws.

It’s the 21st June 1989, Kenneth Wayne Banks is found by his fiancé in the bathroom suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach. Before emergency services could reach him, he would die. Beside him was a scribbled final will. Was it really suicide?

Tonight on Special Edition, 74-year-old woman becomes the latest victim of the Grenfell Tower fire and two others are in court for fraudulently claiming assistance. Also the details of the funeral for Matthew Leveson and the award given to his parents.

It’s August 11, 1978 Baulkham Hills north-west of Sydney. 28-year-old John Ernest Cribb out on parole for Armed robbery abducts Valda Connell, 39, who had just come home in her car with two of her six children, Sally, 10, and Damien, 4. What happens next would shock the nation.

His name is Gregory Keith Davies, for 32 years he would hold a nasty secret until one day a cold case investigation would uncover his dark past. Also, tonight I will go over the death of Benjamin Robb who lost his life at a Bar in Pattaya Thailand the victim of a violent attack.

It’s February 26, 2015 Cairns Australia. Philip Quayle, 27, is found dead by a passer-by around 3.25am near the intersection of Spence and Taylor streets.

Thug Jake Desmond Livingstone 19, just out of prison on parole, had attacked Philip knocking him to the ground and then held him in a headlock until Philips was dead.

On the 14th July 2015 Michael Cardamone is released on parole after serving around six years of a 9-year sentence for raping a 15-year-old girl. On the 12th January 2016, just 182 days later, Cardamone abducts and murders 49-year-old Karen Chetcuti. What happened on that night would shock the nation.

It’s the 10th January 2004. At an apartment block in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, residents complain about a bad smell that had been coming from the ground floor storeroom for some time. The building’s maintenance guy investigating the cause of the odour would make a shocking discovery.

Tonight I tell you about two seriously dysfunctional families. Tales of murder and neglect. The rage is big tonight.