2019 – True Crime News Weekly

THE POISON FOR RAT & HUSBAND ALIKE! Yvonne Fletcher and the trail of death in Newtown

August 26, 2019 G. L. Marlowe 0

SERIAL KILLERS: Thallium was a popular poison to catch the many rats that resided in Newtown just after World War Two. It also became the choice method for a murderous wife who wanted to do away with violent or just troublesome husbands, writes G. L. Marlowe.

GO TO PELL! An incomplete list of all the wankers who have supported convicted child rapist George Pell despite guilty findings

August 22, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 5

Presented below is an incomplete list of all the notable Australians and others who have chosen to support the disgraced Catholic cardinal and convicted child rapist, George Pell, over the last few months and years.

CRIME CULTURE: Angel of Death by Leigh Straw

August 22, 2019 Sarah McLean 0

It’s the historical true crime novel set in 1920s Sydney that places a “beautiful bad woman” at the centre of it all. Sarah McLean takes a look at ‘Angel of Death’.

TRUE OPINION: GUN NUTS DO HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS! And it’s guns!

August 21, 2019 Tim Kent 0

Fascists, misogynists and violent haters with easy access to an array of assault weapons means there’s always only going to be one conclusion in the United States until proper gun control is enacted, writes a pessimistic Tim Kent.

CRIME CULTURE: The ‘Co-Ed Killer’ Ed Kemper

August 18, 2019 Teagan Hjort 0

With the second season of the critically acclaimed Netflix series ‘Mindhunter’ now airing, Teagan Hjort takes a look at the infamous real story behind the dramatisation of ‘Co-Ed Killer’ Edmund Kemper.

After sham LGBTI Awards go bust, lesbian media publisher Silke Bader now begging for tens of thousands of dollars to start so-called “foundation”

August 14, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Her glitzy sham LGBTI Awards just went bust with her own business partner claiming she’s been defrauded. While in the recent past she’s been accused of ripping off her own employees. But LOTL publisher, Silke Bader, is now begging people to donate at least $20,000 so she can start a so-called community “foundation”. Serkan Ozturk reports.

CRIME CULTURE: BYRON BAY! The truth of perfection

August 13, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

With Byron Bay back in the headlines as a playground for wealthy ‘Instamummies’, former parole officer, Gary Johnston, remembers his time and some of the crimes in the beachside party town in this excerpt from his memoir ‘No Previous Conviction’.

FINGER LICKIN’ CRIME! London gangs use offer of free fried chicken to lure kids to deal drugs

August 12, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

LONDON: A common youth recruitment tactic of gangs in the UK has been revealed as the simple offer of free fried chicken to starving and impressionable kids.

TRUE OPINION: “I WAS A TEEN BOY EXPLOITED BY LGBTIQ MEDIA”! And now I want answers

August 12, 2019 Oscar Kaspi-Crutchett 1

Wage theft is not just relegated to ‘celebrity chefs’ in the hospitality industry with the media perhaps needing to look closer at similar issues within its own backyard, writes new True Crime News Weekly contributor Oscar Kaspi-Crutchett.

CHILD SEX ABUSE COVER-UP RATTLES ‘CULT’ OF SCOTTISH FOOTBALL! Fans harass families of abuse victims in extension of never-ending Old Firm derby between Celtic & Rangers

August 2, 2019 Gary Johnston 5

SCOTLAND: Families of child sexual abuse victims say their efforts in calling for the truth to be heard have been hampered by one-eyed football fans who see their plight as just yet another extension of the never-ending Old Firm derby between Celtic FC and their bitter rivals, Glasgow Rangers.

OUR HEARTS BREAK! In tribute to True Crime News Weekly writer Katya Gladiadis

July 31, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 2

IN TRIBUTE: It is with immense sadness we are in the unfortunate position to confirm the passing of one of our own. Aged just 28, True Crime News Weekly contributor, Katya Gladiadis, died last month from a serious medical condition having also faced brain cancer in recent years. Our publisher, Serkan Ozturk, pays his respects.

COVER-UP ENDS AS TRUE CRIME STEPS IN! After our exposé Katoomba High School finally makes announcement about arrest of teacher Gavin Malcolm Duncan for alleged sexual abuse of schoolgirl but scandal only grows

July 26, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Almost a month after his arrest, the principal of Katoomba High School has finally alerted the community that popular maths teacher, sports coach and rugby union footballer, Gavin Malcolm Duncan, is facing serious sexual abuse charges. It comes as we take a closer look at goings-on at the school as well as the background of the poker-playing, chameleon-like teacher who was still employed despite being sentenced to prison for nine months just earlier this year.

CRIME CULTURE: Why MasterChef is nothing more than the glitzy mask for MasterTheft

July 25, 2019 Tim Kent 1

Apart from George Calombaris’s now well-publicised wage theft scandals, MasterChef’s overwhelming symbolic motifs of ‘hopes and dreams and journeys’ also plays a role in concealing and distracting from a historically toxic and exploitative industry, writes Tim Kent.

SCHOOL SEX ABUSE COVER-UP ROCKS BLUE MOUNTAINS! Katoomba High teacher Gavin Malcolm Duncan arrested over alleged criminal sexual relationship with 17yo schoolgirl

July 24, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 36

EXCLUSIVE: Pretty-boy Katoomba High School teacher, Gavin Malcolm Duncan, is facing serious sexual abuse charges. While his former school is facing claims of a cover-up amidst a sleazy culture where boundaries between some teachers and students are said to have become possibly blurred. Serkan Ozturk investigates.

“TONS AND TONS AND TONS AND TONS OF ACID!” Uni tutor gets naked in hotel car park as LSD trip ends behind bars

July 12, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 1

A young university tutor has received a lesson in ‘higher education’ after a recent night out ended with him naked and yelling incoherently in a hotel carpark before telling police he was tripping balls on “tons and tons and tons and tons of acid”.

TRUE OPINION: Are Victoria’s Jails the Easiest Place to Score Drugs?

July 11, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

Watching the comings-and-goings of the local drugs court isn’t for the faint-hearted. But it should be compulsory viewing as it highlights all the failures of the War on Drugs, writes Gary Johnston.

NORTH KOREAN CONFIDENTIAL! Alek Sigley stays quiet on what really happened in detention but Facebook likes may have upset Kim Jong-un as other Aussies tell of their own journeys to Pyongyang

July 6, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Australian tour operator and student, Alek Sigley, is now free but says he will never reveal what really occurred during his week-long forced disappearance in North Korea. But according to other Aussies who’ve recently visited the secretive and demonised nation, social media use could likely be one reason why the young Australian was detained at Kim Jong-un’s leisure this month.

CRIME CULTURE: The life, times & alleged crimes of the cheesy and said-to-be creepy Craig McLachlan

July 4, 2019 Lois Lane 0

He was once the 80s Aussie tv heart-throb with the throbbing mullet and Neighbours fame that stretched all the way to the UK, but actor Craig McLachlan is now cast as an alleged sexual pervert in his own real-life creepy soap opera turned legal drama, writes our intrepid reporter Lois Lane.

TRUE OPINION: “METH & MY BOY”! A dad tells all

June 13, 2019 Murray Kinnane 2

The number of prisoners in Australia’s jails convicted of illicit drug offences is rising by the month. Rarely heard however is the story of those affected by drug addiction, people who require treatment but instead receive incarceration. Murray Kinnane is the father of one such person.

CRIME CULTURE: Red Joan

June 12, 2019 Therese Taylor 0

Inspired by true events, Red Joan is a new historical spy thriller co-starring Judi Dench. Aiming for heft and gravitas, it instead ends up being a serious let-down with racist caricatures taking centre stage alongside some of the most tedious British stiff upper lips seen in a long while, writes Therese Taylor.