Month: November 2022

CREEPS

FAVOURS FOR FINCH AND THE BURDEN OF THE ELITE! NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman won’t review WEAK SENTENCE given to former footy star Brett Finch after OUTRAGE over court’s acceptance of LUDICROUS excuse for wanting to rape children

November 25, 2022 Serkan Ozturk

EXCLUSIVE: NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman refuses to say whether he will review the sentence as well as the court’s bizarre decision making in the recent child sex abuse case involving former NRL star Brett Finch. The weak sentence comes on the back of a similar sweetheart deal the courts struck for Brad Burden – a child rapist friend and media adviser to allegedly corrupt former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian – just a few months ago. Serkan Ozturk reports.

COLD CASES

“WHAT ARE THEY HIDING”? Coroner still won’t hand over documents to family almost 50 YEARS AFTER murder of Elaine Beverley King

November 17, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: It was the crime that should have shocked a nation. Instead, the tragic and brutal 1974 murder of Elaine Beverley King in a Sydney city hotel room was largely ignored by the local media and police force alike – a fact Elaine’s surviving family attributes to society’s stigma against sex workers. Now almost 50 years on from the crime, her family are still fighting for the justice and closure they’ve been long denied. Joanna Psaros reports.

CRIME CULTURE

RealiTISM!

November 16, 2022 Kieran Butler

CRIME CULTURE: They haven’t played a gig in almost 20 years but that all changed last weekend when satirical alt-rockers TISM made a triumphant return to the stage. Longtime fan Kieran Butler was there for all the glorious chaos.

DRUGS

BREAKING BAD GYM TEACHER MAKES FINAL APPEAL! School teacher turned cocaine kingpin, Kevin Michael Geraghty, says prosecution FAILED to prove his “tendencies” to be a DRUGS BOSS

November 14, 2022 Serkan Ozturk

EXCLUSIVE: Dubbed Australia’s real-life answer to Walter White from Breaking Bad, gym teacher turned drugs kingpin – Kevin Michael Geraghty – made one final appeal for freedom last week at a hearing in the NSW Supreme Court. Former student and True Crime News Weekly publisher, Serkan Ozturk, was in the courtroom for all the action.

CREEPS

THE DEATH OF THE KILLER! Jerry Lee Lewis and other famous men who GET AWAY with rape and murder

November 10, 2022 Gary Johnston

Upon his recent death, rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis was widely lauded by many as a pioneer and icon even when those same obituaries sneered at his paedophiliac marriage to a teen girl. Yet, marrying his 13-year-old cousin wasn’t even his greatest sin. He was also a murderer of women. Gary Johnston with this account of the man known as ‘The Killer’ who likely killed one, if not two, of his seven wives.

COLD CASES

HONOUR KILLING COVER UP? Everything we (don’t) know about the Saudi sisters “suicide” mystery

November 3, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: It is the case that continues to baffle Australia. Two sisters, seemingly uninjured, found dead in separate bedrooms of their Western Sydney apartment weeks after their estimated time of death. Now, four months into an investigation characterised by secrecy and silence we’re left with more questions than answers. But are NSW Police really as clueless as they appear? And is there more to this supposed “suicide” than meets the eye? Joanna Psaros reports.

CREEPS

BOYS CLUB CODE OF SILENCE! Self-styled feminist icon Peter Dutton stays QUIET on Queensland Police sexual harassment as inquiry finds abuse was WIDESPREAD when he was a cop

November 1, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: He’s claimed to be more caring and in touch with his feelings but Peter Dutton has refused to comment on Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s evidence of widespread sexual harassment and abuse of female officers throughout the 1990s, at the very same time the Liberal Party leader was a serving police officer. Joanna Psaros reports.