True Crime News Weekly

Australia’s own ‘Houdini’: The Maxwell Skinner Chronicles

January 16, 2020 Sarah McLean 0

HISTORICAL CRIME: Maxwell Karl Skinner was an unremarkable petty criminal who would go on to scale the greatest of heights. Well, at least the biggest of Australia’s prison walls, writes Sarah McLean.

CRIME CULTURE: The Gentlemen

January 14, 2020 Gary Johnston 0

‘The Gentlemen’. It’s shit and you know it is. But you can’t look away, writes mob film aficionado Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: COMFORT & JOY! And Other Unlikely Tidings For Australia In 2020

December 25, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: What’s there to look forward to for Australia this Christmas, wonders our resident grinch Gary Johnston.

“I’D BE LYING IF I DIDN’T SAY IT WAS A POSSIBILITY”! Footballer Andy Woodward talks about paedophile rings in sport & surviving evil coach Barry Bennell

December 20, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

INTERVIEW: How does a victim survive child sexual abuse? Do they? Can they? These questions and many others are at the core of Andy Woodward’s breathtakingly honest memoir, ‘Position of Trust’, telling the horrific story of his years of abuse at the hands of Barry Bennell, an English football coach whose victims number in the hundreds, if not thousands. Gary Johnston with this interview and book review.

MAKE TEENS RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME, BUT NOT KIDS! Lawyers & doctors want age of criminal responsibility lifted to 14 to stop children as young as 10 ending up in jail

December 17, 2019 Staff Reporters 0

Current laws around Australia allowing authorities to jail children as young as 10 are a “national tragedy” according to the Law Council of Australia (LCA) and Australian Medical Association (AMA) who have come together this week to release a joint statement calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be increased to 14 years of age.

LAWYER X CORRUPTION SCANDAL BECOMES INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC HEADACHE FOR AUSTRALIA! Emergency legal orders prevent True Crime from revealing Nicola Gobbo’s whereabouts as overseas nation angered by her secret unwanted presence

December 14, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 4

EXCLUSIVE: Emergency legal orders have forced True Crime News Weekly to pull down a story revealing that an overseas nation and its government have become angered after discovering controversial lawyer-turned-snitch, Nicola Gobbo, has been in forced hiding in the nation for almost a year after entering the country with a passport in another name provided to her by Victoria Police and the Australian Government.

CRIME CULTURE: The Irishman

December 10, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

Director Martin Scorsese reunites with old buddies Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel and an out-of-retirement Joe Pesci for one last hurrah making a masterpiece of a gangster film. Gary Johnston with this review of ‘The Irishman’.

ISIS TERRORIST ALLOWED BACK IN AUSTRALIA! Peter Dutton grants return to Islamic State terrorist deported from Turkey while leaving mums & kids to languish in Syria

December 9, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: For all their tough talk about not bringing home Australian women and children who are languishing in ISIS controlled camps in north-eastern Syria, the Federal Government and Peter Dutton’s Home Affairs office has quietly accepted the repatriation of an ISIS terrorist over the weekend who has been deported from Turkey.

The George Pell Trial – Where Are We Now? David Marr speaks about ‘The Prince’ who became a convicted child rapist

December 5, 2019 Therese Taylor 4

EXCLUSIVE: Long a close watcher of the career and crimes of Catholic Church head honcho and convicted paedophile rapist, George Pell, the journalist and author David Marr has newly released an updated version of his book, ‘The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell’. Therese Taylor takes a look at the wider questions surrounding the Pell case after seeing Marr speak in Sydney recently.

CRIME CULTURE: Cold Case Investigations by Xanthe Mallett

December 4, 2019 G. L. Marlowe 0

A book written by one of Australia’s most renowned forensic anthropologist full of Australian cold cases is bound to be a gripping read. Until it isn’t, writes G. L. Marlowe.

ANGUS TAYLOR FORGERY REVELATIONS! Senior media adviser & old family friend alleged to have okayed fake document to attack Clover Moore and Minister knows all about it

November 27, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 4

EXCLUSIVE: He’s the minister with the smug, near-punchable private schoolboy face who seemingly has his finger in as many pies as he can while claiming to represent his constituents. But embattled Energy Minister, Angus Taylor, is now facing serious questions of just how low the ethics in his own office are, and whether a crime may have been committed with his knowledge, or indeed he is now covering up for an old family friend. Serkan Ozturk reports.

“INSENSITIVE AND MALICIOUS”! Gina Rinehart responds but doesn’t deny truth of suicide of former bodyguard & Paladin director Jeremiah John Rouwhorst

November 22, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, and her favourite daughter, Ginia, have responded to serious revelations unveiled by True Crime News Weekly about the suicide death of their former family bodyguard and Paladin director, Jeremiah John Rouwhorst, by slamming our investigation as “insensitive and malicious”. But tellingly, they have not claimed it was false or untrue.

CAUSE OF MYSTERY SUICIDE & WHY GINA RINEHART THREATENED TO SUE US FINALLY REVEALED! Paladin director Jeremiah John Rouwhorst alleged to have taken own life after “horrendous text messages” sent to him by billionaire’s favourite daughter

November 20, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: The mystery over why Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, threatened True Crime News Weekly earlier this year over our groundbreaking reporting on the Paladin Scandal can finally be revealed. Our publisher, Serkan Ozturk, bravely wades into the cesspool of corruption once more despite being warned off by lackeys of the billionaire mining bully.

SCOTLAND’S FOOTBALL ABUSE SCANDAL ON BRINK OF EXPLODING! Questions raised over organised paedophile rings who went from club to club raping boys

November 19, 2019 Gary Johnston 3

EXCLUSIVE: Scotland’s football abuse scandal is expected to explode with more details coming out that some coaches perhaps acted together in an organised paedophile ring, being moved on from club to club after raping and molesting young boys with big dreams of being professional footballers, writes Gary Johnston.

GIANTS OF LITERATURE MAKE STAND! Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee joins Booker Prize winner Thomas Keneally & Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott in calling out closure of UWA Publishing

November 18, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 1

EXCLUSIVE: The controversial decision earlier this month by the University of Western Australia (UWA) to close down its internationally renowned publishing house, UWA Publishing, has now been slammed by some of the giants of the Australian literature world in an open letter signed by hundreds of writers and artists. Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee has joined the likes of Schindler’s List author, Thomas Keneally, and Miles Franklin winner, Kim Scott, in calling out UWA and its plans to soon shut down its successful literature publishing arm. Hundreds of other writers, academics and artists have also signed the open letter.

TRUE OPINION: This nation, this drift, to nowhere

November 15, 2019 Rudy Terwilliger 1

Out of the last 23 years in Australia, the Coalition of the Liberal Party and The Nationals has been the Federal Government for 17 of them. During that time there has been a drift in Australian society away from accountability, transparency, and certainly away from evidence-based policy, writes Rudy Terwilliger.

REAL-LIFE BREAKING BAD ENDS BADLY AGAIN! Former students & colleagues react as high school teacher-turned-drugs-kingpin Kevin Michael Geraghty found guilty of Australia’s biggest ever cocaine importation

November 13, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Colombia had Escobar. Mexico had ‘El Chapo’. Britain had ‘Mr Nice’. And after having been found guilty over yet another blockbuster cocaine raid worth almost half a billion dollars, we can now say Australia has Kevin Michael Geraghty – our very own real-life Walter White who went breaking bad after life as a tough but inspiring high school teacher.

TRUE OPINION: The Great Con of the Race that Stops the Nation

November 11, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

It’s heralded as the greatest sporting and cultural tradition of this nation. Gary Johnston spent a day at the Melbourne Cup to give you this first-hand glimpse of an ugly, faltering Australia dressed to its best.

NOT OKAY AT ALL! Fears of fascist infiltration of Victoria Police as officer who flashed suspected ‘White Power’ sign at female protestor revealed as Alt-Right fan

November 1, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 3

EXCLUSIVE: A Victoria Police officer who was photographed menacingly flashing a suspected ‘White Power’ sign at a young woman of Asian heritage at a climate change protest in Melbourne this week is also a fan of well-known Alt-Right and fascist memes, True Crime News Weekly can reveal.

CRIME CULTURE: The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne

October 31, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

An Australian millionaire rapist who then went to the United States and became a serial killer is the focus of this uneven bit of historical true crime reportage, writes Gary Johnston.