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CRIME CULTURE: Crime takes centre stage at BAD Sydney Festival 2019 as crowds flock

18 September, 2019 Therese Taylor

In just its third year, the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has attained a kind of cultural cool cred that many other literature festivals would kill for. Therese Taylor was at the multi-day affair earlier this month for True Crime News Weekly and delivers her verdict on the increasingly popular event.

A DUEL TO THE DEATH! THE SHOCKING TRUE TALE OF ELEANOR ROSE BALDWIN! Wife shoots husband in the heart after decades of torment

11 September, 2019 Sarah McLean

HISTORICAL CRIME: It was a bloody duel between husband and wife that would end with one of them shot dead in the heart and a surprising conclusion decades later that wouldn’t be believed if it wasn’t all so true, writes Sarah McLean.

CONSPIRACY OR COVER UP? Prince Andrew and his decades-long friendship with paedophile pimp mate Jeffrey Epstein

8 September, 2019 Gary Johnston

It’s the kind of story involving wealthy elites and claims of global paedophilia that most right-thinking people would have considered a conspiracy theory but with each day it seems there’s more murky details concerning Prince Andrew’s long friendship with the now-dead convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, writes Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: NOT NICE TO BE “KNOWN”! Alleged Sydney stabber Mert Ney slipped in between systems

29 August, 2019 Lois Lane

Alleged “Sydney stabber” Mert Ney was apparently “known” to both the police and mental health services, but may have slipped in between the cracks writes Lois Lane.

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

26 August, 2019 G. L. Marlowe

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

22 August, 2019 Serkan Öztürk

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

22 August, 2019 Sarah McLean

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!

21 August, 2019 Tim Kent

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

18 August, 2019 Teagan Hjort

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”

14 August, 2019 Serkan Öztürk

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

13 August, 2019 Gary Johnston

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

12 August, 2019 Serkan Öztürk

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

12 August, 2019 Oscar Kaspi-Crutchett

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

2 August, 2019 Gary Johnston

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

31 July, 2019 Serkan Öztürk

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

26 July, 2019 Serkan Öztürk

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

25 July, 2019 Tim Kent

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

24 July, 2019 Serkan Öztürk

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

12 July, 2019 Serkan Öztürk

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?

11 July, 2019 Gary Johnston

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.