SHOCKINGLY SAD FAMILY ADMISSION AFTER ALMOST 70 YEARS! “My grandmother didn’t shoot ‘pig of a man’ … one of their children did”

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.

SERIAL KILLERS: The serial killers of Russia are of a significantly different breed, often sporting the epithet of ‘maniac’, ‘ripper’ or ‘monster’ – and there is a kind of crude brutality in their methods. But it is a rare individual that makes a nation re-consider their ban on the death penalty. Alexander Pichushkin, also known as the ‘Bitsa Park Maniac’ and ‘The Chessboard Killer’, is one such murderer.

With disgraced sleazy Liberal Party doyen Robert Doyle now well and truly in the sights of Victoria Police detectives, our Melbourne correspondent, Gary Johnston, wonders why the hell it took all so long. The answer? Well that’s simple, isn’t it.