Bank robber. Fugitive. Womaniser. Comedian. Conman. Chameleon. How the Postcard Bandit put his stamp on Australia... and paid the price.Shortlisted for the prestigious Ned Kelly crime writing awards, Derek Pedley's authorised biography of notorious professional criminal Brenden Abbott chronicles his extraordinary life on the run.He escaped custody three times and was a fugitive for more than six years, using sophisticated disguises, fake identities and a series of safehouses to become the nation's most successful and feared bank robber, reaping millions of dollars.They called him the Postcard Bandit, after a series of photos emerged of Abbott living the high life of a rich tourist at iconic Australian locations, and a cheeky snap he took of an accomplice outside a police station.But when he escaped from a Queensland prison amid a hail of gunfire in 1997, authorities branded him public enemy No. 1, declaring that when he was caught, he would be “locked up forever”.

The story of Lyndsey whose six-year-old daughter became the victim of a vicious eighteen-month hate campaign, and Lyndsey’s best friend, Tanya, who stood by her throughout the ordeal.

For the first few years of her life, Sarah Harris was a normal, happy, popular little girl. But from the age of six she was targeted by a vicious, manipulative but invisible enemy — and her life became a living hell.Before long she was suspended from school, alienated from her friends, completely bewildered and utterly terrified. Her happy childhood had been destroyed forever.For her mother, Lyndsey, it was a life beyond her worst nightmares.Her little girl, the daughter she loved so much, seemed to have transformed overnight — into a child she hardly recognized. A child she almost feared. Suddenly, Lyndsey was fighting to keep her family together — and to save her daughter’s sanity.But then the horrific truth started to become clear. And both Lyndsey and Sarah discovered they had been the innocent victims of the most horrifying betrayal imaginable…From the Paperback edition.

Smuggling - Ontario, 20th Century Smuggling - United States; Prohibition, History Hatch Family. C.w. Hunt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

The most controversial book on family violence published this year, BREAKING SILENCE was initially banned from major book chains after a 50,000 strong Facebook boycott campaign ripped across New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the UK protesting its publication.The boycott campaign had been based on false information, however, and designed to deliberately whip up public hysteria during a Coroner's Court hearing into the deaths of two twins. Now that the book has been published the critics are praising it.Breaking Silence uses the life story of mother Macsyna King as the narrative to explore the problem of intergenerational child abuse and its impact on modern society. Herself the victim of terrible abuse and abandonment as a child, King's life falls apart when her premature identical twin sons are murdered and the father is charged with the crime.Although we frequently hear "about" such cases, it is rare to hear "from" one of the key participants in her own words. Breaking Silence is the story of a mother's journey to hell and back, and the search for justice for her twins in the face of a backlash from a society that turned its back on her. It explores and sheds light not just on child abuse and violence in the home, but analyses society's attitude to women in child abuse cases.The latest forensic debates about child abuse injuries are explored, as are the social choices many of us face every day that can lead to disaster.REVIEWS: "This mammoth book is a top achievement & should be a school text.." - Rachael Ford, psychiatric nurse*****"The book so many maligned before it came out reveals a mother we haven't met. When I last wrote about Macsyna King, I said I didn't think I'd like her. I've changed my mind. I certainly think she outclasses the Wellington radio announcer who posted on Facebook that after receiving her advance copy of "Breaking Silence," she had "spat on it, wiped my ass on it, and ripped it up.""Imagine your life reduced to sound bites of everything you've ever done wrong -and many things you haven't."Oh, how we've loved to hate her. But the woman who emerges from the book is a far more complex human being. There isn't the space here to list the ways in which she's been unfairly maligned. Yes, she made incredibly dumb choices. But she's smart, hard-working, big on cleanliness and loved her kids." - Tapu Misa, NZ HERALD*****"I feel sad that we seem to have entered a time in society where for many it is acceptable to attempt to ban the sale of a book before knowing its contents and I wonder at the motives of those who have joined efforts to stop bookstores stocking it. Could it be we have reached a point where to make ourselves feel better we have to find someone to hate, to direct our fear and uncertainty about the future of our world towards, and that for now, at least, Macsyna King is that person? Could it be that underlying the public discussions about the need to stop the book being read is a deep-seated fear that reading it will in some way leave us all with the question of what part we as members of society played in the death of these babies? Not in the sense of "Who was in the room?" but in "Have we really reached this level of disconnection in our communities?""Ian Wishart's Breaking Silence: The Kahui Case...is not a book to ban, but one to read for whatever it can add to our understanding of child abuse." - Celia Lashlie, NZ LISTENER MAGAZINE *****"We are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good. We would, accordingly, encourage everyone to read it...Breaking Silence will likely enhance Wishart's reputation considerably." - CONTRA CELSUM

Product Description In this gut-wrenching debut novel, Dalles McKinsey tells the secrets of a childhood that was constantly shrouded in fear as well as mental, physical, and sexual abuse. In 1978 his mother met a seemingly nice man. Once they were married, Dalles, along with his mother and sister, vanished. What his mother didn't know at the time was that her new husband was actually a serial killer who picked up hitchhikers in the San Francisco Bay area. Murders that at age eight Dalles witnessed. his detailed account of what happened during that near decade-long span will surely haunt you. If being a true story isn't compelling enough then the fact that his stepfather is still out there, lurking, is. About the Author Dalles McKinsey was born in Fresno, California where he currently resides. He is currently working on a sequel to "Childhood Lost" which delves into the aftermath of his childhood.

In this, his fifth collection of shocking exploits, Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read tells more of his astonishing tales of violence and murder with a unique black humour that has made him the most popular criminal today. He candidly and hilariously discusses his notorious life as one of the toughest criminals on the planet. He gives us his insights on the 'psychology of fear' that rules the criminal lifestyle and recounts tales of an array of gangs and criminals Written at the time of the Chopper film release, he reveals his thoughts on the media frenzy and whirlwind of attention created by his success. Hot on the heels of the previous Chopper instalments, Chopper 5 continues the bestselling phenomenon that has made Chopper such an icon.

Recopilación de los hechos más destacables de la historia criminal española. Desde el "Crimen de la calle Fuencarral" hasta el mismo "Crimen del rol", aportando claves y trasfondo. En ella, el autor muestra un cuadro vivísimo de los criminales y de sus terribles actos que conmovieron a la sociedad.

The tangled path of a crazed fugitive leads through the wilds, the courts, and eventually ends on the final trail. The incredible diaries of Michael Oros outline his thoughts, actions, and reactions throughout his 13-year descent into madness. Michael Oros' confiscated diaries, with entries faithfully kept right to the time an Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) bullet ended his life, chronicle this tragic story, including the murder of RCMP Constable Michael Joseph Buday.

By Margaret Siriol Colley. Includes Index.

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Prepare yourself for a journey into the Indonesian penal system. A world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm. Where the guards turn a blind eye to the lethal weapons prisoners carry ...and use almost daily. Hell's Prisoner is the powerful story of one man's battle to survive in some of the world's cruellest and most inhumane prisons. Christopher Parnell, wrongly accused of drug trafficking, found himself catapulted into the maelstrom of madness and degradation that exists within Indonesian jails. Surrounded by murderers and sadistic violent criminals, he soon learned that life can be as cheap as a bowl of rice or a cigarette. During his imprisonment, Parnell was subjected to unthinkable sessions of torture, both physical and psychological. Left to starve and fight every day for his survival, he was forced to eat everything from cockroaches to human flesh. This is an incredible tale of fatalism and bureaucracy, of corruption and the horrors of prison, but most of all it is a no-holds-barred account of what the human spirit can endure.

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, the ironic name given to Bali's most notorious jail by its inmates. It's a bizarre nether world where murderers sleep alongside petty thieves, drug and alcohol addiction is rife, guards are corrupt and money talks. Into this hellhole have passed a procession of the infamous and the tragic: the Bali bombers, Gold Coast beautician Schapelle Corby, the Bali Nine and Chris Packer, among many others. The inmates' grim experiences are at stark odds with the holiday paradise that exists just beyond Kerobokan's dank concrete walls.Hotel Kerobokan is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates – famous, infamous and unknown, written by an Australian with unprecedented access to the inside. Kathryn Bonella spent a year in Bali, entering the jail every day to co-write Schapelle Corby's bestselling 2006 autobiography. Now she's telling the incredible story of the jail itself. Backed up by interviews with prisoners past and present, the truth about Hotel Kerobokan explodes off the page.Simultaneously mesmerising and stomach-turning, Hotel Kerobokan paints a confronting picture. Everything you've heard is true. And there's much, much more than you ever imagined there could be.

This is the true story of a private detective / bodyguard operating in Brisbane, Australia during the 1970s amongst some of the most deadly gangster cops and endemic corruption that could ever have existed. Murder, firebombs, 'disappearances', kidnappings, 'overdoses', police verballing, extortion, prostitution, drug running - all operating not only with police management knowledge but in fact under their control.

Product Description When Ethel Griggs dies suddenly in the Victorian country town of Omeo in January 1928, rumours about her husband's blatant affair with Lottie, the lovely 20-year-old daughter of local grazier and Methodist elder, Jack Condon, are rife. So rife that despite a doctor's certificate suggesting natural causes, police order Ethel Grigg's body to be exhumed and the young mother of 11-month-old baby Alwyn is found to have died from arsenic poisoning. Her husband, the Rev Ron Griggs, the district's Methodist minister, is charged with her cruel and heartless murder. Based on a true story, Reg Egan has recreated the town and its people, the atmosphere and the love affair that intrigued and shocked the whole of Australia. This is a true crime story that is as brutal and shocking today as it was in 1928. About the Author Reg Egan is a winemaker and writer based in the suburbs of Victoria, Australia. He owned his own legal practice for thirty years before making the switch to a full-time vigneron. He has many years of experience in Australian criminal cases, and it is with this insight that he has been able to bring the story of Lottie to life.

William Cyril Moxley Was Hanged At Sydney's Long Bay Gaol In 1932 - The First Execution In New South Wales For Eight Years. His Crime Was The Brutal Rape And Murder Of 21-year-old Dorothy Ruth Denzel And The Vicious Beating And Killing Of Her Boyfriend, Frank Barnby Wilkinson. How Did This World War I Army Deserter, Small-time Thief, Conman And Police Informer Come To Be The Infamous Murderer 'mad Dog' Moxley? Was It Simply A Robbery Gone Wrong? Did His Blackouts And Migraines Stem From A Head Injury As He Claimed, Or Was He The Monstrous Sociopath Described By The Prosecution Lawyers And The Tabloids? Why Did He Leave Such An Obvious Trail? Would He Be Found Guilty Today?