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Jane Elisa Thurgood-Dove was the victim of a murder in Niddrie, Victoria, Australia in 1997. On 6 November 1997, she was confronted in the driveway of her suburban Melbourne home and shot repeatedly as her three young children, aged 3, 5 and 10, cowered inside her car. The murder shocked the public.
The Society Murders is the name given to the 4 April 2002 parricide of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by Wales-King's 34-year-old son, Matthew Robert Wales. News media throughout Australia covered the crime and subsequent trial, which ...
Denise McGregor (1966–1978) was an Australian schoolgirl from Pascoe Vale, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. She was kidnapped, raped and murdered on 20 March 1978. [2] McGregor's assailant was never identified, and the case remains one of Melbourne's most infamous cold cases. [3] [4]
Leslie Herbert Kane (1 January 1945 – 19 October 1978) was an Australian gangster who lived in Melbourne, Australia. He became a member of the Federated Union of Painters and Dockers at the age of fourteen. [citation needed] By the time of Kane's death, he had appeared in court 27 times as the accused. [citation needed]
Kylie Maria Antonia Maybury [1] (24 October 1978 – 6 November 1984) was an Australian schoolgirl from Preston, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.. Maybury was kidnapped, raped, and murdered on 6 November 1984, [2] the date of the 1984 Melbourne Cup Day; and she was nicknamed in the Melbourne tabloid newspaper The Sun News-Pictorial as the Cup Day
Allen had previously received a ten-year prison sentence for rape in the 1970s. He was a major drug dealer in Melbourne's Richmond and South Yarra areas during the 1980s. [4] [5] Interestingly, New South Wales Police Detective-Sergeant Roger Rogerson was convicted of supplying heroin in a deal with Allen, but was later acquitted on appeal. [7]
Carl Anthony Williams (13 October 1970 [2] – 19 April 2010) was an Australian convicted murderer and drug trafficker from Melbourne, Victoria.He was a central figure in the Melbourne gangland killings as well as their final victim.
Jean Lee (10 December 1919 – 19 February 1951) was an Australian murderer who, together with her lover Robert Clayton and accomplice Norman Andrews, was convicted for the 1949 killing of William 'Pop' Kent, an SP bookmaker from the Melbourne suburb of Carlton.