August 7, 2026 — 11:40am

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I have been reporting on crime in Melbourne since 1978 and there are just some mysteries you can’t shake – crimes where a wrong turn or a dead-end means there will never be justice, and others where the answer is on the tip of the tongue of someone whose mouth remains firmly shut.

One of the first murder scenes I attended was at a small second-hand book store in High Street, Thornbury, back in 1980.

A few years earlier I would pass it on the tram when I worked at the Croxton Park Hotel just up the road. It was so…

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