MURDER IN THE OUTBACK 2001 – Peter Falconio

MURDER IN THE OUTBACK 2001 – Peter Falconio

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened”. Thomas Hardy – Poet and Novelist 1840 -1928 On the 13th December 2005 Bradley John Murdoch, 46 was found guilty by jury in the Supreme Court of the Northern...
THE SUNDOWN MURDERS – South Australia 1957

THE SUNDOWN MURDERS – South Australia 1957

A brutal gun murder took place alongside the Australian Stuart Highway on the 5th December 1957, forty four years before the circumstances that befell the UK travellers, Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees in 2001. This 1957 event draws a close comparison to the 2001...
THE DOMINICI AFFAIR – France 05 August 1952

THE DOMINICI AFFAIR – France 05 August 1952

In the early hours of the 05 August 1952 three members of a British family on a visit and camping holiday in what is now the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of south east France were brutally murdered on the side of a rural road. The location was on the north and south...
TO KILL A PRESIDENT – Charles de Gaulle 1962

TO KILL A PRESIDENT – Charles de Gaulle 1962

On the 22 August 1962 a serious attempt was made to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle of France and it almost succeeded. Much has been written about this particular assassination effort and a good deal is inaccurate and purely speculative. My aim here is to...
DOMESTIC AND MASS SHOOTING – UK

DOMESTIC AND MASS SHOOTING – UK

Shooting murders are rare in the UK and that is a result of the limited access to firearms. Criminal shootings are generally perpetrated with illegally procured weapons. Domestic murders and mass shootings have often been prosecuted with licensed guns. These are...