Australia
Sydney and Melbourne's underworld: the gunmen, the robbers and the men who preyed on them.
Blood Brothers, Part 1: the lulu
Alphonse Gangitano and Jason Moran were best mates, and co-accused. On 16 January 1998 they shook hands outside court. Part 1 of an EM Stories exclusive.
Chopper Read and Mad Charlie, the Don who waited for his door to be opened
At seventeen Mad Charlie Hegyalji had Chopper Read as his bodyguard. In 1998 he rang Chopper for his birthday. Six days later he was dead at his gate.
Gavin Preston, the breakfast at Sweet Lulus and the question nobody has answered
Two young men from Sydney waited three hours in a stolen Audi to shoot a Melbourne hard man they had never met. A court jailed them. Who sent them?
Terrence Blewitt, the man who walked to a car in Melton and vanished
In April 2004 a Melbourne armed robber walked towards a parked car in Melton and was never seen again. Twelve years later police dug him up.
The Toe Cutters v the armed robbers, and the man who would not tell them
In 1970 three men pulled off Australia's biggest armed robbery. Then their own drinking mates came for the money, with a blowtorch and bolt cutters.
Alphonse Gangitano and the killing in the laundry
In January 1998 Melbourne's Black Prince was shot dead in his own laundry with two friends in the house. Nobody was charged. Here is what the record shows.
Ange Goussis and Keith Faure, the hit men who fell out
A kickboxing champion and an old Pentridge hard man killed for money in Melbourne's gangland war. Then one of them started talking.
Antonio Bagnato, the Sydney kickboxer and the grave in Pattaya
A Hells Angel was taken from his villa in Pattaya and found in a roadside grave. The man sentenced to death for it had fled a murder in Sydney.
Barry Michael, Alphonse Gangitano and the night at Lazar's
In 1987 a reigning world boxing champion was held down on a nightclub couch and beaten. Was Chopper Read in the room? The feud behind it.
Chris Flannery and Laurie Prendergast, the hitmen who vanished
In 1985 two of Australia's most feared gunmen disappeared fifteen weeks apart. Neither body has ever been found. What the coroners decided.