Homicide

One of South Australia's most notorious murderers was this week rushed to an infirmary on the brink of death, prompting recollections of the time when young males disappeared across Adelaide in a set of gruesome crimes dubbed "The Family" murders. Warning: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.

Experts on gendered violence have warned against the proliferation of everyday location sharing tools to control victim-survivors after NSW's top coroner found Paul Thijssen used them to track Lilie James before her murder.

The jury in the trial of a Tiwi Islands man accused of murdering an international student in Darwin hears final arguments from the prosecution and the defence.

A Queensland woman who died after her partner allegedly rammed her vehicle and forced it off the road had made a call to Triple Zero around the time of the crash, police say.

Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died in hospital after an ambush shooting near the White House on Wednesday. A male soldier who was also shot, Andrew Wolfe, is fighting for his life, the president says.

An emotional court hearing has been told the pain felt by the family of Min and Steven Cho after they were killed by a martial arts instructor almost two years ago.

Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen originally from South Korea, gave her young children orange juice mixed with prescription medicine in mid-2018, before placing their bodies inside two suitcases.

A boy is arrested and charged with murder after Riot Squad police raid a home in Rouse Hill.

The ABC understands convicted child murderer Bevan Spencer von Einem has been taken to the Yatala infirmary in Adelaide where he only has a short time to live.

While Porepunkah residents are trying to move on from the tragic deaths of two police officers, there is one person they are eager to forget.

in 2014, Morgan Geyser and an accomplice nearly stabbed a classmate to death and later told police they did so to earn the right to be Slender Man's servants.

A ute captured on CCTV outside a workshop where an Adelaide father-of-two's body was later found has now been located, police say, with a lead detective describing the development as a "significant breakthrough" in the investigation into the alleged murder.

Ryan Wedding once represented Canada at the Winter Olympics. Now he's one of the FBI's most wanted people.

Gunmen attack government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students.

The brother of schoolboy Terry Floyd, who disappeared 50 years ago, has accused the Victorian government of breaking its public promise to fund the search for his remains. 

A court has heard a man charged with arson over a fatal house fire admitted to lighting the fire and threatened to burn down his own family home.

Police search two homes linked to a suspect in the investigation into the murder of Adelaide woman Rosemary Brown and the disappearance of her 15-year-old daughter, Melissa Trussell.

Daniel Billings pleads guilty to killing his former partner, Molly Ticehurst, at Forbes in central western New South Wales.

A prosecutor requests jail sentences of more than 200 years for the men accused of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson in Mexico last year.

Stephen Fleming has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for killing teacher Annette Brennan and placing her body in a wheelie bin in Melbourne's north.