A bombshell book claims innocent people are in jail because of questionable evidence and contentious forensic testimony. And its authors are raising doubts about one of Victoria’s most notorious murder convictions.
In the Depression, ‘Melbourne’s Sherlock Holmes’ John Brophy and Sydney’s Tom McRae were undone when found in compromising situations with women that resulted in failed police cover-ups.
Michael Adams new book, Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia, exposes how executioners were forced to do the colonial ruling classes' dirty work. Alex Salmon reviews.