Aquariums are a great attraction in any capital city, unfortunately, the Coogee Aquarium and Swimming Baths were struggling. The owner, Bert Hobson, had procured a 4-metre tiger shark in order to drum up some business. It was 1935 and […]
True Crime
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Lynette Dawson was a nurse and mother to two daughters when she went missing back in 1982. Everyone who knew her thought it was strange that no investigation was conducted, in fact, police didn’t go and look at the […]
Perth, the capital of Western Australia, has had a dark cloud over it for the last 20 years. It was between 1996–1997 that three women; aged 18, 23, and 27 disappeared in similar circumstances. After 20 years and multiple […]
While there is no ‘one event’ that series three centres around, it is still a richly inspired story. If you want to say the main thing it would be inspired by would be the city of New Orleans. Also, […]
While Jack The Ripper is a mystery to this day – around the same time in America, a man just as skilled captured the nation when his crimes were revealed. Herman Webster Mudgett, as he was known at the […]
Being no stranger to mental health issues, I have always been fascinated by how the treatment of patients has changed. This season of American Horror Story took us inside the happenings of Briar Cliff Asylum. THE ASYLUM, ITSELF The […]
I had tried to watch American Horror Story before and didn’t get very far. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to but sometimes, you need to shelve the show till you are in the mood. Recently, I have been […]
As we approach the end of another year, it is inevitable that we start looking towards the future. A Cinderellaesque moment as on 31 December the clock strikes midnight, separating one year from another. It is a time that […]
I love being in airports. I don’t go there often and when I did, nowadays, I would stick to the domestic side. It has been on only a very few rare occasions that I have flown international. The excitement […]
It was this year that I started reading Sherlock Holmes. Over the years I have watched some of the adaptations, one of my favourites being Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes. Being a writer myself, I am intrigued […]
TW: Domestic violence, suicide, unspecified mental illness With the current mice plague that is happening in Australia, it is worth remembering the last one — and the “Thallium Craze” that swept the Sydney suburbs post World War II. In […]
Warning: This story contains abuse of a corpse, necrophilia, and images that accompany it. Carl Tanzler was born in Germany on 8 February 1877. He grew up in Imperial Germany ended up emigrating to the United States in 1926. His […]
I listened to The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum (narrated by Coleen Marlo) on a trip to Melbourne and am currently finishing it as I write this. I have always […]