Crime Investigation: Australia

Sallie-Anne Huckstepp and Juanita Nielsen were big figures in the King's Cross scene of the 1970s and 1980s. They challenged the status quo of the period and met with mysterious and violent deaths.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s a series of violent murders took place near Sydney's famous Bondi Beach. Three innocent men were attacked and thrown to their deaths from a clifftop.

On Easter Sunday, 2002, on sleepy Norfolk Island in the south-west Pacific, the body of 29-year-old Janelle Patton was found lying in an open field. She had been stabbed to death.

Rodney Francis Cameron was dubbed "The Lonely Hearts Killer" after he used a radio match-making program in 1990 to lure an unsuspecting woman to her death.

Michael Kanaan was an angry young man in a hurry to make a name for himself in Sydney's underworld, but his volatile temper led him to kill three men before he was finally captured.

On the night of May 4, 1982, 13-year-old Terry Ryan rushed into his family home in Marsden, a suburb of Brisbane, and told his mother an astonishing story.

The quick mind of a country telephone exchange supervisor led to a horrific discovery at a NSW country homestead in 1978.