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Sydney Crime Museum is looking to update its collection of photographs relating to the city’s rich criminal history. If you have anything you’d be prepared to let us copy – pictures of people or places, whether originals or in old publications – please get in touch by commenting on this… Keep Reading
We are happy to announce that Australia’s pre-eminent organised crime expert of the past fifty years, Bob Bottom, has agreed to donate some of his work to the museum collection. His book Connections 1 is now on display in our section devoted to organised crime. Most of what we know about organised crime… Keep Reading
2 February 1986: Anita Cobby The rape and murder of Anita Cobby is arguably the best-known murder in Sydney today, on account of the particularly horrific circumstances of the crime. Cobby was a 26-years-old nurse working at Sydney Hospital who was kidnapped by five men in a stolen car on… Keep Reading
29 January 1966: In January 1967 the Sydney Morning Herald would recall 1966 as “an almost unprecedented 12 months of violence” and report that police were still hunting for nine killers. One problem was that several of the 1966 murders appeared to have no motive. On this day cleaner… Keep Reading
26 January 1966: The 1960s was the decade when crime rates began to climb and people became more concerned about the safety of their city, and in particular the safety of children. One reason for this was a number of murders that achieved great publicity, including Graeme Thorne in 1960… Keep Reading
In a welcome move, the NSW Police Force has put up all its annual reports on the newish NSW Open Government website. A year ago, most of these reports were unavailable online or in public libraries. The reports are here: https://www.opengov.nsw.gov.au/searches?query=&agencyId=25639&typeId=+&fromDate=&toDate=&size=&page= Keep Reading
6 January 1966: 1966 marked the beginning of a flurry of gang-related violence in Sydney. This would be followed by a long period of peace because of the effectiveness with which leading gangsters such as Fred Anderson, Abe Saffron, Lennie McPherson and George Freeman ran the underworld, in close collaboration… Keep Reading
Another delightful historical crime novel from Peter Doyle starring his much-loved petty crim Billy Glasheen. Billy’s putting on the years but that doesn’t stop him engaging fully in various crooked romps in the late 1960s and early 1970s Sydney underworld, as illegal drugs take over from more innocent types of crime.… Keep Reading
Malcolm Lambe writes to tell us that the person named in the Australian Prohibition section of the Museum as Jimmy Sweetman has had his name misspelled. It’s actually Sweetnam. Our apologies for that and our thanks to Malcolm, who provides this fascinating account of meeting the man himself … and a… Keep Reading
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