Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule

WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT When Sue was only 19 years old, she sought sanctuary at an inner-Melbourne police station. What followed has been a 40-year ordeal as she has searched for the policeman who assaulted her. Sexual assault helpline Call 1800 010 120 Counsellors are available from 7:30am until 11:30pm, 7 days. Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs hel...

In Sydney's south west, a deadly blood feud has broken out between rival crime families. Daily Telegraph crime writer Mark Morri joins the show to talk about his new documentary series, exposing this latest fracture in Sydney's underworld. Read more at:  https://bit.ly/3ONcd7X Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or an...

Andrew Rule explores the utter tragedy when old crooks induct young kids into their life of crime. Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the last in our series on great prison escapees, Andrew outlines the colourful crimes and daring prison break of 'Doc' Smith. Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox's exploits are well known, but this week, we focus on his extraordinary escape from Sydney’s Long Bay jail. Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Recent events has Andrew Rule recounting the most famous jailbreaks by three of Australia's most colourful crooks. This week: the daring flight of David McMillan from the infamous 'Bangkok Hilton' prison. Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Bl...

The wilderness search for a missing man has Andrew Rule asking why authorities continue to refuse the help of expert trackers - even when time, money and perhaps lives are in the balance. Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

A chance find on a hard drive brings new revelations to an ongoing legal and political drama. Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Novelist Adrian McKinty went from writing crime thrillers in Melbourne to blockbusters in the US. He sits down with Andrew to tell the story of his eclectic career. Find out more about Adrian McKinty at: http://officialadrianmckinty.com/bio/ Preorder The Island at Booktopia: https://tinyurl.com/4aad6z67 or Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/293xktzd Like the show? Get more at: https://heraldsun.com.au/an...

When a young train driver moved into an unassuming house in an inner western suburb of Melbourne, little did he know it may have had links to one of the country's greatest heists., Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Rule uncovers a new and compelling theory as to the true identity of one of Australia's most notorious monsters. Read Andrew Rule's full Mr Cruel investigation at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listene...

Don Winslow is a best-selling American crime author whose new book  City on Fire  is the first in a saga about Irish and Italian crime syndicates in 1980s and '90s New England. He talks with Andrew about drug wars, the opioid epidemic and the craft of writing crime. City on Fire  is out soon. Go to  https://www.donwinslow.com/ for more information and to preorder. Tha...

Karmein Chan was abducted in 1991. Just over a year later her remains were found in northern Melbourne. Was Mr Cruel responsible and what did the police overlook? Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 T...

WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. They spend their working lives keeping the bad guys on the inside, but who's helping them cope on the outside? Counsellor Bruce Perham joins the show to talk about his work helping prison guards deal with the pressures of their job Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Find out more about Bruce's book:  https://letstalkdifferently.co...

George Brown was a country boy with big dreams of training winners at the track. But he met a tragic end after getting caught up in racing's violent underworld. Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omny...

This week, from the vault, we bring you the story of a little guy with big plans - that mostly involved stealing. (First released Jan 19, 2019) Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/l...

Last week, we looked at the murder  that saw Ronald Ryan hanged. This week we tell the story of what became of the young man who shared Ryan's crimes. Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudi...

The execution of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia, shocked and captivated the nation. But his partner in crime, Peter Walker, has a violent and tragic tale all of his own. Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helplin...

Colin McLaren spent a career in undercover law enforcement infiltrating the mafia in Australia. Now as an author, he has travelled to Italy to uncover the origins of the mob. Andrew Rule explains. Find out more about McLaren's book Mafioso:  https://bit.ly/35PwI2w Like the show? Get more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or...

Ben Buckley was a rogue of the sky and no stranger to scrapes with authority. But beyond his many misdemeanors, he also saved lives with his aerial exploits. Like this episode? Read more at  https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John and Lorraine Moss lived a quiet life in central Victoria until John became mysteriously ill. But behind all Lorraine's concern for her husband's health, lay a wicked plan - and a fondness for arsenic. Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 Get more from Andrew Rule a...

They're a mainstay of film, TV and news reports worldwide: the hound dogs that can hunt through the wilderness to find the lost. But if they're so effective, why aren't they here? Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When the mafia needed a man to help get rid of a problem, they turned to a Melbourne gun dealer - a man who may just have taken one of crime's biggest mysteries to his grave. Like the show? Get more at https://heraldsun.com.au/andrewrule Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800...

When Australian woman Patricia Galea was shot dead in an LA apartment, it looked like a robbery gone wrong. But the true reasons for her death might just wind their way back  to Sydney's gambling underworld. Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 Like the show? Get R...

When publican Mike Lowry was shot in the head with a small calibre bullet, police were left with a question: who was the mysterious woman who pulled the trigger? Crimestoppers:  https://crimestoppers.com.au/ If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 Like the show? Get Rule’s latest columns at  https...