All posts tagged "true crime"

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  Film & TV

  Film Review: The Mystery of D B Cooper

  This HBO feature tells the story of a never-solved plane hijacking, and the perpetrator, known only as D B Cooper.

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  Books & Literature

  Book Review: The Library Book, by Susan Orlean

  Examining the unsolved crime of who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986, ultimately destroying more than 400,000 books.

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  Books & Literature

  Book Review: Conan Doyle for the Defence, by Margarlit Fox

  A well-researched true story of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fought tirelessly to right a terrible miscarriage of justice.

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  Books & Literature

  Book Review: Incest, Murder and a Miracle, by Cheryl & Robert Cuccio, with Morgan St James

  This is the shocking but true story about what really happened before, during and after the high-profile murder case of Cheryl Pierson in 1986 and what drove her to arrange a murder of her father.

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  Events This Week

  Film Review: Missing Pieces: The Curious Case of the Somerton Man

  A beautifully put-together documentary about an enduring mystery.

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  Books & Literature

  Book Review: Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney by Graham Archer

  A look into the Anna-Jane Cheney murder case. Cheney was an Adelaide lawyer murdered in the 1990s. Her fiancé, Henry Keogh, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, only to be released and have the charges dropped 21 years later.

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  Events This Week

  Interview: Wayne Groom and Carolyn Bilsborow

  Wayne Groom and Carolyn Bilsborow's latest documentary looks at the enduring mystery of the unidentified man found dead on Somerton Beach in 48.