The gangland war has become like folklore in the tale of crime in Australia. From 1995, dozens of murders occurred in Melbourne in a wrestle over drugs and egos involving notorious underworld figures such as Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel, and the Morans.
At the centre of it all was Stuart Bateson, a detective with the Purana taskforce.
Today, John Silvester - who wrote the definitive account of the gangland war - talks to Bateson about what investigating this violent web of crooks was really like, and hear part of a recording of a real gangland hit.
Bateson talks to Sly ahead of the release of a new three-part documentary from Channel Nine called Naked City: Hitmen, which screens from March 4.

The gangland war has become like folklore in the tale of crime in Australia. From 1995, dozens of murders occurred in Melbourne in a wrestle over drugs and egos involving notorious underworld figures such as Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel, and the Morans. At the centre of it all was Stuart Bateson, a detective with the Purana taskforce. Today, John Silvester - who wrote the definitive account of the gangland war - talks to Bateson about what investigating this violent web of crooks was really like, and hear part of a recording of a real gangland hit. Bateson talks to Sly ahead of the release of a new three-part documentary from Channel Nine called Naked City: Hitmen, which screens from March 4.

Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia’s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester.

https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi

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Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia&rsquo;s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester.
https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi
#crime #truecrime #police #news

Naked City

Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia&rsquo;s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester.
<a href="https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi">https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi</a>
#crime #truecrime #police #news