The Hill Family's Fight For Justice

In this episode of The Missing Campers Trial, Penny and Erin are joined by acclaimed journalist John Silvester with an update on the legal avenues Russell Hill’s family are exploring, revealing for the first time there may be a case for a coronial inquest.  You can read the articles written by Sly…

John Silvester on the Easey Street murders, and the secret he kept for years

For years, one of Australia’s best known crime reporters, John Silvester, kept a secret. He knew there had been a significant development in a notorious and long unsolved cold case: The Easey Street murders. But he didn’t write anything about it, until a few days ago, when he broke the story that t…

The Curious Case of Zig Zag Road

Esteemed crime reporter and host of the Naked City podcast John ‘Sly’ Silvester joins The Missing Campers Trial to talk about his interview with Russell Hill’s daughter, and the shooting deaths of Gregory Lynn’s former neighbours. To read Sly's interview, and his coverage of this case. Download Th…

The Morning Edition: John Silvester on the criminal gangs infiltrating the CFMEU

For more than 45 years, John Silvester has been reporting on Australia’s criminal underworld. Some notable figures, like Mick Gatto, a key player in the gangland wars that were immortalised in the popular TV series, Underbelly, are now implicated in an investigation that has rocked the highest off…

Listen to Sly on The Missing Campers Trial Podcast....

Sly joined The Age Crime and Justice Reporter Erin Pearson, and Nine News Reporter Penelope Liersch on their podcast The Missing Campers Trial, to discuss the murder conviction of Gregory Lynn.  Search for The Missing Campers Trial in your podcast app to get the latest on the Gregory Lynn matter.

Introducing: Trial by Water

From The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Trial by Water is a new investigative podcast series about Robert Farquharson, who has been locked up for decades for an unthinkable crime: murdering his three sons in a dam on Father’s Day, 2005. Now scientists and lawyers are asking the question: did we ge…

73 seconds to a tragic death

Tyler Cassidy was a troubled kid. Police officers Colin Dods and Richie Blundell were working an afternoon shift in the Northcote divisional van. Their lives would collide on a balmy summer evening in late 2008 at a Northcote skate park. A distraught Cassidy, 15, was in no mood to negotiate with t…

The cyber cop chasing the crypto criminals

Very few people have heard of Detective Sergeant Dion Achtypis - but there may well be no more important investigator in Australia. You won’t see him holding a press conference at a murder scene or commanding a squad of detectives. And he doesn’t use a sledgehammer during raids - he gains access i…

Belinda's partner was beyond help. Now, he helps her save strangers

Belinda Bozykowski was never a police officer. But her partner, Laurie Fox, was. On the last day of 2012, Fox took his own life, leaving her with two young sons, a broken heart and a million questions. Belinda is as brave as any Valour Award winner. After her partner's death, she completed her mi…

Bread, water and the Liquorice Mile: Inside Pentridge Prison

Prodigious armed robber and expert escaper John Killick escaped custody in three states, once in a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend.  Most of the police and prison officers who chased or caged him over more than 50 years are long gone, while John has written five books. But the brutality of …