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Australian Crime Stories

Australian Crime Stories

★ 7.0/10•2010•1h 0m•C•Documentary•Crime
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The stories behind what made and shaped the most notorious figures in Australian criminal history.

StatusReturning Series
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 24, 2010

Episodes

Episode 1 - Chris FlanneryE160m

Chris Flannery

Christopher Dale Flannery earned the nickname of 'Rent-a-Kill'. He was a hit man and gun for hire who would kill anyone if the price was right. Find out about the man who killed in cold blood before returning to his home to smother his children with affection and dote after his wife, Kathleen.

Jul 24, 2010

Episode 2 - Chow Hayes: Australia's First GangsterE260m

Chow Hayes: Australia's First Gangster

Arguably Australia's most feared gangster, Frederick 'Chow' Hayes was a convicted double murderer, sentenced to hang in 1952 for the brazen killing of stand-over man and former boxer, Bobby Lee.

Jul 29, 2010

Episode 3 - Alphonse GangitanoE360m

Alphonse Gangitano

Alphonse Gangitano was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne's notorious Carlton Crew in the 1980s and 1990s.

Aug 26, 2010

Episode 4 - Dennis Allen: Dr DeathE460m

Dennis Allen: Dr Death

Dennis Allen was the oldest son of Melbourne crime matriarch, Kath Pettingill. Abused as a child by his mother's boyfriends, he grew up knowing nothing but crime, and it became his life.

Sep 30, 2010

Episode 5 - Russell Cox: Australia's Most Wanted ManE560m

Russell Cox: Australia's Most Wanted Man

Meet Australia's most wanted man for a record 11 years. Russell "Mad Dog" Cox was a man no prison could hold. He escaped from NSW notorious "electronic zoo", the maximum security Katingal jail that politicians had said was escape proof.

Oct 28, 2010

Episode 6 - Mick Sayers: The GamblerE660m

Mick Sayers: The Gambler

Mick Sayers was a run of the mill crook who got in too deep with some of the tough nuts in Sydney's organised crime scene. Turning to drug dealing, extortion, race rigging and murder, he ripped off the wrong gangsters and paid the ultimate price.

Nov 25, 2010

Episode 7 - Ray Bennett: The Criminal MastermindE760m

Ray Bennett: The Criminal Mastermind

Raymond "Ray Chuck" Bennett was Australia's criminal mastermind. A brazen armed robber and thief; he did the jobs that other criminals considered were beyond them.

Dec 30, 2010

Episode 8 - Lennie McPherson: Mr BigE860m

Lennie McPherson: Mr Big

Lennie McPherson ruled the Sydney crime scene for three decades. He was a violent and vicious criminal and arguably the worst of the worst. We trace the rise of Lennie McPherson from a street crook in the 1940s to the Mr. Big of organised crime.

Jan 27, 2011

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