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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Anne Connolly |Ninah Kopel |Gina McKeon |Echo Hui |Annika Blau
For the past four months, I've been starting my weekend with what many might consider a rather unnerving ritual. Every Saturday morning, I make coffee, sit down at my computer from my home in Sydney, and log on to a scheduled Zoom call for a half hour conversation with a convicted killer at Goulburn prison. Garry Davis is 38, but has already spent almost a decade behind bars for a heinous crime.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Anne Connolly |Ninah Kopel |Gina McKeon |Echo Hui
An ABC investigation has revealed that police may have failed to identify another victim of convicted healthcare killer Garry Davis, who was found guilty of murdering two nursing home residents and attempting to kill a third by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin. Elizabeth Eifler, 86, died within the same 48-hour period in which three other residents were injected with deadly doses of insulin by Davis, an aged care worker, at SummitCare Wallsend in Newcastle in October 2013.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Anne Connolly |Ninah Kopel |Gina McKeon |Echo Hui
A retired detective has told the ABC police feared a healthcare murderer could have been a serial killer after they searched his bedroom and found stolen medical items and a collection of death notices. Garry Davis murdered two people and attempted to murder a third by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin at Summitcare Wallsend aged care facility in Newcastle in 2013. During the investigation, police carried out a search of the home where the then 26-year-old lived with his grandparents.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Erin Handley |Gina McKeon
Duong hails from a long line of farmers, but he knew from an early age that he wanted to be a hairdresser. Money was always going to be the issue. Like many others, Duong — who asked to use a pseudonym — struggled to find a job after the COVID pandemic, so he was intrigued when he heard about a job through an acquaintance from his province in northern Vietnam. The job promised a decent salary — money he could put towards studying and bringing him one step closer to his goal.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Gina McKeon
WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions that readers may find distressing. When Ani Valatava last saw her sister Kinisimere, her body was lying on a trolley at the back of a funeral home in suburban Sydney, a white sheet laid on top of her. Ani clearly remembers that day five years ago. She had arrived late to the funeral home and was wondering how long her sister's body had been left out of the fridge.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Annika Blau |Gina McKeon |Teresa Tan |Laura Gartry
When Marnie Robertson stumped up $140,000 for a "house and land package" in the Coolah Caravan Park, she thought she was buying into a grey nomad Utopia. Yet her dream house is literally falling apart around her. The situation came to a head when the gutter feeding her rainwater tank became the latest thing to break. To get water, she was forced to feed a hose with town water into the tank. But as the 83-year-old was climbing on top of the tank, she slipped and fell onto a railway sleeper.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Gina McKeon |Luke C. Bowden
The government should freeze all intercountry adoptions and sever ties with its South Korean adoption partner, according to a senator representing Australia on an international human trafficking taskforce. The call comes following a Background Briefing investigation that found the Korean adoption agency — Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS) — falsified documents while sending thousands of children to Australia in the past.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Gina McKeon |Luke C. Bowden
Australia's adoption partner in South Korea falsified documents while sending thousands of children to Australia, a Background Briefing investigation has found. In many cases, the adoptees say they've grown up unaware they had siblings and believing they were orphans. An insider from the Korean adoption agency responsible has also alleged that bribes were paid to hospital workers in exchange for babies.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Gina McKeon
Out in the desert on the outskirts of Dubai sits a secret scam factory capable of swindling tens of thousands of people at a time. Inside, the scammers smoke, eat and furiously type on their computers as they pretend to be wealthy Eastern European women or models from Spain. At least some of the millions of scam text messages baiting foreigners, including Australians, come from this place. It's a sophisticated operation, seemingly out of reach of the victims they target.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Gina McKeon
The scammer tells the victim that the money will be transferred into their account, but it will be in cryptocurrency. On the scammer's screen, it looks like the victim has thousands of dollars invested in crypto. "That money is fake," Jim Browning* quietly says, watching live as the scammer chats with the victim. "They will never see that money again."It's late on a Tuesday evening. We have just logged onto a video call with Browning. He says certain scams are active at this hour.
