Helen McGrath

Nurses and neighbours, partners and parents – all murderers who shocked Australia with the severity of their crimes. But what makes them tick? Society couple Michael O'Neill and Stuart Rattle had it all – their lavish country property, their interior design business – until Michael bludgeoned Stuart to death with a cooking pan. Akon Guode intentionally drove into a lake,...

The cases that stunned Australia - and left us all with one question: why did they do it? Gerard Baden-Clay was described as charming and successful, with a picture-perfect life, until he murdered his wife, Allison. John Myles Sharpe killed his pregnant wife and their young daughter with a spear gun. Simon Gittany flung his fiancee off the balcony of...