Ralph Stavely News Today

Constable Hugh Bracken, right, who insisted the infamous bushranger be captured alive, has been shunned by history. Now there's a push to honour his actions.

Over the years, detectives have found bodies in barrels, burnt-out cars, acid baths, bush graves and tips, and a head in a kerosene tin dumped in the Barwon River.

Henry Patrick Belsey was profoundly mentally disturbed and repeatedly said he wanted to kill police. The trouble was, no one was listening.