A raft of rewards but few results to show for victims of crime
When it comes to police rewards in Victoria, very little is clear.
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When it comes to police rewards in Victoria, very little is clear.
How important is an accurate description? Once a bored 10-year-old sitting in a stranded family car in South Yarra provided a perfect likeness of a terrorist.
Some of the spookiest haunted places are those infused with a dark history of pain and suffering. Many of these locations just so happened to have fallen into disrepair as haunted ruins, and they invariably attract to them tales of of the supernatural. Such sites are custom made for it, looking like something from out of a horror movie and with the grim and often tragic past to back it up. We can find such a place out in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, which was once an asylum for the raving insane and is now considered to be one of the most haunted places in the nation.
Crime by Amelia Saw Premium Content  Not many people can say they got Mark 'Chopper' Read naked on their first day of work - but former prison officer Steve Bergervoet is one of them. An easygoing country bloke, Bergervoet arrived for his first training shift at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1985. Built in the 1850s, the towering bluestone walls of Pentridge impose an ominous feeling on all who walk their grounds. By the time new recruit Bergervoet wandered through the gates, the prison was already home to a number of Australia's most evil prisone...
Crime by Amelia Saw Premium Content  Not many people can say they got Mark 'Chopper' Read naked on their first day of work - but former prison officer Steve Bergervoet is one of them. An easygoing country bloke, Bergervoet arrived for his first training shift at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1985. Built in the 1850s, the towering bluestone walls of Pentridge impose an ominous feeling on all who walk their grounds. By the time new recruit Bergervoet wandered through the gates, the prison was already home to a number of Australia's most evil prisone...