Saturday, 20 July 2024
20 July Australian History
Monday, 1 July 2024
1 July in Australian History
Friday, 19 January 2024
John Lynch aka The Berrima Axe Murderer 1812 -1842 Australian serial killer
Another revolting creature; doubly so as it claimed God protected it as it killed people.
Worked its way up from fraud to serial killing, claiming 10 victims.
Further Reading -
John Lynch; The Pious Hatchetman
Lynch, Bushranger Berrima's Notorious Criminal
Confessions of Lynch the Murderer
Friday, 12 January 2024
Robert Francis Burns 1840 -1883 serial killer
Well, here's another garden variety arsehole; convicted of one murder Burns confessed to the hangman he'd killed seven more people.
Why confess to the hangman? Is it an attempt to impress a bloke who's paid to kill people for the government?
Anyway, the seven further victims are based on speculation; although the useless mongrel gave clues he didn't give names (said he was useless) but this is well-considered with much evidence.
Further reading -
Thursday, 11 January 2024
Frank Butler aka Richard Ashe The Blue Mountains Murderer 1858 - 1897
Serial killer Frank Butler aka Richard Ashe was a garden variety prick; he's been incorrectly labelled "Australia's First Serial Killer" - nah, plenty of those mongrel bastards came before Frank.
It was Australia's First Serial Killer MANHUNT.
Gutless mongrel; he shot his victims in the back after he'd got them to dig their own graves.
Plenty all over the net about this piece of vile canker.
His victims were
Arthur Preston
Charles Burgess
Further details -
Friday, 5 January 2024
Tracker Alec Riley 1884 - 1970
This absolute legend worked to bring criminals to justice but also to help find and/or recover those lost in the bush.
Sidenote - the movie One Night The Moon 2001 is based on him not being allowed to set foot onto a white fella's farm to help look for a missing child.
Tracker Riley spent long, arduous hours combing the bush for evidence when tracking criminals, and in the case of Mad Mossy (Narromine Murders 1939) he spent more than 12 months tracking, tracing and gathering evidence as to the multiple murders.
Reaching the rank of Sergeant in NSW police in 1941 was a first for any Indigenous person, in 1943 he was awarded the King's Police and Fire Services Medal for Distinguished Conduct.
Tracker Riley and his family lived at the Talbragar Reserve at Dubbo.
The movie Blacktracker 1996 is based on Tracker Alec Riley's life.
Further reading -
Twenty Third day of the month of October throughout the not-so-many eons of Oz history
1786 - Barron Field, who claimed to be the first poet of Australia *ahem* and was for a number of years an actual judge in New South Wales...
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1817 HMSC Mermaid was commissioned on this day ; the Mermaid was the infamous boat in which Phillip Parker King surveyed and chartered the c...
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1800 - Napoleon issued instructions to Baudin and Hamelin, who sailed in the Geographe and the Naturaliste, to explore the east and south ...
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1790 – HMS Supply returned from Batavia with more supplies for the colony. 1847 The forced exile of Tasmanian Aboriginal People to Wybalenn...