Where was the Australian contract killer, featured in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, born?
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Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the second series of the Nine Network crime drama series Underbelly, originally aired from 9 February 2009 to 4 May 2009. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred on the New South Wales town of Griffith. The timeline of the series is the years between 1976 and 1987. "Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities" primarily depicts the Mr. Asia drug syndicate and its influence on crime in Australia. Among the characters presented are real-life criminals Robert Trimbole, Terry Clark, George Freeman, Christopher Dale Flannery and the Kane Brothers. The mini-series is a prequel to the 2008 production "Underbelly", which was about the Melbourne gangland killings and forms part of the "Underbelly" series.
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Christopher Dale Flannery Christopher Dale Flannery, nicknamed Mr. Rent-a-Kill (born 1948 – missing and believed murdered since 9 May 1985) is alleged to have been an Australian contract killer. Flannery was born in Brunswick, Victoria.
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Joseph Schwab Joseph "Josef" Schwab (1961 – June 1987) was a German tourist and spree killer who murdered five people in the Top End region of the Northern Territory and Western Australia in June 1987. Schwab was dubbed "The Kimberley Killer" by the Australian press after the region in which he committed the murders.
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Samuel Leonard Boyd Samuel Leonard Boyd is an Australian multiple murderer from New South Wales, currently serving four consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 25 years without the possibility of parole for the murder of four people and the malicious wounding of a fifth between September 1982 and April 1983.
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Tilly Devine Matilda "Tilly" Mary Devine (née Twiss) (8 September 190024 November 1970), was an English Australian organised crime boss in Sydney. She was involved in a wide range of activities, including sly-grog and razor gangs, and prostitution.
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John Martin Scripps John Martin (born John Martin Scripps, 9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996) was an English spree killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three unconfirmed victims. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders, for which British tabloids nicknamed him "the tourist from Hell". He cut up all his victims' bodies, using butchery skills he had acquired in prison, before disposing of them.
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Abe Saffron Abraham Gilbert "Abe" Saffron (6 October 1919 – 15 September 2006) was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Alexander McLeod-Lindsay Alexander McLeod-Lindsay, (24 December 1934 – 17 September 2009) was a Scots-born Australian who is noted for having served nine years in jail for attempting to murder his wife, but who was later exonerated.
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Murder of Andrew Pea Andrew Pea (1956 - 1978), also known as Andrew Ronald Smith, was a 22-year-old Victorian who'd moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1975 and worked as a State Energy Commission labourer. Pea lived alone in a Salvation Army hostel in East Perth and was known as a casual drinker at many Perth inner-city hotels; being seen at various times in the Paddington, the Criterion, the Imperial, the Railway, the Globe and the Victoria. Pea’s murder shocked Perth as it was one of the first cases of gang-style killing in the city. Only two weeks prior to his murder Pea had been involved in another fight, in which he’d dislocated his shoulder.
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Underbelly (series 1) Underbelly, the first series of Australian crime television drama series Underbelly. The thirteen-part series originally aired from 13 February 2008 to 7 May 2008 on the Nine Network and is loosely based on the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival, Carl Williams. The series is based on the book "Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld", by journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule, and borrows its name from the successful "Underbelly" true crime anthology book series also authored by Silvester and Rule. An alternative and significantly updated tie-in novel, "Underbelly: The Gangland War", was released as their 13th book in the series. The series is produced by the Australian Film Finance Corporation, in association with Film Victoria. The executive producers are Des Monaghan and Jo Horsburgh.
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Les Hill Les Hill (born 1 August 1973) is an Australian actor who has appeared in many Australian television productions including "," "Home and Away" and "Underbelly."
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Mark Twitchell Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian convicted of first degree murder in 2011 for killing John Brian "Johnny" Altinger. His trial attracted substantial media attention because he was inspired by the Dexter Morgan character, featured in Jeff Lindsay novels and the "Dexter" television series, a serial killer who works as a forensic bloodstain pattern analyst for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department.
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Anthony Allen Shore Anthony Allen Shore (born June 25, 1962) is a serial killer and child molester who is responsible for the slayings of one woman and three girls. He operated from 1987 to 2000, and was known as the "Tourniquet Killer" because of his use of a ligature with either a toothbrush or bamboo stick to tighten or loosen the ligature. The instrument was similar to a twitch, a tool used by farmers to control horses.
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Craig Minogue Craig Minogue (born 1962) is an Australian prisoner, convicted for the Easter Thursday 27 March 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Minogue was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 30 years. Minogue is currently serving his sentence at Marngoneet Correctional Centre, in Lara, near Geelong, about one hour's drive from Melbourne. In 2012 Mingoue was awarded his PhD in applied ethics, human and social services by La Trobe University.
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Illy (rapper) Alasdair David George Murray (born 6 September 1986), better known by his stage name Illy, is a recording artist from Frankston in Melbourne, Australia. Before his solo career, Illy was a member of Crooked Eye, but opted to leave the group. He released his first solo album in 2009, entitled "Long Story Short", and has released three further albums. His second "The Chase", was nominated for an ARIA award while his third "Bring It Back" won. Furthermore, in 2016 he released an album titled "Two Degrees." He has toured internationally both as headliner and as support to the Hilltop Hoods in 2014 world tour in Europe.
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John Martin Crawford John Martin Crawford (born 29 March 1962) is a Canadian serial killer.
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Kevin Ray Underwood Kevin Ray Underwood (born December 19, 1979) is a convicted murderer from Purcell, Oklahoma.
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Katherine Knight Katherine Mary Knight (born 24 October 1955) is the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She was convicted of the murder of her partner, John Charles Thomas Price, in October 2001, and is currently imprisoned at the Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre in New South Wales. She stabbed him to death and then skinned him. She then put his skin on a meat hook, cooked his head and parts of his body, and placed them together with vegetables on plates with placecards with his children's names.
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Death of Zahra Baker Zahra Clare Baker (November 16, 1999 – September 24, 2010) was born in Wagga Wagga, Australia and was reported missing on October 9, 2010. Only 10 years old at the time of her death, her dismembered remains were found in November 2010. Because of the crime's gruesome nature and the series of events leading up to her death, Zahra's murder received worldwide media coverage. In September 2011, the victim's stepmother, Elisa Baker, pleaded guilty to murdering Zahra, and was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. She was subsequently given an additional 10 years in 2013 for drug related charges.
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Peter Dupas Peter Norris Dupas (born 6 July 1953) is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence. His criminal signature is to remove the breasts of his female victims.
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Gyton Grantley Gyton Grantley (born 1 July 1980) is a Logie Award and AFI Award-winning Australian actor, best known for his portrayal of convicted murderer and drug trafficker Carl Williams in the hit Australian television show "Underbelly", for which he was nominated for both Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series and Most Popular Actor for the 2009 TV Week Logie Awards and the 2008 AFI award (winning for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series). Grantley won the 2009 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor. Since 2012 he has portrayed Kane Albert in "House Husbands".
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Murder of Stacey Mitchell Stacey Mitchell (1990–18 December 2006) was a British-born girl living in Australia, who was murdered at the age of 16, on 18 December 2006, by lesbian couple Jessica Stasinowsky and Valerie Parashumti. She was bludgeoned with a concrete block and strangled with a chain. Her corpse was found in a wheelie bin shortly afterwards. Stasinowsky and Parashumti had known Mitchell for three days, and claimed they murdered her because they found her irritating.