TRUE CRIME
In Sydney’s dark underworld, the world of the professional criminal, “catch and kill your own” is an unwritten law. When you’ve got a problem with one of your own, you solve it yourself – even if it means murder.

Such gangland killings are rarely solved. Sometimes the police have no evidence to act upon, sometimes they ignore the evidence they do have, but the result sis the same – the killers remain at large. It’s a world seldom glimpsed by the public.

Behind the Killings the Police Don’t Want to Solve.

Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, Christopher Dale (“Rentakill”) Flannery, Brian Alexander, Barry “Sugar” Croft – for years the facts surrounding their deaths and many other have been steeped in mystery.

Now, in these disturbing accounts, one of Australia’s most feared and notorious criminals, Arthur “Neddy” Smith tells the true stories behind 37 underworld killings, all still officially listed as “unsolved”.

Neddy Smith is currently serving a life sentence for murder and armed robbery. Before imprisonment he spent most of his life mixing with Australia’s top criminals, including those in the police force. Only someone on the inside, such as Neddy, could know the sinister truth. Only now it is finally revealed.

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• Police corruption — Australia
• Murder — Australia
• Organized crime — Australia