Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
When he hold me now I’m pretending I feel like I’m frozen inside And behind my eyes, my daily disguise Everything’s turning to white The typist in the police interview with convicted Whiskey Au Go Go killer James Finch was a young police officer named Ronald Joseph Redmond. Redmond was a strange recruit to the […]
Much has been about Shirley Brifman, and most who read crime know the story. Shirley was poor girl from the Atherton Tablelands who wanted to see the world. Her world started in Cairns, stretched to Brisbane and then on to the bright lights of Kings Cross, before it ended age 36, dead on the floor […]
James Finch was a poor orphan lad from England that nobody cared for or wanted. He grew up an urchin, and committed petty crimes to find food. At age 7 he was placed in a Barnardos children’s home, later to become infamous for child sexual abuse – rape – of the helpless kids held inside. […]
The champagne corks are popping down at the Aspley Leagues Club this morning at the news that their most famous member Pamela Kay O’Neill – universally known and loved as Pam or Pammy – has been honoured in the Australia Day awards for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in racing with the […]
This is the death certificate of a much loved husband and father named Garry Dubois. In 2017 Garry was convicted of the heinous crimes of double murder and rape of a child, and sentenced to life imprisonment, never to be released. He seemed a terrible man, the worst kind of killer and demon. The problem […]
In the 1980’s in Brisbane, a place at Kelvin Grove called Brett’s Boys was a brothel. It was a male brothel. A knock shop for men who liked to have sex with young boys, particularly young Asian boys who had been flown in by plane or sailed in on boats, lawfully or unlawfully. Many people […]
Ask anyone who hung around the betting ring at Albion Park in the 80’s or 90’s, or at the Pacesetters night club at the trots after the last, about Denis Holbeck and they will all tell you one thing. He’s a dodgy, no good, untrustworthy crook who’d rip off his own grandmother for $2 to […]
Of course the cops knew of it. They organised it. —————————– Police officers were warned that a Brisbane nightclub would be firebombed in February 1973, but detectives tasked with guarding the venue did not show up to protect it, an inquest report has revealed. Less than a fortnight before 15 people were tragically killed in […]
I told you so didn’t I? Stupid me, look what happened after that. The one thing that no-one has told you is that Barbara McCulkin had turned police informant about her husband and others involvement in the Whiskey Au Go Go fire. The poor, silly woman who had discovered that her husband had been sexually […]
This is a further response from On The Bit Racing about the fend they gave us when we asked about why a certain trainer who is on jail on remand for alleged multiple offences of violence against a woman racing participant had been nominated for a Queensland Country Racing Award. I for one don’t buy […]
