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The West Perth Rapist

Tony Guerriero and Luke McCulloch
Police hunting for a sex offender in West Perth needed a break and that came after what appeared to be an innocuous vehicle stop. What eventuated from that interaction surprised everyone. The offender had used his knowledge and training as an employee of a bank, as a police officer, as a customs officer and as an immigration officer to commit a series of calculated offences.
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Sea Chase – the ‘Pong Su’

Pursuit and capture of the 'Pong Su'

Jason Byrnes
'Operation Sorbet' was the AFP name for the investigation into the importation of 150kgs (then worth approximately AUD$164 million) of heroin into Victoria just before Easter 2003. One offender died in the crime, his identity still remains a mystery to authorities. The most public aspect to the investigation was the pursuit of the cargo ship that had carried the heroin to Australia, the North Korean owned 'Pong Su'. This is from the September 2007 issue of the APJ.
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Scientific Aspects of the Graeme Thorne Kidnapping and Murder

Detective Sergeant A.F. Clarke, Scientific Investigation Bureau, NSW Police Force
This is an abridged version of an article first published in 1963 (Vol.16, No. 3), and reprinted in part, in the APJ’s 75th Anniversary Edition (September 2021). It relates to one of the saddest and most infamous crimes ever committed in Australia - the abduction and death of a school boy by a man desperate to steal prize winnings from the boy's parents. Some additional comments have been inserted to provide context for today’s reader.
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The Mutilator

Retired Detective Senior Sergeant C.B. (Barry) Fay
The following case-history, about one of Australia’s first serial killers who carried out his nefarious activities around the Sydney business district decades ago, was originally published by the APJ in 1982. Since then a number of requests were received for the APJ to reprint the article in full for new subscribers. However, due to its length and the fact that a constant stream of interesting (serious crime) articles were being sent to us, their requests were put on the ‘back-burner’. Following the killer’s death in prison on 12 May 2015 and on reading a number of misleading stories that surfaced shortly afterwards about his mental condition etc., the APJ reprinted the article in its September 2015 issue.
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Why I work where I work

AFP Kuala Lumpur Post

Jason Byrnes
What type of work does the Australian Federal Police (AFP) do offshore? In 2019 former APJ Assistant Editor, and current AFP Superintendent, Jason Byrnes was approaching the end of his deployment as Senior Officer, Kuala Lumpur Post. Coinciding with the AFP’s 40th year, he was asked by the AFP History, Traditions and Museum Team to provide a reflection on his time in ‘KL’ and the work the AFP undertakes in Malaysia. This article was published in the December 2019 issue of the APJ.
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Death of baby Jennie

Senior Constable Harriet Kelly
The tragic story of the death of Jennie Denum is an illustration of the diversity and complexity of police work. It is a story of a couple with an unshakeable belief that the birth of a child should be a natural event and, the process itself, the complete province of the parents. Enter two midwives who agree to assist the couple to this end with the impending birth of their first child. A close relationship develops between the two parties, all of whom share this almost irrational belief in a non-interventionist style of child birth. This article appeared in the June 2000 issue of the APJ.
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