Beyond the darklands

Antonie Dixon was a convicted New Zealand thief and murderer. His most notorious crimes were committed in an 11-hour spree of violence in 2003 in which he completely or partially severed the hands or arms of two women with a Samurai sword, shot a man dead with a homemade sub-machine gun and kidnapped another man.

Tracy Goodman was a serial burglar with drug issues, who habitually robbed the elderly. One of them was Marton pensioner Mona Morriss. When the 83-year-old caught Goodman rifling through her house, Mona confronted her. Goodman reacted the way she knew how - beating, then stabbing Mona Morriss to death.