Homicide

Helen Burton and her daughter are happy to be reunited after a long separation, but the reunion turns out to be a prelude to tragedy when a murder is committed.

Det. Sgt. Bronson and Sen. Det. Mackay are called to an isolated homestead on the Mornington Peninsula to investigate the murder of labourer Kevin Jones. Many of the farm hands are immigrants, and the detectives find themselves in a different world. Some of the people they question are proud and steeped in the traditions of their native country, and at least one of them is prepared to kill over a question of honour.

Detectives have five suspects in the brutal murder of a young married woman. All five of them saw her in the hours preceding her death.

An artist arrives at an outdoor party with a stunning blonde. Within minutes the girl is dead, and so is a young folk-singer who was also a party guest. Homicide detectives are called in to the off-beat world of an artist's colony to investigate the mysterious deaths, and suspense mounts as investigations into the puzzling case builds to an unexpected climax.

A criminal earnestly trying to reform is being framed for a double murder and a £20,000 payroll robbery.

Truck driver Roy Smith reports his wife has been murdered. He claims he spent the night at the country town of Seymour, however police discover that he is having an affair and that he also stole a car in Seymour.

Policewoman Helen Hopgood is involved in the case of a runaway schoolgirl, but when Helen suddenly disappears it is feared she could have been murdered.

A teenage girl's skeleton is found in the Airey's Inlet sandhills, with no clue to her identity.

A woman close to death after being attacked and robbed refuses out of fear to identify her attackers. The pack then goes hunting again, terrorising a mother and her teenage daughter.

Young Kathy and Johnny Moore were happy together according to friends and neighbours, yet Kathy is found murdered in their wrecked living room and Johnny is missing.

Two women act as decoys and one victim after another is attacked and robbed - until one of the victims dies.

Homicide detectives pursue 'Blue' Carmody in rugged mountain bushland, after he murdered a Forests Commission officer who ordered him to put out a fire on a total fire ban day. Two women at a roadhouse assist him.

Peter O'Brien, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, breaks out of jail. He has a warder's carbine, and is ready to deal out to the two detectives who put him inside. When he confronts them, he wounds Sen. Det. Mackay and shoots dead Det. Sgt. Bronson.

A scrawled note, a milk bill and a wrecked room confront the police when they investigate the death of a clergyman. Mackay is promoted back to Detective Sergeant.

Is he a man with a grudge, or a lunatic loose with a gun? By the pattern of his crimes he could be a bit of both, and his motive is as hard to find as he is himself. Insp. Connolly joins Mackay and Hudson in a hazardous chase after a demented and dangerous killer.

When a young married woman meets a violent death, a glib story about hitch-hikers is discounted as police believe they know the murderer. Forensic science assists in collating evidence and apprehending a dangerous killer.

Using the Moomba festival crowds as a cover, a gang of jewel thieves, headed by an American, keeps the police guessing. A report that a schoolboy has disappeared alerts detectives to more sinister activities.

If Ray Fox died, as he alleges two women intended, their complicity in a sinister racket might not have been found out. Fox tells police a tale so incredible that he doesn't expect to be believed. But when the truth comes to light it is more incredible still, leading to the discovery of a racket and murder.

Concerned for the safety of a murder witness, police hide the man at Dromana. However, the ruse is discovered and the police must protect him from a group of criminals.

Linda Neilsen, a young married woman with a career in advertising, walks out of a jovial staff party to a violent death. A search through her handbag provides Homicide detectives with a promising lead, but three suspects emerge to confuse the issue.

Joan Ordini is stabbed to death while walking home at night. Her husband, quite unmoved by the tragedy, tells police there were other men in her life. Her father chances on a vital clue when he finds his daughter's cherished rosary beads are missing.

Sally Trevor, just titled Model of the Year, is shot dead on a busy city street. The killer's description tallies with her long-time devoted admirer Arthur Parrish. But why murder her at the peak of her success? Their ill-starred romance story told in flashback provides the answer.

People notice Ron Paige and think he is a charming youth, which is a big help to detectives investigating a puzzling case of callous murder.

Maree Duncan tells police that her husband has threatened to kill her, and soon afterwards she is found shot dead. Is the killer her husband? Or the man whose company she obviously preferred? The police keep a wary eye on the two suspects while sorting out the complex and conflicting evidence and intrigue surrounding Maree's death.

As Det. Sgt. Mackay puts it: "There are only three things to find in this case - the weapon, the offender, and the victim." The breakthrough comes when Forensic examines the soil clinging to the tyres of Arthur Lowe's abandoned taxi.

18-year-old Margaret Boyce makes a suicide pact with an older man that she loves because her father refuses to give his consent to their marriage. Soon afterwards her body is found in a quarry. It certainly looks like suicide - but the Homicide detectives move in to investigate a strong suspicion of murder.

Could a Tasmanian Tiger still exist near Burrabri? Or did 16-year-old Anne Vincent meet her death at human hands? Homicide detectives are called to a country town to investigate the death of the young woman, and are confronted by some strange evidence.

Is Maggie the abused wife she claims to be, or a dangerous woman capable of deliberate murder? Arrested for shooting her husband, she says it was self-defence, but a hint of complicity between Maggie and her stepson makes detectives suspect her story.

Lorraine Purvis's classmates are shocked when she falls to her death from a roof. But some of them are suspects as police try to establish if it was suicide, an accident, or murder.

A man is fatally stabbed, and the knife used is lying beside his friend Ilona Tabori when she wakes in the morning. She finds his body just outside her door. She can remember nothing of the night before and fears that she may have been responsible for his death.

Mackay and Hudson pursue a crazed gunman who has taken four lives. Hudson, feeling his inexperience may have been a contributing factor to Sgt. Bronson being shot, becomes embroiled in a public controversy about the right of police to fire on criminals.

A man is strangled to death, and in the search for his killer Homicide detectives uncover a macabre story of drug addiction and the relentless exploitation of its victims.

An art collector is stabbed to death and investigations have just begun when Det. Hudson's girlfriend 'Tinker' Bell is reported missing. Tensions mount as her disappearance is linked with the main murder suspect, Bronte Palmer, a mentally deranged artist connected to an art colony.

A small boy sees blonde Trudy Gardiner threatened with a gun, but when police arrive her flat is empty - though there is every sign she has been murdered. The question is why? In the confusion of a car wrecker's yard, detectives get their first glimpse of the truth.

A mother and her two young daughters are shot dead on a country road, and detectives learn that a car abandoned nearby belongs to their neighbour, Roger Fry, an ex-RAAF officer with a war neurosis who has apparently vanished.

Immediately after buying a racehorse, horse dealer Jim Craig is shot dead. Craig's dubious background suggests several motives, but it soon becomes evident that the horse 'Seven Winds' is the focal point in a bitter human conflict.

Scotland Yard enlists Homicide's aid in locating Joan Preston, suspected of having killed her husband in England. They find not only Joan, but also her sister-in-law Sarah Davis, who is convinced that Joan has murdered once and is planning a second murder.

A body is found on a beach with a lone clue - a cigarette lighter inscribed "In memory of Milk Train". But - what Milk Train?

Blonde Karen Barrett's first brush with the law is on a shoplifting charge, but Policewoman Helen Hopgood senses something more sinister in the girl's background. Homicide detectives prove she is right.

Roger Lang is found shot dead, and suspicion falls on nightclub singer Julie Temple, whose fingerprints are on the gun. Investigations lead to Julie's ex-husband, Harold Barker, who has resorted to an evil scheme to gain custody of his child.

On the run after breaking jail, Tom Delaney robs a bank and shoots a veterinary surgeon. Seeking a hiding place, he holds country school teacher Ann Pritchard as a hostage.

Confidence man Warren Hardy becomes involved with the death of a man and blackmails a wealthy socialite in an attempt to pay a gambling debt.

A teenage girl on holiday finds a baby's body in the river. There is doubt as to whether it is accidental drowning or murder. The blanket wrapped around the body supplies a vital clue.

Young Constable Foster, suspecting a factory breaking, fires at a man who is running from the scene. When Homicide detectives question him, he realises his police career could be in jeopardy.

Laura Steiner has an insensate jealousy of her stepdaughter Ilse. To gain attention from her husband, she concocts a story about a man trying to stab her in the park. Laura gives police a description of an attacker matching reports of a real attack. She later stabs her stepdaughter to death, and plants false clues to implicate the other attacker.

A payroll guard is killed and another wounded during a $25,000 robbery. Folk singer Susannah Lane offers Homicide detectives information on the gang's identity, but when her intentions become known her life is threatened.

Laurence Somers, an ex-cop now prominent in trotting circles, falls from a speeding train. Homicide detectives suspect foul play, and within a few days murder is committed at the trotting track.