Case Files and Stories

• Prison break, Archival Snapshot, PROV

• Personal Victorian histories revealed, 2015, PROV

• Women convicted of Murder Archival Snapshot, PROV

• ‘She had always been a difficult case …’ Jill’s short, tragic life in Victoria’s institutions, 1952–1955, PROV

• Afraid of the darkness, Eddie Leonski in the archives, PROV

• Stories of the 1940s underworld and social work revealed
  Section 9 record openings, 2023, PROV

• Kid Stranger and the Bonnie Doon Bandit in files opened 1 Jan 2024, PROV

• "Pyjama Girl" killer's prison record among files opened 1 Jan 2020, PROV

• The case of Peter Mungett, Born out of the allegiance of the Queen, belonging to a sovereign and independent tribe of Ballan, PROV

• Infamous prison escapee and 1st mafia murder among files opened by PROV

• Violet Town disaster, bank robbery and prison escape in files opened 1 Jan 2025, PROV

• Chilling capital cases among newly opened Section 9 records
  1 January 2019 openings, PROV

• Records opened 2025, Daring crimes and Violet Town's devastating disaster, PROV

• The black sheep, Robert Herdman of Paisley, Scotland and Australia, PROV

• 45 years since the hanging of Ronald Ryan, PROV

• “Pyjama Girl” killer’s prison record among files opened by PROV
  Section 9 record release 2020 

• The Big Hill murder and the colonial death penalty

• Kelly Historical Collection Part 2: Crown Law Department, Record Series Number (VPRS) 4966, PROV

• Kelly Historical Collection Part 3: Chief Secretary’s DepartmentRecord Series Number (VPRS) 4967, PROV

• A Jewellery Manufactory in Melbourne, Rosenthal, Aronson & Company, PROV

• Mark "Chopper" Read - Did he or didn't he?, Archival Snapshot, PROV

• Robbery under arms, Archival snapshot, PROV

• The trouble with the McDonalds, True crime in the archives, PROV

• The case of Alfred Bye, Archival Snapshot, PROV

• One more for the road, Archival Snapshot, PROV

• Loss of memory man, George Southern, PROV

• My dear husband, Valentine's Day archival snapshot, PROV

• The Search for a Certain Cure, Doctors, Drunkards and Victoria's Committee of Inquiry 1901, PROV

• ‘Wayward’, ‘immoral’ and ‘evil’ dispelling myths about Brookside Reformatory girls, PROV

• Mary (Molly) Winifred Dean (1905–1930), The murder, inquest and abandoned trial, PROV

• Criminals, Prostitutes, Vagrants and Drunkards, 1920s Carlton, PROV

• The Demise of Bicycle George, A Life of Crime, PROV

• ​Unexpected sketches, William Stanford, SLV

• How Harry Power Escaped from Pentridge, A Guide to Australian Bushranging

• ETHICS of EVIL, Ray Mooney and Meredith Fuller

• The story of the 1870s Victorian and New South Wales bushranger Captain Moonlite - by Garry Linnell, CHS

• The little-known story of how this self-described inventor, liar and murderer escaped the gallows, by Tim Callanan

• Confession of Pentridge Prison escapee Kenneth 'Boots' Jones among newly opened archives, by Simon Leo Brown

• The Vagabond - Digging the dirt on Melbourne, abc Radio National