NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Chris Flannery
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2010
Christopher Dale Flannery earned the nickname of 'Rent-a-Kill'. He was a hit man and gun for hire who would kill anyone if the price was right. Find out about the man who killed in cold blood before returning to his home to smother his children with affection and dote after his wife, Kathleen.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Chow Hayes: Australia's First Gangster
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/2010
Arguably Australia's most feared gangster, Frederick 'Chow' Hayes was a convicted double murderer, sentenced to hang in 1952 for the brazen killing of stand-over man and former boxer, Bobby Lee.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Alphonse Gangitano
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2010
Alphonse Gangitano was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne's notorious Carlton Crew in the 1980s and 1990s.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Dennis Allen: Dr Death
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/2010
Dennis Allen was the oldest son of Melbourne crime matriarch, Kath Pettingill. Abused as a child by his mother's boyfriends, he grew up knowing nothing but crime, and it became his life.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Russell Cox: Australia's Most Wanted Man
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2010
Meet Australia's most wanted man for a record 11 years. Russell "Mad Dog" Cox was a man no prison could hold. He escaped from NSW notorious "electronic zoo", the maximum security Katingal jail that politicians had said was escape proof.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Mick Sayers: The Gambler
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/2010
Mick Sayers was a run of the mill crook who got in too deep with some of the tough nuts in Sydney's organised crime scene. Turning to drug dealing, extortion, race rigging and murder, he ripped off the wrong gangsters and paid the ultimate price.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Ray Bennett: The Criminal Mastermind
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/30/2010
Raymond "Ray Chuck" Bennett was Australia's criminal mastermind. A brazen armed robber and thief; he did the jobs that other criminals considered were beyond them.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Lennie McPherson: Mr Big
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/2011
Lennie McPherson ruled the Sydney crime scene for three decades. He was a violent and vicious criminal and arguably the worst of the worst. We trace the rise of Lennie McPherson from a street crook in the 1940s to the Mr. Big of organised crime.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Nikolai Radev: The Invader
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/29/2011
Nikolai Radev invaded the lives of his extortion victims and terrorized them until they met his demands. Children, wives, family members were dragged into his world of violence and horror. No one was safe.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Stan "The Man" Smith: The Enforcer
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/28/2011
Stan 'The Man' Smith was a feared enforcer for Sydney's underworld. George Freeman's right hand man; he was a cold-hearted assassin, drug trafficker and murderer, turned man of God.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Ray Denning: The Runner
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 8/25/2011
Brutal killer, armed robber, heartbreaker and prison escapologist, Ray Denning was the ultimate anti-hero who spent his whole life running from the nightmares in his head.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Tilly Devine: Madam Razor
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/2011
Tilly Devine was a drug dealing brothel madam, a criminal sociopath and Sydney's Queen of vice, who clawed her way to the top of the city's sex trade with a razor in her hand. She was a prostitute who founded a criminal empire.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Jockey Smith: Public Enemy No.1
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2011
Criminal lunatic, gunman, arch-thief and armed robber, Jockey Smith terrorized Australia at gunpoint for three decades. When confronted, the short angry guy with a bad case of small man syndrome invariably reached for a gun.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Dino Dibra: The Sunshine Boy
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/2011
Murderer, drug dealer, kidnapper, extortionist and street hoon, Dino Dibra grew up in Sunshine, a working class suburb where he became friends with a group of boys who would all go on to make their marks in Melbourne's underworld.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Stewart John Regan: The Magician
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/29/2011
Murderer, extortionist, pimp, child killer and violent thug, Regan is arguably the most violent and terrifying person in Australian criminal history. A psychopath, Regan spent his childhood torturing animals before graduating to people.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - George Freeman: The King Of Sydney
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2012
Murderer, standover man, race fixer, and crime lord, George Freeman was the King of Sydney for over three decades. His skills as a gambler and race fixer meant he could enrich his associates who would keep him out of trouble with police.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Justice For Lucille
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/2019
In 1969, 20-year-old Miss Tasmania aspirant, Lucille Butterworth disappears from a bus stop in Tasmania. Seven years later, Geoffrey Charles Hunt confesses to the crime, but despite damning evidence police did not lay charges.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Packer's Gold
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/28/2019
We uncover the true story of how an audacious thief broke into Kerry Packer's office and cracked his personal safe, getting away clean with $5.4 million in gold bars. This is a story about loyalty, betrayal and revenge.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - John Friedrich
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/2019
We uncover the true story of a leader and hero, John Friedrich who was also a criminal mastermind that seduced governments and defrauded banks. For 25 years this story was swept under the rug but today we look at the case once more.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Mark Standen: A Dirty Cop
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2019
This is the true story of the international drug plot that brought down one of Australia's top law enforcers, Mark Standen. We reveal how far his corruption spread and whether there are more like him still operating in our police forces
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Billy Longley: The Texan
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/31/2019
The life story of one of the central figures in the notorious Painters and Dockers wars that claimed more than 15 victims in 1960s and 70s Melbourne.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - The Vampire Gigolo
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/7/2019
When Melbourne prostitute Shane Chartres-Abbott was accused of raping and mutilating a client, few doubted his guilt. The victim said Chartres-Abbott boasted that he was a 200-year-old vampire.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Mr Cruel
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 4/14/2019
A serial predator dubbed 'Mr Cruel' had an incredible impact on Australia in the late 1980s - '90s. Police believe he may be responsible for around a dozen attacks on children across Melbourne, and could still be alive.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Murphy's Law
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 4/21/2019
Brian Murphy was regarded as Australia's toughest cop, finding himself in the middle of several gang wars throughout a 30-year career in the Victoria Police. Bad guys who crossed "The Skull" had a habit of dying violently.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - The Dark Side
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/2020
It's the brutal crime that shocked a nation. A homicide on CCTV. We examine the damning evidence that reveals,the cold-hearted planning and execution of a young, naive wannabe gangster, by Roger Rogerson and his accomplice Glen McNamara.
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The Best Episodes of Australian Crime Stories
Every episode of Australian Crime Stories ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Australian Crime Stories!
The stories behind what made and shaped the most notorious figures in Australian criminal history.
Genres:DocumentaryCrime
Network:Nine Network
Best Episodes Summary
"Chris Flannery" is the best rated episode of "Australian Crime Stories". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/24/2010. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Chow Hayes: Australia's First Gangster".