Who Killed “Bully” Cook? Halmar Olsen was an electrical mechanic working in the scrubby gully that dropped away from Clifford Street, Gordon, towards Stony Creek. In 1922, Clifford Street had only recently been subdivided, and Bell Street still did not exist. While navigating the steep sandstone escarpment covered in thick grasses and shrubs, Olsen came…
By Elliot Lindsay The Lane Cove Mystery and the Case of Eugene Falleni (Harry Crawford) The Ashes at Stringybark Creek Today, Stringybark Creek Reserve is one of Sydney’s hidden pockets of bushland. Tucked between Epping Road and the Lane Cove West industrial precinct, the reserve is popular with walkers seeking a peaceful escape from the…
Very few Sydney-siders had heard of St. Ives in the 1910s when the district was covered with citrus orchards and cow paddocks. That all changed when the evening news across Australia reported a “shooting in St. Ives” that resulted in the murder of a police sergeant. To this day, mystery shrouds the events that transpired…
A long-forgotten murder mystery. The forgotten story of a horrible unsolved murder in Sydney’s colonial North Shore. The bottom of a well On the morning of Monday the 22nd of September, 1862, on an estate located in Sydney’s North Shore, a lifeless male body was found at the bottom of a deep dark well. The…