For more than three decades, the seven crimes known as the Family Court Murders remained the worst series of unsolved serial killings in Australian criminal history. Between 1980 and 1985, four people were murdered and dozens critically injured in a cruel five-year reign of terror across Sydney, aimed at the very heart of the country’s judicial system. Five bombings and multiple shootings targeting judges of the Family Court of Australia, their families, a lawyer and innocent members of the public. There was only ever one prime suspect linked to all seven crimes but despite years of surveillance he was never charged. Leonard Warwick thought he was invincible, that he’d got away with murder. In 2013, a major Channel Seven investigation, led by award-winning journalist Ross Coulthart, would blow the case wide open. For the very first time in more than a quarter of a century, all the main witnesses who until that point had been too afraid to speak out, including Warwick’s daughter and ex-wife, would describe the events that rocked Australia. Coulthart’s forensic investigation would put the horrific murders and bombings back in the public focus – and in the spotlight of authorities. Unknown to Warwick, and long forgotten by police, was the crucial mistake that would bring him down. Buried deep in a box of archived evidence, Warwick’s blood collected from one of the bomb sites that would be analysed using advanced DNA technology. In this special, Coulthart returns to the most dangerous story of his career with the next chapter and major new development in this ground-breaking investigation – was there another victim?

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