The murder of former Melbourne crime boss Carl Williams has opened a new can of worms.

A co-author of the original Underbelly books says Carl Williams began a "chain of violence" that ended with his own death yesterday.

Seven years passed before police could match a DNA sample to Joseph Reekers.

A man denies he was the one who fired a shotgun blast at a confrontation between groups at a Christchurch park.

A man charged with murdering an elderly woman in her home has told a court he is guilty of her manslaughter.

A grandmother hit in the face by a bottle thrown from a car has woken from her coma and spoken for the first time.

Rajesh "Eddie" Osborne was interviewed by police three days before he killed himself and his children in Australia.

A Bay of Plenty woman says a can of beer was thrown at her car "so hard it was like a missile".

Defence and prosecution psychiatrists disagree on the sanity of a NZ post graduate student accused of murdering his wife in the US.

An anonymous caller has been offered amnesty from prosecution if he tells police who threw a bottle that smashed a grandmother's face.

A study has revealed women from Asia and the Pacific are the most likely to be victims of domestic murder.

Claims of Blazej Kot's mental state when he killed his wife have been examined in a New York court.