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00:20In the Naked City, generations of crooks are linked by blood, crimes and conspiracies.
00:30For some, death is just around the corner.
00:37Most people go about their business unaware there is a darker world that exists alongside
00:43them until, like a rumbling volcano, it bursts to the surface.
00:55There are five million stories in the Naked City, this is one of them.
01:20What causes someone to become a hitman?
02:03I'm amazed that anyone can be callous enough to kill for payment.
02:09They believe that that would give them status within the criminal world.
02:14They don't care if an innocent person is injured or wounded or was killed.
02:19To have a psyche like that means you are the lowest form of humanity there is.
02:26An uncontrollable war where people were getting murdered on a monthly basis.
02:31There's enough money in the drug trade for everyone for a share, but of course as soon as you
02:37get a taste of it, that's it.
02:39You want the lot.
02:40A 45 semi-auto loaded, binoculars, night vision gear, ballistic vest, balaclava, mask, wig, I would
02:53call that a pretty good assassin's kit.
03:12In the late 1980s and well into the 2000s, Melbourne didn't just have a crime problem,
03:18it had a full blown war on its hands.
03:21A bloody, drawn out, underworld conflict that would leave dozens of bodies on the ground,
03:27tie up thousands of police hours and feed a national obsession with crooks who acted like
03:33celebrities.
03:36At the centre of it were rival crews fighting for a slice of the city's booming drug trade.
03:42The Carlton crew were old school, organised, established and happy to mix gambling and standing
03:48over tactics.
03:50Mick Gatto, Graeme Kinneborough and Mario Condello were an underworld collective coming together
03:57to socialise and do business.
04:00And they would still be in business if a key group, the Moran family, weren't greedy and
04:05hot-tempered.
04:06The Morans were connected through blood and business.
04:10Lewis was a bookmaker with sticky fingers.
04:13His sons, Mark, had the brains, Jason had the temper.
04:18Over a decade, it was a sprawling crime war involving hundreds of police, untold millions
04:23in drugs and money that left major and minor underworld figures dead.
04:28At the same time, it would capture the fascination of a nation like no criminal story before or since.
04:36And that was because of the fuse that lit this powder keg of drugs, money and violence.
04:53It seems so long ago, but I remember thinking way too much about Carl Williams.
05:01You know, I would have my working day full of how we were going to go and bring him behind
05:08bars,
05:08but that would often enter into my thoughts in the middle of the night.
05:13You know, I, and many of my colleagues, become very consumed by the work we did at the Piranha Task
05:21Force.
05:21And, you know, he was killing people, as it turned out, on a regular basis.
05:27We knew we weren't immune to that.
05:29We knew it was a threat and we took precautions for our own safety.
05:34All of us did.
05:36Ultimately, as I became more the focus of his attention, as we stepped out by our investigations,
05:43he became more focused on me.
05:46And we became aware of him making threats to kill me and my girlfriend.
05:51Williams was recorded asking his wife, Roberta,
05:55If Bateson comes looking for me, you know what to do, don't you?
05:58Shoot them in the head.
06:00If you want Bateson's missus, I'll just chop her up.
06:05When these threats are taking place in a context that they were,
06:10where people were actually getting murdered on a regular basis,
06:14when new allies were potentially at risk,
06:17there's not much you can do about it.
06:21But it's certainly, you know, from my point of view,
06:24the most important thing is it didn't affect the way I did my job
06:29and it certainly didn't make me take a step backwards.
06:33In fact, it made me take a step forwards into the fight.
06:45There was talk in the early days that Carl Williams was a driver for the Morans.
06:51I'm not sure that that was true.
06:53He was certainly in and around the periphery of their drug trafficking.
06:58He had taken up with Roberta Williams.
07:00You make this your bride.
07:02Roberta had been known to us previously, to the police,
07:06in other relationships she'd had with other serious criminals.
07:09She was a presence and a force to be reckoned with.
07:14And, you know, I think in lots of ways she may well have been a Lady Macbeth to Carl.
07:23I first met Carl in probably late 1999.
07:28I got the impression that he was a lower level criminal, perhaps of limited intelligence.
07:36His history indicated to us that he was not much more than a street level thug.
07:41He was a member of a local footy club.
07:43I think at various stages he had a job stacking shelves at a supermarket.
07:49And the underworld thought of him as a bit of a loser.
07:57But there was rumours that he'd taken possession of a pill press that he refused to give back.
08:05He was manufacturing his own pills and selling them and undercutting the Moran's in the market.
08:12But whatever the exact cause, there was real animosity.
08:16He was starting to emerge as a potential threat to their business.
08:20And they wanted to put him back into place.
08:24The Moran family did not want this, what they saw as this upstart challenging them.
08:44Carl Williams was lured to a suburban park.
08:48He was lured there by Mark and Jason Moran.
08:52When he met with them, he was shot in the stomach with a small calibre pistol.
09:03After he was shot in the stomach, there was talk of finishing him off.
09:08But Jason was quite strong on the fact that there was money owed and they needed to collect it from
09:14him
09:14and they couldn't do it if he was dead.
09:17Carl actually went home from the shooting that day and it was actually his parents that said to him,
09:23what's going on?
09:24And little did they know that Carl had been shot.
09:26They took him to hospital and they extracted this small calibre pallet from his stomach.
09:35This really was the thing that started the underworld war as we know it now.
09:42From that moment on, Carl knew that he was in danger, but he also swore that he'd get his revenge.
09:48He swore that he would kill the Morans.
09:57Mark Moran was smarter than the others.
10:01He had the reputation and the intelligence to do a lot of things.
10:07He was also pretty tough himself.
10:11It was around about 8.30 on this particular night we received a call.
10:42Following that call he walked out to his ute.
10:46And as he got into that ute, he was shot with a shotgun.
10:55Early on, there was a number of people put forward as suspects,
10:58but we did have a strong lead in terms of Carl Williams.
11:04Carl wasn't a particularly tough guy,
11:06but there was no doubt Carl Williams was dangerous
11:09and he was willing to act with violence and take out his competitors.
11:18Still to come in the Naked City.
11:20For a story that's gripped Melbourne,
11:23today provided another riveting chapter.
11:26It was just out of control.
11:29These are the people who are willing to kill their friends,
11:32their family for money.
11:34Where were we going to go from here?
11:37Carl Williams said, fasten your seatbelts.
11:40Ready?
11:42We had intelligence to suggest that his life was in danger.
11:47Well, you know, if they tell me I'm going to dance,
11:49we've got to dance for the, you know.
11:51There's been so many murders,
11:53a special task force has been set up to catch the killers.
11:56This was the most important breakthrough
11:59that we'd had in the criminal law in Victoria
12:01for a very, very long time.
12:04Here, go.
12:06It's nasty.
12:07It's lots of blood and gore.
12:10It looked like a professional head.
12:12He was the only one that I would know
12:14who could run that far in that distance.
12:17I thought it was him.
12:20That was the crime that escalated this
12:22from criminals killing criminals
12:24to a public safety issue.
12:27We had snipers all around the building.
12:30Carl moved quickly.
12:31He was giving us a message.
12:32Yes, this was me,
12:34but you're not going to be able to do anything about it.
12:42The hit on Mark Moran
12:43was first reported as the death of a local footballer.
12:48It would take time to learn
12:50it was the declaration of an underworld war
12:53that would consume Melbourne for years.
12:57Carl Williams was a nobody
12:58who wanted to be the headline act.
13:02He began recruiting a crew of hard men
13:04to carry out his plan,
13:05to kill his enemies,
13:07and leave him as the last man standing.
13:12His star recruit came out of the West
13:14with a reputation for being violent,
13:16efficient, merciless,
13:18and utterly fearless.
13:20Before long,
13:22he became the most lethal contract killer
13:24in a gangland war
13:26that was only just getting started.
13:31In the 90s,
13:32we were seeing a number of crews
13:34emerge in the suburbs of Melbourne,
13:36and in particular,
13:38there was a crew in Sunshine
13:39that was becoming increasingly more violent,
13:42involved in shootings, robberies,
13:45and this was a crew
13:46that was becoming increasingly
13:48on the police radar.
13:54Neil Patterson's my name.
13:56I'm a former deputy commissioner
13:57with Victoria Police.
13:59Now, I arrived at Sunshine CIB
14:02in January of 1995.
14:05Andrew Veneman and Dino Dibbera
14:08were regulars through the CI offices
14:11back in those days.
14:12These were two young boys
14:14who had been friends since teenagers.
14:16They come together
14:17with Paul Colapolitis,
14:18Mark Malia,
14:19and a couple of others,
14:20and they form a relationship
14:22that's going to help each of them
14:25make money out there,
14:26and they become known
14:28as the Sunshine Crew.
14:29They saw themselves as gangsters.
14:31They carried guns.
14:32They were dangerous individuals
14:34that were seen to be reckless.
14:36They were rubbing shoulders
14:37and bumping into other criminal networks
14:41across Melbourne,
14:42like the Carlton crew,
14:44and they were becoming
14:45a much more serious criminal enterprise
14:48and causing problems.
14:52Andrew Veneman was perhaps
14:55the most dangerous.
14:56He was calculated,
14:58and he was perhaps
14:59a little bit smarter
15:00than some of the others.
15:01You're in total, Blackfoot!
15:03He was an aggressive, violent kid.
15:06You're in the ground!
15:07Boxer, tough,
15:08and through the fight game,
15:10he'd met people like Mick Gatto.
15:12He was unpredictable.
15:21He was somewhat well-connected,
15:24and as it turns out,
15:26he had no hesitation
15:28to kill some of those friends
15:30that he had from his Sunshine Crew.
15:49Andrew Veneman was the suspect
15:51in killing his mates,
15:53Paul Calablitus,
15:54and Dino Dibra.
15:57Dino Dibra's past
15:58caught up with him last night.
16:00He was shot at close range
16:01and died in the driveway.
16:03He shot him at least 14 times.
16:06When you look at something like that,
16:08you know you've got rage.
16:13You know, you see,
16:14there are efficient killers.
16:15They only need to shoot once.
16:16When they're shooting
16:17excessive amount of times,
16:19that is making a statement.
16:21And that, for us as police officers,
16:23is a sign that we're dealing
16:25with some very dangerous people.
16:29There's an element of ego
16:30for Andrew as well.
16:32He's wanting his reputation
16:34as a hitman,
16:35as a murderer.
16:36He was someone to be feared.
16:39The other criminals in Melbourne
16:41would know that he would be prepared
16:43to do these things
16:45in a very public way,
16:47and that was absolutely
16:49the reputation he sought.
16:54Carl Williams and Andrew Veneman,
16:57they did see themselves
16:59as up-and-comers.
17:02At first,
17:03it seemed like a strange coupling,
17:04but Carl and he
17:06ended up building
17:07quite a good friendship.
17:10Carl brought him in
17:11as part of the team.
17:13He was earning good money
17:15through the drug trafficking,
17:17and in lots of ways,
17:19perhaps Carl treated him
17:20as a partner,
17:20and he enjoyed the prominence.
17:24They certainly socialised together.
17:27He was friends with Roberta,
17:29he was friends with Carl's kids.
17:31They became very close.
17:35By that stage,
17:37Veneman had a reputation
17:38for violence
17:39and use of guns,
17:40and that was something
17:42that no doubt Williams
17:44thought that may be useful
17:46across the broader
17:47criminal networks.
17:51Nick Radev had a Bulgarian background,
17:53but he was known
17:54as Nick the Russian.
17:57He had a reputation
17:59for extreme violence.
18:04He wanted access
18:05to the amphetamines cook
18:08who was controlled
18:09by Carl Williams.
18:18The rumor was
18:20that Nick Radev
18:20was going to kidnap that cook
18:22and force him into slave labour
18:24to make amphetamines.
18:26He was someone to be feared,
18:27and rightly so.
18:29Carl was trying to take over
18:31really much of Melbourne
18:33drug scene at that time.
18:35And Nick was trying
18:36to stand over Carl
18:37and his crew
18:38to get access
18:39to that amphetamines cook.
18:40Of course,
18:41Carl didn't want
18:42to give it up.
18:53Nick Radev had a long
18:55and violent criminal past.
18:57He lived by the sword,
18:59and last night,
18:59he died by the sword.
19:01A gunman fired at least seven shots,
19:04one hitting Radev in the head.
19:08After the death of Nick Radev,
19:10Venom took on a different notion
19:12for Victoria Police
19:14as a hitman for hire.
19:15And it's something that Victoria Police
19:19probably wasn't ready for
19:20back in those days
19:21in terms of his propensity
19:23to kill someone
19:24to get an outcome
19:26that he wanted.
19:27You know,
19:27murder had now become
19:29a commonplace tactic
19:31in Melbourne's underworld.
19:33It was happening
19:34far too regularly,
19:36and it built the pressure
19:38on us as a police force
19:40to act.
19:41Murders in suburban streets,
19:43multiple shots fired
19:45into one victim.
19:46From my point of view,
19:48it was further evidence
19:49of the war,
19:50the growing war,
19:51we were starting to deal with.
20:06It's May 2003.
20:08The bodies have been stacking up,
20:10shot,
20:11dumped,
20:12or both,
20:13across laneways,
20:15car parks,
20:16and cafe corners.
20:18With Benji's reputation
20:20as a gun for hire
20:21firmly set,
20:22and his loyalty to Carl
20:24rock solid,
20:25the pair didn't blink
20:27at removing anyone
20:28who got between them
20:29and their growing drug empire.
20:34But even with the cash rolling in,
20:36Carl's eyes never left the Morans.
20:38The grudge was still there,
20:40and it wasn't going anywhere.
20:47So following Mark Moran's death,
20:50Jason knew he was potentially at risk.
20:54And we know he left
20:55and went to London
20:57and lived overseas
20:58for a period of time.
21:00Why he came back,
21:01I don't know,
21:02but I suspect it was
21:04because he was never going to work
21:06pulling beers
21:06in a pub in Kensington.
21:10By this time,
21:11Carl had gathered some others
21:13into his crew.
21:15Carl was obsessed
21:16with killing Jason Moran,
21:18and he was very motivated to do so.
21:20He was pushing everyone
21:22to get information.
21:24They were looking for him everywhere.
21:27And there was various times
21:28when Carl got close to him.
21:30There was a previous plot
21:32where Andrew Veneman
21:33was going to walk through a park
21:35dressed as a woman,
21:35pushing a pram
21:36and then pull a shotgun
21:37out of the pram.
21:40But ultimately,
21:42the only option they had
21:43was the fact
21:44that they knew
21:45that he took his children
21:47to an Auskick clinic
21:48at the Cross Keys Hotel
21:50every Saturday morning.
22:00On this particular day,
22:02Jason Moran took his kids
22:04to an Auskick clinic
22:05with an associate.
22:08So if you can imagine,
22:10it's a Saturday morning.
22:12There's 100-odd kids
22:13and parents grouped around
22:15and over watching their young kids
22:18kick the football around.
22:19This is a commonplace activity
22:22in Melbourne
22:23on a Saturday morning.
22:25I think Jason Moran
22:27probably assumed
22:28that he was safe,
22:29that they wouldn't strike there.
22:40Around 10.30,
22:42in a calculated
22:43and deliberate slaying,
22:44Jason Moran
22:45and another drug figure
22:46were shot dead
22:47while children
22:48sat in the back seat.
22:55This was reasonably well planned.
22:59This seemed to be executed
23:00in a professional manner.
23:02We had some CCTV footage
23:05that was attached
23:06to the Cross Keys Hotel.
23:08It was grainy footage,
23:09but it was really telling.
23:15What it showed us
23:17is there was a white
23:18high-ace van
23:19that pulled up
23:20in the car park
23:22and we could see
23:23the gunman
23:24get out of that van,
23:25run around
23:26to the driver's side
23:27door
23:28and shoot
23:29both Pasquale Barbaro
23:31and Jason Moran.
23:36The gunman drops
23:37the shotgun
23:37of the scene
23:38and then he runs.
23:39He doesn't get back
23:40into the white high-ace,
23:42he runs.
23:43And we know
23:44from witnesses
23:45that he runs
23:46over the creek
23:46probably about
23:471,500 metres
23:49before we lose
23:50sight of him.
23:56That was telling.
23:57We started to look
23:59into who Carl Williams
24:00was associating with
24:01at the time
24:03and we'd seen
24:04that he was checked
24:05only weeks before
24:06with a guy
24:07who was known
24:08as The Runner.
24:11So The Runner
24:12is an interesting character.
24:15He spent most
24:16of his adult life
24:17in jail
24:17and it was there
24:19that he met
24:19Carl Williams.
24:20But he was
24:21a career criminal.
24:22He was an
24:23armed robbery
24:24specialist
24:24that achieved
24:26his nickname
24:26because he was
24:27notorious
24:28from running
24:29from the scenes
24:29of his armed robberies.
24:39One of the state's
24:40most wanted fugitives
24:41after jumping
24:42from a police car
24:43while being driven
24:44to the Old City
24:45Watch House.
24:46Detectives hope
24:47he may help
24:47shed more light
24:48on other
24:49serious crimes.
24:53He was being
24:54taken to the
24:54Moonee Ponds
24:55court
24:56and the police
24:58for some reason
24:59opened the back
25:00doors of the van
25:03and he ran.
25:06He just ran
25:07and he ran
25:08and he ran
25:08and he ran
25:08and he was on the run
25:09and he went to
25:10South Australia,
25:12Perth
25:12and then ended up
25:13in Darwin
25:14and eventually got caught
25:15in Melbourne
25:16and that's when I hooked
25:18up with him
25:18when he was out
25:19at Pentridge.
25:23The runners family
25:24came to see me
25:26as the local community
25:27lawyer
25:28to ask if I would go
25:30and visit him
25:31out at Pentridge.
25:33He was a really
25:34tough man.
25:37When he was in Pentridge
25:38he got involved
25:40in a fight.
25:41He got stabbed
25:42just above the heart
25:44and he just kept going.
25:47He was violent,
25:49he was tough,
25:51extremely fit,
25:52could run like the clappers.
25:54When the two people
25:56were killed
25:56at the Auskick,
25:59I thought it was him.
26:06What we are looking at
26:08is a fairly brazen
26:10execution style
26:11double homicide.
26:13We went to the Cross
26:14Quays that morning.
26:17How did they come
26:19to know where to go,
26:21what to do?
26:22We knew that
26:23they must have committed
26:24some sort of reconnaissance
26:25in the days before
26:26and there were some clues.
26:28We noticed
26:29there was a phone box
26:30close to the Cross
26:31Quays
26:32and criminals
26:33in those days
26:34would use phone boxes
26:35to communicate
26:35with each other
26:36thinking that we
26:37wouldn't intercept them.
26:38So we analysed
26:40the calls made
26:41from this particular
26:42phone box.
26:43What it told us
26:44is the guy
26:45that made the phone calls
26:46on that day
26:46rang Carl Williams,
26:49rang the runner
26:50and then rang
26:51a third person
26:53that we didn't know.
26:55We identified
26:56that third person,
26:58we went around
26:58to his house,
26:59executed a warrant
27:00put some pressure
27:01on him
27:02and he gave up
27:03who'd rang him
27:04that day.
27:05Turns out
27:06it's the guy
27:07that we now refer
27:08to as the driver.
27:21On June 20, 2003,
27:24Melbourne's gangland war
27:25stopped lurking
27:26in the shadows
27:26and stepped
27:28into full public view.
27:30Jason Moran
27:31and Pasquale Barbara
27:33were gunned down
27:34in broad daylight
27:35in front of kids
27:36at a footy clinic.
27:37What we are looking at
27:38is a fairly brazen,
27:40execution-style,
27:41double homicide.
27:42It was a professional hit
27:43and it sent a message.
27:45No one
27:46was safe.
27:47Not long after,
27:49detectives traced
27:49a phone call
27:50to the man
27:51they nicknamed
27:52the driver.
27:56The driver
27:57was a different
27:59type of criminal.
28:00He was a known burglar,
28:02a very good burglar,
28:03but he was also
28:04a known rapist
28:05and sex offender.
28:07and he was a character
28:10that in lots of ways
28:13was repulsive,
28:15but he was also
28:15willing to commit murders
28:17for payment
28:18and that's where
28:19Carl utilised
28:21that particular skill
28:22that he had.
28:27Around 10.30,
28:28in a calculated
28:29and deliberate slaying,
28:31Jason Moran
28:31and another less prominent
28:33drug figure
28:33were shot dead
28:34while children
28:35sat in the back seat.
28:38The runner
28:39ran up to the side window
28:40of Jason Moran's van,
28:43fired a shot
28:44from a double-barrelled shotgun.
28:47Jason Moran ducked.
28:49The first shot
28:50hit Pasquale Barbro
28:51in the face,
28:54killed him instantly
28:55and the runner
28:57gets up on his toes,
28:58fires the second shot
29:00from the double-barrelled shotgun
29:02into the back
29:03of Jason Moran.
29:05He drops that shotgun
29:06at the scene,
29:08pulls out a pistol,
29:09fires five more shots
29:11into Jason Moran
29:12and then runs.
29:14What's most horrific
29:16about that
29:16is there was 10 kids
29:18in the back
29:19of that van.
29:22Jason Moran
29:23had invited
29:24a number of his
29:25son's friends
29:26back for hot dogs.
29:30These parents
29:30had no idea
29:31who Jason Moran was.
29:33They didn't know
29:34he had a 9mm pistol
29:35down the back
29:36of his pants.
29:38They didn't know
29:39he was in the Underworld War.
29:41They just thought
29:42their kids
29:42were going back
29:43for hot dogs.
29:47For everyone
29:48in the community,
29:49that was the crime
29:51that escalated this
29:52from criminals
29:53killing criminals
29:54to a public safety issue.
29:58Police have described
29:59the killings
29:59as callous
30:00and cold-blooded.
30:01Neighbours heard
30:02at least two shots.
30:03The latest
30:04in a series
30:05of Underworld killings.
30:06Going to any lengths
30:07to control
30:07the $5 billion
30:08a year market
30:09in party drugs.
30:11We had a number
30:12of murders
30:13that occurred
30:13after Mark Moran
30:15and it started
30:16to emerge
30:16that we had an issue.
30:17There are fears
30:18this latest murder
30:19may escalate
30:20the city's
30:20gangland killings.
30:22We are concerned
30:22about the potential
30:23for innocent people
30:24being caught up
30:25in that.
30:25This sort of
30:26lawlessness must stop.
30:29We're talking
30:30a higher rate
30:32of people being killed
30:33within the criminal
30:34underworld
30:35than Melbourne
30:35had ever seen before
30:37and hasn't seen since.
30:40There was
30:41Phil Swindells
30:42one of our senior
30:43sergeants
30:44that first submitted
30:45a request
30:46to build a task force
30:47to have a look
30:48at the commonalities
30:49between these murders.
30:51There's been so many
30:53murders
30:53a special task force
30:54has been set up
30:55to catch the killers.
30:56I think it's
30:57the worst series
30:58of organised crime
30:59killings
30:59in Australia's history.
31:00Why don't you admit
31:01that you murdered
31:02my children?
31:03Oh, do it.
31:07The pressure was on
31:08for Victoria Police
31:09and indeed you feel
31:10quite a sense
31:11of self-imposed
31:12pressure
31:13to really make
31:15a difference.
31:15Detectives who were
31:16working on Piranha
31:18Task Force
31:18were highly motivated
31:20individuals
31:21who wanted
31:21to hold
31:22the criminals
31:23that were
31:24really causing
31:25havoc across
31:26Melbourne suburbs
31:27to account.
31:28For us,
31:29it was one of the
31:31most important
31:31investigations
31:32in Victoria Police's
31:33history
31:34and we were
31:34putting
31:35significant
31:36resources
31:36and time
31:37into it.
31:38Are these
31:39paid hits?
31:40That's one of the
31:41things we're looking
31:41at.
31:42Do you think
31:42it will keep
31:43happening?
31:43I can't rule
31:44that out.
31:47Yes,
31:47we're getting
31:48closer.
31:49Yes,
31:49we're getting
31:50further into
31:51understanding
31:51what was going
31:52on in this war
31:53but the murders
31:54continued to occur.
31:57Mark Marley
31:57was considered
31:58part of the
31:59Sunshine crew
32:00but he wasn't
32:01through the doors
32:02being charged
32:03by detectives
32:03at anywhere
32:04near the same
32:05rate as some
32:06of the others
32:07involved.
32:08He was part
32:08of the crew
32:09but just at
32:10a different level.
32:12Marley
32:13was also
32:14a known
32:15associate
32:16of Radev
32:16and he
32:17became upset
32:19after Nick
32:19Radev's murder
32:20and he was
32:21starting to make
32:21inquiries about
32:22why that occurred
32:23and in fact
32:24on one occasion
32:25we had some
32:27CCTV footage
32:28of him meeting
32:29with Andrew
32:30Vetterman
32:30at Crown
32:31Casino.
32:32They'd often
32:33meet there.
32:34Not only was
32:35it neutral
32:35ground but
32:36they did know
32:37there was
32:37cameras so
32:37they always
32:38felt they
32:38were safe
32:39and we
32:39have some
32:40footage of
32:41Mark
32:42Marley
32:42getting up
32:43and pointing
32:44in Andrew
32:45Vetterman's
32:45chest and
32:47for us that
32:48was a bit
32:48of a red flag.
32:49We thought
32:50he may well
32:51be in danger
32:52and it
32:52turns out
32:53we arrived.
32:58Mark
32:59Marley
32:59was
33:00lured to
33:01a house
33:01in Melbourne's
33:02north by
33:03a couple
33:03of his
33:03friends.
33:05When
33:06they arrived
33:07laying there
33:08in wait
33:09was Andrew
33:09Vetterman,
33:10Carl
33:10Williams
33:11and the
33:12runner.
33:14They
33:14tortured him
33:15believing
33:16that
33:16Marley
33:17could give
33:18them access
33:19to Nick
33:20Radoff's
33:20hidden
33:20precursor
33:21chemicals.
33:23He had a
33:24soldering iron
33:25put into
33:26the roof
33:26of his
33:27mouth.
33:27He was
33:28bashed
33:29repeatedly.
33:31They then
33:32put him in
33:32the boot
33:33of a car,
33:35drove him
33:35to the
33:36western
33:36suburbs,
33:41dumped him
33:42down a
33:43drain and
33:45set him
33:45on fire.
33:47Police were
33:48contacted at
33:498 o'clock
33:49last night
33:50after fire
33:51crews made
33:51the discovery.
33:52They'd been
33:53called to put
33:53out flames
33:54spotted near
33:55a fence
33:55on the
33:56sports field.
33:57It was a
33:58gruesome and
33:59pretty horrific
34:01attack on him
34:02trying to get
34:02that information
34:03they thought
34:04he had.
34:12SES
34:13volunteers
34:13joined police
34:14this morning
34:15in a line
34:15search of
34:16the sports
34:16field where
34:17the remains
34:17of the
34:18dead man
34:18were found.
34:19It's believed
34:20accelerant was
34:21used in the
34:21death.
34:22He was in a
34:23drain pit at
34:24one end of
34:24the ground.
34:27It was
34:28interesting that
34:29they drove him
34:29from the
34:30northern suburbs
34:31to the
34:31western suburbs.
34:32They dumped
34:33him in a
34:34position that
34:34was not far
34:35from Andrew
34:36Vetterman's
34:36childhood home.
34:38And for us
34:39that was a
34:40sign that
34:41Andrew Vetterman
34:42was getting a
34:43little bit more
34:43out of control.
34:45We believed
34:46that he was
34:47giving us a
34:48message.
34:48Yes, this was
34:49me, but you're
34:50not going to be
34:51able to do
34:51anything about it.
35:00It's October
35:022003.
35:04In just six
35:05months, Melbourne's
35:06underworld war had
35:07racked up more
35:08bodies.
35:09Nick the Russian
35:10Radov, Mark
35:12Mardia and the
35:13public execution of
35:14Jason Moran and
35:15Pasquale Barbaro in
35:17front of the kids at
35:18Auskick shocked the
35:20nation.
35:21Every killing was
35:22more brazen than
35:23the last.
35:24The city's body
35:25count was growing
35:26and so was the
35:27pressure.
35:29They needed a win
35:30and quick.
35:31The police response
35:33was to announce the
35:34Piranha Task Force.
35:37They inherited a lead
35:38from the homicide
35:39squad, a phone link
35:41to the driver of the
35:42getaway car from the
35:43Auskick shooting.
35:45It would be the
35:47golden thread.
35:51Once we identified
35:53who the driver was,
35:55we went round to
35:57his home in the
35:59southern suburbs of
36:00Melbourne and there
36:01parked in the driveway
36:02was a white hiace.
36:04That white hiace was
36:06used in the murder of
36:07Jason Moran.
36:09This was a significant
36:10breakthrough for us and
36:12we thought we're on the
36:13right track.
36:15What we did then is we
36:16commenced electronic
36:17surveillance on the
36:19driver and the runner
36:20and Carl Williams.
36:24When the Piranha Task
36:26Force was formed, there
36:28was only seven
36:29detectives.
36:30After Jason Moran, we
36:31grew to 55 and over time
36:34we built on that.
36:35By this stage, we had
36:37telephone intercepts and
36:38listening devices.
36:41Someone had to actually
36:42listen to all those
36:44hours.
36:44Teams of people were
36:45doing that.
36:46The sheer weight of
36:47numbers showed the
36:49seriousness Victoria
36:50police were taking this
36:51war.
36:53The more information we
36:55got in, we built good
36:57intelligence databases.
36:59So in lots of ways, if
37:00you had a deck of cards,
37:02we were targeting the
37:03sevens and eights so we
37:04could move our way up to
37:05the ace of spades, which
37:07was Carl Williams.
37:12We, through our web of
37:14electronic surveillance,
37:16got wind that the
37:17runner and the driver were
37:20looking for a clean car
37:21that couldn't be traced
37:22back to them.
37:24We worked hard to get an
37:26electronic device into
37:28that vehicle.
37:29Unfortunately for us, they
37:30noticed one of the brake
37:31lights wasn't working.
37:33They started going through
37:34all the wiring in the car
37:35and they found our device.
37:37We thought our job was
37:38blown.
37:40But we underestimated how
37:41desperate they were to
37:43commit this crime so they
37:45used their own car.
37:47Little did they know that
37:49we had a listening device
37:50in that car as well.
38:02Both the runner and the
38:05driver parked down the end
38:06of Joy Street, South Yarra
38:08in a laneway.
38:10And we believed that they
38:12were actually going to
38:13commit an armed robbery.
38:14But we heard that playing
38:15with a gun, we started to
38:19think, oh my God, this might
38:20be something different.
38:23They pull into Joy Street.
38:25We hear the driver and the
38:30runner talking.
38:33Time start.
38:34Time start.
38:37Parker's behind me.
38:38Excuse me.
38:44Time start.
38:45You're all right, you're all right.
38:47Time start.
38:48And they accelerate down Joy Street
38:51and the runner says, that's
38:55him, go, go, go.
38:58No.
39:00Yeah, go.
39:02And then the runner jumps out
39:05of the car.
39:19The runner then takes off in a gap
39:23between a block of flats and he
39:25gets back into the driver's car
39:27who's waiting for him.
39:28And you hear the driver say quite
39:31clearly, get down, get down.
39:35Get in, get down.
39:36Get down.
39:38Nice and down.
39:39Stay down.
39:42And they drove from the scene.
39:44Stay down.
39:45You're all right.
39:47Straight down.
39:48Don't stand right.
39:48Straight down.
39:49Yeah, I am.
39:51Bye.
39:52Stay.
39:53They drove straight back
39:56to the driver's house
39:58in the southern suburbs.
40:00Little did they know
40:01we had a listening device
40:02in there as well.
40:03And we overhear them
40:05getting rid of their clothes,
40:07getting rid of the gun.
40:08But most importantly,
40:10we hear a phone call
40:12where the runner
40:13calls Carl Williams
40:15and says these words,
40:17Carl, you know that horse
40:19you tipped us?
40:19It's just been scratched.
40:24Michael Marshall
40:25lived in a beautiful house
40:27in South Yarra.
40:29His business,
40:30or at least publicly known business,
40:32was a small hot dog van
40:34which operated in South Melbourne.
40:37Marshall was a quiet achiever
40:40in terms of the drug world.
40:43But he also had access
40:45to precursor chemicals
40:46and he was willing to supply it
40:48to fuel the invertimen market
40:50in Melbourne.
40:56He was out collecting bread rolls
40:59with his five-year-old son
41:01for that night
41:03for his hot dog van.
41:15You know, sometimes it's easy
41:17to look at, you know,
41:19that time where there were
41:21just criminals being murdered.
41:22But to do so forgets
41:25some of the collateral damage
41:27that's left behind.
41:29Marshall's five-year-old son
41:30witnessed his father's murder.
41:33He was standing
41:34on the side of the road
41:36and when the uniformed police
41:38attended
41:38he was still standing there
41:40looking at his father
41:41and he said
41:42to the uniformed police
41:43I'm not allowed
41:45to cross the road
41:46without holding
41:46my dad's hand
41:48and for the police
41:50that was just
41:51the most heartbreaking
41:52thing to come out
41:53of a five-year-old's mouth
41:55as his father lay
41:57in the gutter
41:58on the other side
41:59of the road
42:00bleeding to death.
42:08After the call
42:10to Carl Williams
42:11they decide
42:12they're going to meet Carl
42:13so they get back
42:14into the driver's vehicle
42:17and they're heading
42:18down St Kilda Road.
42:21I wanted to let them
42:23run all the way
42:23to Carl Williams
42:24to get the evidence
42:26of their meeting
42:27but it was decided
42:29that was too dangerous.
42:31The decision was made
42:33to have the SOG
42:35arrest them
42:35and that occurred
42:36outside the
42:38Elstonwick Hotel.
42:39They were blocked in
42:41by the SOG
42:42dragged from their vehicle
42:43and it was five minutes
42:45later that I arrived
42:47to find them both
42:48handcuffed
42:49face down
42:50on the nature street.
42:53The runner tried
42:54to fight the SOG
42:55he lost
42:55as you'd expect
42:57but he was angry
42:59throughout the whole evening
43:00as is his way
43:01he was an aggressive
43:02violent man
43:04and he was not happy
43:05about being arrested
43:06at all.
43:07The driver
43:08on the other hand
43:09sensed an opportunity
43:10he knew he was in trouble
43:12and right from that moment
43:13he was arrested
43:14he was looking for a deal.
43:17On that night
43:18we interviewed
43:18both the driver
43:21and the runner
43:22the runner
43:24didn't say anything
43:24in fact he
43:25made a no comment
43:27interview
43:27and he was aggressive
43:28throughout the whole night.
43:30The driver did likewise
43:32but off the record
43:34he started to indicate
43:35he was willing
43:36to give information
43:37about Carl Williams
43:38and others
43:39and we knew then
43:40that we had
43:41our first crack
43:42in you know
43:44what is loosely called
43:45The Underworld Code
43:46of Silence.
43:51Next time
43:52in The Naked City
43:54We just needed
43:55a breakthrough
43:56where were we
43:57going to go
43:58from here?
43:59The establishment
44:00were not going
44:01to let this occur
44:02without consequences
44:03and it brought
44:04Mick Gatto
44:05into it.
44:06You know
44:06if they tell me
44:06in the dance
44:07we've got a dance
44:07buddy you know.
44:08You generally
44:09don't do deals
44:10with murderers
44:14without the driver
44:16they'd have a problem
44:17connecting Williams.
44:19But we could
44:20make things happen
44:21if we made
44:22a brave decision.
44:24You would be
44:25the best person
44:25to do that.
44:28You.
44:30Two murders
44:31in a week
44:31the pressure did build
44:33and the pressure
44:33didn't stop.
44:34It was just
44:35out of control.
44:37The murder
44:38the crime
44:40the war
44:42this has got to stop.
44:44to do that.
44:44.
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