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Naked City Hitmen S01E01 Episode 1 Engsub
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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.
00:59This is one of them.
01:20What causes someone to become a hitman?
01:24They don't really care too much for human life.
01:31Why don't you admit that you murdered my children?
01:35They're the lowest of the low, they take a human life for a sum of money.
01:41This was only ever about who controlled the pill market.
01:48An easy money for someone who has no conscience is to pick up a gun and take a contract out.
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.
02:35But of course, as soon as you get a taste of it, that's it.
02:39You want the lot.
02:41A .45 semi-auto loaded.
02:44Binoculars, night vision gear, ballistic vest.
02:49Balaclava, mask, wig.
02:52I would call that a pretty good assassin's kit.
02:56And you are the hitman.
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 celebrities.
03:36At the centre of it were rival crews fighting for a slice of the city's booming drug trade.
03:41The Carlton crew were old school, organised, established and happy to mix gambling and stand over tactics.
03:50Mick Gatto, Graeme Kinneborough and Mario Condello were an underworld collective coming together to socialise and do business.
04:00And they would still be in business if a key group, the Moran family, weren't greedy and hot tempered.
04:06The Morans were connected through blood and business.
04:10Lewis was a bookmaker with sticky fingers.
04:12His sons, Mark, had the brains.
04:15Jason had the temper.
04:18Over a decade, it was a sprawling crime war involving hundreds of police, untold millions in drugs and money,
04:25that 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.
04:43Carl Anthony Williams.
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,
05:09but 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,
05:44he 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,
06:13we knew our lives were potentially at risk.
06:18There'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.
07:02Roberta had been known to us previously to the police
07:06in other relationships she'd had with other serious criminals.
07:10She was a presence and a force to be reckoned with.
07:14And, you know, I think in lots of ways,
07:16she may well have been a Lady Macbeth to Carl.
07:23I first met Carl in probably late 1999.
07:29I got the impression that he was a lower level criminal,
07:34perhaps of limited intelligence.
07:37His history indicated to us that he was not much more
07:39than 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.
07:50And the underworld thought of him as a bit of a loser.
07:57But there was rumours that he'd taken position of a pill press
08:01that he refused to give back.
08:05He was manufacturing his own pills and selling them
08:10and 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,
08:27what 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
09:12and they needed to collect it from him and they couldn't do it if he was dead.
09:17Carl actually went home from the shooting that day
09:20and 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,
09:45but he also swore that he'd get his revenge.
09:48He swore that he would kill the Morans.
09:57Mark Rand was smarter than the others.
10:01He had the reputation and the intelligence to do a lot of things.
10:07It was also pretty tough himself.
10:11It was around about 8.30 on this particular night we received a call.
10:22.
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,
10:59but 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
11:44that his life was in danger.
11:47Well, you know, if there's somebody in the dance,
11:49we've got a dance buddy, 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
12:02for a very, very long time.
12:04Here, go.
12:06It's nasty, it'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.
12:33Yes, 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
12:44as 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.
12:56Carl 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.
13:21Before 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
14:06and Dino Dibberan
14:08were regulars
14:09through the CI offices
14:11back in those days.
14:12These were two young boys
14:14who had been friends
14:15since 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
14:43and they were becoming
14:45a much more serious criminal enterprise
14:48and causing problems.
14:52Andrew Veneman
14:53was perhaps the most dangerous.
14:56He was calculated
14:58and he was perhaps a little bit smarter
15:00than some of the others.
15:01We're in trouble, Blackfoot!
15:03He was an aggressive, violent kid.
15:06He was a boxer, tough
15:08and through the fight game
15:10he'd met people like Mick Gatto.
15:14He 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
15:50was the suspect
15:52in killing his mates
15:53Paul Caleplitis
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 there are
16:14efficient killers
16:15they only need to shoot once.
16:17When they're shooting
16:17excessive amount of times
16:19that is making a statement.
16:21And that for us
16:23as 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
16:46and that was
16:48absolutely the reputation
16:50he saw.
16:54Carl Williams
16:55and Andrew Veneman
16:57they did see themselves
16:59as up and comers.
17:02At first it seemed like
17:03a 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
17:25socialised 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
17:43Williams thought
17:44that may be useful
17:46across the broader
17:47criminal networks.
17:51Nick Krativ
17:52had a Bulgarian background
17:54but 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 that
18:20Nick Krativ
18:20was going to kidnap that cook
18:22and force him
18:23into slave labour
18:24to make amphetamines.
18:26He was someone
18:26to be feared
18:27and rightly so.
18:29Carl was trying
18:30to take over
18:31really much
18:32of Melbourne's
18:33drug scene
18:33at that time.
18:35And Nick was trying
18:36to stand over
18:37Carl and 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 Krativ
18:54had a long
18:55and violent criminal
18:56past.
18:57He lived by the sword
18:59and last night
18:59he died by the sword.
19:01A gunman fired
19:02at least seven shots
19:03one hitting Radev
19:05in the head.
19:08After the death
19:09of Nick Radev
19:10Venom took on
19:11a different notion
19:12for Victoria Police
19:14as a hitman for hire.
19:15and it's something
19:18that Victoria Police
19:19probably wasn't ready
19:20for back in those days
19:21in terms of
19:22his propensity
19:23to kill someone
19:24to get an outcome
19:26that he wanted.
19:27You know
19:27murder had now
19:28become a commonplace
19:30tactic
19:31in Melbourne's
19:32underworld.
19:33It was happening
19:34far too regularly
19:35and
19:36it built the pressure
19:38on us
19:39as a police force
19:40to act.
19:41Murders in
19:42suburban streets
19:42multiple shots
19:44fired into one victim.
19:46From my point of view
19:47it was further evidence
19:49of the war
19:50the growing war
19:51we were starting
19:52to deal with.
20:06It's May 2003
20:08the bodies
20:09have been stacking up
20:10shot
20:11dumped
20:12or both
20:13across laneways
20:14car parks
20:15and cafe corners.
20:18With Benji's reputation
20:20as a gun for hire
20:21firmly set
20:22and his loyalty
20:23to Carl
20:24rock solid
20:25the pair
20:26didn't blink
20:27at removing anyone
20:28who got between them
20:29and their growing
20:30drug empire.
20:34But even with the cash
20:35rolling in
20:36Carl's eyes
20:36never left
20:37the Morans
20:38the grudge
20:39was still there
20:40and it wasn't
20:41going anywhere.
20:47So following
20:48Mark Moran's
20:49death
20:50Jason knew
20:51he was
20:52potentially at risk
20:54and we know
20:55he 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
21:04it was because
21:05he was never
21:05going to work
21:06pulling beers
21:06in a pub
21:07in Kensington.
21:10By this time
21:11Carl had gathered
21:12some others
21:13into his crew.
21:14Carl was
21:15obsessed
21:16with killing
21:17Jason Moran
21:18and he was
21:19very motivated
21:19to do so.
21:20He was pushing
21:21everyone to get
21:22information
21:24and they were
21:25looking for him
21:26everywhere.
21:27And there was
21:28various times
21:28when Carl
21:29got close to him.
21:30There was a previous
21:31plot where
21:32Andrew Veneman
21:33was going to walk
21:34through 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
21:41the only option
21:42they had
21:43was the fact
21:44that they knew
21:45that he took
21:46his children
21:47to an Auskick
21:48clinic
21:48at the Crosskeys Hotel
21:50every Saturday morning.
22:00On this particular day
22:02Jason Moran
22:03took his kids
22:04to an Auskick
22:05clinic
22:05with an associate.
22:08So if you can imagine
22:09it's a Saturday morning
22:12there's a hundred
22:13odd kids
22:13and parents
22:14grouped around
22:15and over
22:16watching their
22:17young kids
22:18kick the football
22:19around.
22:19This is a commonplace
22:21activity in Melbourne
22:23on a Saturday morning.
22:25I think Jason Moran
22:27probably assumed
22:28that he was safe
22:29that they wouldn't
22:30strike 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
22:57well planned.
22:58This seemed
22:59to be executed
23:00in a professional manner.
23:02We had some
23:03CCTV footage
23:05that was attached
23:06to the Crosskeys Hotel.
23:08It was grainy footage
23:09but it was
23:11really telling.
23:15what it showed us
23:17is there was
23:18a 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
23:30Pasquale Barbro
23:31and Jason Moran.
23:36The gunman drops
23:37the shotgun
23:38of the scene
23:38and then he runs.
23:39He doesn't get back
23:40into the white
23:41high 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
23:58to look into
23:59who Carl Williams
24:00was associating
24:01with at 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
24:14character.
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
24:25that 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
24:42after 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
24:55Moonee 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
25:15caught in Melbourne
25:16and that's when I
25:17hooked up with him
25:18when he was
25:19out at Pentridge.
25:23The Runners family
25:24came to see me
25:26as the local
25:27community lawyer
25:28to ask if I would
25:30go and visit him
25:31out at Pentridge.
25:33He was a really
25:34tough man.
25:37When he was in
25:38Pentridge
25:39he got involved
25:40in a fight.
25:41He got stabbed
25:42just above the heart
25:44and he just
25:46kept going.
25:48He was violent,
25:49he was tough,
25:51extremely fit,
25:52could run like
25:53the clappers.
25:54When the two people
25:56were killed
25:57at the Auskick,
25:59I thought it was him.
26:06What we are looking
26:07at is a fairly
26:09brazen
26:10execution style
26:11double homicide.
26:13We went to the
26:14Cross Keys
26:15that morning.
26:17How did they
26:18come to know
26:19where to go,
26:21what to do?
26:22We knew
26:23that they must
26:23have committed
26:24some sort of
26:25reconnaissance
26:25in the days before.
26:27And there were
26:27some clues.
26:28We noticed
26:29there was a phone
26:30box close to
26:31the Cross Keys
26:31and criminals
26:33in those days
26:34would use phone
26:34boxes to
26:35communicate with
26:36each other
26:36thinking that
26:37we wouldn't
26:37intercept them.
26:38So we analysed
26:40the calls made
26:41from this
26:41particular phone
26:42box.
26:43What it told us
26:44is the guy that
26:45made the phone
26:45calls on that
26:46day rang Carl
26:48Williams,
26:49rang the runner
26:50and then rang
26:52a third person
26:53that we didn't
26:54know.
26:55We identified
26:56that third
26:57person.
26:58We went
26:58around to
26:59his house,
26:59executed a
27:00warrant,
27:01put some
27:01pressure on
27:02him and he
27:03gave up
27:03who'd rang
27:04him that
27:05day.
27:06Turns out
27:06it's the guy
27:07that we now
27:08refer to as
27:08the driver.
27:21on June
27:2220, 2003
27:23Melbourne's
27:24gangland war
27:25stopped lurking
27:26in the shadows
27:26and stepped
27:28into full
27:28public view.
27:30Jason Moran
27:31and Pasquale
27:32Barbara
27:33were gunned
27:34down in broad
27:34daylight in front
27:35of kids at a
27:36footy clinic.
27:37What we are
27:38looking at is
27:38a fairly brazen
27:40execution style
27:41double homicide.
27:42It was a
27:42professional hit
27:43and it sent a
27:44message.
27:45No one was
27:46safe.
27:47Not long after
27:48detectives traced
27:49a phone call to
27:51the man they
27:51nicknamed the
27:53driver.
27:56The driver was
27:58a different type
27:59of criminal.
28:00He was a known
28:01burglar, a very
28:02good burglar, but
28:03he was also a
28:04known rapist and
28:06sex offender.
28:07And he was a
28:09character that
28:12in lots of ways
28:13was repulsive, but
28:15he was also
28:16willing to commit
28:17murders for
28:17payment and
28:18that's where
28:19Carl utilised
28:21that particular
28:22skill that he
28:22had.
28:27Around 10.30
28:28in a calculated
28:29and deliberate
28:30slaying, Jason
28:31Moran and another
28:32less prominent drug
28:33figure were shot
28:34dead while children
28:35sat in the back
28:36seat.
28:38The runner ran
28:39up to the side
28:40window of Jason
28:41Moran's van,
28:43fired a shot
28:44from a double
28:45barrelled shotgun.
28:47Jason Moran
28:48ducked.
28:49The first shot
28:50hit Pasquale Barbro
28:51in the face,
28:54killed him
28:55instantly.
28:56And the runner
28:57gets up on his
28:58toes, fires the
28:59second shot from
29:00the double barrel
29:01shotgun into the
29:03back of Jason
29:03Moran.
29:05He drops that
29:06shotgun at the
29:07scene, pulls out
29:09a pistol, fires
29:10five more shots
29:11into Jason Moran
29:12and then runs.
29:14What's most
29:15horrific about
29:16that is there
29:17was ten kids in
29:18the back of that
29:19van.
29:22Jason Moran had
29:24invited a number
29:25of his son's
29:26friends back for
29:27hot dogs.
29:30These parents
29:30had no idea
29:31who Jason
29:32Moran was.
29:33They didn't
29:34know he had a
29:349mm pistol down
29:35the back of
29:36his pants.
29:38They didn't
29:39know he was
29:39in the Underworld
29:40War.
29:41They just
29:41thought their
29:42kids were going
29:43back for hot
29:44dogs.
29:47For everyone
29:48in the community
29:49that was the
29:51crime that
29:51escalated this
29:52from criminals
29:53killing criminals
29:54to a public
29:55safety issue.
29:58Police have
29:59described the
29:59killings as
30:00callous and
30:00cold-blooded.
30:01Neighbours heard
30:02at least two
30:03shots.
30:03The latest in a
30:04series of
30:05Underworld killings.
30:06Going to any
30:06lengths to control
30:08the $5 billion
30:08a year market in
30:10party drugs.
30:11We had a number
30:12of murders that
30:13occurred after
30:14Mark Moran and
30:15it started to
30:16emerge that we
30:16had an issue.
30:17There are fears
30:18this latest murder
30:19may escalate the
30:20city's gangland
30:21killings.
30:22We are concerned
30:22about the potential
30:23for innocent people
30:24being caught up in
30:25that.
30:25this sort of
30:26lawlessness must
30:27stop.
30:29We're talking a
30:31higher rate of
30:32people being killed
30:33within the criminal
30:34underworld than
30:35Melbourne had ever
30:36seen before and
30:37hasn't seen since.
30:40There was Phil
30:41Swindells, one of
30:43our senior sergeants
30:44that first submitted
30:45a request to build a
30:47task force to have a
30:48look at the
30:49commonalities between
30:50these murders.
30:51There's been so many
30:53murders a special
30:54task force has been
30:55set up to catch the
30:56killers.
30:56I think it's the worst
30:57series of organised
30:58crime killings in
30:59Australia's history.
31:00Why don't you admit
31:01that you murdered my
31:03children?
31:03Oh, do it.
31:07The pressure was on
31:08for Victoria Police
31:09and indeed you feel
31:10quite a sense of
31:11self-imposed pressure
31:13to really make a
31:15difference.
31:15Detectives who were
31:16working on Piranha
31:18Task Force were
31:19highly motivated
31:20individuals who wanted
31:21to hold the
31:23criminals that were
31:24really causing havoc
31:25across Melbourne
31:26suburbs to account.
31:28For us, it was one
31:30of the most important
31:31investigations in
31:32Victoria Police's
31:33history and we were
31:34putting significant
31:36resources and time
31:37into it.
31:38Are these paid hits?
31:40That's one of the
31:41things we're looking
31:41at.
31:42Do you think it will
31:42keep happening?
31:43I can't rule that
31:45out.
31:47Yes, we're getting
31:48closer.
31:49Yes, we're getting
31:49further into
31:51understanding what was
31:52going on in this
31:53war.
31:53But the murders
31:54continued to occur.
31:57Mark Marley was
31:58considered part of the
31:59Sunshine crew but he
32:01wasn't through the
32:02doors being charged
32:03by detectives at
32:04anywhere near the
32:05same rate as some
32:06of the others
32:07involved.
32:08He was part of the
32:09crew but just at a
32:10different level.
32:12Marley was also a
32:15known associate of
32:16Radev and he became
32:18upset after Nick
32:19Radev's murder and he
32:20was starting to make
32:21inquiries about why
32:23that occurred.
32:24In fact, on one
32:25occasion, we had some
32:27CCTV footage of him
32:29meeting with Andrew
32:30Veneman at Crown
32:31Casino.
32:32They'd often meet
32:34there.
32:34Not only was it
32:35neutral ground but they
32:36did know there was
32:37cameras so they always
32:38felt they were safe.
32:39And we have some
32:40footage of Mark
32:42Marley getting up and
32:43pointing in Andrew
32:45Veneman's chest and for
32:47us that was a bit of a
32:49red flag.
32:49We thought he may well
32:51be in danger and it
32:52turns out we arrived.
32:58Mark Marley was lured to a
33:01house in Melbourne's
33:02north by a couple of his
33:03friends.
33:05When they arrived, laying
33:08there in wait was Andrew
33:09Veneman, Carl Williams and
33:11the runner.
33:14They tortured him,
33:16believing that Marley
33:17could give them access to
33:19Nick Radev's hidden
33:20precursor chemicals.
33:23He had a soldering iron put
33:25into the roof of his
33:27mouth.
33:27He was bashed repeatedly.
33:31They then put him in the
33:33boot of a car, drove him to
33:36the western suburbs, dumped
33:42him down a drain and set
33:45him on fire.
33:47Police were contacted at
33:49eight o'clock last night
33:50after fire crews made the
33:52discovery.
33:52They'd been called to put
33:54out flames spotted near a
33:55fence on the sports field.
33:57It was a gruesome and
33:59pretty horrific attack on
34:02him trying to get that
34:03information they thought he
34:04had.
34:12SES volunteers joined police
34:14this morning in a line
34:15search of the sports field
34:17where the remains of the
34:18dead man were found.
34:19It's believed accelerant was
34:21used in the death.
34:22He was in a drain pit at one
34:24end of the ground.
34:27It was interesting that they
34:29drove him from the northern
34:30suburbs to the western
34:31suburbs.
34:32They dumped him in a
34:34position that was not far
34:35from Andrew Vetterman's
34:36childhood home.
34:38And for us, that was a sign
34:41that Andrew Vetterman was
34:43getting a little bit more out
34:44of control.
34:45We believed that he was
34:47giving us a message.
34:48Yes, this was me, but you're
34:50not going to be able to do
34:51anything about it.
35:00It's October 2003.
35:04In just six months, Melbourne's
35:06underworld war had racked up more
35:08bodies.
35:09Nick the Russian Radov, Mark
35:12Martyr and the public execution
35:14of Jason Moran and Pasquale
35:16Barbaro in front of the kids
35:18at Auskick, shocked the nation.
35:21Every killing was more brazen
35:23than the last.
35:24The city's body count was
35:26growing and so was the
35:27pressure.
35:29They needed a win and quick.
35:31The police response was to
35:33announce the Piranha Task
35:35Force.
35:37They inherited a lead from the
35:39homicide squad, a phone link to
35:41the driver of the getaway car
35:43from the Auskick shooting.
35:45It would be the golden thread.
35:51Once we identified who the
35:54driver was, we went round to
35:57his home in the southern
35:59suburbs of Melbourne and there
36:01parked in the driveway was a
36:03white hiace.
36:04That white hiace was used in the
36:07murder of Jason Moran.
36:09This was a significant breakthrough
36:11for us and we thought we're on
36:13the right track.
36:15What we did then is we commenced
36:17electronic surveillance on the
36:19driver and the runner and Carl
36:21Williams.
36:24When the Piranha Task Force was
36:27formed, there was only seven
36:29detectives.
36:30After Jason Moran, we grew to 55
36:33and over time we built on that.
36:35By this stage, we had telephone
36:37intercepts and listening devices.
36:41Someone had to actually listen to
36:43all those hours.
36:44Teams of people were doing that.
36:46The sheer weight of numbers showed
36:49the seriousness Victoria police were
36:51taking this war.
36:53The more information we got in, we built
36:57good intelligence databases.
36:59So in lots of ways, if you had a deck
37:01of cards, we were targeting the
37:03sevens and eights so we could move our
37:05way up to the ace of spades, which was
37:07Carl Williams.
37:12We, through our web of electronic
37:14surveillance, got wind that the runner
37:18and the driver were looking for a clean
37:20car that couldn't be traced back to them.
37:24We worked hard to get an electronic
37:27device into that vehicle.
37:29Unfortunately for us, they noticed one
37:31of the brake lights wasn't working.
37:33They started going through all the
37:34wiring in the car and they found our
37:36device.
37:37We thought our job was blown.
37:40But we underestimated how desperate
37:42they were to commit this crime.
37:45So they used their own car.
37:48Little did they know that we had a
37:50listening device in that car as well.
38:03Both the runner and the driver parked
38:06down the end of Joy Street, South
38:07Yarra in a laneway.
38:10And we believed that they were actually
38:12going to commit an armed robbery.
38:14But we heard them playing with a gun.
38:18We started to think, oh my God, this
38:20might be something different.
38:23They'd pull into Joy Street.
38:25We hear the driver and the runner
38:30start talking.
38:33Right, time start, time start.
38:37Parker's behind me.
38:44Time start.
38:45You're right, you're right.
38:47Time start.
38:48And they accelerate down Joy Street
38:51and the runner says, that's him.
38:56Go, go, go.
39:02And then the runner jumps out of the car.
39:19The runner then takes off in a gap
39:23between a block of flats and he gets
39:25back into the driver's car who's
39:28waiting for him.
39:28And you hear the driver say quite
39:31clearly, get down, get down.
39:35Get in, get down.
39:37Get down.
39:38Nice and down.
39:39Stay down.
39:42And they drove from the scene.
39:44Stay down.
39:45You're all right.
39:47Stay down, Joy.
39:48Don't seem right.
39:49Stay down.
39:49Yeah, I am.
39:53They drove straight back to the driver's house
39:58in the southern suburbs.
40:00Little did they know we had a listening device
40:02in there as well.
40:03And we overhear them getting rid of their clothes,
40:07getting rid of the gun.
40:08But most importantly, we hear a phone call
40:12where the runner calls Carl Williams
40:15and says these words,
40:17Carl, you know that horse you tipped us?
40:19It's just been scratched.
40:24Michael Marshall lived in a beautiful house
40:27in South Yarra.
40:28His business, or at least publicly known business,
40:32was a small hot dog van which he operated
40:35in South Melbourne.
40:37Marshall was a quiet achiever
40:40in terms of the drug world.
40:44But he also had access to precursor chemicals
40:46and he was willing to supply it
40:48to fuel the anivertimen market in 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 to look
41:18at, you know, that time
41:20where there were just criminals being murdered.
41:23But to do so
41:24forgets some of the collateral damage
41:27that's left behind.
41:29Marshall's five-year-old son
41:30witnessed his father's murder.
41:34He was standing on the side of the road
41:36and when the uniformed police attended
41:38he was still standing there
41:40looking at his father
41:41and he said to the uniformed police
41:43I'm not allowed to cross the road
41:46without holding my dad's hand
41:48and for the police
41:50that was just the most heartbreaking
41:52thing to come out of a five-year-old's mouth
41:55as his father lay in the gutter
41:58on the other side of the road
42:00bleeding to death.
42:08After the call
42:10to Carl Williams
42:11they decide they're going to meet Carl
42:13so they get back into
42:15the driver's vehicle
42:17and they're heading down
42:19St Kilda Road.
42:21I wanted to let them run
42:23all the way to Carl Williams
42:24to get the evidence
42:26of them meeting
42:27but it was decided
42:29that was too dangerous.
42:31The decision was made
42:33to have the SOG arrest them
42:35and that occurred
42:37outside the Elstonwick Hotel
42:39they were blocked in by the SOG
42:42dragged from their vehicle
42:43and it was five minutes later
42:46that I arrived
42:47to find them both handcuffed
42:49face down on the nature strip.
42:53The runner tried to 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 at all.
43:07The driver on 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.
43:23The runner didn't say anything
43:24in fact he made 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 our first crack
43:42in you know
43:44what is loosely called
43:45the Underworld Code of Silence.
43:51Next time
43:52in the Naked City.
43:54We just needed a breakthrough.
43:57Where were we going to go
43:58from here?
43:59The establishment
44:00were not going to let this occur
44:02without consequences
44:03and it brought Mick Gatto
44:05into it.
44:06You know
44:06if they tell me
44:07in the dance
44:07we've got a dance party
44:08you know
44:08you generally
44:09don't do deals
44:10with murderers.
44:12Ready?
44:14Without the driver
44:16they'd have a problem
44:17connecting Williams.
44:19But we could make
44:20things happen
44:21if we made
44:22a brave decision.
44:24He would be
44:25the best person
44:26to 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.
44:44it was just
44:46coming in there.
44:47We could have
44:47the fire
44:47the fire
44:47the fire
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