| Description |
226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Includes index |
| Summary |
From cover " Donald Bruce Mackay, the Griffith anti-drugs campaigner, disappeared without a trace from the carpark of the Griffith Hotel in July 1977. Mackay had been a secret informant for police action against illicit marijuana growing in the Riverina area. His disappearance has become Australia's first and s far only political assassination. Shadow of Shame is the shocking story of how the mafia planned and executed his murder. Throughout a shameful decade that followed, some people, even at senior levels of politics and law enforcement, connived to coverup this mafia murder. Crime journalist Bob Bottom traces the birth and growth of the mafia in Griffith, known to police as a centre for serious crime as early as the 1930s. By the 1970s, when Mackay first became concerned about illicit drug activities in his town, those controlling organised crime had become far more sophisticated. Bribery, corruption and payoffs had become commonplace. Serious questions about NSW police investigations into Australia's most notorious murder precipitated a special commission of inquiry nine years later. Bottom also details how drug boss Bob Trimbole lived safely in Spain despite international police knowledge of his whereabouts and of the failure of Australian authorities to bring him to justice. Here for the first time is the full, inside story of the murder of Don Mackay and of the continued harassment of his wife Barbara and family. It will shock and outrage all honest Australians." |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Mackay, Don, 1933-1977?
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Mackay, Don.
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Mackay, Donald Bruce, 1933-1977?
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Mafia -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Mafia -- Australia.
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Murder -- Australia -- Griffith (N.S.W.)
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Organized crime -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Organized crime -- Australia.
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Organized crime -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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| LC no. |
2003363833 |
| ISBN |
0725105585 (paperback) |
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