Eavesdropping on Evil The Silk/Miller Police Murders

%« A father talks to his daughter about killing another two policemen. , She calmly suggests committing the murders on the %« A son tells his father how he shot a policeman, ‘Ch-ch, in the * A 19-year-old yells out to police from a moving car, ‘Bang, bang suck on that!’ His mentor laughs: ‘They’ll be goin’ ballistic if *« The hunt for the men who committed Australia’s tenth multiple police killing when they gunned down Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller in 1998 not only involved remarkable detective work, but included an extraordinary %« For months, 24 hours a day, police eavesdropped on a seemingly ordinary outer-suburban Melbourne family. What they heard 82 was anything but ordinary. They found themselves eaves- 9 An dropping on evil people. ~ ie Saroppine il not only details the police hunt for their : - cpittasaer ‘killers nth the emotion-charged courtroom drama but, 2 in what is believed to be a world-first for true-crime publishing, it = includes a CD allowing readers to listen to the suspects’ secretly- : WAYNE HOWELL is the Supreme Court reporter for & s A the Herald Sun. He spent the last four months of oe e ° 2002 attending most days of the Debs—Roberts trial. PN sks In that time he wrote more than 50 articles about The Five Mile Press A , the proceedings in Court 12 of the Victorian ISBN 174124025-5