The international award-winning, true-crime series, Australian Crime Stories, continues this week on Nine.
He’s been described as Australia’s Hannibal Lector, an opportunist killer, with unspeakable obsessions. Derek Percy was deemed too dangerous to be housed in a secure psychiatric facility, so he became the longest serving prison inmate in Australia’s history.
Host, Adam Shand talks to the men responsible for keeping him behind bars and ask them was Derek Percy insane or pure evil?
Austalian Crime Stories examines just how many murders Percy may be responsible for, including the killing of the Beaumont children and we reveal the fate of the brave boy who brought Percy to justice.
Over four weeks, investigative journalist, broadcaster and author Adam Shand takes viewers behind the headlines, unravelling the myths from the facts, shining the spotlight on some of the most shocking criminal cases in our history.