Australia's Hardest Criminals
Tough Nuts: Australia's Hardest Criminals is an Australian documentary television series narrated by Tara Moss . The program was created by the production company The Full Box and the series first screened on the Crime and Investigation Network in June 2010. A second season was screened in 2011. The series was nominated for Most Outstanding Documentary at the 2011 ASTRA awards.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Chris Flannery - The Man Called Rent-a-kill
24-06-201060mChristopher Dale Flannery earned the nickname of 'Rent-a-kill'. He was a hit man and gun for hire who would kill anyone if the price was right. Find out about the man who killed in...
- Ep 2
2.Chow Hayes - Australia's First Gangster
29-07-201060mArguably Australia's most feared gangster, Frederick 'Chow' Hayes was a convicted double murderer, sentenced to hang in 1952 for the brazen killing of standoverman and former boxer...
- Ep 3
3.Alphonse Gangitano - The Black Prince of Lygon Street
26-08-201060mAlphonse Gangitano was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne's notorious Carlton Crew in the 1980s and 1990s. Through a series of re...
- Ep 4
4.Dennis Allen - Mr. Death
30-09-201060mDennis Allen was the oldest son of Melbourne crime matriarch, Kath Pettingill. While the remainder of her sons are criminals and some of them vicious killers, not one comes close t...
- Ep 5
5.Russell Cox - Australia's Most Wanted Man
28-10-201060mMeet Australia's most wanted man for a record 11 years. Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox was a man no prison could hold. He escaped from New South Wales' notorious 'electronic zoo', the maxim...
- Ep 6
6.Mick Sayers - The Gambler
25-11-201060mMichael 'Melbourne Mick' Sayers was a run of the mill crook who got in too deep with some of the tough nuts in Sydney's organized crime scene. An associate and friend of Chris Flan...
- Ep 7
7.Ray Bennett - The Criminal Mastermind
30-12-201060mRaymond 'Ray Chuck' Bennett was Australia's criminal mastermind. A brazen armed robber and thief, he did the jobs that other criminals considered were beyond them. His most audacio...
- Ep 8
8.Lenny McPherson - Mr. Big
27-01-201160mLennie McPherson ruled the Sydney crime scene for four decades. He was a violent and vicious criminal and arguably the worst of the worst. Trace the rise and fall of Lennie McPhers...
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