John Kerr

John Kerr has published many of Australia's most admired true-crime books, including Tom Noble's Untold Violence and Walsh Street, Neddy Smith's Neddy, Hellbent: Ces Waters and me and Roger Rogerson's The Dark Side. He is the author of Wanted: John & Lucy, about the Sydney 1999 helicopter hijack and prison break, and co-author of Pack of Bloody Animals: Walsh Street revisited. Also, The Hit Men: Australia's contract killers and Bloody Relations: true stories of murder in the family in 2007, where doubts about the Folbigg case first troubled him. He has worked as a newspaper court and police reporter. The sciences and the popular communication of science have been lifelong passions, and he has written large-format pictorial bookazines on volcanic eruptions, wild oceans and wild weather.