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Hang on, I see another book coming, no maybe a new TV series.
Here's the plot.
Small time career criminal is shot in his favourite deli. Dead man's sister-in-law turns up crying. Later, sister-in-law dumps killer's car. Police arrest sister-in-law. Police search sister-in-law's house, find guns and clothing matching that worn by the killers. Sister-in-law's house then suspiciously set alight in early hours of morning.
Welcome to the underworld of the Moran family, well what's left of it anyway.
"Fact is almost stranger than fiction," said Victoria's top cop, Simon Overland on the latest events involving the notorious gangland family.
The murder of Des "Tuppence" Moran was the latest Moran family member to be slain in a war that first erupted over the illegal amphetamine drugs trade in the late 1990s.
Judy Moran, who has been charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact , has outlived her husband, Lewis, her two sons, Mark and Jason, and now her brother-in-law, Des.
From the outside, it might look like another mafia style hit in a long list of murders which now total 29. However police do not believe the murder of Des Moran will reignite the gangland feud which fell silent in 2006. Most of the perpetrators are either dead or in prison.
Instead, the plot thickens.
Des Moran's alleged murderer is the boyfriend of Susanne Kane, the daughter of another slain criminal Les Kane. She is also the sister of a woman who was married to Judy Moran's dead son, Jason, who was gunned down in 2003.
Judy Moran, Susanne Kane and her boyfriend, Geoff 'Nuts' Amour were living together in the Moran house, the same house that was set alight hours after all three were arrested. Police say they have audio recordings of them discussing the murder of Des Moran.
So here's the question. After seeing most of her immediate family killed, why would Judy Moran want to get rid of her brother-in-law, Des Moran?
Well, they haven't been the closest of friends ever since Des blamed Judy for being jailed for several months for interfering with a court hearing. Inheritance issues have also caused friction after Des and his brother, Lewis, were left the family home.
But, try this on for a late twist.
Judy Moran allegedly wanted Des killed because he wouldn't tell her where the fortune of her late husband Lewis lay. A gangland feud turned into a family feud perhaps? "It's always over the same old thing, money," said a close associate of the Moran family. "Lewis's millions, it's here there and everywhere," he said.
Lewis Moran made millions of dollars through illegal avenues and apparently only Des knew where it was kept. Now it appears that secret has gone to the grave with Des "Tuppence" Moran.
Secrets that will no doubt be uncovered, or more likely embellished, by novelists, TV and movie producers.
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