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It became one of the cases cops mark their career by. Peter Manuel, Bible John and Bloody January. Nobody really knew where the name came from, probably some passing remark in Pitt Street or in a pub next to Central. The papers got a hold of it pretty quick. Banner headlines straight away. Most famous one still framed and hung up in stations across in the city.

BLOODY JANUARY: HOW MANY MORE TO DIE?

Years later the cops that worked Bloody January would tell the younger guys that they had no idea what it was really like back then. Six bodies in one week. They’d sit in pubs and reminisce, retired now, run to fat and drinking too much because they had nothing else to do. They’d tell their war stories, about how close they came to an arrest or finding one of the bodies. The younger ones would smile and nod, listen with one ear on the football results coming out the TV, thinking, ‘It can’t have been that bad.’

But it was.