Desperate days: the famous fugitives file

By Malcolm Brown
Updated November 10 2012 - 2:31am, first published December 9 2011 - 4:12am
They ran but they couldn't hide ... clockwise from top left: Kevin Simmonds, Raymond Denning, Darcy Dugan and William Meares, Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox and Fred Ward, aka Thunderbolt.
They ran but they couldn't hide ... clockwise from top left: Kevin Simmonds, Raymond Denning, Darcy Dugan and William Meares, Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox and Fred Ward, aka Thunderbolt.
Flew the coup, but not for long ... John Killick.
Flew the coup, but not for long ... John Killick.
Love made her do it ... Lucy Dudko.
Love made her do it ... Lucy Dudko.
Sunnies and a hat will get you anywhere ... Brendon Abbott, the postcard bandit.
Sunnies and a hat will get you anywhere ... Brendon Abbott, the postcard bandit.

Life on the run has never been easy, from the time the bushrangers took to the hills and managed, like today's fugitive Malcolm Naden, to slip dextrously into and out of the settled community.

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