Crime Investigation Australia — Season 1, Episode 7: The Killer Punch/The Will of Death

Episode synopsis

Sometime on the evening of October 19, 1990, the flamboyantly gay Sydney socialite Ludwig Gertsch was strangled with an elastic strap in the bedroom of his lover, Mr Vincent Esposito. His body was found, wrapped in a doona, in Blue Mountains scrub on November 11, 1990. In September 1994 a Sydney Coroner found that Ludwig Gertsch was strangled "by a person or persons unknown". But that's where the murder trail ends - his killer has never been brought to justice. The murder of Allen Hall at Warnervale, where he lived with Christine Hicks, the estranged wife of boxing mentor and horse trainer Cec Waters, presented a curious public with a cruel and twisted story. Water’s eldest son, Dean, eventually was charged with Hall’s murder. However, it would be revealed later that Dean had succumbed to his father’s demands. Cec Waters was depicted as a bullying, obsessive father, who was determined to make his three sons become boxing champions but slaves to his evil will.

About Crime Investigation Australia

Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on Foxtel's Crime & Investigation Network in August 2005. The series is also rebroadcast on the Nine Network, and made its debut there on 14 August 2007. The host of the series is Steve Liebmann.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1No More Grannies - The Granny Killer
• E2Kid for Ransom - Tears for Daniel
• E3Death in a Heartbeat - The Body in the Bag
• E4The Backpacker Murders: Ivan Milat
• E5Contract to Kill / The Mornington Monster
• E6The Moorhouse Horrors / The Call Girl Killing
• E8The Anita Cobby Murder
• E9Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels
• E10The Kimberley Killer
• E11The Wanda Beach Murders/Beaumont Children Mystery
• E12The Greenough Family Massacre
• E13The Disappearance of Donald Mackay