19 Facts About Fred Krahe

Frederick Claude Krahe was an Australian New South Wales police officer and detective.

Fred Krahe was paroled after six years, and steadfastly maintained his innocence.

Fred Krahe named Fred Krahe and Cyril Roy Edwards in the report.

Fred Krahe was under investigation for drug corruption at the time.

Fred Krahe left behind a note stating: "I only hope that one day the truth comes to light about the people involved in the conspiracy to frame me," after the judge in his 1971 trial was quite willing to accept the involvement of Krahe and others in the car thefts and murder, but not Varley's innocence.

Author John Jiggens claims Fred Krahe was responsible for dispensing, through his Fairfax Media newspaper connections, the rumour that Mackay had not been murdered, but instead ran away with a woman who was not his wife.

Jiggens is a strong proponent of the theory that Fred Krahe murdered Mackay with Keith Kelly, and that Bazley was a patsy.

Fred Krahe allegedly did work for the infamous Sydney-based Nugan Hand Bank as a private investigator, assisting the bank in covering their fraudulent business activities and money laundering connected to Asian drug trade and the CIA.

Contacts in the Commonwealth Police, along with an informant, revealed to journalist Tony Reeves that Fred Krahe was given a position on the board of TNT after he retired from the police department.

Kelly and Fred Krahe claimed that they had merely been asked an unwelcome favour from Frank Nugan, and were unaware that what they had done was wrong.

Fred Krahe named 33 police officers from both states in connection with corruption; she claimed to have made more than $5000 a week in 1969.

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In 1985, several police officers, who had served in the Sydney CIB in 1972, told David Hickie it was rumoured Fred Krahe had gone to Brisbane and forced drugs down her throat with a tube, assisted by a Queensland policeman.

Brifman's testimony regarding Fred Krahe was tabled in March 1978 in the South Australian House of Assembly, by attorney-general Peter Duncan in a 64-page document containing Brifman's responses to the New South Wales police interviews in 1971.

Fred Krahe's stated occupation after retirement was as a private investigator.

Fred Krahe worked as a Sydney crime scene consultant for The Sun newspaper in the late 1970s.

Fred Krahe was allegedly on the board of Thomas Nationwide Transit.

Jenkings refused to believe allegations about Fred Krahe's reputed partner in crime Ray "Gunner" Kelly.

Fred Krahe went on to say that during the years he served in the police force he had worked side by side with Krahe, and knew him as a great investigator of crime, and that 'as a detective he had no peer.