An alarming number of Australian women have been killed in recent years. Find out more about their lives. Some of the cases are still before the courts. See all 53 stories .

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Three members of an alleged “kill crew” have been arrested over the murder of a Sydney woman who was kidnapped in front of children, stripped naked, shot dead and left in a burning car.

A group of masked men who broke into the Bankstown home of Thi Kim Tran , 45, on April 17, also bashed an eight-year-old boy with a baseball bat during the kidnapping.

Homicide squad commander Joe Doueihi alleged the men were guns for hire engaged by a Victorian and transnational crime group after Tran’s husband, an alleged drug cook for the syndicate, was accused of stealing 80 kilograms of methamphe

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