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Australia - Retired Detective Chief Superintendent Ron
Stephenson, aged 74, was killed with his 69-year-old wife Gloria in a car
accident south of Sydney on Thursday.
The couple were travelling through Taren Point about 3.30pm (AEST) when their
BMW sedan is believed to have been clipped by a semi-trailer, police said.
Their vehicle spun over the median strip and into the path of an oncoming
station wagon.
Mr and Mrs Stephenson died at the scene. The driver and a passenger in the
station wagon were treated for minor injuries and the truck driver for shock.
Mr Stephenson was one of the first on the scene at the Viking Tavern at Milperra
in Sydney's South in 1984 after 500 members of the rival Comancheros and
Bandidos bikie gangs waged war.
Six bikers and a 14-year-old girl were killed in the Father's Day gun battle and
43 bikers were charged.
He retired in 1991 and became a regular contributor to the Australian Police
Journal on criminal cases he investigated.
He also published four books, releasing one last year on the bikie massacre
called "Milperra: The Road to Justice."