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Sunday Night: Nov 27

Sunday Night moves into its summer series, revisiting a story on the Stocco brothers, ahead of their sentencing.

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Sunday Night moves into its summer series this Sunday, revisiting a story it ran in June on the Stocco brothers, both of whom are about to face sentencing.

It is one of the most destructive and bizarre rampages in Australian criminal history.

Two men – a father, a son – posing as farm handymen, preying on unsuspecting Australian families. Stealing, looting, destroying, menacing and ultimately killing.

Australia first heard the names Gino and Mark Stocco in October last year when the pair opened fire on a police highway patrol, raising the stakes in one of the biggest manhunts ever undertaken by Australian law enforcement.

Twelve days and thousands of kilometers later, it came to a bloody end when the pair was arrested for murder and a catalogue of other offences.

Now, on the eve of their sentencing, Sunday Night takes you deep inside this intriguing true crime drama as reporter Steve Pennells pieces together the forensic detail of a crime spree eight years in the making.

The Stoccos cut a deep scar through the lives of honest, hardworking families throughout Queensland, NSW and Victoria, causing millions of dollars damage and untold heartache while the authorities seemingly did nothing.

Sunday Night exclusively profiles the crusading farmer forced to turn amateur detective to gather evidence against the Stoccos to force authorities to act. And other families struck by the pair, but who bravely campaigned for action.

This major Sunday Night investigation charts the audacious, inexplicable reign of terror that Mark and Gino Stocco got away with for too long.

Sunday at 7.00pm on Seven.