of offending in most categories of crime dropped in the Darwin area between 2018 and 2019, with the notable exceptions of motor vehicle theft and break-ins (both up about 12%). Apart from sexual assault, which rose from 21 to 46, all other categories of crime showed drops in Palmerston. Notable crimes There are several massacres of Indigenous people recorded within what is today the Northern Territory, both before and after federation, which would be today regarded as crimes. 1 August 1933 – Constable Albert McColl murdered; Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda sentenced to death in a controversial trial; sentence later overturned by the High Court in a case known as Tuckiar v The King. 15 November 1972 – Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs with 28 passengers and a crew of four, hijacked, followed by a gun battle at Alice Springs Airport where the hijacker, Miloslav Hrabinec, shot himself and later died. 5 January 1977 – Connellan air disaster: murder-suicide when a sacked pilot deliberately flew a light aircraft into Connair building, Alice Springs airport 1980 - Baby Azaria Chamberlain was murdered by a dingo near Uluru but police charged her parents. Later, an investigation proved their innocence. 23 June 1983 – Martin Leach stabbed Charmaine Ariet to death and stabbed, raped and killed her cousin Janice Carnegie. 18 August 1983 – Douglas Crabbe rammed his 25-ton Mack truck into a motel bar at the base of Uluru, killing five people. 1999 – Rodney Ansell, inspiration for the 1986 film, Crocodile Dundee, killed Sergeant Glen Hutison before being killed by police. March 2004 – Drowning murder of Thai sex workers: Phuangsri Kroksamrang and Somjai Insamnan were bound and thrown into the Adelaide River, where they drowned, by teenagers Ben William McLean and Phu Ngoc Trinh. 2 February 2010 – Bombing of Darwin shopping mall: a disgruntled customer used a trolley based device and bombed the Territory Insurance Office in Darwin City injuring 15. 5 June 2019 – Darwin shooting: four people killed and another injured during a shooting spree by a Darwin man. Tourist attacks July 2001 – Peter Falconio disappearance, near Barrow Creek: British tourist disappears on 14 July 2001 April 2012 – Three teenagers rob and subsequently gang-rape a Finnish and German tourist at gunpoint in Alice Springs. December 2016 – French tourist stabbed to death at roadside rest area at Connor Well, about north of Alice Springs.