What do Rasputin, Tupac and Pharaoh Ramses III, have in common? No, it's not the weirdest boy band ever.

They all met their end at the hand of an assassin. Assassins with me, Aslan Pahadi, tells the stories of history's most shocking assassinations.

From seizing power to silencing dissidents,

assassins unpacks the moments in which someone decides that murder is the move.

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ABC Listen. wherever you get your podcasts. On the edge of the wilderness around Mount Macedon in Victoria is zigzag road. True to its name,

the road zigs and zags between thick bush, narrow in some places with barely room for two cars to pass. Kangaroos occasionally surprise you, jumping out from the bushes. Most of the houses

are set back from the street and it's quiet.

It hasn't changed much since Lisa and Greg Lynn moved here in 1995.

It was an unmade road that was the bane of everybody's life because in summer it was a dust bowl,

but it was heavily wooded with the forest coming right down to the roadside in places.

And we overlooked a thoroughbred training facility.

And it was just magic to hear the horses galloping through the fog in the mornings.

Terry Hollingworth lived on Zigzag Road and walked it twice daily. Her kids grew up there

in the foothills of the mountain. We taught the kids to ride their bikes up and down the road.

My kids used to race their ponies up and down the road.

This dusty road was a bit isolated, but it was also highly prized.

There were school teachers, a school principal, a couple of lawyers around the corner, there were no blue-collar workers

at all.

It was, well, I think that is understandable when you consider the land prices as well in that

area.

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