OPERATOR: Hello, Police emergency. What's your emergency?
REPORTER: Detectives say the dead woman is yet to be
formally identified,
but it's believed she's 49 and from Bridlington.
Is it possible to get away with murder?
What does a killer do
after committing the most heinous of crimes?
This crime, it was unnecessary, it was brutal.
Do they carry on as normal,
and hide in plain sight?
Or go on the run?
It was scary,
just don't know what he could do, if he were desperate.
And I knew it were him.
He's on the run from the police.
This man is angry.
How do the actions of a killer,
after their crime...
influence the police investigation?
MALE POLICE OFFICER: We need to speak to this man
as a priority in relation to that murder investigation
and we would consider him dangerous.
(SIREN WAILS)
By focusing on the aftermath,
we unpick the mindset of a killer...
He turned around, he had the knife in his hand.
..understand the motive
and reveal what the killer did next.
NARRATOR: Terry Carter met his wife Bei,
an artist, at a concert in Nottingham in 1993.
They quickly fell in love
and 12 months later, moved to Bei's native china
to get married and start a family.
After 20 years away,
the couple returned to the UK
to open a guest house with their two children.
And settled in the Yorkshire coastal town
of Bridlington.
The community at Bridlington is um,
a seaside resort,
so there's quite a mix of people there,
it's quite close knit in many respects,
you know, it's a very busy town,
there's a lot of guest houses down there.
Marshall Avenue, it's a little way from the actual promenade.
The guest house itself was fairly typical in lots of ways.
It was very much the sort of place
I would have expected to have found in a seaside town.
Terry looked after the bookings and front of house,
while Bei worked hard behind the scenes
ensuring the rooms remained comfortable
for their guests.
Bei Carter
was a nice, friendly, trusting lady
of 49 years old.
Um, she had no enemies.
But life for this family was about to be ripped apart,
in the most brutal fashion.
It was a quiet morning at the hotel,
with just one guest having checked in the day before
and two more due to arrive that day.
JAMES: Called Terry, he'd been to visit his mum in hospital.
Bei Carter had spent the day
putting up curtains,
I think in the dining area, sewing.
When terry carter arrived back at the guest house
that night,
he expected to be greeted by his wife,
instead all he found was a deserted hotel.
After trying to locate her in the guest house,
he'd rung her mobile phone...
(PHONE RINGS)
..which rang out in living room.
(PHONE RINGS)
And he noticed that room five was locked,
which was unusual, unoccupied rooms weren't normally locked.
He came down to see if he could find the master keys.
With no sign of his wife,
Terry started to panic.
After a frantic search,
he found the set of master keys.
When he opened the door to room five,
he was met by the most horrific sight.
TELEPHONE OPERATOR: Hello, Police Emergency,
what's your emergency?
(SIREN WAILS)
Terry had found the lifeless body
of his wife Bei.
She had been subjected to a vicious attack.
The 49-year-old landlady had been stabbed in the chest,
suffering a fatal wound to the heart.
Senior investigating officer detective superintendent
Matt Baldwin was assigned to the case.
There's so many things going through your mind
to understand exactly what we've got.
Visiting a scene and seeing for yourself
um, is the best way, in my view,
to do that, to understand the layout of a premises,
to understand the opportunities forensically
and also what may have happened inside that building.
Police descend on the scene
and confirm the discovery of the dead body of Bei Carter.
Bei's body was on the floor of room five
um, between a chest of drawers and a bed,
literally laid on the floor,
her feet facing the door,
and her arms crossed across her chest.
The victim had been either kicked or stamped on,
on her face and head.
A knife had penetrated through the sternum,
that's the breast bone,
which can be up to half an inch thick.
I'm always shocked by the capacity of human beings
to deliver extreme violence on others.
The next morning the news is made public.
Police launch a murder investigation.
FEMALE NEW REPORTER: Residents of Marshall Avenue
say they were woken in the middle of the night
by blue flashing lights
and the sound of a police helicopter.
Bei Carter was found by her husband in the bed and breakfast
they ran together.
Police has officers with Mrs Carter's husband and children.
As an investigation begins,
police need to ask who would want Bei Carter dead?
They start by focusing on those closest to Bei.
This is a very strong statistic,
two a week, on average, women killed by a former partner,
which always puts a partner or a former partner
at the top of the list of suspects.
That must have put quite a lot of attention on Bei's husband.
Terry Carter is questioned by police.
Terry obviously gave an account to us
and it was quite clear
that he was unaware of what had happened to Bei Carter
in the guest house
and he'd been elsewhere doing some work
on bookings and suchlike.
Police verify Terry's account
and he is ruled out as a suspect.
Who else could be behind this brutal murder?
No-one knew who had done it,
why they'd done it,
but obviously there was a lot of shock as she was well liked.
As police conduct a thorough search
of the guest house,
they are about to come across a vital clue...
and they soon establish there's a killer on the loose,
and he's armed and dangerous.
If people know where this man is they need to contact us.
We need to apprehend him as a matter of urgency.
TELEPHONE OPERATOR: Police Emergency. What's your emergency?
There's been a murder at a guest house in Bridlington.
Police say they were called to the Morayland Guest House
just before midnight last night.
At the Morayland Guest House in Bridlington,
49-year-old Bei Carter
has been viciously stabbed to death.
And this crime was one of the more significant crimes
I've investigated.
It was unnecessary, it was brutal.
Having ruled out Bei's husband Terry,
police need to find a suspect.
They've established there were three guests
staying at the hotel at the time of the murder.
Two of them, cyclists,
have been accounted for,
but there's a third,
who appears to have vanished from the scene.
Police urgently need to track this person down.
Yeah, there were belongings of his still in the room...
but obviously he left in a hurry, he'd left his belongings behind.
There were items of clothing, the bed was unmade,
there were items, receipts and various other bits and pieces.
He clearly needed to get out of the guest house
as soon as possible.
This particular visitor
had booked to stay for three nights,
but had left two nights early.
And when he checked in, he'd used the name John Davies.
We did some very simple enquiries
using police systems to understand
what intelligence we had on somebody called John Davies,
and also the mobile phone number given.
But these enquiries failed to turn up anything useful.
The missing guest has left no trail.
Police urgently need to locate him
to question him about the events on the night of Bei Carter's death.
Twenty four hours later
the investigation takes another turn.
The post mortem has revealed some further horrifying details.
Bei Carter had no defensive injuries.
She had no injuries to her hands,
there wasn't evidence of a struggle of any sort.
To actually penetrate the breast bone,
and then for the knife to carry on
into the heart, into the aorta beneath,
takes a lot of force.
That knife has struck the body very hard.
So, the stab wound to Bei Carter is in the middle of the chest,
going through the breast bone.
It is difficult to imagine...
that anybody does not know
how many vital organs there are there.
A stab wound in that location,
the only logical conclusion is it is there to kill.
Equally disturbing,
was the discovery of a distinctive set of footprints
on Bei's face,
suggesting the killer had stamped on her before he fled.
It was delivered with real intent,
and once he'd dragged Bei's body into room five,
he then decided to inflict facial injuries upon her...
which indicated a mindset of...of...
of severe violence in my view.
He stamps on her face and he leaves his boot mark
and indentation on her face.
That violence was unnecessary, the deed was done
but it says something about the hostility
he felt towards her in that moment.
The desire to stamp her out.
It's the clear message of power and control.
The killer may have left his mark,
but there is one thing he has not left behind,
the murder weapon...
and the post mortem has also given a clue
to the type of knife used to stab Bei.
The weapon was described as a knife
with a very thick blade...
and some very sharp serrated edges to it.
The kind of knife you can buy in any sort of DIY store.
It appears that not only did the killer
bring the knife with him to the guest house,
but that he has also left with it,
and could kill again.
He was a very dangerous individual.
My fear was that he would take the opportunity to
um, inflict further violence
on some other innocent member of the public.
This type of killing is always a concern for the police.
They were dealing with a very dangerous individual
and there would have been immense pressure on them
to identify who that person was.
Police have a missing man,
and a name, John Davies.
As for the killer, a profile is starting to emerge.
Police know this person is violent,
potentially still has the murder weapon...
and is no longer on the scene,
but suddenly, the police get a vital lead.
We could attribute the phone number
given by John Davies to a man called John Heald.
We had a fairly recent picture
from police computer systems of John Heald.
Unlike John Davies,
John Heald was known to the police,
could this be Bei carter's killer?
We knew that John Davies was in fact John Heald,
he was a person who'd checked in,
his mobile number subscribed to John Heald, not John Davies,
and so we were able to use that image
to look for a person fitting his description.
NEWS REPORTER: An all force alert has been issued to find this man,
John Heald.
We need to speak to this man as a priority
in relation to that murder investigation,
and we would consider him dangerous.
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER: The police are advising people
not to approach John Heald but to call 999.
EMMA KENNY: Whilst it is necessary
for the police to put out public appeals
when criminals are on the run,
when it comes to individuals like John Heald
you're talking about a violent killer.
You're talking about somebody who is willing
to use a knife to brutalise a woman.
It's either gonna make him potentially hide
because he doesn't want to be found,
or it could make him strike again.
Police now need to look in detail
at the movements of one man
around the time of Bei Carter's murder.
Where was John Heald at that moment?
If Heald is the killer,
police need to discover what he did next.
Bearing in mind he had a number of hours on us.
By the time we started,
he's left the guest house
at some point prior to 10:30 that night
um, and my focus is on trying to,
not only locate him,
but understand his movements from that time.
To find out how John Heald
left the crime scene,
police start by gathering CCTV.
CCTV is hugely important in an investigation like this.
We covered thousands of hours of CCTV footage.
Not only from premises such as shops and pubs,
council run CCTV images of streets,
but also private CCTV
from people's private premises along streets in Bridlington.
And it's the CCTV
which throws police their next vital clue
in trying to track Heald down.
We'd recovered CCTV footage of him
on the day he arrived in Bridlington
buying a mobile phone from a Tesco store.
We were able to get the number of that mobile phone from Tesco's.
The phone then became important to our enquiry,
rather than his previous telephone which he stopped using.
With time ticking, and Bei's killer still on the loose,
police throw resources at the manhunt.
There's now 150 officers
across two counties on the trail of John Heald.
Traces on the new mobile
suggest Heald is heading to South Yorkshire,
an area he's familiar with.
Then suddenly it all goes quiet.
John Heald took the decision
that, to evade capture,
he would turn off his mobile phone,
seek no contact with anybody,
he'd gone off grid so to speak.
Police are already four days behind Heald.
They are now forced to resort
to old fashioned hands-on detective work,
appealing for witnesses,
making door to door enquiries
and offering a reward for sightings.
We had significant search parties,
police search advisers
and had officers searching a wide area for John Heald.
We were relying on public assistance,
sightings of John Heald
and we put out a 10,000-pound reward
to try and assist with that,
um, and we were following up every sighting
that we got of him.
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER: South Yorkshire Police say
they've had almost 250 calls from the public
in response to their appeal for help
into the murder of Bridlington B&B landlady, Bei Carter.
Police have been looking for the 53-year-old from Rotherham
for a week now.
We received hundreds of reports
from members of the public.
Sightings of John Heald all over the Country,
um, and all made with good faith,
but nevertheless those sightings create a huge amount of work...
and we had to spend time...
ensuring that we understood
whether those sightings were valid or not.
In this instance,
police have to put themselves into the mind of a killer.
What does a killer do next?
JANE: Heald's a man with a history of violence.
He's on the run from the police.
This man is challenged.
This man is angry.
There's somebody who's very used to using violence
and very willing to use violence.
When you're looking for a killer,
you're really concerned
that they're going to commit further offences.
Suddenly, new information comes to light,
which reveals where Heald headed to
on the night of the attack on Bei.
This image is really interesting.
It shows John Heald entering
the railway station at Bridlington at 22:35 hours
on Friday the 18th of July...
and we know that at this time,
Bei's body is in room five at the Morayland Guest House.
CCTV shows Heald boarding the train
at around 10:45pm
on this night of the killing.
He looks relatively calm.
He's clearly focused on the journey
he's gonna make to get back to South Yorkshire.
He's drinking from a bottle of Vodka on the train.
Police watch as Heald leaves the train at Beverley,
a town 20 miles away from Bridlington.
Then the trail goes cold.
JAYNE SCOTT: Approximately, 11:00 at night
and the door bell rang...
and there was um,
a guy stood there wanting a room for the night.
He'd missed his connection.
He came in and I went to get the key for him
and took him up to the room.
This visitor is John Heald.
As yet he's unknown to the public,
just another guest wanting a room for the night.
So, we both walked into the room
and then I shut the door behind me.
His demeanour was quite agitated...
and he was also telling me
that he would be getting a very early train,
he would be leaving about 05:00 in the morning,
which I also thought was a bit odd
because there isn't a train from Beverley
at that time in the morning.
Heald settles down for the night.
This hotel owner has no idea she has a killer under her roof...
and that just one hour earlier...
John Heald had brutally stabbed Bei Carter to death.
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER: The reward for information
as to the whereabouts of murder suspect,
John Heald, has been doubled to 10,000 pounds.
Police are on the trail
of a vicious killer in South Yorkshire.
They have now discovered
that immediately after stabbing local hotelier,
Bei Carter, in Bridlington,
John Heald fled south by train to Beverley,
but there the trail has gone cold,
and police urgently appeal to Heald to turn himself in.
I know that you left Bridlington
soon after the murder
and I know that you've returned to the South Yorkshire area.
It's time now for you to hand yourself in,
and talk to me about what happened on Friday night at the guest house.
How had John Heald evaded police capture
for seven days?
We're about to discover
where Heald went after the trail went cold.
What did this killer do next?
Having caught a train from Bridlington to Beverley,
near Hull,
Heald books into a guest house
opposite the train station for the night.
The landlady, Jayne Scott...
has no idea she is harbouring a killer.
JAYNE SCOTT: He came down and said
he'd put the wrong mobile number on his form,
so he'd obviously written a mobile number down
that he probably didn't want us to have.
He asked my husband
if there was anywhere open to get a drink,
which made John think a bit,
"Oh, well, had he been drinking,"
because he seemed very agitated.
So, then he went out of the front door,
and that was the last we saw of him.
He got up early the next morning,
got in a taxi outside Beverley railway station
to Hull Paragon station
where he got a train to Doncaster.
Heald is heading in the direction of his home town,
Rotherham.
On the way
he makes a stop at an area of South Yorkshire
well known to him, Mexborough.
Most criminals like to operate in
what we call comfort zones,
and one of the reasons is they know all the escape routes,
they know where the police are likely to be,
they know where the CCTV cameras are.
He knows all of the hiding places,
and he knows, most importantly, where not to go.
Heald knows it's likely the police
will have tracked his movements
from Bridlington to Beverley.
He knows he won't be able to stay ahead of them for too long.
He's left a trail of clues everywhere he's been
and now needs time to plan his next move.
It's time for the game to change...
so John Heald goes off grid.
JAMES: He disappeared.
They couldn't find him, he'd gone completely underground.
It was clear he was back in South Yorkshire but beyond that,
no-one seemed to know where he might be.
Heald continues on foot
in the direction of Rotherham,
five miles west of Mexborough.
John Heald
um, very quickly decided
that he wasn't gonna use mobile phone,
he wasn't gonna walk around in the hours of daylight.
His only option is to lay low.
For the next four days Heald hides in woodland,
somewhere on the outskirts of Rotherham.
He knows time is running out.
(SIREN WAILS)
NEW REPORTER: Police say John Heald has been seen
in the Doncaster and Rotherham areas in the last 24 hours.
Heald then sleeps rough for five days in woodland...
waiting for the heat to cool down.
He knows that the police will be searching the addresses
that he's used before,
maybe seeing friends of his.
So, creating that distance means that maybe
in a while he'll be able to go back
and call on their services.
But living rough is not easy,
even for a desperate, hunted killer.
John Heald has evaded capture for a week...
but his name and photograph are now everywhere in the Yorkshire area.
Having hidden in the woods for days,
what John Heald does next is surprising.
He comes out of hiding.
Was it hunger, thirst,
or just a need for it all to be over,
which leads Heald to seek refuge in a local cafe?
Leave it with us and we'll get someone
to take a look.
Bye.
Yeah we were getting a lot of calls,
with clearly good intent,
but ultimately he had to come out of where he was.
He had to try and get food.
Staff at the nearby Angells cafe
were about to receive an unwelcome customer.
Well, I was here so I saw him from here
actually, and he just walked by...
and straight in.
And I knew it were him and I just looked at me uncle
and he nodded his head.
Me niece said to me, "This is him".
He just walked in.
(DOORBELL RINGS)
It were scary.
It were quite scary when he came in,
because you don't know, do you?
You just don't know what he could do...
if he were desperate.
He looked as if he'd been living rough.
He'd got a bag,
hadn't he Phoebe, he'd got a bag with his coat over it,
mucky jeans and his hands were filthy.
(DOORBELL RINGS)
Soon as he'd gone out of the door,
I was straight to police because I knew it was him.
A member of the public had seen him outside
and the cafe owners rang us.
(SIREN WAILS)
The police responded to that immediately
and we arrested him.
NEW REPORTER: 53-year-old John Heald
was arrested in Rotherham on Friday.
Police say he's being spoken to by detectives
investigating the murder of Bei Carter,
who was stabbed to death ten days ago.
For seven days
John Heald had led the police on a merry dance
across 60 miles of South Yorkshire countryside.
Now, they had their suspect,
but they still had unanswered questions.
Would Heald reveal the motive behind his actions.
Following his arrest,
police discovered the area of woodland
where Heald had been hiding for the past week.
A search unearths important evidence,
the murder weapon,
but a crucial piece of the jigsaw puzzle
remains missing...
the clothes worn by Heald when he stabbed Bei Carter.
Police begin to wonder
whether Heald might have had an accomplice
who had helped him dispose of the blood soaked clothes.
We spent hours and hours reviewing CCTV images
from Doncaster and the Mexborough area.
We spend time looking at images from pubs
in and around the location.
His clothing does change
but his shoes are always the same.
(SIREN WAILS)
With Heald now safely in custody,
police get their first opportunity to question their suspect,
but John Heald isn't talking.
During the interview stage of the investigation,
John Heald took the option to say "No comment"
to the vast majority of questions put to him.
Just as police inquiries seem to have hit a brick wall,
a call comes in from a member of the public,
and it changes everything.
The caller is John Ward, a friend of Heald
and he claims to have evidence
that John Heald was responsible for the death of Bei Carter.
John Ward was somebody
who he'd known for a period of time.
They would drink together...
and I think he saw John Ward as somebody who he could rely on
um, and who would support him.
John ward tells police that on the night of the killing,
he received a text message from John Heald.
In this message,
Heald had admitted killing the landlady
but claimed he had acted in self defence.
John Heald explained
how he'd been involved in a fracas with two men
and this lady had got involved, or got in the way...
and he had stabbed her and killed her.
Could John Ward really hold the key
to what happened that night?
As police delve deeper into his account,
they discover shocking evidence
and the real reason behind Bei's death.
But as the police soon discover,
this killer is still controlling this whole case.
He seemed to be in a state of some paranoia.
He thought that people were after him.
I was literally just putting my shoes on.
He said, "I think you'd better sit down,
I've got some news for you".
In Humberside,
John Heald has been charged with killing Bei Carter,
but he's still refusing to co-operate with police.
But police still don't have a motive.
We'd pieced together where he was,
what he'd been doing and the sequence of events.
What we didn't know is why he chose
to brutally attack Bei Carter,
stab her in the chest with the jab saw
and leave her body in room five.
To understand Heald's motive,
police would have to go back further in time
to what brought John Heald to Bridlington in the first place.
Friday, 18 July 2014,
should've been a day like any other...
but life in this coastal town changed forever
from the moment a new visitor arrived
at the Morayland Guest House.
A beloved wife and landlady brutally killed,
the suspect on the run for seven days...
but precisely what were the events leading up to the 18 July
that had brought a killer into the lives
of those living on Marshall Avenue?
At that point we didn't know what he'd done previously
to come into Bridlington.
John Heald was native to the South Yorkshire area,
had spent all his life in and around that area.
He'd got a number of children to different women.
He'd never been married.
He was a building site labourer for the majority of his life,
doing manual work.
I think he was either 12 or 13
when he first appeared in the juvenile court
and mostly at that time it was for things like burglary
and stealing cars and his record,
as he got a little older,
included offences of violence.
John Heald was 22
when he was jailed for the first time,
serving six months
for the possession of an offensive weapon,
and assaulting a police officer.
He spent more time behind bars aged 23,
for burglary
and again at 24 for actual bodily harm.
The earlier somebody starts offending,
the more likely they are to continue
that offending through the rest of their life
and if their early offending is serious,
then that's an even stronger relationship.
Then police discovered serious allegations
against Heald in the week leading up to Bei's death.
He was suspected of sexually assaulting a woman
in his home county of South Yorkshire.
Could this be a clue to the motive?
John Heald was a controlling individual.
He was in a relationship
where he was extremely jealous.
That relationship had come to an end.
He was unaccepting of those circumstances.
John Heald is one of those human beings
who is incredibly rage-full,
he's built up hostility and rage towards women in particular.
Following the alleged sexual assault,
and afraid of the reprisals from the victim's family,
John Heald fled Rotherham.
He seemed to be in a state of some paranoia.
He thought that perhaps the family of the woman
were after him,
and he was just on edge.
He was whipping himself up into a frenzy.
So Heald picked the first train station
he came across, bought a ticket
and headed to Bridlington.
There was no reason apparent
why John Heald would have gone to Bridlington.
He talked to John Ward about going somewhere for a few days.
He talked about going to the coast.
Um, I suspect he's probably just looked at
where he can get a train from Doncaster to
um, easily
and there was a Doncaster train to Bridlington.
Heald arrived into Bridlington station
at 2:55pm.
He checked into the Morayland hotel
using the pseudonym John Davies.
A desperate, paranoid and ultimately very dangerous man.
A history of violence.
Ingredients for a truly horrendous set of events.
On the morning after checking in,
John Heald had breakfast at the Morayland
before heading to the pub at lunchtime.
He'd had conversations with both Terry and Bei Carter.
He'd given a story
about how he may need to move to a double room
because his wife was coming to stay with him.
John Heald wants to look like an upstanding citizen,
and the way he does that
is to provide Bei and Terry with an idea
that he's a married man,
and not only a married man,
one who shortly will be joined by his wife.
Instantly, for Terry and Bei,
that will make him seem trustworthy.
In the afternoon,
Terry Carter was working on reception.
Two guests departed
and later two male cyclists checked in.
With all his guests accounted for,
Terry left the hotel around 6pm
to visit his mum in hospital,
leaving Bei alone to complete her work.
Soon after, John Heald returned from the pub.
JAMES: He was drinking a lot.
I think one or two people saw him later on
and noticed that he did appear to be somewhat drunk.
Police believe it's this combination of drink,
depression and paranoia
that gave rise to what happened next.
He was concerned
about people looking for him in the Bridlington area
and he was also concerned
that two men had come to the guest house
to try and find him.
He talked about a conversation that he could hear downstairs...
where he thought they were talking about retribution
that they wanted to inflict upon him.
He wanted to get out of the guest house.
He'd been tapped on the shoulder.
In his paranoid state,
fearing he was about to be attacked,
Heald felt a hand on his shoulder.
Rather than wait to find out who it was, he lashed out.
Bei Carter, who had only wanted to check on him,
had no chance
as Heald buried the blade deep into her chest...
piercing her heart.
He turned around, he had the knife in his hand,
and there was some...
pulling and tugging with the weapon...
then he stabbed her,
panicked, and dragged her body into room five,
locked the door,
put the keys back in his room under the mattress and left.
He grabs his bag and flees the hotel.
He left the Morayland Guest House
as soon as he could
and he took a very direct route
to Bridlington train station.
But seven days later,
thanks to an eagle-eyed member of the public,
police finally caught up with Heald.
(HELICOPTER WHIRS)
John Heald went on trial for the murder of Bei Carter,
and the sexual assault of an ex partner.
He accepted that he killed the victim,
but denied it was deliberate and premeditated...
but the prosecution had built a solid case,
based on compelling evidence.
But before a verdict could be returned,
and a sentence delivered,
there would be a final twist.
John Heald was a controlling and dangerous man.
The thought of someone else deciding his fate...
would have been unbearable for him.
My colleague,
who was the DS on the investigation,
he rung me.
I was literally just putting my shoes on to leave the house
to go to the court,
and he said, "I think you'd better sit down,
I've got some news for you."
And he told me that John Heald had hung himself
in his cell that morning.
MALE NEWS REPORTER: John Heald was due to return
to court this morning,
waiting to hear his fate in his murder trial,
then this lunchtime,
confirmation that John Heald was found hanged
in his cell at Hull Prison.
He may not have been able
to cope with the idea of life in prison
and it was one final act of control,
you're not going to find me guilty,
you're not going to put me in prison.
He sensed that it wasn't gonna go in his favour
and, quite frankly, I think he took the easy way out.
A jury could not return
any verdict on somebody who was dead,
that's a matter of law.
It left a lot of questions unanswered.
Left the family
not knowing why Bei Carter had been killed.
MALE NEWS REPORTER: Mrs Carter's husband has sat
in the public gallery throughout this trial,
hearing every detail about his wife's death.
Terry Carter expressed his frustration and anger
that they would never really
get the answers they were hoping for.
It felt like John Heald
had managed to avoid hearing the words
"guilty" in relation to his murder of Bei Carter.
A lot of murder investigations,
the people are connected,
there's some connection, there's some motive,
there's something that you can say,
"This is why this happened."
In this case, there was nothing like that.
Bei Carter was simply a landlady in a guest house,
putting her trust in people that walk through the door
to stay in her premises.
(BIRDS CAW)
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