1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:04,600 Sarah is happy. 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:07,160 She is a normal young lady 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,440 and she would never go off without telling us. 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:11,920 What's going on? 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,400 Missing girl in Claremont. 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,080 You watch, the bosses will handball this to us. 7 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,000 Welcome to Macro. 8 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:21,000 On Saturday night, a second girl went missing from Claremont. 9 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,080 Jane Rimmer, 23. 10 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,160 We're proceeding on the assumption that the same perpetrator 11 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:26,640 took Sarah Spiers. 12 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,320 The guy who took Sarah and Jane, 13 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,360 he's the guy who raped me. 14 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,080 I think it could be the same perpetrator. 15 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:35,920 We might have a living witness. 16 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,840 Dental records have confirmed that the body found in Wellard yesterday 17 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,560 is that of Jane Rimmer, the second girl to go missing from Claremont. 18 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,920 We currently hold grave fears for the safety of a young woman 19 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,640 who was last seen leaving the Continental Hotel in Claremont 20 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,680 at approximately midnight on Friday. 21 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:54,320 Are you looking for a serial killer? 22 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,080 We certainly have fears. 23 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,560 Ciara's injuries are consistent with Jane's. 24 00:00:58,640 --> 00:00:59,600 What about DNA? 25 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,720 There's a good chance. She fought hard. 26 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,440 OK, listen up. We may finally have someone. 27 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,040 Lance Williams. 28 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,120 He's the best suspect we've had since the beginning. 29 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,480 So every weekend, we're putting 50 people on the ground in Claremont. 30 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,720 Get in. I'll give you a lift. 31 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,120 (SIREN WAILS) (TYRES SQUEAL) 32 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,920 Police, don't move! Stay where you are. 33 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,480 Hands on the car. 34 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,640 I'm not the person you're looking for. 35 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,360 I didn't take anyone. 36 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,320 The fire poker's missing from Lance's flat. 37 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,480 There's a fireplace, fire iron set, no poker. 38 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,200 This is the weapon that caused the wound to the back of Ciara's head. 39 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:36,800 We think Lance will consent to a polygraph? 40 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,880 If he doesn't, he'll look guilty. 41 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,400 (REPORTERS CLAMOUR) I've got no comment. 42 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,600 Lance, the police say you are the number one 43 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,400 Claremont serial killer suspect. 44 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,360 No-one's had anything to fear from me. 45 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,520 You see, I'm just a person that got caught up in this whole thing. 46 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,960 I just did a two-hour interview with Lance Williams. 47 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,440 I don't think it's him. 48 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,840 Lance Williams fits every profile we have. 49 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,080 And what if you're wrong, and the real killer's still out there? 50 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,760 Some other guy that you know nothing about 51 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,360 because you've spent all this time on Lance? 52 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,000 There is no other guy. 53 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,040 Lance Williams is the Claremont serial killer. 54 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,160 End of story. 55 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,080 (TENSE MUSIC) 56 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,520 MAN: ..between your neck and cheek. 57 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,400 And then use your body weight 58 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,880 to really lob it forward. 59 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,360 And then just push forward, OK? 60 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:46,840 Give it a go. Easy enough. Alright. 61 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:48,760 Back? That's it. 62 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,240 Oh, wow! 63 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,680 This is, like, day one. That was amazing. 64 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,880 ALISON: Luckily, the pesky pooch was found unharmed. 65 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:01,880 Hopefully he learnt a valuable lesson 66 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,360 along with his owners. 67 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,760 Alison Fan, 7 Nightly News. 68 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,600 (KNOCKS ON DOOR) Mum? 69 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,200 Hey! Hey. 70 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,160 What are you doing here? I finished early. 71 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,160 Are we still on for dinner? Oh, you bet. 72 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,240 Um, I'll just finish up here. Are you still getting wine? 73 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:20,720 Yeah, sure. What sort? 74 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,920 As long as I'm doing stories about lost dogs, any wine is good wine. 75 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,600 I thought you might be back on Claremont. 76 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,520 Why? I heard a rumour. 77 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,440 It all seemed pretty hush-hush, 78 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,720 but it sounded like there's a team back on it. 79 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:36,680 Huh. 80 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:49,960 What the hell are you doing out here? 81 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,640 Took me three days to find you. 82 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,080 Why are you looking? 83 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:58,760 Cold Case Squad has reopened Claremont. 84 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,400 There's no one from Macro. Apparently they're the new breed. 85 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,160 They've all got forensic training. 86 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,120 And why are you telling me? 87 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,280 Don't you want in? 88 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,800 I spent six years on Claremont. 89 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,680 Look where it got me. 90 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,440 Don't you wanna find the guy? 91 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,920 I mean, are you really happy out here with all the cows? 92 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:26,880 Sarah Spiers is still missing. 93 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:29,680 I'm sorry. 94 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,560 (CAR DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES) 95 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,360 (ENGINE STARTS) 96 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,160 (THUD!) 97 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,320 Hi. 98 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,240 Mosman Park? 99 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,920 (ENGINE ROARS) 100 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,280 SONG: # Ooh 101 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,360 # Ooh, ooh 102 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,440 # Ooh 103 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,080 # Ooh, ooh... 104 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,400 # Ooh, ooh 105 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,320 # Ooh, ooh... 106 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,360 # Ooh. # 107 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,440 OK. 108 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,480 Who's this? He insisted on being let in. 109 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,960 Gavin Wyatt. He's driven in from... I worked on the original Macro team. 110 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,920 I want to join you. 111 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,560 I'm sorry. 112 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,000 I know everything about this case. 113 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,480 Yeah, that's the problem. 114 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,480 We're starting with a clean slate, out of the public eye. 115 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,880 OK, well, maybe I can help shortcut stuff. 116 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,800 Instead of having to re-read everything, I can... 117 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,800 I'm sorry, it's... it's not gonna work. 118 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:51,840 Alison Fan found me way out in the country. 119 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,440 It's only a matter of time before she finds out what you're doing. 120 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,400 You're obviously doing this on the quiet. 121 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,880 Do the bosses know you've reopened the case? 122 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,280 Well, it's a cold case. We're allowed to reopen... 123 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,080 Yeah, but I bet they don't know you've reopened 124 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,880 this particular can of worms. 125 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,640 The most famous unsolved murder case in West Australian history. 126 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,120 And I bet there'd be a few noses out of joint 127 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,080 if the old Macro hierarchy finds out you're questioning their approach. 128 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:24,920 Maybe he can explain the fire poker. 129 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,360 Why was Macro so sure that 130 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,160 Lance Williams's poker was the murder weapon? 131 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,320 Well, once I noticed it missing from Lance's flat, 132 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,720 we bought an identical poker and sent it to London. 133 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,760 A pathologist at the Royal College confirmed 134 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:38,920 the poker fitted the wound to Ciara's skull. 135 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,760 Yeah, he was wrong. 136 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,280 We found Lance's poker. 137 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,240 Where? Queensland. 138 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,720 Well, Lance has never been to Queensland. 139 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,920 Exactly. We tracked down the woman who sold the flat to Lance. 140 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,920 She meant to leave the whole set behind with the fireplace, 141 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,840 but somehow the poker was packed up by the removalists. 142 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,680 You guys never followed this up? 143 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,520 It fitted so perfectly. It made sense that she was... 144 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:05,440 Alright, well, hang on a sec. 145 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,880 What caused the wound to Ciara's head, then? 146 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,120 Wasn't a wound. 147 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,240 You know, everyone assumes Claremont was my worst case. 148 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,040 My worst case was a Christmas Day murder. 149 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,160 There was blood everywhere. Over presents, the manger. 150 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:24,160 That indentation? 151 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:25,960 She was hit over the back of the head... 152 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,280 No, she wasn't. 153 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,040 I was wrong. This is a Wormian bone. 154 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,560 What's a Wormian bone? 155 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,200 It's a naturally occurring skull formation 156 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,200 that can look like a fracture. 157 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:38,960 And no-one noticed this until now? 158 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,320 Well, once the poker was dismissed as a murder weapon, 159 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,240 we asked the pathologist to review her findings. 160 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:46,720 She called in an anthropologist. 161 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,720 That means what, exactly? 162 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,920 Lance Williams is not the Claremont serial killer. 163 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,400 He has to be. 164 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,800 OK, he was out on the street every night, stalking girls. 165 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,800 He fits every profile. 166 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,520 A loner, the prostitutes, 167 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,160 he failed the lie detector test... 168 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,520 There is not one shred of evidence that connects Lance to the murders. 169 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,160 There's no blood in his house, on his car, on his clothes. 170 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,240 No fibres, no hair. 171 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,400 And none of his DNA was found anywhere at the crime scene. 172 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,240 Then why did the crimes stop? 173 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,920 The second we started following Lance, they stopped. 174 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,400 No more girls were taken. 175 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,000 If I was a serial killer 176 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,000 and I knew the police had a suspect... 177 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,480 ..dumbest thing I can do is kill again. 178 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,160 You still wanna work with us? 179 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:46,640 (PEOPLE CHATTER) 180 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,600 Are you sure you want back in 181 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,200 if they're just gonna pour shit on everything we did? 182 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:05,680 They're smart, Bobbi. 183 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,760 Dave's DNA trained, Nikki's a fibre expert. 184 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,240 They've thrown out the suspect book. 185 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:12,880 It's all about the evidence. 186 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,280 You're gonna solve Australia's biggest cold case 187 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,040 with three detectives? 188 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,400 Sorry, now it sounds like I'm the one pouring shit. 189 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,160 I hope you find him. I really do. 190 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,840 You miss it, don't you? 191 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,560 Uh-uh. 192 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,120 I've moved on. Corporate's good. 193 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,360 It is. 194 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:41,720 Some things... 195 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,720 ..maybe it's easier to leave them behind. 196 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,800 Yeah. 197 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,360 I'm going to find him, Bobbi. 198 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,080 Even if it kills me. 199 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:59,920 Make sure it doesn't. 200 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:05,760 Ciara's missing thumbnail and middle finger. 201 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,280 I remember. 202 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,440 All that's left where the nail was are three red dots. 203 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,160 Yeah, blood. 204 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,560 So she's clawing at him so hard her nail has ripped off. 205 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,560 You'd think she'd have to scrape some of his skin. 206 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,960 Yeah, but the nail was never found at the crime scene. 207 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,160 Caught in his clothes, fell off somewhere else? 208 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,400 Was any of the remaining nail tested? 209 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,080 Yes, we tested everything, and I mean everything. 210 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,680 Every jar, every scrap of nail. 211 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,080 Some went to New Zealand, some to the FBI. 212 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,680 We tested every single one of these. There's nothing else. 213 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,440 What about AJM40? 214 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,360 It doesn't appear on any of the test results. 215 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,400 AJM...40. 216 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,400 Uh, AJM40. 217 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,520 Let's see here. 218 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,720 Aha! That's why. 219 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,320 'Debris only. Not suitable for analysis.' 220 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:00,800 Why not? 221 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,360 Because at the time, there wasn't enough in there to test. 222 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,720 I think there might be enough now. 223 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,080 For his services to Little Athletics, 224 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:13,600 Bradley Edwards. 225 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,880 (CAMERAS CLICK) 226 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,240 London lab called. It worked. 227 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,320 Fax coming through now. 228 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:39,760 (MACHINE BEEPS) 229 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,240 They extracted two DNA sets. 230 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,160 The first belonged to Ciara... 231 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:46,640 ..the other to an unknown male. 232 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,040 We've got his DNA. 233 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,440 We've got the Claremont killer's DNA. 234 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,680 (TV PLAYS SOFTLY) 235 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:10,320 Can we have a word with Lance, please? 236 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,360 When is this gonna stop? 237 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,520 He's only just out of hospital. 238 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,360 Depression, anxiety. Huh! No wonder. 239 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,040 Mr Williams. 240 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,880 Uh, we wanted to tell you officially 241 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,600 that you're no longer a person of interest in the Claremont matter. 242 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:35,080 What does that mean? 243 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,480 You won't be hearing from us anymore. 244 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,520 I'm sorry. 245 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,640 You were only doing your job. 246 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,960 The DNA isn't Lance Williams's. 247 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,080 It's from the Karrakatta rapist. 248 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,280 What? 249 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,760 We tested the DNA against all the original major suspects. 250 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,240 The mayor, Steve Ross. Nothing. 251 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,280 And then I remembered your case. 252 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,400 Lisa. Karrakatta. And it matched? 253 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,600 Well, it matched Unknown Male #4. 254 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,320 (SIGHS) You were right, Bobbi. 255 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,800 Lisa was raped by the man 256 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,600 who went on to become the Claremont serial killer. 257 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,600 I need you to come back in. 258 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,440 Come on, just to talk to them, OK? 259 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,840 You know this case backwards. You can tell them better than me. 260 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,280 No way. I'm out. I told you. 261 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,080 This time we are doing everything by the book, 262 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,240 and when we catch this guy, we're gonna need you as a witness 263 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,520 to present the statement you took from Lisa in '96. 264 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,760 Her name was Lisa Todd. She was 17. 265 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,920 A year before Sarah went missing, she was partying in Claremont. 266 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,680 On her way home, she was grabbed from Rowe Park. 267 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,400 She was taken to Karrakatta Cemetery and raped. 268 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,440 But the rape kit didn't match anyone on file at the time. 269 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,920 So this Unknown Male #4, Macro was onto him as a suspect for Claremont. 270 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,600 What happened? Well, Lisa was a blitz attack. 271 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:20,880 It was thought all three girls willingly got into vehicles. 272 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,000 These are the shorts she was wearing. 273 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,680 Her T-shirt, underwear, shoes. 274 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,320 And this is the cord he used to tie her. 275 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,200 But we could never find any evidence the Claremont killer 276 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,400 tied up any of the three girls, or attacked them from behind. 277 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:39,600 What? 278 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,240 We've gone back over Jane's post-mortem photographs. 279 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,400 There's a mark on her wrist that suggests she might have been tied up. 280 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,440 But if the girls got into the vehicle voluntarily, 281 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,440 when did he tie them - how would that work? 282 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,400 We found other witnesses. 283 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,560 Girls who accepted lifts around the same time and had close calls. 284 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:57,320 This one, Katrina Jones. 285 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,520 Late 1995. She'd been at a wedding. 286 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,920 At 2:30 in the morning, she was trying to get a lift. 287 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,440 EDWARDS: You OK? 288 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:05,600 No. As a matter of fact, I'm not. 289 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,760 He offered her a lift. She said he seemed nice. 290 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,280 Thanks so much. 291 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:10,880 She asked what he did for a living. 292 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,040 He said he was a Telstra worker, like her brother. 293 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,960 DAVE: That's when things went wrong. Yeah, she said she picked up vibes. 294 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:17,480 She must have sensed something was wrong 295 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,280 because she got him to drop her off five houses back from her car. 296 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,600 Next minute, he was behind her. 297 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:27,760 (SCREAMS) 298 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,480 It's exactly what happened to Lisa. 299 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,800 She'd already told him she was a blue belt in taekwondo. 300 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:36,280 He backed off. 301 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:37,760 She tried to get his numberplate 302 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,560 but all she had to write with was lipstick. 303 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,360 So when was this? Late '95. 304 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,400 So after Karrakatta but before Sarah. 305 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:45,680 So that's what happened to Sarah. 306 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,320 He actually drove her to Mosman Park and let her out. 307 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,720 Then he came up behind her. 308 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,200 So these witnesses. They all got into a Telstra vehicle? 309 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,600 Or a white vehicle consistent with that. 310 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,720 We're calling them the Telstra Living Witnesses. 311 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,880 But after Karrakatta, we asked Telstra for a list of drivers. 312 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,160 We checked every single one. 313 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,440 In '95, Telstra logos were being changed over from the old Telecom. 314 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,320 Macro asked for Telstra drivers. That's what you got. 315 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,360 If the killer was still driving a Telecom vehicle, he missed the net. 316 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,560 Ha! 317 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:16,560 That is... 318 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:19,680 ..unbelievable. 319 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,960 But the problem then is the problem now. 320 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,200 The Karrakatta rape was unsolved. 321 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,480 How do we identify Unknown Male #4? 322 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,360 Well, for starters, we're asking for a list of Telecom drivers 323 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,160 from the '90s, but that could take some time. 324 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,280 So we're also running his sample 325 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:40,760 against every single piece of DNA that Macro ever collected. 326 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,600 We DNA-tested 9,000 local men. 327 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,560 Plus over 2,000 taxi drivers and their cars. 328 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,080 Yeah, so don't hold your breath. 329 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:52,640 Gavin. 330 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:54,600 Oh. 331 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,200 What happened to that update you promised me? 332 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:57,680 We're still working on it. 333 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:59,200 Do you have anything? 334 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,600 Come on, Gav, I could run with this any time. 335 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,560 "Cold Case Unit secretly reopens Claremont." 336 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,160 It's a great story for me. 337 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:07,680 It's one night. 338 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,280 If you hold off, I'll give you the biggest story of the year. 339 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,560 When? Gav? 340 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:15,960 You know Sarah would have been 38 this year 341 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,160 and that her dad's still shearing 10 hours a day. 342 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,320 So he never has to stop and think about his missing daughter. 343 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:27,080 (HAUNTING MUSIC) 344 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,600 Don. Carol. 345 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,680 Sorry. It's not you. 346 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:01,760 We've got his DNA. 347 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,760 We've matched him to a precursor crime. 348 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,400 Now we've just gotta match his DNA with a name. 349 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:12,600 You know what I don't get? 350 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:16,040 Someone out there knows who it is. 351 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:18,920 Someone who works with him. 352 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Someone who gave birth to him. 353 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,400 Do they know? 354 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:41,960 (DIALS PHONE) 355 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:51,200 ALISON: Hello? Alison. 356 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,720 Got a pen and paper? 357 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,960 It's been nearly 20 years since Sarah Spiers went missing, 358 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,800 the first victim of the Claremont serial killer. 359 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:01,040 Or was she? 360 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:02,880 In a sensational breakthrough, 361 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,560 sources close to police have revealed 362 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,160 they have forensic evidence 363 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,800 linking the man who murdered Ciara Glennon to an earlier victim. 364 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,800 Her identity remains a closely guarded secret. 365 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,400 If they've got the forensic evidence, why can't they just arrest him? 366 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,520 ..of Claremont and brutally raped in Karrakatta Cemetery 367 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,160 managed to escape. 368 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,280 They now believe there may have been earlier attacks, 369 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,560 what they're calling 'precursor crimes'. 370 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,560 They're looking for young women who were assaulted in the Claremont area 371 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,080 before Sarah... 372 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,480 I can give Maddie a lift if you like. 373 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,480 Ah, yes. Yeah, OK. 374 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,400 Oh, have you thought more about her 21st? 375 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,200 Well, thinking about it's one thing, but how do we pay for it? 376 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,000 I don't understand why we're always so short. 377 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,560 You know, we're both working, I'm not spending it on anything. 378 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,040 So where's it all going? 379 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:51,680 (CLEARS THROAT) 380 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,680 Hey, Dad, can I grab a lift to uni today? 381 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,480 Yeah, sure, but I'm going now. 382 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,960 Yeah, I'm ready. OK. 383 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,960 See ya, Mum. Bye. 384 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,640 Brad? (DOOR OPENS) 385 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,680 We need to talk about this. 386 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,200 It's in all the papers, all over the TV. 387 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:21,840 You've completely blown our cover. 388 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,640 Someone needed to put a rocket under the case. 389 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,560 This will get us blasted out of the job. 390 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,400 But now we're actually getting calls. 391 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,920 Other women who were picked up in Claremont at the same time. 392 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,840 Crime Stoppers is getting hammered. 393 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,840 Yeah, and who's gonna process all the leads if we get fired, hmm? 394 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,360 (PHONE RINGS) 395 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,000 Santos. 396 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,000 Yep. Yep, he's here. 397 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:50,520 It's the boss. 398 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:54,880 Medcalf. 399 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,560 Yes, sir. 400 00:21:58,320 --> 00:21:59,920 No, I understand. 401 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,400 Yes. 402 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,720 Yes, I should have consulted you. 403 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,320 OK. 404 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:09,880 (HANGS UP) 405 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,640 Are we fired? 406 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,600 No. No, he's, uh, he's giving us more people. 407 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:21,080 (CHUCKLES) 408 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,120 (CHILLING MUSIC) 409 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,680 (SPEAKS INAUDIBLY) 410 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,960 (SOFT MUSIC PLAYS THROUGH DOOR) 411 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,240 (GARBLED SPEECH PLAYS THROUGH DOOR) 412 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,040 (WOMAN GRUNTS AND MOANS ON RECORDING) 413 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,800 (WOMAN GROANS ON RECORDING) 414 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,200 Thanks. Thanks, Julie. 415 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,320 We are getting dozens of calls about Claremont. 416 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,320 From who? 417 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,320 Women who accepted lifts from white cars in the '90s 418 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:15,800 and never came forward. 419 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:16,920 Why not? 420 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,880 With all the Lance Williams talk in the papers, 421 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,360 they thought you already had the guy. 422 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,560 But, God, it's been so long now, no-one can ID him. 423 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,600 Any news from the DNA tests? 424 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,080 We've checked the sample against 425 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,880 every single piece of DNA on the West Australian database - nothing. 426 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,680 We have to wait for the international and national requests now. 427 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,800 That'll take months. How can we be so close? 428 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,840 We've got his DNA, for God's sake. Is there anything else we can do? 429 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,080 We want to test Jane's hair for fibres. 430 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,400 Jane had been to the hairdresser the morning before her death, 431 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:48,880 so any fibres in her hair 432 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,920 can be narrowed down to having got there after that. 433 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,840 You're hoping to find something from the perpetrator? 434 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,360 Well, it's a long shot, we know, 435 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:55,840 but the paperwork says you collected 436 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,960 Jane's entire hair mass during the post-mortem? 437 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,200 We've searched Trace. It's not there, so... 438 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,760 Because I sent it to Toxicology, not Trace. 439 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,160 At the time, I wanted to test for drugs. 440 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,160 I thought maybe she'd been administered 441 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,640 something to knock her out. 442 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,280 So it's still at Tox? 443 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:12,560 As far as I know. 444 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,680 Right, what am I looking at? Isn't it obvious? 445 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,640 To someone with a PhD in fibres, sure. 446 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,120 Let's just pretend that's not me. 447 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,920 (LAUGHS) OK. So this is a fibre we found in Jane's hair. 448 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,200 The Forensic guys managed to extract 20 of these. 449 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,800 Do we know what they are? 450 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,760 Well, some we have no idea. 451 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,360 Fibres you can't match with anything. 452 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,800 But this one, this has a name. Blue Graphite. 453 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,600 And it matches the upholstery of a... 454 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:38,720 Cheers. 455 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,480 ..Holden Commodore V6 Series 1 station wagon. 456 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:42,960 Why do I know that vehicle? 457 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,240 Because it's the vehicle the burger boys described seeing 458 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,720 the night Ciara was taken. 459 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,360 Check her out. (BURGER BOYS LAUGH) 460 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,360 It was a white, late-model Series 1 VS Holden station wagon. 461 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,080 Did Macro look for Holden station wagons at the time? 462 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,200 Yep, but that search was shelved once we started focusing on Lance. 463 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,160 He drove a Toyota Camry. 464 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,400 So is this it? One fibre? 465 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,640 No. Other fibres collected match a different carpet 466 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,960 made especially for the cargo area of Holdens. 467 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,000 Suggesting Jane was in the cargo area 468 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,840 sometime after her visit to the hairdresser. 469 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,320 Yeah, and there's more. 470 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,800 Fibres found on Ciara match the carpet from the same make of car. 471 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,080 We're going car hunting, boys and girls. 472 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:46,840 EDWARDS: I gotta tell you something. 473 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,760 You getting cold feet about the wedding? 474 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,000 I got a criminal record. 475 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,720 After my first wife cheated on me, 476 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,240 I had... 477 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,200 I just... I couldn't handle it. I had a brain snap. 478 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,640 What happened? 479 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,320 There was this woman at work, and... 480 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,040 I took it out on her. 481 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,840 Sexually? No, no, it was nothing like that. 482 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,440 They called it a common assault. It was stupid. 483 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,400 I don't know what came over me. 484 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,480 It was like I just snapped, you know? 485 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,920 (SOBS) It was so dumb. 486 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,200 It was so dumb. 487 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,600 I just wanted you to know 488 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,280 before we got married. 489 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:30,440 (SNIFFLES) 490 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,120 Hey. Hey! 491 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,240 I just feel so ashamed. 492 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,320 Hey, it's OK. It's alright. 493 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,040 I just wanted to be honest with you. 494 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:45,720 OK. OK. It's alright. 495 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,560 We went through car lots, wrecking yards. 496 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,240 Took apart every '96 V6 Commodore we could find. 497 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,600 BOBBI: Nothing? 498 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,560 And nothing from trying to check the workers who drove Telecom cars. 499 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,200 They no longer have the records. 500 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,080 It has been 20 years. 501 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:10,120 Yeah. 502 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,680 Hey, are you seeing anyone? 503 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,040 What? No. 504 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,200 Pick up some random for the fun of it? 505 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,080 No, just try to have some sort of life outside this case. 506 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,400 Did I tell you we didn't get a DNA match from interstate? 507 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,920 It's amazing. This guy just does not have a criminal record. 508 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,240 He has to. No-one starts with rape and murder. 509 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:34,840 There has to be some sort of apprenticeship. 510 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,480 Something even before Karrakatta. 511 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,680 What? 512 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,440 You just gave me an idea. 513 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,040 Hey, come here. Come here. 514 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,800 What if this guy was involved in a minor crime and pled guilty? 515 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,800 It's possible his DNA was collected but never tested. 516 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,680 Because the police didn't have to prove his guilt. 517 00:28:58,760 --> 00:28:59,720 Exactly. 518 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,520 We need to go back through the old files. 519 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,720 Any sexual offence pre-1995. 520 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,160 OK. 521 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,000 (SIGHS) This box shouldn't even be here. 522 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,600 This isn't even a sex crime. 523 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,240 Some kind of standover operation in the '90s. 524 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,000 What's Huntingdale? 525 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,120 Uh... 526 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,000 Looks like a series of break-ins in and around Huntingdale. 527 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,600 Women's underwear being stolen off the line. 528 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,880 Frequent sightings of a prowler breaking into houses. 529 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,240 Yeah, that was found at one of the assaults. 530 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:53,320 A...stockings used as a gag and bindings. 531 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,120 The attacker brought those with him? 532 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,880 Mmm. 533 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,640 Mostly rapists don't come with restraints. 534 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,200 The Karrakatta rapist did. 535 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:25,960 WOMAN: That's it. 536 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,000 That's what he was wearing. 537 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,360 This was...February 1988? 538 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:32,480 Valentine's Day. 539 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,680 Do you remember what he looked like? 540 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,280 (SCREAMS) 541 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,920 Dad! Dad! 542 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,480 No, I didn't see his face. 543 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,440 Uh, Gavin? 544 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,880 Excuse me. 545 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,080 We just had a call from PathWest. 546 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,720 They got a hit? Semen on the kimono. 547 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,360 It matches both the Karrakatta rapist and Ciara's left thumbnail. 548 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,600 Is there anything else you can tell us about your attacker? 549 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,200 Anything that might help identify him? 550 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,160 Well, at the time, I had no idea who the hell he was, 551 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,160 but afterwards, when I started to tell my story to people, 552 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,160 everyone started telling their own story about this guy 553 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,920 being around the neighbourhood at the time. 554 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,800 Other sexual assaults? 555 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,760 No, mostly it was pranking stuff. 556 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,680 This guy would run around the streets and break into houses. 557 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,000 He'd wear women's underwear on his head. 558 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,080 Everyone thought it was funny. 559 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,520 They used to call him the Huntingdale Weirdo. 560 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,600 (SIGHS) 561 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,920 (WOMAN SCREAMS ON RECORDING) 562 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,000 (DARK MUSIC) 563 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,000 (DOOR CREAKS) 564 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,040 (WOMAN SCREAMING LOUDER) 565 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,840 (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) 566 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:09,800 The Huntingdale Weirdo. 567 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,560 Jeez, he got around. There must be dozens of break-ins. 568 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,880 We just need one where he left prints. 569 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,200 Hmm. 570 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,880 Think I've found something. 571 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,320 This was an attempt to break in not too far from Kylee's house, 572 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,120 and only a few days after her attack. 573 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,640 He left... 574 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,920 He left prints, but he didn't get in. 575 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,040 Question is, do they match anyone in the system? 576 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,560 (HANGS UP PHONE) 577 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,280 Bradley Robert Edwards. 578 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,800 1990. 579 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,840 It's the only offence ever recorded against him. 580 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:07,880 ever recorded against him. 581 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,280 Was it a sex crime? 582 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,280 Apparently the file just says 'common assault', 583 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,880 which is why it wasn't picked up earlier. 584 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,600 Macro was only looking for precursor sex crimes. 585 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,320 Is there a witness? 586 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,320 There was nothing 'common' about it. 587 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,040 I thought I was gonna die. 588 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,760 (GROANS) 589 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,840 I have no doubt... he intended to rape me. 590 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,560 The level of aggression... 591 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,200 ..it was just insane. 592 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,360 (GRUNTS AND GROANS) 593 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,640 I was on the floor with a gag in my mouth, 594 00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:54,160 being dragged to the toilets. 595 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,560 And you told all this to the police? 596 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,040 Yep. 597 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,600 (SHRIEKS) I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! 598 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,280 Everyone treated it like it was nothing. 599 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,240 I even had a meeting with his boss. 600 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,080 And they were saying, "Oh, he's such a nice guy. 601 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,320 "He was having relationship problems. He just had a brain snap." 602 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,160 I mean, seriously, what kind of guy 603 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:31,240 broad daylight to fix your phones 604 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,680 turns up to a hospital in broad daylight to fix your phones 605 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,800 and tries to rape a social worker? 606 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,000 I couldn't believe it was being swept under the carpet. 607 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,400 Fix the phones? Yeah. 608 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,960 That's why he was there. He was a Telstra technician. (SNIFFS) 609 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,480 (CAMERA CLICKS) 610 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,320 GAVIN: That's him. 611 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,520 That's our killer. 612 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,200 At the time of the Huntingdale prowler attacks, 613 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,200 he was an 18-year-old living at home with his parents. 614 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,720 This is their house. 615 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:17,800 or sightings were reported. 616 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,240 These are the houses where break-ins or sightings were reported. 617 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,800 This is the house where Kylee Cosgrove was attacked 618 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,280 and the kimono found. 619 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,720 Now, he knew this house. 620 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,840 Wasn't too far from where he lived with his parents. 621 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,320 His vehicles match. 622 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:30,480 At the time of Karrakatta, he was driving a Telecom Mitsubishi van. 623 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,040 This matches the description Lisa Todd gave of the cargo area 624 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:39,920 she was thrown into in '95. 625 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,000 His next vehicle was a white Toyota Camry station wagon, 626 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,000 which Sarah Spiers may have mistaken for a taxi. 627 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,720 But in 1997, he was driving this. 628 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,040 A Holden Commodore V6 Series 1 station wagon, 629 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,880 the exact vehicle the Burger Boys described. 630 00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,600 And we found the car. 631 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,840 Miraculously, it's still in operation. 632 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,880 We've tracked it to a plant nursery in Chidlow. 633 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,520 The Burger Boys described the wheels as having teardrop-shaped cutouts. 634 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,200 That wasn't standard for that model Holden. 635 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,080 We thought they got it wrong. They didn't. 636 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,440 They didn't. 637 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,000 Now, the question is... when do we make our move? 638 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,360 And are we absolutely sure this is our man? 639 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,480 And the big problem - did he stop after Ciara? 640 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,280 Why would he? 641 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,400 He got married. 642 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,000 We think this gave him the stability he needed 643 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,840 to put a stopper to the anger. 644 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,800 And if that is true, then we have another problem, 645 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,760 because it appears the second wife has just moved out. 646 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,640 So we need to move now. 647 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,680 (DARK MUSIC) 648 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:55,760 (WOMAN SHRIEKS) 649 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,760 (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) 650 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,680 Police! Don't move! On the ground! Down on your knees! 651 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:33,720 On the ground! Down on your knees! 652 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,440 Stay where you are! Hands on your head! 653 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:41,960 Hands behind your back. 654 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:43,760 I have in my possession a search warrant 655 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,880 issued under the Criminal Investigation Act. 656 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,520 Right, that's for you. 657 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,160 Bradley Robert Edwards, you are now being arrested 658 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:53,240 on suspicion of the wilful murder of Ciara Glennon... 659 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,240 What? What the... ..Jane Rimmer and Sarah Spiers. 660 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,720 You gotta be joking. 661 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,920 You're also being arrested on suspicion of a break-in and assault 662 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,520 in Huntingdale in 1988, 663 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,480 and a rape in Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995. 664 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,840 As a person arrested on suspicion, you've got rights. 665 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,640 I'm gonna go through those rights with you now, 666 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:09,120 OK, so listen carefully. 667 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,040 Do you have to speak to me? No. 668 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,680 Are you aware that this is being recorded? 669 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,240 I'm just trying to process what's going on. 670 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,240 OK. Is there any property here that belongs to Ciara Glennon... 671 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,120 What? Don't... ..Jane Rimmer or Sarah Spiers? 672 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,760 Why would there be anything like that here? 673 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,200 Better get him out of here. Press has got wind of this. 674 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:24,680 Alright, get him out of here. 675 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,160 Can I just call my parents? 676 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,880 (HELICOPTER BUZZES OVERHEAD) 677 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:31,760 OFFICER: Watch your step. 678 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,120 (CAMERAS CLICK) 679 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,120 (REPORTERS SHOUT) 680 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,480 WOMAN: Detective, any comments? 681 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,440 OK, go. Get out of here. 682 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,320 (REPORTER CALLS OUT) 683 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:54,720 DAVE: You've got to find us something 684 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,080 from one of the girls, anything linking Edwards to them. 685 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,640 Ciara's brooch, Jane's clothes, Sarah, that...that key ring. 686 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:02,920 A sunflower, yeah. We'll find something. Is he lawyering up? 687 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,800 DAVE: Not yet. Said he doesn't want one. 688 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,240 Ring me when you've got something. Yeah. 689 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,440 DAVE: You lead in there. 690 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,480 You're about the same age. 691 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,200 Build up some rapport. 692 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,000 Keep it friendly, and let's make him sing. 693 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,360 (PHONE RINGS) 694 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,760 Oh, shit. 695 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,880 You promised me the biggest story of the year, 696 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,200 and then I see some blonde bimbo reporting it live? 697 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,760 I was gonna call you, Alison. 698 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,360 I can't talk right now. 699 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,080 Gavin? 700 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,200 REPORTER: The police have not yet issued an official statement. 701 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:51,760 (DOOR CLOSES) OK. 702 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,320 OK. 703 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,520 We just wanted to ask you a couple of questions. 704 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,040 Maybe we can just start at the beginning? 705 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,040 Sure. 706 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,320 Why don't you tell us about your childhood? 707 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,200 But what does my childhood have to... 708 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,880 Just to get to know you, you know? 709 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,320 OK. We... 710 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,000 We lived in a van for a while 711 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,240 because my dad was always travelling for work, 712 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,160 but, um, it was good, you know? 713 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:27,760 We saw my parents' friends a lot. 714 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,240 Had barbecues on weekends. 715 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,480 (SIZZLING) 716 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,880 Pretty normal, just growing-up stuff. 717 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,240 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 718 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,160 (HEAVENLY CHOIR SINGS) 719 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,400 (UNSETTLING SOUNDSCAPE) 720 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000 (DOOR OPENS) 721 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,160 (CLEARS THROAT) And you wore glasses? 722 00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:02,880 Yeah. Mm. 723 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,240 Yeah, I wasn't the best-looking kid. I got teased about it. 724 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,240 OK. That's hard. 725 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,080 Mm. So I started wearing contact lenses when I was about 20. 726 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,360 20. But you wore glasses before that? 727 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:15,880 Yeah. 728 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,480 Mm. OK. 729 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,440 Valentine's Day in 1988. Do you remember where you were? 730 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,520 Come on, mate, I can't even remember where I was last week. 731 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,120 Yeah. (CHUCKLES) 732 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,440 (LAUGHS) 733 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,280 Do you remember Kylee Cosgrove? 734 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:45,200 She lived not far from you in Huntingdale. 735 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,360 Uh, no, I don't think so. 736 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,520 Don't think so? 737 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,480 No. 738 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,000 She didn't go to your school? 739 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,320 No. 740 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,840 I mean, we might have... I remember... 741 00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,200 I remember the name Cosgrove. 742 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,640 I think my brother used to swim at their pool or something, 743 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:03,320 but I...I don't...I didn't cross paths with any Kylee Cosgrove. 744 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,000 OK. Yep. 745 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,760 Mm. 746 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,840 And you know anything about a kimono? 747 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,880 Two birds, red flowers on the back. 748 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:15,920 No. Nothing. 749 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,600 Nothing. 750 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,000 Maybe we can back up a bit. 751 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,880 Can you tell us about your first marriage? 752 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,480 First marriage. Yeah. 753 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,280 I was depressed. 754 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,400 Um, I drank a lot. 755 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,160 You know why she left? 756 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,520 We, uh... 757 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,480 We had a lodger and she took up with him. 758 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,440 (UNSETTLING SOUNDSCAPE) 759 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,400 But I still kinda loved her, you know? 760 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,880 And her parents told my parents that leaving me 761 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,000 was the worst decision that she ever made. 762 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,920 Your wife left you around Australia Day '96? 763 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,160 Yeah, probably about then. 764 00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:04,360 That's about when Sarah Spiers went missing. 765 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,360 Isn't it? Yeah. 766 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:13,320 And you found out your wife was pregnant to this lodger... 767 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:18,080 I guess... Well, if... Yeah, June. June 1996. 768 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,600 That's about the time Jane Rimmer went missing. 769 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,520 And I've got here you sold the home you bought with your first wife 770 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,320 in January of 1997. 771 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,560 That's around the time Ciara Glennon was abducted. 772 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,200 That's a hell of a coincidence. Is that right, those dates? 773 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,400 Look, I don't know anything about any of that. 774 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,960 I'm trying to be as honest with you blokes as I can. 775 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:50,360 Will you submit to giving a DNA sample? 776 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,520 DNA? Yeah, for testing. 777 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,960 You can oblige willingly, or we can get a court order, 778 00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,120 but either way, yeah, we'll get it. 779 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,720 No, no, I'll give it. I don't mind. 780 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,720 I keep telling you I've got nothing to hide. 781 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,760 Just wanna go to sleep and wake up and this'll all be over, 782 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,800 you know what I mean? 783 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,840 (UNSETTLING SOUNDSCAPE) 784 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,400 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 785 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:20,520 Hey, Dave. 786 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,800 We found porn, snuff films, 787 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,320 women's underwear with the crotch cut out, 788 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,480 homemade sex toys, some stuff he's written about rape. 789 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,560 I mean, this guy's a psycho fuck, but... 790 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,520 There's nothing to connect him to the girls? 791 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,640 Yeah, not yet. Neither clothing, nor jewellery. Not one trophy. 792 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:37,920 He's either hidden it, or... He got rid of it. 793 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,920 Yeah. How's the interview going? 794 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,560 Uh, he's denying everything. 795 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,360 He's lying, Nikki. He's making shit up. 796 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,960 But you still have enough to charge him? 797 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,760 Yeah, but, you know, a confession would be bloody nice. 798 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,520 I'll get one. I'll get a confession. Gav. 799 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,320 We'll have new DNA results within an hour, 800 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,440 and when they match with what we found on Ciara, 801 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:55,600 we won't need a confession. 802 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,080 What, he gave his DNA willingly? He did. 803 00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,200 Shit. 804 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,640 He either doesn't think we doesn't have anything to compare it to 805 00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:04,080 or he's not our guy. He's our guy. 806 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,800 We'll talk soon, eh? 807 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,800 You bet he is. 808 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,480 Look. 809 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,520 He's sleeping. 810 00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,880 Only guilty bastards sleep. 811 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,760 The innocent are always pacing. 812 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,480 Mr Edwards. 813 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,160 It's time to get up. 814 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,480 Now, in 1996, when you were working for Telstra, 815 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,600 did you drive a Holden Commodore station wagon? 816 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:48,760 Yeah. 817 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,280 Yeah. And a cargo area in the back? 818 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,000 Yeah, there was a caged area between the driver 819 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:58,520 and the rear area, but I think every Telstra vehicle looked like that. 820 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,320 And did you drive around the nightclubs in Claremont? 821 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,520 Um, I mean, I'm aware of them, I've never been to them. 822 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,640 I...I don't go out to Claremont. 823 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,400 OK, we'll just take a look at this map. 824 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,000 Do you know Rowe Park? 825 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:18,840 Nuh. 826 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,640 Are you positive? Yes! 827 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:22,240 Karrakatta Cemetery? 828 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:27,640 Yes. I was there for a memorial for a woman in 2008, I think. 829 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:29,520 No time before? 830 00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,440 Not that I recall. 831 00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,720 (KNOCK AT DOOR) 832 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:34,960 Come in. 833 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,040 (DOOR OPENS) 834 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,080 Thank you. 835 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:15,840 Are you aware of the women 836 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,600 who were abducted from Claremont in '96 and '97? 837 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,040 I'm aware of them. I think everybody was aware of them. 838 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,800 But I'm 110, I am 120% certain 839 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,000 that I'm not involved in any of this. 840 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,640 I don't know how many ways that I can say no. 841 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:36,080 Right. 842 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,720 DNA results have come back 843 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,520 and they confirm that your DNA 844 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,840 is a positive match for the kimono in Huntingdale... 845 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,200 No, that's not possible. ..in 1988... 846 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:45,440 ..for the rape... No. 847 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,080 ..of a young woman in Karrakatta Cemetery... 848 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:48,120 How can that be? 849 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,640 ..and for the murder of Ciara Glennon in 1997. 850 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:52,640 No. 851 00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:55,960 Can you explain that? I...I can't. 852 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,400 You can't explain that? No. 853 00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,720 Alright. You're an intelligent man. You're not dumb. 854 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,280 Now, you know that your DNA is unique. 855 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,280 You're the only person in the whole world with that DNA profile. 856 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,640 I can... I can't explain that. I mean... 857 00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:09,520 Just tell us what happened. I...I wish I could! 858 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,720 But I can't because I wasn't there! 859 00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:13,440 I...I mean, you're... Hey, slow down. 860 00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,400 You don't believe that I did it... Slow down. 861 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,360 ..but you're the one saying that I did it. 862 00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,120 Listen, the question I asked you 863 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,000 is do you understand that your DNA profile's unique? 864 00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,920 I can't explain that! I don't understand what's happening! 865 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,880 Well, we found your semen 866 00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:28,480 on the kimono in Huntingdale. 867 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,520 We found your DNA on Lisa Todd in Karrakatta Cemetery. 868 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:33,880 Can't explain that? Nuh. 869 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:35,280 And we found your DNA 870 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,160 on Ciara Glennon, 27 years of age, 871 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:40,880 murdered March 14th, 1997, OK? 872 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,720 Your DNA is on her. Impossible. 873 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,200 Can't explain that one either? No. 874 00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,120 Alright. Are you an honest man? 875 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:47,800 I'm... Yes. 876 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,160 'Cause we interviewed your stepdaughter. 877 00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:53,160 And she said that your most-prized virtue is your honesty. 878 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:55,600 I am being honest. 879 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,280 Are you a man who accepts responsibility for your actions? 880 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,720 I accept responsibility for the stuff that I have done, 881 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,600 not for the stuff that I haven't. 882 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,640 Bradley Robert Edwards, 883 00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:13,800 you're now being charged with the assault on Kylee Cosgrove... 884 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:15,600 No, you've got the wrong guy. ..in 1988. 885 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,000 The rape of Lisa Todd in 1995 886 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,680 and the murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon. 887 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,200 I did not do it! 888 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,400 You've got the wrong guy. 889 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,160 TV: I'm here to make an important announcement... 890 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:30,680 (PHONE RINGS) ..to the West Australian community. 891 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,000 Detectives from the Special Crime Squad 892 00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,320 have charged a 48-year-old Kewdale man 893 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,600 with the murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon, and attacks... 894 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,120 Gav. ..on other young women. 895 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,960 This has already been the biggest... You watching this? 896 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,160 ..and most complex police investigation in WA's history. 897 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:46,600 Congratulations, Gav. 898 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,680 Hundreds of police officers... Now we have to convict him. 899 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,480 ..over the past 20 years. You will. 900 00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:56,240 The commitment of the WA Police and its officers have never wavered. 901 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,880 We never give up. 902 00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,360 He didn't confess and he's pleading not guilty to every charge. 903 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,960 There's nothing in any of the houses that links him to the girls. 904 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,920 Not one trophy, not one hair, nothing. 905 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,080 Just tell him you got something from his car. 906 00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,320 Yeah, we found this. 907 00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:13,640 You see it? 908 00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:14,640 Yeah. 909 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:16,960 But that doesn't link him to any of the girls. 910 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:17,960 You got anything else? 911 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,160 There was no blood or hair from them in the car. 912 00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:21,360 How can there be no blood? 913 00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,680 Well, he must have killed them where we found them. 914 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,440 But the fibres on Jane and Ciara match, OK? 915 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,200 These grey ones were found in the carpet 916 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,840 on the car floor and back well of a Holden Commodore. 917 00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:36,160 And on the handle that adjusts the driver's seat, 918 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:38,480 13 blue fibres we can't ID yet. 919 00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,240 But I had an idea about them. 920 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,200 You see it? 921 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,000 The shorts. 922 00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,440 Yeah. These could be the source of the blue fibres. 923 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,520 We've just got to find someone who kept a pair since 1995. 924 00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,560 I swear, OK? I didn't have anything to do with it. 925 00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:01,960 It's just like with that other guy, that...public servant that they... 926 00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,080 Lance Williams. That's it. 927 00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,480 Yeah. That's what the cops do. 928 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,680 They get tunnel vision, they zone in on a guy. 929 00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,120 But why'd they pick you, Dad? I don't know. 930 00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,800 They're saying that they've got my DNA from an attack in 1988. 931 00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,520 What's that, 30 years ago? 932 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,480 They're just trying to stitch me up, you'll see. 933 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,000 We'll keep supporting you, Brad. Don't worry. 934 00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,320 So will Mum and Dad. We all believe you. 935 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,120 I-I don't understand how he isn't charged 936 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,320 with Sarah's... with her...her murder. 937 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,320 There's still nothing concrete that links him with Sarah, yet. 938 00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,920 You need a body. 939 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,200 No. 940 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,280 Not necessarily. 941 00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,840 But we could use more evidence. 942 00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,720 Do you have any kids? 943 00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:02,520 No. 944 00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:06,400 In the country... 945 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,000 ..you can sometimes fear the big city. 946 00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:15,720 But our girls didn't. 947 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:17,520 They were just so... 948 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:20,880 ..alive. 949 00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,080 But we worried for them and... 950 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:30,720 ..we bought them a flat in a nice part of town and a good car 951 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,520 and tried to keep them safe. 952 00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,800 Still, just... 953 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,600 ..life just... 954 00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:43,440 ..blows up. 955 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,080 It's just your worst fear. 956 00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:01,200 Don't let 'em forget about her. 957 00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,800 Charge the bastard for those other girls and forget about Sarah. 958 00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,480 I'll make sure they don't. 959 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:12,800 Yeah. 960 00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,000 (UNSETTLING SOUNDSCAPE) 961 00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:26,600 Hey. 962 00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:29,800 Which way you headed? 963 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:30,840 Mosman Park. 964 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:32,760 Oh, that's OK, I'm headed that way anyway. 965 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:33,800 Cool. 966 00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,360 (HYPERVENTILATES) 967 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,120 (PHONE RINGS) 968 00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,440 Gav, what time is it? 969 00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,800 GAVIN: I think she must have seen his car. 970 00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,360 It looked like a cab. She'd just called one. 971 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,440 So she got in and only after he started out did she realise that... 972 00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,640 ..it wasn't a cab. 973 00:54:54,720 --> 00:54:56,360 Yeah, she would have panicked then. 974 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,920 No, but Edwards, he must have sweet-talked her. 975 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:03,760 No-one heard anything in Claremont, so somehow he got her to stay quiet. 976 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:05,640 That's what we always thought, 977 00:55:05,720 --> 00:55:09,440 but how are you gonna prove Sarah got in his car? 978 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,240 I'll prove it. I'll prove it. 979 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,960 We don't know what really happened that night. No-one does. 980 00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,360 Defence will say Sarah ran off with a guy 981 00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:23,640 or went for a midnight swim and drowned or any... 982 00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:27,520 I don't really care what defence has to say. She got in his car. 983 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,040 But you have to be able to prove it. Just take a step back, Gav, and... 984 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,520 I'm not stepping back. We have to get him. 985 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:35,880 For Sarah. 986 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:40,080 For their family. We have to get him. I have to get him. 987 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,880 I've gotta get him. 988 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,400 A Telstra tech named Jeff Cohen kept these since 1995. 989 00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:52,800 Never even worn them. 990 00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,880 ChemCentre tested them and the fibres from the dye lot 991 00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,080 are an exact match to the fibres found on Jane, Lisa and Ciara. 992 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:00,680 This blue is unique to Telstra? 993 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,800 The dye was developed exclusively for them. 994 00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,640 A different blue from police uniforms or any other tradies. 995 00:56:05,720 --> 00:56:08,640 This puts a Telstra worker at the scene of all three crimes. 996 00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:09,640 Edwards. 997 00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:12,600 Car fibres, these, they're good, but they're circumstantial. 998 00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,520 This could be from any Telstra worker. 999 00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,800 Only the DNA on Ciara's nail puts Edwards there. 1000 00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:19,200 That's enough, right? 1001 00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,200 The lawyer that Edwards hired, Paul Yovich, he's smart. 1002 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,800 He knows he'll have to create doubt about the DNA. 1003 00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,720 If I were Yovich, 1004 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,360 I'd suggest there might have been cross-contamination at the lab. 1005 00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:30,640 Can he prove that? 1006 00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:33,720 I'm afraid PathWest has a history of cross-contamination. 1007 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,200 But don't worry, I still think that we can convict him 1008 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,040 for Jane and Ciara's murder. 1009 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,840 What about Sarah? You've gotta get Sarah on the brief. 1010 00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,840 You can't let him walk on her. 1011 00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,240 Once we prove Edwards' guilt on Jane and Ciara with the same MO, 1012 00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,120 the same propensity of evidence, 1013 00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,160 we should be able to connect him to Sarah. 1014 00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:54,320 So you're going to add Sarah to the charge brief? 1015 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,520 Yes. The Spiers deserve that. 1016 00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,200 But prepare yourself. 1017 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,560 Justice Hall could still dismiss her charge for lack of evidence. 1018 00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:03,560 Don't let him. 1019 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,960 Then I suggest, Detective, that you get me some more evidence 1020 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,680 connecting Edwards to Sarah Spiers. 1021 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,040 Doesn't matter how many times you look at it, 1022 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:21,640 you still can't tell it's Edwards. 1023 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,480 It could be him. 1024 00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,480 If he'd just turn around. 1025 00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,000 Have you seen this? 1026 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,160 I didn't even know he was sick. 1027 00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:42,960 Cancer. 1028 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,640 I got in his car. 1029 00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:50,760 Remember? 1030 00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,080 I said it was him. 1031 00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,800 I was so sure. 1032 00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:01,920 So was I. 1033 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:09,720 You know, if Lance had picked up Jane or any of those girls... 1034 00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,600 ..they'd still be alive. 1035 00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:19,440 But now you've got the right guy. 1036 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,000 You have his DNA. 1037 00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:24,360 No way is he getting out of this. 1038 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,360 That's the thing, I didn't have anything to do with the murders, 1039 00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:29,360 I swear. 1040 00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,160 And I've been thinking. I want to give evidence. 1041 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,280 I want to... I want to say that at trial. 1042 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,320 If you do that, you could be on the stand for six months in cross. 1043 00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:38,800 And they can ask you anything. 1044 00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:41,400 You have to answer, in detail and under oath. 1045 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:42,760 I can do that. 1046 00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,360 Look, it is your decision in the end. Could you stop doing that? 1047 00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,000 Listen to me. Putting you on the stand, in my opinion, 1048 00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:49,440 that would be a mistake. 1049 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:51,600 They'll push you hard, Bradley. 1050 00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,120 OK. 1051 00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:56,360 But all this time being locked up, 1052 00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,600 I've been searching my conscience 1053 00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:02,800 and I want to plead guilty 1054 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,960 to the assaults at Huntingdale and Karrakatta. 1055 00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:08,360 Guilty? 1056 00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:14,000 Yep. Yep. I was a different person back then. I snapped. 1057 00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,720 It wasn't really me. 1058 00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,720 Plus they've got that DNA at both the crime scenes, right? 1059 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,360 That'll hold up in court? Mm. 1060 00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,400 Those samples have been locked away for 20 years. 1061 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,240 They'll be convincing. Right. So that's what I'm thinking. 1062 00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:32,800 Bradley, I can't be a party to any lies. 1063 00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:33,880 I'm not lying. 1064 00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:41,200 I did the assaults, but I didn't do the murders. I couldn't do that. 1065 00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:42,680 I'm not guilty of murder. 1066 00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,640 It's just the cops are pinning it on me 1067 00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:45,840 because they want to blame somebody. 1068 00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:47,520 So if you plead guilty to the assaults, 1069 00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:49,560 you plead early, you save the court time and money. 1070 00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:51,400 You could get a reduced sentence. 1071 00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,080 And of course with time in custody, 1072 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,880 probably looking at three or four years. 1073 00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:57,120 That's it? 1074 00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,680 And if I can prove the cross-contamination of DNA 1075 00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:03,240 taken from Ciara Glennon, you could be out before you're 55. 1076 01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:08,600 So... 1077 01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:13,040 So...what about before, pleading not guilty to the assaults? 1078 01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:14,600 Can that work against me? 1079 01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,720 No, there's no law against lying to the police. 1080 01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,120 Justice Hall can't let lying about an earlier crime 1081 01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:20,960 influence his decision about the murders. 1082 01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:26,480 Right. So pleading guilty to the assaults is my best way forward? 1083 01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,840 If it's the truth. That's the truth. 1084 01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,960 In a shock announcement today, Bradley Edwards, 1085 01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:33,760 the accused Claremont serial killer, 1086 01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:39,480 is now pleading guilty to rape and assault charges from 1988 and 1995. 1087 01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:43,160 Since his arrest, Mr Edwards has steadfastly insisted his innocence. 1088 01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,400 And though he is now pleading guilty to the rape and assault charges, 1089 01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,680 he still maintains that he never killed anyone, 1090 01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,760 and will fight those charges to the utmost of his abilities. 1091 01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:53,760 Four years? 1092 01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:55,960 With time in custody, that's the minimum he could get 1093 01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:57,040 for the assault and rape. 1094 01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,200 For everything he did, four years? That won't happen. 1095 01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:01,720 Conviction on the murder charges 1096 01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,760 will get him life with no chance of parole. 1097 01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:05,160 If the DNA doesn't get thrown out 1098 01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,160 on some bullshit contamination argument. Gav, we'll get him. 1099 01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:08,760 We haven't got him for 20 years, Nik. 1100 01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:11,600 This guy's had the devil's luck and I'm not certain it's run out yet. 1101 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,120 REPORTER: People lined up outside the court before sunrise, 1102 01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:19,760 hoping for a front-row seat. 1103 01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:21,520 REPORTER: ..chilling day of evidence 1104 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:23,720 from the opening of the Claremont serial killings. 1105 01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:25,720 REPORTER: ..with a high level of public interest. 1106 01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:27,640 REPORTER: Edwards is charged with the murders 1107 01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:28,920 of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer... 1108 01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,760 REPORTER: ..trial by judge alone. The three women disappeared... 1109 01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,920 If Trevor was alive, he'd be here. 1110 01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,120 He loved Janey so much. 1111 01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:37,920 We pray for Ciara all the time. 1112 01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,880 When Una and I see a girl around her...her age, 1113 01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:42,800 we think of her still. 1114 01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:47,560 Sarah had something different about her to most other kids. 1115 01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:51,600 She had this lovely warmth about her, didn't she? 1116 01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:52,960 Yeah. 1117 01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:54,920 ALISON: The trial of the century 1118 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,360 in Western Australia gets underway today. 1119 01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:59,840 The amount of evidence that's been gathered for this case 1120 01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:01,360 has been staggering. 1121 01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,600 Over 16,000 DNA samples have been taken. 1122 01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,720 200 witnesses are expected to be called, 1123 01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,880 with 10,000 pages of interview transcripts. 1124 01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:14,920 110 gigabytes of prosecution disclosures, 1125 01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,320 a million pages of evidence. 1126 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:22,200 The DNA and fibre evidence alone is said to be over 60,000 pages long. 1127 01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:45,480 In a 14-month period, three bright, beautiful young women 1128 01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,040 vanished from the streets of Claremont. 1129 01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:51,320 There were so many questions 1130 01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,880 for which the lack of answers cemented a fear 1131 01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,240 that ran through the community, 1132 01:02:56,320 --> 01:03:01,320 a fear that was caused by an enigma of the dark. 1133 01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:07,720 In the coming months, the state will demystify this enigma 1134 01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:11,240 and prove that there was one killer. 1135 01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:16,520 And that killer is Bradley Robert Edwards. 1136 01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:20,440 The deaths of these young women were unlawful killings. 1137 01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,640 There is no doubt or dispute about that. 1138 01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:26,000 The issue is the identity of the killer, 1139 01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:30,160 and Bradley Edwards' defence in each case is that. 1140 01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:31,840 It wasn't him. 1141 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,320 (UNSETTLING SOUNDSCAPE) 1142 01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:46,920 WOMAN: We were happy in the marriage at first. 1143 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,720 Um, but then he became obsessed with his computer. 1144 01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:52,920 So, yeah, he would come home from work 1145 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,400 and disappear into the spare room. 1146 01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:58,200 He wasn't interested in me 1147 01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:03,440 and he wasn't present in the marriage, and stuff happened. 1148 01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,040 Oh! (GIGGLES) 1149 01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,960 MAN: We were laughing and then she kissed me. 1150 01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,000 Or I kissed her. I... 1151 01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:13,280 I can't remember. 1152 01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,360 He didn't say anything. He just... 1153 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:18,760 ..walked away. 1154 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,960 You are one of what has become known as the 'Living Witnesses'. 1155 01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:27,680 Yeah. 1156 01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:31,240 And what happened to you in November of 1996? 1157 01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:35,440 I'd been at Club Bayview. I'd had a bit to drink. 1158 01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:41,040 Um, and there were no cabs, but I was trying to get to Shenton Park. 1159 01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,000 I didn't care how, you know? It was a different time back then. 1160 01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:45,800 We didn't worry about things like that. 1161 01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:51,720 But then I saw a car, and it looked like a taxi, and the driver stopped. 1162 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,600 What kind of car was it? 1163 01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:56,800 It looked like a Holden station wagon. 1164 01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,040 Can you give me a lift to Shenton Park? 1165 01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:01,080 EDWARDS: Sure. 1166 01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,320 Ugh! (DOOR SHUTS) 1167 01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,560 Oh, hey, this isn't a taxi. 1168 01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:08,320 Oh, that's alright. I'll take you there anyway. 1169 01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:11,080 I didn't feel unsafe, 1170 01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:13,880 but something made me say that I'd left my shoes up on the road... 1171 01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:15,480 My shoes! I left my shoes! 1172 01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:17,720 ..and would it be OK if I went to grab them? 1173 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:24,800 So I grabbed my shoes and two guys that I'd been drinking with... 1174 01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:27,760 Is it OK if you take these guys too? 1175 01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:29,560 We're all going to the same place. 1176 01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:34,800 He didn't say anything. He just drove us to Shenton Park. 1177 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,280 Did you notice anything about the car? 1178 01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:44,040 It was a Telecom Telstra car. 1179 01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:53,160 When the sample labelled AJM40, 1180 01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,640 the sample taken from Ciara Glennon's nail, 1181 01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:59,400 was finally tested, did you recover male DNA from it? 1182 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:00,600 Yes, we did. 1183 01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:01,960 What was the result? 1184 01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,720 The DNA matched the profile of the defendant, Bradley Edwards. 1185 01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:11,800 To clarify, when sample AJM40 was originally taken, 1186 01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:13,440 how was it labelled? 1187 01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:16,960 What was written on the label of the container in 1997? 1188 01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:18,240 Uh... 1189 01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:22,040 'Debris only. Not suitable for analysis.' 1190 01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:25,480 Not suitable for analysis. And yet more than 10 years later, 1191 01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,200 somehow miraculously it's suitable for testing. 1192 01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,280 Not miraculously. 1193 01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,720 The advancements in DNA technology in the past... 1194 01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:34,440 But at the time, when it was first handled, 1195 01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:36,360 it was labelled 'Debris only'. 1196 01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:44,000 Have you considered the possibility of cross-contamination in your lab, 1197 01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:46,000 where a bit of DNA gets somewhere where it shouldn't? 1198 01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,320 Perhaps the right protocols aren't being used 1199 01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:52,000 and perhaps the same pair of gloves are being worn for two experiments. 1200 01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:55,920 Of course we consider it, and we take all necessary precautions 1201 01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,320 to make sure contamination doesn't happen, but in this case... 1202 01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,320 Doesn't PathWest have a poor record of cross-contamination? 1203 01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:04,480 I would say, of the hundreds and thousands of tests, 1204 01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,080 we have a very good record of... 1205 01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:09,320 When intimate swabs collected from Jane Rimmer were analysed 1206 01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:13,000 in 2017 by UK laboratory Cellmark, 1207 01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:16,120 did they show the DNA profile matching that of a male - 1208 01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,440 not you, sir - PathWest scientist? 1209 01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:19,920 Yes, they did. 1210 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,080 When intimate swabs collected from Ciara Glennon were analysed in 2017, 1211 01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:27,800 did they yield the profile of yet another - not you, sir - 1212 01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:29,480 PathWest scientist? 1213 01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:33,600 Yes. 1214 01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:36,280 And we've all seen videos collected from the crime scene. 1215 01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:39,240 Police officers not wearing gloves. 1216 01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:42,520 No shoe protection. No forensic overalls. 1217 01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,320 It was a different time. 1218 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:45,840 Indeed it was. 1219 01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:49,680 When Mr Edwards was employed at Telstra, 1220 01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,240 was he ever called to PathWest to repair the phones? 1221 01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:59,960 Not...not to my knowledge, no. 1222 01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:03,720 Not to your knowledge. 1223 01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:07,640 There were bombshells in court today where cross-contamination claims 1224 01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,160 had the prosecution on their heels. 1225 01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:12,600 The verdict in this case seems to be in the balance. 1226 01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:14,480 Hey, what's all this rubbish you're broadcasting about? 1227 01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,960 Do you really believe there's cross-contamination of his DNA? 1228 01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:19,400 I'm just reporting what was said. 1229 01:08:19,480 --> 01:08:22,080 He murdered three women. Are you trying to help get him off? 1230 01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:23,720 I'm just reporting what was said in court. 1231 01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:27,720 Listen, people don't want to speak to you anymore, OK? 1232 01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:29,680 They're fuckin' pissed off. 1233 01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,160 You heard the evidence. Edwards might be acquitted. 1234 01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:36,000 Everyone needs to be prepared for that. 1235 01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:42,560 JUDGE: Mr Yovich, the State has closed. 1236 01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,640 Is the defence ready to proceed? 1237 01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,040 Your Honour, the defence is closed. 1238 01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,640 What? You're not going to be calling any witnesses? 1239 01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:54,560 No, Your Honour. We will address the case in our closing statement. 1240 01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:57,240 Mr Edwards, can you please stand? 1241 01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:03,960 The decision to give evidence is entirely yours, 1242 01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:06,560 but given the importance of this case, 1243 01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:09,360 do you wish to make any statement in your own defence? 1244 01:09:09,440 --> 01:09:11,440 No, Your Honour. 1245 01:09:17,480 --> 01:09:18,920 Nearly seven months ago, 1246 01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:22,040 the State made reference to an enigma of the dark 1247 01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:25,400 and promised to shed light on that enigma. 1248 01:09:25,480 --> 01:09:28,000 It's the forensic evidence that has cast light 1249 01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,600 and unmasked a killer. 1250 01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:33,600 The fibres, the DNA. 1251 01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:38,760 One offender is responsible for the murders 1252 01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:43,440 of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon. 1253 01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:50,240 Bradley Robert Edwards, we say, is the Claremont killer. 1254 01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:53,600 One fifth of one billionth of one gram. 1255 01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,880 That's how much DNA was found on Ciara Glennon's nail. 1256 01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:01,280 Your Honour, are you able to be satisfied, 1257 01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:04,920 beyond reasonable doubt, the DNA finding is only explicable 1258 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:08,800 on the basis that the accused killed Ciara Glennon? 1259 01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:10,800 Contamination events are rare, 1260 01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:14,720 but they do happen, and they only have to happen once. 1261 01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:16,920 The carpet fibres, the pant fibres, 1262 01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,560 they could come from any Telstra employee. 1263 01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:22,880 The only actual evidence that my client might be the Claremont killer 1264 01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:25,520 is the DNA that was found on Ciara Glennon's nail. 1265 01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,640 Are you willing, Your Honour, to put a man in jail 1266 01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:32,960 for the rest of his life on that evidence? 1267 01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:38,720 One fifth of one billionth of one gram. 1268 01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:40,760 (TENSE MUSIC) 1269 01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:06,320 (EERIE MUSIC) 1270 01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:41,360 (PHONE RINGS) 1271 01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:46,360 Wyatt. 1272 01:11:46,440 --> 01:11:49,040 CARMEL: Hello, Gavin. The verdict's in. 1273 01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:53,000 Do you know what it says? No. Just get to the court. 1274 01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:57,880 REPORTER: After a 20-year police investigation 1275 01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:00,960 and subsequent seven-month Supreme Court trial, 1276 01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:02,320 we'll finally get a verdict... 1277 01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:04,080 REPORT: The Claremont serial killings trial... 1278 01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:08,720 Onlookers came here earlier today, queuing up on the steps... 1279 01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:11,320 This is a trial like no other. 1280 01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:17,200 It's a trial like no other because of its size and high degree of interest. 1281 01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:23,520 Three women went missing from a popular nightlife area 1282 01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:25,920 frequented by many young people. 1283 01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:30,200 It inspired a pervasive fear in the entire Perth community. 1284 01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:33,240 But it's a trial like every other, 1285 01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,280 because the accused is presumed innocent 1286 01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:39,880 and the State must prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. 1287 01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,640 I am satisfied that the evidence 1288 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,640 establishes that each of the victims was abducted and killed. 1289 01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:51,840 The issue therefore is the identity of the killer, or killers. 1290 01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:57,120 Having regard to the DNA evidence and the propensity evidence, 1291 01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,320 I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt 1292 01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:03,520 that Bradley Edwards was the killer of Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon. 1293 01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:10,280 Mr Edwards chose semi-rural locations and hid the bodies 1294 01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:13,480 with the intention of minimising the chances of them being found 1295 01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:16,280 and his offences being discovered. 1296 01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,360 In respect of Ms Spiers, I have reached the following conclusions. 1297 01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:26,680 There are some similarities 1298 01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,840 between the circumstances of Ms Spiers' disappearance 1299 01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:32,800 and the death of Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon. 1300 01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:36,680 But they do not allow for a conclusion to be reached 1301 01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:41,160 that the person responsible for the killing of Ms Glennon and Ms Rimmer 1302 01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:45,640 must necessarily be the same person as who killed Ms Spiers. 1303 01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:49,120 The propensity of evidence suggests it is likely 1304 01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,120 that the accused was the killer. 1305 01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,440 But it cannot be proved beyond reasonable doubt. 1306 01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:01,400 So, based on those findings, the verdict must be... 1307 01:14:01,480 --> 01:14:03,680 ..on count six, 1308 01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:08,480 the wilful murder of Sarah Spiers, not guilty. 1309 01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:14,160 (POIGNANT MUSIC) 1310 01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:32,760 DENIS GLENNON: We pray for Ciara all the time. 1311 01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:36,080 Whenever Una and I see a young woman of Ciara's age, 1312 01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,640 well, we think of her still. 1313 01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:44,400 I always said that Ciara... Ciara would fight for her life. 1314 01:15:44,480 --> 01:15:46,440 Little did I know how, 1315 01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:49,800 well, how...prophetic those words would be. 1316 01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:21,280 It's hard to understand. 1317 01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:29,000 We interviewed 16,000 men and his name never came up. 1318 01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:32,640 He was never on our radar. 1319 01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,920 And it's hard not to wonder what Sarah's life... 1320 01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:44,320 ..and ours would be like if she hadn't been taken from us. 1321 01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:47,680 She would have had kids. 1322 01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:51,240 You say something, love? 1323 01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:54,920 Sarah loved kids. 1324 01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:09,880 This isn't over. 1325 01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:13,360 We'll keep looking for her. 1326 01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:19,360 Thanks for everything you've done for us, Detective. 1327 01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:22,520 You treated us right. 1328 01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:24,920 (POIGNANT MUSIC) 1329 01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:40,840 (BRITTLE PIANO NOTES) 1330 01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,280 (POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES)