Jen Reviews

100 Best Things to do in Singapore

by Jen Miller

https://www.jenreviews.com/best-things-singapore/

This tropical island located at the southernmost tip of peninsula Malaysia is a vibrant modern city-state.

The city brings its best in food, nature, heritage, and culture to punch well above its weight on the global tourist map.

• 1. Visit the Gardens by the Bay Cloud Forest (Tanjong Pagar)
• 2. Visit the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 3. Night-time stroll across the Supertree Grove (Tanjong Pagar)
• 4. Visit the National Orchid garden (Tanjong Pagar)
• 5. Visit Jurong Bird Park (Jurong-Clementi)
• 6. Visit the S.E.A aquarium at Marine Life Park (Tanjong Pagar)
• 7. Visit the Singapore Zoo (Sembawang)
• 8. Visit the River Safari (Holland-Bukit Panjang)
• 9. Immerse in art at National Gallery Singapore (Tanjong Pagar)
• 10. Trek through Southern Ridges (Tanjong Pagar)
• 11. Gardener’s Day Out at Hort Park (Jurong-Clementi)
• 12. Walk the Labrador Nature reserve (West Coast)
• 13. Day out at Universal Studios Singapore (Tanjong Pagar)
• 14. Take a spiritual journey into Buddha Tooth Relic Temple (Tanjong Pagar)
• 15. Sungei Buloh Wetlands tour (Chua Chu Kang)
• 16. Picnic at Marina Barrage Green Roof (Tanjong Pagar)
• 17. Visit the National Museum of Singapore (Tanjong Pagar)
• 18. Night-time dining at the Singapore Flyer (Tanjong Pagar)
• 19. Swim at the top of the world at Marina Bay Infinity Pool (Tanjong Pagar)
• 20. Afternoon Sailing at the Marina Reservoir (Tanjong Pagar)
• 21. Visit the Southern Islands (Tanjong Pagar)
• 22. Pulau Ubin Chek Jawa wetlands tour (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 23. Get a bird’s eye view from a cable car (Tanjong Pagar)
• 24. Wonder Full light show at Marina Bay Sands (Tanjong Pagar)
• 25. Catch a night-time live performance at Esplanade Outdoor Theatre (Tanjong Pagar)
• 26. Tour the Asian Civilisations Museum (Tanjong Pagar)
• 27. Cycle along Eastern Coastal Park Connector Network (ECPCN) Cycling Trail (East Coast-Fengshan)
• 28. Hike Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (Holland-Bukit Panjang)
• 29. Ginger Garden trail at Singapore Botanic Gardens (Tanjong Pagar)
• 30. Explore the Evolution Garden at Singapore Botanic Gardens (Tanjong Pagar)
• 31. Colonial history trail at Fort Canning Park (Tanjong Pagar)
• 32. Dive into Chinatown’s Pagoda Street (Tanjong Pagar)
• 33. Sightseeing cruise along the Singapore River (Tanjong Pagar)
• 34. Visit the Future World exhibit at Art Science Museum (Tanjong Pagar)
• 35. Visit the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall (Bishan-Toa Payoh)
• 36. Visit Sultan mosque at Kampong Glam
• 37. Tour the Peranakan Museum (Tanjong Pagar)
• 38. Explore Little India’s Serangoon Road (Jalan Besar)
• 39. Dive into Kampong Glam (Jalan Besar)
• 40. Relive history at The Battle Box (Tanjong Pagar)
• 41. Fullerton monument tour (Tanjong Pagar)
• 42. Indoor Skydiving at IFly Singapore (Tanjong Pagar)
• 43. Visit the Civilian War Memorial Park (Tanjong Pagar)
• 44. Heritage trail along Ann Siang and Telok Ayer (Tanjong Pagar)
• 45. Explore Haw Par Villa (Jurong-Clementi)
• 46. Relive your childhood at MINT Museum of Toys (Tanjong Pagar)
• 47. Get high with Tiger Sky Tower (Tanjong Pagar)
• 48. Learn about organic farming at Bollywood Veggies (Chua Chu Kang)
• 49. Discover a heartland gem – Shuang Lin Monastery (Bishan-Toa Payoh)
• 50. Architectural tour of The Esplanade (Tanjong Pagar)
• 51. Have a fun-filled day at MegaZip Adventure Park (Tanjong Pagar)
• 52. Explore Fort Siloso (Tanjong Pagar)
• 53. Visit the Singapore Philatelic Museum (Tanjong Pagar)
• 54. Visit Singapore’s oldest Hokkien temple – Thian Hock Keng Temple (Tanjong Pagar)
• 55. Day out at Gardens By the Bay East Garden (Tanjong Pagar)
• 56. Experience the nightlife scene at Chijmes (Tanjong Pagar)
• 57. Explore the Bohemian enclave Holland village at night (Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council)
• 58. Visit Nagore Durgha Shrine (Tanjong Pagar)
• 59. Explore the Dragonfly and Kingfisher Lakes at Gardens by the Bay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 60. Watch the exciting Formula One night race at the Marina Bay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 61. Art sculpture tour at Gardens by the Bay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 62. Explore the history of the overseas Chinese community at Chinese Heritage Centre (Jurong-Clementi Town Council)
• 63. Shop along Orchard Road (Tanjong Pagar)
• 64. Visit St Andrew’s Cathedral in the city (Tanjong Pagar)
• 65. Visit Bukit Batok Town Park (Chua Chu Kang)
• 66. Explore the world of art at Singapore Art museum (Tanjong Pagar)
• 67. Food hunt at Maxwell Food centre (Tanjong Pagar)
• 68. Pay your respects to wartime heroes at Kranji War Memorial (Chua Chu Kang)
• 69. Science out at Singapore Science Centre (Jurong-Clementi)
• 70 Visit the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple (Tanjong Pagar)
• 71. Arts trail at Gardens by the Bay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 72. Visit Sri Veeramakaliamman temple (Jalan Besar)
• 73. Explore the Peranakan neighbourhood – Joo Chiat
• 74. Sightseeing kayak expedition around Marina Reservoir (Tanjong Pagar)
• 75. Hike through the “Venice of Punggol” – Punggol Waterway Park (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 76. Visit Coney Island Park (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 77. MacRitchie reservoir TreeTop walk (Bishan-Toa Payoh)
• 78. Feast on Satay at Lau Pa Sat Satay Street (Tanjong Pagar)
• 79. Catch the Wings of Time show at Siloso Beach (Tanjong Pagar)
• 80. Explore Bugis Village (Jalan Besar)
• 81. Go surfing at Wave House Sentosa (Tanjong Pagar)
• 82. Visit the Jurong Lake Gardens (Jurong-Clementi)
• 83. Cycling at Ketam Mountain Bike Park at Pulau Ubin (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 84. Watch Teochew opera at Pulau Ubin (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 85. Chill out at Lantern Rooftop bar at Fullerton Bay Hotel (Tanjong Pagar)
• 86. Evening out at Clarke Quay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 87. Tour the Singapore Sports Hub (Jalan Besar)
• 88. Go up to the Sentosa Merlion (Tanjong Pagar)
• 89. Day out at Palawan Beach (Tanjong Pagar)
• 90. Walk along the Changi Point Coastal Walk (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 91. Visit the skybridge at The Pinnacle@Duxton (Tanjong Pagar)
• 92. Visit the Raffles Hotel (Tanjong Pagar)
• 93. Explore Singapore Changi Airport (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 94. Sampan ride at Marina Bay Sands (Tanjong Pagar)
• 95. Food hunt at Makansutra’s Gluttons Bay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 96. Camping at Changi Beach Park (Pasir Ris-Punggol)
• 97. Catch a live performance at Victoria Theatre Concert Hall (Tanjong Pagar)
• 98. Waterfront promenade walk at Marina Bay (Tanjong Pagar)
• 99. Watch the Singapore Symphony Orchestra Classics in the Park (Tanjong Pagar)
• 100. Catch the sunrise at Merlion Park (Tanjong Pagar)

Claremont review police feel public pressure

FRI NOV 05,  2004

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2004-11-05/claremont-review-police-feel-public-pressure/580038

A detective appointed to review one of Western Australia's biggest murder investigations admits he is feeling pressure to achieve results.

A four-person panel will look at the evidence of the eight-year-old Claremont serial killer investigation to determine what course it should take.

The Macro Task Force was formed after Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon disappeared from the centre of Claremont in 1996 and 1997.

This year the former police commissioner Barry Matthews ordered an independent assessment of the case in the hope of making a breakthrough.

Detective Inspector Russell Oxford, from New South Wales Police, says it is very difficult to predict the outcome of the review.

"I think there'll be a lot of pressure on us, I think there'll be a lot of expectations and I just hope we can acquit ourselves," he said.'

The panel, which consists of detectives from the United States and other parts of Australia, arrives in Perth next week and will spend a month on the case.







  The Ones That Got Away -

 Exploring accusations of police corruption in Western Australia.

                                                                       http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/s160338.htm
                                               
                                                  WARNING: The language used in sections of this transcript may offend some people.


STEPHEN McDONELL: The beneficiary of this accusation and counteraccusation is organised crime. Western Australia has seen failed prosecutions, the mysterious death of a star witness in a drug trial and a high-tech police operation called off without notice. Tonight, Four Corners goes to the dark parts of Perth where police and criminals go and where corruption seems to be prosecuted selectively.

STEPHEN McDONELL: There's a side to Western Australia not often talked about, a side of life not bound up in sun and sailing. Western Australia has thousands of kilometres of largely unwatched coastline. Facing out and up to Asia, it's the ideal back door for drug importation, like ecstasy, amphetamines and heroin. Western Australia's remote cattle stations are used to establish considerable marijuana crops. This has attracted sophisticated growers from the east. Then there's the capital, Perth. Its burgeoning population has provided a growing demand for hard drugs. Slowly, and without the rest of the nation noticing, organised crime has been moving into Western Australia.


STEPHEN McDONELL: The officers involved in Red Emperor may or may not have acted improperly, but they say they want a Royal Commission to scrutinise the whole affair. Meanwhile, one interested party must be finding quite some amusement in all of this.

JOHN KIZON, NOVEMBER 1999: There's corruption in senior ranks in the police department and has been for years. They've just moved them sideways. It's an absolute disgrace. You've got the public that sit at home and believe that --  There is some honest coppers. And I do respect honest police officers. Your normal police officer that does his job, goes home, and is by the book, I respect him. But in this State, without a Royal Commission, it's a complete disgrace, let me tell you.

STEPHEN McDONELL: How do you feel at the end of all this? You've spent many years working on this operation. What are you left with at the end?

UNDERCOVER OFFICER: A sense of waste. A sense of dismay that it could've come to that. A sense of questioning about the motives of the people who shut it down. Most of all, I guess, I'm concerned that the syndicate is now stronger than it was before.


STEPHEN McDONELL: The officers from Red Emperor were forced to hand over their documents to the ACC. But before the corruption commission finished its investigation into Cull and Coombs, the top brass acted. 

In November 1997, Deputy Commissioner Bruce Brennan issued an official order that Red Emperor be closed immediately. In a confidential memo, he said that any future investigations into the operation's primary target, John Kizon, would have to be cleared by him personally.
 What did you think when you first heard they were going to shut down Red Emperor?

It's crucial to this investigation whether Turton is to be believed in what she will tell the Commission, as follows; she will tell the Commission that she is sure that the bag at that point contained bundles of $50 notes and $100 notes. 
That is, as is probably obvious, an extremely important part of the evidence. 

If Turton is to be believed on that point, it directly implicates the police because at that point, the money is in police custody, according to Turton contains $50 and $100 notes, yet as I'll explain in a moment, when that money was booked into the exhibits officer, Mr Williams, and photographed by Officer Diviney there was not a solitary $50 note or $100 in the amount seized.

Detectives Nesbitt and Cave arrived after the searches had been completed.
They were asked to convey Debnam and Turton to Curtin House, which they did. I should add that the search of unit 22 by Detectives Keays, Stjepic and Etherton did not locate anything of significance.
Following the search, Detectives Potter and (...name suppressed...) left together and they returned to Curtin House, leaving Detective Thompson at unit 5 to await the arrival of a forensic officer to take photographs.
Detective Etherton also remained behind with Thompson during this time.

MR PETTIT: - - - observed to attend, but that search, of course, did not turn up anything further of significance. The possibilities are, of course, that Detectives Potter and (...name suppressed...) conducted that search more in hope than in expectation. It's possible that there were other reasons for the search as well. 


STEPHEN McDONELL: But an infiltration going the other way was about to expose serious police corruption. It begins with a police sting involving a man named Andrew Petrelis.
There are no public photos of Petrelis but he grew up in a well-off family.
He was drawn into the Northbridge scene, becoming a heroin user, and he got work as a driver for John Kizon's old girlfriend.
According to police, in the early '90s, Petrelis started doing some jobs around Northbridge. He was told to go to Perth's Kings Park and dig up a couple of bags buried there.
 He then took the bags, which contained cannabis, to this self-storage unit and padlocked the door.
 The storage centre owners became suspicious when they saw the padlock on a unit they thought was empty.
They broke in, found $150,000 worth of drugs and called the police.

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: We, through the early part of that investigation, established that the person who rented that storage was Petrelis.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Andrew Petrelis was then offered immunity from prosecution if he'd roll over and give evidence against his alleged criminal bosses.
 He agreed and became a protected witness. Back at the storage centre, police had already set a trap using surveillance.

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: That's when I came up with an idea that we'll substitute it with grass clippings.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Coombs swapped the cannabis for lawn clippings, installed a secret camera and waited to see who would turn up.
On 22 November, 1994, a close friend of Mr Kizon named Michael Rippingale was captured picking up the bags which now contained a different sort of grass. The court was later told that when Mr Rippingale to his horror discovered the lawn clippings, he immediately rang John Kizon.
A series of conversations between the men were captured by police phone taps and a bugged car.

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE, FRIEND OF JOHN KIZON, (Re-enactment of police transcript): Do you want to meet me somewhere?

JOHN KIZON: Why? What's wrong?

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: Oh, something.

JOHN KIZON: You all right?

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: Yeah, oh, no, not really -- not really.

JOHN KIZON: Have the coppers got you?

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: No, no. Something else.

STEPHEN McDONELL: The secret recordings seemed to indicate that John was angry that something valuable was missing.

JOHN KIZON (25 minutes later, meeting in car): Hey, Rip, he probably never put it in there in the first place. You understand what I mean? That cunt.

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: They thought Petrelis had ripped them off the cannabis and put grass clippings in -- and not the police.

STEPHEN McDONELL: And so how were they going to respond to that?
DET SGT PETER COOMBS: They responded in a very violent manner in their conversations with themselves on what they intended to do to Petrelis.

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: (Later that night, telephone transcript): Cunt.

JOHN KIZON: Little arse.

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: Oh.

JOHN KIZON: And when you said yeah, he's a little cunt.

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: Yeah.

JOHN KIZON: I'm gonna wring his fucking neck.

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: Yeah, alright.

JOHN KIZON: Alright, buddy.

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE: See ya.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Police phone intercepts show that John Kizon and Michael Rippingale looked for Andrew Petrelis without luck for days. Armed with the phone taps, police charged both Michael Rippingale and John Kizon with conspiracy to supply cannabis. This time, they thought they had the big fish.

JOHN KIZON, 1999: I've only been charged in this offence because I've stayed close to a friend of mine. There is no substance to this charge at all. It's just a slur on my name and it's a personal attack on myself.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Police promised their star witness, Andrew Petrelis, that he'd be protected with a new identity. He moved to Queensland and in the quiet town of Caloundra, planned to get his pilot's licence. When he didn't turn up for his flying lesson one day, local police went around to his flat. They found Andrew Petrelis dead. He was naked and lying hunched over with a CD playing on repeat. The door was locked from the inside and Queensland police said it was a heroin overdose. Yet there was no tourniquet and no spoon. He was right-handed but the injection was into his right arm and this arm was twisted up and around. Official cause of death -- opiate toxicity. Andrew Petrelis was to give evidence against John Kizon and Michael Rippingale in a month. How much of a blow to the prosecution was the lack of the Petrelis evidence?

ROBERT COCK: I think it was a serious blow.
I think the case would have been stronger with his evidence.

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: His evidence, in my opinion, was critical in the conviction of one, if not both, of the accused people.

STEPHEN McDONELL: A jury acquitted John Kizon and Michael Rippingale of the drug charges.

MICHAEL RIPPINGALE, NOVEMBER 1999 (Outside court): Yeah, I'm just happy it's all over now. And this has been going for five years. I can get on with my life. Work the rest out for yourself.

JOHN KIZON, NOVEMBER 1999 (Outside court): I'm pleased for myself but what I'm not pleased about is they spent $1 million to $1.5 million on me.
There's kids in the children's hospital that don't have facilities. There's old people that are being thrown out of their homes in the suburbs because this Government has a personal vendetta against me.

STEPHEN McDONELL: John Kizon had an alibi over the weekend of Andrew Petrelis's death. He checked himself into hospital, complaining of heart problems, and was soon discharged. Andrew Petrelis's death remains a mystery. There was no inquest. We don't know whether it was the result of an overdose or a hot shot from an enemy. But his death opens the doorway to a dark cave of police corruption because before Mr Petrelis had even gone to Queensland, his new secret identity was already blown. And it was blown by the police. This man, Constable Kevin Davy, made an unauthorised access of the police database in May 1995. He found Andrew Petrelis's new identity -- Andrew Parker. The new identity had only just been given out. Davy's excuse for looking this up on the computer was that he's an Elvis fan and he was looking for the name of Elvis's famous manager Colonel Tom Parker. He says he found Petrelis's new identity by mistake. What Kevin Davy did with the information is unknown. But Four Corners has been able to establish that another officer, Sergeant Murray Shadgett, also accessed Petrelis's new identity on the police mainframe. He passed the information on to known criminals. They allegedly provided Shadgett with a car-registration number and he matched it with the name Andrew Parker, Petrelis's new identity. Because Shadgett was speaking to suspected members of the Kizon syndicate, their phones were bugged and Peter Coombs heard the conversations.

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: The fact is, um -- known crooks asked a police officer to obtain information off the police mainframe.

STEPHEN McDONELL: And these were known criminals?

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: That's a criminal offence There's no, uh -- no beg your pardons, in my opinion.It is, um -- an inexcusable.

STEPHEN McDONELL: These criminals who received information from the police mainframe computer, from police -- were they linked to the main criminal syndicate being targeted by you?

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: Yes.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Significant members of the group?

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: Yes.

CHRIS CULL, OPERATIONS MANAGER, RED EMPEROR: And those criminals are involved in the organised crime group in Western Australia.

STEPHEN McDONELL: So there's little doubt that these senior level criminals were trying to find out about Andrew Petrelis?

CHRIS CULL: Absolutely. Everything they could.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Inspector Chris Cull was another officer on Red Emperor.

Could it mean, then, that these high-level Western Australian criminals still have spies, allies in the West Australian police?

CHRIS CULL: Yes.

STEPHEN McDONELL: It's unclear if Andrew Petrelis's death was related to the security breaches. But the West Australian witness protection program has been hopelessly compromised. As for those who looked up Petrelis's details, Constable Davy resigned for giving out other classified information. Red Emperor officers told Internal Affairs about Sergeant Shadgett who'd been recorded talking to their criminal targets. Nothing happened. He's now very sick from diabetes and has just resigned. Both officers refused to speak to Four Corners. For three months, Andrew Petrelis lived in Queensland. Though police knew his identity was compromised, they made no attempt to give him a new one. After the blow of losing Andrew Petrelis, Red Emperor went on. The operation uncovered more police corruption.

INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, RED EMPEROR: What we found was driver's licences in false names in the hands of members of the syndicate under investigation.

STEPHEN McDONELL: And you believe police had given these driver's licences to the criminals?

INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: Inquiries confirmed that they were issued by police officers to persons unknown but ended up in the hands of members of our syndicate, under investigation.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Why is it useful to have a false driver's licence?

INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: You can open bank accounts, you can obtain property under false names.
There are many things you can do with a fake identification.

STEPHEN McDONELL: As Red Emperor continued, its key undercover officer gained access to senior levels of John Kizon's alleged syndicate.

UNDERCOVER OFFICER: Like, you spend hours and hours out on the piss with these lunatics.
Bored out of your brain most of the time because all you're doing is talking absolute shit.
That's really what it comes down to.

CHRIS CULL: He lived with them, drank with them, was right in with them, the whole way.

UNDERCOVER OFFICER: Someone will tell you half a bit of information about it.

You know, something that might be worth rolling over or, you know, plans to make a shitload of eccies or something like that.
So you start talking about presses and who can steal chemicals, then nothing happens with it.
Every now and then, something does.
 That's the whole point
. But you also sit there and you try and work out who's who in the zoo.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Many Red Emperor detectives were close to criminal sources. Although the officers were uncovering police corruption they also came under suspicion themselves, in a grey world of favours, secret meetings and informants.

BOB FALCONER, POLICE COMMISSIONER, 1994-1999: And informers -- guess who they are.  It won't be the archbishop or the local brain surgeon. They're invariably the sorts of people who are deeply involved in crime, and they're cunning and they're clever and they're dangerous, but they can be useful.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Sometimes it's not clear where undercover work ends and crime begins. Police start turning a blind eye to small crimes in return for information. Criminals use police to attack their underworld rivals. But Chris Cull says, "In organised crime, 99 per cent of successes come from informants."

CHRIS CULL: Manipulate the informant. Work on his desires and his motivations. You know, build him up when he's down. Pretend to be a friend to him, so that you can move him toward a position where he feels some comfort with you, and he'll tell you what's going on. 'Cause he's putting his neck on the line. There's also a very good saying in the police in West Australia, and I'm sure it's the world over, that today's informant is tomorrow's target.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Into this mix of police, criminals and those in between, came Western Australia's Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC. It was set-up in 1997 following the Police Royal Commission in NSW.
ACC Chairman, Terry O'Connor, quickly became suspicious of police-informant relationships.

TERRY O'CONNOR, CHAIRMAN, ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION: I suppose you've got to expect that there's always going to be some bad eggs in the barrel. There is in every human barrel. But we would say that there are more bad eggs in the West Australian Police Service barrel than one might expect.

STEPHEN McDONELL: What sort of things are these bad eggs doing?

TERRY O'CONNOR: Well, we see, um -- we have some evidence to support the view that they're engaged in stealing -- stealing money, stealing drugs. Um -- selling drugs, stealing property. Um -- those sorts of things.

STEPHEN McDONELL: It wasn't long before the ACC itself became the subject of controversy. It's an ultra-secretive body. There are no public hearings, there's no cross-examining of witnesses by the accused and the law even prohibits anyone mentioning publicly that the commission is examining a matter. The ACC works closely with police Internal Affairs. Keen to prove its mettle from the outset, the ACC went after the detectives -- including some from Red Emperor with active informants. From this point, the investigation of police in the West becomes a bewildering world of claim and counter-claim. Chris Cull was accused of having an improper relationship with a major heroin dealer and disclosing confidential information to him. Mr Cull says he was trying to save the man's life.

TERRY O'CONNOR: What Cull had done was that he had gone to a major heroin dealer (Pau Massari) to, as he describes it, to provide him information that his life or well-being was under some threat. He said that he had the authority of a senior officer but not his senior officer. He had subsequent meetings with that heroin dealer. He says he was offered money by the heroin dealer which he refused. He made no report of being offered money and appears not to have contemplated charging him with bribery or something like that.
CHRIS CULL: We analysed the situation and saw that the possible target of an abduction and a beating and possibly even worse.

STEPHEN McDONELL: What do you mean by worse?

CHRIS CULL: Torture. Possibly deathPossibly murder.

STEPHEN McDONELL: And who was to be the target of this?

CHRIS CULL: The person that the ACC alleged I had a relationship with (Francesco La Rosa who worked with well known drug dealer Paul Massari who stated in District Court in Western Australia that he worked with the polcie as his partners)
STEPHEN McDONELL: To confuse things, Chris Cull's story has changed. Originally, he said the meeting to warn the man was near the dealer's home with just him and the dealer present. Now Mr Cull claims the meeting took place in a superintendent's office and that this senior officer was present as well. What would you say to critics, I suppose -- especially the ACC -- might say to you, well, why should we believe you if you can't even remember where this crucial meeting took place?
CHRIS CULL: Oh, I can remember the second occasion.
STEPHEN McDONELL: No, the first one though.

CHRIS CULL: Um, well, I don't know. I mean, we're only human beings. We aren't super computers -- 

STEPHEN McDONELL: It's a big difference between meeting him near his house and meeting him in a police building, isn't it?
CHRIS CULL: Yeah.

No, I mean, I -- often we go through this process and I don't remember everything that has gone on. You only remember key issues of matters.
STEPHEN McDONELL: The Anti-Corruption Commission and Internal Affairs also turned their attention to the head of Red Emperor, Peter Coombs.
Internal Affairs prepared a damning report into Sergeant Coombs which was tabled in Parliament. The allegations against him flowed from the 1994 raid on the home of heroin dealer, Francesco La Rosa. During the raid, Coombs and two other officers found cannabis and drug charges would be laid But when a safe was opened, police found inside a pistol, a silencer and 59 rounds of ammunition. The police took the weapon but never charged La Rosa with anything relating to the gun.

DET SGT PETER COOMBS: He was to be charged on that day.He wasn't. And then when it came to light a few months down the track -- after some information was obtained -- he was sanctioned by our superiors for him not to be charged.

STEPHEN McDONELL: Former deputy 

STEPHEN McDONELL: The fight against organised crime in Western Australia has all the appearances of being a shambles. Detectives, criminals and government watchdogs can agree on only one fact -- there is corruption in the police service.

TERRY O'CONNOR, CHAIRMAN, ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION: I suppose you've got to expect that there's always going to be some bad eggs in the barrel. We would say that there are more bad eggs in the Western Australian Police Service barrel than one might expect.

STEPHEN McDONELL: The trouble is nobody can agree on who the corrupt officers are or what constitutes corruption.

LES AYTON, DEPUTY POLICE COMMISSIONER, 1994-1996: There is no way you can effectively catch criminals by sticking strictly to the letter of the law. Good detectives have to take the law to the knife's edge.

BOB FALCONER, POLICE COMMISSIONER, 1994-1999: If you're skilled in detecting and presenting evidence, well, clearly, if you want to turn to the dark side of the force -- to use an Americanism -- then you can easily use those same skills and knowledge as a countermeasure.

Liam Bartlett: WA’s unsolved murders — is there a major issue with Major Crime?

LIAM BARTLETT, PerthNow

June 13, 2015 

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/opinion/liam-bartlett-was-unsolved-murders--is-there-a-major-issue-with-major-crime/news-story/d60b0e9e70934216baed7f34303d245b

WHEN a senior policeman in charge of the Major Crime division of a large capital city is removed from his “current role” and forced to relinquish the cases he’s overseeing, it is not a small problem.

When another four of his colleagues are also told to take a seat in the corner, and “stood aside” from their criminal investigations, one gets the impression something is seriously amiss.

For the general public, these actions have little impact – and perhaps that’s why the WA Police hierarchy can escape the blowtorch with such little attention. However, if you happen to be one of the unlucky few who are depending on the work of Major Crime to resolve the fate of their loved ones, it is a severe setback, bordering on disastrous.

One such case is the unexplained death of Raymond Kehlet and the disappearance of his wife, Jennie. The couple were reported missing on March 30 after rangers from Sandstone in the Goldfields went to their campsite and found it intact but deserted. Raymond’s body was discovered nine days later in a mineshaft but there has been no trace of Jennie.

This column has previously explored aspects of the tragedy, which seem implausible in light of the facts and inconsistent with what’s known about the pair’s close relationship. But police were adamant the scenario was more mundane. As Detective Superintendent Anthony Lee insisted: “We are not seeing anything that suggests criminality.”

— LIAM BARTLETT: Kehlet’s outback vanishing act just doesn’t make sense

As head of Major Crime, he was running the investigation – up until two weeks ago. That’s when he was “stood aside” with four other officers, at least two of whom were working on the Kehlet case.

Missing prospecting couple Jennie and Raymond Kehlet. 

The reason for the shuffling of deckchairs was the result of an internal investigation into their conduct during a 2010 murder case in Broome. Josh Warneke, 21, was killed while walking home from a nightclub. A Kimberley man, Gene Gibson, faced a charge of murder but it had to be downgraded to manslaughter after a Supreme Court judge found police bungled the case. Gibson was denied basic legal rights such as use of an interpreter and his admissions were not voluntary. Mr Warneke’s mum, Ingrid Bishop, said: “At least two or three officers should depart the services of WAPOL.”

But Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan concluded Lee and four others can effectively twiddle their thumbs while he decides what “further action” be taken against them and he lined up five others for “managerial action”. That left the Kehlet case without a rudder and Jennie Kehlet’s adult children with very little confidence in how police had been handling the investigation. Indeed, their father, Jim Keegans, only learnt this week that Supt Lee had been removed and another detective assigned the case. That was only after multiple phone calls to inquire about what was being done.

Mind you, he was a long way from shocked, having already discovered a sense of urgency is not a commodity Major Crime seems to value highly. He had gone to Sandstone when his former wife was first reported missing and helped to pack up the campsite, collecting Jennie’s personal belongings, including hairbrush and toiletries, in a box. He offered these to detectives for potential DNA samples but nobody was particularly interested.

Weeks later, about May 1, he visited Major Crime and offered the box, which was casually sorted by an officer, who then told him to take it home. It wasn’t until May 14 that a forensic team was sent to his home and clinically tested samples and took photographs of the box’s contents.

A similar approach appears to have been taken with the last person known to have seen either Raymond or Jennie alive. It turns out he was the primary reason the couple were at Sandstone. Not only did he introduce them to prospecting but was also teaching them how to abseil. In fact, when Supt Lee appeared at a press conference to mark the announcement of a second search for the Kehlets he also launched a public appeal for information leading to a number of pieces of prospecting equipment that Jennie was believed to have “discarded”.

What he failed to say was the gear, including a metal detector, did not belong to Raymond or Jennie but was the property of the man who had been camping with them prior to the tragedy. Despite the public appeal, the equipment has not been found.

While there is no suggestion he is a suspect, the Kehlets’ friend is yet to talk publicly. And the police are yet to convince the family that the investigation is not a shambles.

Iveta Mitchell, pictured with her mum Dobra, before she went missing in 2010

MAJOR DISASTER?

We know about the big ones they got wrong and there’s been a few – Button, Beamish, the Mickelbergs, Mallard, Rayney – but what about the cases Major Crime have never had a chance to get right?

Why do the “cold cases” present so much of a mental block for WA Police? Is there a crisis of confidence in Major Crime, which should be a worry for us all, or is the reluctance to be open and accountable just part of an outdated paramilitary culture that has them trapped in a 1960s mentality?

A case in point is the disappearance of Iveta Mitchell. The mother-of-three vanished on May 2, 2010, after a roaring argument with her husband, Chad. He later named himself as the prime suspect, saying detectives had told him he was in the frame. Five years on, the case has gone nowhere.

Iveta’s mother, Dobra, has never fully recovered from losing her daughter and believes that Major Crime’s efforts have been woeful.

If the experience of this columnist is any indication, I can sympathise with her frustration. In March this year I approached police with an offer of statewide coverage and an interview to mark the fifth anniversary. It’s common practice around the globe in modern policing precincts to use anniversaries as a tool, through the use of re-enactment, to jog someone’s memory and hopefully prompt new leads and information.

But, despite over two months’ preparation time, Major Crime were seemingly not interested in generating any new information that could help solve the crime.

Instead, they said this: “WA Police remain committed to the investigation into the disappearance and suspected homicide of Iveta Mitchell. The investigation is ongoing and as such WA Police are not in a position to comment further.”

So, we learn by default they believe she was murdered but don’t want to attract public attention because it’s “ongoing”. This is a favourite chestnut used by Major Crime to excuse any participation, but who are they kidding? After five years they have no body, no killer and, seemingly, no idea of what to do next, but they are happy to build a brick wall around themselves if it means nobody will discover the adequacy of their own performance. It’s either a lack of confidence or competence or maybe both.

MACRO OR MICRO?

It’s the same old song for the state’s most notorious unsolved serial crime. The Claremont killings began with the disappearance of Sarah Spiers in 1996. Two weeks ago the Seven Network asked police to participate in a story about trying to catch the killer but again, not an officer in sight to appeal for public help. The excuse? It’s an “ongoing” investigation. Yes, 19 years of “ongoing” nothingness. No breakthrough, no result and no chance of pricking the conscience of anyone – across a national television audience – who might come forward.

This is what Mr O’Callaghan refers to as “modern policing”. It probably was when Division 4 was being produced by Hector Crawford but not today.

This should not be misinterpreted as being about media self-interest. It’s about our ever-shrinking reputation – a state where serious crime is not always treated seriously.

Mr O’Callaghan has been the top dog since 2004, the same year an external review was held into the Claremont case. Since then, he’s had 11 years to send the case to a coronial inquiry and has never pushed the button. How long before cold goes to freezing?

HAYLEY DODD

Hayley Dodd, who vanished in 1999

Similarly, there has never been a coronial inquest into the disappearance and suspected murder of Hayley Dodd. Despite the case lingering for 16 years, a recent development has been more to do with the dogged persistence of her mother, Margaret, than any inspirational detective work.

Interestingly, on Monday, May 25, police held a press conference and announced that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of a man for her wilful murder. It sounded like an impressive breakthrough – the only hiccup being the accused is serving time in a Queensland jail for another crime.

That led to a complete clanger; the warrant meant nothing without an extradition request being made from the WA Attorney-General to his Queensland counterpart and that wasn’t possible because the detectives had not completed the “appropriate paperwork”. Two weeks later, Attorney-General Michael Mischin said: “When they’ve got an application ready for me to consider, then I’ll pass it on to the Queensland Government.”

It’s Keystone Cops at best.

Only on Thursday morning, two-and-a-half weeks after the bells and whistles announcement, Mrs Dodd confirmed police had phoned to tell her “the Commissioner has signed the application and the paperwork is good to go”.

So, why the hoopla of a media conference when you’re not actually ready to slap on the handcuffs? Could it have had anything to do with getting the Shirley Finn case off the front page of the paper? Senior police also would have known the initial results of the Warneke internal investigation would be announced five days later and that would not reflect at all well on Major Crime.

SHIRLEY FINN

On the morning of the premature “breakthrough” announcement in the Dodd case, all Perth media outlets were chasing a follow-up on Shirley Finn. The 40-year-old murder case was reignited two days previously with the supposed revelation from a former police officer that detectives had threatened to kill him if he spoke up about seeing the brothel madam drinking with police on the night of her murder. The news cycle was strategically altered but the long-running Finn controversy is not over.

Shirley Finn.

Staggeringly, Mr O’Callaghan penned his own editorial on the Finn scenario and said it was “incredible” a 2002 royal commission into police corruption did not investigate it. He was quoted as saying: “I can’t understand why nobody lobbied the premier at the time to actually go back further and look at the Finn case.”

At the time, Mr O’Callaghan was an assistant commissioner, quite well placed to have an opinion. In addition, he worked in Internal Affairs from 1996 – the perfect place to be a receptacle of all sorts of police scuttlebutt and rumour. When he took control in 2004, one would have assumed he was in a perfect position to send the Finn case straight to the Coroner but he did not.

He ordered a review in 2005 and must have had an inkling then that something lurked under the surface because he makes the point that a royal commission in 2002 “could have revealed vital information if it had been allowed to investigate”. So, why did he not send it to the Coroner after the 2005 review?

He now says he’ll consider it after the current review is completed. I suspect that is more a political statement designed to keep the hope alive – not for the Finn family but the wider community who are losing faith in the ability of police to solve serious crimes.

Attempts to get a more scientific measurement of the performance of the Major Crime squad have not been successful. Despite repeated requests this week to police for the latest figures on clearance rates, they have been unable to provide them.

THE WRAP

Police Minister Liza Harvey isn’t worried about the machinations at the Major Crime squad, preferring to support management. As she says: “I have full faith in the Commissioner to be ensuring that we have the right people in those roles to continue with our investigative practices.”

To quote Mandy Rice-Davies, she would say that, wouldn’t she? Having reappointed Mr O’Callaghan for another two years, just last week, Ms Harvey is unlikely to be expressing dissatisfaction.

But one can only hope the Minister takes time to be a bit more forensic in her oversight to ensure our investigative practices do not continue but, rather, improve.

This is a Commissioner who is keen on parroting a “world’s best practice” mantra and yet then hides behind Perth’s traffic congestion as an excuse for falling response times. The last time I looked, New York City police managed to do their job in heavy traffic, albeit with a lot more sirens. Perhaps we need to make a lot more noise.

— Liam Bartlett is a journalist with the Nine Network and can be seen on 9 News Perth. Email: lbartlett@nine.com.au

    WHO ABDUCTED, RAPED OR KILLED THESE WOMEN? -
    THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL ABDUCTOR OR ADDUCTRORS, RAPIST OR RAPISTS  
 AND KILLER or KILLERS 

Julie Cutler last seen 12:30am 20 June 1988

Kerry Turner last seen 5am June 30 1991 – BRE’s father’s birthday

Saturday January 1, 1994 Claremont Subway Attack

1994 Jan 1 woman driving home from Club Bay View fights off man who dragged her from her car and tried to rape her near the Claremont subway 

1994 May 23 Pamela Lawrence is murdered at her shop in Mosman Park. Andrew Mark Mallard is wrongfully convicted of her murder in 1995. 
He is ultimately cleared... some 12 years later

1994 Oct A 31-year-old woman breaks her ankle when she leaps from a speeding taxi on Princess Road after the driver and another man try to attack her. 

Sunday February 12 1995 Karrakatta attack.

1995 Feb 12 Teenager abducted in Rowe Park, tied with electrical flex and raped at Karrakatta Cemetery

Raelene Eaton and  Yvonne Waters 

 Lisa Marie Mott
                                                   
                                                Lisa Mott’s father Brian at his Busselton home with a painting of his daughter, who disappeared in 1980 at the age of just 12.    
Lisa Mott vanished on October 30, 1980. She was last seen getting into a panel van on Forrest St, Collie, after a basketball game. Her body has never been found
                                                                                          

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?326587-Australia-Claremont-Serial-Killer-1996-1997-Perth-Western-Australia-11&p=13062429&styleid=21

 Julie Leanne Cutler  

• Missing since:Monday, June 20, 1988
• Last seen:Perth WA
• Jurisdiction:WA
• Year of birth:1965
• Age now:51
• Gender:Female
• Ethnicity:Caucasian
• Height:162cm
• Build:Medium
• Hair:Dark, Brown
• Complexion:Fair
• Eyes:Blue/green

Circumstances:

Julie Cutler was last seen at 12.30am on 20 June 1988 leaving the Parmelia Hilton Hotel, WA, after a staff function. Her car was found two days later in the sea off Cottesloe Beach.
She was last seen wearing a black evening dress with a high collar and gold buttons on the shoulder and black patent shoes.
Despite extensive inquiries by police and family and comprehensive media coverage, there has been no information regarding her whereabouts since.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Julie please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

There was an attempted abduction and of a girl from
 the Cottesloe Hotel, Perth, Western Australia in 1989.
This attempted abduction has been report in the Subiaco Post Newspaper on the 14th of November, 2015 as per the below article

https://www.scribd.com/doc/289515831/POST-Newspaper-for-14th-of-November-2015

Kerry Turner went missing from Victoria Park, Western Australia on June 30, 1991

Kerry Turner's family pleads for answers 25 years after daughter's body found in bush

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-28/kerry-turner-family-plead-for-help-25-years-after-perth-murder/7549252

ABC Radio Perth  By David Weber 28 Jun 2016

The parents of a murdered Perth woman have joined police in a renewed plea for help to catch her killer nearly 25 years after their daughter was last seen alive.

Key points:

• Kerry Turner's body found near Canning Dam after night out in Perth
• Her parents say they have not had closure
• Police urge anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers

The body of Kerry Turner, 18, was discovered in late July 1991 hidden behind a log in bushland in the Canning Dam area.

She was last seen getting into a car on Shepperton Road in East Victoria Park after a night out four weeks earlier.

The murder case is still open.

Ms Turner's father, John Turner, said he and his wife thought about Kerry every day, and said there was a "giant hole" in their lives.

"My wife Sue and I, we both feel as though we haven't had proper closure," he told 720 ABC Perth.

"We miss our Kerry so much and her tragic loss has left a gaping hole in our family that can never be filled, but we would really appreciate it if someone could come forward and provide information to Crime Stoppers."

Ms Turner had gone to Pinocchio's night club in Perth's Murray Street on the evening of Saturday June 29 with a girlfriend, but they became separated and police say Kerry mingled with different people during the night.

She caught a taxi from Murray Street to go home about 4:00am the following morning. The driver dropped Kerry off on the Causeway when he learned she did not have money for the fare.

Witnesses saw Ms Turner sitting on the curb on the Causeway and trying to hitch a ride.

She was eventually picked up by another taxi which dropped her off about 5:00am on Shepperton Road, opposite what is now Conca's Italian Restaurant.

Soon afterwards, a vehicle described by witnesses as similar to a dark-coloured or blue Datsun sedan pulled up next to Ms Turner. Another witness described the vehicle as a fawn-coloured sedan with spoked wheels.

Kerry was seen entering the car on the passenger side, and it continued south on Shepperton Road.

'She never came home'

Mr Turner said he did not know at the time Kerry was trying to hitchhike home.

"I always went out at any time to pick up my daughter and she knew that. So we don't know why she decided to hitchhike, but she did," he said.

"She never came home and you can imagine how that was for us. We were frantic, we were really worried for her safety."

Mr Turner said he thought it was likely the teenager knew the person driving the vehicle that she got into.

"[Kerry] was a lovely, bubbly person, a very happy person, I don't think she had any fear ... she was a close family member just doing the stuff that teenagers did," he said.

"And she didn't deserve to have happen to her what happened to her."

Investigators suspect there are still people who know what happened to Ms Turner, and believe someone who may have felt intimidated or uncomfortable coming forward in the 1990s may now be in a position to do so.

Anyone with information has been urged to contact call Crime Stoppers.

'She accepted a lift and never seen again': Unsolved murder of teen Kerry Turner

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/she-accepted-a-lift-and-never-seen-again-unsolved-murder-of-teen-kerry-turner-20160628-gptg4f.html

JUNE 28 2016-  Heather McNeill

Thursday marks 25 years since 18-year-old Perth teenager Kerry Turner, on her way home from a night out in the city, accepted a lift from a driver in Victoria Park and was never seen alive again.

On the anniversary of her murder, her father John Turner has made an emotional plea for anyone with information to come forward, telling Radio 6PR presenter Gary Adshead on Tuesday there wasn't a day that went by that he didn't think of his beloved daughter.

"With Kerry, she was a bright and bubbly 18-year-old - like they are - beautiful looking girl and she was full of confidence and had no fear of anything," he said.

"We miss her so much... it's just left a giant hole in our family."

Kerry Turner.  

Kerry Turner disappeared on June 30, 1991, after accepting a lift in Victoria Park. 

The death of Kerry was the second tragedy for John and his wife Sue, who immigrated to Perth from the UK in 1970 for a better life.

In 1985, their son, Jamie, 18, died after being injected with drugs by a man who was later convicted of his manslaughter.

Six years later, on June 30, 1991, Kerry, their youngest daughter, went missing.

Her body was found four weeks later by a member of the public in bushland near Canning Dam. 

"This particular day, [Kerry] had been in touch with mum and told her she was coming home for dinner," Mr Turner said.

"She rang a bit later on and said there was a change of plans and [Kerry and her friend Kylie] were going out together into the city, and of course mum said 'be careful', all the usual things that mums say.

"We didn't know that she was hitchhiking, she had a car, we'd bought her a car, but she obviously hitchhiked instead of driving her car because they were probably going to have a few drinks or something."

When Kerry became separated from her friend, and did not have enough taxi money to get her home, unknowingly, her fate was sealed.

"The taxi driver dropped her in Victoria Park at聽a lit up all-night cafe," Mr Turner said.

"She was walking across the street and a car sped up and stopped behind her on Shepparton Road

"The person in the car called out and Kerry turned around and walked back to the car, spoke to the person, and then got in the car and left and that was the last time she was seen alive that we know of."

Police hunted for the vehicle, described by witnesses as a dark blue car, similar to a Datsun 260C, which had spoked wheels, but came up empty handed.

It was one of the few leads they had into Kerry's disappearance.

"It's just mystifying that she would be so positively walking around the back of the car and getting in [unless she knew the person]," Mr Turner said.

"It's very awful, we think about it every single day, there's never a day that goes by that a thought about Kerry doesn't come into my mind."

Mr Turner has pleaded for anyone with information into what happened to Kerry to come forward.

"Whatever it is, no matter how small it might be... if they've got any information that might be relevant, please bring it forward," he said.

"There is definitely a good chance I think of something coming from the continued and renewed vigour of investigation.

"We remain hopeful and we know that there are people that know something."

Alex Turner, the brother of Kerry Turner
went missing on the 23rd of June 1991,
who appears to have been murder in a homophobic attack

 

Radina Marie Djukich disappeared on SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1992



Radina Marie Dyukich

 Radina Marie DJUKICH

http://www.australianmissingpersonsregister.com/Djukich.htm

Missing since May 16, 1992 from Perth, Western Australia. 

Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: July 29 1977

Age at Time of Disappearance: 14 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3" - 160 cm.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blue eyes, auburn hair.
Marks, Scars: She has a noticeable turned left eye.
Clothing: Blue jeans ("JAG" brand), red jumper and sports shoes.
Shockingly custody of Radina Marie Djukich had been handed to known pedophile through court system.
 The pedophile subsequently convicted of murder of woman in following year.

Circumstances of Disappearance 
Radina Djukich was reported missing by Ronald Joseph Buckland on May 16, 1992, six weeks after she was released into his care after an appearance in the Children's Court. 
At the time, Buckland was on parole after serving part of a six-year sentence for breaking and entering. He had an extensive criminal record, including convictions for assault and armed robbery. In 1982, he had been declared an habitual criminal. 
Buckland was not Radina's father in any legal sense, yet the Children's Court released her on a $1000 surety with the condition that she lived with Buckland and observed a 7pm to 7am curfew. 
When she disappeared Buckland said she had run away interstate. 
A year later, Buckland murdered his 18-year-old girlfriend, Vicki Robinson, after an argument, and buried her body in bush near Yanchep. He is serving a 20-year sentence for the crime. 
In 1996, Buckland told police Radina had been murdered but denied responsibility. He led officers on an unsuccessful search for her body around the Star Swamp in the Perth suburb of North Beach.

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1992 

Age at Time of Disappearance: 14 years old Last Seen: May 16, 1992 Location Perth, Western Australia. Classification: Missing Date Of Birth: July 29 1977 Height: 5'3" - 160 cm. Distinguishing Characteristics: She has a noticeable turned left eye. White female. Blue eyes, Auburn hair. Last Seen Wearing: Blue jeans ("JAG" brand), red jumper and sports shoes. Circumstances: Radina Djukich was reported missing by Ronald Joseph Buckland on May 16, 1992, six weeks after she was released into his care after an appearance in the Children's Court. At the time, Buckland was on parole after serving part of a six-year sentence for breaking and entering. He had an extensive criminal record, including convictions for assault and armed robbery. In 1982, he had been declared an habitual criminal. Buckland was not Radina's father in any legal sense, yet the Children's Court released her on a $1000 surety with the condition that she lived with Buckland and observed a 7pm to 7am curfew. When she disappeared Buckland said she had run away interstate. A year later, Buckland murdered his 18-year-old girlfriend, Vicki Robinson, after an argument, and buried her body in bush near Yanchep. He is serving a 20-year sentence for the crime. In 1996, Buckland told police Radina had been murdered but denied responsibility. He led officers on an unsuccessful search for her body around the Star Swamp in the Perth suburb of North Beach. Radina's mother, Christine Djukich, wants to know why her daughter was released into the care of a violent offender who claimed to be her father. If you have any information or sightings please contact Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.

Cariad Slater missing  on the 13th of July 1992 from
67a Rosewood Ave Woodlands, Western Australia.
A man charged and convicted; case going through appeal process.
 Located in yard he lived in and address where taxi had dropped her off at.

 Debra Donachy at aged 46 years old went missing in 1992
 from Armadale, Western Australia

 

Alex Turner brother of Kerry Turner went missing 23rd of June 1991
 who appears to have been murdered in a homophobic attack. 

      In 1994 Jan 1 woman driving home from Club Bay View fights off man
      who dragged her from her car and tried to
       rape her near the Claremont subway 

     1994 May 23 Pamela Lawrence is murdered at her shop in Mosman Park. Andrew Mark Mallard is wrongfully convicted of her murder in 1995. 
    Andrew Mallard is ultimately cleared... some 12 years later .. and paid $3.25 compensation by the Western Australian Government for having
     to spend 12 years wrongfully in jail for a murder he was wrongfully found guilty of as a result an misleading evidence presented at his trial
       by police and the Director of Public Prosecutions


       1994 Oct A 31-year-old woman breaks her ankle when she leaps from
         a speeding taxi on Princess Road after the driver and another man try to attack her



Karen Skinner went missing at the age of 20 years old in 1995  
from Kardinya, Western Australia                           

                                               Josephine Jennings 

https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/who-missing/wa/jennings-josephine

                                                                               Missing since:Friday, September 1, 

L                          Last seen:Kalgoorlie Western Australia, Jusidiction: Western Australia- date of Birth 1964
                                     
                              in 2006 Josephine Jennings in 52 years old and hight is 165cm
             with brown hair and tanned complexion- tanned complexion and brown eyes

Ag

                                   Distinguishing features:Has a tattoo ' I love You' on the inside of her left ankle;
                                a large scar from her left ear to her mouth; and a large burn mark on her right calf.

                    Circumstances:

Josephine Jennings was last seen in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia around September 1995.
She has not been in contact with any family or friends in that time.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Josephine please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

                             

                                                    Josephine Jennings

         

        I have a good memory for some things, but a lot eludes me, trust me on that! 
I do just remember something about the Dalziel St murder (must of been the flats, as the only other house was 'the sandy mans' from memory). However, some details of the other one I'm recalling are more clear to me. 
Ok, I can tell you this. The girl was found in the house at 1995 Albany Hwy Maddington, which was diagonally opposite what used to be Stokley station. I can not recall her name, however I know that on my school group someone had mentioned the fact 'so & so' had been murdered and I asked "was that in the house opposite Stokley station?" and he'd confirmed it was (this convo was some years ago now).

Australia Claremont Serial Killer, 1996 - 1997, Perth, Western Australia #10 P.1

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?325918-Australia-Claremont-Serial-Killer-1996-1997-Perth-Western-Australia-10

Tilbury was convicted in 1971 for the murder of Lynette Robeson and again in 1989 for the murder of Vanessa Devlin.

   1996 Feb Police confirm they have received reports of bogus taxis in Perth. 

       1996 Mar 3rd a 21-year-old woman is bashed and indecently
         assaulted in Church Lane behind Club Bay View. 

                              Sarah Ellen Spiers
Sarah Spiers has been missing since Saturday the 27th of January, 1996 and was last seen in Claremont,Western Australia
Sarah Spiers is a Caucasian female who was born in 1977 and would be around 39 years of age in the year 2016.
Sarah Spiers has a height of 160cm and has blonde shoulder length hair and has a fair complexion, with green eyes.
Sarah Spiers has a distinguishing feature which a small scar on her forehead and on the tip of her nose.

• Ms Sara Spiers went missing from outside a Claremont nightclub in January 27, 1996.
  Circumstances of the disappearance of Sarah Spiers:
  Sarah Spiers was last seen in the early hours of Saturday, 27 January 1996 after leaving Club Bay View, St Quentins Avenue, Claremont.
  She left the night club at approximately 1:30am. At 2:06am it is known that Sarah called a taxi from the telephone booth at the corner of Stirling Road and Stirling Highway, Claremont. A taxi arrived minutes later however Sarah was not there.
  Despite extensive inquiries by Police and family and comprehensive media coverage, there has been no information regarding her whereabouts since this time. Sarah was last seen wearing a light coloured t-shirt, beige shorts, black denim jacket. Concerns are held for her safety and welfare.
  If you have information that may assist police to locate Sarah please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Jane Rimmer was 23 when she went missing in 1996 after a night out in Claremont

Ms Rimmer, 23, was abducted from Claremont in June 1996 and her body found in bushland south of Perth that August.
Students say they saw Jane Rimmer hitchhiking on Stirling Highway, Claremont near Loch Street at around 12.30 am, the description of what Jane Rimmer was wearing matched the unreleased description the police had so it seems quite certain that it was Jane Rimmer hitchhiking on Stirling Highway near Loch Street. The students had been to an event at the Claremont Yatch Club.
12.30 am would have been about the time it would have taken for Jane Rimmer to walk from Bay View Terrace to around Loch Street on Stirling Highway.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?294704-Claremont-Serial-Killer-Media-Timelines-Photos-*NO-DISCUSSION*/page10
Title: We Saw Jane Rimmer Hitchhiking - Student
Author:Andrew Clennell
Date: 19 June 1996
Publisher: Community Times, News Chronical, Nedlands Edition.

Title: We Saw Jane Rimmer Hitching - Uni Student says
Author: Andrew Clennell Date: 19th June, 1996
Publisher: Community Times, News Chronical, Nedlands Edition
University student Emma Clayton and her friends almost picked up a blonde girl she is sure was Jane Rimmer early on the Sunday Morning Jane Rimmer disapeared.
Miss Clayton (21 years old uni student) said she saw the girl staggering along Stirling Highway, thumb out, hitching a lift at 12.30 am. Emma Clayton told police about the incident and her description of the cloths Jane was wearing matched that of a police description which had not been released to the media. Mis Clayton said she and her friends had been in Stirling Highway after leaving a 21st birthday party at Claremont Yacht Club. "Down near Lock Street we saw a girl Hitchhiking," she said. The Girl had her thumb out and we just slowed down and thought maybe we should pick her up but didn't." The conversation between the two couples in the car had been that she was a silly girl for trying to hitch in the area and they discussed whether they should pick the girl up. The decided at the last minute to move on. "we said of all placed for a girl to be hitchhiking alone, this was probably the worst," Miss Clayton said. She said initially, after she had heard of Jane Rimmer's disappearance, she felt guilty that that hadn't picked her up. "If we had picked her up things would have been a lot different, " Miss Clayton said. When she and her friends saw the girl there were no other cars on the Stirling Highway ...


more about 2004 Schramm review of police and macro force forensics

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1239582.htm

in 2004, Father of CG talks about finding perpetrator

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1236822.htm

Transcript from 2004 discussing Scramm Review

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1257731.htm

"PAUL SCHRAMM: We've found further opportunities to investigate. Naturally, when you have an investigation of this size and you have something like 33,000 pieces of, or 36,000 pieces of information received in a couple of weeks, when we have gone through some of that information, we believe that there are aspects that could be further explored."

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Ciara Glennon was 27 when she disappeared in March 1997 in upmarket Claremont in Perth

Ms Glennon, 27, disappeared on March 15 1997. Her body was found in bushland north of Perth 19 days after she was last seen in Claremont.

Disappearance in 1997 of 21-year-old Kimberley woman Sara-Lee Davey from Broome.

Another murder allegedly mentioned in the suicide note was of Sara-Lee Davey - who has been on the national missing persons list since she vanished in 1997.

The former navy mechanic was also a suspect in the 1997 disappearance of 21-year-old Kimberley woman Sara-Lee Davey from Broome.
 

 Dorrough was questioned over her disappearance at the time.

SWara lee Davey was last seen: Tuesday, 14 January 1997 Year of birth: 1973 Height: 175cm Build: Slim Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Complexion:Olive Gender: Female Distinguishing Feature: Circumstances Sara was last seen driving a four wheel drive type vehicle in Saville Street, Broome at 5.00 pm on Tuesday January 14, 1997. This is the last known location that she visited in Broome prior to her disappearance. Despite extensive inquiries by police and family her whereabouts are not known

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1997 Peta Simonw Weber went missing in Albay, Western Australia

Peta Simone Weber

Age: 25 Years Height: 152 cm Hair: Blonde Eyes: Blue Circumstances: Peta WEBER and her husband were fishing off The Gap, Albany at 0645 hrs, on the 22nd of June 1997. Peta went off to the toilet and has not been seen since. Despite extensive inquiries, Police have been unable to locate her. Last seen:Black leggings, purple/blue parker with hood, ugg boots or white shoes. If anyone has seen Peta Simone WEBER , or has information regarding this persons whereabouts, please contact 1800 333 000

In around August, 1997 Gerard Ross was abducted while visiting Perth with his family from the country town of Newman.

Gerard Ross murder: Fresh leads discovered in schoolboy cold case

 TUE JAN 1

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-17/gerard-ross-child-murder-cold-case-breakthrough-in-rockingham/8187552

PHOTO 

Gerard Ross was abducted while visiting Perth with his family from the country town of Newman.

Several new persons of interest have been identified in the unsolved murder of an 11-year-old schoolboy in Perth, police say.

Key points:

• Gerard Ross was abducted and killed in 1997 while holidaying in Perth with his family
• Police say they have new 'persons of interest' following a cold case review
• Police want to speak with man who approached another young boy on the same road before the abduction

Gerard Ross was abducted while on a family holiday in Rockingham in 1997.

His body was found dumped in a pine plantation near Baldivis and Stakehill roads 20 kilometres away, 14 days later after several unconfirmed sightings.

WA Police have made a fresh appeal to the public to help find his killer following a cold-case review which began in 2014.

Since then the Special Crime Squad has been working through the review recommendations and opened up new lines of inquiry which police hope will lead to a breakthrough, Acting Detective Inspector Jon Munday said.

"This was a crime that shocked all West Australians," Acting Inspector Munday said.

PHOTO Acting Detective Inspector Jon Munday has called for public help.

ABC NEWS: CHARLOTTE HAMLYN

"Despite the passage of time the WA Police remain committed to resolving this matter and bringing the killer or killers to justice, as well as providing some closure for the Ross family."

Police say several new persons of interest have been identified, but would not give any information about who they were or their possible links to the case.

"We believe there are still people in the community who know what happened to Gerard," Acting Inspector Munday said.

"I would ask them that, given the passage of time or changes in circumstances or allegiances, [they] please reconsider and come forward.

"Ask yourself 'what if it was my child or what if it was my grandchild'."

Driver asked to come forward

Police have released an image of a hat worn by Gerard, that was never recovered from the scene, which they hope may have been spotted by the public, or jog someone's memory.

PHOTO The hat that was never recovered in the Gerard Ross abduction and murder cold case.

SUPPLIED: WA POLICE

They are also trying to identify the driver of a beige or cream sedan that reportedly approached a young boy waiting at a Kent Street bus stop near the Rockingham public library a few weeks before Gerard disappeared.

"We don't have a precise date, but in August 1997 a male driver pulled over at the bus stop and asked the 11-year-old if he wanted a lift," Acting Inspector Munday said.

"When the boy declined, the man drove away."

"The vehicle and its driver have never been identified due to the vague description provided but we are still keen to speak to that person, if only to eliminate him from the investigation."

WA Police say they have collected more than 5,000 pieces of physical evidence in the long-running investigation and have spoken to almost 1,200 witnesses.

In 1998, the WA Government offered a $100,000 reward for information about Gerard's murder, and that offer still remains in place, according to police.

Police also ruled out any link to the death of Queensland teenager Daniel Morcombe who disappeared in similar circumstances on the Sunshine Coast in 2003.

Brett Peter Cowan, who was born in Western Australia, was convicted of that murder after an eight-year investigation. Police said Cowan was in custody in Queensland at the time of Gerard's murder.

'He will never experience the joy in sharing his love'

PHOTO Gerard Ross would have turned 31 this year, his mother said.

Gerard's mother Cyrese, who now lives in Scotland, released a statement.

"Gerard would have turned 31 last November and has sadly missed out on so much life," she said.

"He will never experience the joy in sharing his love, creative talent and sense of humour with his niece or when starting his own family. "We make this appeal on behalf of Gerard, and ask you to provide any information, no matter how small or insignificant. "Please come forward as it can make the difference to Gerard's life and give him the justice he deserves."

Lisa Jane Brown has been missing since 12.30am on 10 November 1998 from the Palmerston Street, Perth City area
Lisa Brown was a street worker and mother-of-two who vanished on October 11, 1998 and is believed to have been murdered.
She was last seen looking for clients in the Lake Street area of Perth.
Sex worker and mum-of-two Lisa Brown, 21, is believed to have been murdered by a serial killer
Sex worker and mum-of-two Lisa Brown, 21, is believed to have been murdered by a serial killer

Lisa Jane Brown, is a female who has been missing since Tuesday the 10th of November,1998.
Lisa Jane Brown was last seen in Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia.
Lisa Jane Brown was born in the year 1979, and in the year 2006 would be around 38 years old.
Lisa Jane Brown is 175cm and is of slim build, and has dark blonde hair and has a fair complexion.
Lisa Jane Brown's eyes are brown.

Circumstances of the disappearance of Lisa Jane Brown:

Lisa Brown has been missing since 12.30am on 10 November 1998 from the Palmerston Street, Perth City area.
She was last seen wearing casual blue denim jeans, a black T-shirt and black high heeled boots.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Lisa please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

JENNIFER WILBY, who disappeared in May 1999,
Jennifer Wilby's remains were found in a shallow bushgrave
at Karragullen, 40km south-eat of Perth on the 4th of August, 2011.

WA: Man in court over murder of massage parlour worker

http://formyassetmanagement.blogspot.ie/2012/03/wa-man-in-court-over-murder-of-massage.html

WA: Man in court over murder of massage parlour worker

A 24-year-old man has appeared in a Perth court charged with the murder of a massageparlour worker who disappeared three years ago.

DENNIS IAN BELL was not required to enter a plea in the Perth magistrate's Court over the murder of 23-year-old JENNIFER WILBY, who disappeared in May 1999.

The charge against BELL followed the discovery of Ms WILBY's remains in a shallow bushgrave at Karragullen, 40km south-east of Perth, on August 4.

BELL was arrested early last Friday in the inner Melbourne suburb of South Yarra.

He was charged with the murder in Melbourne and extradited to Perth to appear in court today.

BELL's been remanded in custody to reappear on September 6.

AAP RTV lk/alm/sd/rp

KEYWORD: BELL (PERTH)

WA: Man charged over death of massage parlour worker

http://uhxc1.blogspot.ie/2012/03/wa-man-charged-over-death-of-massage.html

A 24-year-old man will appear in a Melbourne magistrates court today charged with murderinga Perth massage parlour worker whose remains have been found three years after she wentmissing.

Melbourne police arrested the man, from the Perth suburb of Maylands, shortly aftermidnight eastern time.

He's been charged him with the murder of 23-year-old JENNIFER WILBY.

Ms WILBY'S remains were found by bushwalkers at Karragullen, south of Perth, on Sunday.

She was reported missing in May 1999.

The man charged over her murder was arrested in South Yarra.

Police will ask that he be remanded in custody to allow time for Perth officers toarrive in the Victorian capital to seek his extradition.

AAP RTV sd/dl

KEYWORD: REMAINS (PERTH)

HAYLEY MARIE DODD Missing Since July 29, 1999
Personal Details
Status: Unknown (Missing, believed murdered)
Year of birth: 1981
When Last seen: Thursday, 29 July 1999
Occupation: Roust-a-bout
Age: 17
Height: 155 cm
Build: Slim
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Brown
Complexion: Fair
Gender: Female
Distinguishing Feature: 
Racial Appearance: Caucasian

 

http://missingandmurderedaustralia.blogspot.ie/2011/06/hayley-marie-dodd.html

Personal Details
Status: Unknown (Missing, believed murdered)
Year of birth: 1981
When Last seen: Thursday, 29 July 1999
Occupation: Roust-a-bout
Age: 17
Height: 155 cm
Build: Slim
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Brown
Complexion: Fair
Gender: Female
Distinguishing Feature: 
Racial Appearance: Caucasian


Updated 22 June 2011.
Circumstances: Whilst walking and getting lifts to get to her new job, Hayley made a telephone call at about 10.30am on Thursday 29 July 1999. She was then given a lift by a lady to the North West Road, Badgingarra, WA. At around an hour later at 11.35AM she was sighted by a motorist on the North West Road walking towards the farm where she was going. That was the last reported sighting of Hayley. 

At the time of her disappearance Hayley was wearing, light brown hiking boots, blue denim jeans, black v-neck top, grey men's jacket with a hood, silver sunglasses and carrying a light brown backpack with the word " EQUIP" on the flap. 

There has been no trace of Hayley since the morning of 29 July 1999. The only information about what may have transpired has been from convicted prisoners who are making self serving statements about comments allegedly made by other prisoners. This is undoubtedly compounding the pain felt by Hayley's family.

The general consensus is that sometime after her disappearance Hayley died as a result of foul play and her body dumped. This is based on the unsigned statements of convicted thieves, liars and murderers and statistical results of other disappearances.  

The Dodd family are a wonderful caring family seeking nothing more than to have answers to their daughters disappearance. If you have any information or suspicions in this case please act on them as a matter of urgency. 

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Hayley Dodd's mum pins last hopes on cadaver dog

By Vanessa Schmitt, Mandurah Coastal Times 22/Jun/2011

 Margaret Dodd.

Exclusive: A CADAVER dog arrived in WA from Queensland on Monday to search the area around Badgingarra for missing Mandurah teenager Hayley Dodd.
Margaret Dodd said labrador Baz was her last port of call in searching for her daughter Hayley, who disappeared while hitchhiking in July 1999.

After a police investigation failed to shed light into what happened to the 17-year-old, Mrs Dodd tried Aboriginal trackers, a private detective, a geographic profiler and clairvoyants to find answers.

With all other avenues exhausted, she said everything was pinned on the cadaver dog.

“It will be 12 years since Hayley went missing on July 29, but I hope we won’t get to that date without finding her.”

Mrs Dodd said cadaver dogs were trained to track bones and could find body remains after many years.

Mrs Dodd has been planning to use the cadaver dog for a year. 

Her family raised money for airfares and accommodation, while dog handler Martin Dominick offered his services free of charge.

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Missing teen's mother unaware of killer's confession
By NICOLE COX From: The Sunday Times October 09, 2010 10:00PM 

HAYLEY Dodd's heartbroken mother says she will never give up on finding out what happened to her daughter, despite an 11-year lapse since the teenager's disappearance. 

Margaret Dodd said her family had painstakingly mounted independent searches for Hayley, desperate for answers amid concerns that police had bungled the investigation.

They also called for a coronial inquest, but a date is yet to be set.

Hayley was 17 when she was last seen walking along North West Rd near Badgingarra in the WA wheatbelt on July 29, 1999, after picking up a lift while hitch-hiking.

Mrs Dodd said she was angry that police had not kept her abreast of developments in the case, including the latest man to come forward with a claim convicted killer Robin David Macartney had confessed to being involved in Hayley's disappearance.

She said police had only confirmed the development to her when she questioned them after being alerted by The Sunday Times.

"Whoever is responsible for Hayley disappearing is still out there and I still desperately want them to be caught," Mrs Dodd said. "I get annoyed. Police should be telling me everything. I shouldn't be hearing it from the media."

Macartney, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Lalita Horsman in Geraldton in December 1999, has long been considered a suspect in Hayley's disappearance. But police have been unable to pinpoint his precise movements on the day she went missing.

Mrs Dodd said she did not believe police had done everything they could to rule Macartney out of their investigation into Hayley's disappearance.

In 2005, Mrs Dodd and her husband Ray visited Macartney four times in Casuarina Prison after the killer requested a meeting, claiming he had information about Hayley's case. During the meetings, he denied having anything to do with Hayley's disappearance but named a person whom he believed had not only killed Hayley, but was also responsible for Ms Horsman's murder.

Macartney also sent Mrs Dodd a copy of a police videotape, which showed graphic footage of the police recovery of Ms Horsman's body, to which he had controversially gained access in preparation for an appeal against his conviction.

Mrs Dodd severed contact with Macartney.

"I felt like he was playing with us, trying to give us hope but not coming through with any genuine information," she said. "I don't sit there and cry anymore. I listen to the information and then try to see if there is any truth to it ...We want to know where she is, we need to know."

WA Police declined to comment on Mrs Dodd's claims of police bungling.
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POLICE are investigating Hayley breakthrough
NICOLE COX Police Reporter Sunday Times October 09, 2010  

POLICE are investigating a startling breakthrough in the 11-year hunt for missing teenager Hayley Dodd, amid claims a convicted killer confessed to his involvement in her murder. 
The Sunday Times can today reveal the Special Crime Squad has received new information about Hayley's suspected abduction and murder, one of WA's most mysterious cases.

A released prisoner has come forward claiming Robin David Macartney confessed to killing the 17-year-old.

Macartney, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Lalita Horsman in Geraldton in December 1999, has long been considered a suspect in Hayley's disappearance, but police have been unable to pinpoint his precise movements on the day she went missing.

The released prisoner claims Macartney, who is known by his middle name David, told him he had killed Hayley because she would not have sex with him.

In an earlier conversation it is claimed Macartney told the former inmate he knew the whereabouts of Hayley's body.

In a copy of the former prisoner's statement to police, made to Det-Sgt Geoff Buck on August 27 this year and seen by The Sunday Times, the released prisoner also claims:

* He found a file of newspaper clippings about Hayley and two articles stuck on the wall of Macartney's Casuarina Prison cell while snooping when Macartney was in hospital in 2009.

* A photograph of Hayley's mother, Margaret, was uncovered in Macartney's cell with holes in her face that appeared to have been made with a pen. The word "bitch" was scawled above her name.

* He overheard Macartney discussing Hayley's disappearance with at least two other inmates at the jail, each time recounting that he had been different distances from where Hayley was last sighted on the day she disappeared.

The Sunday Times has strong information that police and prison authorities conducted at least two raids of Macartney's cell in recent weeks and that items had been seized from his living quarters.

While police said the cell raids were not related to the Hayley Dodd case, Mrs Dodd said detectives had confirmed to her they had been investigating the new claims for about two months and had searched Macartney's cell.

Mrs Dodd, who visited Macartney in jail in 2005 after he contacted her saying he had information about Hayley's disappearance, said she was only alerted to the heightened police investigation after inquiries made by The Sunday Times.

Police contacted her again on Friday asking her not to comment publicly on the latest claims.

But she described as "disturbing" the account that Macartney had news clippings of Hayley in his cell.

Hayley vanished after she hitched a ride from Dongara, where she was working as a roustabout, on July 29, 1999. She was last seen walking along North West Rd, near Badgingarra, about 200km north of Perth.

Police are convinced Hayley was abducted and murdered, though her body has never been found.

Ms Horsman, 27, was suffocated and her body dumped in the sand dunes of a Geraldton beach five months after Hayley disappeared.

The former prisoner, who was released from jail this year, claims that he spoke with Macartney on several occasions about Hayley's disappearance after a TV news report on June 28, 2009, named him as being a suspect in the case.

"I ask(ed) him, 'What happened, how come they accused you of murdering Hayley?'," the former prisoner said in a statement.

"He said, 'I was accused of it because they accused me of killing the girl in Geraldton and they thought I killed Hayley before I killed her'. He said, 'But I do know where the body is because the person who killed her told me where her body is'.

"I said, 'That can't happen. I think you should tell the police where the body is so the mother can have closure to this'. He said, 'No, that would spoil my appeal'."

In the statement, the ex-prisoner said: "It troubled me what David said to me, no one would know where the body was unless he was the murderer, that's what I thought."

He said, while Macartney confessed to knowing where Hayley's remains were, he did not detail the location.

The man claims that Macartney gave him his cell key so he could clean up before he returned from hospital where he was having treatment for bowel cancer.

"On his wall he had pictures and news items cut out of the newspaper about Hayley Dodd," the statement said. "There was only two on the wall, they were from 2009."

Inside the cell, the prisoner says he found two plastic files with newspaper clippings about Hayley's disappearance and other cases involving Dannie Wright, who was convicted for raping and murdering Chinese student Jiao Dan in Innaloo in October 2007, and American Dennis Maher, who was exonerated after serving 19 years in jail for raping three women in 1983.

"The red folder was all about Hayley," he said. "I saw some clippings had red ink around them.

"There was one picture of Margaret Dodd and it had holes in her face. It looked like the holes were made with a pen. The word 'bitch' was scribbled above her name."

The prisoner said, when he heard the prison guards coming, he returned the files to where he found them and never spoke to other prisoners about the find.

He said he told Macartney that he would give him an opportunity to go to police, but if he had not contacted them by June then he would.

"I'm telling the police this now as he didn't tell the police himself and the family needs to know and they need to get Hayley back," the statement said.

Mrs Dodd said three people had now come forward with similar stories about Macartney confessing to an involvement in Hayley's disappearance.

"One person could be lying, two perhaps collaborating but three people . . . there is no doubt Macartney is saying these things," she said.

Det-Insp Casey Prins, officer-in-charge of the Special Crime Squad, declined to comment.

A Department of Corrective Services spokesman said he was unable to comment or release information about operational or security issues regarding individual prisoners.

A $250,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for Hayley's disappearance.


Deborah Anderson ex Woodvale missing on the 25th Januaruy 1999
Located Midland area
Deborah Anderson was found deceased in driver's seat of burnt vehicle on the 25th of January 1999

Lisa Joanne GOVAN

https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/who-missing/wa/govan-lisa

Lisa Joanne GOVAN
Lisa Govan was last seen near the bottle shop of the Foundry Hotel in Kalgoorlie on October 8, 1999.
At the time, the hotel was also used as a clubhouse by the Club Deroes outlaw motorcycle gang.
Lisa Joanne Govan's body was never found and despite a $50,000 reward and two anonymous calls made to her parents in connection with her suspected murder,
the case remains unsolved.

• Missing since:Friday, October 8, 1999
• Last seen:Kalgoorlie WA
• Jurisdiction:WA
• Year of birth:1971
• Age now:46
• Gender:Female
• Height:155cm
• Build:Slim
• Hair:Brown
• Complexion:Olive
• Eyes:Blue

Circumstances:

Lisa Govan was last seen at approximately 7.30am on the morning of Friday 8 October 1999 in the vicinity of the Foundry Hotel bottle shop, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Despite extensive inquiries by police and family her whereabouts are not known.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Lisa please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Sarah Ann McMahon
Sarah McMahon was last seen leaving work at Claremont on November 11, 2000.
Her car was later found abandoned and unlocked at a hospital carpark.
Missing, presumed murdered: Claremont woman Sarah McMahon.

Sarah Ann McMahon went missing from Greenmount on November 8th, 2000, 
Was aged 20, Now would be age 36 in December, 2016


https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/who-missing/wa/mcmahon-sarah

• Missing since:Wednesday, November 8, 2000
• Last seen:Greenmount WA
• Jurisdiction:WA
• Year of birth:1980
• Age now:36
• Gender:Female
• Height:173cm
• Build:Slim
• Hair:Auburn
• Eyes:Green

Circumstances:

Sarah McMahon has not attended work since Wednesday, 8 November 2000.
She was last seen driving her vehicle, a 1986 White Ford Meteor Sedan, registration 7FO-731 east on the Great Eastern Highway Greenmount, Western Australia.
She was last seen wearing dark jeans, black turtle neck sweater and black suede jacket.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Sarah please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Susan Margaret Christie was reported missing on November 20, 2001 by her first husband, Ian Ure.

Susan Margaret Christie was last seen about 10.28pm on the night of November 15 by her neighbour when a taxi dropped her off at her one-bedroom unit in Curry Street, Jolimont, after a trip to the Wembley Hotel to pick up a bottle of wine.
Giving evidence today, South Metropolitan District Superintendent Scott Higgins said police believed the 42-year-old Ms Christie was killed sometime between November 15 and 16.
Her second husband, Rory Kirk Christie, was sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder in October 2003 after a month-long trial in the WA Supreme Court which heard from over 100 witnesses.
He successfully appealed the sentence in March 2005, and had his case dismissed in a retrial by Justice John McKechnie in November 2005.
"I conclude that there is a defect in the evidence about the accused's opportunity to dispose of the body," Justice McKechnie said in his acquittal of Christie.
"Taken at its highest, the evidence cannot sustain a verdict of guilty. I therefore direct that a verdict of not guilty be recorded and a judgment of acquittal be entered."
Christie is understood to have since returned to his native Canada.
Today, Superintendent Higgins confirmed police were "not actively investigating" the case anymore and conceded "no one was likely to be charged".
"All avenues of inquiry have been exhausted in this case," he told the court.
State Coroner Alistair Hope reserved his findings into the inquest, but conceded that "on the basis of the evidence" Ms Christie was dead.
"I am prepared to find beyond reasonable doubt that (Susan Margaret Christie) is deceased," he said.
"The death was an unlawful homicide by a person or persons unknown.

Apr. 2002 - Survivor (attacked on Palmerston St.)

Christine Michelle Schipp 18/03/02 from Northbridge 


Ms Darylyn Ugle vanished on March 25, 2003, from Highgate, Perth, Western Australia


Christine Michelle Schipp was last seen in  Northbridge, Perth Western Australia  on the 18th of March, 2002
 it appeare Christive Michelle Schipp's remains were located on the 6-5-2013

Judy Maringu- last seen in Northbrige,  Perth, Western Australia  on the 1st of May, 2003.




Mar. 2003 - Darylyn Ugle, murdered (sex worker, body found near Mundaring Weir)
DARYLYN UGLE, 25
Ms Ugle vanished on March 25, 2003, from Highgate.
Her badly decomposed body was found in bush near Mundaring Weir about two weeks later.

Hatice Gurbuz 18 year old went missing from Maddington 

missing since: january 15, 2004

Violent attacker is suspect in murders

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/violent-attacker-is-suspect-in-murders-ng-ya-141907

Violent attacker is suspect in murders

LUKE ELIOT

Monday, November 07, 2011

Donald Morey

Donal Morey is a suspect in the murder of Darylyn Meridith Ugle,
 a prostitute who was last seen alive while soliciting for sex in March 2003

Violent attacker is suspect in murders

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/violent-attacker-is-suspect-in-murders-ng-ya-141907

Violent attacker is suspect in murders

LUKE ELIOT -, Monday, November 07, 2011

 Donald Morey, 

1s a suspect in the murder of Darylyn Meridith Ugle, a prostitute who was last seen alive while soliciting for sex in March 2003

A street prostitute who narrowly survived a brutal bashing at the hands of a sexual deviant who is suspected of being involved in two unsolved suspected murders says she is still haunted by the chilling attack and believes her assailant may have killed other women.

In her first media interview since the December 2003 attack, the woman, who did not want her name published, described crawling through a swamp and scaling a 2.4m high concrete wall in a bid to escape.

"I know there are other girls who aren't as lucky as I was," the woman said.

In September 2005, career criminal Donald Victor Morey was convicted after trial of attempted murder.

In handing down a 13-year jail term, Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Miller accepted the prosecutor's submission that there was no sexual motive to Morey's crime as he was impotent at the time.

"This woman was a random target and . . . it was predatory conduct on your part," Justice Miller said. "It was a premeditated offence, that you planned to take her to a remote area and it was not the case that you voluntarily desisted from what you were doing."

Morey's appeals were dismissed and he remains behind bars.

He is a suspect in the murder of Darylyn Meridith Ugle, a prostitute who was last seen alive while soliciting for sex in March 2003, and to the disappearance of Sarah McMahon, a 20-year-old Parkerville woman who has not been seen leaving her Claremont workplace exactly 11 years ago today. Her vehicle was found at Swan District Hospital. Morey denies involvement in both cases but admits he knew Ms McMahon.

Ms Ugle's body was found in April 2003 near Mundaring Weir - a short distance from Morey's Chidlow home and from the Helena Valley street where he took his December 2003 victim. The two prostitutes knew each other.

Dec. 2003 - Survivor (sex worker, escaped near Mundaring Weir)

A street prostitute who narrowly survived a brutal bashing at the hands of a sexual deviant who is suspected of being involved in two unsolved suspected murders says she is still haunted by the chilling attack and believes her assailant may have killed other women.

In her first media interview since the December 2003 attack, the woman, who did not want her name published, described crawling through a swamp and scaling a 2.4m high concrete wall in a bid to escape.

"I know there are other girls who aren't as lucky as I was," the woman said.

In September 2005, career criminal Donald Victor Morey was convicted after trial of attempted murder.

In handing down a 13-year jail term, Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Miller accepted the prosecutor's submission that there was no sexual motive to Morey's crime as he was impotent at the time.

"This woman was a random target and . . . it was predatory conduct on your part," Justice Miller said. "It was a premeditated offence, that you planned to take her to a remote area and it was not the case that you voluntarily desisted from what you were doing."

Morey's appeals were dismissed and he remains behind bars.

ROBYN SANTEN - Missing from Northbridge, WA - 8th August 2015 - Age 36yrs

Australia - Robyn Santen, 36, Perth, 8 Aug 2015

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?287493-Australia-Robyn-Santen-36-Perth-8-Aug-2015/page6

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Australian Federal Police

December 22, 2015

On Saturday 8 August 2015, Robyn Santen was with work colleagues at the Grapeskins Wine Bar in Northbridge, Western Australia. She left the establishment at approximately 11pm and returned to her home in West Leederville.

Her car was located the following day at the City Beach car park. Despite extensive police inquiries, her whereabouts remain unknown.


If you have information that may help police to locate Robyn, please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2005

Donelle Newberry missing betwen November and December, 2005

Dec 12, 2005 - Donelle Newberry. Personal Details Last seen: Nov 2005 – Dec 2005, Warburton WA Year of Birth: 1977. Sex: Female Eyes: Brown Hair: Black

Personal Details
Last seen: Nov 2005 – Dec 2005, Warburton WA
Year of Birth: 1977
Sex: Female
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Height: 170cm
Build: Slim
Complexion: Dark 
Racial: Australian Aboriginal
Circumstances: Despite extensive inquiries by police and family her whereabouts are not known. Missing person was last seen with a group of people sitting in a creek bed outside of the town site of Warburton Western Australia. Exact dates are not known but it was believed to be between November 2005 and Christmas 2005. She has not contacted family or friends since that time.

Posted by James Brian 

elfare.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Leela please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

                                  Chanelle MCDOUGALL 
                                                                                    

MISSING SINCE 1ST JULY, 2007 FROM HER RESIDENCE IN NANNUP, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. CHANTELL MCDOUGALL IS A FEMALE WAS BORN IN 1980 AND IN THE YEAR 2007 IS 36 YEARS OLD

CHANTELL MCDOUGALL IS 163CM IN HEIGHT AND IS MEDIUM BUILD WITH BROWN HAIR AND BLUE EYES

Circumstances:

In July 2007 six-year-old Leela and her mother, 27-year-old Chantelle McDougall, along with two other men vacated their premises in Nannup Western Australia.

All indications were that they were going on holiday to Brazil possibly via New Zealand.

Extensive enquiries have failed to locate Chantelle McDougall and there are concerns for her safety and welfare.

If you have information that may assist police to locate Chantelle please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000

https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/who-missing/wa/mcdougall-chantelle

Leela MCDOUGALL

https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/who-missing/wa/mcdougall-leela

Missing since:Sunday, July 1, 2007

Last seen:Nannup WA

Jurisdiction:WA

Year of birth:2001

Age now:15

Gender:Female

Hair:Blonde

Eyes:Blue

Circumstances:

In July 2007 six-year-old Leela and her mother 27-year-old Chantelle McDougall along with two other men vacated their premises in Nannup Western Australia.
All indications were that they were going on holiday to Brazil possibly via New Zealand.
Extensive enquiries have failed to locate Leela McDougall and there are concerns for her safety and welfare.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Leela please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

 Iveta Mitchell missing ex residence Parmelia
on the 3rd of May 2010.
  Iveta Mitchell
Iveta Mitchell had worked at a hotel near Mundaring, Western Australia

    Into thin air_ The disappearance of Iveta Mitchell
                                     by  Anne-Louise Brown MAY 3, 2012

                                              Iveta Mitchell

HTTP://WWW.WATODAY.COM.AU/WA-NEWS/INTO-THIN-AIR-THE-DISAPPEARANCE-OF-IVETA-MITCHELL-20120502-1XY4U.HTML

Two long, sad years have passed since Sinki Nikolic last heard the infectious laugh of her best friend, Iveta Mitchell.

Today marks the second anniversary of the day Mrs Mitchell, a loving mother-of-three, vanished into thin air. It's a day her friends have been dreading.

Facebook images of Iveta Mitchell

Mrs Mitchell, a 37-year-old Parmelia mum, disappeared in the early hours of May 3, 2010, after an argument with her husband, Chad Mitchell, at their Meares Avenue home.

They had fought over money he'd spent, funds meant to go towards paying off their mortgage that Mr Mitchell had used to buy drugs. According to Mr Mitchell, his wife went for a cigarette at nearby Barney Park and never came back.

This year, like the one past, Ms Nikolic and a group of Mrs Mitchell's closest friends will spend the evening at Barney Park remembering their friend.

She does not hold out hope Mrs Mitchell is alive, nor does she believe Mr Mitchell will attend the memorial, but Ms Nikolic has vowed to keep her friend’s memory burning until she knows exactly what happened that May night.

 

"To be honest, it doesn't feel like any questions have been answered. I haven't heard anything about the investigation in ages.

 In your head there are just more and more questions that keep popping up," Ms Nikolic said.

"There's no trace whatsoever of what happened to Iveta – it’s mind boggling. It’s like she just vanished into thin air.

"To be honest, it doesn't feel like any questions have been answered. I haven't heard anything about the investigation in ages. In your head there are just more and more questions that keep popping up," Ms Nikolic said.

"There's no trace whatsoever of what happened to Iveta – it’s mind boggling. It’s like she just vanished into thin air

Justyna Kozol

https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/who-missing/wa/koziol-justyna

Justyna Kozol

Missing since:Monday, March 24, 2014

Last seen:Denham WA

Jurisdiction:WA

Year of birth:1985

Age now:31

Gender:Female

Ethnicity:Eurasian

Height:160cm

Build:Slim

Hair:Blonde

Complexion:Tanned

Eyes:Blue

Distinguishing features:Polish National.

Circumstances:

Justyna Koziol is believed to have left her accommodation at the Tradewinds Seafront Apartments in Denham, Western Australia, about 7.00am on Monday, 24 March 2014.
Justyna is Polish and is described as being 160-165cms tall with blonde hair and blue eyes and requires medication for a diagnosed illness.
There are welfare concerns for Justyna due to her state of mind at the time.
If you have information that may assist police to locate Justyna please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

 

                The Age-Part One       
  http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac? 
 Publication: The Age, Section: News Extra, Page: 1   
 Author: Martin Daly with additional reporting by David Reardon

                                                                                                                  Date: 30/05/1998, Words: 2000

THE LAUGHTER has died in Claremont. It was there one Friday night a year ago, and the next day it was gone. The music stopped. Parents of young women became frightened; those with young, blonde daughters were terrified.

Claremont is known as a place for the young and the beautiful, a Perth suburb that has long been a synonym for privilege and security. It is Toorak cachet in an area smaller than but like Brighton, with a main street similar to Church Street.

The wealth here is understated. The apparel is often designer label. Education is largely private.

The suburb has a distinct culture. It adjoins blue-ribbon Liberal-voting Nedlands, Dalkeith and Peppermint Grove, where grand mansions back on to Freshwater Bay.

For young adults, Claremont always represented a peculiar brand of western suburbs fun, largely at their favorite haunts: the Continental Hotel and the Club Bay View. To those from less affluent suburbs, Friday and Saturday nights in Claremont meant rich kids having a good time.

In many ways that is the Claremont that was.

The city is howling with outrage. They're talking of bringing in the army, bringing across the Sydney homicide squad, Scotland Yard ... The whole city goes mad with fear and outrage. He knows what he's doing. They're frightened of him. The whole city is quaking at the thought of him. -- Cloud Street

In this exerpt from Tim Winton's award-winning novel, a serial killer stalked Perth's streets. In Claremont today, there is another. He targets young, blonde women. The bodies of two have been found; a third is missing, feared dead. Unless the killer is caught there will be more victims; serial killers continue to murder until they are caught.

Everybody in Perth appears to know who is the killer. He is a taxi driver, they say. He is believed to be the former mayor, Peter Weygers (this is untrue: police say he is not a suspect). He is the public servant from a nearby suburb who was arrested by police at 3am on Sunday, 5 April, as he cruised Claremont in his car, armed with a knife, stalking young women. He is local. He is any number of estranged male partners dobbed in by women who accused them of liking kinky sex with young girls and, therefore, they had to be suspect. The killer is a police officer. He is from interstate, where he has killed before (no evidence for this). He was a friend of the dead and missing women, or was known to them, as the friend of a friend.

They all know also that limbs were hacked from the bodies of the dead women and spikes driven into the skulls. Police have revealed little about the bodies or the investigation, but the rumors became so frightening they told The Age emphatically: "They were not mutilated."

The murders and grim rumors at one stage so paralysed aspects of community life that WA police commissioner Bob Falconer publicly called for calm. "... We're into a mixture of panic and paranoia and fear and distrust and the blaming stage," he warned.

The fear called for special measures. Security guards turned up at taxi ranks even in Fremantle, about 10 kilometres away. A former Australian SAS commando, reportedly an "adviser to the US Pentagon", and two associates were said by a local newspaper to have been hired to analyse risks to women on Claremont streets.

THE media response to the murders is seen as damaging in part. It so much plays on victim profiles as young, educated, intelligent and living in a wealthy bastion protected by its prosperity, that critics suggest the story has become like Serial Killer Haunts Bay Watch.

"The whole thing was sensationalised to the point that it was almost glamorised (by the media)," says Annie Goldflam, director of the Centre of Research for Women at the University of Western Australia.

For Dr David Indermaur, research fellow at the University's Crime Research Centre, the case has transcended its origins to become a curious class issue. People, he says, feel threatened; if something like this can happen to "nice girls in a place like Claremont" it can happen to them as well.

"There is definitely a class dimension to this. Maybe it's in the killer's mind as well," Dr Indermaur says. "They are almost like the play-out of real life in a TV drama. We do not know what is fact from fiction when we see Claremont on TV."

The police investigation at one stage was the largest ever murder investigation in Australia. Fifty thousand telephone calls were made in response to police appeals for help. Thousands of people have been interviewed. A retired FBI polygraph expert from San Francisco tested responses from 54 people. Many people have been fingerprinted. Clairvoyants picked locations of significance and hypnotists helped penetrate witness recollections.

FBI-trained Captain David Caldwell, brought to Perth from the South Carolina Police Service, was quoted as saying of the killer: "The chances of his striking again are very good."

Serial murder is a big story, and police and the media have used each other in the search for the man who is kidnapping, probably raping, and killing young women. There is now a breach in relations; media outlets that helped the cause are being accused of hindering it by publishing stories the investigators did not want made public.

An element of blame-the-victim has emerged. What, some people ask, were the women doing alone and under the influence of alcohol at that time of night? They were asking for it. And, it is said, there will be more killings, not only because a murderer is stalking young women but, as one taxi driver volunteered, girls with short skirts are still walking around Claremont alone at night.

Police messages have emphasised that women should enjoy life but be careful. However, Barbara Buick, of the Womens' Electoral Lobby, says the campaign has scared young women. "They don't like being blamed, and they feel vulnerable."

Dr Indermaur fears, too, the stranger-danger theme has caused long-term damage by frightening women. His mother believes the messages are telling her not to walk the streets at night.

But Denis Glennon, father of Ciara Glennon, 27, a victim of the serial killer, disagrees: "It is quite easy from the confines of an academic cloister to theorise on the prospective effects of the campaign and that it is linked to some sort of derogation of victims. It is my experience, having been at the coalface, that this is poppycock . . . It (the campaign) has no damaging affect whatever."

Two-and-a-half years after the first woman disappeared, and a year after the body of the last victim was found, the community remains traumatised. In this time there appears to have been elements of self-interest rising in Claremont, despite the threat of more killings. Everybody wanted telephones on the streets and a taxi rank to help keep the kids safe, but some businesses made it clear they did not want them outside their premises.

Enmities about planning matters appeared, too, to become part of a blame campaign. The then Claremont mayor Peter Weygers, some Claremont councillors and local business people - notably the owner of the Continental Hotel and the Club Bay View, John Sainken - became embroiled in a dispute about who should have done more to protect patrons from the serial killer. This led to Club Bay View issuing a writ, later withdrawn, against the mayor and others.

In Claremont, some of those designated as "people of interest" by the taskforce investigating the murders talk bitterly of the upheaval in their lives. They claim they were treated as suspects. Taskforce spokesman Tony Potts counters: "We are not going to make any apology for investigating the murder of two young women and the disappearance of another. We act within the law. We are always professional."

The taskforce suffered a setback when its then head, Senior Sergeant Paul Ferguson, was removed and charged later with misleading a special investigator from Western Australia's Anti-Corruption Commission on matters relating to a drug squad case. It had nothing to do with the murder investigation.

There is also a dispute among academics about the use by police of FBI profiling techniques while, it is claimed, there is a better science in England. Police say they have used both methods and reject the criticism.

In the search for the killer, taxi drivers claim they became scapegoats because, initially, one of their number, or a bogus taxi driver, was believed to be the killer. Drivers were spat on and abused on the streets. They were asked for and, in most cases, gave saliva samples. Their cars were thoroughly searched and about 80 lost their jobs when prior offences emerged in police checks.

They blame the media for pushing the taxi-driver theme, and many of the 4000 drivers in Perth are unforgiving. "I always tell passengers a reporter did it," one says.

T HE Continental Hotel is on the corner of Gugeri Street and Bay View Terrace, Claremont's main street. It is a trendy pub where hundreds of young people gather on weekends. A short distance down the main street, on St Quentin Avenue, is Club Bay View, another place where the young meet friends from similar, privileged backgrounds. They are now notorious - three women left them and are believed to have walked into the night and into the hands of a serial killer.

It is 2.06am on Saturday, 27 January 1996, and Sarah Ellen Spiers, 18, a secretary, is standing at a telephone box about 300 metres from Club Bay View. She has called a taxi. She had been at the club with friends from about 12.15am and had been drinking. When the taxi arrives, she is not there.

In the absence of a body, Ms Spiers was treated as a missing person. Club Bay View offered a $10,000 reward for information about her disappearance. The State Government ran a $130,000 television campaign to warn women against taking risks at night.

Sarah's parents, Don and Carol Spiers, are adamant their daughter would not disappear of her own accord. Carol Spiers refused to talk to The Age about Sarah in terms of the serial killings. "As far as we are concerned our daughter is still a missing person," she says.

The Spiers family was the first of three whose public grief shocked communities throughout Australia.

Bret Christian, the editor of Claremont's The Post newspaper, says Don Spiers remained by his phone day and night. "He checked out 250 phone calls, many from clairvoyants," Christian says. "He has been all over the countryside. They are cruel bastards, those people. They do not realise what they are doing."

Spiers responded to the calls believing someone might pose as a clairvoyant to give him a clue that could save his daugher. "He was told things like 'I have a 100 per cent vision that your daughter is in a house in Wembley, no address, with a white picket fence outside it, and he would drive up and down every street looking for a house that fitted that description."

Perth at night has often been dangerous for women. In the 1960s, "Moonstruck Murderer" Eric Cooke, the last person hanged in WA, killed six people, some from the area. In the mid-1980s, David and Catherine Birnie tortured, raped and murdered four women, and abducted and sexually assaulted a fifth. They are in jail for life.

On New Year's Day 1994, a man dragged a woman from her car after she had left Club Bay View. He tried to rape her, but she fought him off. Three months earlier, a

31-year-old woman got into a taxi near the club. A man hiding in the back seat grabbed her, but she jumped from the car, breaking a leg. In February 1995, a girl, 17, was tied with an electrical cord, raped and left for dead at Karrakatta Cemetery. She had been abducted while walking home from the club.

The disappearance of Sarah Spiers in the context of the previous attacks, and the fact that she would not disappear of her own accord, added a sinister dimension. But, as in all such cases, the absence of a body meant the investigation stopped short of full-scale murder hunt.

On 3 March, two months after Sarah disappeared, a 21-year-old woman was indecently assaulted in a lane behind Club Bay View, which she had left about 2am. Her head had been bashed six times against a brick wall and her skirt ripped off.

Taxis were often hard to find in Claremont. Drivers sometimes did not want to go there, particularly on weekend nights, because of abuse from intoxicated young people who would vomit in their cars. The taxi shortage meant some young people slept in their vehicles until they were sober enough to drive home. Some would walk, trying to pick up a cab or hitch a lift.

On 8 June 1996, Jane Louise Rimmer, 23, a child-care worker from Wembley, went to the Continental Hotel with friends. At 12.04am, she headed home, declining to share a taxi with four friends. She disappeared.

The next day police set up the taskforce. It has gathered 80,000 pieces of information, much of which is still being assessed.

Two months later, on 3 August, Jane's body was found alongside a dirt track beside a riding school at Wellard, 35 kilometres south of Perth. The body had decomposed, but The Age understands there were no gunshot or knife wounds and she may have been strangled.

Her watch was found, giving police clues about which they refused to talk. But there is evidence Ms Rimmer was killed and dumped within hours of her abduction. The fact this happened in such a short time could indicate the murderer is in the early stages of a killing spree and is not yet confident enough to hold victims captive for long periods.

CIARA EILISH GLENNON, 27, the Zambian-born eldest daughter of Irish Catholic businessman Denis Glennon and his wife Una, of Mosman, returned from a year-long world trip in time for the wedding of her younger sister, Denise. She rejoined her old law firm, Blake Dawson Waldron, and began contacting old friends.

Ten days after later, on Friday, 14 March 1997, she went to the Continental Hotel with work colleagues. Her mother had told her of Sarah Spiers and Jane Rimmer.

Ciara left the hotel just after midnight on Saturday, 15 March, and was last seen 15 minutes later on Stirling Highway.

Denis and Una Glennon appeared on television, saying they were convinced Ciara was alive and asking her captor to let her return to them and for those who might know something to call police.

Two weeks later, on 3 April, Ciara's semi-clothed body was found by a bushwalker, in bushland off Pipidinny Road, about 50 kilometres north of Perth. It was 86 kilometres from where Jane Rimmer was found. Based on the definition that a serial killing is two or more killings with a cooling-off period in between - a couple of hours or days - the Glennon case dramatically changed the murder hunt.

There was now no doubt there was a serial killer in Claremont. The State Government posted a $250,000 reward for information leading to the killer.

Last week police produced replicas of distinctive pieces of jewellery that could help catch the killer: a silver Claddagh brooch belonging to Ciara and a golden sunflower key-ring belonging to Sarah Spiers. They believe the killer may have kept the items as souvenirs, which have been seen by someone, or he may have given them to a friend or relative.

Within a short time of his daughter's disppearance, Glennon was poring over minutes and documents at Claremont council to test his contention that it did not do enough to protect women in Claremont.

He refuses to discuss this issue with The Age. "In the council documents, there are gross inadequacies in relation to the action that should have been taken after the first and second girls (disappeared)," he says. He denies helping to oust Peter Weygers in the mayoral election in May last year. "I took no part in the campaign at all."

In around August, 1997 Gerard Ross was abducted while visiting Perth with his family from the country town of Newman.

                                                                      Closing in on a killer

                                                                                                                                                                          September 25, 2004

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/24/1095961862193.html?from=storylhs

Innuendo and charges of police conspiracies surround the renewed interest in three unsolved murders, writes Robert Wainwright.

In 1964 Eric Edgar Cooke was hanged for a series of gruesome murders in the wealthy inner-western suburbs of Perth. Cooke not only stole the lives of eight people - attacked in their beds with knives, strangled, shot and even run down with cars - but also the innocence of a city where front doors were left open to wash away the summer night heat.

Four decades later, the same quiet, well-to-do neighbourhoods stretching along the Swan River between the city and the Cottesloe surf have been rent by another killing spree. At least two young women have been murdered and dumped, taken not from their homes as a raging Cooke had done, but selected, carefully, and plucked from quiet streets while the city slept behind bolted doors and windows. A third is believed to have suffered the same fate.

These cases came to public attention some years ago - Sarah Spiers and Jane Rimmer disappeared in 1996, and Ciara Glennon in 1997, all while on a night out in Claremont - but Perth is still seething, not in fear of a killer on the loose but in anger that the case has not been solved.

Instead, the investigation has become a multimillion-dollar, three-ring circus: three victims, three people investigated and three detectives heading a case that has been reviewed 10 times and will be again in November.

Peter Weygers, 62, was mayor of Claremont when the murders occurred. His 12-year tenure ended in 1997; around the same time he began phoning the father of one victim in the middle of the night to say he (Weygers) was a suspect in the case. Weygers was one of about 100 men initially interviewed by detectives in the rush of activity. In the years since, his significance has been mostly dismissed by police. But that changed in dramatic circumstances last week when detectives staged a very public search of his Claremont home, during which he was compelled to give a DNA sample.

Outside and defiant, Weygers claimed the police scrutiny was part of a State Government plot to discredit him: "This is a gross invasion of privacy. This is a gross invasion of rights. I have no idea what their excuse is for this absolutely disgraceful conduct," he told reporters.

It was not the first time Weygers has railed against police and the State Government. He is a complex character - by profession a senior, and controversial, psychologist with the Education Department; by choice a strident, and controversial, president of the West Australian Council for Civil Liberties.

Weygers enjoys thrusting himself into the public spotlight in any or all of his capacities, a trait which would appear to be at odds with the behaviour of a serial murderer who might be expected to hide in the shadows of society. He is intelligent and a man of means, owning 19 investment properties around the city, mostly inherited from his mother with whom he lived until her death several years ago. He has since married Vicki, a Filipina.

A big man, at 192 centimetres tall and weighing 100 kilograms, Weygers was a popular mayor with elderly ratepayers and once spent the weekend scrubbing excreta off a bus shelter, rather than locate a council crew. His supporters describe him as passionate and courageous, while to opponents he is a dreary zealot.

Weygers has been the voice of the civil liberties council since 1988. His reign as a champion of justice has been marked more by his penchant for being a human headline, many times for the wrong reasons and seemingly bizarre causes. Weygers once agreed to launch a book written as a guide for Australian males who wanted to get themselves a virgin Filipina bride. The launch was abandoned amid public outcry.

He created more public dismay in April by defending the three-time convicted serial rapist Gary Narkle, describing him as an artist and claiming Narkle had more to fear from his victims than they had to fear from him.

Such is Weygers's profile that the Council for Civil Liberties refused to admit the WA branch to the peak national body, saying it did not have a rational or uniform approach.

Weygers's problems have also spilled into his professional life. This year he was investigated over workplace harassment allegations.