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(LOW, UNEASY MUSIC)

(INSECTS CHIRP)

(WIND WHISTLES SOFTLY)

(PERSON INHALES SOFTLY)

(PEGS CLINK)

(DOG BARKS NEARBY)

(DOOR HANDLE RATTLES)

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

(MUSIC DARKENS)

(SOFT THUDS)

(CREAKING)

(CREAKING)

(SOFT RUSTLING)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMS) Get off! Dad!

Dad! Dad! (BANGS WARDROBE REPEATEDLY)

Someone's in here! Dad!

(WOMAN SCREAMS) Dad!

(MAN GRUNTS) (WOMAN SCREAMS)

(TENSE MUSIC) (WOMAN'S SCREAMS FADE)

SONG: # Ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh

# Ooh, ooh...

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh...

# Ooh. #

(MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO) WOMAN: What do you want to do?

WOMAN: I don't want to do anything. Don't act like that.

Like what? Like that.

"I don't want to do anything." But I don't.

How can you not want to do something for your 21st?

Oh, I just so can't be bothered.

Look, you're supposed to be going crazy and...

Mm? Mm.

And also, I don't care what you say

because I've got a little something planned for you.

Alright, you knock yourself out.

Yeah, it's gonna be amazing and you're gonna be like,

"Wow, this is the best birthday I've ever had."

OK, the expectations are so high now.

And Emma's gonna drive us, so you don't have to.

Oh, wonderful. You gonna kick on at Claremont?

Oh, the girls want to. Yeah, of course the girls want to.

Mm. (CHUCKLES) Uh, do you need me to pick you up?

No, it's alright. I'll spend the night at Belle's, if that's OK.

Yeah. Just give me a ring in the morning.

I've got to take care of my little sis.

Yes, Mummy. Mm-hm.

ALANIS MORISSETTE: # It's like rain

# On your wedding day

# It's a free ride

# When you've already paid

# It's the good advice

(WOMEN SING ALONG) # That you just didn't take

# And who would have thought it figures... #

# Mr Play It Safe... #

Uh... Come on, come on.

(PEOPLE CHATTER LOUDLY) (DANCE MUSIC THROBS NEARBY)

Ah!

SPIDERBAIT: # Don't you wanna be

# A personality?

# An ocean in the sea?

# But you'll never make it if you can't shake it

# So don't mistake it, just try and fake it

# And I want you to know

# You don't have far to go

# So we'll use all your dough

# To buy new clothes and see what flows... #

Em, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna call a taxi.

EM: No, stay! No, it's alright.

I'm tired. I've got a busy day, anyway.

I'm watching Skyhooks! (LAUGHS)

Alright. Love you!

Love you! Love you! 'Bye!

# ..and beatnik flair We'll take you there. #

(PEOPLE CHATTER LOUDLY)

(LOUD MUSIC PLAYS NEARBY)

(FOOTSTEPS)

(KEYS JANGLE)

(UNSETTLING MUSIC)

(COIN CLANKS INTO PHONE) (RECEIVER CLICKS)

DISPATCHER: Swan Taxis. Pick up from where?

Stirling Street. What number?

Or are you in the phone booth? I'm at the phone booth.

What suburb are you going to? Mosman Park.

Name, please? Spiers.

Next available. Thanks.

(UNSETTLING MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SOFT WHOOSHING SLOWLY BUILDS)

Sarah?

Hey, Sares, I'm gonna put on a load. Have you got any whites?

(LOW, UNEASY MUSIC)

Yeah. OK.

Hey, Belle, it's Amanda. Can you put Sarah on?

BELLE: Sarah's not here. Isn't she at yours?

Oh, I thought she stayed with you last night.

No. Don't know.

Yeah, yeah. Um, I'll try Amy.

OK. Yeah, cool. Thanks.

See you. 'Bye.

'Bye.

WOMAN: Hello, BSD. Sarah?

No, it's Lisa. Yeah. No, sorry.

Hi, Lisa. It's Amanda. Hi, Amanda.

Yeah. (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

Mmm. Yeah. Can you get Sarah to call me when she comes in?

Of course. Thank you.

(SHEEP BLEAT) MAN: Come on.

(PHONE RINGS)

I'll just get this.

Hello? AMANDA: Mum.

Um, Sarah went out on Friday night

and I thought she was staying at Belle's,

but when I called Belle yesterday morning, she hadn't stayed.

I thought maybe she was at Amy's, but when I called Amy, Amy said...

Just calm down.

OK. Mum, I... I just called her office

and she hasn't turned up.

She's never late for work and...

It's Amanda. I don't know where she is.

I'm sorry. I don't know where she is.

MAN: Was she unhappy at work? No. She loves her job.

Boyfriend trouble? Nothing like that.

You two having a fight? Some sort of argument?

No. I mean... (HALF-LAUGHS)

We fight all the time, but not about anything that matters.

Does she have any enemies? Mate, mate, Sarah's a kid.

An 18-year-old girl. She doesn't have enemies.

She depressed? MUM: No.

Sarah is happy.

She is a normal, happy young lady.

And she would never go off without telling us. Never.

She usually calls us every day, mate.

She's super punctual as well.

OK, and so did you call her friends...

What's going on?

Missing girl in Claremont.

Parents just drove in from Darkan. Darkan?

You know it?

Yeah. I grew up in Duranillin. It's about 25 kays south.

Do you know the family? Name's Spiers.

No. I haven't been home in a while, though.

Missing girl. You watch.

The bosses will handball this to us.

I look for her, yeah? But she no there.

Like that all the time.

People call taxi, then don't wait.

When we stopped at the lights, I saw her.

Um...

I think it was her.

We...we stopped and... and a car pulled in behind us

and it was white, so,

yeah, I guess it could've been a taxi.

When the lights changed, we moved on,

but the other car didn't.

That was the last time you saw her? WOMAN: Yeah.

I feel so guilty.

(MUSIC AND LAUGHTER ECHO) I should have gone with her.

But Sarah was the most responsible one out of all of us.

She wouldn't do something stupid.

She wouldn't hitchhike or get into a stranger's car.

Never.

She got into a taxi.

(LOW, TROUBLING MUSIC)

REPORTER: 18-year-old Sarah Spiers left the Claremont Hotel

early on Saturday morning

and has not been seen since.

She told friends she'd be taking a taxi home.

Friends and family have circulated 8,000 pamphlets through Perth,

and tomorrow newsagencies throughout the state

will receive a further 2,000 colour posters to distribute.

MAN: Good afternoon, everyone.

I'd like to introduce you to Carol and Don Spiers,

the parents of Sarah Spiers.

You will all get a chance to ask a question.

REPORTER: Excuse me. Thanks.

But I would ask you to keep them respectful.

The parents will be making a statement...

REPORTER: Thank you. ..to begin this conference.

At least one person knows where Sarah is,

and if they have any feelings

for the suffering and anxiety they've caused,

please, please, ease some of it.

And how could they do that, sir?

Just call us.

Let us know where Sarah is.

We'll be waiting by the phone night and day.

Just tell us where Sarah is.

Please.

Please just contact us.

(CAMERA FLASHES CLICK)

It's been more than a week and still no sighting of Sarah.

The police say they're not frustrated by the solid lack of clues so far,

but are ramping up their questioning

of more than 3,000 taxi drivers in the Perth area,

hoping that one of them may have seen the missing girl.

It's a nightmare finding a taxi on the weekend.

You've gotta get clear of the clubs or you'll never find one.

Locals call it leapfrogging.

That's why Sarah came all the way down here.

The taxi was on Eric Street in Cottesloe

when she called, three minutes away.

Even at 2am, this is a busy road.

How could she disappear in three minutes, no-one sees a thing?

Are the Spiers still getting hoax calls about her?

Some bastards keep ringing, saying she's dead.

Have the bosses put a trace on their phone?

Yeah, they did it yesterday.

Don says the psychics are just as bad.

Keep calling, trying to help, but it's all rubbish.

DON: I'm sorry to keep calling. No, no worries. I understand.

But last week all you wrote about was some earthquake in China.

Yeah, over 300 people died...

And yesterday it was...it was the IRA bombing in London.

We've gotta keep Sarah in the news. I know, Don. That's why I'm here.

Ever since she's gone missing, you know, our lives have been hell.

I know.

Look, people send us all kinds of letters and clues.

They leave stuff like this for us all the time.

What is this?

Well, it's a map where they say that Sarah's...buried.

You know, they don't bother going to the police anymore.

They just call us.

Why do you talk to them?

CAROL: Because they might know something.

Because no information is worse than the worst possible news.

Carol... Are you upset with the police?

They've gone out of their way to assist us.

They've been outstanding. More they can do?

No, I don't want anyone to speak ill of the police.

Yeah, but it does feel like we're getting nowhere.

The police have no idea where Sarah is.

They have no idea who could have done this to her.

None.

(DOOR CLOSES) (LOUD CHATTER)

(MUSIC PLAYS)

Mum. You're late. ALISON: Yeah.

I was just meeting with the family. Of that girl?

You going out?

Yeah, having a couple of prees.

You going to Claremont?

The girls want a dance.

Mum... Yeah, I know.

It's just... We'll be careful.

Yeah, I know. There's nothing to worry about.

I know. I know you're smart. GIRL: It's just a missing girl, Ali.

How old is she? 18?

I bet she shacked up with someone and is too scared to come home now.

Family doesn't think so.

I think all this worry about women going out

in the papers, on the telly -

"Don't dress up, don't stay out late, come home early" -

it's just a way to keep us from having a good time.

Yeah, that's just...not true.

You were going to say dumb, weren't you?

Time to go. Come on.

We can fight about this later, OK?

(BIRDSONG)

(KNOCK AT DOOR)

WOMAN: I know where Sarah is.

Please, listen to me.

For weeks I thought she was alive,

being held in a house with a white picket fence

and a "for sale" sign out the front.

I drove everywhere looking for... Don, make her leave.

But I couldn't find it. Now I've realised she's somewhere else.

Where? AMANDA: Dad, don't engage.

No. Where? Do you really know where Sarah is?

There have been dozens like her! Dad, don't!

For God's sake! I can't just sit there doing nothing.

(ENGINE STARTS)

(TYRES SCREECH)

(TENSE MUSIC)

Sarah? Sarah?

Sarah? Sarah?

Sarah!

Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!

Sarah!

Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!

(VOICE ECHOES)

(SOBS)

(EXHALES HEAVILY)

(PANTS)

(BIRDS CALL)

(XYLOPHONE NOTES TINKLE)

(GENTLE MUSIC)

(CHILDREN LAUGH)

(GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES)

SONG: # Give it up, baby, give it up

# Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

# Baby, give it up, give it up

# Baby, give it up

# Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

# Baby, give it up, give it up

# Baby, give it up... #

WOMAN: Crazy. And I was, like... I had no idea.

I'm sorry. Sorry.

What are you doing? I don't want to go home yet.

Oh, come on, get in the car. No, I, um... I want to stay out.

Janey, get in the car. No, I'm good.

Are you sure? I'm good. You go. OK?

Alright. Alright, 'bye. I'll call you later.

Yeah, 'bye. Let's go.

(DANCE MUSIC PULSES NEARBY)

(SINISTER MUSIC)

You get picked? You?

Yeah.

Bringing in the big guns now.

Welcome to Macro.

On Saturday night, a second girl went missing from Claremont.

Jane Rimmer, 23.

We're proceeding on the assumption

that the same perpetrator took Sarah Spiers.

I want this entire area doorknocked today.

See if anybody heard anything or saw anything.

Martinson, you lead the uniforms on that.

Billy, organise an emu walk from here

all the way to Stirling Highway, in both directions.

See if she dropped anything.

And don't talk to reporters.

Not a word about what we're doing gets out. Let's go now.

The rest of you, back here.

Thanks, Zoe.

(VCR BEEPS AND CLICKS)

Now, this is just after midnight. Security camera.

It's not great quality, but it's all we've got.

That's Jane. Looks like she's waiting for someone.

Do we know who that is?

Not yet, and we need to find out,

'cause that's the last image

we have of Jane.

When the camera pivots back, 32 seconds,

she's gone.

Do we release this? No.

Show it to the clubbers. Don't give it to scribblers.

Well, isn't the media the fastest way to get it out there?

Yeah. But then that guy will know we're on to him.

I want to sneak up on this bastard like he snuck up on those girls.

Talk to every clubber we brought in.

See if we can find him.

I was like that.

What do you mean? At her age.

Smiling, laughing too hard at some guy's bad joke,

hoping he'd stop and talk to me.

Well, you're not like that now.

Huh? You never laugh at any of my jokes.

(VCR BEEPS) Can you blame me?

Oh... (PHONE RINGS)

MAN: Hello, this is Crime Stoppers. How can I help you?

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

DETECTIVE: Did you see this man?

Do you have a photo of his face?

No.

That's OK. Thank you.

Excuse me. Um, none of the clubbers have been able to ID him yet.

Well, the Rimmers insist

that Jane wouldn't get in a car with a stranger, so...

So she either followed this guy,

or, like Sarah, she got into a taxi.

How many officers have we got here?

Over a hundred.

Get them to Claremont. All of them.

Alright, listen up, everyone.

Can you give that to Gabbi? Thanks. WOMAN: Sure.

You coming? To do what?

Interview all the cabbies.

See if they were out Saturday night, can identify the mystery man.

Great! While you and the boys wander the streets

waving your big guns around,

I get to sit here and go through old sexual assault files.

Oh. And eat doughnuts.

Nice of you to drop by and rub it in.

(LAUGHS)

(SIGHS) (PHONE RINGS)

McAllister.

It's the same guy, I know it.

I-I gave a statement. I... Slow down.

What are you talking about?

The guy who took Sarah and Jane...

..he's the guy who raped me.

When was this?

Last year.

I reported it.

And what makes you so sure it's the same guy?

Because it's Claremont.

I'd been at the same club.

And...look at me.

I could be their sister.

Why don't you take me through it, if...if you can?

Just so we have it on record again.

Yeah?

(LOW, GRIM MUSIC)

Um...

It was February last year.

Summer holidays.

I was 17.

But I used someone else's licence to get into Bayview.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(SNIFFS)

I didn't have money for a taxi, so...

..I decided to walk.

I was halfway through the park.

(SCREAMS)

I didn't hear him behind me.

He picked me up.

Did you see him? Before he put the bag over your head?

I tried not to.

(SCREAMS)

(CAR BOOT THUDS SHUT)

I thought the only chance I had of staying alive

was if he thought I couldn't recognise him.

He drove her to Karrakatta Cemetery,

dragged her out of the van and raped her, twice, vaginally.

How'd she get away? She pretended to be unconscious.

He threw her into the bushes and drove off.

I think it could be the same perpetrator.

We might have a living witness.

This is different.

This was a blitz attack in a park at night.

Last sightings of Sarah and Jane,

they were in the open on well-lit streets.

There's every indication they got into a vehicle willingly.

True, but this was a year before Sarah.

Maybe he refined his MO.

This is what he used to tie her.

The knot's self-tightening.

He practised this and came prepared.

Sarah disappeared after leaving Bayview.

Jane had just walked from Bayview

and Lisa was grabbed after leaving Bayview.

The guy who raped her? We didn't catch him. He's still out there.

They do a rape kit on Lisa? Yes.

But his DNA didn't match anyone on the database.

None of the taxi drivers. No-one so far.

Could she identify the vehicle? No.

But she thinks she was put into the cargo area of some kind of van.

And there's the statement in the old file from a Wayne Wookey.

Who's he?

Works security at Hollywood Hospital, half a block from the cemetery.

At the time Lisa was attacked,

Wookey was having a cigarette outside.

He saw a van drive slowly past and head into Karrakatta.

He get a licence number? No, but get this.

The van, he thinks it had a Telstra logo on the side.

OK, listen up!

We've identified a rape victim whose attack and location

make her a possible precursor attack to the missing Claremont girls.

I need you to split into teams and go back through the evidence.

Detective... McAllister.

..McAllister will take you through what we've got to date.

OK, guys, let me take you through it.

You don't sound confident. OK, this is Lisa...

It's one lead. We've got thousands of POIs.

February '95, a year before...

(CAMERA WHIRRS) ALISON: Good. Adjust?

CAMERAMAN: Yep. We're rolling.

It's been a week now and still no news of your daughter.

Is there something that you'd like to say

to someone who might still be holding her, or knows where she is?

Um...

Janey, she's our...

..she's our youngest, and, um...

She...she loves children.

She loves working with them

and she's always been really happy with that life.

Do you know how she left Claremont that night?

No, no, we don't know.

I'd...I'd say probably by taxi, but I...

You never know.

Mm.

Would Jane have gone with a stranger?

No.

No, I don't think so.

I could be wrong.

Obviously something's happened.

(INHALES AND EXHALES SHAKILY)

Janey, if by some chance you're watching,

please, just give us a call.

Yes.

We love you, baby.

(SOMBRE MUSIC)

ALISON: And what's it like coming out here now?

WOMAN: It's terrifying. You don't know who it is. It could be anyone.

Sometimes I don't even want to go out anymore.

Thank you, Tania.

Yes, Claremont - once the nightspot for the young and carefree,

now it reeks of fear.

Alison Fan, 7 Nightly News.

How was that?

Yeah, it was great. Just gotta change the battery.

OK. Um, well, I will scout another spot,

maybe down the street that Sarah walked down.

Yeah. Alright, cool.

(CLATTERING)

Hello?

Is anybody there?

Hello?

(ENGINE STARTS) (GASPS)

Um...

(ENGINE REVS)

Hey...

(TROUBLING MUSIC)

The team doorknocking in Rowe Park

found the driver's licence Lisa dropped when she was attacked.

You're kidding. From a year ago?

Yeah, a kid found it the day after Lisa was raped.

Never reported it till today. Shit. Any prints on it?

Yeah. The kid, his mum, his little brother, his dog.

No, no prints.

If only they'd doorknocked a year ago.

How'd you go with the van?

Telstra sent us a list of every employee driving a van

in Feb '95 when Lisa was attacked.

And?

I've cross-checked every driver

against the dates for Lisa, for Sarah, for Jane,

and none of them were anywhere near Claremont.

Wayne Wookey must have got it wrong.

It wasn't a Telstra van.

I bet everyone on Macro thinks

I wasted their time looking back at Karrakatta.

We gave it a shot. That's what policing is.

Throw a hundred ideas out there, see what sticks.

But we didn't find anything new on Lisa's case

except the driver's licence, which led nowhere.

Our team on Mystery Man hasn't done any better.

We had 20 detectives on it.

Showed CCTV to 700 clubbers. No-one recognised him.

The guy just disappeared.

All this, and we still don't have a single thing more

than we did on the day Sarah went missing.

The bosses are saying the only way forward is if a body turns up.

That's a terrible thing to hope for.

(SOFT, DREAMY MUSIC)

GIRL: You're it! (CHILDREN LAUGH)

(CHILDREN LAUGH)

GIRL: Come here!

(CHILDREN CHATTER CHEERFULLY)

GIRL: Here!

(CHILDREN LAUGH)

(INSECTS BUZZ)

(DARK MUSIC)

Kids!

Kids, get back in the car!

Kids, get back in the car now!

Go! Go!

(VEHICLE APPROACHES)

(SEATBELT CLICKS)

(ENGINE STOPS) ALISON: Let's go.

(HANDBRAKE CLICKS)

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

Come on, Jeff. We're the first ones here.

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER CONTINUES)

(CAMERA CLICKS)

(CAMERA CLICKS)

Do we know which girl it is?

KIRBY: The body's naked, face-down.

(CAMERA CLICKS)

Dragged here?

Looks like it.

Too decomposed for fingerprints.

We really need an ID.

Right, let's bag it all -

the branches, the leaves, the twigs, the lot.

ALISON: Apparently a body has been found

in this rural bushland behind us.

As you can see, the police have been blocking off the area.

We have a forensic team behind us

that are surveying the area for more clues.

We need to get to the families before they see this on TV.

They're ready to move the body.

Pathologist wants to lay it out on the road.

OK, I'll take care of this lot.

(CAMERA CLICKS)

PATHOLOGIST: Yeah, that's it. Slow, slow, slow.

Lift her gently. That's it.

That's it.

Good. (CAMERA CLICKS)

(SOMBRE MUSIC)

(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)

ALISON: Dental records have confirmed

that the body found in Wellard yesterday

is that of Jane Rimmer,

the second girl to go missing from Claremont.

The police are still searching for clues to what happened,

but already, a doorknock in this rural area

has located a number of witnesses

who were woken by horrific screams and suspicious car headlights

in the early hours of the morning on the night Jane Rimmer vanished.

Sadly, they all put the screams down to a domestic dispute,

and no-one called the police.

She fought.

She fought hard for her life.

She had a knife wound on her left forearm,

and the tendon in her right wrist was severed,

so it appears she had her arms crossed

in a boxer's stance to defend herself.

The main injury is a 17-centimetre defect to her neck.

A knife? Yeah.

But the wound expanded as the body decomposed,

so it's impossible to tell the size of the blade.

And that's the cause of death? The knife wound?

I can't even confirm that.

All I can say is we can't exclude the neck injury as the cause of death.

Was she killed out there?

And dragged to her final position,

causing her left arm to be hyperextended

and her wrist dislocated.

Any sign of sexual assault?

No, but the body is extremely decomposed.

I've taken swabs but it's highly unlikely

that we'll find any usable perpetrator DNA on her.

KIRBY: Bottom line from Forensics -

we have no offender or suspect evidence.

No fingerprints, no blood, no DNA.

Nothing.

Let's get it.

So Jane was taken five months after Sarah.

And it's been six months since then.

You think he's stopped?

Serial killers don't stop.

They just get smarter, more confident.

Which means he could be gearing up for another abduction.

Mm.

You got some, um... (CHUCKLES) What?

(STAMMERS) It's just you got some ice cream...

Where?

I'll get it.

DETECTIVE: What the hell are you two doing?

It's Christmas, for God's sake. Go home and eat with your families.

Yes, sir.

(INSECTS CHIRP SOFTLY)

(PHONE RINGS)

(HANDSET CLICKS)

Hello?

DON: Mr Rimmer?

It's, um... It's Don. Don Spiers here.

Oh.

Yeah, look, I won't take up too much of your time.

I just wanted to, um...

..to tell you that we're thinking of you.

Thank you.

We know you must miss Jane as much as we miss Sarah.

Look, um...

I'm really sorry, but I, um...I have to go.

(HANDSET CLICKS BACK INTO PHONE)

(SORROWFUL MUSIC)

('DEEPER WATER' BY DEADSTAR)

# I feel myself

# I'm flying

# You look so good

# In a mirror

# Oh, I'd sell my soul

# For a record

# Yeah, of all we've said and done... #

MAN: Welcome!

# I'm heading out

# Where the water is much deeper

# I save myself

# I'm saving you. #

Oh, hi!

Hi! Come here! (MAN LAUGHS)

Oh, it's good to have you back. Ah, yeah, I know.

Well, listen, let me take your bag.

How are you? How are you doing?

(LIVELY CHATTER) (DANCE MUSIC THROBS NEARBY)

Bloody hell! There's too many people!

Come on, Irish girl, don't pike on us now!

Come on. Come on!

(BOTH LAUGH) Come on, Neil.

GLORIA ESTEFAN: # Hey, yeah! # Turn the beat around

# Turn it around and around

# Love to hear the percussion

# Yeah, yeah # Turn it upside down

# Hoo, yeah!

# Love to hear the percussion

# Oh, my, my, my, my, my

# Love to hear the Love to hear the... #

BOTH: Whoo! # Love to hear the

# Whoa-oh, yeah, yeah, yeah... #

(DANCE MUSIC THROBS)

I'm going.

No, stay! No, I can't.

I've got my sister's hens' party tomorrow.

There's a taxi rank at Bayview. Yeah, yeah.

Get a taxi! # Turn the beat around

# Hey, yeah... # See you Monday.

# Love to hear... #

(DANCE MUSIC PULSES NEARBY)

(LIVELY CHATTER)

(DARK MUSIC)

ALISON: Oh, big case?

Uh, not really, but I'm the junior.

So I get to work weekends. For once, I'm not.

(PHONE RINGS)

If it's work, don't tell them I'm here.

I'm not lying for you. Since when?

You been doing it since you were 4. Mum, I'm a lawyer now.

Yes, she's right here.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

What is it?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

KIRBY: We currently hold grave fears for the safety of a young woman

who was last seen leaving the Continental Hotel in Claremont

at approximately midnight on Friday.

Is this connected to the abductions of Sarah and Jane?

Given the circumstances, we're proceeding on that assumption.

The Macro Task Force has commenced immediate investigations.

REPORTER: Mr Kirby, how close do you think the...

Detective Kirby, are you looking for a serial killer?

I think it's fair to say...

..we certainly have fears.

(REPORTERS CLAMOUR)

(FOREBODING MUSIC CONTINUES)

(ALL SPEAK INDISTINCTLY)

(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

I don't know. She'd been away, so she was...

She was hitchhiking when she was...

(FOREBODING MUSIC CONTINUES)

REPORTER: A serial killer is prowling the streets of Perth.

After the disappearance of three women from the same Perth nightspot,

police are now certain they're looking for a methodical killer,

stalking young women.

REPORTER: Now, 27-year-old Ciara Glennon has gone missing.

REPORTER: ..urging women not to venture out alone,

police suspect the killer could be posing as a taxi driver,

or even one of their own,

blending into the upmarket Claremont crowd.

REPORTER: Ciara Glennon was wearing an Irish Claddagh brooch

the night she vanished from the Continental Hotel.

Sarah Spiers, whose body has never been found,

was carrying a distinctive sunflower keyring.

RADIO ANNOUNCER: The one thing we do know, as tragic as it may seem,

this new disappearance could be

the breakthrough police are looking for.

Two girls who disappeared,

police are convinced that they were dealing with a serial killer.

And this third one really confirms that.

MAN ON RADIO: And no bodies have ever been found, though?

One body was found last August,

but the second girl who disappeared, a girl called Jane Rimmer...

Thanks, Nicola.

Alright, we're looking for a white male,

born between 1960 and 1971,

probably living alone and the oldest child in the family.

It's likely he keeps to himself,

has few friends.

On the surface, he probably presents as pleasant and non-threatening.

We'd expect him to keep his car meticulously clean.

Those girls would have felt very safe getting in his vehicle.

Dennis Glennon, Ciara's father, would like to say a few words.

Only now do I even begin to understand

the terrible trauma

the parents of Jane and Sarah went through.

We are a strong family.

I don't cry easy.

And, um...

I...I don't have it, I'm sorry.

(WHISPERS) That's OK. Um...

Ciara's alive.

We believe that,

and are confident

that the way we brought her up,

she will fight on.

We do not believe that Ciara

would have got into a stranger's car.

We, um... We hope, uh...

We hope we find her as soon as possible,

with the help of police

and everyone else.

And we, uh, we pray to God

that she's in good hands.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dennis. Let's go.

(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)

Ciara.

She was in our year.

How well did you know her?

We were always neck and neck in Torts 101.

Oh, sweetheart.

We were at Claremont on Friday.

It could have been me.

Guess it could be her.

So the car?

One hundred percent certain on that.

It was a white, late-model Series-I VS Holden station wagon.

Check her out. Check her out. Check her out.

Could it have been a taxi?

And you didn't see the driver?

(MEN CHUCKLE)

The hubcaps were strange, but.

They had, like, a teardrop-shaped cutout.

They're not... They're not standard.

OK.

How much had you guys had to drink?

Oh, not a lot. Maybe six, seven beers that night.

They're drunk, that model Holden doesn't have teardrop cutouts

and they don't see the girl get in.

Other than that, terrific witnesses.

They're not even sure it's Ciara.

They were once we got an updated photo to them.

That bloody photo!

The whole state's looking at a picture that's a year out of date.

They're pretty confident it wasn't a taxi.

And the father's absolutely certain

she wouldn't get in a car with a stranger.

Neither would Sarah, neither would Jane.

Ciara's been overseas for a year. So?

He's thinking of the daughter he knew a year ago.

Backpackers backpack. They hitchhike.

If she's been flagging down cars in Ireland and Israel,

she's not gonna be worried in her home town.

Even with two girls missing? She's only been home a week.

She hasn't been here. She...

She hasn't felt it like we have.

Log it. Add it to everything else.

But if three drunk burger boys is the best you've got,

then we've got fuck all.

ALISON: It's been nearly three weeks since Ciara Glennon became

the third young woman to disappear from Claremont.

Premier Richard Court has announced a $250,000 reward

for any information that helps find Ciara.

Meanwhile, her father has used

his contacts in the business community

to raise over $750,000

to help with police initiatives.

But there were 1,500 young people in Claremont the night that...

..Ciara vanished.

What the fuck?

They found Ciara.

Same place as Jane?

No, other end of Perth.

Dumped in some bush.

Good evening, I'm Angela Cox. Here's what's coming up

REPORTER: With another crime scene to investigate,

police are claiming today's discovery a major breakthrough.

The fact that Miss Glennon's body was found

so soon after she disappeared

has given police a better chance

of gaining valuable forensic evidence.

Ciara's injuries are consistent with Jane's.

Defensive wounds to the forearms, massive wound to the neck.

Knife again?

The bodies were found lying in similar positions.

They were concealed in the same way.

The branches covered them in the same crisscross pattern.

She was found 30 metres from where a car can be parked,

so was she dragged there?

The amount of blood we found at the site

indicates she died where we found her.

Maybe he chased her from the car.

Cat and mouse.

Like with Jane. He plays with them.

There are two significant differences.

The first, Ciara was fully clothed.

So no sexual assault. No. And there's this.

We found an indentation at the back of her skull

just over a centimetre long by half a centimetre wide.

She was hit over the back of the head?

It looks like it.

So two weapons - a knife and... any idea what caused that?

Something long and straight. Screwdriver. Iron bar.

What about DNA? There's a good chance.

She fought hard.

Her left thumbnail was torn away nearly completely.

We have fingernail clippings and scrapings.

They're being sent off for analysis now.

But it only helps if we have perpetrator DNA

and suspect DNA to compare it with.

Do you have anyone?

DENNIS ON TV: Ciara excelled at school and at law school.

A free spirit,

a ballerina who always jumped from the highest diving board

and swam the furthest out to sea.

You were a bright, vital person...

..with a sunny outlook on the world.

We are lucky to be able to say you were our daughter.

Farewell, my little friend,

and God bless you.

Hello, this is Crime Stoppers. How can I help you?

WOMAN: Oh, hi, I'm just calling about

that guy who killed those women.

And I...I think I might know who did it.

Crime Stoppers. MAN: I saw my neighbour.

I think he was burning clothes in the yard last night.

And what time was this, about?

WOMAN: I'm just calling because

a guy followed me home from work the other day.

He had scratches all over his face.

(PHONE RINGS)

(TYRES SQUEAL)

OFFICER: Breach, breach, breach! (BREAKS DOWN DOOR)

Get on the ground!

(SIREN WHOOPS)

Don't move, don't move! Don't move!

BOBBI: Who are they?

Some poor suckers.

All you need is two calls to Crime Stoppers

and a neighbour with a grudge

and you're the Claremont serial killer.

You know they're looking at Karrakatta again.

The burger boys are sure it wasn't a taxi,

and remember Wayne Wookey described

seeing a Telstra van the night Lisa was raped?

Did the burger boys see a Telstra logo?

No. They were drunk and it was dark.

Ciara's dad's still convinced

she wouldn't get into a car with a stranger.

Yeah, but she used to go out with a tradie,

so she might trust someone who looked like a contractor.

(EXHALES) Look out, contractors.

REPORTER: It has been two years

since the disappearance of Sarah Spiers

and the police still have no real suspects.

OK, listen up. We may finally have someone.

The UCs in Claremont have turned up this guy - Lance Williams.

He follows the exact same routine every night.

He leaves his flat in Cottesloe and heads to Claremont

at 11:50pm.

He buys a milkshake from Hungry Jack's,

does a circuit of Claremont,

drops the empty milkshake container in the same bin every night.

Then he tracks young women around the streets.

He does this every Thursday through Sunday,

sometimes up to 30 times a night.

Nicola.

Well, he certainly fits our profile.

Lance Williams keeps to himself, has few friends,

usually lives alone,

but has frequent periods of mental health issues,

when he has to live with his parents, Norma and Jim.

Does this rule out our other suspects?

The Mayor? His mate, Steve Ross? Doesn't rule out anyone.

But he's the best suspect we've had since the beginning.

Now he's had three successes,

he'd be growing in confidence.

He won't stop now.

So every weekend,

we're putting 50 people on the ground in Claremont.

We're dressing some of our female officers as decoys.

We'll have Air Wing in the air,

TRG on the ground

and hostage negotiators ready to deploy at a second's notice.

Negotiators?

There is a risk with this type of personality

that if he ends up in a hostage situation,

he will kill himself.

What about the decoy?

The intention is to get to him before it comes to that.

Let's go. (CLAPS HANDS)

(MUSIC THUMPS)

Why'd the painting go to jail?

Enough already. Because it was framed.

By you.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Oh, look at this.

Three girls taken and they're still hitchhiking.

You don't have to worry about her.

That's Susie from Armed Robbery.

She can look after herself.

You know when you get dressed to go out, you never think,

"Is this the dress I'm gonna die in?"

Shit!

Yes. Yep, there he is.

OK, here we go.

(STARTS ENGINE)

Just has to get her, then we follow.

Mm-hm.

(HORN TOOTS)

(HORN TOOTS)

(HORN BLARES) Shit.

Shit. Fuck!

(GAVIN SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

We think our suspect is getting ready to try something.

Our UCs have had numerous sightings of Lance

circling the Continental, and last night,

he came close to picking one up, but got scared off.

We need to get someone in his car.

Let's get out there.

Where are you off to?

Claremont. They've run out of decoys.

Hey, he cuts their throats, Bobbi. That's why we have to stop him.

No-one knows what this guy does. He could kill them...

He's never even picked anyone up... You've got no experience undercover.

You've never even worn a mic before. Well, you know what?

If he does pick me up, don't bother coming to my crime scene, OK?

I don't want the last thing is you telling everyone you were right.

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYS)

(DARK MUSIC)

MAN: Should you be wearing that? I'm worried sick about you.

WOMAN: Dad, I'm gonna be alright.

WOMAN 2: Wait! (LAUGHS)

(SIGHS)

(CAR APPROACHES)

(ENGINE STOPS)

MAN: Are you alright?

Um, yeah.

Can you tell me where the nearest bus stop is?

There aren't any buses this time of night.

Where are you going?

Mosman Park.

Get in.

I'll give you a lift.

(STARTS ENGINE)

OK. Thanks.

(OPENS CAR DOOR)

(CLOSES CAR DOOR)

(SEATBELT CLICKS)

(SLURPS)

Just here'll be fine, thanks.

No, it's not safe.

I'll be right.

How about I drive you a bit further?

I think I'd rather walk.

It's too dark.

Please, just...just let me out.

Stop the car.

Stop the car. I want to get out.

Stop the car. I want to get out right now.

Please... (SIREN WHOOPS)

OFFICER: Police! Don't move! Stay where you are!

Police! Don't move! Stay where you are.

Hands on the wheel. Get out of the car. Hands on the car.

Stay there. Do not move.

Hands on the car. (PANTS)

It's all done. Don't worry about that.

Look at me, Bobbi.

OK, from here, we're going back to the station.

We're getting a medical professional to check you over completely, OK?

And then from there, we'll get you something to eat, get you warm.

(PENSIVE MUSIC)

Good job tonight.

He refused to let us videotape the interview,

but as yet he hasn't asked for a lawyer.

What do you think, Mitch?

In your gut.

It's him.

Make it stick.

You've been stalking girls in Claremont for months.

I drove past them. I didn't stalk them.

I was worried about them.

She shouldn't have been out, walking.

She shouldn't have been out, alone.

Not with what happened to those other girls.

So you took her as well?

I didn't take anyone.

Look at them.

I didn't take anyone.

Please.

I'm not the person you're looking for.

(DARK MUSIC)

OFFICER: Mr and Mrs Williams, this is a warrant to search the premises.

Clear! Clear!

I did...try to kill myself.

Hang myself, slash my wrists, all that.

Why?

I was depressed.

My friend died of cancer.

Why'd you move back in with your parents?

My parents were worried about me.

Said I should lock up the flat, move home.

I got my driver's licence suspended.

12 years ago.

Finally got it back.

That's why I bought a new car.

I wasn't trying to hide anything.

I wasn't trying to hide anything.

Nothing in the flat?

No. Or his parents' house.

We've taken clothing, shoes, tools for testing,

but still no sign of a murder weapon.

There's no blood and no trophies.

Shit.

And he's consented to a DNA test.

He's stupid? Confident.

Let him go.

Steve...

It's been 17 hours, Mitch.

If he hasn't confessed by now, he's not going to.

But we stay on him, night and day.

Make sure he knows we're there.

(CAMERA CLICKS)

(ENGINE STARTS)

They tested Lance's DNA against Lisa's rape kit.

Lance didn't rape Lisa.

So maybe he isn't our guy.

He's our guy.

You weren't at the profiler briefing earlier.

Apparently serial killers often have

some kind of brain trauma as children.

Well, didn't Lance have a fall?

Head first off the ropes at a Scout camp.

Hit the floor hard. Treated for concussion.

Even better, this type of killer is often triggered by

a significant emotional event.

Six months before Sarah disappeared,

one of Lance's few friends died.

He just seems so bland.

You didn't see his eyes, Gav.

Close up, they're...

They're not normal.

Bobbi, um...

I've gotta get these typed up.

ALISON: In a strange twist in the Claremont investigation,

Scoutmaster Johnson said the police have been parked

outside his scout hall every day for months.

Apparently they have the house directly behind us

under surveillance.

Police refuse to say why

they have a middle-aged public servant's house

under 24-hour surveillance,

but whatever evidence they have, it's clearly not enough for an arrest.

Alison Fan, 7 Nightly News.

We're getting phone calls from everyone.

They want us to confirm his name.

No. When this gets to court, we need to be able to say we never outed him.

But all the press knows who we're tracking.

We follow Williams, the press follows us.

Good. The more pressure on him, the better.

OK. Yep.

Hey, look at this.

Mitch?

Mitch!

The fire poker's missing from Lance's flat.

There's a fireplace fire iron set.

No poker.

You think it's the murder weapon?

We know Ciara was hit over the head with something.

Get me one. Yeah.

The length, the width...

It's consistent with the depression in Ciara's skull.

The Royal College of Surgeons in London says it's a perfect fit.

This was the weapon that caused the wound to the back of Ciara's head.

So where is it?

Where's Sarah's sunflower key ring? Where's Ciara's brooch?

Where's everything that was missing with the girls?

Is there any chance we've got the wrong guy?

Everything fits.

Williams has no alibi for the three nights the girls went missing,

and we have a receipt that shows his car was detailed

immediately after Ciara was taken.

The profile fits.

We've had surveillance on him for nearly a year now.

He hasn't tried to take another girl.

This is a man with enormous self-control.

He was a heavy drinker, problem gambler. Gave up both, overnight.

No meetings, nothing. So how do we get him?

We've still got money in Dennis Glennon's community fund?

Yeah.

We think Lance would consent to a polygraph?

If he doesn't, he'll look guilty.

Let's do it.

(TENSE MUSIC)

REPORTER: Mr Williams!

Mr Williams, how did you fail a lie detector test?

(ALL TALK OVER EACH OTHER)

REPORTER: Mr Williams, three young, innocent women.

No comment. I've got no comments at this time.

(REPORTERS FIRE QUESTIONS)

(GAVIN STIRS CUP WITH A TEASPOON)

(GAVIN TAPS CUP WITH TEASPOON)

(GAVIN LICKS TEASPOON)

(PUTS TEASPOON DOWN)

Which questions did he fail?

The character ones.

Apparently one of the questions was,

"Have you ever deliberately hurt someone?"

Jesus.

So how come we can't charge him?

Well, we still don't have enough physical evidence

to connect him to any of the girls, but...we'll get it.

Want a coffee?

What's up?

I'm being transferred.

What? Quite a few of us, actually.

Macro's being pared back.

Uh...why... Why are they...

I guess we got our guy.

Well, we didn't get anyone until we arrest...until we arrest him.

Until he tells us where Sarah is. What's he doing? It's stupid.

That's... (SIGHS)

Do you want me to talk to Kirby? I'm gonna try and keep you...

I don't need you to hold my hand.

I wasn't... I wasn't... (WHISPERS) It's fucked.

We don't have a killer. We don't have Sarah.

I mean, what is the point of the last two years?

OK.

I'm...I'm really sorry.

That's...that's...

Hey, um...um...

(SIGHS)

I mean, did you wanna go grab some dinner or something?

I've met someone.

Really?

Yeah. Oh.

That's great.

Yeah. Cool.

I mean, that's... I'm really happy for you. That's great.

(LAUGHS) Thank you. (LAUGHS)

Um...

I'll, um...

I'll see you around. Yes. Yeah.

('PICK YOU UP' BY POWDERFINGER)

SONG: # When you are set

# To throw in your hand

# When you are far from home

# When what you believe is buried in your hands

# When you feel

# Outgrown

# I'll be the one to pick you up again

# When you decide you've had enough of it

# I'll be the one

# I'll be the one

# When your speech

# Is slow

# When your eyes... # (COMPUTER BEEPS)

# Are closed... #

(COMPUTER BEEPS) (KEYBOARD CLACKS)

Is that Lance's car?

Yep.

(TENSE MUSIC)

He's finally on the move again.

We've stayed on him for almost three years.

It's the first time he's broken his routine.

He's heading south-east, roughly in the direction where we found Jane.

Where is he now? Reaching Wellard.

That's his car. That's where Jane's body was hidden.

If he's gonna visit the site, he'll take the next right turn.

Who's out there? We've got two cars on him.

They follow him all the way from home?

No. We haven't had active surveillance on him for months.

Just a tracker.

He's been on sick leave.

The car hasn't left his parents' driveway for weeks.

So it's possible he's taken another girl.

Pick him up.

(SIREN WAILS)

Police! Don't move!

Police! Don't move! Don't move, don't move!

Stay there. Do not move!

Out of the car. Out of the car!

To the front. To the front of the car.

STEVE: Jesus Christ!

Apparently Lance sold the car online last week.

Buyer picked it up this morning.

How the fuck did we not know about this?

How do we catch this prick?

Tell me.

Anyone?

We couldn't do it with a hundred detectives, Steve.

How are we gonna do it with six?

(DARK MUSIC)

ALISON: Australia Day,

six years to the day

since Sarah Spiers went missing.

But now there's a new generation

in Claremont,

a generation who have forgotten Sarah, Jane and Ciara.

But the man who abducted them is still out there.

The police are yet to make an arrest or confirm once and for all

that they've taken the killer off these streets.

Until they do, the terrible question still hangs over this suburb -

could he strike again?

Leave us alone! Lance isn't talking to anyone.

I can totally understand why. Mrs Williams, I'm Alison Fan.

Look, we're not here to accuse Lance.

I actually think it's really important

that people hear his side of the story.

Lance, the police say you are

the number one Claremont serial killer suspect.

No-one's had anything to fear from me.

See, I'm just a person who got caught up in this whole thing.

Just probably being nosy.

So why are they so sure it's you?

Well, I'd seen girls

walking on their own in Claremont and, um...

..that was sort of upsetting me a bit.

What I saw made me think, "Well,

"that's not behaviour that is correct," you know,

"for that sort of area."

So you admit that you followed young women in Claremont?

Yes.

But you say you were protecting them?

Well, yeah, the...killer was still out there.

The police hadn't caught anyone.

But, Lance, you failed a lie detector test.

I've never had any results except a comment saying something about

how I failed a character test.

Well, how do you fail a character test, you know?

It's not pass or fail.

And what do you think?

I've thought about it a lot and, um...

..all I can come up with is

I was asked whether I'd ever deliberately hurt someone.

I thought about when I was younger, about...

..the fights I had with my brother, you know?

Sometimes I probably did deliberately hurt him,

like he did me.

So, Lance,

if you're innocent...

..how do you feel about being a suspect for all these years?

Well, it's been hard. Hard?!

(SIGHS) They follow him everywhere.

If it's not them, it's... Well, it's the media.

He can't work. I mean, he's been in and out of hospital.

That must make you angry.

Oh, it's...

(DARK MUSIC)

(POP MUSIC PLAYS)

I just did a two-hour interview with Lance Williams.

I don't think it's him.

I just looked at the man.

He's not the killer.

You tell that to Dennis Glennon? I did. I called him.

All that money he's raised, if the police spent the last six years

on the wrong man, he has a right to know.

You ring Kirby with this 'I just looked at the man' theory?

(SIGHS) He won't return my calls.

Gavin, what if I'm right? You're not, OK?

Lance Williams fits every profile we have.

Tell me. Convince me.

You know I can't do that.

All I can say...

All I can say is that if you knew what we know about Lance Williams,

we wouldn't be having this little conversation.

He failed a lie detector test. He explained that.

Did he explain why there's been no other murders

since we've been watching him?

And what are you gonna do?

Follow him for the rest of his life?

The rest of yours?

If that's what it takes, yeah.

And what if you're wrong and the real killer's still out there?

Some other guy that you know nothing about,

because you've spent all this time on Lance.

There is no other guy, OK?

Lance Williams is the Claremont serial killer.

End of story.

James, grab me another, please?

Hey, Dad!

MAN: Oh, why are you sneaking up on me all the time?

Every time, you sneak up on me! Come on, throw it, Jo.

Watch all this, please!

I don't want to get this all flipped over.

While she's doing the dressing, hey? Alright, let's eat.

Hey, you're getting good at throwing. That's far.

That's far. Good stuff. Alright, I'll be back, OK?

I'll be back in a sec. OK.

Do you want some of this?

I might have some too.

Do you want lots?

(DARK MUSIC)

CHILD: Hey, Dad!

Come and have a look at this!

Coming!

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