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Man: ...between your neck
and cheek.

And then use your body weight
to really lob it forward.

And then just push forward,
okay?

Give it a go.
That's easy enough. Alright.

Back?
That's it.

Oh, wow!

[Laughs]

This is, like, day one.
That was amazing.

Alison: Luckily, the pesky pooch
was found unharmed.

Hopefully he learnt a valuable
lesson, along with his owners.

Alison Fan, 7 Nightly News.

[Knock on door]

Mum?

Hey!
Hey.

What are you doing here?

I finished early.
Are we still on for dinner?

Oh, you bet.
Um, I'll just finish up here.

Are you still getting wine?

Yeah, sure. What sort?

As long as I'm doing stories
about lost dogs,

any wine is good wine.

I thought you might
be back on Claremont.

Why?

I heard a rumor.

It all seemed
pretty hush-hush,

but it sounded like
there's a team back on it.

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Huh.

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[Vehicle door opens]

What the hell
are you doing out here?

Took me three days
to find you.

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Why are you looking?

[Sighs]

Cold Case Squad
has reopened Claremont.

There's no one
from Macro.

Apparently they're
the new breed.

They've all got
forensic training.

And why are you telling me?

Don't you want in?

I spent six years
on Claremont.

Look where it got me.

Don't you wanna findthe guy?[Coo moos]

I mean, are you really happy
out here with all the cows?

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Sarah Spiers
is still missing.

I'm sorry.

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[Vehicle door opens, closes]

[Engine starts]

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Hi.

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Mosman Park?

[Engine revs]

[Engine revving]

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[Women vocalizing]

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Okay.

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- Who's this?
- He insisted on being let in.

Gavin Wyatt.
He's driven in from...

I worked
on the original Macro team.

I want to join you.

I'm sorry.I know everything
about this case.

Yeah, that's the problem.

We're starting with a clean
slate, out of the public eye.

Okay, well, maybe I can
help short-cut stuff.

Instead of having to re-read
everything, I can tell you.

I'm sorry. It's --
It's not gonna work.

Alison Fan found me
way out in the country.

It's only a matter of time
before she finds out

what you're doing.

You're obviously doing this
on the quiet.

Do the bosses know
you've reopened the case?

Well, it's a cold case.
We're allowed to reopen...

Yeah, but I bet they don't know
you've reopened

this particular can
of worms.

The most famous
unsolved murder case

in West Australian history.

And I bet there'd be
a few noses out of joint

if the old Macro hierarchy
finds out

you're questioning
their approach.

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Maybe he can explain
the fire poker.

Dave: Why was Macro so sure
that Lance Williams' poker

was the murder weapon?

Well, once I noticed it
missing from Lance's flat,

we bought an identical poker
and sent it to London.

A pathologist
at the Royal College

confirmed the poker fitted
the wound to Ciara's skull.

Yeah, he was wrong.

We found Lance's poker.

Where?Queensland.

Well, Lance has never been
to Queensland.Exactly.

We tracked down the woman
who sold the flat to Lance.

She meant to leave the whole
set behind with the fireplace,

but somehow the poker was
packed up by the removalists.

You guys
never followed this up?

It fitted so perfectly.

It made sense that she was...

Alright, well, hang on a sec.

What caused the wound
to Ciara's head, then?

Wasn't a wound.

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You know, everyone assumes
Claremont was my worst case.

My worst case was
a Christmas Day murder.

There was blood everywhere.

Over presents, the manger.

That indentation?

She was hit over
the back of the head.

No, she wasn't.

I was wrong.

This is a Wormian bone.

What's a Wormian bone?

It's a naturally occurring
skull formation

that can look like
a fracture.

And no one noticed this
until now?

Well, once the poker was
dismissed as a murder weapon,

we asked the pathologist
to review her findings.

She called in
an anthropologist.

And that means what exactly?

Lance Williams is not
the Claremont serial killer.

He has to be.

Okay, he was out on the street
every night, stalking girls.

He fits every profile.

A loner. The prostitutes.

He failed
the lie detector test.

There is not
one shred of evidence

that connects Lance
to the murders.

There's no blood in his house,
on his car, on his clothes.

No fibers, no hair.

Nikki: And none of his DNA
was found

anywhere
at the crime scenes.

Then why did
the crimes stop?

The second we started
following Lance, they stopped.

No more girls were taken.

If I was a serial killer
and I knew the police

had a suspect...

dumbest thing I can do
is kill again.

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[Sighs]

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You still wanna work
with us?

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[Indistinct conversations]

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[Rock music plays]

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Are you sure
you want back in

if they're just gonna pour shit
on everything we did?

They're smart, Bobbi.

Dave's DNA-trained,
and Nikki's a fiber expert.

They've thrown out
the suspect book.

It's all about the evidence.

You're gonna solve
Australia's biggest cold case

with three detectives?

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Sorry. Now it sounds like
I'mthe one pouring shit.

[Breathes deeply]

I hope you find him.
I really do.

You miss it, don't you?

Unh-unh, unh-unh.

I've moved on.
Corporate's good.

It is.

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Some things...

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...maybe it's easier
to leave them behind.

Yeah.

I'm gonna find him,
Bobbi.

Even if it kills me.

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Make sure it doesn't.

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Ciara's missing thumbnail
and middle finger.

I remember.

All that's left where the nail
was are three red dots.

Yeah, blood.

So she's clawing at him
so hard her nail has ripped off.

You'd think she'd have
to scrape some of his skin.

Yeah, but the nail was never
found at the crime scene.

Caught in his clothes,
fell off somewhere else?

Was any of
the remaining nail tested?

Yes, we tested everything,
and I mean everything.

Every jar,
every scrap of nail.

Some went to New Zealand,
some to the FBI.

We tested every single one
of these.

- There's nothing else.
- What about AJM40?

It doesn't appear
on any of the test results.

AJM...40.

Uh, AJM40.

Let's see here.

Aha! That's why.

"Debris only.
Not suitable for analysis."

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Why not?

Well, because at the time,
there wasn't enough

in there to test.

I think there might be
enough now.

For his services
to Little Athletics,

Bradley Edwards.

[Applause]Woman: Well done.

Man:
You did a good job.

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[Camera shutters clicking]

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London lab called.
It worked.

[Fax machine beeps]

Fax coming through now.

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They extracted
two DNA sets.

The first belonged
to Ciara...

the other
to an unknown male.

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[Applause]

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[Camera shutter clicks]

We've got his DNA. We've got
the Claremont killer's DNA.

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[Camera shutter clicking]

[Screaming]

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[Man speaking indistinctly
on TV]

Can we have a word
with Lance, please?

Man on TV:
...winning a brand-new car.

When is this gonna stop?

He's only
just out of hospital.

Depression, anxiety.

Huh! No wonder.

Mr. Williams.

Uh, we wanted to tell you
officially that you're no longer

a person of interest
in the Claremont matter.

What does that mean?

You won't be hearing
from us anymore.

I'm sorry.

[Chime] Roger.

You were only doing your job.

Question four.

[Speaking indistinctly]

[Chime] Jeffrey.

Jeffrey: Pacific Ocean.

[Buzzer] No.

The correct answer is
the Indian Ocean.

Question five.

In which country would you find
the Sphinx?

[Chime]

The DNA
isn't Lance Williams'.

It's from
the Karrakatta rapist.

What?

We tested the DNA against all
the original major suspects --

the mayor, Steve Ross.

Nothing.

And then I remembered
your case.

Lisa. Karrakatta.

And it matched?

Well, it matched
Unknown Male #4.

[Sighs]

You were right, Bobbi --
Lisa was raped by the man

who went on to become
the Claremont serial killer.Oh.

I need you to come back in.

Come on.
Just to talk to them, okay?

You know
this case backwards.

You can tell them
better than me.

No way. I'm out.
I told you.

This time, we are doing
everything by the book,

and when we catch this guy,

we're gonna need you
as a witness to present

the statement you took
from Lisa in '96.

Her name was Lisa Todd.
She was 17.

A year before Sarah
went missing,

she was partying in Claremont.

On her way home,
she was grabbed from Rowe Park.

She was taken to
Karrakatta Cemetery and raped.

But the rape kit didn't match
anyone on file at the time.

So this Unknown Male #4 --

Macro was onto him
as a suspect for Claremont.

- What happened?
- Well, Lisa was a blitz attack.

It was thought all three girls
willingly got into vehicles.

Bobbi: These are the shorts
she was wearing.

Her T-shirt,
underwear, shoes.

And this is the cord
he used to tie her.

But we could never find any
evidence the Claremont killer

tied up any of the three girls,
or attacked them from behind.

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What?

We've gone back over
Jane's postmortem photographs.

There's a mark on her wrist

that suggests
she might have been tied up.

But if the girls got into
the vehicle voluntarily,

when did he tie them?
How would that work?

We found other witnesses.

Girls who accepted lifts
around the same time

and had close calls.

This one, Katrina Jones.

Late 1995.
She'd been at a wedding.

At 2:30 in the morning,
she was trying to get a lift.

Bradley: You okay?

No.
As a matter of fact, I'm not.

He offered her a lift.
She said he seemed nice.

Thanks so much.

Nikki: She asked
what he did for a living.

He said he was a Telstra worker,
like her brother.

Dave: That's when
things went wrong.

Nikki: Yeah, she said
she picked up vibes.

She must have sensed
something was wrong

because she got him
to drop her off five houses

back from her car.

Next minute,
he was behind her.

[Gasping]

[Screaming]

It's exactly
what happened to Lisa.

She'd already told him she was
a blue belt in tae kwon do.

He backed off.

She tried to get
his number plate,

but all she had to write with
was lipstick, so --

- So when was this?
- Late '95.

So after Karrakatta,
but before Sarah.

So that's what
happened to Sarah.

He actually drove her
to Mosman Park and let her out.

Then he came up behind her.

So these witnesses...

they all got into
a Telstra vehicle?

Or a white vehicle
consistent with that.

We're calling them
the Telstra Living Witnesses.

But after Karrakatta, we asked
Telstra for a list of drivers.

We checked every single one.

In '95, Telstra logos

were being changed over
from the old Telecom.

Macro asked for Telstra drivers.
That's what you got.

If the killer was still
driving a Telecom vehicle,

- he missed the net.
- [Scoffs]

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That is...

unbelievable.

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But the problem then
is the problem now.

The Karrakatta rape
was unsolved.

How do we identify
Unknown Male #4?

Well, for starters, we're asking
for a list of Telecom drivers

from the '90s,
but that could take some time.

So we're also running
his sample

against
every single piece of DNA

that Macro ever collected.

We DNA-tested
9,000 local men.

Plus over 2,000 taxi drivers
and their cars.

Yeah, so don't
hold your breath.

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Gavin.
Ah.

What happened to that update
you promised me?

We're still working on it.

Do you have anything?

Come on, Gav. I could run
with this any time.

"Cold Case Unit
secretly reopens Claremont."

It's a great story
for me.

It's one night.

If you hold off, I'll give you
the biggest story of the year.

When? Gav?

You know, Sarah would
have been 38 this year,

and that her dad's still
shearing 10 hours a day...

so he never has to stop

and think about
his missing daughter.

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Don. Carol.

[Sheep bleating]

Sorry.

It's not you.

We've got his DNA.

We've matched him
to a precursor crime.

Now we've just gotta match
his DNA with a name.

You know what I don't get?

Someone out there
knows who it is.

Someone who works
with him.

Someone who gave birth
to him.

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Do they know?

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[Dialing]

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[Line ringing]

Alison: Hello?

Alison.
Got a pen and paper?

It's been nearly 20 years since
Sarah Spiers went missing --

the first victim of
the Claremont serial killer.

Or wasshe?

In a sensational breakthrough,

sources close to police
have revealed

they have forensic evidence
linking the man

who murdered Ciara Glennon
to an earlier victim.

Her identity remains
a closely guarded secret.

If they've got
the forensic evidence,

why can't
they just arrest him? ...from the streets of Claremont

and brutally raped
in Karrakatta Cemetery

managed to escape.

They now believe there may
have been earlier attacks,

what they're calling
"precursor crimes."

They're looking for young women
who were assaulted

in the Claremont area
before Sarah --

[Remote clicks]

I can give Maddie
a lift if you like.

Ah, yes. Yeah, okay.

Oh, have you thought
more about her 21st?

Well, thinking about it's one
thing, but how do we pay for it?

I don't understand
why we're always so short.

You know, we're both working.
I'm not spending it on anything.

So where's it all going?

[Clears throat]

Hey, Dad, can I grab
a lift to uni today?

Yeah, sure,
but I'm going now.

- Yeah, I'm ready.
- Okay.

See ya, Mum.

Bye.

Brad?

[Door opens]We need to talk about this.

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It's in all the papers,
all over the TV.

You've completely
blown our cover.

Someone needed to put
a rocket under the case.

This will get us blasted
out of the job.

But now we're actually
getting calls.

Other women who were picked up
in Claremont at the same time.

Crime Stoppers
is getting hammered.

Yeah, and who's gonna process
all the leads

if we get fired, hmm?

[Telephone rings]

Santos.

Yep.

Yep, he's here.

It's the boss.

Medcalf.

Yes, sir.

No, I understand.

Yes.

Yes, I should have
consulted you.

Okay.

Are we fired?

No.

No, he's, uh --
He's giving us more people.

[Chuckles]

[Suspenseful music plays]

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[Muffled music playing]

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[Volume increases]

[Muffled talking]

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[Woman grunts and groans
on recording]

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[Woman groans on recording]

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Thanks.
Thanks, Julie.

We are getting dozens
of calls about Claremont.

- From who?
- Women who accepted lifts

from white cars
in the '90s

and never came forward.Why not?

With all the Lance Williams
talk in the papers,

they thought
you already had the guy.

But, God, it's been so long now,
no one can ID him.

Any news from the DNA tests?

We've checked the sample against
every single piece of DNA

on the West Australian
database -- nothing.

We have to wait
for the international

and national requests now.

That'll take months.
How can we be so close?

We've got his DNA,
for God's sake.

Is there anything else
we can do?

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We want to test
Jane's hair for fibers.

Jane had been to the hairdresser
the morning before her death,

so any fibers in her hair
can be narrowed down

to having got there
after that.

You're hoping to find something
from the perpetrator?

Well, it's a long shot,
we know,

but the paperwork says
you collected

Jane's entire hair mass
during the postmortem?

We've searched Trace.
It's not there, so...

Because I sent it
to Toxicology, not Trace.

At the time,
I wanted to test for drugs.

I thought maybe she'd been
administered something

to knock her out.

- So it's still at Tox?
- As far as I know.

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Right, what am I looking at?Isn't it obvious?

To someone with a PhD
in fibers, sure.

Let's just pretend
that's not me.

Okay. So this is a fiber
we found in Jane's hair.

The Forensic guys managed
to extract 20 of these.

Do we know what they are?

Well, some,
we have no idea.

Fibers you can't match
with anything.

But this one, this has
a name -- Blue Graphite.

And it matches
the upholstery of a --

cheers --

Holden Commodore V6
Series 1 station wagon.

Why do I know that vehicle?

Because it's the vehicle
the Burger Boys described

seeing the night
Ciara was taken.

Man: Check her out.[Laughter]

It was a white,
late-model Series 1

VS Holden station wagon.

Did Macro look for Holden
station wagons at the time?

Yep, but that search
was shelved

once we started
focusing on Lance.

He drove a Toyota Camry.

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So is this it? One fiber?

No. Other fibers collected
match a different carpet

made especially
for the cargo area of Holdens.

Suggesting Jane
was in the cargo area

sometime after her visit
to the hairdresser.

Yeah, and there's more.
Fibers found on Ciara

match the carpet
from the same make of car.

We're going car hunting,
boys and girls.

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Bradley:
I gotta tell you something.

You getting cold feet
about the wedding?

[Chuckles]

I got
a criminal record.

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Wh--

After my first wife
cheated on me,

I had...

I just --
I couldn't handle it.

I had a brain snap.

What happened?

There was this woman
at work, and...

I took it out on her.

Sexually?

No, no,
it was nothing like that.

They called it a common assault.
It was stupid.

I don't know
what came over me.

It was like I just snapped,
you know?

[Sobs]

It was so dumb.
It was so dumb.

I just wanted you to know
before we got married.

[Sniffles]

Hey. Hey!

I just feel so ashamed.

[Crying]

Hey. Hey, it's okay.
It's alright.

I just wanted
to be honest with you.

Okay. It's alright.

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We went through car lots,
wrecking yards.

Took apart every '96
V6 Commodore we could find.

Nothing?

And nothing from trying
to check the workers

who drove Telecom cars.
They no longer have the records.

It has been 20 years.

Yeah.

Hey, are you seeing anyone?

What? No.

Pick up some random
for the fun of it?

No, just try to have some sort
of life outside this case.

Did I tell you we didn't get
a DNA match from interstate?

It's amazing. This guy just does
not have a criminal record.

He has to. No one starts
with rape and murder.

There has to be
some sort of apprenticeship.

Something even
before Karrakatta.

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What?

You just gave me an idea.

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Hey, come here.
Come here.

What if this guy was involved in
a minor crime and pled guilty?

It's possible his DNA
was collected but never tested.

'Cause the police
didn't have to prove his guilt.

Exactly. We need to go back
through the old files.

Any sexual offense pre-1995.

Okay.

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[Sighs]

[Sighs]

This box shouldn't even be here.

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This isn't even a sex crime.

It's some kind of
standover operation in the '90s.

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What's Huntingdale?

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Uh...

Looks like a series of break-ins
in and around Huntingdale.

Women's underwear
being stolen off the line.

Frequent sightings of a prowler
breaking into houses.

Yeah, that was found
at one of the assaults.

A...stocking used
as a gag and bindings.

The attacker brought those
with him?

Mm.

Mostly rapists
don't come with restraints.

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The Karrakatta rapist did.

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That's it.
That's what he was wearing.

Dave:
This was, uh, February 1988?

Valentine's Day.

Do you remember
what he looked like?

[Screams]No! No!

No, I didn't see his face.

Uh, Gavin?

Excuse me.

We just had a call
from PathWest.

They got a hit?Semen on the kimono.

It matches both
the Karrakatta rapist

and Ciara's left thumbnail.

Is there anything else you can
tell us about your attacker?

Anything that might
help identify him?

Well, at the time, I had no idea
who the hell he was,

but afterwards, when I started
to tell my story to people,

everyone started
telling their own story

about this guy being around
the neighborhood at the time.

Other sexual assaults?

No, mostly
it was pranking stuff.

This guy would run around the
streets and break into houses.

He'd wear women's
underwear on his head.

Everyone thought
it was funny.

They used to call him
the Huntingdale Weirdo.

[Sighs]

[Muffled music plays]

[Woman screams on recording]

[Music continues]

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[Door creaking]

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[Woman screaming]

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[Music intensifies]

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The Huntingdale Weirdo.

Geez, he got around. There
must be dozens of break-ins.

We just need one
where he left prints.

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Hmm.

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Think I've found something.

This was an attempt to break in
not too far from Kylee's house,

and only a few days
after her attack.

He left...

He left prints,
but he didn't get in.

Question is, do they match
anyone in the system?

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Bradley Robert Edwards.
1990.

It's the only offense
ever recorded against him.

Was it a sex crime?

Apparently the file
just says "common assault,"

which is why it wasn't
picked up earlier.

Macro was only looking
for precursor sex crimes.

[Breathes deeply]
Is there a witness?

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There was nothing
"common" about it.

I thought I was gonna die.

[Screams]

[Muffled scream]

I have no doubt...
he intended to rape me.

The level
of aggression...

it was just insane.

[Muffled screaming]

I was on the floor
with a gag in my mouth,

being dragged to the toilets.

And you told all this
to the police?

Yep.

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[Grunts]

I'm sorry!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

Everyone treated it like
it was nothing.

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I even had a meeting
with his boss.

And they were saying,
"Oh, he's such a nice guy.

He was having
relationship problems.

He just had a brain snap."

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I mean, seriously, what kind of
guy turns up to a hospital

in broad daylight to fix
your phones

and
tries to rape a social worker?

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I couldn't believe it was
being swept under the carpet.

Fix the phones?

Yeah.

That's why he was there.
He was a Telstra technician.

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[Camera shutter clicking]

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That's him.
That's our killer.

At the time of the Huntingdale
prowler attacks,

he was an 18-year-old
living at home with his parents.

This is their house.

These are the houses
where break-ins

or sightings were reported.

This is the house where
Kylee Cosgrove was attacked

and the kimono found.
Now, he knew this house.

Wasn't too far from where
he lived with his parents.

His vehicles match.
At the time of Karrakatta,

he was driving
a Telecom Mitsubishi van.

This matches the description
Lisa Todd

gave of the cargo area
she was thrown into in '95.

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His next vehicle was a white
Toyota Camry station wagon,

which Sarah Spiers
may have mistaken for a taxi.

But in 1997,
he was driving this.

A Holden Commodore V6
Series 1 station wagon --

the exact vehicle
the Burger Boys described.

And we found the car.

Miraculously,
it's still in operation.

We've tracked it
to a plant nursery in Chidlow.

The Burger Boys
described the wheels

as having
teardrop-shaped cutouts.

That wasn't standard
for that model Holden.

We thought they got it wrong.
They didn't.

Now, the question is...
when do we make our move?

And are we absolutely sure
this is our man?

And the big problem --
Did he stop after Ciara?

- Why would he?
- He got married.

We think this gave him
the stability he needed

to put a stopper
to the anger.

And if that is true,
then we have another problem,

because it appears the
second wife has just moved out.

So we need to move now.

[Suspenseful music plays]

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[Indistinct conversations]

[Shouts indistinctly]

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[Laughter, woman screams]

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[Loud thud]

- Police! Don't move!
- On the ground!

- Down on your knees!
- Stay where you are!

Hands on your head!

♪♪

Hands behind your back.

I have in my possession
a search warrant issued

under the Criminal
Investigation Act.

Right, that's for you.

Bradley Robert Edwards,
you are now being arrested

on suspicion of the willful
murder of Ciara Glennon...

What? What the......Jane Rimmer...

and Sarah Spiers.You gotta be joking.

You're also being arrested
on suspicion

of a break-in and assault
in Huntingdale in 1988,

and a rape
in Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995.

As a person arrested
on suspicion, you've got rights.

I'm gonna go through
those rights with you now,

okay, so listen carefully.
Do you have to speak to me?

No.Are you aware
that this is being recorded?

I'm just trying to process
what's going on.Okay.

Is there any property here
that belongs to Ciara Glennon...

What? Don't...
...Jane Rimmer, or Sarah Spiers?

Why would there be
anything like that here?

Better get him out of here.
Press has got wind of this.

Alright, get him out of here.Can I just call my parents?

[Helicopter blades whirring]

♪♪

Officer: Watch your step.

[Indistinct shouting,
camera shutters clicking]

♪♪

Woman: Detective,
any comments?

[Engine starts]

Okay, go. Get out of here.

[Shouting continues]

♪♪

Dave: You've got to find us
something from one of the girls,

anything linking
Edwards to them.

Ciara's brooch,
Jane's clothes,

Sarah, that -- that key ring.

A sunflower, yeah.
We'll find something.

Is he lawyering up?

Not yet.
Said he doesn't want one.

Ring me when
you've got something.

Yeah.

You lead in there.

You're about the same age.

Build up some rapport.

Keep it friendly,
and let's make him sing.

[Cellphone rings]

Oh, shit.

You promised me
the biggest story of the year,

and then I see some blond bimbo
reporting it live?

I was gonna call you,
Alison.

I can't talk right now.

Gavin?

Reporter:
The police have not yet issued an official statement.

[Door closes]Gavin: Okay.

Okay. We just wanted to ask you
a couple of questions.

Maybe we can just start
at the beginning?

Sure.

Why don't you tell us
about your childhood?

But what does
my childhood have to...

Just to get to know you,
you know?

Okay. We...
We lived in a van for a while

because my dad was always
traveling for work,

but, um, it was good,
you know?

We saw
my parents' friends a lot.

Had barbecues on weekends.[Sizzling]

Pretty normal,
just growing-up stuff.

[Indistinct conversations]

♪♪

[Choir vocalizing]

♪♪

[Ominous music plays]

[Vocalizing continues]

[Door opens]

[Drawer slams]

♪♪

[Clears throat]

And you wore glasses?

Yeah.Mm.

Yeah, I wasn't
the best-looking kid.

I got teased about it.Oh, okay.

That's hard.Mm.

So I started wearing contact
lenses when I was about 20.

20.

But you wore glasses
before that?

Yeah.
Mm. Okay.

Valentine's Day in 1988.
Do you remember where you were?

Come on, mate. I can't even
remember where I was last week.

Yeah.

[Chuckles]

[Laughs]

Do you remember
Kylee Cosgrove?

She lived not far from you
in Huntingdale.

Uh, no, I don't think so.

Don't think so?

No.

She didn't go to your school?

No.

I mean, we might have...

I remember --
I remember the name Cosgrove.

I think my brother used to swim
at their pool or something,

but I-I don't --
I didn't cross paths

with any Kylee Cosgrove.

Okay. Yep.

Mm.

And you know anything
about a kimono?

Two birds, red flowers
on the back?

No. Nothing.

Nothing.

Maybe we can back up a bit.

Can you tell us about
your first marriage?

First marriage?Yeah.

I was depressed.

Um, I drank a lot.

You know why she left?

We, uh...

We had a lodger,
and she took up with him.

♪♪

But I still kinda loved her,
you know?

And her parents told my parents
that leaving me

was the worst decision
that she ever made.

Mm. Your wife left you
around Australia Day '96?

Yeah, probably about then.

That's about when
Sarah Spiers went missing.

Isn't it? Yeah.

And you found out your wife
was pregnant to this lodger...

I guess. Well, if...
Yeah, June.

June 1996.

[Sighs]

That's about the time
Jane Rimmer went missing.

Mm...

And I've got here
you sold the home you bought

with your first wife
in January of 1997.

That's around the time
Ciara Glennon was abducted.

That's a hell of a coincidence.
Is that right -- those dates?

Look, I don't know anything
about any of that.

I'm trying to be as honest
with you blokes as I can.

♪♪

Will you submit
to giving a DNA sample?

DNA?

Yeah, for testing.

You can oblige willingly,
or we can get a court order,

but either way,
yeah, we'll get it.

[Chuckles] No, no, I'll give it.
I don't mind.

I keep telling you
I've got nothing to hide.

Just wanna go to sleep
and wake up,

and this'll all be over.
You know what I mean?

♪♪

[Police radio chatter,
indistinct conversations]

Hey, Dave.
We found porn, snuff films,

women's underwear
with the crotch cut out,

homemade sex toys, some stuff
he's written about rape.

I mean, this guy's
a psycho fuck, but...

There's nothing to connect him
to the girls?

Yeah, not yet.
Neither clothing, nor jewelry.

Not one trophy.
He's either hidden it, or...

He got rid of it.

Yeah.
How's the interview going?

Uh, he's denying everything.

He's lying, Nikki.
He's making shit up.

But you still have
enough to charge him?

Yeah, but, you know, a
confession would be bloody nice.

I'll get one.
I'll get a confession.

Gav.

We'll have new DNA results
within an hour,

and when they match
with what we found on Ciara,

we won't need a confession.

What,
he gave his DNA willingly?

He did.Shit.

He either doesn't think
we have anything

to compare it to
or he's not our guy.

He's our guy. Right,
we'll talk soon, eh?

♪♪

You bet he is.

Look.

♪♪

He's sleeping.

Only guilty bastards sleep.

The innocent
are always pacing.

♪♪

Gavin: Mr. Edwards.

It's time to get up.

♪♪

Now, in 1996, when you were
working for Telstra,

did you drive a Holden
Commodore station wagon?

Yeah.

Yeah.
And a cargo area in the back?

Yeah, there was a caged area

between the driver
and the rear area,

but I think every Telstra
vehicle looked like that.

And did you drive around
the nightclubs in Claremont?

Um, I mean, I'm aware of them,
I've never been to them.

I-I don't go out
to Claremont.

Okay.

We'll just take
a look at this map.

Do you know Rowe Park?

No.Are you positive?

Yes.

Karrakatta Cemetery?Yes.

I was there for a memorial
for a woman in 2008, I think.

No time before?

Not that I recall.

[Knock on door]

Come in.

[Door opens]

Thank you.

[Door closes]

♪♪

Are you aware of the women
who were abducted from Claremont

in '96 and '97?

♪♪

I'm aware of them.

I think everybody
was aware of them.

But I'm 110% -- I am 120%

certain that I'm not involved
in any of this.

I don't know how many ways
that I can say no.

Right.

DNA results have come back,

and they confirm that your DNA
is a positive match

for the kimono in Huntingdale
in 1988...No, that's not possible.

...for the rape of a young woman
in Karrakatta Cemetery... No.

How can that be?...and for the murder
of Ciara Glennon in 1997.

No.

Can you explain that?

I-I can't.

You can't explain that?No.

Alright. You're an intelligent
man. You're not dumb.

Now, you know that
your DNA is unique.

You're the only person
in the whole world

with that DNA profile.

I can --
I can't explain that. I mean...

Just tell us what happened.

I-I wish I could, but I can't
because I wasn't there!

I-I mean, you're...Hey, slow down.

I see that you don't believe
that I did it.

Slow down.But you're the one
saying that I did it.

Listen,
the question I asked you

is, do you understand
that your DNA profile's unique?

I can't explain that!

I don't understand
what's happening!

Well, we found your semen
on the kimono in Huntingdale.

We found your DNA on Lisa Todd
in Karrakatta Cemetery.

Can't explain that?No.

And we found your DNA
on Ciara Glennon,

27 years of age,
murdered March 14, 1997, okay?

Your DNA is on her.

Impossible.Can't explain that one either?

No.Alright.

Are you an honest man?I'm -- Yes.

'Cause we interviewed
your stepdaughter.

And she said that
your most-prized virtue

is your honesty.

I ambeing honest.

Are you a man who accepts
responsibility for your actions?

I accept responsibility
for the stuff that I have done,

not for the stuff
that I haven't.

♪♪

Bradley Robert Edwards,
you're now being charged

with the assault
on Kylee Cosgrove...

No, you've got
the wrong guy....in 1988...

the rape of Lisa Todd
in 1995,

and the murders of Jane Rimmer
and Ciara Glennon.

I did not do it!
You've got the wrong guy.

♪♪

I'm here to make
an important announcement...

[Cellphone rings] ...to the West Australian
community.

Detectives from
the Special Crime Squad

have charged
a 48-year-old Kewdale man

with the murders of Jane Rimmer
and Ciara Glennon,

and attacks.
on other young women.Gav?

You watching this? This has already been

the biggest and most complex
police investigation

in WA's history.Congratulations, Gav.

Hundreds of police officers...

Now we have
to convict him.

...over the past 20 years.

You will. The commitment of the WA Police

and its officers
have never wavered.

We never give up.

He didn't confess
and he's pleading not guilty

to every charge.
There's nothing

in any of the houses
that links him to the girls.

Not one trophy,
not one hair, nothing.

Just tell him you got
something from his car.

Yeah, we found this.

You see it?

Yeah. But that doesn't link him
to any of the girls.

You got anything else?

There was no blood or hair
from them in the car.

How can there be no blood?

Well, he must have killed them
where we found them.

But the fibers on Jane
and Ciara match, okay?

These gray ones were found
in the carpet on the car floor

and back well
of a Holden Commodore.

And on the handle
that adjusts the driver's seat,

13 blue fibers
we can't ID yet.

But I had an idea
about them.

You see it?

Yeah.
The shorts.

These could be the source
of the blue fibers.

We've just got to find someone
who kept a pair since 1995.

I swear, okay? I didn't have
anything to do with it.

It's just like
with that other guy,

that, um, public servant
that they...

Lance Williams.

That's it. Yeah.
That's what the cops do.

They get tunnel vision,
they zone in on a guy.

But why'd they pick you, Dad?I don't know.

They're saying that they've got
my DNA from an attack in 1988.

What's that, 30 years ago?

They're just trying
to stitch me up. You'll see.

We'll keep supporting you, Brad.
Don't worry.

So will Mum and Dad.

We all believe you.

♪♪

I-I don't understand
how he isn't charged

with Sarah's...

with her...

her murder.

There's still nothing concrete

that links him with Sarah --
yet.

You need a body.

No.

Not necessarily.

But we could use more evidence.

Do you have any kids?

No.

In the country...

you can sometimes fear
the big city.

But our girls didn't.

They were just so...

alive.

But we worried for them,
and...

we bought them a flat
in a nice part of town

and a good car

[Voice breaking] and tried
to keep them safe.

Still, just...

life just...

blows up.

It's just your worst fear.

Don't let 'em forget
about her.

Charge the bastard
for those other girls

and forget about Sarah.

I'll make sure they don't.

Yeah.

♪♪

Hey.

Which way you headed?

Mosman Park.

Oh, that's okay. I'm headed
that way anyway.

Cool.

[Gasping]

[Cellphone rings]

Gav?
What time is it?

Gavin: I think she must
have seen his car.

It looked like a cab.
She'd just called one.

So she got in, and only
after he started out,

did she realize
that...it wasn't a cab.

Yeah, she would have
panicked then.

No, but Edwards,
he must have sweet-talked her.

No one heard anything
in Claremont,

so somehow he got her
to stay quiet.

That's what we always thought,
but how are you gonna prove

Sarah got in his car?

She might have--I'll prove it.

I'll prove it.

We don't know
what really happened that night.

No one does.

Defense will say
Sarah ran off with a guy

or went for a midnight swim
and drowned or any...

I don't really care
what defense has to say.

She got in his car.

But you have to be
able to prove it.

Just take a step back,
Gav, and...

I'm not stepping back.
We have to get him.

For Sarah.
For their family.

We have to get him.
I have to get him.

♪♪

I've gotta get him.

A Telstra tech named Jeff Cohen
kept these since 1995.

Never even worn them.

ChemCentre tested them
and the fibers from the dye lot

are an exact match
to the fibers

found on Jane, Lisa,
and Ciara.

This blue is unique to Telstra?

The dye was developed
exclusively for them.

A different blue from police
uniforms or any other tradies.

This puts a Telstra worker at
the scene of all three crimes.

Edwards.

Car fibers,
these, they're good,

but they're circumstantial.

This could be from
any Telstra worker.

Only the DNA on Ciara's nail
puts Edwards there.

That's enough, right?

The lawyer that Edwards hired,
Paul Yovich, he's smart.

He knows he'll have to
create doubt about the DNA.

If I were Yovich, I'd suggest

there might have been
cross-contamination at the lab.

Can he prove that?

I'm afraid PathWest has a
history of cross-contamination.

But don't worry. I still think
that we can convict him

for Jane and Ciara's murder.

What about Sarah? You've gotta
get Sarah on the brief.

You can't let him walk
on her.

Once we prove Edwards' guilt
on Jane and Ciara

with the same MO,
the same propensity of evidence,

we should be able
to connect him to Sarah.

So you're gonna add Sarah
to the charge brief?

Yes. The Spiers deserve that.
But prepare yourself.

Justice Hall could still dismiss
her charge for lack of evidence.

Don't let him.Then I suggest, Detective,

that you get me
some more evidence

connecting Edwards
to Sarah Spiers.

Doesn't matter how many times
you look at it,

you still can't tell
it's Edwards.

It could be him.

If he'd just turn around.

Have you seen this?

I didn't even know
he was sick.

Cancer.

I got in his car.

Remember?

I said it was him.

I was so sure.

So was I.

You know,
if Lance had picked up Jane

or any of those girls...

...they'd still be alive.

But now you've got
the right guy.

You have his DNA.

No way
is he getting out of this.

That's the thing. I didn't have
anything to do with the murders,

I swear.
And I've been thinking.

I want to give evidence.
I want to...

I want to say that at trial.If you do that,

you could be on the stand
for six months in cross.

And they can ask you anything.
You have to answer, in detail

and under oath.

I can do that.

Look, it is your decision
in the end.

Could you stop doing that?
Listen to me.

Putting you on the stand,
in my opinion,

that would be a mistake.
They'll push you hard, Bradley.

Okay.

But all this time
being locked up,

I've been searching
my conscience

and I want to plead guilty

to the assaults
at Huntingdale and Karrakatta.

Guilty?
Yep. Yep.

I was a different person
back then.

I snapped.
It wasn't really me.

♪♪

Plus, they've got that DNA
at both the crime scenes, right?

That'll hold up in court?Mm.

Those samples have been
locked away for 20 years.

They'll be convincing.

Right.
So that's what I'm thinking.

Bradley, I can't be
a party to any lies.

I'm not lying.

I did the assaults,
but I didn't do the murders.

I couldn't do that.
I'm not guilty of murder.

It's just, the cops
are pinning it on me

because they want
to blame somebody.

So if you plead guilty
to the assaults,

you plead early, you save
the court time and money.

You could get
a reduced sentence.

And, of course,
with time in custody,

probably looking at three
or four years.

That's it?

And if I can prove
the cross-contamination of DNA

taken from Ciara Glennon,

you could be out
before you're 55.

♪♪

So -- So...

what about before,

pleading not guilty
to the assaults?

Can that work against me?

No, there's no law
against lying to the police.

Justice Hall can't let lying
about an earlier crime influence

his decision
about the murders.

Right. So pleading guilty to the
assaults is my best way forward?

If it's the truth.That's the truth.

In a shock announcement today,
Bradley Edwards,

the accused
Claremont serial killer,

is now pleading guilty to rape
and assault charges

from 1988 and 1995.

Since his arrest,

Mr. Edwards has steadfastly
insisted his innocence.

And though he is now
pleading guilty

to the rape
and assault charges,

he still maintains
that he never killed anyone,

and will fight those charges
to the utmost of his abilities.

- Four years?
- With time in custody,

that's the minimum he could get
for the assault and rape.

For everything he did --
four years?

That won't happen.
Conviction on the murder charges

will get him life
with no chance of parole.

If the DNA doesn't
get thrown out

on some bullshit
contamination argument.

Gav, we'll get him.We haven't
got him for 20 years, Nik.

This guy's
had the devil's luck

and I'm not certain
it's run out yet.

♪♪

Reporter: People lined up
outside the court

before sunrise,
hoping for a front-row seat.

Reporter #2:
...chilling day of evidence

from the opening of
the Claremont serial killings.

Reporter #3:...with a high level
of public interest.

Reporter #4: Edwards is charged
with the murders

of Sarah Spiers,
Jane Rimmer...

Reporter #5:
...trial by judge alone.

Reporter #6:
The three women disappeared...

If Trevor was alive,
he'd be here.

He loved Janey so much.

We pray for Ciara all the time.

When Una and I see a girl
around her...her age,

we think of her still.

Sarah had something different
about her to most other kids.

She had this lovely warmth
about her, didn't she?

Yeah.

Alison: The trial of the century

in Western Australia
gets under way today.

The amount of evidence
that's been gathered

for this case
has been staggering.

Over 16,000 DNA samples
have been taken.

200 witnesses are expected
to be called,

with 10,000 pages
of interview transcripts,

110 gigabytes
of prosecution disclosures,

a million pages of evidence.

The DNA and fiber evidence alone

is said to be over
60,000 pages long.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

In a 14-month period,
three bright,

beautiful young women vanished
from the streets of Claremont.

There were so many questions
for which the lack of answers

cemented a fear
that ran through the community,

a fear that was caused
by an enigma of the dark.

In the coming months, the state
will demystify this enigma

and prove
that there was one killer.

And that killer
is Bradley Robert Edwards.

The deaths of these young women
were unlawful killings.

There is no doubt
or dispute about that.

The issue is the identity
of the killer,

and Bradley Edwards' defense
in each case is that.

It wasn't him.

♪♪

♪♪

Woman: We were happy
in the marriage at first.

Um, but then he became obsessed
with his computer.

So, yeah, he would come home
from work and disappear

into the spare room.
He wasn't interested in me

and he wasn't present
in the marriage,

and stuff happened.

Oh! [Giggles]

We were laughing
and then she kissed me.

Or I kissed her.
I-I can't remember.

He didn't say anything.
He just...walked away.

♪♪

You are one of what has become
known as the "Living Witnesses."

Yeah.

And what happened to you
in November of 1996?

I'd been at Club Bayview.
I'd had a bit to drink.

Um, and there were no cabs,

but I was trying
to get to Shenton Park.

I didn't care how, you know?

It was a different time
back then.

We didn't worry
about things like that.

But then I saw a car,
and it looked like a taxi,

and the driver stopped.

What kind of car was it?

It looked like
a Holden station wagon.

Can you give me a lift
to Shenton Park?

Bradley: Sure.

♪♪

[Grunts]

Oh, hey, this isn't a taxi.

Oh, that's alright.
I'll take you there anyway.

I didn't feel unsafe,
but something made me say

that I'd left my shoes up
on the road...

and would it be okay
if I went to grab them?

♪♪

So I grabbed my shoes

and two guys
that I'd been drinking with...

Is it okay if you take
these guys, too?

We're all going
to the same place.

He didn't say anything.

He just drove us
to Shenton Park.

Did you notice anything
about the car?

It was a Telecom Telstra car.

♪♪

When the sample
labeled AJM40,

the sample taken
from Ciara Glennon's nail,

was finally tested, did you
recover male DNA from it?

Yes, we did.What was the result?

The DNA matched the profile of
the defendant, Bradley Edwards.

To clarify, when sample AJM40
was originally taken,

how was it labeled?

What was written on the label
of the container in 1997?

Uh, "Debris only.
Not suitable for analysis."

Not suitable for analysis.

And yet more than
10 years later,

somehow miraculously
it's suitable for testing.

Not miraculously.

The advancements
in DNA technology in the past...

But at the time,
when it was first handled,

it was labeled "Debris only."

Have you considered
the possibility

of cross-contamination
in your lab,

where a bit of DNA gets
somewhere that it shouldn't?

Perhaps the right protocols
aren't being used

and perhaps
the same pair of gloves

are being worn
for two experiments.

Of course we consider it,

and we take all necessary
precautions to make sure

contamination doesn't happen,
but in this case...

Doesn't PathWest have a poor
record of cross-contamination?

I would say, of the hundreds
and thousands of tests,

we have a very good
record of...

When intimate swabs
collected from Jane Rimmer

were analyzed in 2017
by UK laboratory Cellmark,

did they show the DNA profile
matching that of a male --

not you, sir --
PathWest scientist?

Yes, they did.When intimate swabs

collected from Ciara Glennon
were analyzed in 2017,

did they yield the profile of
yet another -- not you, sir --

PathWest scientist?

Yes.

And we've all seen videos
collected from the crime scene.

Police officers
not wearing gloves.

No shoe protection.
No forensic overalls.

It was a different time.

Indeed it was.

When Mr. Edwards
was employed at Telstra,

was he ever called to PathWest
to repair the phones?

♪♪

Not -- Not to my knowledge,
no.

Not to your knowledge.

There were bombshells in court
today,

where cross-contamination
claims

had the prosecution
on their heels.

The verdict in this case
seems to be in the balance.

Hey, what's all this rubbish
you're broadcasting about?

Do you really believe there's
cross-contamination of his DNA?

I'm just reporting
what was said.

He murdered three women.

Are you trying to help
get him off?

I'm just reporting
what was said in court.

Listen, people don't want
to speak to you anymore, okay?

They're fuckin' pissed off.

You heard the evidence.

Edwards might be acquitted.

Everyone needs to be
prepared for that.

Judge: Mr. Yovich,
the State has closed.

Is the defense ready to proceed?

Your Honor,
the defense is closed.

What? You're not going
to be calling any witnesses?

No, Your Honor,

we will address the case
in our closing statement.

Mr. Edwards,
can you please stand?

♪♪

The decision to give evidence
is entirely yours,

but given the importance
of this case,

do you wish to make any
statement in your own defense?

No, Your Honor.

♪♪

Nearly seven months ago,
the State

made reference
to an enigma of the dark

and promised to shed light
on that enigma.

It's the forensic evidence
that has cast light

and unmasked a killer.

The fibers, the DNA.

One offender is responsible
for the murders of Sarah Spiers,

Jane Rimmer, and Ciara Glennon.

Bradley Robert Edwards,
we say, is the Claremont killer.

One-fifth of one-billionth
of one gram.

That's how much DNA was found
on Ciara Glennon's nail.

Your Honor,
are you able to be satisfied,

beyond reasonable doubt,

the DNA finding
is only explicable on the basis

that the accused killed
Ciara Glennon?

Contamination events are rare,
but they do happen,

and they only
have to happen once.

The carpet fibers,
the pant fibers,

they could come from
any Telstra employee.

The only actual evidence
that my client

might be the Claremont killer

is the DNA that was found
on Ciara Glennon's nail.

Are you willing, Your Honor,
to put a man in jail

for the rest of his life
on that evidence?

One-fifth of one-billionth
of one gram.

[Suspenseful music plays]

♪♪

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♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[Cellphone rings]

[Sighs]

Wyatt.

Carmel: Hello, Gavin.
The verdict's in.

Do you know what it says?

No.
Just get to the court.

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Reporter: After a 20-year
police investigation

and subsequent
seven-month Supreme Court trial,

we'll finally get a verdict...

Reporter #2: The Claremont
serial killings trial...

Onlookers came here
earlier today,

queuing up on the steps...

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This is a trial like no other.

It's a trial like no other
because of its size

and high degree of interest.

Three women went missing
from a popular nightlife area

frequented by many young people.

It inspired a pervasive fear
in the entire Perth community.

But it's a trial
like every other,

because the accused
is presumed innocent

and the State must prove its
case beyond reasonable doubt.

I am satisfied
that the evidence

establishes that each of the
victims was abducted and killed.

The issue, therefore,
is the identity of the killer,

or killers.

Having regard
to the DNA evidence

and the propensity evidence,

I am satisfied
beyond reasonable doubt

that Bradley Edwards
was the killer

of Ms. Rimmer and Ms. Glennon.

Mr. Edwards chose
semi-rural locations

and hid the bodies
with the intention of minimizing

the chances of them being found

and his offenses
being discovered.

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In respect of Ms. Spiers,

I have reached
the following conclusions.

There are some similarities

between the circumstances
of Ms. Spiers' disappearance

and the death of Ms. Rimmer
and Ms. Glennon.

But they do not allow
for a conclusion to be reached

that the person responsible

for the killing of Ms. Glennon
and Ms. Rimmer

must necessarily be the same
person as who killed Ms. Spiers.

The propensity
of evidence suggests

it is likely
that the accused was the killer.

But it cannot be proved
beyond reasonable doubt.

So, based on those findings,

the verdict must be...

on count six,

the willful murder
of Sarah Spiers --

not guilty.

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Denis:
We pray for Ciara all the time.

Whenever Una and I see
a young woman of Ciara's age,

well, we think of her still.

I always said that Ciara...

Ciara would fight for her life.

Little did I know how --
well, how...

prophetic
those words would be.

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It's hard to understand.

We interviewed 16,000 men

and his name never came up.

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He was never on our radar.

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And it's hard not to wonder

what Sarah's life...and ours
would be like

if she hadn't been
taken from us.

She would have had kids.

You say something, love?

Sarah loved kids.

This isn't over.

We'll keep looking for her.

Thanks for everything
you've done for us, Detective.

You treated us right.

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