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against children that won't be suitable for all listeners the kirinda highway is
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a 172 kilometers on way that connects the South Australian Riverside township of Murray Bridge with Loxton further
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north on the cusp of the state's border with Victoria largely desolate the highway cuts through expensive
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agricultural landscapes with several remote houses and small towns dotted along the way including wanaka situated
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105 kilometers east of the capital city of Adelaide WA knockers Main Street offers little but a post office fire
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station and a public pay phone plus the football oval and tennis courts nearby with a population of fewer than 100
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people it's the kind of town where anything out of place is noticed by mid March 2015
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roadworks along a stretch of the Karuna Highway two kilometers east of guanaco were completed shortly afterwards a
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large gray suitcase was sited on the roadside it appeared as though it had fallen off a passing truck
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sun-bleached stained and dirty from having been exposed to the elements for an extended period of time
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the Lanza brand suitcase caught the attention of multiple highway travelers with one stopping to investigate upon
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partially emptying the bag behind a bush and realizing it contained soil to children's clothing infested with
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insects they disregarded the fire and dragged the bag back to the roadside on Tuesday July 14 2015
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a motorist traveling down the highway pulled over to relieve himself as he made his way into the thick bush land
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framing the side of the road he noticed an array of dirty and torn children's clothing strewn under a patch of trees
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in front was the abandoned suitcase he crouched down to unzip the case and rummaged through its contents for
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himself noticing a small human jawbone [Music] [Music] the suitcase contained the heavily
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decomposed remains of a young child national news outlets theorized that was missing Australian boy William Terrell
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in September the year prior three-year-old William was playing in the yard of his foster grandmother's
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house in New South Wales when he suddenly vanished ongoing search and investigative efforts had failed to turn
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up any trace of William and although police had yet to conclude what had happened to him the general consensus
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was the boy had been abducted international media cast a wider net suggesting the remains in the suitcase
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were those of missing English girl Madeleine McCann the three-year-old was at the center of modern history's most
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reported on missing person case after she disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal in May
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2007 multiple scenarios and suspects had been considered over the years including
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the possibility she was abducted by a pedophile ring and transported overseas [Music]
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speculation ended at the conclusion of a post-mortem the child was an unknown Caucasian female aged between two and
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four years old approximately 90 centimetres tall with shoulder length fair colored hair two balls of blue and
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white stripe to dishcloth were tucked inside her mouth which had been sealed with silver duct tape there was no
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injury to the skeletal remains and in the absence of soft tissue a cause of death could not be determined although
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asphyxiation was presumed it was believed she had been deceased for upwards of seven years killed elsewhere
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before her body was stored in the suitcase within a month and discarded on the roadside where it remained until
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discovery the girls skull was covered with a disposable nappy and a purple downunder
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brand bath towel was wrapped around the lower part of her torso South Australia's major crime investigation
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branch established a task force Mally to oversee the case fronted by detective Superintendent des Bray he withheld
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details of the autopsy from the media but told ABC news reporters that the child quote died a violent death under
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terrible circumstances the media dubbed the unknown girl the Angel of Oaxaca entered the roadside where her remains
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were found was memorialized with flowers teddy bears and messages of grief one read you deserved a better than this
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rest in peace little angel [Music] task force malli questioned every resident of Oaxaca and to learned of an
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incident in early May that had been a source of intrigue in the small town one morning went to guanaco residents were
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walking their dogs outside town they rounded the dusty truck along the railway line and sighted a clean-cut man
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neatly dressed in a suit he was Caucasian about 60 years old with gray hair and was of average height and build
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the men was walking alone down the road with a large dark-colored suitcase without looking up he crossed the train
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tracks into the scrub towards the karoon de highway the dog walk is described feeling an unnerving sixth sense about
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the suited stranger he was heading away from town and opted to carry his bulky suitcase as opposed to pulling it along
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by its handle this sighting didn't align perfectly with the timeline established
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as the first sightings of the suitcase on the roadside occurred in March with the suited man witnessed the more than a
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month later nevertheless a connection was drawn and police appealed to the public to identify him images of the
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children's clothing found with the remains were released to the media including a black dress with sequin tutu
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- a pink striped dress silk boxer shorts dora the explorer' pajama pants pink track pants a cream fur-trimmed
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coat and a single pink slip off with a butterfly motif on the toe there was also a 90 by 90 centimeter patchwork
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quilt featuring a black border of colourful music notes although badly deteriorated police were able to
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reconstruct seven of the quilts twenty-five octagonal patches they contained images of butterflies geckos
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dogs a camel a pumpkin patch and stars the fabric had been manufactured in New York seven years earlier but the quilt
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itself was handmade in machine stitch investigators believed that the one-off item was crafted by someone close to the
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child and may have been used as a teaching tool to help them identify the animals and objects on the patches the
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black sequined tutu dress was one of 28 sold exclusively in store by fashion brand cotton on kids throughout South
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Australia eight years prior as it was no longer feasible to trace the item back to the victim investigators believed the
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key to identifying the girl hinged on the one-of-a-kind quilt superintendent des bray told the media someone loved
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that little girl and either made her or gave her that quilt I would appeal for whoever loved her to get in touch with
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us attempts to identify the child continued for weeks police extended their line of
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questioning to sounds within a two hundred and fifty square kilometer radius of Oaxaca as officers on
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horseback canvassed the terrain for 48 kilometres from the side of the discovery motorists provided dashcam
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footage taken along the kirinda Highway over previous years revealing the suitcase had been moved and examined to
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multiple times before it was finally reported to police all 145 children from Australia's missing-persons register had
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been ruled out opening up the possibility that the victims birth was unregistered or that they were indeed
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from another country Detective Inspector Greg Hutchins told the media he had never seen a murder like this in his 37
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years of service quote this truly is the little girl lost she seems to be lost to
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society lost to the system forgotten by all and to that he's incredibly sad as the investigation reached its third
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month superintendent Dez Bray announced it's hard to believe someone hasn't missed
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her I thought when we started this job that we would quickly identify who this little girl was somewhere out there is a
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mother a father at the very least an extended family and I'm at a loss as to why someone hasn't reported this little
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girl on Tuesday October 6 2015 call number 1267 was placed to the Crime Stoppers Hotline from a woman named
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Tonya Webber Tonya lived over 1,600 kilometres from guanaco in the remote Northern Territory town of Alice Springs
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and had been following the angel of Oaxaca case she recognized some of the child's clothing but her concerns piqued
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when she saw the patchwork quilt as it bore similarities to one that had been handcrafted by her best friend Colleen
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Povey several photos of Colleen Poppy's granddaughter two-year-old Kendall a Spears were supplied to Task Force Mally
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the toddler had pale blonde hair and in one image she was wearing a pink striped
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a dress similar to one found with the unidentified remains another showed candle east in a stroller clutching a
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Rubik's Cube tucked behind her was a patchwork quilt with a black border of colorful musical notes an exact match to
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the one found with the angel of guanaco Tonya Webber explained that candle Ace was taken interstate seven years earlier
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by her then 20 year old mother Kali Pierce Stephenson nicknamed mouse for her short stature and petite fille
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cheese Carly became pregnant at age 18 and 2 gave birth to Kent Alise known affectionately as candles on June 19
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2006 Carly took on motherhood seriously she was fully supported and assisted by her family however a disagreement with
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her mother soon prompted to seek independence and work elsewhere in November 2008 Carly abruptly
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announced that she and Kent Elyse were moving to Adelaide she packed their belongings into her 1996 Holden
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Commodore station wagon and left after a brief stop in the town of Port Augusta to visit Carly's grandmother the pair
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continued onwards to Adelaide and spent a day at Marion shopping centre with an old friend roughly a week into their
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trip Kylie called family friend Tania Webber in tears saying she had made a mistake and wanted to come home
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Tania offered to pay for her flight her arrange to have someone pick her up but Kylie declined by the end of their
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conversation she seemed to have calmed down and was back to her happy self Tania tried contacting Carly numerous
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times after that but she never answered over the coming months family and friends progressively heard a less from
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Carly and call stopped entirely after a year her Facebook page also appeared abandoned on September 4 2009
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Coleen reported her daughter and granddaughter missing records confirmed Carly was using her bank account
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regularly with the most recent transaction occurring days earlier at an ATM in South Australia police made some
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phone calls and were informed that Carly was planning to move north to Queensland
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with a new boyfriend certain Carly and canter lace were fine the police nevertheless agreed to keep their file
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open until someone directly saw or spoke with the pair according to reports Colleen contacted
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the police again six days later explaining she had received a phone call from Cali sounding strange and speaking
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in a whisper Carly refused to disclose where she and Ken Dilys were living but reassured her mother that everything was
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fine she also expressed the desire not to be contacted again this report was disputed by Carly's family who later
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stated it was the police who claimed to have spoken with Carly on the phone and following her comments announced they
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would be closing the investigation into her disappearance five days later Colleen received a text message from her
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daughter requesting money and she transferred her five hundred dollars over the following years family and
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friends received sporadic text messages from Carly needing money for various reasons from travel expenses to buying
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key and Elise a birthday present her mother obliged every request in the hopes the two would eventually return to
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Alice Springs in February 2012 Coleen passed away from breast cancer at the age of 44 shortly before her death she
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asked a collie and candles here yet but her wish to be reunited with her daughter and granddaughter before she
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died went unfulfilled in 2013 Carly's cousin wrote and published a Facebook post for Carly which read to my
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beautiful cousin I know you're somewhere out there and I just want you to know I
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won't stop looking for you if you see this or if anyone has seen this girl please to let me know not a day goes by
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that I don't think of you both I just want to know you're both safe kenta leases medical records were sparse
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her last doctor visit occurred when she was 18 months old to receive immunizations there were no further
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records after that nor had she been registered with education authorities or child care facilities anywhere
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throughout Australia as per standard procedure when Kent Alise was born several drops of blood were drawn from
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her heel for routine screening the sample had been stored and was compared to DNA from the remains in the suitcase
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revealing a match the angel of Oaxaca was two year old Quinta Lee's Pierce before any announcement was made to the
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public a search for Quinta Lisa's mother Kali was initiated five years earlier in
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New South Wales on the afternoon of Sunday August 29 2010 a group of trail bike riders were navigating through the
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heavily wooded area of Daly's water hole in the Blanco State Forest as they sped
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around a bend one of the riders overshot the corner and entered a small clearing
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where he spotted what appeared to be a large leg bone the group investigated further finding a ribcage spine pelvis
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and a human skull along with various items of clothing police arrived and sealed the area off as a crime scene it
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appeared as though the body had initially been buried but was later upturned by the roots of a nearby fallen
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tree the discovery immediately stirred memories of the backpacker murders 18 years earlier covered in episode 109 of
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case file between 1989 and to 1992 seven backpackers were abducted while hitchhiking from Sydney and violently
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killed in Berlanga a local road worker Ivan Milat was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of James Gibson
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Deborah Everest Simone SH Mittal Gabor Nagi Bella Anna ham shade Joanne Walters and
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Caroline Clarke yet many believed he was responsible for other run solved disappearances and murders a lingering
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dread permeated overbill angle Oh ever since the killings with suspicions that more of millata victims lay undiscovered
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in the forest the skeletal remains at Daly's waterhole shared a notable similarities to mallets crime scenes
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prompting speculation that the trail bike riders had stumbled across another one of the serial killer's victims the
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lap was known for making little effort to conceal his victims remains often leaving them alongside boulders or logs
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and haphazardly covering them in a light layer of forest debris yet he's known victims were discovered in a remote area
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of dense forests to the north the newly uncovered remains were further south in a more accessible area close to
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well-worn tracks investigators were hesitant to prematurely draw links to mallet and
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refused to even mention his name to reporters alluding to the increasing conjecture superintendent Evan Quang be
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remarked we definitely will not be jumping to conclusions there are many lines of Investigation to
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explore we are chasing facts we are not chasing assumptions where those facts lead us is where our investigation will
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continue the remains were those of an unknown female aged between 13 and 25 years
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approximately 150 to 160 centimeters tall with shoulder-length hair she had sustained blunt force trauma to her
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torso with fractures to multiple ribs on both sides of the chest although the exact cause of her death could not be
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determined her injuries strongly correlated with the application of compressive force by way of stomping or
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kneeling the remains had been in the forest from anywhere between six months to ten years a timeframe that ruled Ivan
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Milat out as a possible perpetrator as he had been arrested in 1994 as police examined missing person files across
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Australia a DNA profile was extracted from the victims tibia bone and uploaded to the National Criminal Investigation
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database this allowed the sample to be cross-checked against others collected from crime scenes convicted offenders
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suspects and missing persons yet there was no match as her tapes showed signs of Dentistry carried out in Australia
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detectives made inquiries with dentists local to the Southern Highlands region but to no avail focus shifted to a badly
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decomposed t-shirt found near the remains the white size tan shirt featured a motif of a rose heart and
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angel wings with the word angelic written above in pink text that was produced by fashion brands chain
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reaction and sold in retail stores throughout Australia in 2003 an artistic impression of the Taoiseach
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was released to the public with the motif inspiring the media to name the unidentified woman the angel of Belanger
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Oh a facial anthropologist examined the skull to create an approximate image of what the angel of Berlanga Lowe may have
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looked like at the time of her death damage was circulated in the media and sensor law enforcement agencies overseas
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but no one recognized her in November 2012 more than two years after the discovery Western Australian
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law enforcement announced that they had received information that the woman may have been a European backpacker who
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worked for a vineyard in the Margaret River region as the victims death didn't align with Ivan Milat killing spree
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police considered the possibility that they were dealing with a copycat or someone hoping to cover up their own
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crime by pinning it on the serial killer other theories included that the Angel of Blanco had been murdered by her
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domestic partner had fallen under society's radar been isolated with limited social connections placed in
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institutions were engaged in sex work criminal psychologists believed the perpetrator was likely studying news
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reports to keep up-to-date with the investigation with the crime constantly on their mind but with no clear leads or
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major breakthroughs the case went cold for five years in 2015 following the discovery of key and Elise Pierce's
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remains in the suitcase in South Australia a sample of the two-year-olds DNA was sent to the forensic and
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analytical science service centre in New South Wales the whereabouts of her mother were still
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unknown and police aimed to rule out the possibility that Carly may also be deceased but cross-checking Kenter
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Lisa's DNA with the collection of unidentified remains stored at the facility testing revealed that canned
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Elise shared a familial match to the remains uncovered in bolongo forest in 2010 the pair were mother and daughter
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angels of Oaxaca and Belen Glo were two-year old candle each pierce and her mother Kali Pierce Stevenson a statement
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from the Pierce family expressed their devastation while thinking those involved in finally returning them home
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a tribute for Carly by her stepfather Scott Povey and her brother Luke was later featured in the publication
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Northern Territory news at read Carly and candles the Sun doesn't shine as bright as it did but the night is now
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lit with a few more stars no more looking to see if that girl is you as we saw someone else in a crowd no more
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waiting to hear no more waiting to see you show up smiling again as usual no more laughter giggles and pranks no more
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late nights just talking with the music playing our hearts of a thousand cuts and we will remain your strength give
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candles a hug sweetie love always dad and Luke Superintendent Dez Bray requested the public's assistance in
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finding the missing pieces of the puzzle appealing to landlords Motel workers or
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caravan park owners who may have accommodated Carly and can't Elise prior to their deaths quote this is one of the
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most shocking crimes imaginable and has torn apart and devastated a loving family those responsible for this crime
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though truly evil and remain amongst us in the community and must be held accountable for what they have done
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inquiries were made into how the pair met violent ends 1,200 kilometers apart it had since been brought to the
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attention of investigators that when Carly and candor laced departed Alice Springs on Monday November 10 2008 they
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were not alone they were accompanied by Carly's 34 year old boyfriend Daniel Holden
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according to the book the lost girls by Ava Benny Morrison Carly's mother Colleen had a bad feeling about Hold'em
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and was unsure why her daughter would be interested in someone almost twice her age
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Colleen offered to look after Kendall East so the couple could make their journey to Adelaide alone but Khali
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refused and the trio left the next day later that month Hold'em Kylie and Kendall ace arrived to the outer suburb
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of Charnwood in the Australian capital of Canberra there the trio state with Holden's cousin Christine for several
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weeks during that time tension brewed between Carly and Hold'em at roughly 2:30 a.m. on Monday December 15 2008 the
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couple left to go for a drive leaving Kendall eise in the care of Christine later that day at around noon Holden
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returned alone with a scratch on his face he said there had been a fight and Carly had asked to be dropped off at a
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bus stop Christine was suspicious and asked how Carly could leave without her daughter hold him replied sometimes she
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does that two days later Hold'em traded Carly's car for an older model Holden's statesman on Friday
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December 19 he placed the candle ace into the Statesman telling his cousin he was taking the toddler to her
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grandmother's house in South Australia when Colleen puffy reported karlie and candle ace missing almost a year later
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Northern Territory police contacted Holden in South Australia he explained that he and Cali were no longer together
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and she was now seeing someone from Queensland he offered to pass on her new contact
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number and asked police to call him back later that afternoon however further attempts to reach him were unsuccessful
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On June 24 2010 a woman in a wheelchair entered a bank in Adelaide's northern suburbs claiming to be Carly she
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requested Carly's contact details be updated to an address in South Australia that same month
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Carly's identity was hijacked again when the same woman attended one of her compulsory Centrelink interviews in the
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North Adelaide suburb of Salisbury she produced canta Lisa's birth certificate in order to receive $8,000 in family tax
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benefits and rent assistance within carly's network of friends and associates was a wheelchair-bound woman
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named hazel Passmore who resided in Adelaide she was a former girlfriend of Daniel Holden the pair commenced the
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relationship around 2005 with Holden becoming stepfather - Hazel's three children Lauren willow and Orion in mid
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2007 the family relocated to Alice Springs and to launch the car detailing business dealing drugs on the side there
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they met and befriended Carly in Turkey and Alise on Monday September 15 2008 Holdem hazel
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and their three children set out on a 16 hour drive to Adelaide Holden was yawning and struggling to stay alert but
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he ignored Hazel's requests to pull over and rest suddenly two kangaroos left out
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in front of the car Holdem swerved which caused the car to spin out of control and flip five times on its side he
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emerged from the wreckage relatively unscathed but Hazel's legs torso and some internal organs were crushed
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two-year-old Lauren sustained minor injuries however nine-year-old er below and seven-year-old Ryan were thrown from
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the vehicle and died instantly toxicology tests confirmed the presence of amphetamines in Holden's system which
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he claimed he had taken days earlier Hazel's left leg was amputated leaving her permanently wheelchair-bound as she
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recovered in hospital Holden paid her a visit accompanied by Kylie and Kendall ace
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describing Haldimand to Kylie as quote really chummy hazel was certain the two were having an affair and ended her
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relationship with Holdem following the funeral for Hazel's two children on November 14 Holden fled to Canberra with
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Kylie and Kendall ace believing police would press charges against him for the crash police tracked hazel down to her
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devaron Park home in Adelaide's North she explained that on December 20 2008 Holden reappeared in Adelaide alone and
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the pair resumed their relationship Holden would give conflicting stories regarding Kylie's whereabouts claiming
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she was in our springs Canberra and Queensland according to hazel Holdem had a pornography addiction and had pedophilic
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content on his computer pertaining to underage girls then now 41 year old Daniel Holden was
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currently serving four years at Cessnock Correctional Center in New South Wales for raping a nine-year-old girl in 2013
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Holden's criminal record dated back to his early 20s with offences for drink-driving
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theft fraud and domestic violence drug and alcohol addictions increased his violent tendencies and led to the
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deterioration of his first marriage he adopted a transient lifestyle thereafter before arriving in Alice Springs with
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hazel Passmore in 2007 Holden was interviewed in prison telling police his relationship with Carly was built on a
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foundation of support following the car crash that claimed the lives of his two stepchildren but ended within two months
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over financial matters he sold her car and used her bank card to settle a debt with his cousin before returning to
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Adelaide to resume his relationship with hazel he cleaned he maintained an affair
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with Carly up until 2009 later that year she informed him she was moving to Queensland to be with another man
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Holden's story changed the multiple times throughout the interview and he often contradicted himself though he
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denied any involvement in Carly or candor Lisa's murder or that he had conspired with hazel to steal Carly's
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identity and access her finances police executed search warrants at multiple properties associated with Holden
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finding Kinder Lisa's birth certificate Carly's Medicare and - library cards and
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her mobile phone several notebooks were filled with sexually explicit stories many of which featured young women and
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children a handwriting expert concluded Hold'em or third most but several were written
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by hazel Passmore according to the book the lost girls by Ava Benny Morrison when questioned hazel claimed she wrote
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the stories at Holden's request there's a form of foreplay and that Holden would ask her to recount
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her own childhood sexual abuse to get himself aroused one notebook contained a list of about thirty
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children identified by their age first names in two locations which included places where Hold'em stayed throughout
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2006 and 2007 alongside the names Hold'em had written the words consent forced or rape the list included the
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name candles but there was no evidence to indicate he had assaulted any other children mentioned and to the list was
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ultimately determined to be a fictitious fantasy just further evidence of Holden's pedophilic inclinations police
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also seized the diary written by a 17 year old who Hold'em was in a relationship with at the time of his
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arrest for rape in 2013 one entry dated January 8 2013 read Daniel lied to me said he killed
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Carly and candle but they're still alive it's all over Facebook but he says they're dead
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and he made them think she's alive everything he says doesn't make sense apparently he killed her in December
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2008 but people gave her money on her daughter's birthday in 2010 and 2011 got a text from hazel saying they're dead
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and she seen pics hazal had come across a cameras SD memory card belonging to Hold'em that
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allegedly contained child pornography and compromising images of Carly she confiscated it and later gave it to a
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relative in case something happened to her the card itself was handed in to police
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photographs of hold him and people known to him had been deleted from the card while images of various properties where
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he had resided throughout his adult life remained one photo showed a skull fragment belonging to one of Hazel's two
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deceased children having been taken at the scene of the car crash in 2008 there were also pictures of Carly time-stamped
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the morning of Monday December 15 2008 she was wearing the white angelic t-shirt that was found with her remains
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police compared the images to those of the palang below crime scene Carly's skeletal remains were in a near
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identical position to the way her body lay in the photographs which depicted the brutalization inflicted upon her
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including a foot pressed against her neck on October 28th Daniel Holden requested a second interview with
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investigators during which he claimed he wanted to come clean he proceeded to implicate the boyfriend of his cousin
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Christine in the murders as he was providing this information police received word that Holden's phone
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records placed him near Berlanga low State Forest within the timeframe the photographs of Carly's attack were taken
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he was subsequently arrested and charged with her murder telling officers you've got the wrong
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guy you'll see investigators were certain candle ace was murdered after her mother but had yet to establish the
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exact time and location of that crime according to the book The Lost Girls police offered hazel Passmore a deal
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tell the truth none of the information provided would be used to build a case against her she
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agreed revealing that in mid-2009 she had discovered Carly's belongings in the boot of Holden's car believing the pair
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had resumed their affair she confronted Holden who told her not to worry about Carly anymore as she was dead he then
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described in detail how he had killed her hazel remained uncertain that Holden was telling the truth until she came
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across the incriminating photographs of Carly on the SD card showing her death in the exact manner he described hazel
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asked him about can't Elise and hold him explained he had suffocated her sexually
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abused her body then dumped her somewhere on the highway when news broke in 2015 that a toddler's body had been
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found on the kirinda Highway hazel wondered if it was canned Elise but was too afraid to contact authorities she
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told the police hold him killed Carly so that he could come back to her quote he
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did it for me it was all me hazel admitted to accompanying hold him to Centrelink in the bank pretending to be
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Carly in order to gain her single parent benefits rent assistance medicare rebates credit card and savings but
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claimed she did so under duress despite evidence to the contrary she denied speaking to Carly's family on the phone
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and pretending to be her during calls she then told police carly destroyed everything I had and I hated her if I
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could have ripped the money off her I would have done hazel denied spending Carly's money
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herself saying it was used exclusively by Hold'em to pay rent into living expenses overall Hold'em had obtained
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more than 72 thousand dollars from Carly's accounts on Sunday December 13 2015 Kali and
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candle ace were farewelled at the Alice Springs desert church a statement from their family thanked the community for
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their support saying many throughout Australia pray that mother and daughter will now rest
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forever in the arms of the angels it described carly as a cheeky kind and a loyal young woman who was always there
00:44:28
to support her family although she was small in stature Carly's heart and personality were described as huge and
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she was commended for her optimism two year old candle ace had been the center of attention and idolized her
00:44:44
grandparents together the pair were quote facing the world with all its charms persuasions and pitfalls over one
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hundred mourners donned the pair's favorite colors pink and blue as they were laid to rest side by side in a
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single white coffin they were buried alongside Carly's mother Coleen fulfilling her final wish to be reunited
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with her daughter and granddaughter their shared headstone read in our hearts and each other's arms forever
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two days later Daniel Holden was charged with the murder of candor Lee Spears the
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prosecution's case relied heavily on circumstantial evidence including hazel Pass Moores confession investigators
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endeavored to build a stronger case by determining the exact location and circumstances of the toddler's murder
00:45:45
according to witness statements hold him left his cousin's camera-based property
00:45:51
with candle East's on Friday December 19 2008 four days after Carly was killed when he arrived that hazel Passmore was
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Adelaide home the following day he was alone Holden's movements were trapped by his mobile phone and credit card data
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feeling he spent an hour in the New South Wales regional hub of Wagga Wagga on the morning of December 19 where he
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visited the local Woolworths supermarket to purchase garbage bags silver home handyman brand duct tape and
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multi-purpose wipes the duct tape and wipes were an exact match to those found with candor leases remains he then drove
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another hour to the Riverside town of Narendra and checked into the Midtown Motor Inn at 11:00 a.m.
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under the alias Daniel Marshall plus one child despite paying for a night stay mobile data showed he left two and a
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half hours later continuing onwards to South Australia the motel had since changed management and investigators
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were unable to detect any forensic evidence in the room where Holden briefly stayed they tracked down the
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previous owners who confirmed that in 2008 the motel was stocked with purple bath towels whose brand and batch number
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matched the one wrapped around candor Lisa's body police were certain Holdem murdered the toddler in the motel room
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before placing her body in the suitcase which he disposed of as he journeyed to Adelaide Daniel Holden pleaded not
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guilty and went to great lengths for delay court proceedings from firing his illegal team to intentionally leaving
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important documents in his prison cell his trial was scheduled for August the following year but a week before it was
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due to commence Holdem unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty hoping it would ultimately result in a reduced
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prison sentence he made one final effort to delay the inevitable when his sentencing date arrived on November 30
00:48:05
2018 requesting to revert his plea for candor Lisa's murder back to not guilty his application was rejected a document
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titled facts in the crown case not disputed by the defense listed a number of a search
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by the prosecution that Hold'em had agreed to including he was quote attempting to or planning to sexually
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assault ki and Elise at the time of her death he admitted to using Carly's mobile phone to give the impression she
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was still alive sending a flurry of messages immediately after her mother reported her missing and using the
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device up until May 2011 Holden's defense team argued that their clients actions were the result of an
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unstable upbringing that had negatively impacted his adult life forensic psychiatrist dr. Olaf Nielsen
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interviewed Hold'em during his incarceration diagnosing him with depression and a probable personality
00:49:12
disorder citing a child Wildomar by abuse neglect foster care and substance use by the time he reached his teens
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Holden was a delinquent who often initiated fights with peers participated in drug taking and had weekly contact
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with the police one therapist who saw hold him during ages 13 to 14 described him as a very damaged young boy holden
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provided dr. Nillson with his own version of events starting on December 14 2008 when he and Carly went driving
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late at night to quote go sightseeing and have a good time they pulled off the highway and into Berlanga lo state
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forest arriving at around 5 a.m. the next morning an argument broke out and Carly
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threatened to tell hazel how long their affair had been going on for the outraged Holden became violent grabbing
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a broom handle from the car and hitting Carly across the ribcage she vomited blood causing him to panic and drive off
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leaving her behind he maintained she was still alive when he left but knew she would die soon after he admitted to
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being affected by ecstasy and methamphetamine which he claimed put him a volatile state as for Kant Elyse
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Hold'em said that's horrible I guess she got suffocated Justice Robert Ellen Hume
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refused to accept Oldham's accounts calling them substantially inaccurate based on undisputed facts
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Carly's injuries were akin to being stomped or knee to the chest and hold him splaying that she was alive and
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vomiting blood before he abandoned her were disputed by the photographs he took which showed her clearly deceased body
00:51:16
with no visible blood the judge thought it unfortunate that dr. Nielsen did not ask Hold'em to explain matters such as
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why he took the photographs or did the things they depicted furthermore information provided by Hold'em to
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different doctors was inexplicably inconsistent he provided three separate accounts of his father's death variously
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stating that he was 20 18 and 15 at the time he also claimed the duration of his
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relationship with hazel Passmore was four years then 11 years and asserted that he was never unfaithful despite
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telling dr. Nielsen his relationship with Carly began when he was still living with hazel judge whom was left to
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question Holdens credibility which was already shaky given his history of dishonesty and fraud offenses and his
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capability of deceiving others when it served his purpose as holdem showed no signs of remorse the judge ruled I am
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satisfied that the offender's actions were deliberate purposeful and subject of some prior consideration I am
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satisfied that the offender completely understood what he was doing and it's wrongfulness victim impact statements
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spoke of the pain suffered by Carly and candor Lisa's loved ones during their lengthy disappearance they described the
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hurt they felt at having been led to believe that Carly no longer won that anything to do with her family
00:52:54
Carly's biological father burrs Pierce directed part of his statement had Hold'em quote the hate that I feel is
00:53:04
consuming I've never hated anyone the way that I hate you the thoughts of what the girls went through the anger I feel
00:53:13
turns to physical pain it hurts to breathe I would like to say the death penalty for you but even that would not
00:53:22
be enough Scott Pahlavi said that when he heard his step daughter and granddaughter had been
00:53:29
murdered quote my heart was ripped out of me and my soul torn out of existence judge whom
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accepted the prosecution's submission that Holden's crimes were motivated by several factors sexual financial and as
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evident by him keeping the photographs of the indignities inflicted on Callie the thrill of the kill while the exact
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cause of Cantor Lisa's death couldn't be determined judge Hume had no doubt she suffered significantly and her death was
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likely prompted at least in part by Holden's need to cover up the murder of Carly
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judge whom quote the last moments of Carly's life must have been horrendous she was physically separated from her
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child alone in an isolated location in a forest with a man she had trusted and had romantic feelings for his treatment
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of her showed complete disdain for her existence as a human being to him she was just flesh with a life that could be
00:54:40
extinguished for his vile pleasure even without being able to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt what it was that
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motivated the offender to do what he did I am satisfied that the manner in which
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the offender killed Carly Pierce Stevenson and the circumstances in which it occurred amount to a murder of
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extreme gravity and appalling depravity it is a murder at the top of the range of objective seriousness Daniel Holden
00:55:10
was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of Kent Elise Pierce and Carly Pierce Stevenson the outside court
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a statement delivered on behalf of the victim's family read no sentence will ever bring closure he murdered a young
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mother and her child he stole their whole lives from them and from us we live daily without Carly and Canada
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lease and will do so for the rest of our lives his brutality will haunt us forever exactly how the suitcase
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containing canter Lisa's body went unnoticed for almost a decade along karoon de highway remains unknown Holdem
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said he left it on the side of the road in 2008 but nobody noticed the suitcase until 2015 reports of a well-dressed 60
00:56:07
year old man seen carrying a matching suitcase on the outskirts of Oaxaca earlier that year remain a mystery as he
00:56:15
has never been identified no charges were ever laid against hazel Passmore in 2016
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she reached an out-of-court settlement with Holden for an undisclosed amount for damages in relation to the 2008 car
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crash Commissioner for victim rights Michael O'Connell worked closely with the police when they were in the process
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of identifying key and Elise Pierce in a 2019 interview with channel 9 current affairs program 60 minutes Michael said
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this has been the saddest case that I've encountered this man not only took one human beings life but he took two a
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mother and child he stole their lives and he stoled the opportunities that the family had to share those lives with
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them the lowest of the low is kind words in my opinion an obituary for the mother
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and daughter is signed off by the names of loving family members coupled with the message not a day goes by that we
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don't think about you our angels Carly in Turkey and Elise [Music] you