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our [Music] website the capital of the state of Western Australia Perth has long been
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referred to as the most isolated city in the world while there is some debate as
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to whether this title is accurate the fact remains that Perth is the only large city in a circuit of more than
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2,000 km it sits on the other side of the country to the more heavily populated eastern states home to Sydney Melbourne
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and Brisbane and the next nearest capital city is south Australia's adelade a 28-hour
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driveway Perth is located in the lower Western corner of the state and is adjacent to the Indian Ocean another
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body of water the Swan River cuts through the middle of Perth dividing the city in two with much of the central
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business district built up along its banks east of the city is home to sprawling
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Hills and Parklands filled with the native flora and iconic Australian bush Winters in Perth are mild reaching
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a top temperature of 19° C on average while the summers are renowned for their dry heat in the warmer months swimmers
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and Surfers flock to perth's Coastline to enjoy popular beaches such as cotso and
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scabra during the late 195 50s the city was home to about 388,000 people but was
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rapidly growing due to a baby boom and post World War II migration even as the city expanded and
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swelled a sense of Innocence remained nights were quieter strict Licensing Laws meant that pubs closed by 9:00 p.m.
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dance halls and concerts were a favorite weekend Pastime for the city's youth but
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they too were governed by restrictions that typically saw the entertainment wind down before
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midnight homes were kept unlocked with windows open even at night drivers parked their cars with the keys in the
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ignition and residents were never more than a couple of degrees of separation from one
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another however this sense of security and safety that residents took for granted would be shaken and then
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irrevocably damaged as the city entered the 1960s under the cover of Darkness Perth
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was terrorized by an elusive figure someone who would eventually be dubbed the night caller
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[Music] [Music] [Music] towards the end of the 1950s households throughout Perth experienced an uptick
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in burglaries residents would return home from being away or awake in the morning
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to find that someone had been in their house overnight cash that had been left lying
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around or stashed inside wallets and purses was missing it could range from a few
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shillings to pound notes as austral was using the Pound currency at the time sometimes money was even missing
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from hiding places such as drawers or inside an ornamental vase small objects of varying value were
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also pocketed watches pens jewelry and even a torch were taken more disturbingly women had their
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underwear stallen police reports were typically filed when the crimes were discovered
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but officers were left stumped by the lack of fingerprints at any of the crime scenes other times residents were
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entirely unaware that they'd had an intruder at all sometimes so little of importance
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was taken that it was never missed or was assumed to have been misplaced these seemed like the crimes
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of an opportunistic offender seeking financial gain taking advantage of the lack security measures in place
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during this time there were also sightings and reports of a Prowler in Central and Southern
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Perth a man was spotted lurking in the bushes peeping in Windows and loitering outside of apartment
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blocks sometimes his Footprints were discovered in garden beds the following morning occasionally women's night gowns
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and underwear left hanging on washing lines were found cut and slashed no one could know that a single
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person was behind all of these crimes which were typically written off as minor offenses there was seemingly nothing
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violent about them but that would soon change the McLoud family lived in the Riverside suburb of applecross close to
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perth's CBD and just across the Swan River in the early hours of Wednesday November 26th 1958 Lucy and er McLoud
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were woken by a strange commotion in their bedroom their daughter 15-year-old Molly
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was wandering around the room tripping over her own feet and wretching as though she was going to
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vomit Molly rambled incoherently clearly trying to tell her parents something but
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she couldn't form the words to speak terrified Lucy rushed to her child who had been fine when she'd gone to bed
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the previous evening Lucy and er repeatedly asked Molly what had happened begging her to
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explain what was wrong Molly was unable to answer and soon lost Consciousness her father carried her
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back to her room which was a sleepout that adjoined the family's kitchen and gently laid her in
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bed Lucy kneed beside Molly and held a set of rosary beads in her hand praying repeatedly for her daughter's health
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to her parents' relief Molly regained Consciousness though she continued to moan and Mumble without making any
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sense by morning Molly was able to string a few words together enough to tell her parents that her head
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hurt one of her eyes had turned black suggesting she'd somehow received a knock to the
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Head Lucy McLoud took Molly to The Family Doctor Who was unable to ascertain the cause of Molly's injury
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but diagnosed her as having a concussion and a hairline skull fracture it took Molly more than a month
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to recover a sta student she had been due to finish high school but was unable to
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attend her leaving exams meanwhile her family was puzzled over the mystery behind what caused her
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severe head injury they eventually concluded that Molly must have received the knock after
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an awful nightmare caused her to fall out of bed Molly and her family had no idea
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that she had actually crossed paths with the night caller he had slipped into the mccloud's
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applecross home as its resident slept he prowled about looking for cash he could
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steal and helped himself to some money he found in the kitchen as he was opening the back door
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to escape his grip on the handle s slipped and the noise woke Molly whose bed was right next
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door seeing the girl stir the night caller grabbed a nearby object and hit her over the head with it before
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[Music] fleeing throughout December 1958 and into the new year the night caller continued to stalk the streets of Perth
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weekends seemed to be when he was most active though he also ventured out on Tuesday and Thursday
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evenings his crimes were growing ever more Brazen at 3:00 a.m. one night a 21-year-old school teacher who lived in
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milpo Road South Perth was woken by a strange man grabbing her by the neck and scratching her
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face she screamed and the Intruder jumped out of her bedroom window 6 weeks after this attack on
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Wednesday January 28th Perth reached its warmest day of the year when the temperature reached 43° C or 109°
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F that night a man who lived one street over from where the teacher had been attacked heard a noise outside at 1:50
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a.m. and went to investigate his sudden appearance Disturbed a man trying to break in via
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the back door the Prower fled on foot a neighbor who had also spotted him watching a block of flats from a nearby
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phone booth described him as being between 5'8 and 5' 10 with thick dark hair the following day of Thursday
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January 29 33-year-old panina burkeman worked a shift at the perfume counter of the David Jones department store in
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perth's CBD panina had relocated dep Perth from Melbourne 4 years earlier after she and
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her husband divorced p Nina had settled into a ground floor apartment on milpo Road in
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South Perth and was happy there even though her flat had been broken into about 6 months earlier and
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35 Shillings were stolen panina was comfortable in her new city she was a glamorous woman who had
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caught the eye of a local radio DJ named photus hunus the pair became a couple they
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planned to meet up after panina finished her shift of that day photus picked panina up from David Jones
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and drove her back to her apartment where they ate dinner together later on they drank some beer
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then went to bed together at midnight fotus got dressed and prepared to head home to
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sleep as he left panina said good night and that she would see him tomorrow neighbors overheard photos's
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footsteps as he Departed the building and heard some other things in the hours that
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followed at around 3:00 a.m. a couple in an apartment next to panas were woken by
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the sound of someone gasping followed by a scream a few minutes later they heard a
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car door slam then the car driving away another Resident also heard some screams and a car leaving at around the
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same time the next morning photus drove by Pan's apartment on his way to an appointment
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and noticed that the door was a jar and her bedroom window was open its curtains
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blowing in the breeze panina often slept with the window open during the hot summer nights
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but fotus knew that she always made a point to close everything and lock up before heading to
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work she was supposed to have a shift of that day so the apartment should have been secured
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photus decided to investigate inside he found panina on the Lou room floor by the sliding glass
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doors she was naked in a pool of blood she had been stabbed through the nose and in the heart with a
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knife it appeared panina had crawled to the doors in an attempt to escape but hadn't
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survived nothing was missing from the apartment except for P's purse the murder weapon wasn't
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recovered the horrific murder sent shock waves through Perth crimes like this were a rarity in
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The Quiet City photus hunas told police that when he left pina's apartment she had been
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naked in bed it wasn't unusual for her to sleep naked in hot weather photus quickly found himself the
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cas's prime suspect and the public agreed that he seemed suspicious when fotus left Perth to
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return to his birth country of Greece their suspicions were all but confirmed Pan's killer had gotten
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away even though panina lived on the same street where a 21-year-old teacher had been attacked in her own home just 6
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weeks earlier police didn't consider that her murder could be part of a larger pit
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they reassured worried Perth residents stating the public have no need to be feared from the activities of the person
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who killed panina burkeman and they can forget all about the existence of that [Music]
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person residents of perth's western suburbs felt somewhat detached from the murder of panina burkman as she had been
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living in South Perth although that wasn't far in terms of distance it almost felt like another
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world due to the Swan River providing a geographical buffer moreover the inner western
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suburbs were an affluent and insula pocket that felt particularly safe with a tight-knit
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community one of these wealthy suburbs was nland an attractive neighborhood just 7 km west of the
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CBD dotted with nice house houses and lots of parks nedlands was also close to the University of Western
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Australia this made it a popular suburb for students who primarily lived in the area's apartment
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buildings in August 1959 Alex Duncan was a firste nursing student who was staying
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at her Elder sister's flat in Netherlands Saturday August 8 was going to be a break from Alex's busy work and
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study schedule some friends from her hometown were visiting for the weekend and Alex was looking forward to seeing
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them Alex and her friends spent the evening at a drive-in Cinema then headed back to Alex's flat to drink coffee and
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listen to records at 12:45 a.m. Alex's guests left and she got ready for bed a security conscious person Alex
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made sure to lock the front door and close all the windows the the exception was one narrow
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window in the kitchen which led to an outdoor Landing because the window was so narrow
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Alex felt comfortable leaving it slightly a jar while she slept the following morning Alex's
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friends from out of town headed over to her flat for a planned visit George and Hedley were both
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farmers who lived in Western Australia's wheat belt about an hour and a half outside of
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Perth the young men knocked on the door and were shocked when Alex opened it her
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face and hair were soaked with blood due to a deep wound over her left eye still wearing her pajamas Alex was
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disoriented and clearly oblivious to the injury George and Headley searched the apartment Alex's pillow was drenched
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with blood and her purse was missing she told George and Headley that there had been 6 inside the purse but
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she struggled to answer other questions when asked about the previous night Alex said she'd woken up at 3:30
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a.m. then Fallen back asleep she couldn't recall anything else George and Hedley couldn't see any
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sign of forced entry but it was clear their friend had been attacked and robbed they arranged to take Alex to the
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doctor an examination revealed she also sustained a small fracture to the back of her
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skull that plus the injury above her eye indicated she'd been hit twice the attack left Alex with the
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severe epilepsy that she would need to treat with medication for the rest of her life she was unable to continue her
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studies or achieve her dream of becoming a nurse Alex's uncle was a special investigator in the police's criminal
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investigation branch and the attack against his niece was taken very seriously officers searched the
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apartment but found no fingerprints a poker was missing from the fireplace which they speculated
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could have been used to inflict Alex's injuries they took note that the kitchen window was the only point of entry for
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an intruder yet with no evidence leading to a specific spefic person there was little they could
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do 4 months later residents of Perth were preparing for another Sun soaked summer one week before Christmas on
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Saturday December 19 22-year-old Jillian Brewer invited her fiance over to her home in Brookwood Flats a twostory red
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brick apartment complex in the Beachside suburb of codow Jillian was well known in Perth as
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a socialite and an aess whose great-grandfather had founded the Chocolate Company MC Robertson's
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confectionary after growing up in Melbourne and beginning a career in interior design Jillian had flown West
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to Perth at the age of 21 she was happy in her new city settling into an apartment next door to
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her mother's and living with her small French poodle deor for company Jillian would be getting married
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in 2 months time to her 31-year-old fiance Andrew not his real name Andrew and Jillian spent that
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Saturday together before returning to her apartment for the evening Jillian's flat was on the ground
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floor and at the back of the complex Andrew went home at around midnight with the plan to play golf with
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a Jillian the next day at 9:00 a.m. Andrew went to pick a Jillian up and found her front door
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locked this was unusual as she mostly kept it open when she was up Andrew could see Jillian's poodle
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Dior jumping up and down frantically at the bedroom window Andrew had a key to Julian's
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apartment in his car so he went back to get it and then leted himself in the kitchen window was open and a
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breeze had blown some Christmas cards Julian had out on display onto the floor unusually the door to Jillian's
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bedroom was closed Andrew had never seen it shot before he opened the door and saw
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Jillian lying in bed a sheet pulled all the way up to her chin and a pillow lying on her
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chest her face was covered in blood as was the sheet in the wall behind her Andrew raced next door to Jillian's
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mother 's apartment and called for a doctor upon arriving at the scene the doctor in turn phoned the
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police after removing the sheet officers saw the extent of Jillian's injuries she was naked and had wounds
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all over her body that had been inflicted with a hatchet her breasts head and genitals
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had all been struck using the flat side of the hatchet the killer had also to Jillian's
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stomach thighs face and throat this final blow had been hard enough to sever her
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windpipe then the killer had used a pair of scissors that belonged to Jillian to
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stab her five times an autopsy would later reveal that Jillian had likely remained alive for 2
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to 3 hours after the attack with the corer stating it was the worst murder he had ever
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seen the killer covered her with the sheet and wiped the scissors clean before returning them to their usual
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spot blood was later found on the inner Blades of the scissors indicating they had been closed when the killer wiped
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them down he had taken the hatchet with him and tossed it Over The Back Fence police found it lying on the
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ground on the other side still covered with the Gillian's blood the killer had been so forceful
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when using it that the wooden handle was Split near the head the hatchet was found to have been
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stolen from a home in the street behind jillians there were no clues as to the Killer's identity he hadn't left any
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fingerprints and there was no sign of forced entry at Jillian's apartment both the front and back doors
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were locked none of Jillian's neighbors had seen anything un War though a mother and
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daughter who lived in nearby reported hearing Jillian's dog bark at around 1:00 a.m. The Barking abruptly stopped as
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though someone had reprimanded the [Music] animal in the days that followed Jillian's murder dominated newspaper
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headlines as well as the horror of the crime itself there was the fact that police didn't have a
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suspect no one in Julian's life was thought to be responsible her purse was missing from
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the apartment indicating her killer had stolen it the pathologist who observed Jillian
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and Pan's bodies noted the similarities between their injuries both had been stabbed multiple times while asleep in
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bed a journalist at the Tabloid The Daily News also compared the crimes pointing out the Striking similarities
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between the women's living circumstances their missing purses and how their Killers hadn't left a
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trace but investigators firmly believed panina had been killed by her boyfriend and that Jillian was attacked by a
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stranger police looked into known sex offenders in the area as the injuries to Jillian's breasts and groin appeared to
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indicate a sexual motivation it would turn out that over the past 11 months there had been eight
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reports of a Prowler lurking around to the Brookwood Flats someone had broken into Apartments
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there and taken money alcohol and keys one time a car was stolen a number of these reports were
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made by Jillian's mother Betty who lived in the flat next door to her daughter her first report came just 3
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weeks after panina burkman's murder in January at the start of the year if the murder of pan a burkman
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shocked Perth months earlier this second slang left it reeling Not only was it another brutal
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killing in a city that saw few crimes of that nature but Jillian Brewer's wealth
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and social status elevated The public's horror to new heights Jillian had lived in codow one
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of the affluent western suburbs that felt cushioned from Pan's murder residents who also lived in
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perth's comfortable West Western Enclave could relate to Jillian she was one of us a Community
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member later told filmmakers of the 2020 documentary series after the night as well as dominating the new
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cycle Jillian's murder became the focus of many local conversations the Brookwood Flats where
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she'd lived and died were now a public spectacle with parents driving their children past the building so they could
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stare at it through the car windows even through their fear and anxiety most Perth residents felt
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assured that police would soon catch the person responsible they trusted law enforcement
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to complete a thorough investigation and keep the public safe despite their faith weeks and then
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months passed with no arrest in the [Music] case 19 1960 dawned and Perth welcomed
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another New Year the city had continued to grow both in size and population also on the increase was the
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number of break-ins and Prowler encounters being reported to the police sometimes cars were stolen from
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driveways and garages these were later found either abandoned somewhere else in the city or
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returned with a slightly emptier petrol tank neighborhoods all over Perth were being
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targeted from south of the river suburbs like KO and South Perth to those just north and west of the
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city these crimes continued over the following years sometimes the same Target was hit
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twice in March 1961 a tin of silver coins was stolen from a residence in swanborn close to codow
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beach 2 weeks later a 24-year-old woman Inside the same home was attacked by an intruder after she heard him break
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in as she tried to phone for help the Intruder grabbed her by the throat and wrestled her to the
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floor She briefly lost Consciousness then came to and managed to kick the man in the
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groin he fled out the back door and the woman ran to the window to watch him go under the sharp glow of the street light
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she saw that he was white between 5' 6 and 5'8 and wellb built his face was Broad and clean shaven and he had dark
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wavy hair on another occasion in 1962 a woman was cleaning up after a party her teenaged daughter had held at their
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codow home as she did so she noticed a man outside the house watching her he was
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lurking behind a bush wearing a large brimmed hat the woman told her husband who chased
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after the man but lost him in the darkness on Saturday March 3 1962 a 23-year-old named an Melvin was feeling
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nervous she'd moved out of her childhood home just a few weeks earlier and was now sharing a flat with her sister in
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the western suburb of Crawley and sister was out that night and it would be the first time Anne had
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stayed in the flat alone she made herself a snack and was having a coffee when she heard a noise
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on the porch outside Ann paused and listened carefully when she didn't hear anything
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else she told herself it must have been a cat Ann went to bed and slept peacefully
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for a little while before she suddenly started having an awful nightmare in the dream she was
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suffocating an forced herself awake only to realize that she wasn't just dreaming a piece of tailing was wrapped
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tightly around her neck her left arm had been tied to the bed head with a stocking and most terrifying of all
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there was a man standing next to her bed removing his belt an SAT up Ted desperately at the
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tailing at her neck and began to scream at the sound of her yells the man ran out of the room Anne managed to free her
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arm and took off after him screaming that she was going to kill him in her Terror and confusion she had
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forgotten that her sister was away for the evening and when Anne saw her empty bed she believed the Intruder must have
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kidnapped her the man got away but an's screams attracted the attention of some nearby
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neighbors who found her on her balcony with blood dribbling from her mouth one of the neighbors comforted
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Anne while the other called the police a detective who soon arrived was shocked to see Ann's
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appearance she looked as though she was almost dead with bloodshot eyes and raw red markings on her neck and
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wrist Anne moved back in with her parents after the attack and would only leave the house to go to church
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terrified her attacker would track her down she eventually left Australia alt together a few days after the attack
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against an Melvin the couple who had come to her rescue woke to find their car covered in pairs of women's
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Underpants they had been twisted around door handles tucked under the windscreen
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wipers and stuck into any available gaps the couple not notified the police who attended the property and found
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footprints in the garden beds some of the plants were trampled it appeared as though someone
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had been lurking in the area looking through the windows in the months that followed
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there were more reports of a Prowler around Perth on one occasion on Saturday December 29
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1962 a woman in codow woke to find a man in her room he'd wrapped a handkerchief around his
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face as a disguise and was shining a torch in her eyes the man punched her face before
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fleeing later that same night another young woman in cotso was woken by the same
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Prowler in addition to the handkerchief he wore a hat and had leather gloves on his hands as well as what looked like a
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knuckle duster he hit her over the head with the torch but before punching above her
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eye the woman screamed which woke her parents as well as some neighbors by the time her parents
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reached her bedroom the attacker had fled it would later turn out that he had stolen cash from the young woman's
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purse an internal police report on this latter attack noticed that over the past
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6 months there had been a pattern of break and denters at homes in the area whoever was behind the break-ins was
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entering via unlocked doors and open Windows the offender would steal cash and his crimes appeared to be
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escalating quote of late these reports have become more frequent and some concern is being
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felt for the safety of women who are being disturbed by the offender after he has entered the premises and stolen what
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money he can find one with who saw the offender fleeing described him as being aged
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between 30 and 40 with the tan complexion his height was short at around 5'9 and he had a thin to medium
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build the offender wore a suit as well as a black felt hat with a wide brim and close fitting white
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gloves sometimes his face was masked he never left fingerprints behind and he never spoke
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the report was distributed to police patrols who were asked to be aware of the situation and told it was crucial
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that the offender be apprehended before his crimes escalated further perth's police had no idea just
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how far his crimes had already [Music] gone in early 1963 Perth was experiencing another hot
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summer on Friday February 15 in the inner city suburb of West Perth two young women
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were busy polishing the floors of a flat they'd recently rented together 24-year-old constant Madrill
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who went by her middle name Lucy was a government employed social worker her housemate Jennifer HSE worked
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as a school teacher the two friends were happy with their new home a two-bedroom flat inside
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a large house that been converted into two apartments although the area had had issues with prowers and break-ins the
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property was situated on a busy road which made them feel safe plus a family of three rented the
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other flat so there was always someone nearby Lucy felt secure enough there that she kept the back door propped open
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at all times so that her Siamese cat could come and go after the two women finished
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polishing the floors they each retired to separate rooms to read for the rest of the
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night between 11: and 11:30 p.m. Lucy stopped by Jennifer's bedroom to say good night now wearing a short blue
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night she then headed to her own room at the other end of the flat near the back
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door at around 1:30 a.m. Jennifer got up to go to the toilet which was at the rear of the property
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on her way back to bed she looked in on Lucy's room Lucy was asleep on her bed having pulled aside the top shade and
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blanket due to the warm Night Jennifer returned to her room and wasn't Disturbed for the rest of the
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night across a lane at the rear of Lucy and Jennifer's flat was a house with a large lawn out the
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back at 6:00 a.m. the morning of Saturday February 16 one of The house's residents got up with her young son and
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the two went to use the ouse that sat at the back of the property their attention was drawn to a
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strange bundle that appeared to be lying on the ground near a Hills hoist washing
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line the woman walked closer and realized that she was looking at the naked body of a young
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woman the body belonged to 24-year-old Madrill an empty Whiskey Bottle was tucked into the crook of her right
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arm police found out that the couple who lived at the house had sat outside the previous night drinking the whiskey
00:37:12
together when they retired to bed at around midnight one of them had tossed The Empty Bottle onto the
00:37:19
lawn Lucy's killer had seemingly found it while dumping her body and used it to penetrate her before posing it under her
00:37:27
her arm Lucy's blue nighty lay alongside her there was a blue bruise across her neck and she had been strangled with a
00:37:39
ligature such as a cord the killer had raped Lucy postmortem the killer had initially
00:37:47
dragged Lucy from her home with her heels trailing along the ground before reversing his approach and pulling her
00:37:54
across the lawn by her legs Lucy's bedroom hadn't been ransacked her clothes from the day
00:38:02
before were lying on the floor near a wall likely where she'd left them after undressing her sheet and blanket were
00:38:10
turned back and a dressing gown lay across the foot of her bed detectives identified what had
00:38:18
likely been the murder weapon a piece of flex had been torn from a reading lamp in another
00:38:24
room one lound had been stolen from a [Music] purse the murder of Lucy Madrill called
00:38:35
to mind the murders of panina burkeman and a Jillian Brewer several years earlier although those cases involved
00:38:43
stabbing not strangulation there was a familiar element in that all involved a young woman brutalized in her own home
00:38:50
and left in a state of undress Lucy's case was almost more shocking due to the horrific way that
00:38:58
her body had been violated then posed out in the open over the past 5 years the increase
00:39:05
in break-ins and attacks against women at home had made Perth residents far more Vigilant about locking doors than
00:39:12
they ever had before the murder of Lucy Madrill Amplified their weariness yet reports continued to
00:39:22
trickle through about nighttime break-ins and prowling incidents across the city
00:39:28
in suburbs throughout the north south and west of Perth residents found they were missing
00:39:34
cash typically the burglaries weren't discovered until the thief was long gone but sometimes he was caught in the
00:39:44
act on one occasion a couple kissing good night in Ko spotted a man hiding in the bushes watching them another time at
00:39:53
a house in applecross a little girl went into her kitchen and spotted the silhouette of a
00:39:59
man is that you daddy she asked as he darted out the back door in one encounter a man came across
00:40:08
the prowler in his home he begged the homeowner to let him go claiming he was only there because he was unemployed and
00:40:17
desperate to feed his children taking pity on who he thought was a desperate burglar the man gave him
00:40:24
some food and let him leave one afternoon at 5:00 p.m. a woman named Phyllis was in her South Perth Kitchen
00:40:34
preparing dinner when a strange man walked in he had dark hair underneath his brimmed hat was short and carried a
00:40:43
leather suitcase the man's most notable feature was his cleft lip and pallet a relatively common birth defect in which
00:40:52
there is a split in an individual's upper lip as the man calmly strolled in he turned and looked blankly at one of
00:41:01
phyllis's sons who was playing nearby then he put his bag down and started questioning Phyllis first asking
00:41:11
if her husband was home Phyllis said yes he was sitting in the lounge room the man asked how many children the
00:41:20
couple had how old they were and which schools they attended Phyllis was terrified but
00:41:27
something told her that the best way to handle the situation was by remaining calm and
00:41:33
unfaced she politely answered his questions when she finished the man picked up his bag again turned and
00:41:43
walked out of the house Phyllis rushed to her husband to tell him what had happened and the
00:41:50
couple ran to a window the man was outside casually walking down the street and disapp
00:41:57
appearing around the corner like nothing unusual had happened halfway through the year on
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Saturday June 15 1963 20-year-old Carmel Reed was going to a party carel did clerical and statistical
00:42:17
work at the University of Western Australia and didn't have many late nights out but tonight was a special
00:42:25
occasion it was the 21st birthday of one of her closest friends carel had a fun night and was
00:42:33
driven home at 2:20 a.m. by her friend's fiance who made sure she got into her home
00:42:40
safely carel had moved into her flat in Netherlands just one month earlier and was living there with two other young
00:42:48
women one of them who carel shared a room with was staying with her boyfriend that night while the other housemate was
00:42:55
already fast asleep by the time caramel got home caramel got ready for bed and checked all of the windows and doors
00:43:04
were locked there was just one window she didn't check it was a small ventilator window
00:43:11
located about 5 ft up the loung room wall as it only measured 2 ft by 1 and 1/2 ft carel figured it was safe to
00:43:21
leave slightly open she climbed into bed at 24 45 2 hours later she was abruptly awoken
00:43:31
by a rustling sound coming from the dining room Carl's heart started to pound and
00:43:38
she called out is anyone there no reply came and the noise stopped carel sat up in bed listening
00:43:51
carefully then she saw the figure of a man appear in her doorway he Shone a bright torch into her
00:43:59
eyes blinding her as he walked into the room carel HIIT under her bed sheets and
00:44:06
screamed in response the man stabbed at her chest with a sharp object caramel's chest seared with pain
00:44:16
and she rolled away to escape the barrage she realized she needed to try to escape carel flung off her sheet and
00:44:26
blanket open to hit the man with them then leapt out of bed and bolted for the door it was dark and she couldn't see
00:44:35
anything suddenly she felt a sharp stinging sensation in her face the men had hit her then he fled from the flat
00:44:46
dropping the object he'd stabbed carel with as he went it was an umbrella he'd found in
00:44:52
her room and he'd used its Still Point to jab at her screaming carel ran to her housemate's
00:45:00
room and found her cing in bed having overheard the attack neighbors who heard the commotion
00:45:08
called the police officers quickly descended on the flat but recovered nothing belonging to
00:45:15
the Intruder not even any fingerprints the only thing taken from the property was a purse that contained
00:45:23
15 Shillings it would turn out that one of the extra police cars patrolling the area due to the frequency of these
00:45:32
attacks had passed by carmel's apartment building just minutes before the assault the prowler break-ins weren't
00:45:40
the only reason for police issuing additional patrols throughout the relatively small
00:45:45
City there had been a number of other crimes that had warranted the extra Manpower but no one in law enforcement
00:45:53
realized that they were actually all connected almost 5 years earlier on the night of
00:46:03
Friday September 12 1958 a woman named enel Schneider had been riding her bike home in the southern suburb of Bentley
00:46:12
about 8 km from perth's CBD when she was just a few hundred meters from her home a car suddenly sped
00:46:20
up behind her and slammed into her bicycle the bike became stuck to the car's Grill as n was thrown up in the
00:46:29
air she slammed down on the road head first as quickly as it had arrived the car sped away disappearing into the
00:46:40
night n was left lying on the bitchman unconscious in a pool of blood she was found by a passing
00:46:49
motorist about 45 minutes later and remained in a coma for 2 weeks although she eventually recovered
00:46:57
Nell was diagnosed with chronic post-traumatic temporal lobe epilepsy which led to her experiencing blackouts
00:47:05
and seizures on occasion the car used in the attack was identified as a Ford console which had
00:47:12
been stolen that same night from a home in Victoria Park it was found abandoned about half a
00:47:19
mile from where n was struck no fingerprints were recovered from the vehicle police attributed the theft of the car
00:47:29
to Joy Riders and concluded that they had most likely hit n by accident while speeding then fled in
00:47:37
panic the incident featured in some newspaper headlines and officers began an intensive search for the
00:47:45
culprits the investigations continued for some time but with nothing more to go on they made no
00:47:54
progress what the police didn't know was that the man who would later be dubbed the night caller had abruptly started
00:48:01
committing a new kind of attack he'd been breaking into residences and prowling for years but
00:48:09
this was his first violent assault against a stranger 3 and a half months later on
00:48:16
Saturday December 27 a woman named Kathy Bellis was walking home from a bus stop
00:48:22
late at night after working a shift as a waitress Kathy lived in Belmont then a new suburb
00:48:30
in the city's East there were no street lights there in 1958 so Kathy pulled out a small
00:48:38
torch she kept for occasions when she had to walk their suburbs unlit streets at
00:48:43
night shining it in front of her she began to make her way home it was only two blocks but Kathy's
00:48:51
surroundings were pitch black and very isolated the street she walked along had no houses just paddocks and Bushland
00:49:01
flanking the bitchman road that had only been recently built suddenly a car sped up behind
00:49:09
Kathy engine revving it veered straight towards her striking Kathy hard and throwing her 60
00:49:16
ft across an intersection and into a neighboring padic as Kathy lay in the soft ground of
00:49:23
the padic she drifted in and out of consciousness her pelvis and one of her legs seared
00:49:30
with pain then she saw the face of a man looming above her realizing it was the car's driver
00:49:39
but unsure whether or not she was hallucinating she begged don't leave me or I'll
00:49:47
die the man laughed then ran back to his car and sped away Kathy was discovered by a couple who'd
00:49:59
heard her anguished cries and was rushed to the hospital she had suffered a broken
00:50:05
pelvis two breaks in her leg a shattered knee a fracture to the base of her spine
00:50:10
and another fracture at the top of her skull over the next year Kathy had to undergo multiple surgeries and
00:50:19
treatments she would never be able to run again the car that had struck her turned
00:50:26
out to be Ute that was stolen the previous night from the suburb of ko 9 km Southwest of
00:50:33
Belmont it was subsequently dumped about 5 km away from the crime scene more than a year went by with no
00:50:43
more mysterious hidden runs but plenty of other seemingly unrelated crimes were committed during that time including the
00:50:52
murders of panina burkeman and Jillian Brewer then then almost 4 months after Jillian's murder the hidden runs started
00:51:03
[Music] again on Saturday April 9 1960 a 20-year-old named glennis Peak walked home from a night out at a
00:51:16
dance an almost full moon illuminated the night sky as glenis walked alone in the suburb of baywater 6 km Northeast of
00:51:25
perth's CBD glennis kept to the right side of the road so she would be facing any oncoming
00:51:33
traffic it was after midnight and the streets were quiet this area of Perth was sparsely
00:51:41
populated with few houses and residents shortly into her walk the headlights of a car appeared behind her
00:51:51
as it passed glennis took note of the make a hold and sedan with a short looking man behind the
00:51:58
wheel the car kept driving and made a right turn further up the road Vanishing into the
00:52:05
darkness glennis kept walking when she reached the street the car had turned into she noticed that the
00:52:13
Holden was parked there with the driver still inside facing her glennis was mildly puzzled by
00:52:22
this as it happened she had to go down the same street straight As the car to get home only she was headed in the
00:52:30
opposite direction glennis turned left onto the side street she was just one block from her
00:52:39
home she walked in the middle of the street in order to see better as the moon was no longer providing enough
00:52:45
light and the bitchman was riddled with potholes all of a sudden glennis heard the Roar of an engine as a car drove up
00:52:54
behind her it was the same Holden as before and it had veered into the wrong side of the
00:53:01
road in order to head straight towards her glennis tried to jump out of the way but the car hit her left hip as the
00:53:10
driver Struck glennis from an angle so was to avoid a nearby tree she was tossed over the Bonnet
00:53:17
cutting her face open on one of the windscreen wipers in the process glennis landed in some gravel
00:53:24
and a broken glass by the side of the road Road she lay there shocked but conscious
00:53:30
as the car drove away she knew the driver had run her down deliberately terrified he'd come back to
00:53:39
finish the job she scrambled to her feet and stumbled home glennis was rushed to hospital
00:53:46
where an assessment revealed that she hadn't broken any bones but she had a number of wounds that required
00:53:53
stitches police officers paid a visit to the scene of the Hidden run although glennis had said she'd left her handbag
00:54:01
lying there it was missing about 100 m from there was a clearly abandoned car it was a holding
00:54:10
sedan with the keys in the ignition it had been stolen from the garage of a used car salesman who'd
00:54:18
taken the Holden home from the dealership for the weekend the attacker's fingerprints were
00:54:24
nowhere to be found [Music] just after 11:00 p.m. on Friday May 13 1 month after glennis peak's hit and run
00:54:36
18-year-old jel Connor was walking home from a bus stop in Belmont when she was deliberately run down by a driver in a
00:54:43
green Morris Miner sedan after being thrown onto the Bonnet jel fell to the ground
00:54:51
sobbing meanwhile the Morris Miner had gotten stuck in some sand that bordered the
00:54:57
road the driver jumped out and ran away laughing it was an hour before Jill was found lying unconscious and bleeding
00:55:07
behind the abandoned vehicle she later underwent emergency surgery the green moris Miner had been
00:55:15
reported stolen from a home in the South Perth suburb of ko 2 hours earlier the prince of the car thief
00:55:23
weren't found anywhere on or in the vehicle exactly 1 week after the attack on juel Connell an 18-year-old named
00:55:33
Georgina Pitman spent a fun night out dancing she caught the 11:35 p.m. train home where she struck up a conversation
00:55:42
with 16-year-old Marine Rogers and her 12-year-old cousin theres zagami who had just attended a
00:55:50
concert it was raining heavily when they disembarked at Queens Park Station in South Perth and there were no taxis
00:55:57
waiting at the cabaran outside the only car in the vicinity was an expensive looking new kler Royal
00:56:05
which was white with a red stripe and had Victorian license plates a man sat behind the wheel
00:56:13
wearing a brimmed hat the three girls decided to walk home Moren and Georgina huddled together
00:56:22
under moren's umbrella while Theresa walked slightly ahead under to her own umbrella they were making their way up
00:56:30
at George Street an isolated Road bordered by large paddocks a few houses and a poultry
00:56:37
farm suddenly a car zoomed past them at high speed gee this guy's an idiot Meine
00:56:45
said it was the same CRI light that had been parked at the train station the driver then did a u-turn and
00:56:54
sped back past the girls in the other Direction before pulling into a side street behind
00:57:00
them the three girls kept walking it was quiet and dark as they reached an area of the road where there
00:57:08
were no houses only empty paddocks on either side the still night air was abruptly broken by a roaring
00:57:17
sound Georgina turned around and saw headlights approaching it was the Chrysler veering
00:57:24
across the road to towards them 12-year-old theres who was walking right at the road's Edge also spun
00:57:33
around look out she cried before jumping out of the car's path it barely missed her and terise
00:57:42
felt a gust of wind hit her as the vehicle passed then it struck Georgina and morine head
00:57:50
[Music] on Georgina was thrown into the ditch that ran alongside the road Moren bore the brunt of the impact as
00:57:59
the vehicle hit her left leg and broke both of its major Bones the force of the hit had also
00:58:06
broken the car's radiator Grill Moren was tossed onto the Bonnet and stayed there bleeding profusely as
00:58:14
the driver continued to Speed Ahead he made a sharp turn as they reached an intersection about 100 m up
00:58:22
the road and Morin finally fell from the Bonnet onto the the ground Georgina Pitman was in a days
00:58:32
down the road looking for her shoes she had no idea what had happened she only knew that her feet were bare for some
00:58:41
reason Georgina didn't realize that her dress was also torn and she'd sustained deep cuts to her head and back which
00:58:49
were now bleeding mom mom Georgina desperately called as she walked in circles theres zami had escaped injury
00:59:01
but was terrified that the driver would return she began running towards home which was up ahead in the direction
00:59:09
they'd been walking thees stayed low and away from the road to hide from their attacker as she reached the top of the
00:59:19
hill she came across her cousin Moren lying bleeding in the middle of the road to ran over to her asking Moren are
00:59:29
you all right there was no answer realizing her cousin must be dead Theresa's fear intensified and she kept
00:59:39
running towards home which was only about another 100 m away Theresa's parents were out but her
00:59:47
aunt lived next door theres banged on her front door screaming it was deliberate it was
00:59:58
deliberate just as theres was raising the alarm two Patrol officers passing through the area stumbled across moren's
01:00:06
body she still had a pulse they soon found a Georgina as well the girls were rushed to
01:00:16
hospital Morin needed emergency surgery on her left leg her left cheekbone was also fractured and she was entirely
01:00:24
covered in bruises Georgina had a concussion and several deep gashes that needed
01:00:31
stitches all three girls were left with severe mental and emotional trauma at the scene of the crime police
01:00:43
recovered a small piece of the car's radiator grill that had been broken during the hidden
01:00:48
run the Crisler itself was found just before 7 the following morning of Saturday May 21
01:00:56
it had been dumped near a railway line in the suburb of East Victoria Park about 5 km
01:01:03
away there was damage to the top and left side of the Bonnet and the broken radiator Grill matched the piece found
01:01:11
at the scene the kryler had been stolen from a 60-year-old man who had driven from
01:01:18
Melbourne to Perth to visit his adult son and his family the family had discovered the
01:01:24
theft the previous night and immediately reported it to the police no fingerprints belonging to the
01:01:31
thief were found on either the interior or exterior of the vehicle meanwhile both the police and
01:01:39
perth's media were starting to notice the pattern of deliberate hidden runs over the past month and a half a number
01:01:47
of detectives and traffic police were assigned to the case with a growing Theory emerging that one man could be
01:01:54
behind all of the crimes articles about the latest incident ran on the front page of the weekend papers
01:02:02
with one headline asking is a hitr run Maniac on the loose the story read in part
01:02:11
quote three girls were apparently deliberately run down by a powerful stallen car early
01:02:18
today this climaxed what may be a series of cold-blooded attempts to kill or main
01:02:24
pedestrians three times in the past 6 weeks each time in the weekend girls have been
01:02:31
injured by a stalen hit run car later abandoned in different suburbs detectives tracked downn car
01:02:41
thieves and questioned them extensively due to the HD and runs always taking place on a Friday or
01:02:48
Saturday night special patrols were implemented on those days between 5:00 p.m. and 1:00
01:02:54
a.m. in a report about the case one detective Sergeant concluded that he was convinced that one perpetrator was
01:03:02
responsible for all three of the attacks while acknowledging that he had no evidence without fingerprints or
01:03:10
anything else belonging to the perpetrator at any of the scenes there was no way to prove their
01:03:16
Theory no connection was made to the Prower breaking into homes across the city even though he also stole cars
01:03:24
struck on weekend nights targeted random victims and never left a single fingerprint the HD and runs stopped
01:03:33
after the attack against Georgina Pitman morine Rogers and teres zami months passed then
01:03:42
years but the night caller never ceased his crimes and in the beginning of 1963 he would launch another shocking
01:03:51
attack using a new kind of stalen weapon Australia Day is Australia's official national day observed annually on
01:04:04
January 26 there is some controversy around this date as it was chosen to Mark the
01:04:10
landing of the first British colonists in 1788 in recent years there has been much
01:04:17
debate as to whether it should be changed for many residents of Perth in 1963 Australia Day just signified
01:04:26
another long weekend and a chance to enjoy the summer the holiday fell on a Saturday
01:04:32
that year so Australians would have a 3-day weekend with no work on Monday Saturday January 26 was a hot
01:04:42
night and Perth was a bus with many out drinking and celebrating the Ocean Beach Hotel a pub
01:04:50
that sat across from the beach in North codow was packed bartender Rowena Reeves worked at
01:04:57
the hotel until closing then went to a restaurant with three friends afterwards at around 2 a.m. the
01:05:04
group of four drove to a quiet spot overlooking the ocean to chat and have a few more
01:05:10
drinks however an argument broke out between two members of the group who were a
01:05:16
couple they soon left leaving Rowena alone in the car with her friend Nick August Rowena said in the car's back
01:05:26
seat drinking pink Champagne while Nick sat behind the wheel as Rena sipped her drink she
01:05:34
noticed a man standing less than 8 m away staring at them she pointed him out to
01:05:42
Nick Nick was married and suspected The Stranger had been sent by his wife to spy on
01:05:49
him angered Nick tossed an empty beer bottle at the man through the open window and yelled at him to piss
01:05:57
off as the bottle rolled down the street Rowena saw the man lift up something look out he's got a gun she
01:06:06
cried while pushing Nick's head down so it wouldn't be visible from outside the man fired a
01:06:15
rifle Nick felt a sudden pain in his neck he's got me he stated before hurriedly starting the car's engine and
01:06:24
speeding away the man with the rifle fired once again at the retreating vehicle but
01:06:31
missed in the back seat of the car Rowena was bleeding badly the bullet that had grazed Nick's
01:06:39
neck had then struck her wrist shattering it Nick sped towards the nearest hospital which was in the port city of
01:06:48
freemantle about 8 km South the pair were admitted for treatment and at 3 :30 a.m. medical
01:06:57
staff notified the police that they had two shooting victims who needed to be [Music]
01:07:06
interviewed it was almost half an hour later when the doorbell rang at a house on L Street in Netherlands 5 and 1 half
01:07:14
kilm east of where Rowena Reeves and Nick August were attacked the house was a single story
01:07:21
brick residence home to the Warmsley family daughter Sandra Warmsley was woken by
01:07:28
the doorbell which rang twice in quick succession Sandra heard the familiar footsteps of her father George Warmsley
01:07:37
walking towards the front door as he opened the door a loud gunshot rang out dad Sandra screamed jumping out of
01:07:48
bed and running to the front door she was joined by her mother to their horror George lay in the
01:07:56
doorway his hair soaked with blood and his eyes glazed clearly visible in his forehead
01:08:03
was a bullet hole there was no sign of the shooter Sandra ran to the kitchen where
01:08:11
the family's telephone was located and called the police and a nearby neighbor then she returned to her
01:08:19
father's body and tried to comfort her devastated mother the pair were in complete
01:08:26
shock it made no sense that their entire world could have been turned upside down
01:08:31
in a split second George was a loving warm man it made no sense that anyone would want to
01:08:40
harm him 15 minutes later and just one block over on Vincent Street a young man named
01:08:50
Scott McWilliam was woken from his sleep by the sound of shouting Scott was staying at a boarding house
01:08:57
that was home to a number of young people and the yelling was coming from another Resident his land lady's niece
01:09:05
Pauline she was saying that there was something wrong with the John sturky an 18-year-old border who was leaving Perth
01:09:12
the following week to study veterinary medicine in Brisbane Scott got up to see what was
01:09:20
wrong John had been sleeping outside on a single bed on the back of Veranda where the air was cooler at
01:09:28
night flicking on the Vera's light switch Scott saw there was an enormous pool of blood on the concrete flooring
01:09:35
next to Jon's bed Jon was in the bed with blood soaked into the linen around his
01:09:42
head he was making a gurgling sound Scott and another border rushed forward to lift John's head up so he
01:09:51
could breathe there was a gunshot visible at the the top of his forehead Pauline phoned for an ambulance
01:10:00
then called the police offices told Pauline that everyone at the residence was to stay
01:10:06
inside and keep a low beneath the windows there was somebody going around the neighborhood shooting
01:10:15
people both the George Warmsley and John sturky were rushed in separate ambulances to Royal Perth Hospital
01:10:22
arriving within 5 minutes of one another John was pronounced dead 3 minutes after
01:10:30
arrival George Warmsley was given aemergency surgery but died about an hour and a half
01:10:38
later police were still processing both crime scenes and had just been notified of the two deaths when another call came
01:10:46
[Music] in Len B wasn't initially worried when his friend Brian Weir didn't show up for
01:10:55
a scheduled surf rescue boat training session on Sunday morning 29-year-old Brian whose day job
01:11:03
was as an accountant was often late but after waiting around for more than 2 hours Len decided to go check on
01:11:12
Brian he drove the short distance from the swanborn Netherland surf life saving Club to Brian's
01:11:20
home Brian lived in a first floor apartment in a block of four on Broom Street codow when Len arrived he saw that the
01:11:30
door that led from Brian's bedroom to the apartment's balcony was open Len clambered up to the balcony and
01:11:37
walked in Brian was still in bed but the scene was all wrong his head was hanging over one side
01:11:47
and there was blood everywhere Brian felt stiff and his complexion was gray but Len could still
01:11:54
hear him faintly breathing Len was horrified it looked as though Brian had been in a violent
01:12:04
fight Len raced back to the surf lifes saving club and told his teammates what he'd
01:12:10
found one of them had heard news reports about the overnight shootings in nearby
01:12:15
nedlands and they all raced back to Brian's flat together when they looked more closely
01:12:22
at their friend they saw that the top left side of his head was completely gone Brian was rushed to the hospital
01:12:31
and underwent emergency surgery a bullet was found lodged in the left temporal lobe of Brian's brain with
01:12:39
fragments scattered throughout surgeons had to remove these foreign objects as well as splined
01:12:46
pieces of bone and much of Brian's damaged brain matter Brian survived the surgery but
01:12:53
remained in a coma he stayed in his coma for 6 months with police constantly keeping
01:13:01
guard when Brian eventually regained Consciousness he was unable to speak walk or move his
01:13:09
arms his right side was entirely paralyzed he had lost sight in one eye and hearing in one
01:13:17
ear the severe brain damage also caused him to have epileptic fits despite being being just 29 years
01:13:26
old Brian had to be moved into an aged Care Nursing Home due to requiring round the-clock
01:13:33
Care on December 19 1965 almost 3 years after the attack Brian Weir died as a result of his
01:13:46
injuries the Australia Day attacks dominated newspaper headlines in the immediate aftermath of the
01:13:53
shootings articles provide at a timeline of the attacks which was pieced together
01:13:58
by the police Rowena Reeves and Nick August had been the shooters first victims both had
01:14:05
survived after sustaining injuries from the same bullet police had found a spent casing
01:14:12
at the scene of the crime the shooter had then walked around the corner and stopped outside Brian
01:14:18
we's home he'd climbed up the first floor balcony where Brian had left the door open Brian had dragged his bed right up
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to the door sleeping with his head towards the balcony to take advantage of the sea breeze on the hot night the
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shooter had shot Brian once in the head then left the flat and headed 5 km East to
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Netherlands once in Netherlands the shooter walked around the back of the boarding house where John sturky was
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sleeping on the rear veranda and shot him once in the head the SHO Juda then walked one street
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over ejecting another spent showcasing as he did so and rang the doorbell of the Warmsley
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residence George Warmsley was his last victim it didn't appear that any of the victims were connected or had been
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specifically targeted no fingerprints had been recovered from any of the crime scenes
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nor did police find the murder weapon all of the showcasing recovered had come from the same 22 gauge firearm
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which was a litho single shot rifle there were 75,000 such rifles registered in the state of Western
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Australia police began following up on each one in search of the murder weapon and even extended their search to the
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eastern states of Australia they test fired a total of 60,000 rifles but none were a match
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there appeared to be a time lapse between the attacks in cotso and those in Netherland prompting detectives to
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wonder if the shooter had used a bike to cycle from the first location to the second however some witnesses had
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reported seeing a light colored Holden sedan driving in cotso around the time of the first
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attacks what made the sedan suspicious was the fact that its headlights weren't on even though it was the middle of the
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night Witnesses in Netherland had reported seeing a similar car parked near the crime scenes
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there Perth had experienced some ripples of concern in the Years immediately preceding the random shootings in late
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January 1963 the pattern of hdden runs and the reports of a Prowler entering and
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robbing homes before attacking female residents had both caused a stir but the Australia Day shootings
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sent the city into a full-blown panic overnight people completely changed their habits and behaviors in
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response to the senseless attacks they locked their doors and made sure to close their windows at night
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despite the sweltering summer heat gun purchases skyrocketed people slept with weapons by
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their bed where they could reach them at a moment's notice Others May do with what they
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could find in including knives cricket bats and even cans of fly spray they could aim directly at an asal's
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eyes animal shelters suddenly faced a huge demand for guard dogs with pounds across Perth selling out of
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dogs ouses were common at the time but more people started installing toilets inside of their houses so they wouldn't
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have to go outside at all after dark children were no longer allowed to sleep on back Verandas to stay cool on
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hot nights as they'd done in the past strange theories about the shootings emerged some people falsely confessed to
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the crimes others pointed out that the attacks had taken place during a full moon in his Memoir the sharknet author
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Robert Drew wrote about how the shootings changed Perth in an instant quote the murders immediately changed
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the Spirit of the place they chilled the warm Shadows of the peppermint and box trees and flowering gums lining the
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streets the slightly crumbly lines of the brick and Limestone houses the Cozy looking fake Tudor apartment blocks and
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Shop fronts had a sharper harsher Edge their facades looked Stony and closed people's eyes flicked away as
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they hurried indoors or into their car fewer residents went out after dark creating an eerie atmosphere where the
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streets were especially quiet at night despite the reduced forant vehicle traffic the state government arranged to
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keep street lights blazing all night long from nedlands down to freemantle in a direct response to the
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shootings police were under intense pressure to solve the case working day and night to catch the person
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responsible calls flooded in from the public with tip offs sometimes there was so many that
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they clogged up the switchboard a special operational room was set up just to manage these
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calls while detectives combed over every detail of the Australia Day shootings and break-ins an additional 40 Patrol
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officers were out on the streets of Perth every night watching the city from patrol cars horseback and on
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foot despite this they failed to identify or apprehend a suspect nor were they able to prevent
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the prowler attacks which continued in the wake of the Australia Day shootings but were believed to be
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unrelated Lucy Madrill was murdered Less Than 3 weeks after the shootings carel Reed was attacked 4
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months later it wasn't until August that there would finally be a significant development in the
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