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[Music] Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean situated between Australia
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and New Zealand a place of spectacular scenery and peaceful beauty the total area of the island is 34 kilometers
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squared or 13 miles squared with a population of only around to 2,000 people Norfolk Island is a tight-knit
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community with a unique and complex web the friendships and relationships the island was discovered by Captain James
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Cook in 1774 and it was first used as a jail for the worst convicts from the Australian colony the island is a
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self-governing territory of Australia with its own laws including strict customs and immigration regulations
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tourists from all over the world flock to Norfolk Island for its unique history and its reputation for being a paradise
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it's considered a safe and friendly place somebody's always willing to give you a helping hand doors and windows are
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left unlocked at night violent crime almost doesn't exist there hadn't been a murder on Norfolk Island since 1893
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[Music] Ron and Carolyn Patton married in 1968 and spent their honeymoon or Norfolk
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Island they never suspected that 31 years later their daughter Janelle would make the island her own Janelle Patton
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was born in pennant hills a suburb of Sydney on the 30th of June 1972 she was a bright girl who loved music she played
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the piano the clarinet and performed in the school band at the age of five her parents received her report card with a
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message from a teacher that stuck with them over the years janelle has settled in quite well and is
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academically above-average there is however a social problem Janelle tends to take over her friends
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who work sessions and her play sessions unless this can be rectified I fear her husband will be sorely henpecked both
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Ron and Carol agreed that Janelle was above all a perfectionist after finishing high school
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Janelle started a university course in orthopedics but quit during the first year she started work as a settlements
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clerk at Westpac Bank where she stayed for four years she moved to foreign exchange of Bankers Trust and went on to
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work for a number of other different banks over the next five years throughout those years Janelle had
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several relationships one of them was to a navy seaman he asked Janelle to quit her job in Sydney and moved to Adelaide
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with him Janelle didn't make the move however continued to see him when he was back in Sydney the relationship ended
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with the Navy Seaman facing a charge of assault everyone believed he broke Janelle's jaw despite her claims she had
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fallen over on a dance floor this relationship left to Noel so scarred emotionally and physically that she
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never fully recovered from the experience Janelle started a new relationship with a man named Todd she
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wanted to settle down with Todd however he didn't feel the same way they broke up and Janelle's self-esteem when
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spiraling downward she began drinking heavily into taking antidepressants in October 1999 when she
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was 27 years old Janelle decided she needed to get away she took a job as a housemaid at the
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South Pacific Hotel on Norfolk Island 1673 kilometers away from Sydney just over 1,000 miles when she broke the news
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to her parents Carol told her I don't think it's really your scene you know it's very quiet
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Janelle thought otherwise and responded maybe that's what I need it wasn't until March 2002 that Ron and
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Carol saw Janelle again they visited her for the first time over the Easter weekend they arrived on the island on
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Saturday the 30th of March Ron Carol and Janelle spent that evening at generals new workplace the Castaway hotel where
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she was in charge of the dining room Janelle seemed like she was on top of the world she looked healthy vibrant and
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was very excited about her parents visit at 9 p.m. Janelle say good night and Ron
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and Carol went to the room they booked at the panorama garden apartments Janelle arranged to meet them at their
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room the next day around 1:00 p.m. after she took her daily walk at 7 a.m. the next morning Easter Sunday the 31st of
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March 2002 to know who was 29 years old entered the Castaway hotel and performed
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her morning work routine she said the tables help serve the food and chatted with the guests
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Janelle finished work at 11:10 a.m. from the Castaway hotel she made her way to food Lane supermarket located in the
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shopping mall on the center of the island Janell was captured on security footage
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walking to the checkout counter of the supermarket at 11:16 a.m. as she was leaving janelle bumped into her landlady
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Ruth McCoy Janelle had bought Easter eggs for Ruth and her family so she gave her the eggs and wished her a Happy
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Easter Janelle lived in a small cottage at the back of Ruth's house she was seen by
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Ruth's husband pulling up to the cottage at 11:30 a.m. a few minutes later to know walked out of her cottage wearing
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sports gear and headed off on her daily walk she always walked the same path down Rudi hill road to Queen Elizabeth
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look out Marie Forsyth lived in the last house before reaching Queen Elizabeth look out she saw Jane all talking with
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one or two people sitting inside a car a mother who was driving around trying to
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get her child to fall asleep past Janelle walking neither look yet the mother circled around and drove the same
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way about ten minutes later but there was no longer any sign of Janelle at 11:45 a.m. two men were having a cup of
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tea inside a house on Rudi hill road they heard a noise they described as being similar to a child's wailing one
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of the men assumed it must have been his brother arriving with his children he walked outside to greet them however to
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his surprise there was no one there he took a look around but saw nothing and heard nothing else suspicious at Norfolk
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Island Golf Club located just down the road from Queen Elizabeth Lookout two men inside the clubhouse heard a layout
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scream another man claimed the sixth I also heard the scream but they didn't see anything suspicious and heard
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nothing else Janell failed to show up to Ron and Carol's room at 2:30 p.m. Ron and Carol
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caught her cottage but didn't get in the answer they assumed she was either on her way or perhaps something had come up
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that made her stop somewhere else so they decided to enjoy the day while they could they stuck a note on the front
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door of their room letting Janelle know where she could find them they then went
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to Emily Bay a popular swimming spot after spending over an hour there they returned to their room to surf Janelle
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had arrived she hadn't the note was still stuck on the door there was no sign of her anywhere in the meantime a
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couple and their two children visited the cockpit waterfowl reserve a popular attraction on the other side of the
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island while still taking in the sights they realized they had left that camera in the car
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the couple sent their fourteen-year-old son back to the car to fetch it on his way he ran past a black plastic sheet
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that looked like it was covering a person the boy thought it was probably just somebody sleeping so we didn't
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mention it to his parents that afternoon there had been a significant heavy downpour of rain on the island this made
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for perfect conditions to slide down the hill at the cockpit waterful reserved on
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bodyboards at 3:57 p.m. for boys right down the hill on their boards laughing and yahooey they were recording
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themselves on video camera on a few of the frames that black plastic sheet is visible in the background as they slide
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down the hill at 4:13 p.m. Ron and Carol tried calling Janel again still they got
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no answer they started to worry and decided to visit her cottage the first thing they saw was her car the driver's
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window was down and there was a lot of water inside due to the torrential rain the daughter Janelle's college was
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unlocked which wasn't unusual there was common practice on the island they had a
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look around inside but didn't find anything out of the ordinary 20 minutes later a friend of Janelle's
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stopped by to visit Ron and Carol was still at the cottage and they shared their concerns with her Janelle's friend
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called the Castaway hotel to safety Nell had returned to work but she wasn't there
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her friend knew about Janelle's daily walks and the exact path she took so they all completed that walk but found
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no sign of Janelle Ron and Carol returned to the panorama apartments and told the manager about their concerns
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the manager made some calls to different places around the island but nobody had
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seen or heard from Janelle since she had finished work Ron and Carol returned to
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Janelle's cottage this time they saw Ruth McCoy and her husband they learned Ruth and bumped into Jenna leaving the
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supermarket and her husband had seen her leaving for her walk at 11:30 Ruth and her husband thought they had better call
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the police the call to the police was made by the patterns at 7:50 p.m. they were asked to go to the police station
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right away when they entered the station the first person they saw was a doctor with a stethoscope around his neck a
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chill instantly came over the patterns they didn't feel this was a good sign they were taken into a room and the
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detective asked Ron and Carol to sit down before saying I believe your daughter is missing
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can you describe her Carol gave the description the detective then said before we go any further I've got to
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tell you there's been an incident the body of a young woman has just been located we need to know whether it's
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your daughter or not Janelle's body was officially found at 6:30 p.m. by New Zealand woman on holiday while walking
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through cockpit water for reserve she saw the black plastic sheet she had a closer look to see what was underneath
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and and then immediately called the police a detective was on scene within ten minutes although he fully suspect that
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Janelle was dead he felt for a pulse to make sure she was cold and the arm he touched was stiff she was lying face
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down and her shorts and underwear were cut and pulled down the first impression the detective had was that Janelle had
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been sexually assaulted robbery didn't seem to be a motive of any sort since you were still wearing a lot of jewelry
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he looked for any weapons or any other evidence nearby but came up empty other officers soon arrived and lauding
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was put up so the crime scene could be processed Janelle was formally pronounced dead at 7:56 p.m. only six
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minutes after Janelle's parents called the police to report her missing Janelle's landlady Ruth McCoy formally
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identified her body by mid evening half of the island already knew about Janelle's death news traveled quickly
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Janelle's body was taken to the morgue where it stayed untouched until Tuesday the second of April when a forensic team
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and a pathologist arrived from Canberra Norfolk is part of Australia's Commonwealth Janelle's murder was the
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first on the island for over 100 years the local police didn't have the experience or the resources to properly
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investigate so assistance was sought from the Australian Federal Police and they took
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charge of the investigation the forensic pathologist in charge of the post-mortem
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was dr. Alan Carla Janelle had five date cuts on her legs purple bruising on her right leg and
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more bruising on her left leg an odd M shaped bruise on her thigh and a dislocated ankle three of her ribs were
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broken and her pelvis was fractured she had suffered multiple stab wounds there were several major lacerations on
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her face as well as many smaller wounds including cuts to her neck her skull was
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fractured and in her hair small pieces of green glass were located there were incisions on her fingers described as
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textbook defensive wounds sustained from trying to fend off the knife attack the
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wounds led dr. Carla to believe genell had fought with everything she had a microscopic inspection of Janelle's body
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and clothes was performed and the forensic scientists found particles of green colored paint in Janel's hair
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beneath her fingernails and on the shorts she was wearing he determined the paint was a rare one and due to its
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composition if the origin was found the killer would be filmed on Wednesday the 3rd of April the lead detective from the
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Australian Federal Police arrived detective Bob Peters the case was given the codename operation Dunedin on Sunday
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the 7th of April Carroll went to generals cottage to collect her belongings they found her diary
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underneath her pillow which they handed in to police due to the strict customs and
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immigration laws on Norfolk Island it wasn't long before police had a complete list of every single person who was on
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the island the day Janelle was murdered around 2,500 people in total including permanent residents tourists and
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visitors in May every person over the age of 10 who was on the island that day was sent a survey to complete the survey
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asked what they did the day of the murder if they knew Janelle personally if they'd seen her and if they had any
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other information they would like to act eighty-four percent of the visitors and
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tourists completed it but only 56 percent of the residents did many said they weren't involved and knew nothing
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so they saw no reason to complete it others saw it as an invasion of privacy the police went a step further and
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organized the mass fingerprinting of every person between the ages of 15 and 70 who was on the island the day of the
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murder fingerprints had been found on the black plastic sheet covering Janelle's body and the police were
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looking for a match there were a few different sets of prints on the sheet not just from one person a match didn't
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necessarily mean they had their killer but they still made it to identify those prints booths were set up in a community
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center the then chief minister of Norfolk Holland was one of the first people to approach the booths and
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provide his prints to those who had since left the island police asked them to make an appointment with their local
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police station to have their prints taken they could then be forwarded on to the investigation team 77% of the people
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on the island that day eventually came forward and provided their prints voluntarily the investigation cause some
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people to turn against one another suspicious eyes were cast all over the island and everywhere you went we
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supposed to be out who did it could be heard in May 2004 more than two years have passed since Janelle's motor and
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Bob Peters was nowhere near a DES finding the killer the authorities decided to hold an inquest
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an open examination of the circumstances surrounding generals death the chief magistrate for the Australian Capital
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Territory was also Norfolk islands principal coroner he flew from Canberra to preside over the inquest it was a
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difficult investigation for many reasons not only had the heavy rain washed away
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any chance of footprints tire marks and DNA evidence the small tight-knit population of Norfolk Island with its
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complicated web of friendships and relationships presented unique challenges detective Bob Peters had this
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to say about it quote I don't think anyone from our side could give you a good assessment of what Norfolk Island
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is really about after a couple of years even after a number of years it's a fairly unique sort of a place in some
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regards it's a little bit like a small rural community but they're surrounded by ocean with no roads going in or out
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during the inquest Bob Peters revealed publicly for the first time that he had come up with a list of 16 people he
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considered persons of interest the first two with no surprise Ron and Carol Patton most people are murdered by
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somebody they know and Ron and Carol arrived on Norfolk Island only 24 hours before Janelle was killed however Ron
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and Carol were more than cooperative with the investigation they voluntarily provided fingerprints and fully
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cooperated with every other police request they actively canvassed the media the government authorities and the
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police to ensure that the investigation into their daughter's murder received every possible support and maintained
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momentum there was nothing linking them to the murder and they weren't considered high on the list of persons
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of interests still the police wouldn't have been doing their job if they didn't consider the possibility
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Susan fields was next on the list Susan met Janelle in 1999 not long after Janelle first arrived on Norfolk Island
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Susan helped jr. find a place to introduced her to a neighbor Charles moon Getty who had a spare room in his
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house this living arrangement didn't last long as Janelle confronted Susan about having
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an affair with Charles Susan was married with a ten-year-old son Susan and Janelle got into a fight over her
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accusation and as a result Janelle was kicked out of Charles home after only one week the bad blood continued between
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Janelle and Susan in August 2000 they got into a nasty fight in a bar which resulted in Susan being charged with
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assault naturally Susan was looked at as a suspect on the day of Janelle's murder
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the accounts of her whereabouts were contradicting Susan said she didn't leave home until about 1:30 p.m. to go
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to the gym however her husband insisted it was closer to 11:00 a.m. that she left a witness reported seeing Susan
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driving near Rudi Hill Road close by to where channel was walking after weighing
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up all of the information Bob Peters stated at the inquest that although Susan and Janelle clearly didn't like
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each other there was no evidence of direct contact between them on the 31st of March 2002 and although they had a
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physical fight previously the level of violence was nowhere near that used in Janelle's murder Plus Susan happily
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provided her fingerprints which did not match those found on the black plastic covering Janelle's body
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Charles Mann Getty was the fourth person on the list Susan's neighbor who Janelle lived with
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for one week Charles said he kicked June Ellie out after only a week because she
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would stay up drinking until the early hours of the morning and play Liat music she would lecture him about his diet and
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ripped his phone handset from the wall because he received too many early morning calls he said you know proved
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too difficult to live with so he asked her to leave police received several tips about Charles in the days after
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Janelle's Bota there were reports of a fire in his yard the night of the murder five days after the murder one of his
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friends reported that Charles said to him if the cops ask you about me tell them I was drinking with you last Sunday
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but they probably won't ask another tip came from an anonymous caller who said in early 2002 Charles allegedly walked
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up to Janelle pulled her hair and threatened stop this [ __ ] or I'll sort you out
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soon after Janelle's murder Charles booked a flight off the island because of the active investigation he did tell
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police he was leaving and would be returning soon all of this raised a few eyebrows and on the 12th of April police
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searched Charles house in these cars he was later formally interviewed by police but nothing came out of it they
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couldn't find anything not linked to Charles - Juno's murder when Janelle was asked to leave Charles place she ended
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up moving in with his brother Paul Minka T also known as [ __ ] Japanese new partner
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Robin Murdoch were the 5th and 6th persons of interest - named job was a 50 year old widower with four
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children he maintained a romantic relationship with Janelle while she lived with him this lasted about nine
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months before job thought it best for her to leave Janelle left and moved into another
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place for a short period of time before settling in the cottage at Ruth McCoy's house where she remained until her death
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despite moving out Janelle and Jeff continued to see each other two or three times a week Jeff would visit general
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she wrote about these encounters in her diary a sample of which reads May 9th 2001 Japs stood me up for tea
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June 13th 2001 [ __ ] over 40 told me a few home truths about where I've hidden five
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days later she wrote Chuck Danford tea and spat on me in August 2001 chat broke up with Janelle for good and by
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September he was seeing Robert Murdock who was the chief executive of the Norfolk Island administration where he
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also worked on October 19th Janelle wrote in her diary spoke to [ __ ] [ __ ] found out he's been rooting
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Robbin and has been since Kurt's birthday or thereabouts told me he's my first enemy in Norfolk after this
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Janelle appeared at Robyn's house on three separate occasions knocking hard on the door and the
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windows she also appeared at Jeff's house and he ended up threatening to call the police on it
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Janelle continued to call them both frequently despite this there was no evidence that Chapel Robyn ever
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retaliated [ __ ] was questioned by police awake after Jenelle's murder he said you know could
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be possessive complicated to live with and a clingy sort of person who was just making time he explained that he
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encouraged her to go back to Sydney the last time they spoke was six weeks before her murder there were whispers
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that Robin had been seen driving along Rudy Hill Road in the afternoon of Jenelle's murder but this was denied by
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Robin and was never proven both Jeff and Robin provided their fingerprints and there was no match to those found at the
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crime scene the seventh person of interest was Dana Meng Getty japs' oldest daughter when Jenelle moved into
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Jeff's house Dana was 16 years old and finishing school in Brisbane after school Dana returned to live permanently
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with her father and she instantly disliked and rejected the idea of Jenelle being there
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they fought frequently and Jenelle made several diary entries expressing her dislike for Dana Dana was questioned by
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police and she freely admitted that she sometimes felt like hitting Jenelle but she never did she provided her
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fingerprints and again there was no match and the police could not link Dana to Jenelle on the day of the murder
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the eighth person on the list was Lawrence quintal he and genell had a relationship while she was still seeing
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Japp on and off Lawrence and Jenelle's relationship was a violent in January 2002 they had a fight and Jenelle was
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left with bruises on her neck chest and arms Lawrence apologized but beat her again a
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few weeks later the last time he saw Janelle was three days before her murder they were both at the RSL Club and the
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fight started between Lawrence and another me Raymond Diego this fight was because Lawrence accused Raymond of
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visiting Janelle's cottage police found a note Janelle had written to Lawrence that said look bucket bucket
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is Lawrence's nickname on saw on bruised big-time I'm devastated by everything you said and did to me last night on top
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of that he'd been also bitching behind my back and I never thought a friend would do that you made it clear your
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opinion of me so let's just leave it at that I'll have to go near sorry Lawrence
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had an alibi he was at work at the time of the murder he allowed police to search his house and his car without a
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warrant he agreed to be interviewed and freely gave his fingerprints without question just like with the others there
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was no evidence to link him to the murder Raymond Yeager was the next person on the list
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the man Lawrence had a fight with in the days before Janelle's murder Bob Peters
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noticed Raymond after reading an entry in Janelle's diary from December 2001 where she wrote that after going out to
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different bars she crashed at Ray's and uh there was no sex they had reportedly met up several more
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times since then there were some inconsistencies in Raymond's story as to where he was and what he was doing at
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the time of the murder the day after the murder he was overheard talking about it
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and seemed to know a lot of details what interested police the most was that Raymond visited a trouble agent Shirley
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after Janelle's murder and asked about urgent flights to Sydney with a connecting flight to Perth he did
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actually book these flights and leave the island the moment he got to Perth police were looking for him he gave them
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permission to search his home and truck and offered to be examined in Perth where he freely gave his fingerprints
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further investigations revealed that his trip to Perth had actually been talked about prior to Janelle's murder he was
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visiting his child and former partner however at the time police considered it to be cause for alarm Raymond's
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fingerprints didn't match and nothing else of interest was located there pointed towards him
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[Music] Michael Prentiss was next on the list he appeared in Janelle's diary after a
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coffee day an employee at the Castaway hotel also came forward and said Michael had been ringing the hotel constantly
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prior to the genell's death the employee actually warned Janelle to stay away from Michael as according to her he does
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not know the meaning of the word known at the inquest Bob Peters said he'd received information suggesting there
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was a romantic relationship between Michael and Janelle however he never got to confirm it there was no proof they
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had any contact on the day of Jenna's murder and Michael had an alibi plus his prints didn't match Kym friend who was
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the 11th person named he was spotted driving through radial Road at 11:45 a.m. the day of Janelle's murder a woman
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was spotted in his car and a witness thought it may have been Janelle a second man was also spotted in the car
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plus Kim had been seen with scratches on his arms and wrists after the murder however he had an alibi he was playing
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to a guide to a couple that day and that's who had been seen in his vehicle his injuries occurred after working with
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barbed wire his fingerprints didn't match into the site saying couple were located and confirmed his story the 12th
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person on the list was Steven Cochran he was one of many who voluntarily provided
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his fingerprints to police his prints actually matched one of the sets of prints found on the black sheet that
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covered Janelle search warrants were immediately issued for his house and his truck he had already completed the
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community survey about his movements on March 31st and when asked at the police station he repeated them
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he was at home until 11:30 a.m. until a couple of friends picked him up they then drove to meet up with a group of
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other people and they all spent the rest of the afternoon together it was a rock-solid alibi there were a lot of
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people who were voting this Stephen was with them the entire day when asked about the fingerprints Stephen explained
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he handled a black plastic sheets on a regular basis as a carpenter and joiner Stephens alibi was solid and police
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couldn't link him to Janelle at all he said he had never met her and that there was no evidence suggesting otherwise
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plus there were still other sets of prints on the plastic sheet yet to be identified and ruh-roh was the 13th
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person named he was a temporary resident who'd come from New Zealand and seemed to have very few friends on the island
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nobody knew much about him he was considered a loner there were also reports who was a peeping tom several
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residents reported seeing him in the area around the time of Janelle's disappearance acting strangely a seat
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and a section of carpet was missing from his car he was questioned and he insisted he didn't know Janelle and had
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never seen her before in his life he said the seat had been taken out of his car for repairs and the section of
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carpet was missing because it needed cleaning he couldn't clearly remember what his
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movements were on the day of the murder his house and car were thoroughly searched and his fingerprints were taken
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in October 2003 he was stopped at the airport he was found to be carrying a knife it was confiscated and sent for
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testing to see if it could have inflicted the injuries on Janelle but there was no match his prints didn't
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match either no forensic evidence was located in his house or car next on the list was Terrence joke Terrence met
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Janelle the month before her death call records show they exchanged 81 calls in the weeks prior to her death yet Terence
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was one of the very few people on the island who didn't attend the journal's memorial service which surprised the
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tech TV given their frequent contact prior to her death after the murder a woman came
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forward with a disturbing report allegedly she woke up one night to find Terrence standing over her bed she was
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petrified and didn't know what to do other reports came in that Terrence had threatened to assault Janelle's former
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partner Lawrence quintal during the inquest Bob Peters said he had active concerns about Terrence but his
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fingerprints didn't match those found on the black plastic sheet next was Rodney
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Menzies who had reportedly approached Janelle several times while she was sunbathing and had asked her out for a
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cup of coffee Janelle repeatedly refused his advances and on one occasion it's alleged Rodney
00:33:12
tried to follow her back to her cottage there were several rumors across the island that Rodney had stalked other
00:33:18
women previously however it was never confirmed the story he gave of his whereabouts at the time of the murder
00:33:26
was contradicted by others he also said he hadn't spoken to Janelle for three months prior to her murder however a
00:33:34
witness said they had seen Rodney in Janelle talking just three nights before her murder
00:33:38
his fingerprints didn't match and no other evidence was found that could link him to the murder the 16th and faunal
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person named as a person of interest that the inquest was a great Magri Janelle's closest friend on Norfolk
00:33:58
Island he became part of the investigation after one person reported seeing him driving along greedy Hill
00:34:05
Road between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. on the day of generals murder he was seen with a woman who looked like
00:34:13
Janelle Gregg strongly denied this and gave an alibi upon further questioning his story about his movements that they
00:34:22
changed slightly it also didn't completely match with what others were saying the detectives weren't sure if
00:34:29
these were just minor inconsistencies or if there was actually a gap in Greg's story detectives asked him about his
00:34:37
relationship with Janelle and he said that were just good friends and at times he'd act as a mediator
00:34:42
between her and her boyfriends Gregg said that despite not having a good relationship with several people on the
00:34:49
island general never worried about her safety the last time he saw her was three days before her murder she seemed
00:34:57
happy and he suggested they catch up again soon but he never saw her again there were others on the island who had
00:35:06
a different version about how that meeting went one reported that Greg looked bothered by something while
00:35:13
talking to Janelle another reported that Janelle said Greg had threatened to burn
00:35:17
her with a cigarette during that meeting and she looked very upset while talking
00:35:22
to him however Bob Peters told the inquest to date I have found no factual or forensic evidence to connect Gregory
00:35:30
Magri to the death of General Patton or the disposal of her body a cockpit waterful reserved on Sunday the 31st of
00:35:37
March 2002 it was no ordinary investigation that was a lot of people connected to Janelle it was a highly
00:35:48
unusual step for Bob Peters to release the names of all those persons of interest some had motive
00:35:54
some were reported to be seen knew where gene or disappeared from some displayed
00:35:59
strange behavior after the murder some displayed strange behavior before the murder some had been physically
00:36:05
violent towards her some had a combination of many of those things [Music] had the conclusion of the inquest police
00:36:16
were still no closer to arresting the killer all that was clear was that a lot of people could have done it but they
00:36:24
didn't have to wait long for a major breakthrough they had been slowly reviewing every single piece of evidence
00:36:30
in the police file as part of this review every single fingerprint sample on record was looked at not just those
00:36:38
given voluntarily during the murder investigation and it was during this review the police fee under the
00:36:44
fingerprints of Glenn McNeil McNeil was a chef originally from Nelson New Zealand he moved to Norfolk Island in
00:36:53
June 2000 with his girlfriend Alicia Taylor they married in January 2002 McNeil had provided his fingerprints not
00:37:03
voluntarily because of the murder investigation but because of an investigation into a minor break-in to a
00:37:09
tourist shop for this reason McNeil's fingerprints remained in a separate file and weren't discovered until 2004 when
00:37:17
the mass review of all fingerprints on record took place police ran McNeil's prints against the prints found on the
00:37:25
black plastic sheet that was covering Janelle's body McNeil's prints matched two of the prints found on that sheet
00:37:31
when they looked further into McNeil they found that a white Honda motor vehicle was registered to him
00:37:37
this got the attention of police as a white Honda had been reported as being seen around the crime scene McNeil had
00:37:46
since left Norfolk Island and returned to New Zealand he had split up from his wife Alicia and
00:37:52
to his new living with a new partner police on Norfolk Island put out an alert requesting people keep a lookout
00:37:58
for McNeil's white Honda it didn't take long for 70 year-old Dudley Hudson to respond Dudley had found a white Honda
00:38:07
abandoned on his property he hadn't reported it yet but when he heard police were looking for a white Honda he called
00:38:15
in straightaway checks on that Honda revealed it was McNeil's car police towed it for forensic examination
00:38:24
they also examined McNeil's former house on the island in both his car and his former house
00:38:31
police found green glass just like the glass found in Janel's hair in McNeil was garden they found a black plastic
00:38:40
sheet the same as the one that covered Janelle's body a specialist determined there was a high degree of probability
00:38:48
that the glass found at McNeil's house in his car and on genell we're from the same melt meaning they had been produced
00:38:57
at the same time for the same use they also found a tiny section of paper from a wine label stuck to one of the
00:39:04
fragments so they believed a bottle of wine could have been used in the attack along with the glass they found a sample
00:39:12
of hair in the boot of McNeil's car unfortunately the hair was found without root in regular DNA analysis the hair
00:39:21
root is what's examined so they had to try something different they sent the hair to a laboratory in
00:39:27
Pennsylvania USA where they do mitochondrial analysis essentially in this type of analysis what's examined is
00:39:36
the mitochondria which can produce a match to the maternal cells they can't produce the identity of the person so
00:39:43
hair samples of Janelle's parents were sent along with the hair found in McNeil's boot to try and get a match
00:39:49
this is not as strong as regular DNA analysis and for that reason it doesn't always hold up in court
00:39:56
it took a long time to get the results back the reports didn't come back until early 2006 they said you know and her
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maternal relatives couldn't be excluded as sources of the hair it wasn't a positive identification but it still
00:40:13
indicated McNeil could have been involved in the killing or disposal of Janelle's body Glenn McNeil wasn't just
00:40:20
named as another person of interest on Bob Peters list he went straight to prime suspect
00:40:26
on Wednesday the 1st of February 2006 Bob Peters met with two New Zealand Police Officers in
00:40:35
and then the arrest warrant for Glenn McNeil McNeil was back living in Nelson New Zealand when they knocked on the
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door McNeil opened he was wearing his black and white chef's trousers with no shirt and no shoes the detectives from
00:40:52
New Zealand informed him he was under arrest for the murder of Janelle Patten McNeil's response was to invite them
00:40:59
inside the detectives in for McNeil of his rights before asking him to put on his shirt and shoes they also asked for
00:41:06
his passport then they handcuffed him all of this happened in front of his new partner who was dumbfounded not really
00:41:15
understanding what was happening at 5:30 p.m. they walked out of McNeil was home
00:41:21
and made their way to Nelson police station on the way the detectives purposefully made small
00:41:27
talk and spoke about anything but the case they didn't want McNeil saying anything about it until they got back to
00:41:34
the police station when they arrived they took McNeil to an interview room they showed him the notes they'd made in
00:41:41
relation to his arrest and asked him to confirm their accuracy then they introduced him to the lead detective Bob
00:41:49
Peters Peters explained to the forensic evidence they'd found the fingerprints match the glass fragments in McNeil's
00:41:57
car the hair found in his car the DNA result which suggests that the hairs found in the boot of the car belong to
00:42:03
Janelle he told McNeil he didn't have to say anything but anything he did say would be used as evidence McNeil
00:42:11
surprised the detectives by instantly confessing he said he was driving that morning under the influence of marijuana
00:42:18
at one point he bent down to pick up a packet of cigarettes and it was while doing this with his eyes off the road
00:42:25
that he accidentally hit Janelle he stopped and found her body underneath his car Peters wasn't expecting such a
00:42:35
quick confession and the video camera wasn't actually turned on you Peters asked one of the New Zealand detectives
00:42:42
to right there and everything McNeil had just said Peter's then read it back to McNeil who
00:42:47
confirmed it was accurate and then placed his signature on each page Peters asked McNeil if he was willing to answer
00:42:54
further questions and he nodded in agreement the questioning continued for just under an hour this time it was all
00:43:02
recorded they stopped to change videotapes and there was at this point that McNeil asked to call his lawyer
00:43:08
they did call however the lawyer wasn't available they offered McNeil the services of a
00:43:15
different lawyer however he declined he said as long as his lawyer was there for
00:43:20
him at court the next morning that's all he wanted he said it was happy to continue the interview the interview
00:43:27
continued McNeil gave the following version after he saw Janelle underneath his car he thought she was dead so he
00:43:36
placed her in the boot drove back to his place where he remained for any hour or
00:43:41
two he then heard groaning noises coming from the boot he realized genell was still alive but thought he had gone too
00:43:49
far to take her to the hospital for treatment so he grabbed the 15 centimeter fish
00:43:54
filling knife open the boot and stabbed her he stabbed her repeatedly to make sure she was dead but couldn't remember
00:44:02
exactly how many times once he was sure she was dead he found the black plastic sheet and wrapped Janelle's body in it
00:44:12
he then drove to cockpit waterful reserve where he placed Janelle near the barbeque area he returned home feeling
00:44:20
nervous and agitated and aware that he needed to remove any evidence left in his car he filled up a spray bottle with
00:44:27
water and cleaned the boot once he was done he went inside and played video games on his PlayStation after that he
00:44:35
picked up his wife Alicia from work he never said anything to her about what he'd done the following day he threw the
00:44:42
knife in the ocean and went to take a look at the crime scene with Alicia by then it had been sealed off and there
00:44:48
were police media and onlookers everywhere to finish off his confession McNeil said
00:44:55
ever since that day I've felt what I've done and makes me sick inside I only wish it had never happened and I kept my
00:45:04
eyes on the road Alain Carla the forensic pathologist went over the transcript the McNeil's
00:45:11
confession and didn't believe it he was positive Jenelle wasn't run over by a car
00:45:16
her injuries weren't consistent with being run over at all also the car that MacNeil owned was too low for Jenelle to
00:45:24
get stuck underneath for her to go under the car MacNeil would have had to have been driving at an extremely slow speed
00:45:32
20 km/h heart are today Janelle being scooped up going over the front into the windscreen if that had happened she
00:45:43
would have ended up going over the roof or off to the side never underneath the car and if she had ended up underneath
00:45:50
the car her body would have been covered in dirt or grease but it wasn't there was also no hair skin tissue clothing
00:45:58
fibers or any other evidence underneath McNeil's car the position in which McNeill said Genna was laying when he
00:46:05
stunned her didn't correlate with the wounds Karla concluded there was no possible way MacNeil could have
00:46:12
inflicted the stab wounds in the manner in which he described also there was absolutely no blood found in his car
00:46:19
with the injuries Jenelle suffered there would have been considerable bleeding and a spray pad lastly when Peters asked
00:46:27
me Neil if Jenelle fought or showed any resistance McNeil said no that's why I don't understand with a cut
00:46:35
you were saying defensive wounds she wasn't holding her hands up or anything Jenelle had extensive defensive injuries
00:46:44
it was clear McNeil was lying they believed he did kill genell but not in the way which he said it happened he was
00:46:52
trying to downplay his actions Peters said to him I think that a lot more happened between you and June or pattern
00:47:00
while she was still alive and conscious after the interview McNeil was escorted to his cell where he spent his first
00:47:07
night behind bars in the meantime the Australian Federal Police began extradition proceedings so that McNeil
00:47:14
could be flown to Norfolk Island where he could be formally charged with the general patton's murder
00:47:19
the next morning McNeil appeared in the nelson district court for the first stage of the court proceedings the judge
00:47:26
granted the extradition the following day McNeil was flown to Norfolk Island when they landed on the island officers
00:47:35
provided McNeil a hooded jacket to cover his face since there was a lot of media
00:47:39
waiting but he declined he didn't mind his face being shown he was formally charged with murder on
00:47:47
Thursday the 9th of February 2006 McNeil was then flown to Sydney where he was held in silver water prison he was flown
00:47:56
back to the island for pretrial hearings which commenced on the 7th of August 2006 McNeil pleaded not guilty he
00:48:05
retracted his confession and said he was in a terrible mental state at a time and
00:48:09
would have admitted to anything the police questioned him about he denied having anything to do with Jenelle's
00:48:16
murder on the second day of the pre-trial hearing Katherine Lee a forensic biologist with the Australian
00:48:22
Federal Police testified that she had found and unidentified a DNA profile on the shorts of Janelle she had been
00:48:29
wearing when she was killed the DNA profile belonged to a woman more of this DNA profile was found underneath
00:48:37
Janelle's fingernails and a cigarette found at the crime scene close to the body contained a weak DNA profile of a
00:48:44
woman that wasn't Janelle that night there was another development a friend of Janelle's Tracey Wilkinson approached
00:48:55
Bob Peters the last time she'd spoken to Janelle was a week or two before her murder
00:49:02
Tracey was working behind the bar in a hotel and Janelle visited her Janelle asked her if she worked with somebody
00:49:10
named Alicia Tracey said yes Alicia did work there Janelle asked her what she was like and if she also knew her
00:49:18
husband Glenn McNeil Tracey explained that Alicia was really nice but there were rumors McNeil was sleeping around
00:49:26
Tracy asked Janelle why she wanted to know but Janelle didn't respond and changed the subject
00:49:33
Tracey also gave an incredible story that on the day of the murder she was working at the hotel when she heard a
00:49:40
loud scream she walked out the back to investigate and saw Alicia who looked like she was swiping in a downward
00:49:47
motion at someone behind a bush she called out to Alicia who turned and walked towards her with what appeared to
00:49:54
be blood on her switch her Tracy said Elisha you're bleeding Elisha said no it's paint
00:50:02
she looked strangely red in the face but Tracy didn't go any further with it she
00:50:08
returned inside after hearing this story Bob Peters warned Tracy about the consequences of being untruthful he told
00:50:17
her she'd be prosecuted if she was lying it was now four years after the murder when asked why she didn't bring up any
00:50:24
of this information before Tracy explained she thought the murder hadn't happened near the hotel and she thought
00:50:31
that what she had witnessed was just a marital dispute between Elisha and Glenn MacNeil Tracy also said she was burnt
00:50:38
out from working three jobs at the time in her mind was elsewhere Bob Peters wasn't sure whether to put Tracy on the
00:50:46
stand or not but in the end he decided to do so she testified on Friday the last day of the pre-trial hearing
00:50:55
Elisha had already testified on the Wednesday no questions were asked of her at all in relation to what Tracy says
00:51:03
she witnessed Elisha denied any knowledge of the crime and after testifying was allowed to return back to
00:51:09
New Zealand where Shing out lived as well after hearing all of the evidence at the pre-trial hearing the judge
00:51:17
ordered there was enough to proceed with the full trial the trial started on the
00:51:22
1st of February 2007 some believed it shouldn't have been held on Norfolk Island as it was impossible to run a
00:51:29
fair trial however the law made it clear that there was no other possibility the
00:51:35
trial had to be held there during the trial the prosecution said the autopsy wasn't the only thing that didn't
00:51:41
correspond with McNeil story as the way Jenelle's clothes are being left that implied that could have been a sexual
00:51:48
motive to the crime genell's clothes have been cut with a knife from the inside out this indicated
00:51:55
it was very deliberate despite the way the clothing was left there was no sexual assault
00:52:00
so the defense argued because there was no sexual assault the person responsible
00:52:05
for the killing had to be a woman who wanted to make it look like there was a sexual element to the case Alicia was
00:52:12
called back to the sting to testify at the trial she denied having any knowledge of the murder or any knowledge
00:52:17
about the disposal of the body she said there was nothing unusual about McNeil's
00:52:22
behavior that day and she didn't see any blood on him or his clothes or anywhere
00:52:27
else at the house Tracey Wilkinson was not called as a witness of the trial there were already
00:52:33
doubts over the story she gave about Alicia's behavior the day of the murder the main deal being why Tracey waited
00:52:39
for years to come forward and since she had testified at the pretrial her story had changed she now believed Janelle was
00:52:47
the victim of a satanic cult killing and was murdered by six other people Tracey
00:52:53
was deemed to be an unreliable witness McNiel was allowed to read an unsworn statement at the trial this type of
00:53:02
statement permits the defendant to speak without going to the witness then to face cross-examination he said my name
00:53:11
is Glenn McNeil I am 29 years of age before I was arrested I lived with my partner Shelley and our two children in
00:53:19
Nelson New Zealand as you know I lived on Norfolk Island for a couple of years with my then wife Alicia I enjoyed the
00:53:28
living and working here both Alicia and I shopped at food lands and I would frequently used the white Honda for
00:53:34
shopping trips on Easter 2002 I was home in the morning I've been sick Alicia was at work some
00:53:43
time between 11:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. as best I can recall I'm not too sure I made a toasted sandwich for Alicia's
00:53:52
lunch before the lunch in rush hour started I suppose it took me a couple of minutes to get ready and five minutes or
00:53:59
so to make it I then got into the car and drove down to Hillcrest i sat with Alicia as she ate her sandwich during
00:54:06
her break I could not recall what we talked about as best I can recall I was there for about 20 minutes
00:54:13
I then drive home I recall I telephoned Alicia once or twice in the afternoon because it was five years ago
00:54:21
I can't recall what was said I stayed at home that afternoon watch TV or played playstation until about 4:00 p.m. when
00:54:30
Alicia arrived home from work I didn't see Janelle pattern that day I didn't drive along Rudi Hill Road that day I
00:54:37
didn't abduct or murder General Patton that day Alicia and I went for a long drive we drove along Prince Philip Drive
00:54:47
as well as many other roads on the island I recall that when General Patton's body was found there was a lot
00:54:53
of publicity going around the island people had all sorts of theories and talked about details of the case I
00:55:00
recalled that it was said she was found under black plastic a copy that she'd been run over in a hit-and-run and that
00:55:07
she had been stabbed it was impossible to go anywhere on the island without hearing talk about what
00:55:13
had occurred I was booked to return to New Zealand in May 2002 to attended my brother's wedding while I was there I
00:55:21
took up the offer of a job by a friend I spoke with Alisha about it and we agreed that I should take it rather than
00:55:27
to return to Norfolk Island she had a couple more months to work on her contract and would return later in the
00:55:34
year so I took the job in New Zealand we spoke regularly but our relationship was
00:55:39
rocky at the time in September 2002 something happened which I didn't plan or expect on that Shelly my partner Nia
00:55:48
and I fell in love with her from this time my life started to get complicated I had the stress of trying to resolve my
00:55:55
relationship difficulties I started having employment difficulties and periods of unemployment I became in debt
00:56:02
and people were demanding payments from me Shelly and I had two children adding to my responsibilities my life started
00:56:11
to spin out of control from then on my drug-taking got worse as the pressure increased it all came to a head in
00:56:18
November 2005 when I cut my wrists while life was hopeless and no longer in my control I got a booking for a drug and
00:56:26
alcohol treatment clinic in February 2006 I was dark and numb I was running on autopilot this period of my life is
00:56:35
just a blur to me I was arrested on my first day back at work I spoke with the police I don't recall now what I told
00:56:43
them I would have admitted to anything due to my mental health problems at the time I've seen the tape and say what I
00:56:51
told police was complete rubbish it sounds like it was what I thought they wanted to hear I'm shocked by what I
00:56:57
said I didn't kill General Patton I didn't abduct her I've been told about glass in the boot of the Honda I used
00:57:06
this car to take rubbish to go to the tip it was dirty and not much more than a wreck when I got it and it had no
00:57:12
carpet in it whatsoever it was just a cheap vehicle and I was not worried about the rubbish leaking in the boot
00:57:18
I've also been told about fingerprints on the black plastic I do not know how they got onto it I may
00:57:26
have touched the black plastic when I was on Norfolk Island at some time I'm not too sure I feel very sorry for the
00:57:33
pattern family they lost his enormous but I didn't murder General Patton thank you for listening to me at 2:30 p.m. on
00:57:44
Friday the 9th of March 2007 the jury reached a verdict guilty McNiel was sentenced to 24 years
00:57:54
in prison over the years McNeil changed his story again he told his partner Shelley he didn't kill Janelle but he
00:58:02
knew who did a drug-dealing couple left the body for him to dispose and threatened to violently harm both him
00:58:09
and Alicia if he didn't McNeil says he stole this couple's cannabis plants they found out and the price he had to pay
00:58:17
was disposing Janelle's body for them since the trial there has been rumors that drug dealers could have killed you
00:58:25
know since she was actively against them and many suspected she was an informant
00:58:29
for the place in June 2011 there was talk the case could be reopened because of these allegations one of the jurors
00:58:39
on the case also allegedly said we know he didn't do it but knows who did he wouldn't tell us so we decided to slot
00:58:47
him on the 23rd of July 2011 the Australian Federal Police stated they refused to reopen the case McNeil had
00:58:56
given them the names of the drug-dealing couple and to the exact location of latex gloves he said he used to move
00:59:01
generals body the gloves were never found and the police simply said there was no
00:59:06
new evidence to reopen the case the female DNA found on Janelle's short and underneath her nails has never been
00:59:14
identified a DNA test has never been run on Ali Shah Bob Peters said it was unnecessary given how unreliable Tracy
00:59:22
turned out to be as a witness McNeill has named the drug-dealing couple but there is no information to say whether
00:59:29
or not a DNA test was ever carried out on the woman even though McNeill has been convicted the case still has a lot
00:59:36
of unanswered questions we still don't know why Janelle was killed or the exact circumstances of her death and who owns
00:59:45
the female DNA and how did it get there you