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Scouts law a scout is to be trusted a scout is loyal the Scout is friendly and considerate a
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Scout's motto be prepared in April 1823 the first known European set their eyes on the Brisbane River they were for
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ticket-of-leave convicts those who had been granted freedom to live and work outside of convict settlements they came
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across the rich and fertile Brisbane River by mistake the four men had attempted to sail south from Sydney
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before being caught in a severe storm and instead of sailing south they drifted north to Brisbane they spent 21
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days at sea delirious and Confused believing Noah drifting south when in fact they traveled 1,000 kilometres
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north along the east coast of Australia into Moreton Bay ending up at the mouth of the Brisbane River when they arrived
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one of the four men was dead the river was spiritually significant and provided endless fish for the local indigenous
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people of the turrible nation living along its banks they were the original owners and custodians of the area that
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is presently known as Brisbane when Captain James Cook and three other navigators visited the area her aunt
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Moreton Bay in a later part of the 1700s not one of them managed to locate the Brisbane River it was hidden behind the
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islands inside Moreton Bay out of sight one of those navigators Matthew Flinders
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actually spent 15 days looking for the river mouth and still didn't find it but the convicts did
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at almost 350 kilometers along the river is extensively vegetated with hundreds of different species of native plants
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and trees many parts of the river are so dense with scrub and trees that the banks are impenetrable on foot other
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areas are more open with rainforest Queensland blue gums and waddles as the river snakes its way through Brisbane
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all the way to Ipswich there are many dense areas along its banks that days or even weeks can pass and no one sets foot
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there there are plenty of places you can go unnoticed people passing within a few
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feet of you without knowing you were there [Music] Allisyn baden clay was born allison
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Dickey in 1968 she grew up 40 kilometers east of Brisbane in the city of Ipswich
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originally intended to be Queensland's capital city hips which is sandwiched between the coastal capital and the
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rural and agricultural inland areas it was originally a hub of limestone and coal mining and spawned a strong working
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class culture today it still has huge historical buildings with over six thousand Heritage listed sites Alison's
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parents Jeff a firefighter and Priscilla a school librarian were born and bred in
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the area the family were firmly cemented in a strong hard-working community Alison had an older sister and a younger
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brother Alison was a keen and accomplished ballerina and at just 10 years of age she was dancing with the
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Australian Youth Ballet Company she was the reserved and sensitive child who gathered all her strength and confidence
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and put it into her stage performances around the country at age 12 she travelled to the UK to dance she was
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determined but she had a shy and reserved side and often felt extremely anxious about being good enough to
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succeed Alison got her determination from another and her softly spoken nature from her father the tight-knit
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family did well at rallying around in a crisis and supporting each other this was obvious when at age 15
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Alison was dropped from the Ballet School and the life she thought she was set for was it to be
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she was stoic and strong on the outside but she was devastated she had a strong family to support her and she was close
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to her school friends so she got through it Alison had been given a taste of travelling as a team so it was no
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surprise she spent her early adult years travelling and working in Europe with a
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year teaching English in Japan alison was independent she was laid-back and she was always happy by age 22 Alison
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had an arts degree with a major in psychology she knew six languages to varying degrees and was accomplished in Japanese
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after having lived there for a year she fell in love and got engaged to a young man she met on Heron Island in
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Queensland they moved back to Ipswich together and bought a house in 1993 at age 25 Alison entered the Miss brisbane
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pageant she missed the long light of her ballet years and thought it would be fun
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to try out she came in first and then went on to Miss Queensland she didn't win but she enjoyed the experience while
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it lasted as her stage dreams fizzled out again so did her engagement there were no hard feelings but adjusted in
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feel right Alison began working at flights and a travel agency in Ipswich and moved
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swiftly up the ranks while the mid-90s she was the Queensland human resource manager at their central office in
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Brisbane the office was Beek taking up more than one floor and it was a social office workmates often went out for
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lunch together and for drinks on a Friday night there was a young man who also worked there he
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was the team manager for Fleiss and his 24-hour call center he was charming and polite and tuesd the confidence that
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Alison was drawn to his name was Jared baden clay after attempting to set her up with a colleague jared realized it
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was he who wanted to date Alison and it wasn't long before he swept her off her feet
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Jared treated her like a princess and just like a younger days Alison felt on top of the world but Alison's family and
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friends hadn't warned - Jared like she had they found him arrogant and cocky and it seemed like he thought it was a
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little too good for them some of her close friends questioned if the relationship they didn't like Jared at
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all even as a grown adult he seemed to ask his parents for their advice on everything he only really made decisions
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based on their approval and opinions and still called the mummy and daddy even in
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public there were just things that didn't sit right Alison argued that it was just motivated
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and driven possibly that came off as arrogant and uninterested but she assured them he was the real deal
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she was smitten and they were happy for her Jarrid baden clay was born in england in
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1970 he lived his early years in Zimbabwe then moved to Australia with his brother sister and parents when he
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was 10 years old his great-grandfather Lord baden-powell founded the scouts it was a badge of honour for the hundreds
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of family members who fought off every branch of the baden-powell family tree Jared and his family grew up
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proud of their scouting heritage and talked about their legacy at every chance the world Scout Bureau estimates
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that there are 28 million members of the Scouting Association worldwide having a
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great-grandfather at the forefront of the organization led to great expectations for members of the family
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while living in Zimbabwe they used the surname clay but when the family arrived in Australia they added
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Baden likely as a nod to their famous ancestor and so became the Baden clays [Music]
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Jared grew up in a world where scouts honour wasn't just something you pledged the
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gatherings in camps that was a way of life he and his family lived by the motto be prepared there was no surprise
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to the Baden clays that their son had met and fallen in love with Alison such a bright and successful woman
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Jared's father Nigel advised him on how to propose and when and where to do it they were a family who carefully mapped
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everything out and followed through with each and every plan where Alison was more free and easy Jared was a planner
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he was more content if he knew what was ahead of him the Baden clays were close so close that
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jared married Allison on his parents wedding anniversary in 1997 after they were married they worked overseas where
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jared attempted to push his career into high management jobs but it never worked
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there what he lacked in success he made up for tenfold in ambition he hit constant stumbling blocks on his road to
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business prowess and in the end it became obvious that he wasn't going to make it in Europe like Esau when he and
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Allison decided to return to Australia he went back to work at Flight Center he was placed in a team focusing on
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jump-starting the company's online business it was the new millennium and businesses even larger ones like Flight
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Center we're only really testing the waters in the world of online sales when the department failed jared was laid off
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and he sued them for breach of contract his lawsuit didn't go anywhere in mid 2001 Alison and Jared had their
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first child throughout this pregnancy and to the next to that soon followed Alison fen and she was suffering from
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depression she'd always been anxious even when she was young and she had really dark times in her late teenage
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years after being dumped from the ballet but this was different she recognized something was really
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wrong the doctor she saw was quick to notice that a few years earlier when the couple had been traveling Alison had
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taken anti-malarial medication that have been found later to cause hallucinations
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nightmares anxiety depression and even psychosis these effects were thought to linger in the body and there was a
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chance that this medication had been a trigger for her depression with the help of her doctor she managed to get her
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depression well under control while Alison was content being the gentle mother having put her career on hold to
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raise their three daughters Jared was determined to make money and in 2003 he became a registered real estate sales
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agent he encouraged his father to join him and when he landed a partnership at a real estate agency in taringa in
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western Brisbane he insisted that both of his parents be part of the team - it was a package deal less than a year
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later jared started up his own agency a franchise of a different company right next thought to his current employers
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Alison continued to stay home with the kids while Jared tried to make it as a real estate agent he saw himself as a
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high flyer of the industry he was seen by others as being overly confident and almost cocky but some found him charming
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local real-estate agent Peter newing said that jared had a lot of self-importance he promoted himself
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wherever he went his plans were beat by 2006 the Baden case had moved into a rental property in
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Brookfield on the western fringes of Brisbane Brookfield is a wealthy fairly rural area it's known for its large
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homes with tennis courts and pools but it's not overly showy it's got money but the people are casual
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about it for a young family with business minded parents it was a desirable place to live
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although Jarrod and Alison couldn't afford to buy a home they found a cheap family rental what it meant for Jarrod
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was that he was living amongst those who wished to emulate in the years between 2006 and 2012
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Jarrod's desire to be somebody continued to grow he had three partners in his real estate business which had both
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rental and sales divisions allison was doing well her anxiety and depression was well looked after but with three
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young children and a husband who spent every waking moment bettering himself in his career the relationship started to
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feel distant and stressed by 2008 Allison had confided in friends and family about her worries and concerns
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for the marriage but by mid 2009 she started withdrawing from talking about it even with many of those closest to
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her she got Jared to agree to some marriage counseling and a session led to Jared admitting he was considering
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ending their marriage allison fell apart she knew they had drifted and raising a
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family had changed everything she understood how different their lives were to the carefree days before they
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had children and she knew he was under immense pressure at work but she couldn't bear the thought of him leaving
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she felt Jared was about to hit him midlife crisis by 2011 Jared's agency had a team of people they
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had outgrown the office and made plans to move a couple of suburbs closer to Brisbane in the January of 2011 just as
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they were getting into the new office Brisbane was hit by a serious flood the Brisbane River broke its banks and
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thousands of homes and businesses were ruined the real estate market took an enormous hit Jared's business was
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seriously affected and the pressure on him grew Jared and his three partners were
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reached responsible for different aspects of the business Jared had previously been on the ground running
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the sales but now he managed the accounts and started to employ new members to make the sales instead around
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the time they moved offices his partners became aware that the agency was struggling financially they had trusted
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that the information Jared had given them regarding finances was correct but suddenly they discovered gaping holes in
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the books that Jared couldn't explain after discovering the true nature of their financial position Jared's
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partners requested he get rid of some stuff as they were paying people to do the work that jerk could be doing
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himself Jared agreed so he let go of his sales agent Tony McHugh and went back to
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selling himself by the end of 2011 one business partner had left and Jared wasn't getting along with the other two
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they didn't trust him anymore so Jared made an offer to buy them out and in early 2012 they agreed he had
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until June 30th the end of the financial year to pay them Alison came in part-time as general manager she knew
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the business well and it was a cost-effective way to get the business going again
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the ups and downs went on Jared went back and forth changing his mind countless times on whether he wanted to
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end the marriage Alison was stressed and felt unstable she had her medication double to help
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her get through the rough patch and although on the outside it seemed like she was doing okay she wasn't talking
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much she was internalizing Allisyn and Jared's family home was a simple single-story blue weatherboard
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place with a flat roof built up into the hill of the property compared to the many green homes in the area their place
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was simple and humble the double garage sat lower than the rest of the house because of the slope and one of the
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garages had cardboard boxes cast off to the side filled with clothes Allyson plan to give the charity but she hadn't
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made it there yet six sets of windows been to the house each frame painted white with solid timber sun shades
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angling out above each window it's the sort of house that young well-off families buy and renovate or knock down
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in order to build large modern glass tin homes which open out to the bush and forests all around but the baden clays
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didn't known they've been renting there for six years and although jared was a prominent real estate agent they weren't
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in the position to own their own home at least not in Brookfield a long driveway hides the house from the
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street just like most of the houses in the area there is lots of native trees around and no front fence the grass was
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ready for a mo and the garden looked a little forgotten but there was a must I mean either Jared or Allison's life for
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garden upkeep they were both barely keeping their heads above water Jared was stressed his
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wife was upset at him all the time his colleagues weren't happy with him real estate was slow and the bills were
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continuing to stack up on Thursday evening April 19th 2012 Alison left work and went to the hair salon Jared went
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home separately Alison was attending a real estate conference in Brisbane the next day
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Alison went home after her hair appointment and put the girls to bed just before 7 p.m.
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giving them a kiss and a pack goodnight one of the girls later got up for a glass of water at which time Alison was
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sitting on the couch watching TV and knew Jared was walking down the stairs in his pajamas and choose a little while
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later Jared and Alison sat down to talk they did this every second at night for around 10 to 15 minutes there was a
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suggestion made by their marriage counselor that week Alison could speak uninterrupted about how she was feeling
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it was her time to ask Jared questions anything she liked the conversation was an attempt for openness after their talk
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Jared went to bed Alison stayed up to watch The Footy Show it was about 10:00 p.m.
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the following morning on April 20th 2012 Jared woke up around 6:00 a.m. Alison wasn't in bed their three daughters then
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aged ten eight and five weren't awake yet Jared got out of bed and walked through the house the safe Alison was
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already up where she had fallen asleep on the sofa she had done that in the past but she wasn't there Jared assumed
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Alison must have gone for her early morning walk something she usually did around 6:00 a.m. but that would be odd
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considering she had the real estate conference that day and she had mentioned wanting to leave by 7:00
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he thought she mustn't be far away so he went to the bathroom for a shave at 6:20
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a.m. he sent Alison a text good morning hope you slept well where are you none of the girls are up
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yet love G he went to one of his daughters when she called out from her bedroom she was
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wondering where her mum was she was always there when the girls woke up in the morning or at least in time for
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breakfast Jared had shaving foam all over his face when he said she'd gone out for a walk and would be back soon he
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went back to shaving and then returned to his daughter a few minutes later and asked her to help put band-aids on some
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shaving cuts on his face at 6:45 a.m. Allison still hadn't returned home Jared grew concerned he didn't want her to be
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late for the conference so we tried calling her phone but she didn't answer he sent her another text message saying
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the girls were ready and could she text him back or call he then called his father Nigel and sister Olivia they
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lived close by and one of them could watch the girls while the other help didn't look for Alison within minutes
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they were on the streets surrounding their home looking maybe she was hurt and had twisted her ankle walking or
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something at 7:15 a.m. one hour and 15 minutes after he awoke to find Alison gone Jared called police emergency
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Alison not returning from a walking tour to get the girls off to school was totally out of character go ahead tell
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rusty five three nine six heroes thank you police emergency what's your location oh good morning Brookfield
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we're back in blue filter five nine three Brookfield road and what's happening it and I don't want to be
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alarmist I chose the 131 number but said on forever yeah but my wife isn't time oh nothing I don't know where she is
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okay when did you I see you sir last night we were to this when I went to bed and I got up this morning and she
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she wasn't there and that's not unusual she she often goes through a walk in the
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morning yeah I've texted her and called her a number of times I think she has her
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phone with her yeah and what time does she normally get back when together a lot morning sheep she was planning to
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she had a seminar in the city so she was planning to leave by around 7:00 okay she's not back oh yeah okay all right
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and what you want I'm now driving the streets most my father come over and to look after my children yeah okay so what
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was it what's your name first of all so um Jared ger ard and your last name Jared
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they didn't play badd and Kip - CEO Li and what's your wife's name - L M same surname okay and how old is elephant 14
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four okay so you didn't see her before she put up smiling - okay all right and what's her mobile number zero four
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zero one yep one four nine yep zero one three Sarah one tree okay all right and how told you watch I think something
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like that okay okay and what kind of here she got it done that it's sort of a blondie frowning reddish circuit yep and
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how long is it shoulder and shoulder [Applause] Heike although I'll then put a broadcast
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on to the place to keep a lookout for your wife are you going to go back home because I got pleased to come and see
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you yeah yeah alright Jared I'll get place to come and see you okay what's the best contact number to you
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yeah 400 yep yeah okay just give us a call back if she hasn't returned before police get there okay
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all right thanks Jared bye bye the two responding constables Leah Hammond and Kira Nash pulled up into the driveway of
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the Baden clay home the house 30 after them as it was older and less ostentatious than many of the other
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homes in the area as they pulled up Jared's sister Olivia was walking out of the house with the three girls to take
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them to school behind her was Nigel Jared's father the constables asked Jared what was
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happening they noticed the cuts on the right side of his cheek and to listened as he explained that Alison went for a
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walk most mornings around 5:00 a.m. and she would usually follow one of two routes that were no more than two
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kilometres long the main thing was that she would always return home in time for
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the kids breakfast and that morning in particular she wouldn't have wanted to be late because she had the real estate
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conference the constables asked to go inside to talk they didn't seem to worrying at first maybe Alison had just
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walked a little further that morning but as the conversation continued things just didn't feel right something was off
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one of the two constables excused themselves from the conversation and walked away to call their superior
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officers to attend the house Senior Sergeant Narelle Curtis and Sergeant Andrew Jackson when they arrived at the
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property they could both see why the constables were worried they immediately noticed the vertical scratches on
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Jarrod's lower right cheek Jared brought up the cuts almost immediately saying he cut himself
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shaving that morning he explained that he had to get the girls ready for school and Alison wasn't home so he was rushing
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and that's how he cut himself but the officers didn't think they looked like shaving cuts they looked like they were
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made by anything but a razor they were fresh and weeping a little one was around three centimeters long and two
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the other about a centimeter or so away was around two centimeters long they were relatively wide measuring about a
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quarter to half a centimeter in width and they were not completely straight things weren't feeling quite right so
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sergeant Jackson turned on his tape recorder I carried in relation to your wife's movements today what time do you
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think she got up where did did you sleep together last night I was saying before
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I donation though I'm a heavy sleeper I'm a store and that's I went to bed before she did last night which one did
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you go to bed where was she when you last saw her watching the footage shot so she was sitting in the lounge and
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it's not what Tom had I'd have been so about 2200 hours off it's not no I change I'm sorry it's not unusual maybe
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once every fortnight or so none of us does sleep on the couch because we fall asleep watching TV
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no something like that where the she slept there she does go walking in the morning
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mm-hmm he'll finish you get walked let's go say regularly but it's intuitively yeah and if possible she'll get up at
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about 5:00 that was easier in the summer no shoes would it be roughly once a week
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twice a week three times a week two to three times as ice explaining before and you know we're both trying to lose
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weight and she was and we have a holiday that we go on Labor Day and and she was
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I mean I came to lose weight we've just looked over for other families you know most so and last night she wouldn't have
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her hair done okay so she had her hair done last night yeah well what is she know anyway when she goes jogging
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walking um one of two outfits usually she has a black one and the gray one ones missing
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cry outfit so what does it sound like right it's like her like a track suit right yeah lightning right sort of is it
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a singlet opera shirt she has a singlet top she sometimes with sloppy joe of something intense they like there's like
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three quarter length things that Dara dagi old yeah once we bought some new Lorna Jane ones in black yeah but
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they've here I generally read Sanchez which is where she does just run us a see interest one else or not I have she
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are the Leeson that the four usually leaves in front or or just okay so as far as we can ascertain she's dressed in
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grey jogging clothes and she has runners on now is there any way that she would be likely to go around here to visit
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anyone or she would she wouldn't visit somebody whooshing till the best of my knowledge
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never happens would she have taken her work clothes at all would you not I mean is she gonna could we ring the office
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manager to make sure she's not actually in that seminar yeah it is and so she's taking our money with her look I'm not
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trying to alarm you but at this stage we're probably gonna have to call that our Criminal Investigation bridge just
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to cover all bases and they may want to speak to you just about your wife's movements and they saw that ain't fun I
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think at this point we probably just need to ramp it up just to try and locate your wife is quickly thoughts I
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want to grab that we need to we need to do this I'm just going to make a phone call now I'm just a bit confused you
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said well I know just that other police will be coming yeah just I'm just gonna get them to put out and have a chat gee
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Jared because this is just this is just not what we normally have with missing persons it's not our thing it's not we
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go and we just need to make sure that we've got anything right I'm going to drop in that day you walked on water in
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five minutes time yeah and we just we stand it rundown but in the meantime we've got dot the i's
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cross and thirties and get the cars here like I said before uh uh I'm happy to answer all the questions and the world
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and that sort of thing that's going to help but I I want to jump back in my car and you know drive the streets or
00:33:32
something oh yeah well feeling like what do we have going the police felt something else was off Jared was shaved
00:33:42
showered and fully dressed in a suit with shirt and tie even cufflinks for a husband whose wife
00:33:48
was missing he didn't seem too worried in fact he was quite relaxed the bed's had been made and the house seemed to
00:33:56
have been cleaned right before they walked in they could smell it the house was filled with the unsurprising clutter
00:34:03
of family life drawers and dressers had piles have opened mail and paperwork piled up toys and school stuff was
00:34:10
scattered around in Jared and Alison's room was pretty full of clutter as well it didn't appear to be the type of
00:34:17
family home that was cleaned every morning before work in school it was a red flag Jared was in such a hurry to
00:34:25
get his kids ready for school while Alison was missing that he called his family to help he was out looking for
00:34:30
her yet he somehow found the time to clean up and make the beds while at the house police saw Jared's father Nigel
00:34:38
carrying the family's vacuum cleaner out and attempt to place it in his own car Jared then took the office as a sod he
00:34:46
had something he wanted to tell them he didn't want them to think he was hiding something he took a deep breath and told
00:34:53
the officers that he had previously had an affair but it was over long ago he didn't feel it had anything to do with
00:35:00
what was going on but he thought they should know he said he and Alison hadn't been arguing he couldn't understand why
00:35:08
she would leave and not return as she was really looking forward to the conference she had even been to the hair
00:35:13
salon the night before sergeant Jackson called in detectives and started to organize a search he didn't like what he
00:35:22
was hearing he had a feeling that Alison wasn't going to walk back up the driveway
00:35:28
based purely on intuition he declared the house a crime scene the cars were taken for forensic testing including the
00:35:36
car owned by Jared's visiting father rather than doing everything he could to figure out where his wife was
00:35:43
Jared became a little difficult and to be closed sergeant Jackson had called in every available officer within an hour
00:35:55
there were around 80 officers and SES workers on foot as well as on police horses
00:36:00
inspector Mark Lang was in charge of the search effort it was unusual for a large-scale search to begin within the
00:36:07
hours of someone being reported missing but police were adamant from the very early stages that Allison was in grave
00:36:13
danger so getting people on the ground quickly was the number-one focus fire fighters friends family and local
00:36:20
residents also joined the search it seemed to the whole of Brookfield were there to help even people from Ipswich
00:36:26
and surrounding areas attended the search would become one of the biggest and most detailed in Queensland's
00:36:33
history the clubhouse at Brookfield Oval just 200 meters away from the family home became the command post for the
00:36:40
search when the girls finished school that day they were unable to go back home Jared took them to his parents house and
00:36:48
they bunker down in an attempt to give the young girl some normality Allison's family arrived as soon as they heard
00:36:56
Jared told them not to worry about the shaving cuts he had gotten that morning he even had one of his daughters help
00:37:02
him put band-aids on it it looked suspicious but really there was nothing Jared was then faced with having to tell
00:37:12
them all about his analysis marriage problems he told them about the marriage counselor and if that Allison had
00:37:18
increased her medication and then he told them about his affair he said it was a long time ago and it was
00:37:25
definitely over he had just been stressed and had a lapse of judgment he assured them that it had nothing to do
00:37:31
with why Allison had disappeared they hadn't been arguing he didn't know why she had gone
00:37:39
Allison's family and friends were worried they knew she had suffered bouts of depression and they knew there had
00:37:45
been some troubled moments in the marriage but to hear this now their worries grew everyone was torn all those
00:37:53
who knew Allison never believed for a moment she would leave her children it just wasn't in her nature but they also
00:37:59
knew that those are changed she wasn't herself she may have had more trouble coping than they ever realized
00:38:07
journalist David Murray spoke to us about first hearing about the case and how the media reacted the first hint of
00:38:16
any trouble at Allison and Jared's house was the gathering of police there I was
00:38:21
working that day as a journalist at the Sunday Mail newspaper in Brisbane and I got a call saying do you know why there
00:38:27
were so many police at Brookfield there were police cars and officers in uniform
00:38:33
and plainclothes detectives walking around everywhere Brookfield's a really peaceful community and this was unusual
00:38:40
at first I thought maybe it's a drug raid but then I got a call back from the same person saying there's a forensics
00:38:47
van there now it looked serious it raised the prospect of something more sinister going on it didn't take me long
00:38:54
to find out that this was the home of Allison and jarred bait and clay now Jared was a prominent local real estate
00:39:01
agent at first glance they looked to be a completely ordinary family that day police put out a media statement saying
00:39:08
that they were looking for a missing mum but to me it looked like it was far more
00:39:12
than a simple missing-persons case police were treating it so seriously it looked from day one to be a
00:39:20
full-scale investigation meanwhile by mid-morning the Criminal Investigation Branch had arrived at the house led by
00:39:29
Detective Senior Constable Cameron McLeod the first port of call was to thoroughly go over the home for any
00:39:36
signs of foul play and to see if they could find any clues as to where Allison may have gone
00:39:41
during the neighborhood canvass they discovered that more than one person had heard either a short sharp yell or
00:39:47
scream one neighbor was startled enough to get out of bed and check outside another had to quieten that dog who was
00:39:55
barking out into the night air although the noises were unusual none of the neighbors were worried enough to
00:40:02
call the police not through lack of care or worry but seeing as there were no follow-up screams and a car was heard
00:40:09
the screech off down the street afterwards it was assumed the noises had come from joy Reuters focusing on the
00:40:16
children became Jarrod's number-one priority he and his family kept themselves at his parents house and
00:40:22
shielded the children away from the media the people started talking from the very beginning there were whispers
00:40:28
about Jared not bothering to help with the search people felt he wasn't concerned about his wife he wasn't
00:40:35
crying or begging for answers the community started to wonder if he was hiding something
00:40:43
by the afternoon superintendent mark Ainsworth had put a team of investigators together Allison's
00:40:50
phone was missing and they needed to try and establish its location Jared told them that when Allison had found out
00:40:57
about his affair the year before he agreed to have the app find my friends on their phones so she would always know
00:41:03
where he was the techniques got onto the app and tried to locate Allison's phone while
00:41:08
Jared was asked further questions Jared quote I should clarify I cut myself shaving this morning and
00:41:16
everybody has said that looks suspicious it does the officer replied Jared and that's part of the reason I think that
00:41:25
you're here it doesn't look like a shaving cut replied the officer the police had also noticed something
00:41:34
else Jared had a cut on the palm of his hand when questioned about it he said he was
00:41:40
at a mate's house helping him renovate the day before and he cut his hand while trying to change a light bulb detectives
00:41:47
told him they would have to photograph his injuries Jared walked outside the house and
00:41:53
dialed a number on his mobile phone it was Tony McHugh the woman he previously employed in sales at his real
00:42:00
estate agency the woman his business partners had asked him to let go of the woman he'd had the affair with
00:42:09
when Tony answered her phone she was still feeling upset from that conversation that night before Jared had
00:42:16
phoned her while Ellison was at the hair salon he told Tony that Allyson would be
00:42:20
attending the real estate conference tony was livid she couldn't understand why he hadn't told her sooner
00:42:26
she knew Alison would be upset seeing her that and the two of them in a room together was too much to bear
00:42:32
so Tony told him she'd had enough it was time for Jared to tell Alison the truth
00:42:37
he had to tell her he was leaving her for good and he was leaving her for Tony Tony wanted Jared to break the news to
00:42:46
Alison that night Jared had been lying his affair with Tony wasn't over far from it in the seven months since Alison
00:42:57
found out had only took Jared three months to go back to Tony and he had promised Tony there by the first of July
00:43:04
he would be a free man and he would be 100% committed to her that date was the day after he planned to buy his business
00:43:12
partners here everything in his life was working towards that day when Tony received the call from Jared
00:43:20
that morning and he told her that Alison was missing her heart sank she thought he must have finally broken
00:43:25
the news and Alison was unable to handle so she took off Jared told Tony that he
00:43:32
was being suspected by police and so that they should lay low in regards to their relationship police were still
00:43:41
trying to find Alison's phone they were using both their own triangulation and at the find of my friends up the
00:43:53
following morning Jared and his sister went down to the search command post at Brookfield Oval an officer pressed Jared
00:43:59
for some more clarity around a few issues including what Alison was wearing Jared who appeared to have gone down to
00:44:06
help aid in the search couldn't get out of there quick enough he said he had a doctor's appointment police had asked
00:44:13
him to have a doctor verify the razor cuts on his face and the cut from the light bulb on his hand
00:44:18
Jared had no problem in complying he said he had nothing to hide at a team meeting detectives discussed Jared's
00:44:28
cuts someone suggested they should have them photographed properly and that they
00:44:32
should also have a closer look to see if he had any more injuries the other detectives are great and Jared was
00:44:39
called into the police station he was cool and calm unfazed by the second request to photograph him he was well
00:44:47
aware that it was a suspect and although he often became unhelpful while answering questions he wasn't angry or
00:44:53
flustered at the station they asked him to remove his shirt forensic officer dr.
00:45:00
Leslie Griffiths examined him and found large marks on his upper torso there was
00:45:05
a mix of fine red scratches in areas of what looked like particular hemorrhaging
00:45:08
patches of pinhead sized bursts of blood vessels caused by extreme pressure or pulling or
00:45:14
rubbing of the skin there was another mark going from his underarm up towards his shoulder and a yellow bruised in the
00:45:21
center of his chest that appeared at least 18 hours old [Music] Jarrid tell police that he'd had an
00:45:28
allergic reaction to a caterpillar bite and he never thought to mention it police let him go home knowing they
00:45:35
needed expert advice if they were going to have any proof he was lying the following day two days after Alison
00:45:44
went missing acting inspector you and Taylor received a call he was the coordinator of the forensics team a
00:45:50
blood stain had been found in Alison's car there was a contact smear of blood with drips down to the floor of the
00:45:57
vehicle in the third row seating area it was visible to the naked eye there was a
00:46:02
single strand of blonde hair attached to it Jared was called back into the police
00:46:09
station the police had a medical examiner ready to inspect the marks they had found on his chest but Jared never
00:46:16
made it he had a minor car accident on the way to the station and he was taken to hospital with minor injuries the
00:46:24
accident occurred when he was driving past the injured police shopping center Jared drove up an embankment hitting a
00:46:31
concrete pylon after the accident Jared was lying on the ground outside his car and began crawling as if he couldn't
00:46:39
move his legs he wasn't going fast enough to be seriously injured but it was enough to warrant a trip to the
00:46:45
hospital and the car needed to be towed detectives knew that they couldn't really knees chest marks near there
00:46:53
would be too much doubt over what marks were new and what marks were previously existing Alison's parents Priscilla and
00:47:01
Jeff made a public appeal to help find her their grief was immense and they were hardly able to get their words out
00:47:08
the search continued and Alison's parents were permanently stationed at the search command post at Brookfield
00:47:14
Oval they never left just in case someone came forward who knew something some of Alison's friends and family told
00:47:23
police worrying things they had seen during Alison in Jared's marriage some had seen emotional abuse and others felt
00:47:30
that he was more than capable of physical violence the search area was increased to include
00:47:36
three more suburbs surrounding Brookfield police asked everyone in the new expanded areas for their help to
00:47:42
look for any sign of Allison on their properties some of which were vast with dense Bush land everything from
00:47:48
industrial garbage bins and disused mine shafts up to 30 meters deep were checked
00:47:53
police divers search teams within a two kilometre radius of the Baden clays home
00:47:58
Jared was still not allowed back home so he continued to hole up at his parents place he side of the family retreated
00:48:05
they knew what was being whispered the press camped outside waiting for him or anyone else to leave the house there
00:48:13
seemed to be a stark difference between Allison's family and friends who kept the constant vigil and we're out there
00:48:19
every day searching and a Jared and his family who stayed away behind closed curtains and avoided the search they
00:48:26
were often seen dodging the media by hiding and running between different cars or driving away from the house
00:48:31
separately no one could understand why a channel 9 reporter was outside trying to get an insight into what was going on
00:48:43
went to her surprise Jared and his sister Olivia walked outside and spoke to her jared struggled to get his words
00:48:51
hear he looked like he was choking back tears while his sister Olivia had a genuine look of worry on her face Jared
00:49:00
said quote I'm trying to look after my children at the moment we've got three little girls and
00:49:08
he paused then gained his composure before continuing we really trust that the police are doing everything they can
00:49:14
to find my wife we just hope that she'll come home soon and I need to go kneel to
00:49:22
an appointment this unintended statement was Jarrod's only public appeal as he walked off back
00:49:29
towards the house Olivia made an appeal for the public to come forward and help in any way they could
00:49:35
Olivia and Alison were close and Olivia was struggling with the idea that something may have happened to her as
00:49:43
the search continued into its eighth day a prayer vigil was held for Alison at the local church it wasn't just the
00:49:50
family and friends of Alison who was struggling to cope the community was also struggling to deal with her
00:49:55
disappearance people rallied for Alison's family and for her daughter's police set up a mannequin wearing
00:50:03
similar clothing to what Alison was described as wearing by Jared over 400 emergency service members and volunteers
00:50:10
continued searching the surrounding areas volunteers came from all over old school friends of Alison's fellow real
00:50:18
estate workers and old colleagues from Flight Center people were coming together to search for the woman who
00:50:24
they all said touched their lives in some way the usual draw a Brisbane area received
00:50:31
heavy rain on the eighth night of Alison's disappearance the first downpour in months it was
00:50:36
something on everyone's mind who feared Alison's body was out there behind the closed doors of the interpolate police
00:50:43
station detectives were putting together the small pieces of the puzzle - Alison
00:50:48
and Jarrod's lives they had a good idea that Jarrod wasn't being entirely truthful about his cuts and marks and
00:50:54
that he wasn't being completely open about his mistress Toni they knew he called Toni the morning Alison
00:51:01
disappeared they also knew that he called her a couple of days later as well this time from a payphone and he
00:51:08
sounded stressed during this second call Jared told Toni that the police knew about their relationship and that they
00:51:15
would be contacting her he also told her that police believed Allison may have met with foul play he
00:51:23
wanted to know if she had said anything about them still currently seeing each other what Jarrett didn't know was that
00:51:30
Tony was actually speaking to police at that very moment he had interrupted an interview Jared had told police that he
00:51:38
was no longer seeing Tony that the relationship had been over ever since Ellison found out about it seven months
00:51:44
earlier but Tony had told police the truth they had continued the affair and Jared had promised Tony a-- was her he
00:51:52
wanted to be with he loved her he had some stuff to saw do but from July 1st that would be official between them
00:52:00
July 1st was Allison's birthday by this time the media was starting to notice a big difference in the behavior of Jared
00:52:10
when approached he would often run inside his parents house or run for a car and speed away on one occasion he
00:52:16
hadn't jumped a fence to avoid being seen police and others in the community was starting to notice the divide
00:52:23
between Allison's family and the bag and clay family Allison's family were involved around the clock the town felt
00:52:31
Jared's absence Dave Murray spoke to us about the community's reaction at the time there were two sides to the case
00:52:40
there was this very public search for Allison and then there was the homicide investigation going on in the background
00:52:46
the search was enormous it was run out of the Brookfield show grounds and the public's interest just snowballed you
00:52:53
had a mom of three very young girls missing she was out there somewhere and everyone wanted to find her but you also
00:53:00
had this really strange situation where her husband was nowhere to be seen it was obvious there was a divide
00:53:07
between Allison's family and Jared and his family and of course people started speculating the media reported the facts
00:53:14
as they were known and tightly controlled the comments on the case jus largely to Australia's strict defamation
00:53:20
laws but on crime forums online it was a free-for-all it was the first case in Australia that really took off on these
00:53:28
forums literally tens of thousands of comment were made about it Brookfield had its
00:53:33
own very active grapevine and that was fueling it people started talking about an affair Jewett was said to have been
00:53:39
involved in with a staff member and financial difficulties and this cloud of suspicion just grew and grew in the
00:53:48
early morning of the 30th of April 2012 the eleventh day of Allison's disappearance Daryl Joyce a professor of
00:53:55
horticulture at the University of Queensland walked his kayak down to the Brisbane River
00:54:01
kolo Creek runs directly into the Brisbane River at Anstead in brisbin's West Daryl began paddling upstream on
00:54:09
the smaller required eccolo Creek he could see the cold low creek bridge up ahead with its tall concrete pylons
00:54:16
leading up 14 metres to the road bridge which was always busy at that time of morning the scrubland on the side of the
00:54:23
creek was dense and steep with most areas not accessible on foot the banks were thick with mud
00:54:31
he caught a glimpse of something on the edge of the creek bank directly underneath the bridge as he paddled
00:54:37
closer he noticed the clothing his kayak drifted past before he realized that the
00:54:44
clothing looked just like clothing he had seen on a mannequin set up on the roadside the clothing was covered with
00:54:50
leaves and debris Darrell was unable to turn around the current was too strong but as he looked back he had no doubt
00:55:00
what he had just seen he quickly paddled home and called the police when police got to Kolo bridge and saw the body down
00:55:10
on the creek bank the road was closed and the forensics team was brought in Allison was clothed still wearing her
00:55:18
running shoes with our laces tied and her walking gear her arms round comfortably tangled in the jumper she
00:55:24
was wearing and it was pulled up over her head her hair was matted and muddy with foliage in it just like her water
00:55:31
soaked clothes her engagement ring and wedding band was caked in mud and still on her left ring finger
00:55:38
dr. Nathan mill specialist forensic pathologist was called to the scene he arrived with two other pathologists they
00:55:46
viewed the body from the top of the 4-day meter bridge and watched as two officers were winch down with the help
00:55:51
of the Queensland Fire & Rescue Service norm conducted a preliminary exam under the cover of the marquee which had been
00:55:59
set up on the bridge Allison was not recognizable enough to be visually identified nilam determined her body
00:56:06
showed signs that were consistent with her being deceased for 11 days there were no visible signs of foul play
00:56:14
Allisyn was taken to the morgue for a full autopsy including skins to determine if there were any fractures or
00:56:20
injuries which could have contributed to her cause of death police stationed themselves at around about between the
00:56:27
Baden clays home and the Colo Creek Bridge in the hope that a passing motorist may have seen something
00:56:33
the Baden clays home was 14 kilometers away from the bridge Allison's mobile phone still hadn't been located the Find
00:56:42
My Friends app had narrowed its location down to a 150 meter radius of Allison in
00:56:47
Jared's house but several searchers had resulted in no find with the recovery of
00:56:52
Allison's body search teams were sending out again to try and find her phone nearby where Allison's body was found
00:56:59
was a 15 hectare property that belonged to the Scout Association of Australia police increased the area to be cordoned
00:57:06
off when Allison's family heard the news they were at the search command post at
00:57:14
Brookfield Oval it wasn't just Allison's family who broke down police and a community alike were unable to control
00:57:20
their grief Jared's parents emerged from their home and lowered the Australian flag in their front yard to half-mast
00:57:28
Jarrod said he was devastated by the loss of his wife and in a public statement released by his lawyer he said
00:57:34
that his primary concern was the care of his three daughters who were unable to come to terms with what had happened to
00:57:40
their mother the autopsy report stated that both the neck band and waist band of the jumper
00:57:48
Ellison was wearing were up around her neck it could have been moved or pushed to this position after death but it
00:57:54
could not be ruled out that it was used as a ligature no definite injuries could
00:57:59
be identified during the autopsy although that determination was greatly limited by the state of decomposition
00:58:04
the wording in the report was no injuries or other findings to account for death there were no injuries
00:58:12
consistent with being washed around in moving water there were no injuries to suggest sexual assault the only evidence
00:58:20
of any injury was an apparent bruising Alison's in her left chest wall this bruise which was not 100% confirmed
00:58:27
could not be linked to any disease or fracture and may have resulted from impact to the chest with a probable
00:58:32
degree of mild force some granular matter was found behind one eye which may suggest hemorrhaging from blunt
00:58:39
force trauma but again this wasn't able to be confirmed 100% due to the degree of decomposition the autopsy report
00:58:48
stated quote the degree of decomposition was significant and this limited interpretation of all facets of the
00:58:55
post-mortem examination it is most likely that the effects of decomposition destroyed or concealed evidence of the
00:59:01
cause of death the circumstances are certainly in favor of an unnatural cause of death the report went on to explain
00:59:09
that drowning also had to be considered because Allison was in such close proximity to the creek there was also
00:59:15
the question if she fell from the bridge but her body didn't show the fractures and injuries consistent with falling 14
00:59:21
meters also her body was found at directly underneath the bridge so she would have had to have been moved after
00:59:28
falling there was the chance however that she fell into the water which would have caused minimal injury then drowned
00:59:35
and washed up on the bank although it was noted as something which could not be ruled out Milind found no evidence of
00:59:43
this occurring Allison's cause of death was certified as undetermined police had gained information about
00:59:55
Jared and Tony's affair from Tony herself they had also been speaking to friends of the couple as well as Jared's
01:00:01
work colleagues who were able to shed light on what had been going on day to day when Jared hired Tony in 2008 to
01:00:08
join his new team he already knew her as he had sold the property Tony and her then-husband owned it only took a matter
01:00:15
of months for them to kick off a full-blown affair four years prior to Allison's death back then Tony wasn't
01:00:23
showing telling Jared that she'd had an attraction to him from the very beginning her marriage was struggling
01:00:29
too and it seemed all she needed was a final reason to end it that reason came one night when her and Jared were both
01:00:36
back late at the office before long Jared's colleagues and business partners knew full well he was hooking up with
01:00:43
Tony neither of them were very good at hiding it but they denied it nonetheless worked
01:00:50
in his conferences and to local celebrations were awkward events for Juraj colleagues who knew what was going
01:00:56
on often they were told Allison couldn't make it and then during the event Jared
01:01:01
and Tony would disappear together sometimes Jared and Tony would act like a happy couple flirting in front of
01:01:07
everyone occasionally to the horror of those who knew both allison and tony would end up at the same event and it
01:01:14
was obvious Tony would feel awkward and leave there was the end of 2009 almost a
01:01:21
year and a half into the affair when Jared's business partners got the truth out of the pair Jared was still lying to
01:01:27
their faces but it was Tony who finally admitted it she was worn down by the deceit Jared had been telling her for so
01:01:35
long he would leave Alison but he never did time after time another excuse would
01:01:41
come up Tony just wanted it out in the open two years into the affair during a discussion with Alison jared admitted he
01:01:51
didn't love her anymore but he still didn't leave her 2011 came around and the affair was still going on but Alison
01:02:00
was still completely oblivious to Jared's double life It was as though Jared couldn't bring
01:02:05
himself to lose Alison that was the year his business partners threatened him that it was not good for business it was
01:02:12
stressful for everyone and de tournay jared chose between Alison and Tony in September 2011 seven months before
01:02:19
she disappeared Alison found out about the affair it had been going on for three years at this point she had asked
01:02:27
Jared before if he was seeing someone else and he had denied it but this time when she asked again he admitted
01:02:34
everything he was tired of lying he told her he was seeing Tony from the office Alison's entire world fell down around
01:02:44
her as she lost all ability to comprehend what he was saying Jared told her he didn't love Tony
01:02:50
he loved Alison and the children and wanted to be with them Jared did what he had done countless times before he chose
01:02:59
Alison Jared's affair with Tony ended in an argument Tony had always been told by Jared that
01:03:06
he didn't love Allison that it was her he wanted to be with but every time he faced the reality of ending his marriage
01:03:12
he wasn't able to do it Jared fired Tony at the request of his business partners
01:03:18
and he stopped contacting her outside of work Jared decided he needed to focus on
01:03:23
turning his business around one business partner had already left and his goal was to buy the other two partners out
01:03:29
completely he just needed the money to do it but three months later he changed his mind and asked to see Tony again he
01:03:39
took his wedding ring off and said to her I love you and I'm going to be leaving my wife they continued the
01:03:47
affair and Jared planned to their future together he told Tony he would marry her one day
01:03:53
as far as Alison knew however the affair was over in Jared was committed to making their marriage work
01:03:59
on the 3rd of April 2012 two weeks before Alison's murder Jarrod wrote Tony an email quote I have given you a
01:04:09
commitment and I intend to stick to it I will be separated by July 1st 2012 then
01:04:16
a few days before Allison's disappearance jared wrote another email to Tony he told her he loved her three
01:04:23
times then finished with the words leave it to me neo struggling to pay his debts and to
01:04:38
needing money urgently to buy his remaining two business partners out Jared was hitting up everyone for cash
01:04:43
three of his best friends came up with some money in excess of two hundred and seventy thousand dollars that helped him
01:04:50
clear some credit card debt but things were snowballing police looked into Jared's finances and realized the full
01:04:57
extent of his debt he owed around 1 million dollars they started wondering if Jared had held out for so many years
01:05:04
on ending his marriage because he knew a divorce would make his financial situation even worse he simply couldn't
01:05:11
afford one just before Alison disappeared Jared decreased her life insurance to save
01:05:19
money on the premiums but the grace period on those changes hadn't ended yet so her insurance was still sitting at
01:05:27
around 1 million dollars when she disappeared the day after Allison's body was found
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Jared found the insurer to lodge a claim when analysts examined at the home computer they found that minutes before
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Jared made the emergency call to report Alison missing he got on his computer and googled right to silence
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they believed Jared was familiarizing himself with his legal rights at 6:30 in the morning when he thought his wife was
01:05:55
just out for her morning walk but Jared claimed he had done that search previously while watching the TV
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show The Good Wife and for some reason the search had reloaded on the morning Alison went missing Jared had told
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police in his interview that Alison had brought up the affair shortly after that
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good the kids to bed they had a chat about it it wasn't heated but Alison was definitely upset then he said he had
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enough and went to bed that was the last time he saw her on May 11th 2012 Alison's funeral took
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place in Ipswich nearly 600 people showed up with many spilling out onto the front lawn of the Anglican Church
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has a large black-and-white photo of Ellison stared back in the pack to church her brother and sister gave the
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eulogies at the end of her sister's eulogy she said quote Allison there are many questions unanswered many pieces of
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the puzzle unsolved we're your family pledged to you we will have them answered Jared held the hands of his three
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daughters as they placed posies on the coffin meanwhile media continued that can't be outside Jared's parents house
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24 hours a day dr. Gordon Gama the director of Queensland's herbarium worked closely with the investigation to
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help determine the last movements of Allison before her death he studied the leaf material which was found in
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Allison's hair and around her head and shoulders the aim was to determine her faunal movements and possibly even her
01:07:28
movements after she was killed dr. Ghana ascertained there were six species of leaves present in Allison's
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here it would be assumed that those six species of leaves would be present along
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the creek and on the creek bed he went down to where Allison's body was found and conducted further tests of the six
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species of leaves he could only find evidence of two of those species either in the foliage along the creek itself or
01:07:52
in the scrub leading up to the road this meant that the leaves had come from elsewhere he then took his investigation
01:08:00
to the family home after an examination of the yard he was able to match all six
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species of leaves to those present in the Baden clays garden specifically the area around the back patio this meant
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there was a high chance that Allison had been in the foliage of her own garden prior to arriving at the creek bed in
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order to prove there was no doubt dr. guma walked the 14 kilometers from the baden
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clays house to the Kolo creek bed he walk along the winding roads and thick bush and scrubland to see if there was
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any other location to match the leaves there wasn't there was no way the leaves got in Allison's hair while walking to
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the creek the only location where all six leaf species were present was at home in her garden this pointed directly
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to an altercation at the house on the morning of June 13th 2012 jared was taken into inter pili police station his
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three daughters were taken to a different police station and into police care until Allison's parents arrived to
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collect them after pursuing 1500 different lines of inquiry and gathering 500 witness statements Jaret bade and
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clay was arrested for the murder of Alison Baden clay Jarrod maintained his innocence he was handcuffed and escorted
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to a waiting police car to be taken to the Brisbane watch house dave murray journalist the north her of the book the
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murder of Alison Baden clay describes how the media were reacting at the time everyone had an opinion about Jarrod and
01:09:39
whether he was guilty or innocent police were saying very little about their investigation and a lot of the facts
01:09:44
wouldn't come out publicly until after he was charged but he was doing his best to look guilty he was virtually on the
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run from the media and there was a good reason why what we didn't know at the time was that he had these scratches on
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the side of his face it was what made police so suspicious of him in the first instance that they'd never talked about
01:10:02
the scratches publicly and Jared had managed to avoid any detailed inspection from the cameras he'd immediately
01:10:09
started growing this beard which was odd for someone who was usually looking and
01:10:13
so clean-cut and professional we didn't know at the time but it was to cover the
01:10:17
scratches then his business imploded and he had to move into a smaller office and
01:10:22
his financial problems could no longer be hidden the rumors about his affair were confirmed by some of his closest
01:10:29
associates and you had these things that would give him motive to kill his wife but that didn't prove he was a murderer
01:10:35
and it was unclear whether he was going to be charged for journalist it was by far the biggest case we'd ever covered
01:10:42
probably ever will cover people were talking about very little else the following day
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Jared appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court his lawyers lodged the bail application in the Supreme Court during
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the bail application hearing the prosecutor Danny Boyle argued that Jarrod had a financial motive for
01:11:02
killing his wife he also cited entries in Alison's journal that suggests that he may have been having an affair with a
01:11:08
co-worker Justice David badies said that Jarrod posed the significant flight risk
01:11:14
and a bail was refused a Supreme Court judge granted Alison's father temporary control of her estate including her
01:11:24
life-insurance policy in December 2012 six months after his arrest Jarrod's defense lawyer lodged the second bail
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application in the Supreme Court he argued that the Crown's case had been weakened by the results of a post-mortem
01:11:38
examination which showed that Alison had traces of an antidepressant drug in her
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blood leaving open the possibility that she took her own life the bail application was again rejected
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on March 11th 2013 the committal hearing began more than 40 witnesses testified and 330 witness statements were
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presented the arguments against Jarrod were clear he stood to gain a $1,000,000 life insurance payout which would clear
01:12:08
him of debt and he was having a long-running affair in response to criticism that Jarrod wasn't involved in
01:12:17
the search for Alison his defense team stated that the police told him to stay away from the search in case he stumbled
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upon a crime scene this was denied by police and it was made clear by them that Jarrod's decision to stay away from
01:12:30
the search was when he made for himself forensic officer dr. Leslie Griffiths testified that the injuries to Jarrod's
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face seen and photographed on the day of Alison's disappearance were the result of being scratched by Allison's
01:12:44
fingernails it was implausible to say the deep scratches on his face were from shaving
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- GPS were called to testify this is because the morning Jarrod went to heavy scratches checked out the first
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appointment didn't go the way he wanted it to the doctor was not convinced of Jared's
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story about the marks and scratches so he visited a second GP in the hope that that doctor would believe his scratches
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were from shaving cuts the cut on his hand was from changing a light bulb and his chest marks were from a caterpillar
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by numerous neighbors who had heard yells and screams on the night Alison disappeared or testified former cabinet
01:13:20
minister dr. Bruce Flagg who lived almost one kilometre down the road explained that he had two distressing
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screams from his house he walked outside to see if he could see or hear anything
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further but he didn't just like the other witnesses Dr Flegg didn't think it seemed alarming enough to call the
01:13:37
police he then went on to tell the court that in the months leading up to Alison's murder he had been approached
01:13:43
by Jared who requested the borough 400 thousand dollars the boys business partner Xia Dr Flegg refused this
01:13:50
request neil Robertson a police electronic evidence analyst told the court that Jared's iPhone was plugged in
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to be charged after 1:00 a.m. the night Alison disappeared which contradicted Jared's statement that he had slept
01:14:05
solidly or nigh not realizing Alison wasn't in bed although it was believed that Alison's phone was in a 150 meter
01:14:14
radius of her house that was never located dr. Gordon Gama the director of Queensland's herbarium
01:14:21
who had made the discovery of the leaf species in Alison's here presented his evidence to the court his testimony was
01:14:29
followed by professor Maren zelitsky an entomologist he was asked whether the marks on Jared's chest could have been
01:14:36
caused by a caterpillar bite he said that some caterpillars do have poisonous hairs that could cause irritation and
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pain but he found no evidence of such caterpillars existing in the Brookfield area Toni McHugh Jarrod's mistress also
01:14:51
took the stand she confirmed that Jared told her to lay low in the days after Allison's disappearance she also said
01:14:58
that Jared told her that he couldn't afford a divorce homicide detective sergeant Peter
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Roddick told the court that they used the covert surveillance on Jared's phone during the investigation and they were
01:15:10
forced to issue tony with a warning during her interview quote she told us she had not had any contact with the
01:15:16
jared baden clay and we were aware that that was not true Jared's phone records showed the calls
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he had made the Tony most of which were to check what she was saying to the police at the conclusion of the
01:15:30
committal hearing Jared was committed to stand trial his parents and his sister told the media that they believed in his
01:15:37
innocence and did they would continue to support him Jared's trial commenced on June 10th 2014 two years after his
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arrest the trial was presided over by Justice John Byrne 77 witnesses gave evidence on the stand justice Byrne
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warned the jury of seven men and five women not to discuss the case outside of the court and to refrain from both
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mainstream media as well as social media he requested that they focused purely on
01:16:06
the evidence presented to them considering how highly publicized the investigation and the court proceedings
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had been already Dave Murray describes the amount of attention the trial received the interest in Jared's trial
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was like something we'd never seen from the beginning members of the public were
01:16:24
arriving very early before the courthouse opened to lineup so that they could get a seat so many people came
01:16:31
that a second court was open with a live video stream for the overflow then a third court was open the biggest in the
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entire courthouse and you had these three courts full of people for the one trial plus a separate media room
01:16:46
court officials started handing out numbered tickets to get people in in an orderly way the size and tension seemed
01:16:53
to grow every day Allison's large family would turn up after she went missing they're taken to wearing yellow her
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favorite color they've been told not to wear yellow for the trial because it could influence the
01:17:05
jury Jared's family were there every day too and they seem to be commonly wearing
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purple no one really knew why but one interesting observation is that purple is directly opposite yellow on the color
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wheel Australian law doesn't allow call proceedings to be televised so the only way to catch a glimpse of Jared was to
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be in the court itself the case was so infamous people told me they traveled thousands of kilometres to be there as
01:17:32
the case reached its climax and with Jared actually testifying people started arriving at five and six o'clock in the
01:17:38
morning the building didn't even open until 8:30 and the proceedings didn't start until 10 a.m.
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consultant Crown prosecutor Danny Boyle and Todd fuller QC presented a marriage full of emotional abuse infidelity and
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greed the court was shown photographs of Alison's body lying in it's unnatural pose covered in mud and foliage on the
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bank of the creek their key witness was Tony McHugh who told the court of the three years of hiding behind Allison's
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back and to the promises Jarrod made to her she truly believed it Jared loved her when Alison first disappeared Tony
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thought Jared must have told her he was leaving her for good and Alison simply ran away of her own accord because she
01:18:25
was so upset the prosecution claimed to the Jared killed Alison and dragged her out the backyard over the patio where
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the leaves gathered in her hair he then took her towards the carport where he put her in the back of her own car and
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drove to the Kolo Creek Bridge in the darkness he carried her body down a steep embankment in order to dump her on
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the edge of the creek in the hope that her body would be washed away Jared sat in the dock quiet and almost
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uninterested even when photos of his wife's decomposing body were displayed in front of him he looked on unfazed
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[Music] Nathan Milne the forensic pathologist who examined Allison's body at the scene and the
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following day at the morgue took the stand confirming that there was no substantial injuries that could
01:19:10
immediately confirm cause of death he mentioned the small bruise on the internal lining of her chest wall which
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may have been caused by blunt force trauma there was Millan's opinion that Alison had been placed under the bridge
01:19:23
in the location she was found within hours of her death this was determined during her post-mortem examination as
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there were features such as hypostasis which is the settling of blood with gravity the blood had settled on her
01:19:37
right side just the way she was found although it couldn't be 100% ruled out he found no evidence to suggest drowning
01:19:45
or falling from the bridge jared was represented by michael byrne QC not to be confused with the
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prosecution deputy director michael byrne QC who had prosecuted brett kel and for daniel Malcolm's murder earlier
01:20:00
that year case 54 of case file he argued that the Razr did cause the cuts on Jared's face and that there was no
01:20:08
physical evidence to prove otherwise likewise with the caterpillar boy he also focused on Alison's depression
01:20:16
cross-examining friends and family as well as her psychologist he was trying to establish whether Allison's mental
01:20:23
health may have led her to walk off dazed or to take her own life the court heard that although it was true that
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Allison had suffered postnatal depression throughout her pregnancies and her young daughters lives she had
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been carefully keeping herself in check and her doctors felt she was in a good place with her treatment it also came
01:20:42
out that Allison was in a good mood morning before she disappeared she spoke to another mother at the school about
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all the things she was looking forward to at the time the jury was presented with recordings from police interviews
01:20:55
with Jared and Allison's daughters on the day of Allison's disappearance their youngest daughter said mummy went off
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for a walk I think and we think she twisted her ankle Jared had been unemotional throughout the trial up to
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this point but when he saw his daughters on the screen he started to cry on the video Allison and Jared's middle
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daughter sat talking to detectives she was crying so much that she was struggling to get her words here she
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said that on the night her mom disappeared Allison put her to bed exactly the same
01:21:29
way she did every night singing her a song then Allison came back in later and checked on her again before she herself
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went to bed when their detective asked her how she knew this their daughter replied because she said she would pages
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of Allison's diary were ready up from the days prior to her disappearance as well as other entries going back to 2010
01:21:53
the words scrawled in a lined notebook showed her sadness at the breakdown of her marriage and her shame at her belief
01:22:00
that she wasn't good enough to hold on to it the journal mentioned a Jared laughing as he told Allison how
01:22:07
different she was to Toni Allison wrote quote had so many opportunities to tell me let me believe it was all my fault
01:22:15
and therefore I was at your mercy forced me to look at you think that's where you
01:22:20
wanted me do you regret the whole thing or just getting caught [Music] in a section titled fear Allison wrote I
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don't want to be alone I'm afraid of being alone and lonely maybe because I think I can't handle it I am afraid of
01:22:39
failing failing in my marriage and what people will think in a section titled relationship rescue I would give
01:22:48
anything if my partner would love me and make love to me I wish my husband loved
01:22:53
me like he did before we were married he finally I had put some more work into our marriage and not just being a mother
01:22:58
and forgot about being a wife sometimes at night I feel lonely and cry it hurts me when my partner won't give me a
01:23:06
proper hug in 2010 Allison wrote a gratitude list today I am grateful for the loving text I just received from my
01:23:18
husband my wonderful parents and their tireless unconditional love my sister in law for all she has done for me in the
01:23:25
past her support while I was sick two days before Allison disappeared she indicated she knew Jared and Toni had
01:23:33
started their affair again she wrote were you prepared to live with the guilt if I hadn't found out afterwards why so
01:23:42
mean dirty find the whole thing dirty maybe on pruden still get sick in the stomach
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on the opposite page of the notebook was a drawing of a floor plan of a house it
01:23:56
was Tony's apartment and it was drawn by Jared at Alison's request there was a circle around a room bedroom one the
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crown believed this was drawn during the 15-minute discussion the couple had the
01:24:12
night Alison disappeared just the hours before her life ended the defense implied that this was an indication of
01:24:19
her state of mind she was so depressed she took her own life when Jared took the stand the air in the court was tense
01:24:29
it was the moment of truth for both sides Jared's barrister asked him whether he
01:24:35
contacted Alison's life insurance company on May 1st 2012 the day after her body was found
01:24:42
Jared became emotional and replied that's correct the day before we had found Alison's body and we knew it had
01:24:50
been confirmed it was her dad told me that I really had an obligation to the insurers to let them know that was why I
01:24:57
made the call when asked if he was under significant financial or relationship pressure he answered that's not correct
01:25:07
Alison and I were working together very well on both our relationship and the business financially the business was
01:25:13
turning around and we were moving forward things were getting better he denied that he was leaving Alison for
01:25:22
Tony stating my intention was to end any relationship with Tony McHugh and solidify and continue to rebuild the
01:25:29
relationship with Alison for our future together during cross-examination Jared denied he was ever in love with Tony he
01:25:38
agreed that he had deceived Alison for more than four years as well as the saved Tony and his own family but he
01:25:44
denied that in the months leading up to Alison's disappearance he renewed his affair and he also denied that he had
01:25:49
set up a fake email address to email Tony when the question was put to him then he couldn't live without Tony he
01:25:56
denied it saying I often said to her things in order to placate her what she wanted to hear I hoped it would calm her
01:26:04
I wanted to keep having sex with her and had no intention of leaving my wife his
01:26:11
defense barrister asked how long he had been married to Allison Jarrod replied we would have been coming up through our
01:26:18
14th wedding anniversary as Michael Byrne went on to his next question the most pointed question of the day and
01:26:25
the one question every single person in the courtroom wanted to hear answered it
01:26:29
was clear that Jarrod had got his dates wrong as Michael Byrne began asking mr. Baden clay did you kill Jared
01:26:38
interrupted cutting him off mid-sentence sorry it would have been coming up to our 15th
01:26:46
michael byrne then repeated the question jared answered no I did not on July 15th
01:26:57
2014 the jury reached their verdict Jared abate and clay was found guilty as Allison parents her older sister and
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her younger brother prepared victim impact statements for the court Jarrod cried and shook in the dock
01:27:17
Allison sister Vanessa said in her statement quote I feel cheated that I never got to say goodbye I have been
01:27:26
robbed of a life together with my sister we will never get to have that one last
01:27:30
cup of coffee together or exchange parenting advice and share highlights of our children's lives
01:27:35
I miss her the way she smiled I look at her photo and wonder what could have been her life her dreams were cut short
01:27:43
and if the lives of many changed forever Allison never allowed depression to take
01:27:50
over her life she was never so debilitated that she could not function like any other mother with three
01:27:55
children in a household to run she was busy tired and stressed Allison's father Jeff said in his statement quote Allison
01:28:07
had been convinced that she was inadequate and not a good wife and mother she was constantly trying to
01:28:12
improve herself in her appearance to measure up to the expectations of her husband she tried hard to save her
01:28:18
marriage finally in the end she paid the ultimate price for her marriage and the
01:28:23
love of her three daughters Jeff also said later not part of his victim impact statement I gave you permission to marry
01:28:32
my daughter but I didn't give you permission to harm her Jarrod was sentenced to life in prison with a
01:28:41
minimum term of 15 years shortly after the verdict Jared and his lawyers appealed claiming he was a victim of a
01:28:49
miscarriage of justice after the verdict was handed down Allison's family and friends released yellow balloons outside
01:28:56
the Brisbane Supreme Court in honor of her favorite color in July 2015 a year after Jarrod's
01:29:04
conviction Allison's family and friends set up a charity allisyn's gift to help kids who experience trauma Alison sister
01:29:13
Vanessa spoke about how lucky the three girls were that they had strong family and community support but they
01:29:19
recognized that not all children would have such immense support or resources in a similar situation
01:29:24
Vanessa spoke to The Courier Mail newspaper quote we won Alison's legacy to continue we want her memory to live
01:29:33
on in the community by helping children who have been through trauma and financial hardship we can give back to
01:29:38
them because the community supported us so well when our three girls needed at the most on December 8th 2015 almost a
01:29:50
year and a half after his conviction jared was successful in his appeal he had his murder conviction downgraded to
01:29:57
manslaughter three judges in the Queensland Court of Appeal ruled that there was not enough evidence to show
01:30:03
that Jarrod intended to kill Alison his legal team successfully argued that the conviction should be overturned because
01:30:11
Jarrod might have accidentally killed Alison during a violent argument about Tony and then covered up what he had
01:30:17
done in a panic the judges agreed and Jared's resentencing was scheduled for 2016
01:30:25
the community was outraged the whole country was outraged a petition was started calling on the Queensland
01:30:32
Attorney General to uphold the original conviction and had more than 120,000 signatures in two weeks the petition
01:30:40
read we the people of Australia are outraged by the decision of the Queensland court to reduce jared baden
01:30:46
clays conviction for the murder of his wife Alison to the lesser charge of manslaughter we are requesting the
01:30:52
Queensland attorney-general files an appeal against this decision rallies were held and there was mass
01:31:00
public outcry Jared's conviction being reduced to manslaughter as a result the High Court of Australia agreed to hear a
01:31:07
rare appeal of the appeal court's decision the High Court of Australia is the highest court in the country there
01:31:14
was nowhere else to go if this was unsuccessful Alison's friends and family all wore yellow ribbons as they filled
01:31:21
the court house along with many of the detectives who worked tirelessly on the case the Queensland Court of Appeals
01:31:27
decision came under immense scrutiny Justice Patrick Kane said Jarrod didn't claim he accidentally killed his wife
01:31:35
Alison when he had the chance at trial and his evidence was actually inconsistent with any notion at all that
01:31:41
there was an unintended killing by him justice Bell said it was not easy necessarily to kill a person without
01:31:48
intending at the least to do grievous bodily harm the High Court reached their decision in
01:31:55
August 2016 they threw out the decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal and reinstated Jared's murder conviction he
01:32:05
was ordered to serve his original sentence of life with a minimum term of 15 years
01:32:11
Queensland's Law Society president bill Potts spoke publicly of the decision quote arguably one of the most
01:32:18
high-profile and emotive cases in Queensland's legal history what this simply means is the justice system works
01:32:25
the original decision was in line with the understanding of the law at that time and the higher court's decision
01:32:31
reflects the current interpretation of the law this is a decision not just for Queensland or further Badin clay family
01:32:38
it is a decision for all Australians the way in which circumstantial evidence may
01:32:43
be used and post defense behavior may be used has now been clarified by the High
01:32:47
Court that in turn can be utilized across a range of cases that are waiting in the wings this is an important
01:32:55
precedent he said it was now up to the Queensland parole board to decide if jared baden
01:33:01
clay should ever be released Alison's friend and spokeswoman for the family Carrie Anne Walker spoke with relief
01:33:09
quote the law has acknowledged what we who were closest to her knew from that very morning Alison went missing
01:33:17
that is the she was murdered jarred maiden claimer derd his amazing wife Alison today's decision brings an end to
01:33:26
Jared's attempts to smear Alison's named if some were in doubt as to his true nature his behavior after Alison
01:33:33
disappeared and during the trial must have removed that day out her legacy will be her beautiful three girls who
01:33:40
surrounded nearby their memories of Alison and the love and support of Alison's devoted family are thriving in
01:33:46
their busy lives all who know them are confident they will go on to achieve great things I am in or every day of how
01:33:54
well Alison's parents Geoff and Priscilla and her sister Vanessa deal with their day-to-day busy lives
01:33:59
the girls are certainly a tribute to them in early 2017 it was ruled that Jared would not see a cent of Alison's
01:34:09
life-insurance money that will be transferred into the trust fund set up for Alison in Jared's three daughters
01:34:26
special thanks to David's Marines journalists for The Courier Mail newspaper in Queensland and the author
01:34:32
of the murder of Alison Baden clay all marriages have their secrets it's a great book written by a local journalist
01:34:38
who worked on the case thank you David for your wisdom and support with this episode