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[Music] on the 4th of March 2008 Julian Buckwald took his girlfriend Carolyn Watson for a
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picnic lunch to a waterfall located on a remote property in budget country Victoria the day soon turned into a
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nightmare when Julian and Carolyn were abducted by a masked attacker it wasn't long before Julian's mother located a
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frightening note from a satanic cult claiming responsibility for the abduction and threatening to kill both
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Julian and Carolyn both of whom were devout Christians this sparked the frantic widespread search for Julian and
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Carolyn be found alive was this really the work of a satanic cult what was there something even more sinister going
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on [Music] [Music] Jullian Buckwald was 22 years old he was from buggery a small country town in the
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Latrobe Valley in Victoria about 160 kilometers which is about 100 miles southeast of Melbourne
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carolyn watson was 17 years old she lived nearby to Julian in the town of Churchill also in Latrobe Valley of
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Victoria they'll both small country towns and both Julian and Carolyn's still live with their parents on the 4th
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of March 2008 Julian and Carolyn had organised to go on a picnic at Julian's parents property and budgie the property
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was a rural remote area mostly bushland it covered an area of about 500 hectares
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which is about five kilometers squared or around two miles squared so it's a pretty large area Julian and Carolyn
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planned to visit a waterfall that was on the property to have their lunch together
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Julian Pete Carolyn up in the morning in his 99 gold-colored four-wheel drive Nissan Patrol and they left for the
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waterfall they plan to be back around 3:00 p.m. that afternoon they took only basic clothing and only the food and
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drink they needed for lunch before they arrived at the waterfall Julian stopped the car to check out the carcass of a
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dead animal he had seen so he stops the car and tells Carolyn who will be back in a few minutes he'd stopped the car a
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little up the road from the carcass so he had to walk back a short distance and he was out of sight from Carolyn as he
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kneels down to check out the carcass the nightmare begins he his footsteps running up a horn him
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and he feels a hard blow to the back of his head and he goes out cold knocked unconscious
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while this is happening Carolyn remains waiting in the car after about five to ten minutes she starts getting a little
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concerned it wasn't unusual for Julian to stop the car and get out to look at various things dead animals included but
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he usually was pretty quick about it he didn't usually take this long Carolyn starts to think about getting out of the
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car to go and look for Julian when a person catches her eye in the side mirror a person dressed in black wearing
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gloves and a balaclava is charging towards the car Carolyn Springs but before she can think
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about locking herself in the car the attacker has the door open and drags her out Carolyn gets thrown to the ground
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hard the attacker doesn't waste any time he immediately hog ties her and covers her mouth with duct tape
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hit him picks her up and throws her into the backseat of the car a little while later the attacker gets into the
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driver's seat and starts driving away Carolyn was beyond terrified she assumes the worst thinking she's about to be
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raped and murdered after several hours of driving the attacker eventually stops Carolyn was dragged out of the car and
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thrown to the ground her mouth was still duct-taped shut so she couldn't scream she was still hogtied so she couldn't
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move and then she heard the sound that made her certain her life was about to end Julian and Carolyn obviously didn't
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arrive home at 3 p.m. there was an out of character for them to be late Julian's mother starts to worry and
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starts pacing around walking up the driveway to see if there's any sign of them coming up the road and that's when
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she sees it a bottle stuck through their wire fence but a piece of paper hanging in Julian's
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mother quickly opened up the piece of paper and she nearly fainted the piece of paper red and there's a language
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warning here you bloody couldn't leave us alone so your son and girl won't walk about you get Carolyn and Julian back
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when we finish our business in the area but only if you behave yourself and don't cheat us around again tell
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everyone they're on holiday don't you dare talk to the cops again and you'll get your kids back shoot us
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again and you never see them again cuz we'll [ __ ] the girl to death and burn her alive and the bloody boy will really
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enjoy the torture and sacrifice to our God to pay back 180 times the hurts he did to us
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when we picked him up this is your last warning do what we say and the kids come
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back in a live condition Julian's mother is obviously terrified and distraught she immediately calls the
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police threats don't get to more serious than this the police are on high alert straight away they organized the large
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search operation by both Lind and Boyer it wasn't an easy search not only was there a large area they had to cover it
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was also very tricky terrain it's remote bushland with a huge amount of dirt roads hidden roads side roads an
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extensive off-road thick bush area there was a hard search made harder by the fact that pressure was on it sounded
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like Carolyn and Julian were in the hands of complete psychopath while the search was being conducted detectives
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got to work trying to find out who was responsible and what they motive was the note indicates there was some kind of
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prior history between the kidnappers and the BOK world family but not to the buckwalds knowledge they couldn't make
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any sense of the letter all the threats they hadn't had trouble with anyone but when interviewing Carolyn's parents they
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were shocked to find out they had gotten a threatening letter from the same person about 10 days earlier the letter
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said words to the effect of more drone business and stay away or I'll make your life a bloody misery and destroy you and
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your family it also says Christians are their enemies Carolyn's father found it left on their front porch one morning
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and reported it to local police however nothing was done it was chalked up to be
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a sick prank at the time Carolyn's father immediately recognized it was from the same person as it had
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the same writing and also the same symbol that was on the letter found at the buckwalds
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the symbol on both letters gave them a hint as to why Christians were their enemies there was a satanic symbol there
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was the symbol of the ona the order of nine angles a satanic cult known to preach human sacrifice the letters were
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very concerning for police and gave them great fears for Carolyn and Julian safety they were both devout Christians
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which is what they felt they were targeted by a satanic cult police feared they'll make good on their threats and
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conduct a human sacrifice on them after 48 hours of extensive searching there was still no trace of Julian or Carolyn
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news quickly spread of their disappearance through their local community and their church pastor held
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constant prayer vigils for their safe return police interviewed the pastor to get his take on the satanic cult angle
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they felt he might be able to provide some valuable information what he had to say surprised police they thought it
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would be the first to believe in the satanic cult being responsible but he wasn't he didn't even believe they were
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kidnapped he believed they had just run away together through their questioning of the pastor they learnt the Julian and
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Carolyn were strict believers in their faith and for that reason the physical side of their relationship had not
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gotten past holding hands he had recently had a meeting with the couple and learned that they planned to get
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married but couldn't just yet because of Carolyn's age the pastor believed that's
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what they had done run away together to get married although he couldn't explain
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the two nights that were found the language in Vall nature of the notes was far removed from anything Julian and
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Carolyn would do police started to investigate the possibility that Julian and Carolyn had
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run away together but they didn't get very far with it remember Julian and Carolyn didn't take any clothes or
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supplies with them and they only had the food they'd pack for their lunch also their bank accounts hadn't been touched
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the running away together theory didn't really hold water especially when you add in the threatening letters that have
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been received police were of the firm belief that Julian and Carolyn had been the victims
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of foul play they focused their investigation into the order of nine angles cult they found
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the satanic cult was started in England in the 1960s they had affiliates around the world the cult advocated a spiritual
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path in which practitioners were required to isolate themselves from society commit crimes embrace political
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extremism and violence and carry out a human sacrifice the problem the police ran into was that they couldn't find any
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evidence of the cult existing in Australia they had no reports of anyone being a member of the cult there were no
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previous cases on record involving the cult there weren't even any rumors of speculation of the cult existing
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anywhere in the country this was baffling and they'll fears that an Australian chapter had just formed
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and I wanted to start off with a bang but conducting a human sacrifice almost a week went by and there was
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still no trace of Julian or Carolyn the searchers had come up empty there was no
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sign of them anywhere the feeling was that the chances of finding them alive when a slim to none
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police switched the focus of the search to finding remains rather than finding them alive
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the rugged bushland had extremely caught temperatures in the day but became freezing cold at night
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there were snakes and spiders everywhere not easy conditions at the best of times
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but when you consider Julian and Carolyn had no food or supplies and minimal clothing the conditions became that much
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worse the remote area meant there were no witnesses so there was no information coming in from the public at all to help
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the investigation the only mode you police could establish at this stage was the order of nine angles cult wanting to
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commit a human sacrifice but given there was no information to suggest a cult even existed in Australia police started
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to explore the possibility that the Knights were left as a diversion to throw them off the trail of the real
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abductors but seven days after their disappearance when all hope seemed lost and police thought they were looking for
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bodies the miracle happened Julian and Carolyn were found alive they stumbled out onto the road near the
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Alpine National Park hundreds of kilometers away from their picnic destination they were picked up by a
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farmer who was driving along the road they would have stood out both were in pretty bad shape
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they'd cuts and bruises and both suffered from bad sunburn their bodies were covered in blisters
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detectives wasted no time they interviewed them straightaway they needed as much information as possible
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the attackers were still out there they thought it very possible other family members of Carolyn or Julian could be at
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risk Carolyn is interviewed and details are attacked to police the attacker dug the
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hole only a few metres away from her the attacker then made his way towards Carolyn he cut her clothing off with a
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knife leaving her completely naked and still tied up she was convinced she was about to be
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raped murdered and then buried in the hole Carolyn does about the only thing she can do she starts to pray she prays
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and praise and praise and almost as if God himself had shown up to save her the attacker disappears she has no idea
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where he went or what he was doing but she seemed to be spared for the time being but she was still tied up and
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couldn't move some time later she hears a familiar voice Julian's voice she cries out Julian is that you he streams
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back yes Julian is also tied up and naked and had just woken up after being knocked out he Wiggles his way through
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the scrub over to Carolyn he sees a knife laying on the ground next to her obviously left there by the attacker he
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grabs the knife and with Carolyn's help they were able to cut the rope they stand up and see the attacker had left
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behind a sleeping bag and a few items of food they'll both terrified they had no
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idea where he was but they could only assume he was coming back at some stage so they got the sleeping bag in the bits
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of food and ran off they were barefoot naked battling the extreme heat during the day and the
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freezing cold at night they both had cut feet and cuts on their body from the bush they were both badly sunburned and
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I both wondered if their lives were about to end if the attacker tracked them down there was a horrific
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experience during their ordeal they got a bit disorientated and ended up back near the site that they had escaped from
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this was bad as I meant the attacker was probably near boy but they got lucky while they were checking out the SOI
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Julian spots a backpack that they had taken with them the day of the picnic he runs over and gets it and they are in
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luck their clothing is inside Julian runs back to Carolyn with the backpack and are able to clothe themselves
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[Music] they stumble around the bush for another few days before locking out and finding
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the road where they were picked up by the farmer luckily the attacker never caught up with him again it was
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important that police identified the site where they escaped from there would be a lot of evidence there which could
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help them track down whoever was responsible police conducted an extensive search of the bush area around
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where Carolyn and Julian were found and they got lucky they found the site they found bits of rope and items of clothing
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they also found the knife the shovel and the duct tape they had a lot of evidence
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not only that they were able to identify the person that owned all of those items
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there was great news albeit somewhat confusing news and it posed a lot more questions than answers because the owner
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of those items was Julian something didn't add up as far as police could tell the attacker didn't bring any
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reason equipment to use he used all Julian's stuff but how did we get it there was another problem Julian had
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described to police Harriers whacked over the head by the attacker knocking him unconscious then he doesn't remember
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anything till he woke up naked tied up in the bush but the mark on Julian's head from where he had been struck was
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hardly visible they didn't really match up with his story being hit hard and not
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there police start to wonder if Julian was somehow involved in his own kidnapping
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[Music] detectives let Julia know his story wasn't adding up they are up front with
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him they basically told him his story was full of [ __ ] they told him to tell them the truth
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and he eventually cracked the evidence exposed his laws he knew it was all over he made full admissions to police that
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he orchestrated the whole attack he was the sole person responsible for Carolyn's kidnapping faking his own
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kidnapping in the process Julian tells detectives everything he points out the spot where he stashed all of his
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supplies he had pre-planned the attack he had buried a map and the other supplies that he needed such as the
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shovel knife rope and duct tape he lied about seeing the dead animal carcass he used that time to change and disguise
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himself as a kidnapper he tied Carolyn up and then drove six hours north to the remote outpour
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National Park area so no wonder the police search failed they had no hope or for Nealon they weren't searching
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anywhere near there Julian chillingly recounts how Carolyn was begging him to stop saying please
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don't do this pleading for a life he describes how he cut off her clothes and dug the hole he
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then details how it took his own clothes off and tied himself up and how he started calling out to Carolyn awhile
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later to make it look like he had been attacked as well so police had their men but what the hell would anybody want to
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kidnap their girlfriend and staged their own kidnapping what reason could possibly exist for Julian to do that
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the reason is Julian staged the whole thing to try and have sex with Carolyn and to get her to marry him throughout
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the entire ordeal Julian was in Carolyn's ear saying that they had to have sex to keep warm at night and for
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that reason it wouldn't be wrong in the eyes of God but Carolyn stuck strong to her faith and refused Julian's advances
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for sex and refused his marriage proposals they had planned to get married one day but there was tension
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between them about the timing Julian wanted to get married now whereas Carolyn wanted to wait until she
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finished her studies plus she wasn't old enough at no stage was Julian ever lost he knew
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exactly where they were the entire time he just pretended to be lost does an excuse to spend more time with Carolyn
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to try and get her to crack and have sex with him Julian thought he would only need a couple of days he'd get Carolyn
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to either have sex with him or agree to get married or both and then they would leave the area but after a week it
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became apparent Carolyn was having none of it so he made his way out towards the road
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to be rescued Julian was charged with unlawfully carrying away against one's will abduction with intent to marry
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abduction for sexual penetration and theft the court heard that as a result of being hog-tied and left in the back
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of the vehicle for six hours Carolyn had severe damage to her neck back and hands
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Julian was found guilty at court in 2009 but he wasn't remanded into custody straight away he was allowed to stay out
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on bail while awaiting the sentencing hearing but Julian didn't want to hang around for his sentencing date he would
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have known he was going to get jail time for what he did so he tried to pull off
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an escape he got hold of a fake Indian passport he dyed his hair and darkened his skin in an attempt to looking in
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there was a ridiculous disguise but he somehow managed to fool Australian customs because he got out of the
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country thankfully he didn't get very far he was the time when he landed his real
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identity was discovered and he was extradited back to Australia his plan was to eventually make his way to
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Germany where he had relatives he was later sentenced to seven years and three months for kidnapping Carolyn and he was
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sentenced to a further six months for skipping bail and leaving the country he had an on parole period of five years
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and three months meaning he is eligible for release Neil and if he isn't here already it won't be long until he is
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