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valder thomas didn't sleep well on the night of tuesday april 25 1978. that evening her husband bill and his
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brother rupert had returned from a day of foraging for mushrooms in the bush near churro
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a small south australian township 90 kilometers northeast of the city of adelaide
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during their hunt they had found something that vowed couldn't stop thinking about
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partially buried under some light scrub was what appeared to be the leg bone of a cow
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although the brothers noted it as strange they carried on mushrooming without giving it too much thought
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when vowder heard about the bone she was rattled the bushland surrounding truro was dry
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and brittle and definitely wasn't suitable for cattle grazing it was an inhospitable area for anything
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other than rabbits and native wildlife and valder couldn't recall ever seeing cows during her previous visits out
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there she went to bed thinking about the bone and when she finally drifted off into a
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restless sleep a voice came to her in her dreams it beckoned her to return to truro
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saying come come two days later valdo urged bill to take her to the spot where the bone was found
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the husband and wife made the drive down the sturt highway past rolling acres of agricultural land
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and sweeping planes until they reached churro with the population of only 800 residents the wheat farming town didn't
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offer much for visitors passers-by had little reason to stop in the area unless they needed a break
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between traveling to other destinations bowder and bill ventured onwards for 16 kilometers eventually pulling off the
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highway and onto swamp road a dirt stretch that led to rugged floodplains scattered with mallee trees
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and native scrubs they parked the car and bill attempted to retrace the steps that he and rupert
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had taken during their hunt for mushrooms finally he found the spot the leg bone was still there partially
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hidden under some brittle branches this time bill and valda drew closer to inspect it
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they pulled it up and to their horror they discovered that on the other end of the bone was a
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woman's shoe inside were the remains of her painted toenails [Music] [Music] eighteen-year-old veronica knight had
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been looking forward to christmas of 1976 for months not only did she enjoy the festive
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season but this year was particularly special veronica had plans to visit some close
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friends in melbourne who had recently welcomed their first baby the trip was a big deal for veronica
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having been raised in the foster care system and spent most of her life in institutions she didn't have any close
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family her mother passed away when she was just a baby and her father was an alcoholic
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who felt unable to raise her on his own it wasn't until veronica was a teenager that she really began to feel part of a
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community she moved into a boarding home for girls and became involved with a local
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anglican church it was there that she formed a close bond with a married couple named peter
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and jeanette woods veronica spent many happy weekends with the woods staying at their house helping
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with church duties and baking in the kitchen with the jeanette when the woods announced they were
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relocating to melbourne to have their first child veronica was crushed but she also looked forward to being able to
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visit them in the big city she spent the next few months working part-time to save enough money to
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facilitate the journey by december of 1976 veronica had everything perfectly planned out
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her train ticket from adelaide was booked for the evening of december 26 and the overnight journey would see her
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arriving in melbourne the morning after she would spend a week with peter and jeanette before returning to adelaide on
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new year's eve veronica had a few purchases she needed to make first so on the evening of
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december 23 she and her friend to jenny made their way into rundle more a pedestrian shopping strip in the heart
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of adelaide's cbd the city was bustling with last minute christmas shoppers and the girls browsed
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happily soaking up the festive atmosphere veronica bought some new clothes and a
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present for the woods's baby after a few hours jenny noticed it was getting late
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the girls had recently moved into a salvation army boarding house which enforced a strict curfew of 11 30 pm
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they decided they'd better head to the bus stop to avoid getting in trouble along the way they passed through the
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city cross arcade and made a last minute decision to have some photos taken in a
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black and white photo booth afterwards they were almost at their bus stop on king william road one of the
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city's main thoroughfares when veronica stopped short she realised she'd left one of her
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shopping bags in the photo booth she told jenny to go ahead without her and that she'd run back to grab her bags
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then catch the next bus home when jenny arrived at the boarding house without veronica the house matron was
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immediately concerned she waited up to make sure that veronica got home safely but as the minutes
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ticked by there was no sign of her by 1am the matron's worries peaked [Music] she found veronica's address book and
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phoned some of her friends to check if veronica had perhaps stayed at one of their homes
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but nobody had seen or heard from her the next day the matron filed a missing person report
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the police didn't seem overly concerned it wasn't unusual for young women to run
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away or go off with friends without telling anyone before reappearing unharmed a few days later
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those close to veronica knew how excited she was about her trip to melbourne and
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hoped that she'd simply show up as planned [Music] on the morning of december 27 1976
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peter woods stood on the platform of melbourne's spencer street station waiting for the overland train from
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adelaide to arrive as he watched the passengers disembark it became clear that veronica wasn't
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among them he called his wife jeanette from a pay phone and said she didn't come
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by the time valder and bill thomas discovered the human leg bone in the bushland surrounding churro veronica
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knight had been missing for 16 months given the opinion of police that she had run away there hadn't been any searches
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for her nor had her disappearance received any publicity police descended on the truero area and
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searched a 600 metre radius from where the leg bone was found they recovered the scattered remains of
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a young woman along with a pair of jeans and a green cardigan it was veronica night
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due to the skeletal state of veronica's remains there was nothing to indicate the cause of her death
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the location near swamp road led investigators to the juice that veronica had likely wandered into the bush in the
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summer heat without adequate supplies where she became disoriented and died of dehydration
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however this explanation didn't entirely add up veronica had absolutely no reason to be
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in such an isolated place and it seemed highly unlikely that she would have ventured so far given her
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upcoming trip to melbourne she had been so looking forward to furthermore the area of adelaide where
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she was last seen was over an hour's drive from churro and she had no means of transport to get herself there
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when veronica went missing she had been carrying a black purse with approximately 180
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cash in it a significant amount of money at the time but the purse was nowhere to be seen
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if she had simply gotten lost following a bush walk had gone awry surely the purse would still have been
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with her investigators admitted that veronica's death was suspicious but with no evidence to suggest an
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alternative and no close family to fight for answers her case was shelved however there was one investigator who
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wasn't prepared to accept that veronica's death was a tragic accident detective sergeant bob giles had been
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working in the missing persons division of the south australian police and had noticed a strange pattern emerge
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during the seven week time frame between christmas of 1976 and early february of
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1977 three young women had gone missing from the city center after waiting for a bus
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four others had gone missing from the vicinity of a bus stop or main road on the city's outskirts
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no witnesses had seen anything untoward and each woman had therefore been marked
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by the police as voluntarily absent partly because of this news of their disappearances had never
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been made public detective giles wasn't buying it although none of the missing women were
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personally connected in any way he believed there were simply too many similarities between each case for the
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disappearances to be coincidental these weren't vulnerable women living on the outskirts of society
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each missing woman came from good homes and had loved ones who were expecting them
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they had all disappeared without making further contact or collecting any of their belongings
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although some of them had run off in the past to detective giles they didn't seem
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like typical runaways his theory was far more serious he believed that a serial killer was at
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play [Music] south australia in the 1970s was considered a relatively safe place
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the most notorious crimes related to children including the mysterious disappearance of siblings jane anna and
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grant beaumont as covered in episode 100 of case file and the suspected abduction
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of joanne ratcliffe and kirsty gordon as covered in episode 163 of case file serial killings were unheard of
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and most murders were committed by someone known to the victim therefore detective giles's theory that
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a serial killer had been operating in adelaide during the summer of 76 and 77 was extreme
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nonetheless he presented his findings to the officer in charge of the major crime
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squad who was flawed by the revelation he agreed that the seven disappearances were likely the cause of a serial
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offender and immediately appointed an investigative team to launch a full enquiry
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the investigative team knew the only way to bring attention to the pattern of missing women was for one of their loved
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ones to speak out if they could raise public awareness someone might come forward with
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information that could lead to their whereabouts however many parents of the missing
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women were reluctant to speak publicly about their daughters some families wanted to avoid potential
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criticism while others viewed their child's disappearance as a private issue detective giles approached one of the
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only families he thought might be willing to help sixteen-year-old julie makita was a
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trustworthy and sensible teenager so when she phoned her parents at 9 30 pm on the evening of january 21 1977
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and asked if she could stay out a little later they didn't hesitate to give their
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permission julie's father told her to be home by 11 and she happily agreed it was the summer holidays and she was
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enjoying the youthful sense of freedom julie and her best friend camilla had spent the day selling jewelry at a small
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streetside stand in the city each earning 10 for their efforts when they closed up shop for the day
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camilla went home while julie and an acquaintance named max returned the unsold inventory to its owner in the
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adelaide central markets julie and max then went to the majestic hotel on king william street to play a
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few rounds of pool the pub was right near the bus stop that would take her home to the inner eastern
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suburb of saint peter's [Music] 11 pm came and went and julie didn't return home
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her parents irush and anne-marie hoped she had simply stayed at a friend's house and forgotten to call
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but when she still didn't make contact the next day they became worried sick they tracked max down to see if he knew
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where julie could be max said that after playing pool he walked julie to her bus stop on king
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williams street at around 10 30 pm as he walked away he saw a white car pull up to the curb and call out to
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julie julie approached the vehicle as though she knew the occupants a man got out of the car and a julie
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climbed into the middle of the front seat the makitas reported julie's disappearance to the police who mostly
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brushed it off as typical teenage antics and assured the worried parents that their daughter would likely show up
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soon irush and anne-marie were convinced that julie wasn't the kind of teenager who would run off with friends without
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letting them know she was a good daughter and a student who planned on becoming a doctor
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maybe she had gotten into an accident or been injured and was unable to get in touch
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still they had their doubts [Music] desperate for answers anne-marie turned to julie's journal and some letters she
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had written to her older sister who lived interstate she discovered that perhaps she didn't
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know her daughter as well as she thought julie wrote of partaking in risky behaviour such as hitchhiking
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anne-marie was shocked she questioned whether julie had perhaps made the ill-informed decision to take
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off on an adventure after all or perhaps join a commune in hindsight the last conversation
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anne-marie had with her daughter had been a strange one julie had asked about her mother's
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younger years and then said we were very happy when we were children my sister and i
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thank you for my childhood mother i just wanted you to know that anne-marie wasn't sure whether to
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interpret that as julie's subtle way of saying goodbye adding to her doubts was a poem she had
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found that julie had written it read the day is done all that could pass past all that could live lived
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all that is was all that was now is then the day is done [Music] julie had been missing for nearly two
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years when detective giles approached the makita family with his theory that julie and several other young women had
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fallen victim to foul play at the hands of a serial offender anne-marie didn't know what to think
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she had tried her hardest not to let her mind go to a dark place and now she was
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being forced to confront her worst fears head-on she and irush agreed to front the media
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to raise awareness about the pattern of missing women in the hopes that would encourage someone with information to
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come forward if nothing else they hoped that sharing their story might persuade other teenage
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girls to be more careful when accepting rides from strangers anne-marie said that julie was a
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fastidious child if someone had offered her a lift and tried to force himself on her
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she would have fought back perhaps that had led the offender to kill her out of panic and then hide her
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body somewhere erous said the hardest thing about julie's disappearance was not knowing
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the truth he likened it to being on an emotional seesaw that was tearing the family apart
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[Music] the makita's story made local headlines with reporters drawing a connection to
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other young women who had gone missing around the same time but nobody came forward with information
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that shed light on any of the girls whereabouts a few weeks later on april 15 1979
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a police officer was patrolling the sturt highway on his motorcycle it was the easter long weekend a
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notoriously dangerous time on the northern roads as motorists flocked from the city to holiday on the nearby york
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peninsula and in the barossa valley wine region the officer was on the lookout for any
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reckless behaviour when he was suddenly flagged down by a group of four young men
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they'd been out hunting rabbits in the bush near truro and had found something disturbing
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they handed the item to the police officer wrapped in a sheet of plastic it was a human skull
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the youths directed police to the paddock where they had made the discovery it was down swamp road just 50 meters
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from the fence line for investigators this location immediately raised red flags
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the location was less than two kilometers from where veronica knight's remains had been found by bill and valde
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thomas a year earlier the chances that two people had innocently lost their lives out in this
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remote area seemed incredibly unlikely a full-scale search of the area was ordered and it wasn't long before
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several more human bones were recovered as well as a pair of women's underwear and a small purse
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when news of the discovery hit the media many anticipated that the body would be
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identified as julie makeda married couple andreas and marguerita pitman were sitting down to watch the
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evening news in their home in tapparu a suburb 18 kilometers northwest of adelaide
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the house had felt quiet ever since their 16 year old daughter sylvia pittman had vanished just over two years
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prior sylvia had dreams of becoming a model and not wanting to rely on her good looks alone she had secured a job in a
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retail boutique in order to learn more about the fashion industry on sunday february 6 1977
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she walked from her home in taparu to catch the bus to work on nearby military road
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and was never seen again when sylvia failed to return home that night her parents were immediately
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worried but weren't sure what to think not long before her disappearance sylvia had run off to melbourne where she'd
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ultimately been placed in a women's detention center the whole experience had frightened her
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and she vowed to her parents that she'd never run away again to avoid a recurrence andreas and
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margareta had made an effort to give sylvia more freedom and they didn't think she'd betray their trust for a
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second time they had filed a missing person report but remained uncertain as to whether
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sylvia had gone off on her own accord or fallen victim to foul play now watching the news they saw that
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skeletal remains of an unidentified female had been found in a paddock near truro for the second time in almost a
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year an item of jewelry had also been recovered a 14-carat gold necklace featuring a
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medallion of a guardian angel andreas and margaret's hearts sank there was no question that the necklace
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belonged to sylvia it had been given to her by her austrian grandmother and she treasured it dearly
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the pitmans contacted police who used the dental records to confirm that the second body found near truro was indeed
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that of sylvia pittman any remaining doubts the police may have had were immediately
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quashed it was now clear they were dealing with a serial killer [Music] a search party was quickly amassed and
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85 police officers and cadets set up camp in the bushland surrounding truro with a designated search area of 20
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square kilometers they worked around the clock sleeping in tents and to makeshift
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bunks inside horse floats cadets crawled through the rugged terrain on hands and knees while
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officers covered the area on horseback and motorcycle they persevered through unseasonable
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heat and light rain convinced that more discoveries were imminent [Music] foraging near the base of a tree near
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where veronica's body was found police came across a woman's shoe it matched the description of one that
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was worn by another young woman who had gone missing around the same time as veronica and sylvia
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police had their suspicions as to who the shoe belonged to but awaited the discovery of any remains before making
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an announcement then on april 26 1979 a team of mounted police carefully led their horses over a barbed wire fence
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bordering swamp road they foraged around and spotted something under a large branch
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it was a shallow grave crudely covered by light bush was the skeleton of fifteen-year-old connie
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jordanitis connie had been having some ongoing conflict at home the teenager sought a level of freedom
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that her strict greek parents didn't allow and in turn they constantly butted heads
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following the advice of some school friends connie reached out to the department of community welfare and
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lodged a complaint against her parents she was temporarily placed in a foster home before the department negotiated
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some conditions for her return to the family home connie's parents reluctantly agreed with
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the department's recommendation that they should let her come and go from the house as she pleased
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it pained them to do so but they were just happy to have their daughter back home
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at around 6 pm on february 9 1977 connie had told her parents she was going to her boyfriend's house and then
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to a drive-in movie her boyfriend lived one kilometer from her home in the western suburb of
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brooklyn park and connie planned to walk there her father offered to drive her but
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connie declined when she failed to return home that night her parents thought she had simply run
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away [Music] they made inquiries with connie's friends and contacted the department of
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community welfare to voice their concerns but four days passed before they reported connie's disappearance to the
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police [Music] detective sergeant bob giles had come across connie's missing person file when
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piecing together the pattern of mysterious disappearances during the summer of 1977 and was convinced that
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she had fallen victim to four play investigators came to the conclusion she may have lied to her parents about going
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to the drive-in and had instead headed into the city where she crossed paths with the killer
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[Music] when the third body found near truro was confirmed to be connie her father jordanis partly blamed the
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department of community welfare for his daughter's death had they not interfered with his family
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business jordana said he never would have let connie go out on her own the night she vanished
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he told reporters i strongly believe it and that's what counts at the moment [Music]
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just 100 meters from where connie's body was found the same team of mounted police came across the remains of
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another young woman her platform sandal still perfectly intact the victim was slightly older than the
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others giving police an indication as to who it might be twenty-six-year-old vicky may hell
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worked as a nurse's aide she was a divorced mother of three who lived with her boyfriend harry in the
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western suburb of caralter park at around 7pm on february 9 1977 vicky was washing the dishes after
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dinner when she overheard a conversation between harry and his brother she thought they were talking about her
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and became upset vicky told harry she was going outside to get some clothes off the line but
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instead she walked outside onto anzac highway a main thoroughfare connecting adelaide's cbd with glenelga beach
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she was last seen waiting for a city-bound bus vicki had run off in the past so harry
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didn't think too much of it at first and was convinced she'd come home eventually
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when vicki still hadn't returned four days later harry told vicki's sister who reported her as missing
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detectives hadn't identified vicky as one of the potential victims of the churro serial killer
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she was older than the others and didn't quite fit the same profile however after forensic investigators
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examined the fourth body found in the bush there was no doubt that it was vicki hell
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[Music] in addition to julie makita there were still two more women who the task force
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believed had fallen victim to the same fate [Music] fifteen-year-old tanya kenny was a
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bright student who naturally excelled at school but despite her academic achievements
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she often clashed with her parents tanya desired a level of freedom that her parents wouldn't allow and this led
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to some ongoing problems on december 31 1976 tanya had asked her parents if she could
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attend a new year's eve party at the and rock surf life saving club in habera a coastal town 80 kilometers south of
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adelaide her parents said no but tanya went anyway she spent new year's day there too
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before leaving to catch a bus back to adelaide on january 2 1977. nobody had seen or heard from tanya
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since and her parents expressly forbid the police from seeking any publicity about her disappearance
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the seventh and final woman that police believed could be a victim of the churro
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serial killer was twenty-year-old deborah lamb deborah was considered a loner who could
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be a little naive in mid-1976 she gave birth to a daughter she felt she was unable to care for and
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had given up for adoption at six months old by february 12 1977 deborah was living in a caravan park in
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the northeastern suburb of windsor gardens at around 6 pm she boarded a bus into
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the city for a night out and never returned debra hadn't spoken to her family for
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five months but she was noticed to be missing when she failed to claim her unemployment benefits or pick up some
00:36:00
items of clothing that she had waiting for her had a church drop in santa her bank account also hadn't been
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touched since the night of her disappearance investigators were convinced that the
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bodies of julie makeda tanya kenny and deborah lamb were amongst those dumped in the bushland surrounding truro and
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the search for their remains continued for days however no further discoveries were made
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and the search camp eventually disbanded with investigators instead turning their
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focus on catching the killer [Music] the case quickly made national headlines with the area described as a quote
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graveyard of missing girls members of the small truro community were outraged that their quiet safe town
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had become associated with such a grisly murder investigation they firmly believed the killer wasn't
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from the area if he was a local he would know about the nearby mine shafts and would have
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dumped the bodies there instead where they'd likely never be found the community also resented the name of
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their town being tied to the crimes there were other townships closer to the dumping ground but the media felt that
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truro was more recognizable to the greater public while the people of churro agonised
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residents of adelaide seemed oddly indifferent despite there being four confirmed
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murder victims and three more missing women suspected of having fallen to the same fate there was an astonishing lack
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of public outrage the only witness to any of the alleged abductions had been julie makita's
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friend max who had seen a man in a white car approach julie on the night that she
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vanished partly because of this people seemed to accept that the young women had likely
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accepted a lift with a stranger and therefore only had themselves to blame [Music]
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one journalist noted outrage and a hue and cry for the killer are noticeably absent
00:38:30
an article in the sydney morning herald read adelaide seems to have accepted their
00:38:36
deaths as if they are merely additions to the road toll an abnormal willingness to treat them as
00:38:42
an inevitable part of modern life there were other reasons that public fears were subdued
00:38:51
for one the distance between adelaide and the dumping ground created a false sense of safety for those who lived in
00:38:58
the city and its surrounding suburbs secondly almost two years had passed since the killer last struck so the
00:39:07
majority simply didn't view the serial killer as a looming threat given the skeletal state of the remains
00:39:16
there was also no forensic evidence to indicate how any of the young women had died
00:39:22
as one psychologist explained this fact also hindered emotional reaction he stated the remains were quote
00:39:33
just bones and rotten material not young girls we can relate to undeterred by the lackluster public
00:39:44
response investigators worked tirelessly to solve the case they reassessed more than 10 000 files
00:39:52
of people who had gone missing from south australia from 1975 onwards to see if any of them fit the same pattern as
00:39:59
the slaying women they re-examined reports of attempted abductions that occurred during late
00:40:06
1976 and early 1977 and found they had a number of reports on file anyone who had witnessed an attempted
00:40:16
abduction during this time was asked to come forward and a reward of thirty thousand dollars for information that
00:40:23
led to an arrest was announced anyone with information who wasn't directly involved with the murders was
00:40:31
promised a pardon but despite the reward being a significant amount of money for the era
00:40:38
nobody came forward at the time criminal profiling was in its infancy and this new technique was
00:40:47
applied to try and pinpoint the likely traits of the truro killer a criminologist deduced that the
00:40:55
perpetrator likely lived in the inner suburbs of adelaide and came across as a normal individual who was
00:41:02
indistinguishable from anyone else in the community [Music] his first murder had likely stemmed from
00:41:10
a sexual encounter with a woman that had gone awry and after realizing he could get away
00:41:15
with it with no public outcry he gained the confidence to do it again he kept returning to truro to dump the
00:41:24
bodies because he felt confident that they wouldn't be found he might have been a lonely individual
00:41:31
and interpreted his victims as troubled or unlikely to be missed [Music] one of the biggest questions was why the
00:41:40
killer had stopped his crime spree had taken place in a short period of time with a suspected
00:41:47
total of seven women abducted and murdered within just the seven week time frame
00:41:54
veronica knight and tanya kenny had gone missing one week apart whereas sylvia pittman connie jordanedes and vicky
00:42:02
howell vanished within just days of one another this meant the killer had escalated at a
00:42:10
rapid pace deborah lam then disappeared three days later and after that there were no more
00:42:18
suspected victims so why stop so suddenly criminologists believed the killer had
00:42:27
either died or been arrested on an unrelated charge and incarcerated they looked into criminals with a record
00:42:35
of violent offending hoping to identify anyone who fit the profile desperate for answers the reward for
00:42:44
information was increased to forty thousand dollars this time it was enough to encourage
00:42:52
someone to speak 32 year old james miller was exercising in the remand yard of adelaide jail when
00:43:03
he looked over and caught sight of a young man he had never seen before to miller the young inmate didn't look
00:43:11
like a typical criminal he had a clean look with no tattoos and seemed to take pride in his appearance
00:43:20
miller who had weathered skin and was slightly balding was instantly struck by the young man's good looks
00:43:29
miller himself was no stranger to institutions born melville raymond juice before later
00:43:36
changing his name via deepol he was raised in a poor family of six children in adelaide's west
00:43:45
he began stealing at a young age and by 11 he was sent to live in a reformatory in the eastern suburbs
00:43:53
by 15 he fled the reformatory stole a car and drove it interstate he was eventually caught and sentenced
00:44:02
to hard labor in new south wales long bay jail from that point on james miller was in
00:44:09
and out of jail for a range of non-violent offences including theft larceny and breaking and entering
00:44:17
he didn't have any close friends and considered himself to be a lone wolf miller was gay and when he caught sight
00:44:26
of the young new inmate across the remand yard he felt an immediate attraction the inmate appeared to be in his late
00:44:35
teens and was about five foot seven inches tall with shoulder-length shiny black hair and a warm friendly smile
00:44:45
the inmate introduced himself as twenty-year-old christopher robin warrell warrell had been raised by his
00:44:52
grandmother and left high school to serve three years in the royal australian air force
00:44:59
he was discharged after being deemed incompatible with service life this was his first time in jail although
00:45:08
he had a prior suspended sentence for armed robbery after he had robbed a hitchhiker of 1.50 cents
00:45:17
this time he'd been accused of rape a crime which he staunchly denied chris warrell explained to miller that
00:45:26
he'd been drunk driving when he picked up a female hitchhiker and the two had engaged in sex
00:45:33
afterwards the woman accused him of raping her but warrell was too intoxicated to remember any of the
00:45:40
details miller immediately believed warrell when he said he was innocent he was simply too good looking and too
00:45:50
charming to have to resort to rape [Music] miller and warrell began chatting and
00:45:57
over the next few days a friendship bloomed they were an unlikely pair warrell was
00:46:04
confident and arrogant whereas miller was self-conscious and submissive but their opposing personalities meshed
00:46:12
perfectly within a week they had requested to move into a cell together from that point on the two men spent all
00:46:23
their time together they decided to solidify their bond by becoming blood brothers
00:46:30
a ritual that involved them each slicing their own wrist and then placing their two bleeding wounds together
00:46:39
one night out of nowhere warrell turned to miller and said i am a psychopathic killer
00:46:48
miller wasn't sure what to make of the comment was warrell being serious or just trying
00:46:54
to scare him he brushed it off but warrell's words stayed with him warrell was eventually found guilty of
00:47:06
the rape and sentenced to six years in yatler prison miller was released shortly after but it
00:47:14
wasn't long before he was arrested again this time for stealing more than four thousand pairs of sunglasses
00:47:23
he was sentenced to 18 months in yatla and was relieved to be reunited with his blood brother
00:47:31
the pair's bond continued to strengthen and they began making plans to live together on the outside
00:47:39
on february 11 1976 james miller was finally released but as an ex-con he wasn't allowed to visit the
00:47:49
jail until he'd been free for a year to skirt around this rule he began disguising himself as a woman in order
00:47:58
to visit warrell seventeen months into warrell's sentence he applied for parole during his time behind bars the only
00:48:09
rule he had broken was owning a forbidden gold earring otherwise he'd been a model prisoner
00:48:18
warrell's parole officer visited his mother and stepfather to ask if they were prepared to accept warrell back
00:48:25
into their home they weren't saying they were worried that he'd be a bad influence on his younger brother
00:48:34
partly because of this his application for parole was denied in june of 1976 warrell applied for
00:48:45
parole for the second time and this time his application was successful after serving just two years of his
00:48:55
six-year sentence warrell was released at the age of 23. the two cellmates were reunited on the
00:49:04
outside at last they spent every day together sleeping at miller's sister's house or at the
00:49:12
homes of other friends while they tried to get enough money together for their own flat
00:49:18
they borrowed cars from friends and co-workers whenever they could while saving up to buy a car of their own
00:49:26
both men got a job doing outdoor work for the council and they spent their spare time cruising the streets of
00:49:34
adelaide frequenting the local pubs and picking up women chris warrell had an appealing charm and
00:49:42
confidence about him and coupled with his boyish good looks women were naturally attracted to him
00:49:50
he had no trouble approaching women on the street and convincing them to come for a ride with him
00:49:58
if they ever seemed wary about miller's presence warrell would tell them that miller was his father or uncle which put
00:50:05
them at ease miller acted as warl's driver eager to please the younger man in whatever way
00:50:13
he could when warrell would pick up girls miller would leave them alone in the car to
00:50:19
have sex although miller himself had a romantic interest in warrell he was never jealous
00:50:27
of warrell's sexual exploits with women it simply pleased him to see his friend happy
00:50:37
warl had an obsession with pornography and bondage and the two men began frequenting adelaide's sex shops so that
00:50:44
warrell could peruse the shelves for bondage magazines to buy and trade although warrell considered himself to
00:50:53
be heterosexual he'd had dalliances with some male inmates during his time in jail
00:51:00
outside he also had some sexual encounters with the drag queens miller avoided making any sexual
00:51:08
advances towards warrell out of fear of driving him away but their relationship soon took a turn
00:51:15
when warrell allowed miller to perform oral sex on him while he read bondage magazines
00:51:22
miller was thrilled about this development hoping it would bond the two even closer together
00:51:29
but for warrell it was purely about pleasure his focus remained on picking up women
00:51:36
for quick one-night stands women whom he referred to as rags [Music] the more time the two men spent together
00:51:50
the clearer it became that there was more to chris warrell than the easy-going charming person he presented
00:51:57
himself to be warl suffered from dark moods that would come on seemingly out of nowhere
00:52:05
the two mates could be having a great time and then without warning it was as though a dark cloud would descend upon
00:52:13
warrell his carefree persona suddenly switched and he started acting like a different
00:52:20
person as though he had entered a blackout and wasn't aware of how he was acting
00:52:27
these moods often caught miller off guard he didn't trust warrell when a mood overtook him and did whatever he could
00:52:35
to pacify his friend on one occasion they were at the dog races when warrell entered one of his
00:52:43
dark moods he walked out onto the busy main road and into oncoming traffic as though
00:52:50
daring cars to hit him miller left him alone out of fear that warrell would jump in front of a car if
00:52:58
he tried to intervene he learned to back off and just wait for the moods to dissipate
00:53:06
they were typically brief and warrell would usually take himself for a walk and emerge from the darkness a short
00:53:13
time later as if nothing had ever happened one day miller suggested to warrel that
00:53:20
he should see a doctor about his moods miller was concerned that his friend might have an underlying medical
00:53:28
condition that was causing him to act irrationally warrell refused leaving miller to worry
00:53:34
about him constantly and live on edge not knowing when one of the dark moods would strike
00:53:42
miller believed the reason warrell wouldn't seek help was because he feared he'd be forced to undergo electric shock
00:53:50
treatment or be given medication that would alter the good parts of his personality
00:53:56
but the moods continued to get worse and more frequent things started happening that miller had
00:54:05
no control over bad things then one night around november 1976 miller and warrell were out drinking at
00:54:18
a pub when they met a woman named amelia she and warrell immediately hit it off amelia had a strong belief in
00:54:28
reincarnation and thought that warrell had been a native american chief in a past life
00:54:35
the two began casually dating although warrell continued to pick up women for sex
00:54:43
one day at work warrell made a remark to his co-workers that sent a wave of panic
00:54:48
through miller warrell usually bragged about his exploits but this day he said he was
00:54:56
thinking of going on the straight and narrow he thought it might be time to settle
00:55:02
down and start a family for miller this was terrible news if warrell left him he would have no one
00:55:17
warrell and miller weren't the only ones going through a tense time in adelaide their close friend debbie scooce was
00:55:25
having troubles with her partner a man warrell and miller had spent time with in jail
00:55:31
so the trio thought it might do them all some good to get out of town for the weekend
00:55:37
they decided to take a road trip to mount gambia a small city on the limestone coast that lay halfway between
00:55:45
adelaide and melbourne the five-hour drive would give them awesome time to clear their heads and a
00:55:52
change of scenery would surely do them good by this point miller and warrell had
00:56:00
leased a car from a car yard but it had been playing up and was in the process of being repaired
00:56:07
they were able to borrow a replacement vehicle from the car dealer an old white plymouth valiant station
00:56:14
wagon they departed for mount gambia in the valiant late at night on friday february
00:56:21
18 1977 arriving in the early hours of saturday morning the trip started out decently with the
00:56:32
trio visiting the famous blue lake and browsing some local shops miller and warrell were looking through
00:56:40
a sports store when they came across a shotgun on a whim they decided to buy it so they
00:56:46
could stop and go rabbit hunting on the drive back to adelaide by chance they then stumbled upon a
00:56:55
historical aircraft display that was taking place at the mount gambier airport warrell was a huge aircraft a buff so
00:57:04
the trio decided to check it out as they lined up the tickets warrell was chatting jovially
00:57:12
when he suddenly entered one of his dark moods he demanded they returned to their motel
00:57:19
immediately miller was used to these moods by now and recognized it as a warning sign
00:57:28
not wanting debbie to be exposed to warl's dangerous side miller suggested they drive back to adelaide that
00:57:35
afternoon the others agreed the day was blazing hot they filled the valiant with petrol
00:57:45
pumped up the worn out tyres and bought a carton of beer for the journey as miller drove along the highway
00:57:53
warrell was sullen and began drinking they hadn't made it far out of mount gambia when they picked up a female
00:58:02
hitchhiker which temporarily lifted world spirits after dropping her at her destination
00:58:10
miller was feeling tired and asked warrell to take over driving by this point it was around 5 30 pm and
00:58:20
warrell had consumed several cans of beer although he didn't seem intoxicated debbie was worried that his drinking
00:58:29
might impair his driving miller wasn't concerned at first but as warrell sat behind the wheel
00:58:38
it became clear that his dark mood hadn't yet lifted warrell pressed his foot against the
00:58:46
accelerator and quickly picked up speed from the passenger seat debbie begged him to slow down
00:58:54
while miller remained silent in the back not wanting to upset warrell further debbie's fears only seemed to wag
00:59:04
warrell on he drove even faster telling debbie go ahead have a good cry [Music] suddenly as they sped down the highway
00:59:18
towards the coastal town of kingston there was a loud bang one of the tyres had blown out
00:59:26
warrell lost control of the vehicle swerving it across the road as another car came towards them head-on
00:59:34
he regained control but only for a moment the car flipped it rolled over and over
00:59:44
feeling like it would never stop eventually everything was still the car came to a stop standing the
00:59:56
right way up miller slowly crawled out his shoulder was broken but he was in too much shock to notice the pain
01:00:08
he looked around and a short distance from the car he saw debbie and warrell lying on the road
01:00:15
completely still with blood pulled around them both had been thrown from the vehicle at
01:00:23
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01:00:35
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you support case file james miller was utterly devastated by the loss of his best friend chris
01:07:07
warrell he blamed himself convinced that if he hadn't suggested the group leave mount
01:07:13
gambia a day early that warrell and debbie scooce would still be alive he didn't know how he was going to
01:07:21
function without his sidekick around the only person he'd ever been truly close to to make matters worse warrell's
01:07:30
family forbade him from attending the funeral he went anyway visiting the gravesite
01:07:37
beforehand he jumped into the hole and buried a treasured photo of warl with a note
01:07:43
written on the back that read chris please try and understand me i love you as a mate and always will
01:07:52
hope to see you soon please forgive me after the funeral a small group gathered at the home of one of warrell's friends
01:08:02
[Music] they stood in the kitchen chatting about warrell laurel's girlfriend amelia was still
01:08:09
trying to come to terms with the day's events she was deeply upset about the sudden
01:08:15
loss of her boyfriend and was overcome with grief [Music] in a bid to comfort her miller turned to
01:08:22
amelia and said [Music] there's more to it than you know he asked if he could have a word with
01:08:32
amelia outside she agreed and followed him into the back garden miller then asked her a strange question
01:08:43
did you like chris amelia was taken aback but replied that yes she did miller then said
01:08:54
well you wouldn't if you knew what i knew about him emilia asked what he was talking about
01:09:03
miller started to cry and responded ominously chris had to die [Music] the weeks and months following the car
01:09:15
crash dragged on for miller without his sidekick he felt completely lost and alone
01:09:22
describing that life without chris was an empty sea [Music] he quit his job with the council and
01:09:31
spent his days wandering around aimlessly doing menial tasks at homeless shelters
01:09:37
for a place to stay overnight or otherwise sleeping rough on the one year anniversary of the crash
01:09:45
miller placed a memorial for warrell in the local newspaper that read christopher robin warrell
01:09:53
memories of a very close friend who died 12 months ago this week your friendship and thoughtfulness and
01:10:00
kindness will always be remembered by me mate what comes after death i can hope as i
01:10:08
pray we meet again [Music] by may of 1979 chris warrell had been dead for almost two years but miller was
01:10:19
still struggling to come to terms with his grief accompanying his grief was an impending
01:10:26
sense of dread the news of the bodies found at truro was making headlines and with the reward
01:10:34
for information bolstered to forty thousand dollars miller felt like it was a matter of time
01:10:40
before the truth was revealed on wednesday may 23 the now 38 year old miller was mopping the floors at the
01:10:50
adelaide central mission drop-in center near whitmore square in the cbd he peered out the window and noticed a
01:10:59
woman sitting in a car watching him he wasn't sure if he was just being paranoid but he didn't want to take any
01:11:07
chances he put down the mop and left the center via a rear door walking hurriedly around the corner
01:11:15
towards the adelaide central markets despite being one of the largest undercover fresh produce markets in the
01:11:23
southern hemisphere the isles were mostly deserted traders didn't gather on wednesdays so
01:11:30
the fruit and vegetable stores were bare with no shoppers inside unbeknownst to miller a team of eight
01:11:39
officers were surveilling him at that very moment they watched as he made his way through
01:11:45
the deserted market isles his awareness of their presence becoming increasingly obvious as he quickly gathered pace
01:11:55
he turned a corner towards the market's southern entrance on gujjar street and began to run
01:12:02
that's when he heard a voice yell stop miller was taken to a small interview room at the police headquarters just a
01:12:16
few streets away the interviewing detectives said they wanted to talk to miller about something
01:12:22
that happened two years prior miller said he had no idea what the officer was talking about
01:12:31
the detective pressed on asking if miller knew christopher warrell miller replied
01:12:39
yeah i've heard of him the detective then said we have received information that you
01:12:48
and chris warrell have been picking up girls and killing them miller denied this accusation saying
01:12:57
chris was a good looking bloke and didn't have to do that he continued to answer questions about
01:13:05
his relationship with warrell but said he had no knowledge about any of the women whose bodies had been dumped out
01:13:12
near truro the detective pressed on for almost five hours with miller denying everything
01:13:19
that was presented to him that was until investigators revealed they'd spoken to warrell's old
01:13:27
girlfriend amelia after all this time amelia was still coming to terms with the conversation
01:13:37
she had had with miller following warrell's funeral miller had been overcome with emotion
01:13:43
when he told amelia that she didn't know the real chris he explained about warrell's dark moods
01:13:51
and blackouts and then made a shocking confession he and warrell had been picking up girls
01:14:00
and warrell had been raping and strangling them their bodies were then dumped near
01:14:06
blanchetown a town 45 kilometers east of churro miller told amelia quote one of them even enjoyed it
01:14:19
amelia had been speechless she couldn't believe what she was hearing but judging by miller's
01:14:26
emotional reaction he didn't seem to be lying she knew miller and warrell to be nothing but friendly and kind
01:14:34
individuals she knew they both had a criminal history but warrell had told her he only
01:14:41
served time for robbery and never mentioned anything about the rape charge miller had told amelia that if she
01:14:49
didn't believe him he would take her out and show her the bodies at the time amelia didn't know what to
01:14:57
do she had recently learned about warrell's blackouts from his mother who suspected
01:15:03
her son might have a brain tumor caused by a head injury that he suffered during
01:15:08
his time in the air force amelia believed miller's story but was at a loss about what to do with the
01:15:16
information miller insisted he only acted as the driver and it was warl who had killed
01:15:23
the girls if this was true amelia rationalized there was no point telling anyone
01:15:31
the killer was dead and she didn't want to see miller unfairly blamed for someone else's crimes
01:15:40
amelia never called in the tip-off but she confided in a friend who subsequently contacted the authorities
01:15:47
when the reward money was announced the detectives told miller they had since spoken to amelia and she was
01:15:55
incredibly distressed about the situation miller didn't believe them he said that if amelia had given them
01:16:05
this false information she must have been desperate for the reward money the detectives then claimed amelia had
01:16:13
told them she was worried that warrell's soul would never be free unless the rest
01:16:18
of the bodies were found upon hearing this miller knew the detectives must be telling the truth
01:16:27
amelia was a spiritual person who had strong beliefs about reincarnation so this seemed like a genuine concern
01:16:35
that she would have the thought of amelia being caught up in this mess upset miller
01:16:44
he asked for a minute alone to think he came to the decision that he would talk as long as amelia and warrell would
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be kept out of things moving forward the detective agreed miller said i suppose i've got nothing to look
01:17:05
forward to whatever way it goes so i might as well get it all off my mind i guess i'm the one that got mixed up in
01:17:13
all this so where do you want me to start the detective asked miller if there were
01:17:21
more bodies out there miller replied calmly there are three more miller was given the choice of
01:17:36
continuing with a formal statement or showing the detectives where the final three bodies were hidden
01:17:44
miller replied i think i'd rather show you where they are first than to get it over with
01:17:51
that'll give me time to get my thoughts straight by that point the police had held miller
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for six hours which was the maximum time allowed without a formal charge being made
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they couldn't hold him any longer without officially charging him for an offense
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so at 10 30 pm james miller was charged with the murder of 15 year old connie yodanides
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the detectives found themselves in a conundrum now that miller had been charged south australian law dictated that he
01:18:29
either be given bail or be put before a magistrate to determine the next course of action
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the fact that he'd offered to take police to the remaining bodies was uncharted territory
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the detectives knew that if they made the decision to take miller offsite before being placed before the courts it
01:18:50
had the potential to derail any future legal proceedings but if they followed the rule book and
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waited until the morning when miller could be put before a magistrate he might change his mind and refuse to
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reveal where the other bodies were hidden he would likely seek legal advice by then and his lawyer would no doubt
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advise him to remain silent ultimately the detectives decided the risk was worth it
01:19:22
if miller could lead them to the bodies not only would they have solid evidence to prove he was involved with the
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murders they'd also have resolution for the victims families they had to trust that a judge would
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understand their predicament and support their decision they led miller into the back of a
01:19:44
police car and three detectives took him through the dark cold streets of adelaide and out towards truro
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a second police vehicle trailed behind with officers prepared for the possibility that miller might try to
01:20:00
flee they'd been given orders from the higher ups to shoot him if he attempted to
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escape on the contrary miller remained relaxed and calm the entire time he chatted freely with the detectives as
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though he was relieved to finally be getting this information off his chest in fact he was so cooperative that the
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detectives didn't bother placing him in handcuffs they even stopped at a roadhouse and
01:20:32
bought miller cigarettes and baked goods when they pulled into the outskirts of truro one of the detectives asked miller
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if he could lead them to julie makita's body miller asked them to drive slowly he led them down a dirt road about four
01:20:53
and a half kilometers from where the bodies of veronica sylvia connie and vicki were found
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it was on the opposite side of the sturt highway an area that had been missed during the extensive search
01:21:10
miller gazed carefully outside until he finally spotted a gate that led to an old abandoned farmhouse
01:21:19
he directed the detectives to drive towards it they got out and miller pointed towards
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a clump of trees in the middle of a paddock and said i think it's over there as they took out their torches and began
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to look it was clear that miller was afraid surprised the detectives by asking them
01:21:46
don't leave me alone the men were soon joined by about 20 other officers but despite miller's directions they
01:21:56
were unable to find julie's body the conditions were against them it was pitch dark and freezing cold with
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mist in the air and a layer of frost on the ground all they had to go by was their torches
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and car headlights after about an hour of searching miller recognized a familiar tree
01:22:22
he pointed towards it and hidden amongst the salt bush scrub where the perfectly intact skeletal
01:22:29
remains of julie makeda she was fully clothed the money she'd earned from selling jewelry on the day
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she went missing still stuffed into the back pocket of her jeans as one journalist described quote
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she was at rest curled up like a cat against the cold miller told police the remaining two
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bodies weren't buried in the truro area but a little closer to the city the first was in port galla an isolated
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tidal beach 42 kilometers north of adelaide miller led the detectives down a dirt
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track to the sand but couldn't find the location he was looking for he had only visited the area once and
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wasn't familiar with the geography especially in the dark he directed them down another two dirt
01:23:32
tracks but the light from the torches was too dim and miller became confused after an hour of searching the
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detectives decided to leave and to come back at daylight [Music] from there miller directed the
01:23:49
detectives back towards the city to the outer northern suburb of wingfield they drove around for a while before
01:23:58
miller was able to pinpoint the correct road where he said the final body was buried under some shallow earth in a
01:24:05
rifle shooting range they got out and poked around but miller was unable to find the burial site
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at 4 00 am the detectives finally decided to call it a night [Music] they returned to both locations the
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following day this time miller was able to locate the burial site in wingfield excavators were used to dig through the
01:24:36
sandy ground and eventually the remains of tanya kenny were uncovered the second visit to port galla was more
01:24:46
challenging due to miller being unfamiliar with the location and the fact that there was very little to
01:24:52
distinguish one area of the beach from another a team of 50 investigators dug in
01:25:00
multiple spots until they finally came across the seventh and final body found buried deep in a makeshift tomb of
01:25:10
wood and corrugated iron were the remains of twenty-year-old deborah lamb unlike the other six victims deborah's
01:25:20
body was the only one that showed any evidence of violence her hands and feet were bound with a
01:25:28
thin nylon rope while a pair of pantyhose was stretched approximately six times around her jaw
01:25:35
however it wasn't strangulation that had killed her traces of sand found in deborah's lungs
01:25:43
indicated that she was still alive at the time she was buried when investigators lifted deborah's
01:25:51
remains they found a small heart-shaped badge underneath it held an image of two children kissing
01:25:59
and was inscribed with the words god's only law is love according to miller it all started on
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december 23 1976 he and warrell were cruising down king williams street when they spotted
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veronica knight at a bus stop near the majestic hotel laurel approached her and asked where
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she was going she told them to the salvation army hostel in the city and they offered to
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give her a ride veronica got in the back seat and when they took off warrell suggested that
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they go for a longer drive for miller this was nothing unusual he was used to warrell picking up women
01:26:51
this way and knew how it would go down they'd drive to a quiet spot he'd leave warrell and veronica alone and
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afterwards they'd drop her at her destination so when veronica agreed miller knew what
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to expect he drove towards the adelaide hills and eventually pulled over and got out of
01:27:14
the car to give warl and veronica some privacy miller then got back into the car and
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the trio decided to drive even further through the hills and out towards truro when they got there it was light and
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pitch dark warrell directed miller down a dirt track off the main road and told him to
01:27:39
go for a walk on his own miller did as he was told returning to the car about 20 minutes later
01:27:48
warrell told him to bugger off so he trudged off into the darkness for another 20 minutes
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this time when he returned everything was silent veronica's body was lifeless in the back
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seat miller panicked and asked what had happened warrell said he'd raped veronica and
01:28:13
then had to kill her to stop her from telling anyone given he was already on parole another
01:28:20
rape allegation meant he'd be given a long prison sentence [Music] miller started freaking out but warrell
01:28:28
told him it wasn't the first time this had happened during his days serving in the air force
01:28:35
he had been stationed in western australia on two separate occasions he had picked
01:28:42
up female hitchhikers and killed them one of them had been a messy stabbing with the blood spurting everywhere
01:28:50
the other he had killed by bashing her head in with a rock miller wasn't sure whether or not to
01:28:58
believe warrell about the hitchhikers but seeing what he had just done to veronica
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he was terrified when warrell demanded he helped move veronica's body miller was too scared to
01:29:13
say no they struggled to lift her out of the car and into the paddock but eventually
01:29:20
managed to drag her over the fence and dump her body under some bushes on the drive home warrell was clearly
01:29:29
deep in one of his dark moods miller believed veronica's murder was a freak occurrence that would never happen
01:29:38
again they went about their daily lives like nothing had happened returning to work
01:29:44
the following morning and carrying on their usual routine of driving around at night and picking up women without any
01:29:52
other incidents one week later on the morning of december 31 1976 warrell asked miller to drop him
01:30:03
off on king williams street so he could go for a walk through rundle more it was no surprise to miller that when
01:30:11
they met up again shortly after warrell had a pretty teenage girl with him her name was tanya kenny
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she had just returned from her new year's eve getaway down the south coast and agreed to let warrell and miller
01:30:28
drop her home warrell said they just needed to stop at miller's sister's vacant house in the
01:30:35
western suburbs to grab a few things on their way miller's sister was in the process of
01:30:42
moving out and needed him to gather up his old things tanya agreed and when they
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arrived there warrell asked tanya to help him out inside he told miller to wait in the car
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so miller parked in the driveway and waited patiently after some time warrell came out of the house alone
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miller could tell something was wrong by the look on his face and quickly raced inside
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in his old bedroom he found tanya lying on the floor with her hands and feet bound together
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[Music] a piece of tape was stuck over her mouth and there was a thin red line around her
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neck [Music] miller started screaming at warrell who threatened to kill miller too if he
01:31:39
didn't shut up miller was desperate to get tania's body out of the house before his sister found
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out but it was broad daylight so they hid her in the bedroom cupboard and spent the next few hours driving around
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looking for a suitable place to dispose of her body they eventually decided on a paddock in
01:32:03
the dean rifle range in wingfield and dug a hole in preparation for the burial they returned to miller's sister's house
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at night loaded tanya's body into the boot of the car and then buried her in the makeshift grave
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after tanya's murder miller lived in fear that warrell would strike once more he tried to deny what was happening
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blaming warrell's dark moods and telling himself it wouldn't happen again weeks passed without incident until
01:32:44
january 21 1977 when the pair were driving down king williams street they spotted julie makeda waiting for a
01:32:54
bus outside the ambassador's hotel and warrell got out of the car to chat her up
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he eventually convinced her to go for a drive with them and the trio headed out to the northern suburb of jepp's cross
01:33:08
where they parked down a side street there warrell tied to julie up telling her it would be a bit of fun
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they then drove a further 80 kilometers out to truro where miller left warrell and julie alone
01:33:27
all he could do was hope that warrell didn't enter one of his dark moods when miller returned to the car
01:33:36
warrell had convinced julie to walk out into the paddock he told miller to wait in the car
01:33:44
but he didn't listen and followed them instead miller heard a loud noise through the
01:33:50
darkness and a thought warrell must have kicked julie in the stomach fearing what was about to happen miller
01:33:59
stepped in but warrell threatened to kill him if he tried to intervene warrell then strangled julie and miller
01:34:08
reluctantly helped him cover her body up with bushes a little over two weeks later on
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february 6 warrell started chatting with sylvia pittman and once again used his charm to
01:34:22
convince her to go for a drive with them they headed out to truro where miller went on one of his usual lone walks
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when he returned 45 minutes later warrell was alone miller asked where sylvia had gone
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and warrell replied [Music] don't worry about it the following day warrell met vicki
01:34:52
howell in the city and struck up a conversation she agreed to go for a drive with him
01:34:58
out to the barossa valley wine region so miller came and picked them up miller liked vicki immediately
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she was older than the women warrell usually picked up and he found her to be very ladylike
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they went for a drive out towards truro stopping at one point so that vicky could go to the toilet
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after that miller claimed he couldn't remember what happened he assumed warl had done to vicky what
01:35:30
he did to the others but he had no memory of the incident he told the detectives
01:35:39
i liked her and i wouldn't have let chris do anything to her if i had known two days later on february 9 the two men
01:35:50
were driving down king williams street when they pulled over on the side of the road
01:35:56
connie jordanitis was waiting at a bus stop and started chatting with warrell through the open window
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she said she was on her way to pick up a package in the northern suburbs offered her a lift and she agreed to go
01:36:12
for a drive with them they headed out to truro where miller left them alone in the back seat
01:36:20
when he returned the three of them started driving back towards adelaide but warrell asked him to pull over again
01:36:28
down a side road miller left them alone and went for a walk and when he returned
01:36:36
warrell was alone miller said he didn't want to know about what had happened to which warrell remarked that connie
01:36:46
would have made a great girlfriend a couple of days later miller and warrell were driving down hindley street
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in adelaide's cbd when they met deborah lam she accepted warrell's offer of a lift
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and the trio drove out to port galla where warrell asked miller to go for a walk
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he returned 30 minutes later and found warrell burying deborah's body in the sand
01:37:16
it was clear he had entered a very dark mood refusing to say a word about what had happened
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miller was terrified about the frequency at which warrell was now killing his victims and was scared about what would
01:37:32
happen next but he didn't have to wait long one week later the fatal car accident
01:37:40
occurred and chris warrell was dead putting an end to the crime spree as miller confessed to one murder after
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the next the interviewing detectives couldn't believe what they were hearing one asked miller why he had helped
01:38:01
warrell instead of trying to stop him miller replied i don't know we'd picked up girls before and nothing
01:38:11
happened i couldn't do much without endangering myself and i really believed that
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much to his dismay james miller was charged with all seven murders while he understood that he had to face
01:38:29
some kind of repercussion for not stopping the killings or reporting the crimes earlier he didn't believe he
01:38:35
should be charged for the murders themselves he staunchly maintained that he had no
01:38:42
part in any of the killings and was quote just the chauffeur and the mug as 1979 drew to an end preparations were
01:38:59
in place for james miller's trial there were fears that the decision to interrogate miller and take him to the
01:39:06
burial sites before he had the chance to seek legal advice could harm the case against him
01:39:13
because of this decision it was possible that a judge might refuse to allow into
01:39:18
evidence the 16 hours of police questioning during which miller admitted to the crimes and provided his version
01:39:26
of advance without this due to the lack of forensic evidence to indicate where or how the
01:39:33
victims had died there would be very little for the prosecution to present to a jury
01:39:40
however the judge allowed this evidence to be admitted and miller's trial commenced in adelaide's supreme court on
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february 12 1980 exactly three years to the day since the last victim debra lamb was last seen
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curious members of the preston public competed for a spot in the courtroom with one reporter labeling at a quote
01:40:07
raffle ticket drama a security guard was on standby to keep spectators in order while james miller
01:40:15
sat behind a low iron fence with a bored expression on his face the prosecution set out to prove that
01:40:25
the murders were an equally joint enterprise between chris warrel and james miller
01:40:31
their case relied heavily on miller's confessions to both police and warrell's ex-girlfriend emilia who was a reluctant
01:40:39
witness on the stand amelia hesitantly explained that the reason she never came forward
01:40:47
was that she believed the state was looking for a scapegoat had she dobbed miller in he could be
01:40:54
blamed for not only the truro murders but potentially any other unsolved crimes she told the court
01:41:03
miller convinced me that he was virtually the innocent one and that chris was the guilty one
01:41:10
if i did go to the police then i thought i would be dubbing in an innocent man because i thought the guilty one was
01:41:17
dead it was only when amelia was confronted by police that she learned the truth
01:41:24
about warrell and miller's criminal histories and realised that miller might not be as innocent as he led her to
01:41:31
believe for the defense miller opted to prepare an unsworn statement for the court
01:41:40
it was a controversial decision an unsworn statement is where an accused presents their version of events without
01:41:47
having to swear under oath and it isn't subject to cross-examination [Music] no further questions can be asked by
01:41:56
members of the court and the accused isn't required to elaborate on any of the details
01:42:03
by choosing this option it meant that miller's entire case relied on his own statement
01:42:10
the jury were advised by the judge to scrutinize miller's version of events carefully before deciding what weight
01:42:18
should be attributed to it standing before the court it took miller close to an hour to deliver his 50-page
01:42:27
version of the seven murders in detail this description differed to the confession he provided to police after
01:42:35
his arrest whereas miller initially told the detectives that warrell had raped the
01:42:41
seven victims prior to strangling them he now said this wasn't the case he claimed the women had consensual sex
01:42:50
with warrell and let him tie them up before warl entered his dark moods and made the snap decision to kill them
01:43:00
miller also added in additional details including that after warrell killed veronica knight he threatened miller at
01:43:08
knifepoint forcing him to help move her body and warning him not to say a word to anyone about what had happened
01:43:17
it was because of this that miller feared for his life and continued to be complicit to the following murders
01:43:25
miller also claimed to have lied when telling police that five of the murders had happened at truro
01:43:33
he clarified that they had been killed closer to adelaide and he and warrell had then driven out to truro to dump the
01:43:40
bodies miller declared i admit that i helped dispose of the bodies and i admit that i was with the
01:43:50
world before the girls were murdered but i certainly did not think they were going to be killed and i certainly did
01:43:57
not take part or help in their killing at all i realised i have behaved very weakly
01:44:04
and badly in not physically stopping world and not reporting the matter to the police as soon as the first death
01:44:10
occurred by not telling the police about warrell i am probably guilty of some offense but
01:44:18
i am not guilty of murder because i did not want any of these girls to die on each occasion i was horrified and
01:44:26
frightened [Music] miller's defense lawyer warned the jury against using miller as a scapegoat for
01:44:35
chris warrell's crimes he reminded them that miller wasn't being charged with being an accessory to
01:44:42
murder or helping to dispose of the bodies but that he was being accused of the murders themselves
01:44:50
for them to find miller guilty they had to be certain he had agreed with warrell
01:44:55
to commit the murders or was present when warrell strangled his victims and encouraged the behavior
01:45:04
in defense of miller not reporting warl's crimes and continuing to help him dispose of the bodies
01:45:11
his lawyer explained through contact with warrell the accused stumbled into warrell's problems
01:45:19
none of them is the accused's own making but because of circumstances and world's
01:45:26
demands the accused helps dispose of the first body and from then on is involved
01:45:33
whether he likes it or not he is involved and he's left with little choice about the second body because
01:45:40
that is in his sister's house from then on he is on the tiger's back he cannot get off
01:45:48
[Music] in closing arguments the prosecution stated that no man would accompany a
01:45:58
rapist on seven expeditions unless he had at least a sexual interest in what was happening
01:46:04
even if it was only as an onlooker they told the jury ultimately it does not matter if that is
01:46:13
the one reason why miller went along or not his role as the joint picker-upper the
01:46:19
driver the body disposer that of course is enough to render him liable in the eyes of the law to murder
01:46:27
if there was this understanding in arrangement between him and warrell to that end or alternatively if he realized
01:46:35
the world's game and played that part in it the prosecutor continued you might think that the evidence
01:46:44
suggests miller was so besotted with warrell that he would stop at nothing and did stop at nothing not even
01:46:51
involvement in seven murders maybe warrell did have a stronger personality than the accused
01:47:00
maybe he was the only true friend he ever had the simple answer to that is so what
01:47:09
it might explain why seven girls were done to death it doesn't excuse it the judge clarified to the jury that if
01:47:20
they accepted miller's story that warrell was solely responsible for the killings they had to decide whether it
01:47:27
was reasonable to assume that miller knew that warrell was going to kill his victims and did nothing to stop him
01:47:36
he used a robbery committed by three men as an example if one man stays in the car one keeps a
01:47:44
lookout at the door and one enters the house to steal the belongings all three of them are guilty of robbery because
01:47:51
they were all involved in the plan and all knew what was going to happen had the man who entered the home
01:47:59
unexpectedly come upon the owner and killed them he would be guilty of murder while his
01:48:05
other two accomplices would not because they hadn't agreed with this part of the plan
01:48:13
on march 11 the jury deliberated for eight hours before returning their verdict for the murders of sylvia pittman julie
01:48:23
makeda vicky howe connie jordanedes tanya kenny and debra lamb james miller was declared guilty
01:48:34
however he was found not guilty for the murder of the first victim veronica knight as the jury believed it was
01:48:42
plausible that miller genuinely didn't know that warrell was going to kill her james miller was sentenced to serve six
01:48:52
consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 35 years he lurched forward over the
01:49:01
guardrail and yelled at one of the detectives quote you filthy liar you mongrel miller's sister echoed his statement
01:49:13
screaming you laughing swine two prison wardens grabbed hold of miller and pushed him out the side door
01:49:22
and into the holding cells while another woman in the public gallery turned to the judge and yelled
01:49:29
you are just as guilty for letting warrell out on parole miller was sent back to yatler prison
01:49:38
this time without his blood brother by his side very few believe that james miller was
01:49:48
merely a bystander to his best friend's crimes whether or not he assisted in the
01:49:54
killings remains a mystery but at the very least he actively facilitated them had chris warrell not been killed in the
01:50:03
car accident at the peak of his crime spree experts believe there would have most certainly been more victims
01:50:11
professor of criminology paul wilson said serial killers don't stop unless they are caught
01:50:20
i have never heard of therapy or anything else stopping serial killers they may be very sociopathic but they
01:50:28
are not insane even james miller agreed he predicted that if warrell had survived there could have been up to 70
01:50:38
victims and he would never have adopted him in it remains unclear whether warrell's
01:50:45
claims that he murdered two hitchhikers in western australia were ever investigated
01:50:53
james miller tried to appeal his conviction and argue for a retrial but his attempts were unsuccessful
01:51:01
in 1984 he went on a 43-day hunger strike in protest against his conviction but it didn't pay off
01:51:10
the following year with the help of writer dick wordley miller published a book titled don't call me killer which
01:51:18
gave his detailed first person account of his relationship with chris warrell and the truro murders
01:51:26
in the book miller staunchly stood by the version of events he gave in his unsworn
01:51:32
statement he made it sound like all seven women happily consented to sex and bondage with warrell as though they were
01:51:41
lucky to be chosen by him in reality the women had likely accepted a lift from the charming world feeling a
01:51:50
false sense of security in his lie that miller was his father or uncle once they were inside the car there was
01:51:58
little they could do as warrell forced himself on them and launched a brutal attack
01:52:04
either with or without the help of his sidekick in the final passage of the book miller
01:52:12
wrote if the blame for truro should be pointed at any one particular person then i feel
01:52:19
it should be pointed at me chris had no control over his dark moods and i knew that he must have had a
01:52:26
serious problem and i should have done something positive about it to help him after the first murder and i do not mean
01:52:33
by helping him to dispose of the body somehow i should have made sure that the person i loved more than anyone else
01:52:42
received medical attention but i did not thus i must accept my guilt one chris warrell was a killer
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one chris warrell was a young man with a sickness he could not control that chris warrell appeared in the
01:52:59
courts that chris warrell could have been cured of his sickness that chris warrell was churro
01:53:09
another the real chris warrell was not a killer the real chris warrell was a happy-go-lucky easy-going friendly
01:53:18
considerate sincere and utterly appealing humane and beautiful young man who any parent would be proud to have as
01:53:26
a son as i was proud to have him as my dearest friend seven years after his death i find that
01:53:36
i still love him despite the cost miller was due for parole in 2014 but in 2007 his health took a rapid
01:53:50
decline he was diagnosed with lung cancer and prostate cancer and suffered from ongoing complications caused by
01:53:58
hepatitis c on october 21 2008 james miller passed away in hospital from liver failure at the age of 68.
01:54:09
[Music] in the wake of the truro murders the parole board's decision to release chris
01:54:17
warrell after he'd served just two years of his six-year prison sentence for rape
01:54:23
was strongly criticised the truth of his rape conviction was that he'd picked up a female hitchhiker
01:54:31
driven her out to a sports oval and attempted to rape her at knifepoint he'd been unsuccessful and eventually
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let her go after she promised she wouldn't tell anyone what had happened had warl been forced to serve his entire
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sentence the lives of the seven young women could have been spared the decision haunted warrell's parole
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officer for years even though he had followed the rules by the book as part of warrell receiving parole he
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had to undergo a psychiatric evaluation in hindsight it served as an ominous warning
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declaring quote christopher warrell denied having committed rape and told a good story of
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how he had been framed he came across as presenting the picture he felt would most impress and one did
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not feel there was much sincerity in his protestations of future innocence however there is no history of
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convictions before the age of 20 years and the circumstances of his rape offense made it inevitable that he was
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caught one wonders if he was going through a temporary phase of readjustment at the
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time only the future will tell chris warrel is buried in adelaide's centennial park cemetery
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his gravestone reads untold love and joy he brought to war [Music] in 1997 22 year old nikki was curious to
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learn more about her family history nikki had been adopted when she was six months old and felt it was finally time
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to find out who her biological parents were she contacted the relevant authorities and when she walked into her
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scheduled meeting the staff member said you're the baby from the picture in the papers
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that's how nikki learnt that deborah lamb laurel and miller's seventh victim had been her birth mother
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when debra's body had been discovered a photo of her holding baby nikki had been
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used by the press it would now be the only photo nicki would ever have of her biological mother
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[Music] as a teenager growing up in adelaide nikki and her friends had been warned
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not to get into cars with strangers or they'd end up quote like the truro girls it was unbelievable to nikki to know
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that her mother had been one of those girls she felt robbed of getting to know her
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biological mother but believed that deborah would have been proud of the warm and loving upbringing nikki
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received from her adoptive parents she told women's day magazine for six months she did one hell
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of a job trying to raise me by herself before she gave me up so i could have a better life
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in the wake of james miller's trial the advertiser published an editorial that deeply upset the loved ones of the
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victims it read it is clearly the duty of the parents of the girls particularly the naive the
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gullible and the misguidedly adventurous to impress upon them the dangers of walking alone in the streets at night
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and accepting lifts in cars offered by people unknown to them girls who tend to be free with their
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favors are committing no offence by behaving as they choose but they must realize that in doing so they are
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exposing themselves to mortal danger anne-marie makita was appalled not only did the article place the blame
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on the victims for what happened to them but the young women weren't free with their favors or roaming the streets
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recklessly as the article suggested they were simply out living their lives several of the abductions occurred in
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broad daylight while most of the women were waiting for public transport some were meeting friends going to work
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or trying to make it home in time for their curfews to place the blame on them for the
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atrocities they endured made in marie makita feel physically sick she detailed her experience of loss and
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grief in a book titled it's a long way to truro providing an emotional insight into what
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she and her family went through during julie's disappearance and the subsequent murder investigation
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anne-marie's experience also inspired her to start an organization called the victims of crime services to provide
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support for victims and families whose lives had been changed due to a violent crime
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by the early 1980s the organization had more than 1400 members including les and
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cath ratcliffe whose 11 year old daughter joanne was abducted from the adelaide oval in 1973
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and never seen again anne-marie became close with the ratcliffe family visiting les on his
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deathbed as he prayed fruitlessly for answers about his daughter before tragically passing away from cancer
02:00:16
through their shared experiences anne-marie also formed a strong bond with judith barnes the mother of
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seventeen-year-old alan barnes who was a victim in a string of murders committed
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by a group dubbed at the family as covered in episode 166 of case file having both endured every parent's worst
02:00:38
nightmare the women found comfort in one another and supported each other through
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court hearings and trials in 1983 the body of fifteen-year-old richard calvin was discovered after he
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was abducted from the streets of north adelaide richard was also a victim of the family
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his brutal murder had such a strong impact on the community that people demanded a return on the death penalty
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and called for a curfew on adolescence for their own protection [Music] despite everything anne-marie makeda had
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gone through she was vocally opposed to the idea of a curfew she told reporters grief fear and anger are what produce
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all this talk about curfews for children but clearly it is not the answer you can't keep adolescent children in a
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cage you have to prepare them to face the world alone i don't know what the answer is but it
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isn't capital punishment vigilantes and curfews it's much bigger than that it's us as a community
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we have to be more caring [Music] following the arrest of james miller for the truro murders a young woman wrote a
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letter to the advertiser in it she complained about the level of detail the newspaper had gone into when
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julie makita's body was discovered saying it was in poor taste and showed no consideration for the feelings of
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julie's family on the contrary it was this letter that upset julie's mother anne-marie didn't want julie's death to
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be swept under the rug but instead wanted people to know exactly what her daughter went through in the hopes it
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would raise awareness of the dangers that lurked in the shadows in response to the letter anne-marie
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wrote an open message to the young women of adelaide wanting them to know that their sleepy city wasn't as safe as they
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thought it read i am sorry that the report of the finding of my daughter's body and the
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picture of the policeman carrying her offended you but what would you have done do you want julie to be just another
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statistic hidden away in the paper or perhaps not reported at all so that nobody will be subjected to poor taste
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julie was a person a girl very full of life as were veronica silvia vicky connie
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tanya and deborah they were real girls just like you and they died just as you could die
02:03:33
not because they had hurt anyone or angered anyone but because they were on the street at the wrong time
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that is what i find heartless and distressing the fact that they were killed not the fact that a humane reporter
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wrote about the discovery of my daughter's body as if she were a real person i know now that girls are dragged from
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the streets almost every night or they are enticed into cars and later left hurt and frightened raped maybe
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maybe even dead this is not something unfortunate that happened two years ago this is something that could happen
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tonight tomorrow to you every time you go out alone at night you are at risk every time you get into a stranger's car
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you put your life in his hands i don't want you to be hurt or frightened for one moment
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every time i hear of a girl raped or injured my daughter dies in my heart again [Music]
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i've been writing about real police cases for nearly three decades now and there are few more tragic than the case
02:05:10
of sarah mcdermott with sarah's disappearance there's an element of patience of being
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collected she was always a very good daughter if she was out someone going to be late
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she would ring and let us know she was seen by several witnesses walking toward the car park
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and then sarah mcdermott was gone when she's come down the bottom of the stairs and walked towards the car park she's
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virtually walked into the darkness when sarah's family reported her missing police mounted an extensive search i
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could see blood on the bitumen underneath the car that was parked at the driver's side of her
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car the blood on the ground it sort of indicated to everybody that there'd been foul play a couple of suspects emerged
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ahead of the rest and he said well when i do get out you'll be one of the first people i look for and i said why is that
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and he said because i just like to kill you she said you know that murder that was
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up at the cannanook station i was there with two other blokes and i'm worried because i don't know how staunch they
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are who knows what he did if he killed sarah and disposed of her body maybe he thinks i can get away with this they
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don't know where she is they don't know who did it just how many other women were followed from the canning railway
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station we'll never know so i was walking along there and i could hear footsteps behind me and they were
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getting closer and they yelled out to me don't take the shortcut take the bridge
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i just think those men at the dotto saved my life the evidence is out there so pulled out a couple of the cards and
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looked at the name and it said sarah mcdermott searching for sarah mcdermott out now for free only on spotify