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website on Friday February 6th 1981 married couple Brian and Beverly Barry left their home in the woolongong suburb
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of Mount Pleasant they were headed north on a 6 and 1/2 hour drive to their holiday home
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in the coastal New South Wales town of sortel they weren't planning to stay away for long Brian and Beverly had
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received a letter from the local Council in sortel informing them that their property's lawn was overgrown and they
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risked receiving a fine so the couple had decided to go up for a quick overnight visit to tidy the
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yard usually Brian and Beverly's children would accompany them on trips to the holiday house but not this time
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their son Wayne who was 15 Was preparing for an Athletics competition and had a training session to attend
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the couple's eldest child 19-year-old Kim worked at a local supermarket and had a shift she couldn't get out
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of while Brian and Beverly were away Kim would be in charge and responsible for looking after her little
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brother after arriving at the sortel property later that day Brian and Beverly Barry set about gardening and
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mowing the long grass the physical labor left the couple tired and when they went to bed that
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night Brian fell asleep quickly initially Beverly slept well too but in the middle of the night she was
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suddenly woken by the sound of someone calling out to her Beverly recognized the voice right
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away it belonged to her daughter Kim half asleep Beverly sat up and looked towards the bedroom
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door she expected to see Kim standing there only to realize as a split second later that wasn't
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possible Beverly wasn't at home she was more than 600 km away and Kim was back in Mount
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Pleasant telling herself that she must have been dreaming Beverly lay down again to go back to sleep the sound of
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her daughter's voice fading from her [Music] mind [Music] the Barry's quick visit to sortel had
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paid off they left the property early the following morning arriving back in Mount Pleasant at around 300
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p.m. as Brian and Beverly walked through the door they were surprised to find their son Wayne at home by
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himself Wayne said he didn't know where his sister was he'd returned after Athletics training the previous
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afternoon to find Kim making dinner for them both she'd explained that she was meeting a friend that night but Wayne
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couldn't remember who after the siblings finished eating Kim tidied up the dishes then went
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outside to call a taxi from a pay phone in the street the barries didn't have a landline at
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home and were reliant on the public pay phone that set about 150 M from their house after Kim left that evening Wayne
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hadn't seen her again Kim had been in trouble once before for staying out all night without
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warning ever since then she'd always left a note explaining if she planned to stay with a
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friend but this time she hadn't left anything for her parents to surmise where she might
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be Brian Barry wasn't concerned he suspected Kim had gotten caught up having fun with friends and would be
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home soon enough Beverly felt a hint of worry she couldn't help but feel that something
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must be wrong she headed out to the pay phone and started calling Kim's friends asking if they'd seen her daughter
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nobody she spoke to had seen Kim or had any idea where she might be the barries expected Kim to reappear
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later that afternoon or into the evening but she didn't Brian remained confident that
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19-year-old Kim would be home by the time the weekend ended but Beverly's concern was
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growing she tossed and turned that night unable to sleep Sunday February 8 passed with no
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word from Kim on Monday Brian and Beverly Barry headed off to their respective jobs later that morning A call came
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through at the manufacturing firm where Beverly worked as a clerk it was a friend of her daughters
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named Donna Holland despite Kim and Donna only having known each other for a few months
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the two were already close Beverly had wanted to get in touch with Donna over the weekend to ask if
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she knew where Kim was but she didn't have her number now Donna was able to provide
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Beverly with key information regarding the Friday night Kim left home and didn't
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return that evening 17-year-old Donna Holland had felt like she was coming down with the flu she wasn't up for a
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big night but she'd already made plans to see a movie with Kim Barry and felt she couldn't
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cancel Kim who was 2 years older than Donna had called the day before eager to catch up
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Donna caught a bus to the crown Central shopping complex in Woolen gong where the girls had arranged to meet Kim was
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traveling there by taxi after meeting up at around 7:30 p.m. the friends grabbed a quick drink
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then caught a 7:45 screening of the comedy film flying high it was just after 10: when the
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movie ended and Donna was Keen to go home as well as feeling slightly unwell she had an early start the following
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morning at a babysitting job but Kim persuaded Donna to accompany her to a local nightclub for a
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dance Kim loved dancing and even took lessons the pair walked to the nearby Crown Gardens disco stopping at a
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pharmacy to buy Band-Aids along the way Kim said her shoes were hurting her feet
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and put one Band-Aid on each hill before continuing on when they arrived at the Disco one of
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the bouncers asked Kim to save a dance for him later she agreed inside the venue was packed the
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girls had to navigate through a big crowd in order to find seats Kim bought drinks for herself and
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Donna the underage Donna had a lemonade while Kim chose the Coffey lurea TI Maria Kim proposed that they toast to
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something then held up her glass and stated may I soon get a steady boyfriend the girls clinked glasses then
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sat drinking and chatting for a little while suddenly Kim asked Donna if she would like to stay over at her place
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that night Kim's parents were away and she said she was scared as they'd been a Prowler lurking around her
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neighborhood Donna said she couldn't she had to get up at 5:00 a.m. for her babysitting job and needed to leave
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soon she planned to catch a train home and had already arranged for her mother to pick her up from the
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station Kim continued to beg Donna to stay she seemed desperate not to be left alone she suggested Donna stay until the
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nightclub closed at 3:00 a.m. and even offered to pay for Donna's taxi home but Donna stood firm it was nearly midnight
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and she had to go besides she was certain that there was no Prowler and Kim was just making
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up excuses so Donna would stay before leaving Donna lent Kim some money so she could buy a bottle of wine
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and checked that her friend had enough cash to get home as she left Donna said to Kim be
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careful and catch a taxi home give me a ring tomorrow afternoon but Saturday had passed with
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no call from Kim Donna thought this was a little odd as the two spoke regularly and had
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talked about maybe catching up again over the weekend 2 days later on Monday morning
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Donna Holland was listening to the radio when a news broadcast CAU her attention a woman's body had been found
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at jamboroo Lookout a scenic Mountain spot about 40 km Southwest of wenong what stood out to Donna was the
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description of the woman's feet she had a Band-Aid plastered to each heel Donna hadn't heard from Kim Barry
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all weekend which was strange but not necessarily concerning upon hearing the radio
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broadcast donor immediately started to worry she remembered how Kim had stopped to put Band-Aid on her heels on Friday
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night Donna decided to call Kim's mother Beverly to make sure that Kim was all right upon learning that no one knew
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where Kim was Donna quickly shared what she knew she mentioned the Band-Aids and
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told Beverly about the woman's body found in jamboroo but Beverly reassured Donna
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that the deceased woman couldn't be Kim Beverly had read a local news article about the same Discovery and it reported
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that the deceased woman found was visibly pregnant Kim wasn't pregnant Scott Davies was a 19-year-old
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Apprentice Plummer who had driven out to visit friend on Sunday February 8th 1981 as he wound his way around Jambu
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Mountain he decided to make an impromptu turnoff in search of car parts near nearby the jamboroo lookout
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was a spot where thieves often dumped cars they had stolen the vehicles were typically taken
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by teenage Joy Riders who stripped to them for parts before leaving them in what was known as the car
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graveyard Scott Davies was aware of The Dumping Ground and decided to see if he could recover anything he might be able
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to use to upgrade his old hold and sedan Scott made his way to the lookout on foot and peered over the Cliff Edge
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he could see a few rusted cars about 50 M below as he debated the best route to get to the vehicles Scott's eyes were
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drawn to a nearby tree beneath was what looked like a naked mannequin realizing that the mannequin
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was actually a woman's corpse Scott went looking for help and flagged down a park
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ranger soon police officers arrived at the scene a sling was set up so they could
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be lowered down from the cliff Edge to the spot where the body lay upon closer inspection officers made
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the shocking discovery that the woman's head was missing it had been cleanly cut off from
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her neck with a sharp instrument the cut wasn't surgical or expert but it had been made carefully
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postmortem the woman's fingers were also missing having been cut off at the first
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knuckle likely with a hacksaw and also after her death a thin white nylon cord was tied
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around her right wrists and both ankles her blouse and bra were wrapped around both her
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[Music] arms the woman appeared to be pregnant a key detail that was printed in one early
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article published in the ilaa Mercury [Music] newspaper by Monday February 9 Kim Barry had been
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missing for 3 Days Beverly Barry arrived home that evening to find the place empty she switched on the television to
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watch the 6:00 news a bulletin was broadcast about the body found at jamboroo Lookout the day
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before footage showed police combing through the thick brush of the mountain pausing on a detective standing by some
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soiled garments that had belonged to the woman one of the items was a torn bone colored blouse the other was a bra with
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a green floral emblem in the middle Beverly felt Frozen with shock as a news reader described the
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clothing they perfectly matched items that Kim owned Beverly raced to Kim's room and
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turned it upside down looking for the clothing then she checked the laundry there was no sign of either the blouse
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or the bra that matched the one shown on the television Beverly struggled to breathe
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and began to cry as she felt a sense of total certainty that the woman found at jamaru Lookout was her
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daughter when Brian arrived home Beverly explained the situation and the couple rushed to wenong police
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station there they sat down with detectives and held hands as they described their missing
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daughter Kim had a small birth mark just beneath her right breast and some scarring on her thighs from some bad
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Sandfly bites she'd received 5 years earlier the detectives listened carefully the woman they had found had
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Band-Aids on both her heels like Kim beneath her right breast was a small birthmark that resembled a
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mole there was also faint scarring on both with her inner thighs taking particular note of these
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identifying features that the barries had described one of the detectives asked if the couple could look at some
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clothing found with the body he pulled out an Evidence envelope and carefully removed the blouse and bra from
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inside both were immediately recognizable to Brian and Beverly who'd seen them hanging on the washing line
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many times after checking the size and brand of the blouse all Beverly could say
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was yes that's [Music] Kims exposure and decomposition had caused Kim's body to bloat giving her
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the appearance of being pregnant but testing would confirm that she wasn't somehow the mistaken assumption was
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printed in initial press reports photographs of the scene were taken along with swabs of blood and
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other bodily fluids Kim's body was wrapped in a blanket then placed on a stretcher and hoisted from the
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area on closer examination it appeared that Kim had been moved several times after she died as her remains showed no
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lividity her right forearm was fractured which had likely occurred when her body
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was thrown off the cliff there was bruising on Kim's left shoulder and chest no evidence was found
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of a sexual assault nor could a cause of death be established the removal of Kim's head
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and fingers led to worldly speculation that the murder was related to organized crime gang members were known to remove
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these body parts to prevent a victim being identified by their face dental records or
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fingerprints until Kim was identified the leading theory was that the unknown woman was an Informer who'd gotten into
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trouble with the drug dealers but this Theory fell apart after the barries came forward there was no
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evidence at all that their daughter Kim had any involvement or history with illicit
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drugs after positively identifying the blouse and bra that had been found with Kim's body Brian Barry was asked to
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identify her remains he did so by checking the birth mark on her abdomen this identification was also
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confirmed by matching Kim's palm print to one found in her bedroom the Barry family were devastated
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by their loss kind and nurturing Kim had dreamt of helping others by becoming a nurse she'd studied to work as a nursing
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assistant and had received High marks but failed the entrance exam due to nerves Kim had resolved to try again but
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took a break by working at a supermarket in the meantime she also volunteered at a
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residence for disabled children so she could spend time caring for others in some
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capacity Brian Barry tried to remain stoic to support his wife and son but he struggled with rage in the wake of his
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daughter's murder Beverly and Wayne cried together over the loss of Kim another family member Kim had been
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especially close to was her grandfather known as Pop he lived in a small unit at the back
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of the family home and the two loved each other's company they would sit and talk together for
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hours as detailed in the book The Stranger you know by John Sut Linton pop often worried about Kim encountering
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dangerous men when she was out with friends she would reassure him that she wasn't scared
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stating nothing is going to happen to me the day after Kim's body was found police officers returned to the scene to
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search for Kim's missing remains but nothing was recovered detectives took a detailed
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statement from Donna Holland the friend Kim had been with on the night she was murdered Donna hadn't noticed any
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suspicious individuals paying attention to Kim when they parted ways nor could she remember seeing seeing anyone who
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she recognized as an acquaintance of Kim's before she left Donna gave Kim some money to buy a bottle of a lib fra
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Vine a kind of sweet German white wine Donna told investigators that Kim said she'd been scared of a Prowler in
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her neighborhood but she'd dismissed Kim's claims as a ploy to have Donna stay with
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her detectives looked into the matter but found nothing suggesting there had been a Prowler in the
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area they turned their attention to the crown Gardens disco where Kim had last been seen
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alive Friday February 6 had been a busy night at the club with an estimated 300 patrons in
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attendance but bar staff at the venue remembered Kim and confirmed that she'd bought a bottle of leap fra Vine they
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kept records of every beverage sold and that was the only bottle of a leap Vine purchased that that
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night the staff weren't able to provide any further information as to who Kim might have met while at the
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bar a $50,000 reward was offered for information leading to the arrest of Kim Barry's
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killer exactly 1 week after Kim was murdered investigators dressed up a mannequin in the same blouse and pants
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she had been wearing and displayed it outside the crown Garden's disco a wig similar to Kim wavy dark
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hair was put on its head and a photograph of her face was stuck to the mannequin's
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face pinned up next to the mannequin was a sign that read did you see this girl Last Friday
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Night a caravan that had been converted into a Mobile police station was parked in a laneway by the nightclub and
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detectives milled about inside the club where patrons could see them one by one nightclubbers started AO
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ing the investigators with possible leads about Kim the detectives would direct them to
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the Mobile station to provide a formal statement two sisters came forward to say they'd been at the Disco on the
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night in question they had had a few drinks with a friend named Glenn Potter who was celebrating his
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birthday Glenn's older brother Graham was also there that night for his bucks night as he was getting married one week
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later on Valentine day the two brothers had combined their respective special occasions into one
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Celebration The Sisters had noticed Graham sitting on a couch with a girl at about 12:30 a.m. Graham walked
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up to the table where they were seated and said he was leaving but would be back
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soon he handed over his cardigan for safe keeping and set a near empty bottle of wine on the table as he did
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so when the detectives asked the sisters if they knew what kind of wine it was they both
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replied lib fra [Music] vine when detectives checked to see if gr and Potter had a criminal record they
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discovered two previous convictions of break enter and steel dating back to 1976 Potter had been 18 at the time and
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was fined $250 he also received a 3-year good behavior Bond now aged 23 years old Potter was
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employed as a coal miner sifting through other witness statements collected from Crown Gardens
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patrons detectives found further evidence that Kim Barry had been seen in gr and Potter's company one person saw
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them sitting on a lounge talking together another spotted them dancing and holding
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hands sometime after midnight the pair was seen walking hand inand towards the [Music]
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exit it turned out that Kim had been somewhat acquainted with Potter prior to that night the pair had taken dance
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lessons together at the same school some years earlier Kim had confided in her mother
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Beverly that she had a bit of a crush on Potter who was 4 years older than her but when Beverly asked Kim about the
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crush again a few years later Kim said she no longer liked Potter he thought he was too much of a quote Ladies
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Man detectives needed to follow up with gr and Potter in person but there was a problem a week earlier on Tuesday
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February 10 20-year-old Sheree Jones had been excited about her upcoming wedding
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Sheree was set to marry her fiance gr and Potter in several days time on Valentine's Day
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that evening Sheree and Graham were attending a dance class together to go over the bridal
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Walts Sheree was surprised when Graham unexpectedly cancelled he'd called her work that
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afternoon and left a message saying he couldn't see her but would talk to her later soon Sheree learned that Potter
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had also called his younger brother Glenn to say he was going away for a little while Glenn suspected that his
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brother had gotten cold feet and canceled the wedding he knew it was Graham's dream to travel around
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Australia before starting a family upon hearing Glenn's news Sheree was distraught the truth was Graham had been
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acting strangely for days he'd celebrated his bux night a few days prior on Friday February 6
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combining it with Glenn's birthday at around 1 that night Graham had called Sheree's parents home where
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she lived he told Sheree he was having fun and had been dancing with a friend he would come over to her place
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that night to sleep and asked if she could leave the back door unlocked Sheree did so and left a
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sleeping bag in the lounge room for grahe but when she woke the next morning the bag was still rolled up and hadn't
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been slept in Sheree called Graham's unit he answered right away explaining that
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he' decided to go back there with his brother instead they'd gotten home at about 2:30
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a.m. the couple met up later that day and Sheree noticed that Graham was wearing a readyy old t-shirt and
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shorts he typically made an effort to dress well he was also quieter than usual but discussed their wedding plans
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happily enough Graham spent most of of the weekend with shereé at her home on Monday Graham visited Sheree at
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home and suddenly blurted out an idea what if they went traveling together around the country instead of
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getting married Shere told him she wanted to marry and settled down first which led
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to an argument Sheree ultimately told Graham that there was no way she would go traveling with
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him the couple made up and later ran some errands together they stopped at a bank and Graham withdrew his entire
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savings $2,950 he told Sheree that he would use the funds to open a joint bank account
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for them with some of the money going towards their honeymoon then he called his employer
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and said he was taking the rest of the week off sick the last time Sheree had seen her
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fiance was at lunchtime on Tuesday he stopped by her work briefly before later calling to cancel their dance lesson
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that night after asking if they could talk privately Graham told Sheree don't do anything stupid if
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anything happens to me we will get back together again later that day Graham left in his
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1970 white Holden sedan for an unknown destination none of his family or friends had seen
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him since the day he departed just happened to be the same day that Kim Barry was
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publicly identified as the Headless victim found at jamboroo Mountain Lookout by the time detectives began to
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consider grah and Potter a possible suspect on Saturday February 14 they were already aware that he'd skipped
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town an early tip they'd received in their investigation had been about a groom who' abruptly disappeared after
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celebrating his bucks night at the crown Gardens disco the same night that Kim Barry was
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there at the time they had nothing else linking Potter to Kim but they added his
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name to their list of potential suspects now unable to interview grah Potter detectives instead began to
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question those closest to him Potter's parents seemed confused as to why police would want to speak to their son his
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fiance Sheree was in a State of Shock the most valuable witness was Potter's younger brother Glenn who had
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been with Potter at the crown Gardens disco Glenn was hostile towards the detectives telling them he had no idea
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where his brother was and hadn't spoken to him in days Glenn said that they'd arrived at
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the crown Gardens disco at around midnight he'd seen a girl with dark hair approaching his brother and the pair had
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struck up a conversation although the girl's features were similar to Kim Barry's
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Glenn claimed he couldn't be certain if it was her at around 12:30 a.m. Graham approached Glenn at the bar and said I'm
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going out for a little while then he left with the girl he'd been chatting to a little over an hour later Graham
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returned and Glenn asked him how did you go he was referring to the girl Graham left
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with assuming his brother had wanted one last fling before getting married Potter explained that he'd taken
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her back to his place but she'd gotten cold feet at the front door and left Potter had immediately caught a
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taxi back to the nightclub and even asked the cab driver to pick up a sailor he'd seen hitchhiking along the
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way he didn't seem in any way anxious or concerned at about 2:45 a.m. the two brothers had
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left the Disco and gone to Graham Potter's home with the Potter family's permission
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investigators paid a visit to the unit there were few possessions there as Potter's family had taken them for
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safekeeping worried the unit might have been burgled in his absence the residents was totally
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Immaculate there was nothing visible to the naked eye that indicated any anything un Ward had happened
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there weeks later on Saturday February 28th 1981 a man named Adan Smith went for a scenic drive with his girlfriend
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and the couple's two dogs it was around 6 on a warm summer evening as Dean's car drove the twists
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and turns around to jamboroo Mountain Road Dean decided to pull over at a clearing
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located at a part of the road where the bitchman was replaced by dirt he and his
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girlfriend got out of the car for some fresh air and Dean let the dogs jump out for a
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run the animals raced off into some nearby scrub roughly 15 minutes passed and the
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dogs hadn't returned Dean called them one of the dogs reappeared and ran back to Dean but
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there was no no sign of the other confused as his dogs were both typically obedient Dean headed into the
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scrub to find his missing pet the vegetation was thick and Dean struggled through it before arriving at
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a creek bed his dog stood nearby stock still with one of its front paws lifted and
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its eyes fixated on a round object about 5 m away it was a human skull two officers responded to the scene
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because the skull was located in the same area where Kim Barry's body had been found it seemed likely it belonged
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to her but it was missing all of its flesh and hair which seemed like extremely rapid
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decomposition when investigators discovered sceletal remains of small animals nearby they realized that a
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larger Predator such as a fox likely fed in the area the skull had also been scavenged
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by a wild animal and dental records confirmed that it belonged to Kim Barry there were significant wounds to
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the left side of the skull indicating that Kim had been hit with a blunt heavy object forensic investigators suspected
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the killer had used a spanner extensive Searchers of the area recovered toughs of dark brown human
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hair and small bones which looked to be from fing fingers these remains seemed to create a
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trail that led to a Lanana Bush police found two plastic bags under a bush they looked to have been ripped
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open by animals inside were two Blood Stained bed sheets one striped and the other
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with a floral pattern there was also a filthy dressing gown the Gown had a depression in it
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that perfectly matched the recovered skull inside of the depression were more clumps of hair as well as human tissue
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bones and several fingers they all belonged to Kim Barry the dressing gown and sheets were
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shown to gr Potter's fiance Sheree Jones she said the Gown looked like one he owned but she couldn't be sure as it
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was so dirty she didn't recognize the floral sheet however the striped sheet was one she had previously seen in
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Potter's unit investigators had enough evidence to obtain a search warrant for GR
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Potter's unit on the surface the residence was sparkling clean there was no furniture inside the
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walls were free from marks and the flooring was spotless with one exception in the second bedroom the
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carpet had a stain in the middle which was a slightly darker color than the rest there was another smaller stain in
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a corner of the room both of these stains tested positive for blood after taking photos investigators
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pulled up the carpet blood had seeped through the fabric and onto the floorboards beneath
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leaving obvious stains a nearby skirting board also had a small glob of dried blood on
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it on closer inspection investigators found that a Fresh coat of paint on one bedroom wall concealed some blood
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smears two dark hairs were stuck in the paint more matching hairs were later found in the carpet on a bottle of
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disinfectant and in the lint filter of the clothes dryer a tap in the barroom Basin had a
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tiny red spot on it about the size of a match head the stain tested positive for
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blood more traces of blood were found in the plug hole that led to the basin's drain there was several long fairly
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straight scratches in the bathtub Potter's parents also gave police permission to take some of his
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possessions they were holding for him in some bags they found a blue dressing gown cord that matched the Gown
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found in the bush a striped sheet and two Blood Stained blankets although DNA testing wasn't available to
00:37:00
investigators at the time they had Kim's blood group some of the blood found on items belonging to gr and Potter was too
00:37:08
degraded to be compared but a number of the stains proved to be a match on the same day that Kim Barry's
00:37:21
skull was found police in the New South Wales city of GN got in touch with their
00:37:26
colleagues in wenong a car had been left abandoned outside of that police station almost 3
00:37:33
weeks earlier on Tuesday February 10 the white hold and sedan hadn't garnered any attention at first as it
00:37:41
was parked close to the train station and people often left their cars there for days at a
00:37:46
time but a check had revealed the car was registered to 20-year-old Sheree Jones who lived more than 150 km
00:37:54
Northeast of Goldin in w on inside the car's glove box was a wallet and a bank card belonging to gr
00:38:02
Potter and a small knife strewn throughout the rest of the vehicle were some items of clothing
00:38:09
including a Blood Stained shirt and several other miscellaneous items on the dashboard was a notebook
00:38:16
and inside was a handwritten letter it read in part oh my sweet Sheree you don't know
00:38:26
how much I regret my leaving you whatever is said as to why I'm leaving please believe me but if I stay my life
00:38:35
may be in danger please express to everybody my sorrow that I messed everyone's lives up but if you only knew
00:38:43
why I think things would change you're [Music] Graham gbin sits near the Hume Highway
00:38:54
which eventually leads to Melbourne the woolongong detectives wondered if perhaps gr and Potter had planned to
00:39:00
flee into state to Victoria Police in Victoria were asked to make inquiries as to Potter's
00:39:06
possible whereabouts while the New South Wales homicide Squad finally went public
00:39:11
with their investigation they requested that Graham Potter come forward they didn't say he was a suspect
00:39:20
merely stating they were Keen to question him they also asked anyone with information as to Potter's whereabouts
00:39:27
to contact them photos of gr and Potter were broadcast on the news and published in
00:39:33
papers showing a clean shaven young man with short wavy dark hair Kim Barry's family and grah and Potter's loved ones
00:39:42
also issued public please for him to come forward detectives spoke to pot's friends and acquaintances to build up a
00:39:50
clearer picture of who he was one friend said that when he and poter were at school he had once gone
00:39:57
over to Potter's House while his parents were out the friend claimed that Potter
00:40:02
had inserted suppositories into one of his family's pet border Coles for entertainment the dog had later
00:40:11
died police tried to verify this incident believing the act of animal cruelty might indicate a predilection
00:40:17
for violence but they couldn't confirm it other friends of grand poters thought it was impossible for him to be involved
00:40:26
ing Kim Barry's murder the Graham they knew was an upstanding young man who loved his
00:40:32
family and his fiance they couldn't imagine him doing anything that brutal Potter's parents were devastated
00:40:40
by their son's abrupt disappearance and were desperate for him to come forward and clear his
00:40:46
name they undertook their own searches for their son but found no trace of him a number of tip offs trickled in but
00:40:55
as week passed with no sign of Potter investigators began to wonder if he had taken his own
00:41:02
life then on Friday April 10 A call came in from an acquaintance of Potters who had been driving earlier that morning on
00:41:10
the F6 Expressway the motorist claimed to have seen Potter hitchhiking he was 38 km north of Wong
00:41:20
in the outskirts of Sydney Potter had been trying to catch a ride back in the direction of wol
00:41:26
gong it appeared that he was heading home police descended on the area but Potter was long
00:41:38
gone the following day investigators received phone calls from Potter's fiance Sheree and father Sunny Graham
00:41:47
had called them both he'd insisted he was innocent but kept the calls short for fear his loved ones phones were
00:41:54
being tapped neither Sheree or sunny were able to provide any more information about where Potter had been
00:42:01
or where he was now on the evening of Monday April 13 Sunny Potter was at home when he heard
00:42:10
someone open the back door of his residence The Potters kept the rear door unlocked for friends and family who
00:42:17
would visit Sunny rushed to the door and saw a figure with red hair and a full beard
00:42:23
standing there despite how different he looked Sunny recognized the man right away as
00:42:29
his son Graham with his parents and siblings gathered around Graham Potter shared his
00:42:36
story for the first time according to Potter on the night he was at the crown Gardens disco
00:42:44
celebrating his buck night Kim Barry had approached him Potter was somewhat familiar with
00:42:50
Kim from their time attending the same dance school but he had no interest in her because he was was boted with his
00:42:57
fiance Sheree Jones Potter said he wasn't that Keen on talking with Kim but she quote latched
00:43:05
on to him and he didn't want to be rude so he sat down with her for a chat when Potter asked Kim how she'd
00:43:13
been she immediately blurted out I've got to get out of here and I can't leave by
00:43:20
myself Kim told Potter that two men had been in the Disco looking for her earlier and she was afraid they might be
00:43:26
waiting outside she asked Potter if he would escort her out for safety Potter agreed and left his
00:43:35
cardigan and Kim's bottle of wine on his brother's table saying he'd be back soon when Potter and Kim went outside
00:43:44
Potter glanced around but saw no sign of the two men Kim appeared to be very nervous Potter suggested she catch a
00:43:53
taxi home and offered to walk her to a nearby cab rank while the two waited for a taxi Kim asked if they could go back
00:44:00
to Potter's unit so she could talk to him about the situation with the two men Potter agreed and they caught a cab
00:44:08
back to his place Kim sat down on a couch while Potter made them some coffee suddenly there was a knock at the
00:44:17
door Potter answered it and two men shoved past him closing the door behind them who are you what do you want Potter
00:44:27
asked the men told him they wanted to speak with Kim alone then added so go upstairs and
00:44:36
behave Kim told Potter it was fine so he headed upstairs leaving the three to talk in the living
00:44:43
room Potter could only hear vague Snippets of the Trio's conversation it seemed that Kim was in
00:44:50
some kind of trouble for ripping the two men off poter got the impression the men
00:44:56
were drug dealers their voices became raised and Potter heard some other strange
00:45:03
noises after a while it grew quiet unsure whether he should return downstairs Potter waited a little
00:45:12
longer finally he headed back down Kim was lying on the floor one of the men was kneeling beside her while
00:45:22
the other was rifling through her handbag a bloody rolling pin taken from his kitchen lay
00:45:30
nearby oh no no Potter cried out one of the men grabbed him and pushed him up against the wall stating shut up and you
00:45:40
won't be hurt Potter began to cry as he felt certain the men would kill him too he
00:45:48
pleaded for them to let him live saying he would do anything one of the men replied you can e either end up as she
00:45:56
is or keep your mouth shut and say nothing if we're caught we'll say you were in on it from there you'll go to
00:46:05
prison with us and you won't be safe in there either we'll get at you there too Potter promised he wouldn't say
00:46:14
anything and the men ordered him to leave while they took care of the situation Potter left the unit and
00:46:22
caught a taxi back to the crown Garden's Disco for some reason he asked the taxi
00:46:27
driver to pick up a sailor who was hitchhiking along the way when Potter arrived back at the
00:46:34
venue he wasn't allowed in Potter pleaded with the bouncers explaining that his brother was inside and
00:46:41
eventually they relented Potter tried to act natural around his brother and Friends chatting
00:46:48
until it was time to leave finally Potter caught another taxi home with his brother Glenn
00:46:56
it was about 4:00 a.m. by the time they got there there was no sign of the two men or Kim's body Glenn fell asleep
00:47:05
quickly Potter crawled into his bed under the blankets and [Music] sobbed the next morning Glenn headed
00:47:17
back to his parents place at around 7 not long after there was a knock at gr Potter's front door the two men from the
00:47:26
previous night were back they ordered Potter to walk upstairs and followed closely behind him they then shoved
00:47:34
Potter into the upstairs bathroom before heading towards the spare bedroom when they reappeared at the
00:47:41
bathroom door they were carrying Kim's body apparently they had stashed it in the spare room instead of taking it with
00:47:50
them the men placed Kim on the bathroom floor using a knife and a meat saw they had taken from Potter's kitchen the two
00:47:59
men cut off Kim's head and removed her fingers while Potter wept when the men were done they ordered
00:48:06
Potter to get rid of Kim's remains they threatened him once more before leaving the
00:48:13
property Potter wrapped Kim's head and fingers in an old dressing gown and her body in some
00:48:20
sheets then he borrowed his fiance's car and placed Kim's remains in the boot he also stuffed Kim's purse clothing and
00:48:29
the Bloody rolling pin which looked to be the murder weapon into a bag but for some reason he washed the
00:48:37
knife the man had used and placed it back in his kitchen drawer Potter drove out to Jambu
00:48:44
Mountain Lookout and dumped Kim there as he drove back down the mountain he suddenly remembered he still had the
00:48:51
bag containing Kim's belongings and the murder weapon he tossed it into the bush
00:48:57
as well over the next few days Potter's Panic grew he felt like his knowledge of
00:49:05
the man's crime was putting everyone he loved at risk after Kim Barry's body was found he
00:49:13
decided to flee Potter used Sheree's car to drive to gulin and from there he traveled to
00:49:19
Melbourne then the Island state of Tasmania he said he eventually made his way to New
00:49:26
Zealand in 1981 a passport wasn't needed to travel between Australia and New Zealand almost 2 months went by Potter
00:49:39
was tormented by being so far away from his family and Sheree in the second week of April
00:49:46
Potter met a girl who was from wenong she brought up the topic of Kim Barry's murder with Potter saying a
00:49:53
friend back home had told her about it Potter asked if the police knew who'd committed the crime when the girl
00:50:01
answered no Potter figured maybe it was safe to go home gray and Potter's family were
00:50:12
Overjoyed to have him home but heartbroken to hear what he'd suffered when Potter's father asked if
00:50:19
he was willing to assist police Potter readily agreed he decided to have a bath to
00:50:25
freshen up while his parents called investigators as he was lathering up the bathroom door suddenly opened and two
00:50:33
detectives marched inside telling Potter that he was under arrest The Potters were devastated by
00:50:41
the abrupt Interruption they had believed that their son was only wanted as a witness
00:50:46
and felt that the nature of his arrest was a betrayal they would subsequently say
00:50:52
that at least 10 officers had surrounded their home and entered with pistols drawn New South Wales police insisted
00:50:59
only two detectives attended and they hadn't drawn their weapons gram Potter was driven to the
00:51:06
police station for questioning he refused to say anything other than confirm his name address and a date of
00:51:15
birth the interview concluded within 15 minutes and Potter was then charged with
00:51:21
the murder of Kim Barry 3 months later in July 1981 grah and Potter's pre-trial hearing
00:51:31
began detectives and prosecutors had their own Theory as to why Potter had killed Kim
00:51:37
Barry they believed he had been looking to have one last fling before his wedding and invited Kim back to his
00:51:44
home Kim who' previously had a crush on Potter and was eager to find a boyfriend
00:51:50
accepted his invitation but once the pair arrived at pot's unit detectives believed Kim had
00:51:56
changed her mind perhaps she'd seen something that made her realize Potter had a fiance and wasn't
00:52:03
single angry at being rejected Potter lashed out at Kim and struck her in the head with a blunt object killing her he
00:52:12
then left her body in his unit while he returned to the crown gardens's disco the next day he dismembered Kim
00:52:20
and dumped her remains perhaps he'd never expected them to be found due to the dense nature of
00:52:27
the rainforest where he'd left them but when Kim was discovered and the investigation began poto grew scared he
00:52:36
must have known it was only a matter of time until police found out he'd been seen with Kim that night so he went on
00:52:43
the Run disguised his appearance and hid until he felt he couldn't any longer at the pre-trial hearing the
00:52:53
police and prosecutors heard Graham Potter's defense for the first time potter's attorney explained to the
00:53:00
court that while Kim Barry had been murdered in his client's home Potter wasn't the culprit two drug dealers had
00:53:08
done it he wanted his client to be given bail so he could work on his defense and
00:53:13
help track down the true Killers his request was denied Potter would remain on remant
00:53:22
while awaiting his trial grahan Potter's trial didn't begin until March the following year of
00:53:33
1982 investigators had spent the previous 8 months scrutinizing his claims in preparation for their
00:53:40
case first of all it appeared that small details in Potter's story changed depending on who he was talking
00:53:47
to the story he told his family differed slightly from the one he shared with his
00:53:52
fiance Sheree a lengthier statement he provided to his legal team had even further
00:54:01
discrepancies detectives tried to find out whether Kim Barry had any history of illicit drug use or connections to
00:54:07
individuals in the drug trade they hadn't been able to come up with anything no one who knew Kim had ever
00:54:15
known her to have any interest in recreational drugs or criminal activity she enjoyed going out with
00:54:22
friends and having a drink on occasion but that was all she was also focused on her job at the supermarket her volunteer
00:54:30
work at a children's home and her long-term goal of becoming a nurse Potter had said he wasn't
00:54:37
interested in talking to Kim and didn't like her much but those who had seen Kim
00:54:42
talking with Potter noted that the two looked friendly one person was certain that
00:54:48
when they left the Disco together they had been holding hands gray and Potter had provided
00:54:54
description of the two men he claimed killed Kim which were used to create suspect
00:55:00
sketches one man had a long thin face with dark hair styled in a quiff the other had a slightly wider face big ears
00:55:10
and close cropped hair no one else who'd been at the crown Gardens that night could recall seeing
00:55:16
anyone who matched the sketches Witnesses who saw Kim at the Disco said that she hadn't looked
00:55:23
worried or fearful however the defense claimed that two women had seen Kim crying in the
00:55:30
nightclub's bathroom and that she told them she was quote marked they weren't able to present
00:55:37
these women at trial one of the barast staff recalled she'd seen a woman crying in the
00:55:44
bathroom but didn't know if that woman was Kim it had appeared that the woman was
00:55:49
crying about a man as she repeated the words oh the bastard other issues that were addressed at
00:55:58
trial included the blood evidence found at Potter's unit Potter said that Kim was murdered
00:56:04
in his living room yet the amount of blood found in the spare bedroom led to the prosecution arguing she'd most
00:56:10
likely been murdered there linear scratches in the bathtub and blood found in the drain pointed to
00:56:18
that as the location of Kim's dismemberment a lot of attention was paid to the mutilation of Kim's hands
00:56:27
Potter had claimed the culprits used a meat saw to sever Kim's fingers extensive testing by
00:56:33
investigators LED them to believe that a hacka and pliers were the tools used the defense argued that if two
00:56:41
different methods were used that meant it was more likely that two different people were
00:56:47
responsible they also pointed out that the way Kim's head and fingers had been removed appeared consistent with the way
00:56:54
organized criminals might dispose of a victim to prevent their identification the defense claimed
00:57:01
Potter had no motive to kill kimberry and said police hadn't been able to come up with one
00:57:09
either Gran Potter didn't take the stand instead he provided a statement detailing his version of events this
00:57:18
meant he was able to avoid cross-examination by the prosecution when the tri wrapped up
00:57:25
roughly a month after it began the jury left to consider their verdict after deliberating for an hour
00:57:33
and 10 minutes they found Graham Potter guilty gram Potter was sentenced to life
00:57:45
in prison his supporters were destroyed believing he was wrongly paying for other men's crimes Potter's fiance
00:57:53
Sheree Jones remained loyal to him and married him in a prison ceremony almost 6 months
00:57:59
later Potter was not entitled to conjugal visits and was unable to spend any time alone with
00:58:07
Sheree grah and Potter continued to maintain his innocence and repeatedly appealed his
00:58:14
conviction by the mid 1980s he'd exhausted all avenues for appeal but he continued to find new
00:58:22
Advocates who believed his story they kept looking for evidence that Potter had been wrongly
00:58:30
convicted a document from a real estate agent was uncovered revealing that the scratchers in Potter's bathtub had been
00:58:37
there before he rented the property his supporters felt this was important while police had pointed to
00:58:45
the bathtub scratchers as evidence Potter had dismembered Kim there Potter had always maintained the two men had
00:58:52
mutilated Kim on the bathroom floor Potter's supporters also tracked down a woman involved in woing gong's drug
00:59:00
trade who claimed she'd over her two male acquaintances talking about how they'd dealt with a
00:59:07
girl they said another man had been present for the crime but was really quote good about
00:59:14
it when the woman asked who the men were talking about they replied have a guess armed with this new information
00:59:24
Graham Potter applied for a Judicial inquiry into his conviction he had access to a computer
00:59:31
and used this to put his case together until it was confiscated during a Crackdown on inmates
00:59:38
privileges Potter felt that the only way he could finish his application was if he was on the
00:59:46
outside at 520 p.m. on Saturday June 30 1990 gr and Potter and another inmate crawled through the roof of their
00:59:55
prison's Visitors Center they ran to the wall of the prison and managed to jump it then caught a
01:00:03
taxi when the taxi driver later heard a news report about the prison break he phoned police and told them where he'd
01:00:09
dropped the men off they were both captured within 22 hours of their escape and returned to
01:00:16
their cells Potter was charged with escape from lawful custody and intent to use a
01:00:22
weapon to avoid arrest 3 years later however Potter's luck would turn new sentencing legislation led to
01:00:33
his sentence being reviewed and ultimately reduced with a minimum term of 12 Years 8
01:00:40
months in 1996 after he'd served 14 years for killing Kim Barry Gran Potter was released on
01:00:50
parole he told the media that his plan now was to quote clear my [Music] name instead of clearing his name gr and
01:01:03
Potter moved to Tasmania with his wife Sheree and became involved in the illicit drug trade in 2008 he was
01:01:11
arrested as part of a sting operation by the Australian federal police for his involvement in helping import $440
01:01:18
Million worth of ecstasy and cocaine Potter was extradited to Victor Warrior for court proceedings and
01:01:26
subsequently granted bail able to freely roam the streets of Melbourne Potter was drawn into the
01:01:34
city's notorious underworld after meeting a local Mafia member Behind Bars Potter's new friend allegedly hired
01:01:41
him to kill two men one of the targets was an associate of Infamous Gangland figure Mick GTO and
01:01:49
the murder was set to take place at G's son's wedding before before Potter carried out
01:01:55
the hit he was rearrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder once again he was released on
01:02:04
bail in February 2010 Gran Potter failed to appear at the Melbourne magistrates court for a
01:02:11
hearing detectives were unable to find him Potter had gone on the Run just as he did almost 30 years earlier after
01:02:21
killing Kim Barry in 1981 but this time he didn't reemerge 6 months later on Saturday
01:02:31
August 28 2010 police at the other end of the country in Tully Queensland were conducting a routine vehicle
01:02:40
intercept it turned out that the person behind the wheel was gram Potter he bolted during the traffic stop
01:02:48
and ran towards an area of rainforest he disappeared amongst the trees and police were unable to find him
01:02:56
but they did discover a campsite where Potter had been living at the Tully Caravan
01:03:01
Park Potter had been staying there for about 6 weeks amongst his belongings were knives
01:03:09
fishing lines stockpiles of food newspapers with the job listings highlighted a set of binoculars and
01:03:15
multiple pairs of eyeglasses investigators also found handwritten notes which detailed how
01:03:22
Potter could disguise himself Potter wrote that if anybody recognized him he would kill
01:03:31
them now that they had seized his equipment and survival supplies police were confident that it wouldn't be long
01:03:37
before Potter was forced to surface again however months then years went by with Potter remaining on the
01:03:46
Run unconfirmed sightings came in from all over the country Potter was spotted back in Victoria in Regional New South
01:03:54
Wales and even across the bass straight in Tasmania on one occasion he befriended
01:04:01
an elderly Widow who unknowingly took him in as a lodger when one of the woman's friends
01:04:07
recognized Potter she confronted him he threatened to kill her if she called the
01:04:15
police Potter was skilled at manual labor which allowed him to find cash inhand work from unsuspecting
01:04:22
employers investigators knew he tended to lie Low by sticking to rural areas or country
01:04:28
towns sometimes he stayed at rental properties but he was also comfortable camping and roughing it for months at a
01:04:36
time sometimes detectives obtained grainy CCTV footage of Potter at a general store or a pub but it seemed
01:04:43
like he was always several steps ahead of them by 2014 he was definitely known to
01:04:51
be back in Far North Queensland a Publican in Ravens HHO a town approximately 2 hours south of can's
01:04:59
realized that a customer who just bought a bottle of Jim Beam Bourbon was Graham
01:05:05
Potter the Publican phoned the police but by the time they arrived Potter was long
01:05:12
gone a $100,000 reward was offered for information leading to Potter's capture but police warned the public they were
01:05:20
not under any circumstances to approach the Fugi Potter's elusiveness led to the media
01:05:28
dubbing him Australia's most Wanted Man on Monday February 21 2022 police in Far North Queensland headed to a
01:05:42
dilapidated house in Raven HHO they were acting on a tip off random pieces of Timber and Sheet
01:05:51
Metal were strewn outside and leaning up against the building numerous cats and kittens roamed around the
01:05:59
property inside the old house was dark and filthy with mattresses cardboard boxes and chicken copes piled to the
01:06:09
ceiling the officers found a man by the name of Josh Lawson hiding in a room attempting to clamber across some of the
01:06:16
chicken coops to evade capture they demanded he place his hands where they could see them and placed him
01:06:22
under arrest Josh Lawson was Graham Potter now 64 years old it was one of many aliases he'd been
01:06:33
using over the past 12 years other names Potter went by included John Page Peter
01:06:40
Adams and to Jim Henderson he had used various costumes to disguise himself including fat suits
01:06:47
wigs and glasses the house where he was arrested was less than a kilometer from the pub
01:06:54
where he'd purchased the Jim Beam 8 years earlier the same Publican had served Potter since then but had never
01:07:01
recognized him again due to his elaborate disguises police believed Potter had likely spent the last decade in the same
01:07:12
area Graham Potter was extradited back to Victoria to finally face his charges as of late 2023 his case is
01:07:22
still before the courts [Music] in the early 1990s journalist John Sut Linton was working on a book about the
01:07:33
kimberry case his research into the crime was meticulous and he even managed to uncover some information that the
01:07:41
police had never found one Gap in the original investigation involved how gr and Potter
01:07:48
and Kim Barry had traveled back to his unit Potter said they' caught a taxi but no taxi driver had ever come forward
01:07:56
despite appeals from investigators 12 years later in 1993 an article about Potter's sentencing being
01:08:05
reduced ran in the aawara Mercury a local man who read the story came forward and told John Sut Linton
01:08:13
something that he'd never spoken about before he claimed that he was the taxi driver who'd picked up Potter and Kim
01:08:20
that night he'd given Kim Li's before and though he didn't know her name he remembered her home
01:08:29
address according to the driver a second man had gotten into the taxi with Kim and Potter he sat up the front and
01:08:37
chatted cheerfully to the driver while Kim and Potter sat quietly in the back the driver didn't think Kim seemed
01:08:44
scared but she was a little quiet he suspected she might have recognized him too and been embarrassed
01:08:52
about going home with a man instead of to her usual address the driver went on holiday
01:08:58
immediately after and so missed the initial media flurry about Kim's murder he didn't realize the potential
01:09:06
significance of the lift he'd given that night until Graham Potter's trial was well
01:09:11
underway it is not clear who the extra passenger in the taxi was but John Sut Linton has noted grah Potter was known
01:09:19
to offer lifts to strangers not long after the driver came forward John Sut Linton met with gr
01:09:27
Potter in prison although he found Potter polite and soft spoken as his supporters described John also noted
01:09:35
that Potter had a temper he went on an angry defensive rant about the taxi driver who had
01:09:41
recently come forward he also liked to shock Jon and his parents by telling stories about
01:09:48
gory accidents and the notorious criminals he was now acquainted with John suto Linton thought it was
01:09:56
interesting that Potter reveled in keeping company with such individuals when he also blamed two such men for the
01:10:03
crime he was convicted of John Sut linton's book The Stranger you know was published in
01:10:13
1997 16 years after Kim Barry was murdered JN spent time with Kim's family and saw firsthand the devastation they
01:10:22
were left to grapple with Beverly Barry battled with anxiety insomnia and complete
01:10:30
despair during grahan Potter's trial her husband Brian shielded Beverly from some
01:10:35
of the worst details of what had happened to Kim Brian's personality and life experiences led to him repressing his
01:10:44
own emotions he believed he had to stay strong for his family but the stress of knowing what his daughter suffered and
01:10:53
having to identify her body ate away at him Kim's younger brother Wayne became an only child at a vulnerable age and
01:11:02
struggled with the immense public attention his sister's case received John Sut Linton wrote of Kim's
01:11:10
loved ones quote the Barry family to their credit do not hold any malice or hatred towards
01:11:18
grah Potter and his family it may be true to say there is an empty a disbelief that one person could take
01:11:26
another's life the victims of crime are not those who are killed but those who are left to
01:11:33
try and fill the emotional void someone else has thoughtlessly created [Music]