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Friday April 13 1973 was an exhausting
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day for the Kennedy family
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24 year old Faye and her two young
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daughters five-year-old Stephanie and 17
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month old Deidre had just returned home
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to the small Queensland city of Ipswich
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after a six-week trip of visiting
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relatives further up north
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it had required a 17-hour bus ride home
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and none of them had gotten much sleep
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Faye's husband Barry was recovering from
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knee surgery and the effort of hobbling
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around on crutches left him drained of
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energy
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they took it slow that day
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Stephanie and Deidre were often
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excitable around bedtime but as Knight
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approached they got ready for bed
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without protest
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Faye prepared deidre's favorite meal
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tomato soup with a side of asparagus
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Spears
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after giving the girls a bath Faye put
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Deidre into a fresh nappy with a
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waterproof cover on top known as a
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Pilcher
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she then dressed her in a singlet and a
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new pair of pink pajamas adorned with
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bunny motifs
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Deidre was excited about her new pajamas
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and showed them off proudly to her
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father
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the Kennedys lived in a two-bedroom
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single-story unit
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Stephanie and Deidre shared a small
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bedroom at the end of the hallway
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adjacent to their parents
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the two girls were Incredibly Close
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Stephanie doted on her baby sister whom
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she affectionately called a DD
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at 7 30 PM Faye placed a sleepy Deirdre
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in her car near the bedroom door
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an hour later she tucked Stephanie into
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her bed below the open window
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Faye and Barry spent some time together
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before retiring to bed at around 10
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o'clock
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Faye checked in on her daughters one
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last time
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both girls were sleeping soundly
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Faye pulled the aluminum sliding window
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and curtain Shut before tenderly tucking
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the girls in and leaving the room
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she fell asleep easily worn out from the
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long day
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the following morning Faye was awoken
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Suddenly by Stephanie shaking her
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shoulder
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the five-year-old looked concerned
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wake up she said
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DD's not in her bed
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Faye Kennedy loved nothing more than
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being a mother
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she cared for her two daughters full
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time while Barry supported the family by
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working as an instrument fitter for the
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Royal Australian Air Force
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it was this role that had recently
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landed the Kennedys in Ipswich located
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40 kilometers west of Brisbane
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Barry was transferred there in late 1972
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and the family settled into the
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two-bedroom unit on Short Street
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theirs was one of four units in a small
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crane brick block owned by the Air Force
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the move was just temporary while they
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awaited assignment of a bigger house
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but the unit's location on the edge of
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town just 350 meters from Limestone Park
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and a 15-minute drive from the Air Force
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Base in the nearby suburb of Amberley
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suited them fine for now
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the slow pace of Ipswich matched the
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Kennedy's small town mentality
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having been raised in the outback Barry
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and Faye were country kids at heart
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quiet and trusting they had lived a
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relatively sheltered lives and believed
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in the best of people
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when the couple awoke to find baby
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Deidre wasn't in her Court they
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desperately searched their house
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the 17-month-old had only recently
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started walking having scooted around on
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her bottom until she'd managed to find
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her feet
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she was still shaky on her legs and
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there was no way she could have climbed
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out of her cot or opened any doors on
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her own
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regardless the Kennedys looked through
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the small unit checking under beds and
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Furniture as they called deidre's name
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they searched outside before knocking on
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their neighbor's door
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he hadn't seen Deidre or heard anything
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out of the ordinary
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the green Open Spaces offered by
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Limestone Park made it a popular
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Recreation spot for residents of Ipswich
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located just a few minutes drive from
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the Town Center the sprawling Park was
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framed by a blend of residential streets
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and Main thoroughfares
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adults and children alike frequented the
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area to exercise play sports and walk
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their pets among the mostly flat land
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dotted with a scattering of native trees
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horse trainer Westy Mills was one such
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resonant
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the sun had barely risen on the morning
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of Saturday April 14 1973 as Westy
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trotted one of his horses across the
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Dewey oval
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there were few other people around say
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for a jogger and a duo with a dog
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as Westie passed a public toilet block
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on the western edge of the park he
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noticed something hanging off the edge
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of the flat tin roof
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he pulled his horse to a stop so he
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could get a closer look
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at first Westy thought it was a rag doll
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he then realized what exactly he was
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looking at
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Westy cried out in shock
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help there's a baby here
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Westie Mills desperately climbed onto
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the toilet block roof and retrieved the
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baby's body
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it was a young girl who had died of
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violent death
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she was wearing a pink pajama top but
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her pajama bottoms and Nappy had been
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removed and tossed aside
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in their place was women's underwear a
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pair of blue panties elastic step-ins
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with suspenders and a silk cuff slip
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skirt
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the local police were summoned along
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with detectives from Brisbane
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the site made even the most seasoned
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investigators recoil
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the baby's face and neck were covered in
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bruises and there was bruising to her
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lower thigh
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there was a small abrasion near one of
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her eyes and on her upper lip
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she had been sexually assaulted and
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strangled
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around this time a neighbor of the
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Kennedy family ran to the police station
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as neither of them had a phone
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as soon as the officer on duty heard
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that a baby was missing from Short
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Street he had no doubt
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the baby in Limestone Park was Deirdre
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Kennedy
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ipswich's chief of police remarked
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this by its circumstances is the most
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brutal murder I have ever seen
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Barry Kennedy was summoned to identify
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his daughter
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he couldn't bring himself to tell Faye
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exactly what had happened just that
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Deidre had been killed
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the devoted parents were beside
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themselves
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they tried to hold her together for
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Stephanie's sake but they were consumed
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by guilt as they blamed themselves for
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what had happened
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although Faye had checked the unit and
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closed the girl's window before she went
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to bed the night before she hadn't
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locked the door
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this wasn't unusual Ipswich was
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considered a safe City and it was
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customary for residents to leave their
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doors unlocked
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it wasn't in Faye or Barry's upbringing
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to be overly Vigilant about securing
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their home
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police visited Short Street to look for
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evidence
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although Faye was certain she'd clicked
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the sliding window closed it was now
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slightly ajar
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police dusted the property for unknown
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fingerprints
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they'd already uncovered some on the
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door of the toilet block at Limestone
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Park
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no foreign prints were detected on the
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Kennedy's window but there was one on
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the front door
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it couldn't be determined whether the
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killer had access to the house via the
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door or the window
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if they'd used the door they would have
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had to skulk quietly down the short
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hallway at the risk of waking the
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parents
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had they used the window they would have
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had to climb over Stephanie's bed
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but the five-year-old hadn't stirred at
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any point nor did she recall hearing or
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seeing anyone enter the room
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Deidre was painfully shy and her parents
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had no doubt that she would have cried
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if woken by a stranger
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but no one in the Kennedy household had
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heard Deirdre crying
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although they couldn't rule out the
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possibility entirely investigators
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didn't think that Deidre had been
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strangled at the same time she was
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abducted
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either the killer had managed to scuba
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Deidre up without waking her or the rest
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of the family had been so exhausted from
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their long day that they'd slept through
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her tears
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73 year old Cecil Carroll lived next
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door to the Kennedys in a large
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single-story house
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the two properties were separated only
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by some overgrown shrubs
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Cecil bordered there with the eight
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member [ __ ] family and mostly kept
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to himself in his bedroom at the end of
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the house
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on the night of Friday April 13 Cecil
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hadn't been feeling well and was resting
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in bed
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as he lit up a cigarette at around 10 pm
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he noticed something moving outside of
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his bedroom window
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the window opened out to the home's
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wraparound of Veranda which housed the
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makeshift washing line
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at first Cecil thought it was one of the
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[ __ ] kids
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but as he watched on he realized it was
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a male who looked to be aged between 18
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and 20 years old
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he was about 172 centimeters tall with a
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slender build of around 63 kilograms
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his hair was collar length and light
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brown to blonde in color
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foreign
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for a few minutes Cecil realized the
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prowler was taking items from the
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washing line
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he got out of bed and alerted the
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patriarch of the household Arthur
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borschett
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Arthur went outside and checked the
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veranda
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there was no one there
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he told Cecil to go back to bed
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shortly after Arthur looked out the
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window and noticed a male figure walking
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towards the Air Force units next door
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it was difficult to say anything through
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the darkness but the figure appeared to
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be in his late teens and around 170
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centimeters tall
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it was only upon closer inspection the
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following day that the bullshits
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realized several items were missing from
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their washing line
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a pair of blue panties elastic step ends
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and a silk cuff slip skirt
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the undergarments that Deidre Kennedy
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had been dressed in
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police showed Cecil Carroll a
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photographic lineup of potential
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suspects but he ruled each of them out
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as the prowler
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another Resident of the household
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twelve-year-old Paul borschett had been
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at a barbecue with friends earlier that
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evening
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he told police that when he returned
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home he saw a young man walking in the
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direction of limestone Park
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he was carrying something white over his
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shoulder
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police ultimately ruled Paul's siding
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out but they had no doubt that the man
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Cecil spied outside his window was the
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same person who killed Deidre
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news of deidre's death rattled the
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community
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people not only felt deeply for the
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Kennedy family but also feared for the
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safety of their own children
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it was in everyone's best interest that
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the case be solved fast and the public
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came forward with any details they
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thought could help
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investigate is considered whether the
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killer could have assaulted Deidre at
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another location or inside a vehicle
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before dumping her body in Limestone
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Park
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Witnesses reported seeing four different
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vehicles in the area on the night in
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question but nothing pointed towards a
00:16:03
clear suspect
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police urged the public to report anyone
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who was acting out of character in the
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days following the crime
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they considered the possibility that
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more than one person could have been
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involved but deemed it much more likely
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that the perpetrator had acted alone
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extensive door knocks were carried out
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in a bid to determine whether any young
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males were absent from their homes on
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the night of Friday April 13.
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over three and a half thousand local
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males voluntarily provided their
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fingerprints to eliminate themselves
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from the investigation
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known sex offenders and psychiatric
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patients were checked and ruled out
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several leads emerged but none that led
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to any breakthroughs
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police deduced the killer either lived
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locally or was very familiar with the
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area
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the toilet Block in Limestone Park was
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mere minutes from the Kennedy's unit so
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it was probable that the killer had
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chosen that destination on purpose
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rather than stumbled upon it by accident
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given that the Kennedys were relatively
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new to the area mostly kept to
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themselves and had no known enemies it
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seemed unlikely that this was a targeted
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attack
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it was more likely the work of an
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opportunistic predator
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forensic examination of deidre's body
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determined she died by strangulation
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the bruises on her face and neck had
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been made by a human hand
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no semen or other bodily fluid was
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detected but the killer had left behind
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a single pubic hair and some hair-like
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fibers
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although DNA profiling didn't exist at
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the time there was one other clue
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on deidre's left thigh just above the
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knee were two small curved bruises about
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one and a half centimeters long
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it was a human bite mark
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the bite hadn't been hard enough to
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break the skin but the bruising was
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visible enough for dental experts to
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determine that the killer had an unusual
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set of teeth
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based on the irregular pattern of the
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bruises the killer likely had a
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protruding overbite
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this meant that their top and the bottom
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teeth didn't meet when their jaw was
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shut and their front teeth stuck out
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the bruising also indicated that there
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was a slight deformity to the Killer's
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Two Front Teeth
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it was possible the teeth were chipped
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or broken
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at the time of deidre's murder her
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father Barry's knee injury had left him
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incapacitated
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even moving around at the unit was a
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struggle
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regardless the police had to consider
00:19:03
all theories and that they couldn't
00:19:05
exclude the possibility that Deidre had
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been killed by someone closest to her
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after all it would explain how she was
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carried outside without raising an alarm
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Barry Kennedy's teeth were compared to
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the bite marks
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they didn't match
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The Grieving father was quickly
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eliminated from the investigation
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Barry was close with his cousin Keith
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Kennedy who lived just 40 kilometers
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away in the Brisbane suburbs
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the two had spent time together in
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Ipswich the day before Fey into the
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girls returned home from their trip to
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long range for visiting relatives
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according to the book of Justice in
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Jeopardy by Debbie Marshall while Barry
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didn't think his cousin was capable of
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hurting Deirdre the police thought
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otherwise
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three years earlier Keith had been
00:20:01
accused of biting a three-year-old girl
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on the vagina
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he was tried for the indecent assault of
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a child and found not guilty for reasons
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of insanity
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the incident brought great shame to
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Keith's family and it was never talked
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about
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for investigators Keith Kennedy seemed
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like a promising suspect
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he knew the family and the Ipswich area
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and had a past history of offending
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furthermore Keith was blonde and roughly
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177 centimeters tall not too far off
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from the young man seen prowling around
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the Kennedy's unit on the night Deidre
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was taken
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his dentition was also unique in that
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there was a significant gap between his
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two front teeth and they slightly
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protruded
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police questioned Keith Kennedy who
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claimed he'd been at home with his
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brother and sister on the night Deidre
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was abducted
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Kate's fingerprints and dental records
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were compared against to those found at
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the crime scene
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there was no match
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months continued to pass and the
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investigation languished
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by January 1974 10 months had gone by
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with no major breakthroughs
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a coronal inquest was held but nothing
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significant was uncovered
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the largest base of the royal Australian
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Air Force is located in Amberley a
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suburb 13 kilometers west of Ipswich
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over 5 000 people are employed there
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many of whom live on site
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in the early 1980s female members were
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housed separately in a double-story
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cream brick unit block
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on the morning of February 4 1982 they
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awoke to a crude surprise
00:22:04
overnight someone had scaled up their
00:22:07
drain pipe on the side of the building
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and broken in Via an open window leaving
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men's boot prints on the wall in the
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process
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they then entered one of the women's
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dorm rooms
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one of the sleeping women had
00:22:21
photographs of herself sitting at her
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bed head
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in them she was wearing revealing
00:22:27
clothing
00:22:29
the prowler quietly gathered the photos
00:22:32
careful not to make a sound
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he sculpt around in the dark collecting
00:22:37
several pairs of women's underwear and
00:22:39
Air Force uniforms
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the communal laundry room was located on
00:22:45
the ground floor
00:22:47
there the prowler took his Loot and laid
00:22:50
it out on an ironing board
00:22:52
he slashed the crotches of the underwear
00:22:54
and cut holes from the nipple section of
00:22:57
the bras
00:22:58
he did the same thing to the uniforms
00:23:00
before debasing the stolen photographs
00:23:03
and fleeing Into the Night
00:23:07
when residents of the unit block
00:23:09
discovered the scene the next morning
00:23:11
they were horrified by the violation
00:23:14
military police were notified
00:23:16
immediately
00:23:18
two officers had been patrolling the air
00:23:21
base in the early hours of the morning
00:23:23
and had noticed that a car had been
00:23:25
parked near the boundary fence
00:23:26
surrounding the women's quarters
00:23:29
noting it is out of place they'd written
00:23:32
down the registration number
00:23:36
it now seemed very possible that whoever
00:23:38
owned this vehicle was responsible for
00:23:41
the perverted brake in antar
00:23:44
officers checked the Air Force records
00:23:47
and quickly who identified its owner
00:23:49
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26 year old Raymond Carroll was an
00:26:23
electrical fitter who lived on the
00:26:24
Amberley base with his wife and two
00:26:26
young daughters
00:26:28
a member of the Air Force since the age
00:26:30
of 17 he'd followed in the footsteps of
00:26:33
his late father a military man who had
00:26:35
moved his family to various postings
00:26:37
across Australia
00:26:40
police questioned Raymond Carroll about
00:26:42
why his car was parked near the women's
00:26:44
quarters in the early hours of February
00:26:47
4.
00:26:48
Carol said they were mistaken
00:26:52
there had been a function at the golf
00:26:54
club earlier that evening he'd attended
00:26:57
the event but was home before midnight
00:27:00
Carol's wife backed this up saying her
00:27:03
husband was home by 11 30 and didn't
00:27:06
leave their house again
00:27:10
the prowler had left fingerprints on the
00:27:12
photographs found in the women's laundry
00:27:14
room
00:27:15
police obtained Carol's Prince and
00:27:17
compared the two
00:27:20
it was an indisputable match
00:27:24
Raymond Carroll claimed he had no idea
00:27:26
how his Prince ended up on the photos
00:27:28
and maintained he had nothing to do with
00:27:31
the break and Enter
00:27:34
with no prior criminal record it did
00:27:37
seem an odd crime for a seemingly
00:27:39
respectable married military man
00:27:42
but for interviewing officer Corporal
00:27:45
John Rowley his encounter with Raymond
00:27:47
Carroll had raised a more serious
00:27:49
question
00:27:51
Carol had told Raleigh that before
00:27:53
joining the Air Force in 1973 he'd lived
00:27:56
with his mother in Ipswich
00:27:59
their home was on Quarry Lane just
00:28:01
around the corner from Limestone Park
00:28:06
this location coupled with Carol's
00:28:08
apparent fetish for women's underwear
00:28:10
had rolly thinking about the unsolved
00:28:12
murder of baby Deidre Kennedy
00:28:16
although nine years had passed since
00:28:18
deidre's death it was a case Rowley
00:28:20
could never forget
00:28:23
as he spoke with Raymond Carroll another
00:28:25
detail was too obvious to ignore
00:28:29
Carol had a protruding overbite and
00:28:32
distinctly crooked front teeth
00:28:34
[Music]
00:28:40
Corporal rolly became fixated on the
00:28:42
possibility that Raymond Carroll could
00:28:44
have been responsible for Deidre
00:28:46
Kennedy's murder
00:28:48
the underwear the proximity the unusual
00:28:51
dentition it all seemed to fit
00:28:54
but as a defense officer rowley's
00:28:57
resources were limited and he was soon
00:28:59
reposted making it difficult to access
00:29:01
any further information
00:29:05
six months after interviewing Carol
00:29:07
about the break and Enter at Amberley
00:29:09
Rowley was having lunch with an old
00:29:11
colleague detective Sergeant John
00:29:13
Reynolds
00:29:15
Reynolds had worked on the Deidre
00:29:17
Kennedy investigation from the outset
00:29:19
and like many others who were involved
00:29:22
he continued to be haunted by the case
00:29:25
Rowley presented Reynolds with his
00:29:28
theory that Raymond Carroll could be
00:29:30
involved
00:29:33
detective Reynolds interest was
00:29:34
immediately peaked
00:29:36
he was given permission to reopen the
00:29:38
case as the lead investigator but when
00:29:41
he started looking into it he discovered
00:29:43
that valuable information had been lost
00:29:47
in the summer of 1974 the year after
00:29:50
deidre's murder floods had ravaged
00:29:53
Ipswich
00:29:54
thousands of homes and businesses had
00:29:56
been damaged including the basement of
00:29:59
the Ipswich police station where
00:30:00
evidence was stored
00:30:03
missing from the Deidre Kennedy file
00:30:05
were records of the extensive door
00:30:07
knocks that were conducted around
00:30:09
Ipswich straight after her murder
00:30:12
these contained information about every
00:30:14
male who was at home on the night that
00:30:16
the crime occurred
00:30:19
although this was a major setback one of
00:30:21
the most crucial pieces of evidence
00:30:23
remained the photographs depicting the
00:30:26
Killer's bite mark
00:30:30
[Music]
00:30:32
in 1973 Raymond Carroll had been 17
00:30:35
years old and was living with his mother
00:30:37
and younger siblings on Quarry Lane
00:30:40
their home was just 600 meters from the
00:30:43
Kennedy's unit on Short Street and just
00:30:46
700 meters from the toilet block at
00:30:48
Limestone Park
00:30:50
if Raymond Carroll was indeed
00:30:52
responsible for taking and killing
00:30:54
Deidre it meant the entire crime could
00:30:56
have occurred within a small triangular
00:30:58
radius that could be walked on foot in
00:31:01
under 10 minutes
00:31:04
in October 1983 investigators on the
00:31:08
Kennedy case visited the Air Force Base
00:31:10
in Amberley to approach Raymond Carroll
00:31:12
for the first time
00:31:14
they were forthright about their reason
00:31:16
for wanting to question him
00:31:19
Carol said he wasn't even in Queensland
00:31:21
at the time that Deidre Kennedy was
00:31:23
murdered
00:31:25
he'd enlisted in the Air Force earlier
00:31:27
that year and had been completing his
00:31:29
basic recruitment training in the small
00:31:31
South Australian town of Edinburgh
00:31:35
the 10-week course ran from February 9
00:31:38
until April 19. after which Carol said
00:31:41
he traveled to the Wagga Wagga Air Force
00:31:43
Base in New South Wales to undergo
00:31:45
electrical training
00:31:48
at no time did he return to Ipswich
00:31:53
Carol insisted he had nothing to hide
00:31:57
although he was reluctant he agreed to
00:31:59
provide fingerprints hair samples and a
00:32:02
plaster cast of his teeth
00:32:05
a forensic expert deemed that Carol's
00:32:07
hair was of similar color and texture to
00:32:10
the hairs found on deidre's body but in
00:32:13
the days before DNA profiling there was
00:32:15
nothing to conclusively say the hairs
00:32:18
belonged to Carol
00:32:21
investigators compared to fingerprints
00:32:24
with those found at the Kennedy's flat
00:32:26
as well as the toilet block at Limestone
00:32:28
Park
00:32:29
they didn't match
00:32:32
then again it couldn't be determined for
00:32:35
certain that the prince found at the
00:32:36
crime scenes definitely belonged to the
00:32:38
perpetrator
00:32:40
the toilet Block in Limestone Park was a
00:32:43
public space and it was possible that
00:32:45
the prince had been made by an innocent
00:32:47
Community member
00:32:49
the print on the Kennedy's front door
00:32:51
could have come from any number of
00:32:53
people who had visited the unit in
00:32:55
recent times
00:33:00
then there was the issue of Carol's
00:33:03
alibi
00:33:04
Air Force records confirmed that Carol
00:33:07
had indeed graduated from the training
00:33:09
course in Edinburgh on April 19 1973.
00:33:14
recruits were only granted or leave
00:33:16
under special circumstances typically
00:33:19
for a serious family emergency
00:33:22
doing so required them to go through a
00:33:25
strict approval process
00:33:27
the Air Force had no record of Carol
00:33:29
leaving the training course at any point
00:33:34
a formal graduation parade had taken
00:33:36
place in Edinburgh on April 19
00:33:39
1973. after which the recruits had all
00:33:42
posed for a course photograph
00:33:45
Raymond Carroll had already told the
00:33:47
police that he'd attended the ceremony
00:33:49
but hadn't walked in the parade due to
00:33:52
an issue with the number of recruits
00:33:55
investigators made queries with Air
00:33:57
Force officials who confirmed that all
00:34:00
graduates were required to march in the
00:34:02
parade regardless of numbers
00:34:06
they obtained the graduation photo
00:34:09
Raymond Carroll was nowhere to be seen
00:34:15
investigators began the Monumental task
00:34:17
of trying to track down each of the 27
00:34:20
recruits from Carol's course who were
00:34:22
now scattered across the country
00:34:25
they wanted to know if anyone was absent
00:34:28
from the graduation ceremony
00:34:31
by this point over 10 years had passed
00:34:33
and memories were hazy
00:34:36
no one could recall any specifics but
00:34:39
there was a vague recollection that
00:34:40
someone had left early due to an illness
00:34:43
in the family
00:34:46
according to the book Justice in
00:34:48
Jeopardy one recruit recalled that on
00:34:50
the afternoon of April 12 1973 he was
00:34:54
asked to help pack up the belongings of
00:34:56
another rookie who'd been called home on
00:34:58
compassionate leave
00:35:00
he remembered that the young man clearly
00:35:02
because he had a distinct set of teeth
00:35:05
that jutted out
00:35:06
his name was Raymond Carroll
00:35:11
investigators couldn't find any Air
00:35:13
Force records to back up the claims that
00:35:16
Carol had been granted to leave
00:35:18
nor were there any medical records to
00:35:21
indicate there had been a serious
00:35:22
illness within his family that would
00:35:24
have warranted him returning home
00:35:27
instead investigators turned to the
00:35:30
commercial airlines
00:35:33
there were two thousand kilometers
00:35:35
between Edinburgh and Ipswich
00:35:37
if Carol had been granted a leave on
00:35:40
April 12 the only way he would have made
00:35:42
it to Ipswich in time to kill Deidre
00:35:44
Kennedy on April 13 was if he'd flown
00:35:49
but the airlines were no use
00:35:52
protocol dictated that domestic records
00:35:55
be disposed of after seven years
00:36:00
disproving Raymond Carroll's Alibi
00:36:03
wasn't the only issue
00:36:05
the prayer who had been witness to
00:36:07
lurking around to the Kennedy's unit on
00:36:09
the night of deidre's abduction was
00:36:11
described as being around 172
00:36:14
centimeters tall with collar length
00:36:16
light brown to blonde hair
00:36:19
in April 1973 Raymond Carroll's hair was
00:36:23
dark brown and as per Air Force protocol
00:36:26
it was cropped short at the back and
00:36:28
sides
00:36:29
he was much taller than the prowler
00:36:31
standing around 185 centimeters
00:36:37
investigators believed that they'd found
00:36:39
a deidre's killer but they'd need
00:36:41
further Evidence if a jury was ever
00:36:43
going to find Carol guilty
00:36:46
they had to dig deeper
00:36:51
[Music]
00:36:53
Joy Myers had been a young and naive
00:36:55
woman when she met Raymond Carroll in
00:36:58
Wagga Wagga in 1973.
00:37:01
the two married and had their first
00:37:03
child the following year a daughter
00:37:05
named Kylie not her real name
00:37:09
Carol was reposted to Darwin and the
00:37:11
family of three relocated
00:37:14
but the marriage was Rocky from the
00:37:16
beginning and it wasn't long before Joy
00:37:18
suspected that Carol was cheating on her
00:37:22
the couple divorced in November of 1975
00:37:25
and had little contact from there on
00:37:28
with the joy maintaining full custody of
00:37:31
Kylie
00:37:33
investigators track to Joy down and
00:37:36
questioned her about the marriage
00:37:38
what she told them was shocking
00:37:42
when Kylie was just a baby there had
00:37:45
been four or five occasions where
00:37:46
Raymond Carroll had taken her into the
00:37:48
bedroom to change her nappy
00:37:51
shortly after Kylie would start
00:37:53
screaming
00:37:56
Joy went to see what was wrong but on
00:37:59
each occasion Carol had locked the door
00:38:01
and refused to respond
00:38:04
he'd emerged shortly after with a
00:38:06
strange expression on his face before
00:38:08
leaving the house without saying a word
00:38:13
Kylie was too young to talk but the
00:38:15
bruises on her upper thighs spoke for
00:38:18
themselves
00:38:20
Joy believed them to be black marks
00:38:24
she said this abuse was one of the
00:38:26
reasons she divorced Carol
00:38:30
when the investigators divulged the
00:38:32
reason why they were making inquiries
00:38:34
about her ex-husband Joy had another
00:38:36
revelation
00:38:39
when the newlyweds had first found out
00:38:41
they were expecting a child Carol had an
00:38:44
idea for her name
00:38:46
if it was a girl he wanted to call her
00:38:50
Deidre
00:38:50
[Music]
00:38:55
Raymond Carroll remarried in 1977 and he
00:38:59
and his new wife went on to have twin
00:39:01
daughters
00:39:03
by the time Carol became the focus of
00:39:06
the Deidre Kennedy murder investigation
00:39:08
he and his wife had also welcomed a baby
00:39:10
boy
00:39:12
CE knew some of the evidence against
00:39:15
Carol was flimsy but the plaster cast of
00:39:17
Raymond Carroll's teeth was examined by
00:39:20
a forensic Dental expert
00:39:22
he compared the dental Impressions with
00:39:25
photos of the bruises on Deidre
00:39:27
Kennedy's thigh
00:39:29
the positioning of the bruises lined up
00:39:32
with Raymond Carroll's unique overbite
00:39:34
and was a fitting size for a 17 year old
00:39:37
male
00:39:39
but the shape of the bruises indicated
00:39:41
the Killer's front two teeth was
00:39:43
slightly deformed
00:39:45
the plaster cast of Carol's teeth showed
00:39:48
no such deformity
00:39:51
investigators obtained a copy of Carol's
00:39:54
dental records from the Air Force which
00:39:56
were taken during his recruitment in
00:39:58
early 1973.
00:40:00
comparing the records to the plaster
00:40:03
cast it appeared his upper teeth had
00:40:05
since undergone some dental work
00:40:08
the 1973 records showed that at the time
00:40:11
of Deidre Kennedy's murder Raymond
00:40:14
Carroll's front teeth were chipped and
00:40:16
broken deformities that matched the
00:40:18
bruises on deidre's body
00:40:21
for the dental expert there was no
00:40:24
question
00:40:25
the bite marks on the baby had been made
00:40:27
by Raymond Carroll
00:40:31
but if Deidre Kennedy had been killed on
00:40:34
April 13 at a time Carol was supposed to
00:40:36
be Interstate how did his teeth marks
00:40:39
end up on her body
00:40:41
was it possible that the Air Force
00:40:43
records were wrong
00:40:46
on February 27 1984 two years after the
00:40:50
break-in at the Amberley women's
00:40:52
quarters and almost 11 years after
00:40:55
Deidre was killed investigators decided
00:40:58
it was time to make their move
00:41:01
they went to the Amberley base and
00:41:03
placed the Raymond Carroll under arrest
00:41:05
for murdering the 17-month-old
00:41:11
Carol continued to deny any involvement
00:41:13
in the crime
00:41:15
he maintained he was in South Australia
00:41:17
at the time and stuck by his story that
00:41:20
he didn't participate in the graduation
00:41:22
march but was present for the duration
00:41:26
when shown the graduation photo of his
00:41:29
fellow recruits Carol first pointed to a
00:41:32
young man who looked to nothing like him
00:41:34
and said it was possible that was him
00:41:38
he then conceded that he wasn't in the
00:41:41
shot but explained that he was standing
00:41:44
to the side just outside of the frame
00:41:48
he denied ever being granted special
00:41:50
leave or having any reason to leave the
00:41:53
training course early to return to
00:41:54
Ipswich
00:41:56
he also denied his ex-wife's allegations
00:41:59
that he'd abused their first daughter or
00:42:02
that he had a proclivity for stealing
00:42:04
women's underwear
00:42:07
the interrogation continued for several
00:42:10
hours but at no point did Raymond
00:42:12
Carroll crack
00:42:14
regardless he was officially charged
00:42:17
with the murder of Deidre Kennedy
00:42:20
he was taken to brisbane's BOGO road to
00:42:22
jail but granted Bale the following day
00:42:27
news of the arrest rattled Faye and
00:42:30
Barry Kennedy The Grieving parents had
00:42:33
done their best to move on
00:42:35
Faye had since given birth to a son
00:42:37
named Derek and the family had relocated
00:42:39
to New South Wales
00:42:42
as Faye later told ABC's Australian
00:42:45
story
00:42:47
having another child never replaces what
00:42:49
you lost but it certainly brought joy to
00:42:52
our lives
00:42:55
the family didn't speak about Deidre
00:42:58
often
00:42:59
Barry had been raised to believe that
00:43:02
men didn't cry and he rarely mentioned
00:43:04
it Deirdre by name
00:43:06
the pain was too intense
00:43:10
by the time Carol was arrested Derek was
00:43:13
11 years old and still didn't know what
00:43:15
had happened to his big sister
00:43:18
having to explain why they'd be going to
00:43:21
court Barry finally sat down and told
00:43:24
Derek the heartbreaking truth
00:43:30
Raymond Carroll's murder trial commenced
00:43:33
in the Brisbane Supreme Court in
00:43:34
February 1985.
00:43:37
the prosecution hoped to use the
00:43:39
Amberley break-in against him
00:43:42
for that offense he'd been charged with
00:43:44
17 counts including breaking and
00:43:46
entering stealing and willful
00:43:48
destruction of Air Force property
00:43:52
if the jury knew that Carroll had a
00:43:54
history of sneaking into people's homes
00:43:56
and stealing women's underwear it would
00:43:58
add further weight to their case against
00:44:00
him
00:44:02
but in a pre-trial hearing the defense
00:44:04
successfully argued that Carol's prior
00:44:07
offense couldn't be presented
00:44:08
[Music]
00:44:10
the jury would have to reach their
00:44:12
verdict without being privileged to this
00:44:14
information
00:44:17
the prosecution's case therefore relied
00:44:20
on three major factors
00:44:22
one that Raymond Carroll had given a
00:44:25
false alibi
00:44:26
2. that he had a propensity for biting
00:44:29
small children and three that the bite
00:44:32
marks on Deidre Kennedy's body were a
00:44:35
match to Carol's teeth
00:44:39
the defense put it to the jury that the
00:44:41
case against their client was entirely
00:44:43
circumstantial
00:44:45
valuable records had been lost by both
00:44:48
the Air Force and the police which meant
00:44:50
there was nothing to confirm that
00:44:52
Raymond Carroll was in South Australia
00:44:54
when Deirdre was killed
00:44:57
however as the defense pointed out there
00:45:01
were no records to confirm that he
00:45:02
wasn't
00:45:04
not a single witness had placed Carol in
00:45:07
Ipswich at the time of the crime nor was
00:45:09
there any evidence to suggest he was
00:45:11
anywhere near the area
00:45:15
and Carroll was now 29 years old and
00:45:19
almost 12 years had passed since Deidre
00:45:21
Kennedy was murdered
00:45:23
this meant that memories were hazy and
00:45:26
Witnesses were susceptible to influence
00:45:30
several former Air Force recruits and
00:45:32
one instructor testified to remembering
00:45:35
that Raymond de Carroll had been sent
00:45:37
home prior to the graduation parade due
00:45:40
to an illness in his family
00:45:43
however another recruit testified that
00:45:45
on the day of the graduation he had a
00:45:48
conversation with Carol in the canteen
00:45:50
and introduced him to his family
00:45:54
on the stand the Doctor Who had been the
00:45:57
Carroll family's general practitioner in
00:45:59
1973 could provide no evidence that
00:46:02
there had been a serious illness in the
00:46:04
family that would have warranted Carol
00:46:06
being granted compassionate leave
00:46:10
as for the allegation that Carol had
00:46:13
bitten his infant daughter on the thighs
00:46:15
the defense questioned why his ex-wife
00:46:17
Joy Myers had never reported this to
00:46:20
anyone
00:46:21
she didn't even mention it during their
00:46:23
divorce proceedings
00:46:26
on the stand Joy admitted she'd kept
00:46:29
this information to herself but she
00:46:32
adamantly stood by her allegations
00:46:36
the prosecution advised that the jury
00:46:38
not to put any weight on the fact that
00:46:40
Joy didn't report these incidents
00:46:43
as they pointed out child abuse and
00:46:46
incest can be considered shameful to boo
00:46:49
topics and fear often prevented people
00:46:51
from coming forward
00:46:55
the prosecution's case was based on the
00:46:58
assumption that whoever stole the
00:47:00
underwear from next door to the
00:47:01
Kennedy's unit was the same person who
00:47:04
killed Deidre
00:47:06
the defense argued that Carol didn't
00:47:09
match witness descriptions of this
00:47:10
person
00:47:11
he was taller and with shorter darker
00:47:14
hair
00:47:16
the K witness Cecil Carroll who had seen
00:47:19
the underwear Thief had since passed
00:47:22
away
00:47:23
he's former housemate Arthur borchert no
00:47:26
longer had a clear memory of the person
00:47:28
he claimed to have seen walking towards
00:47:31
the Kennedy's unit
00:47:34
in terms of physical evidence it all
00:47:37
came down to the bite marks
00:47:40
three Dental experts known as forensic
00:47:42
odontologists had extensively compared
00:47:45
the bruises on Deidre Kennedy's body
00:47:47
with plaster casts of Raymond Carroll's
00:47:50
unique teeth
00:47:52
it was a difficult task given that the
00:47:54
biter hadn't broken the skin or left any
00:47:57
indentations
00:48:00
furthermore the bruise marks had been
00:48:02
made on a curved three-dimensional
00:48:04
surface whereas the photos the
00:48:06
odontologists had were only
00:48:08
two-dimensional
00:48:10
as one of the experts explained
00:48:14
the shapes of bruisemarks can alter if
00:48:17
the body is placed in a different
00:48:18
position from that in which it was when
00:48:21
the marks were made
00:48:23
the marks on deidre's body were near the
00:48:26
knee and their shapes might be affected
00:48:29
by changes in tensions of their skin
00:48:31
caused by extension or flexion of the
00:48:34
knee joint
00:48:37
while their methods differed and they
00:48:39
didn't entirely agree on which tooth had
00:48:41
made which bruise all three experts
00:48:44
arrived at the same conclusion
00:48:46
the bite marks had been made by Raymond
00:48:49
Carroll
00:48:52
however the defense pointed out that
00:48:54
when one of the experts first examined
00:48:57
deidre's bruises in 1973. they had
00:49:00
stated that it would quote
00:49:03
be impossible to establish with any
00:49:06
degree of certainty as to who would be
00:49:08
responsible for the bite mark to the
00:49:10
dead child
00:49:14
the experts had also made their findings
00:49:16
using a plaster cast of Carol's teeth
00:49:18
that had been altered to reflect the
00:49:21
state of his dentition in 1973
00:49:25
they didn't have an exact replica of his
00:49:27
teeth from the time period
00:49:29
[Music]
00:49:33
Raymond Carroll took the stand in his
00:49:36
own defense
00:49:38
asked under oath if he killed Deidre
00:49:40
Kennedy or had anything to do with her
00:49:42
death Carol responded clearly
00:49:45
I did not
00:49:48
he denied leaving Edinburgh early or
00:49:51
ever biting his youngest daughter
00:49:53
calling the allegations a bunch of Lies
00:49:57
his current wife with whom he had three
00:50:00
kids also testified that Carol was an
00:50:03
excellent father who rarely disciplined
00:50:05
their children
00:50:08
the trial lasted for 19 days summing up
00:50:12
the prosecution concluded that Raymond
00:50:14
Carroll had a perverted interest in
00:50:16
young children combined with a fetish
00:50:19
for stealing women's underwear
00:50:22
it didn't matter that there was no
00:50:24
evidence placing Carol in Ipswich at the
00:50:26
time that Deidre Kennedy was murdered
00:50:28
because bite marks on her body
00:50:31
identified him as the Killer
00:50:35
the defense concluded that there were
00:50:37
simply too many variables to identify
00:50:39
who had caused the biomarks and that the
00:50:42
evidence therefore wasn't reliable
00:50:46
in the absence of concrete evidence
00:50:48
placing Carol in Ipswich at the time of
00:50:51
deidre's murder the judge reminded the
00:50:53
jury that to find Carol guilty they must
00:50:56
believe Beyond a reasonable doubt that
00:50:59
he was the one who caused the bite marks
00:51:04
the jury deliberated for four hours
00:51:06
before they returned to the packed
00:51:08
courtroom to give their verdict
00:51:11
guilty
00:51:13
Carol was asked if he had anything to
00:51:15
say
00:51:17
he responded
00:51:18
I am not guilty
00:51:22
the sentence was handed down immediately
00:51:25
life imprisonment with hard labor
00:51:31
Carroll and his legal team appealed the
00:51:33
conviction immediately
00:51:36
they argued that the evidence presented
00:51:38
at trial wasn't enough to sustain a
00:51:40
guilty verdict
00:51:42
the prosecution had failed to prove that
00:51:45
Carol was in Ipswich when the crime was
00:51:47
committed and the forensic odontologists
00:51:50
hadn't proven Beyond reasonable doubt
00:51:52
that the bite marks on deidre's body
00:51:54
were his
00:51:56
Carol also argued that the
00:51:58
unsubstantiated evidence from his
00:52:00
ex-wife alleging that he bit their baby
00:52:02
daughter on the leg was damaging and
00:52:05
therefore shouldn't have been admissible
00:52:09
the Court of Criminal appeal agreed
00:52:12
after spending just nine months in
00:52:15
prison Raymond Carroll's conviction was
00:52:17
quashed and he was allowed to walk free
00:52:21
news of the acquittal shocked the public
00:52:24
a majority of whom were convinced of
00:52:26
Carol's guilt
00:52:28
some wanted Revenge to get a baby killer
00:52:31
off their streets
00:52:33
Carol and his family immediately
00:52:35
relocated interstate
00:52:38
the prosecution argued for a retrial but
00:52:41
their request was denied
00:52:44
the Kennedys were crushed
00:52:47
as though the pain of their loss and
00:52:49
enduring the trial wasn't enough they
00:52:52
now had to accept that the matter was
00:52:54
once again unresolved
00:52:59
later that year a woman contacted the
00:53:02
police
00:53:03
she had worked at the Royal Air Force
00:53:05
Base in Darwin at the time that Raymond
00:53:08
Carroll and his family had been
00:53:09
stationed there
00:53:11
the woman recalled that in 1975 there
00:53:15
had been several occasions where she'd
00:53:17
noticed the bruises on Carol's
00:53:18
one-year-old daughter Kylie
00:53:22
Joy told her they were bite marks caused
00:53:25
by her husband
00:53:27
the woman allegedly asked Carol how he
00:53:30
could do such a thing
00:53:32
he simply Shrugged
00:53:37
in Australia in the 1980s Double
00:53:39
Jeopardy laws prevented a person from
00:53:42
being tried for the same offense twice
00:53:45
such laws existed to protect an accused
00:53:48
person against the abuse of state power
00:53:50
and allowed them to get on with their
00:53:52
lives without further prosecution
00:53:56
it also served to encourage prosecutors
00:53:58
to prepare their cases properly the
00:54:01
first time round knowing it would be
00:54:03
their only shot
00:54:06
this meant that because Raymond Carroll
00:54:08
had already been acquitted of Deidre
00:54:10
Kennedy's murder he couldn't be charged
00:54:12
again even if any new evidence emerged
00:54:15
in the future
00:54:18
regardless of the jury's verdict in the
00:54:21
eyes of the law Raymond Carroll was an
00:54:24
innocent man
00:54:34
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as the years passed the DNA testing for
00:56:08
criminal cases was slowly rolled out in
00:56:10
Australia
00:56:11
forensic scientists attempted to test
00:56:14
the pubicare found on Deidre Kennedy's
00:56:16
body but it was destroyed in the process
00:56:21
by 1997 the use of digital imaging
00:56:24
techniques led to some groundbreaking
00:56:26
developments in forensic dental
00:56:28
technology
00:56:29
using digital analysis experts were able
00:56:33
to examine scrape marks from an
00:56:34
individual's teeth to create a unique
00:56:37
barcode
00:56:38
new software had also been developed
00:56:40
that allowed experts to transpose images
00:56:43
of teeth onto images of bite marks
00:56:47
photographs from old crime scenes could
00:56:49
also be enhanced
00:56:52
using this new technology a team of
00:56:54
forensic experts analyzed the bruises on
00:56:57
Deidre Kennedy's body
00:56:59
they discovered another set of much
00:57:01
fainter biomarks on deidre's body that
00:57:04
had been missed during the original
00:57:06
examination
00:57:08
the Assumption had always been that
00:57:10
Deidre was lying down when she was
00:57:12
bitten and that the top bruise on her
00:57:15
thigh had been caused by the biter's
00:57:17
upper teeth
00:57:19
according to the book Justice in
00:57:21
Jeopardy the New Evidence indicated this
00:57:24
was wrong
00:57:25
Deidre had actually been held upside
00:57:27
down when the biter struck
00:57:30
the original experts who had given
00:57:33
evidence at Carol's trial had been
00:57:35
looking at the bite marks the wrong way
00:57:37
around
00:57:40
while this was a major Revelation one
00:57:42
piece of evidence remained Undisputed
00:57:45
as forensic odontologist Dr Alex Forrest
00:57:49
who later told Australian story
00:57:52
the bite marks that were inflicted on
00:57:54
the baby's thigh I have no doubt
00:57:57
whatever that they were inflicted by
00:57:59
Raymond John Carroll
00:58:03
an article spruking the forensic
00:58:05
advances led to renewed interest in the
00:58:07
Deidre Kennedy case and prompted an
00:58:10
influx of tip-offs one of which came
00:58:12
from an unexpected source
00:58:17
[Music]
00:58:20
38 year old Trevor Swift had been in and
00:58:23
out of jail all of his adult life for a
00:58:25
series of offenses
00:58:28
in February 1984 he was serving time in
00:58:31
brisbane's BOGO road to jail when he
00:58:33
crossed paths with Raymond Carroll who
00:58:36
had just been arrested for Deidre
00:58:38
Kennedy's murder
00:58:40
both men were being held in protective
00:58:42
custody
00:58:45
according to Swift he struck up a
00:58:48
conversation with Carol who asked him
00:58:51
what do you know about bite marks
00:58:54
Swift responded
00:58:56
mate and as far as I know they're as
00:58:58
good as fingerprints you're a shot duck
00:59:03
Carol seemed rattled by Swift's response
00:59:07
some time later Swift asked Carol what
00:59:10
he'd been arrested for
00:59:12
Carol allegedly responded
00:59:15
the murder of that baby at Ipswich
00:59:20
a day or so later Swift pressed Carol to
00:59:23
tell him more
00:59:25
Carol allegedly said that he'd been out
00:59:27
stealing women's underwear when he
00:59:29
stumbled upon an open window
00:59:31
he looked in and saw there was a baby
00:59:34
inside
00:59:35
things got out of hand
00:59:37
he abducted the baby abused her and then
00:59:40
strangled her with a pair of pantyhose
00:59:42
before leaving her body on a toilet
00:59:44
block
00:59:47
Swift was relocated to another sector of
00:59:49
the prison shortly after this encounter
00:59:51
and then eventually transferred to
00:59:53
another facility altogether
00:59:57
he told one prison guard about what
00:59:59
Carol had said but never mentioned it to
01:00:01
anyone else
01:00:03
he just assumed that Carol had been
01:00:05
convicted of the crime and never gave it
01:00:07
much more thought
01:00:10
with the case now back in the news
01:00:12
Trevor Swift contacted police and
01:00:15
provided an official statement about the
01:00:17
alleged confession
01:00:19
there was just one problem
01:00:22
the prison guard he claimed to have told
01:00:24
about the encounter had since passed
01:00:26
away and there was no one to vouch for
01:00:29
Swift's story
01:00:31
was currently facing multiple criminal
01:00:34
charges
01:00:37
investigators knew that jailhouse
01:00:39
confessions can be unreliable and to
01:00:41
that there was every chance that Swift
01:00:43
was providing this information in the
01:00:45
hopes of securing a lighter sentence
01:00:49
at the same time it was too compelling
01:00:52
to ignore
01:00:55
despite Raymond Carroll being protected
01:00:58
by Double Jeopardy laws this new
01:01:00
evidence LED prosecutors to consider all
01:01:03
possible options
01:01:05
after heavy scrutinizing they identified
01:01:08
a potential legal loophole
01:01:11
at Carroll's murder trial he was asked
01:01:14
under oath if he killed Deidre Kennedy
01:01:17
he responded I did not
01:01:22
if the New Evidence could prove that
01:01:24
he'd knowingly lied under oath when he
01:01:27
said he didn't kill Deidre prosecutors
01:01:29
could charge him with perjury instead
01:01:33
a perjury conviction only carried a
01:01:35
maximum sentence of 14 years
01:01:37
imprisonment but it would at least
01:01:39
provide some form of closure for the
01:01:41
Kennedy family and get a potentially
01:01:43
dangerous predator off the streets
01:01:48
by 1999 44 year old Raymond Carroll had
01:01:52
divorced his second wife and was living
01:01:55
in Ipswich with his new partner
01:01:58
on Friday February 12 police arrived at
01:02:01
Carol's home and placed him under arrest
01:02:03
for perjury
01:02:05
he was charged at the station later that
01:02:08
day but released on bail after being
01:02:10
deemed a no-flight risk
01:02:13
Carroll's legal team argued that the new
01:02:16
charge constituted an abusive process
01:02:18
and they requested a permanent stay in
01:02:21
the proceedings
01:02:23
the judge disagreed saying the
01:02:26
prosecution case was significantly
01:02:28
different and stronger than the original
01:02:30
murder charge
01:02:32
Carol was ordered to stand to trial for
01:02:35
perjury
01:02:38
investigators were now armed with new
01:02:40
dental evidence and a jailhouse
01:02:42
confession but doubts remained that this
01:02:45
would be enough to secure a conviction
01:02:49
one of the lingering questions was
01:02:51
if Raymond Carroll was indeed in Ipswich
01:02:54
at the time of Deidre Kennedy's murder
01:02:56
what was he doing wandering around to
01:02:59
late at night
01:03:00
he was only 17 and there weren't any
01:03:03
shops open in the area
01:03:06
investigators wondered if he could have
01:03:08
been out visiting a friend or more
01:03:11
likely a love interest
01:03:17
desley Hill had been a teenager when she
01:03:19
and Raymond Carroll began a short
01:03:21
romance in 1972.
01:03:24
they maintained contact for a couple of
01:03:27
years even after Carol married his first
01:03:29
wife but things eventually fizzled out
01:03:32
between them and they lost touch
01:03:36
ly moved into State and rarely thought
01:03:39
about her distant acts until March of
01:03:41
2000 when she opened her door to find a
01:03:44
detective standing there
01:03:47
he wanted to speak to her about her
01:03:49
relationship with Raymond Carroll
01:03:54
desily was taken aback she knew Carol
01:03:57
had been charged with Deidre Kennedy's
01:03:59
murder back in the 80s but it never
01:04:01
occurred to her that she could be of any
01:04:03
use to the investigation
01:04:06
the detective tried to jog her memory
01:04:09
back to April 1973.
01:04:12
could she recall whether Carol had
01:04:14
visited her at any point during that
01:04:16
time
01:04:19
desley had been living with her parents
01:04:21
in Woodridge at the time a suburb 37
01:04:24
kilometers east of Ipswich
01:04:27
she recalled that out of nowhere one
01:04:29
Saturday night Raymond Carroll had
01:04:32
stopped to buy their unit
01:04:34
they hadn't seen each other for a while
01:04:36
and desily was shocked to see him
01:04:39
while they stood around chatting a News
01:04:42
Bulletin came on about Deidre Kennedy's
01:04:44
murder
01:04:45
her body had only been found early that
01:04:48
morning
01:04:50
Carol became visibly agitated he left in
01:04:53
a hurry saying he had to get home to his
01:04:56
sick mother
01:04:56
[Music]
01:05:01
the perjury trial commenced on October
01:05:03
27 2000.
01:05:06
it was essentially a replay of the
01:05:08
original murder trial with a majority of
01:05:11
the same Witnesses called and
01:05:12
testimonies given
01:05:15
the New Evidence submitted was the
01:05:17
alleged jailhouse confession the
01:05:20
statement from desily Hill that placed
01:05:22
Carol in Queensland the day after
01:05:24
deidre's murder and at the Advanced
01:05:26
Dental forensics that matched Carol's
01:05:29
teeth with the bite marks on deidre's
01:05:31
body
01:05:33
the defense urged the jury not to place
01:05:36
any weight on the jailhouse confession
01:05:38
from Trevor Swift
01:05:40
he was an alcoholic with an extensive
01:05:42
criminal history that included
01:05:44
dishonesty and they contended that the
01:05:47
information he provided was nothing more
01:05:49
than an attempt to secure a lighter
01:05:51
sentence for his own crimes
01:05:54
Swift strongly denied this
01:05:57
he was well aware that informants put
01:06:00
themselves in danger of being attacked
01:06:02
by other inmates
01:06:04
he also pointed out that he'd been in
01:06:06
constant trouble with the law his entire
01:06:08
adult life
01:06:10
if he was going to make up a story to
01:06:12
benefit himself he would have done it
01:06:14
much earlier
01:06:15
why wait 16 years
01:06:20
Carol's ex-girlfriend dazly Hill took
01:06:22
the stand to testify that Carol had
01:06:25
visited her parents home the day after
01:06:27
Deidre was killed
01:06:29
at the time desily had been pregnant to
01:06:32
a man who ended the relationship once he
01:06:35
found out she was expecting
01:06:38
a couple of months later desily started
01:06:40
seeing Raymond Carroll again
01:06:44
desily remembered the day that Carol
01:06:46
visited her parents house because she'd
01:06:48
been waiting for a cot to be delivered
01:06:52
although she admitted she wasn't good
01:06:53
with dates she could place the visit to
01:06:56
April 14 1973 based on the news
01:06:59
broadcast about Deidre Kennedy's murder
01:07:03
desily's parents had been home at the
01:07:06
time but they couldn't back her story
01:07:09
both had since passed away
01:07:14
the defense called a deadly story a
01:07:17
complete fabrication
01:07:19
desley couldn't remember the date that
01:07:21
her daughter was conceived but the child
01:07:23
was born on July 25 1973 and was 10
01:07:28
weeks premature
01:07:31
the defense pointed out that this meant
01:07:33
desily had gotten pregnant in early
01:07:35
January of 1973 and wouldn't have found
01:07:38
out until mid-February
01:07:41
by the time she claimed to have resumed
01:07:43
her relationship with Raymond Carroll he
01:07:46
had already enrolled in the Air Force
01:07:48
and been deployed interstate
01:07:51
therefore her memory of the timings was
01:07:53
all wrong
01:07:55
the visit they said never happened
01:08:04
four separate odontologists testified
01:08:07
that the bite marks on Deidre Kennedy's
01:08:09
body were a match to Raymond Carroll
01:08:13
they all agreed that the experts had it
01:08:15
wrong during the first trial in that
01:08:18
they'd been looking at the bite marks
01:08:19
upside down
01:08:22
the defense argued that the digital
01:08:24
imaging technology was inaccurate and
01:08:27
that testimony provided by some of the
01:08:29
experts was fundamentally flawed
01:08:32
a doctor of forensic Dentistry who had
01:08:35
been involved with over 200 bite mark
01:08:37
cases testified that the bruises on
01:08:40
deidre's body weren't enough to make a
01:08:42
positive identification of the biter
01:08:46
while the digital imaging technique was
01:08:49
very useful this expert said it should
01:08:52
only be used as an aid in dental
01:08:54
analysis and not as a means of
01:08:56
identification
01:09:00
the defense questioned whether the bike
01:09:02
could have in fact been made by Barry
01:09:04
Kennedy's cousin Keith Kennedy
01:09:07
Keith also had a distinct set of teeth
01:09:09
and more closely matched the physical
01:09:11
description of the blonde man seen
01:09:14
lurking around the Kennedy's unit on the
01:09:16
night of the crime
01:09:19
Keith had passed away but the dental
01:09:21
experts could tell just by looking at a
01:09:24
photograph of his gapped teeth that his
01:09:26
bite was not a match to the bruises on
01:09:28
deidre's body
01:09:32
Faye and Barry Kennedy had chosen not to
01:09:35
sit through the first trial but they
01:09:37
were present for the perjury case
01:09:39
hearing the forensic experts go back and
01:09:42
forth over what had happened to Deidre
01:09:44
was too much for the Kennedys to bear
01:09:47
Faye later told Australian story
01:09:51
all I could think was she was so little
01:09:54
and for someone to do something so
01:09:56
atrocious to her and to discard her
01:09:59
little body just to throw her on a
01:10:01
toilet block like she was just trash
01:10:06
the perjury trial lasted for 18 days
01:10:08
given the amount of time that it passed
01:10:11
since deirdre's murder the judge
01:10:13
instructed the jury to be careful when
01:10:15
considering the various witness
01:10:17
testimonies
01:10:19
it was possible that individuals were
01:10:22
misremembering things or had been
01:10:24
influenced by media coverage or hearsay
01:10:28
he also highlighted the difference in
01:10:30
expert opinion regarding the teeth marks
01:10:32
in both the murder and perjury trial and
01:10:35
to urged the jury not to put blind trust
01:10:38
in the expert opinions
01:10:42
in summing up the judge clarified quote
01:10:47
the only real issue is whether Raymond
01:10:49
Carroll told a lie when in the murder
01:10:52
trial he said he did not kill Deidre
01:10:54
Kennedy
01:10:56
if he did Kill Deidre Kennedy you may
01:10:59
think a plane that that was something
01:11:01
well known to him
01:11:04
if you conclude that it is not
01:11:06
established Beyond reasonable doubt that
01:11:08
he did Kill Deidre Kennedy it follows
01:11:10
that it has not been proved Beyond
01:11:12
reasonable doubt that the accused gave
01:11:14
false testimony and the verdict must be
01:11:18
not guilty
01:11:21
the next day the jury delivered their
01:11:24
verdict
01:11:25
guilty
01:11:27
handing down the maximum sentence of 14
01:11:30
years imprisonment the judge stated
01:11:34
it is necessary to bear in mind that the
01:11:37
sentence being imposed is for perjury
01:11:39
not for murder
01:11:41
it is important not to let the horrific
01:11:44
nature of the crime perpetrated on
01:11:46
Deidre Kennedy and its profound impact
01:11:48
on the lives of her family diverted
01:11:51
tension from that fact
01:11:57
the Kennedy family were relieved by the
01:11:59
guilty verdict as it signaled an end of
01:12:02
the media attention
01:12:04
but it wasn't over yet
01:12:08
once again Raymond Carroll appealed his
01:12:11
conviction
01:12:12
his legal team argued that the perjury
01:12:14
charge should never have been allowed
01:12:18
given that the perjury trial was
01:12:20
essentially a do-over of the murder
01:12:22
trial they said it went against the
01:12:24
principles of double jeopardy
01:12:27
furthermore the amount of time that it
01:12:29
passed between the crime and the perjury
01:12:31
trial meant there was no way that
01:12:34
Raymond de Carroll was ever going to get
01:12:36
a fair trial
01:12:39
the court of appeal analyzed the witness
01:12:41
and expert testimony and discovered some
01:12:44
major flaws
01:12:46
jailhouse informant Trevor Swift had
01:12:49
testified that his conversations with
01:12:51
Carol had occurred over a number of days
01:12:53
following Carol's arrest for deidre's
01:12:56
murder
01:12:58
Carol was only held in boggo road to
01:13:00
jail for less than 24 hours before being
01:13:03
granted bail
01:13:06
three appellate judges therefore
01:13:08
determined it was unlikely the
01:13:10
conversations relayed by Swift ever
01:13:12
happened and that he should have never
01:13:14
been allowed to testify
01:13:18
they also thought little weight should
01:13:20
have been placed on desley Hill's
01:13:22
testimony
01:13:24
even if desley's timing was correct and
01:13:27
Carol was in Queensland at the time it
01:13:29
still didn't prove that he'd committed
01:13:31
the crime
01:13:33
combined with the differing opinions
01:13:35
when it came to the forensic Dental
01:13:37
evidence the court of appeal concluded
01:13:39
that the jury's decision was unsafe and
01:13:42
unsatisfactory
01:13:45
they agreed that the entire trial had
01:13:47
been an abusive process and should never
01:13:49
have been allowed
01:13:52
for the second time Raymond Carroll's
01:13:55
conviction was overturned and he was
01:13:57
allowed to walk free
01:14:01
Community outrage ensued
01:14:03
Faye Kennedy was so Shattered by the
01:14:06
news that she collapsed when she heard
01:14:08
it
01:14:09
How could a person be founded Guilty by
01:14:11
two separate juries and continue to walk
01:14:14
free
01:14:16
she questioned what the point was of
01:14:18
having a jury trial if a judge could
01:14:20
overrule their decision
01:14:23
to Faye the justice system had failed in
01:14:26
every aspect
01:14:28
she pleaded that the case be sent to the
01:14:30
high court and her request was granted
01:14:35
but the high court not only concluded
01:14:37
that none of the evidence presented at
01:14:39
the perjury trial was new and compelling
01:14:42
they also agreed the entire trial was
01:14:45
inconsistent with the principles of
01:14:46
double jeopardy
01:14:49
even if the evidence had been compelling
01:14:51
the high court determined it didn't
01:14:53
matter because Raymond Carroll should
01:14:56
still be protected by Double Jeopardy
01:14:58
laws
01:15:01
Injustice Angelo vastar who had served
01:15:04
as the judge in Raymond Carroll's murder
01:15:06
trial later told Australian story
01:15:10
this is one of the rare cases where I
01:15:12
think the law has been over Technical
01:15:14
and in those circumstances I think that
01:15:17
justice has not been done
01:15:20
people know that Carol is responsible
01:15:22
for this death when 24 people have said
01:15:25
in a properly constituted court that he
01:15:28
is guilty
01:15:30
the tentacles of Justice just can't
01:15:33
reach him
01:15:37
throughout all the years of legal action
01:15:39
Raymond Carroll never once spoke to the
01:15:42
media
01:15:44
in 2006 he broke his silence after 33
01:15:48
years by appearing on current affairs
01:15:50
program 60 minutes
01:15:53
Carol wasn't paid for the interview but
01:15:56
he agreed to go through with that on one
01:15:58
condition that the producers organized
01:16:00
for him to undergo a lie detector test
01:16:05
the polygraph expert hoped Carol up to
01:16:07
the machine and asked him a series of
01:16:09
questions
01:16:11
among them was
01:16:14
did you kill Deidre Kennedy
01:16:17
Carol's response was firm
01:16:20
no
01:16:23
according to the lie detector he was
01:16:25
telling the truth
01:16:29
the interviewing journalist Richard
01:16:31
Carlton put it to Carol that he was
01:16:33
actually guilty of deidre's murder but
01:16:35
it spent all these years successfully
01:16:37
convincing himself of the opposite
01:16:40
Carol bluntly denied this allegation
01:16:44
he stated
01:16:46
I feel extremely sorry for Mrs Kennedy
01:16:49
for her loss I honestly hope she does
01:16:52
get closure for this crime
01:16:55
but I'm sorry she is not going to get it
01:16:57
at my expense because I did not do it
01:17:04
[Music]
01:17:07
Faye and Barry's marriage didn't survive
01:17:09
the trauma of their ordeal
01:17:11
they divorced in the early 90s after 25
01:17:14
years of marriage
01:17:16
speaking of Raymond Carroll Faye told
01:17:19
Australian story
01:17:21
I believe a good marriage was destroyed
01:17:24
by this person
01:17:27
Fey resettled in Ipswich where she got a
01:17:30
job at the local supermarket
01:17:33
one day she was working behind the
01:17:35
checkout counter when Raymond Carroll
01:17:37
walked in
01:17:38
he too had relocated to Ipswich and the
01:17:42
Very side of him gave Faye a terrible
01:17:44
shock
01:17:46
she refused to serve him and one of her
01:17:48
co-workers had to step in
01:17:51
according to Faye Carroll seemed
01:17:54
unperturbed by the encounter
01:17:58
Faye Kennedy began working with
01:18:00
politicians to petition for changes to
01:18:02
be made to queensland's double jeopardy
01:18:04
laws which they hoped to be dubbed
01:18:07
deidre's law
01:18:09
they argued that the 800-year-old law
01:18:12
was outdated and hadn't kept in line
01:18:14
with technological advancements or
01:18:17
investigative techniques
01:18:19
unless the laws were updated a suspect
01:18:22
could walk free even if evidence had
01:18:25
since become available that
01:18:26
unequivocally proved their guilt
01:18:30
they hoped to have 10 000 people sign
01:18:33
her petition
01:18:35
within 12 weeks she'd tripled that with
01:18:38
over 33 000 members of the community
01:18:40
showing their support
01:18:44
speaking in Parliament House former
01:18:46
police officer turned to Member of
01:18:48
Parliament Peter Dutton stated
01:18:52
the Heartbreak felt by Mrs Kennedy and
01:18:54
other Brave members of the Kennedy
01:18:56
family is absolutely unimaginable
01:18:59
I can tell you that there is no doubt in
01:19:01
the mind of Mrs Kennedy or anybody with
01:19:04
knowledge of this case that the evidence
01:19:06
proves the suspect's guilt no doubt at
01:19:09
all
01:19:11
yet thirty years after the crime this
01:19:14
killer is allowed to walk free and to
01:19:16
taunt Mrs Kennedy by living in her local
01:19:18
area and shopping at her workplace
01:19:23
in my view it is a travesty that
01:19:25
advances in forensic technology mean
01:19:27
nothing in this case because Double
01:19:29
Jeopardy prevents a retrial to prove the
01:19:32
suspect's guilt
01:19:34
and what is worse is that as the
01:19:37
technology improves more acquittals in
01:19:40
the future could be called into question
01:19:42
and create the same heartbreaking
01:19:44
situation for other families not just in
01:19:47
Queensland but around the nation
01:19:50
I share a view with Mrs Kennedy that
01:19:53
there is something basically and
01:19:54
fundamentally wrong with a legal system
01:19:56
that allows a child killer and rapist to
01:19:59
walk free
01:20:03
Faye told 60 minutes
01:20:06
if I could change this law for one other
01:20:08
family I've done some good
01:20:11
it just seems so wrong that this can go
01:20:14
on
01:20:15
who else has suffered like I have
01:20:17
because of a law
01:20:19
I just feel driven to do this and I
01:20:22
believe I will get this result that I'm
01:20:24
looking for
01:20:26
I believe that with all my heart that
01:20:29
the people of Queensland will support me
01:20:32
I need them too and I have faith that
01:20:34
they will
01:20:38
and they did
01:20:40
in 2007 queensland's law was amended so
01:20:44
that a person previously acquitted of
01:20:46
murder could be retried if there was
01:20:48
fresh and compelling evidence against
01:20:50
them and it was in the interest of
01:20:52
Justice to do so
01:20:55
the law is also allowed for a retrial in
01:20:58
the case of a tainted acquittal for
01:21:00
example if a juror had been bribed
01:21:05
Faye told The Courier mail she was
01:21:07
elated that the changes had been named
01:21:09
to deidre's law commenting
01:21:12
we said from the start this would be her
01:21:15
law
01:21:22
Faye eventually moved to the rural town
01:21:25
of laidley 46 kilometers west of Ipswich
01:21:29
in her bedroom she safely stored items
01:21:31
belonging to her beloved baby Deidre in
01:21:34
a pink memory chest adorned with flowers
01:21:38
inside was deidre's baby bracelet a
01:21:41
brooch an Easter egg a memorial plaque
01:21:44
and an urn containing deirdre's ashes
01:21:49
Faye kept the chest locked at all times
01:21:51
protective of the only physical
01:21:53
possessions that kept her connected to
01:21:55
her daughter
01:21:59
on the afternoon of Sunday October 3
01:22:01
2010 the now 61 year old Faye visited
01:22:05
her son's home in a nearby town to watch
01:22:07
the National Rugby League Grand Final
01:22:11
when she returned home that evening she
01:22:13
discovered that her house had been
01:22:15
broken into
01:22:16
thieves had gained access via a sliding
01:22:19
door before stealing several items
01:22:21
including a laptop and DVDs
01:22:26
in Phase bedroom the thieves had broken
01:22:28
the lock to deidre's memory chest and
01:22:31
took the contents from within including
01:22:34
deidre's ashes
01:22:37
Faye was utterly heartbroken
01:22:40
of all the untouched belongings in her
01:22:42
home she couldn't believe that the
01:22:44
thieves had taken her most prized
01:22:46
possessions
01:22:48
though Priceless to her they held no
01:22:51
monetary value to anyone else
01:22:54
they appeared on ABC News to make an
01:22:57
emotional plea for the safe return of
01:22:59
her daughter's ashes saying through
01:23:01
tears
01:23:03
I feel like I've lost her twice and I
01:23:05
need to have her back I just need her
01:23:08
home
01:23:11
police didn't believe it was a targeted
01:23:13
attack and deemed it unlikely that the
01:23:16
thieves understood the significance of
01:23:18
what they'd taken
01:23:20
all too aware of the ongoing pain
01:23:22
endured by the Kennedy family police
01:23:24
appealed for the thieves to return
01:23:26
deidre's belongings and wasted no time
01:23:29
investigating the matter
01:23:32
they interviewed over 40 Persons of
01:23:34
Interest and searched several homes
01:23:37
while members of the community rallied
01:23:39
together to raise a three thousand
01:23:40
dollar reward for anyone who had
01:23:42
information about the crime
01:23:45
but eight months later the crime
01:23:48
remained unsolved
01:23:50
Faye told The Courier mail
01:23:54
some days I'm really low and other days
01:23:57
I think I'm just not going to give up
01:24:00
hope
01:24:03
on Saturday April 13 2013 relatives of
01:24:07
the Kennedy family and members of the
01:24:09
Ipswich Community gathered in Limestone
01:24:11
Park to Mark the 40-year anniversary of
01:24:14
deidre's death
01:24:16
despite the decades that had passed the
01:24:19
crime still served as a constant
01:24:21
reminder that dangers lurked in the most
01:24:23
unsuspecting of places
01:24:26
in a rotunda are overlooking the oval a
01:24:29
memorial plaque was unveiled in deidre's
01:24:31
honor
01:24:34
Faye Kennedy told The Courier mail
01:24:38
I hope it creates awareness and lets
01:24:40
children know there are some nasties out
01:24:43
there
01:24:45
the mayor of Ipswich said the crime
01:24:48
changed Ipswich forever commenting
01:24:51
as a city we want Faye and her family to
01:24:54
know we share her grief and pain
01:24:58
it's a strong reminder to look after our
01:25:01
kids
01:25:04
the plaque reads
01:25:05
[Music]
01:25:06
dedicated in loving memory of Deidre
01:25:09
Marie Kennedy
01:25:11
we cannot stop the hands of time nor
01:25:13
live again the past but we shall love
01:25:16
and think of you as long as time shall
01:25:19
last
01:25:20
a life that touches others goes on
01:25:24
forever
01:25:25
[Music]
01:25:37
[Music]
01:25:47
[Music]
01:25:55
in June 1993 Elizabeth Stevens 18 was
01:26:00
murdered on her way home from the bus
01:26:02
stop her death began a seven-week reign
01:26:05
of terror for the people of Frankston I
01:26:08
remember thinking like how can it happen
01:26:10
to someone that's fought so hard to get
01:26:12
away and have a good life a serial
01:26:15
killer was on the loose no one was safe
01:26:18
not young mother Debbie frame 22 taken
01:26:22
on a trip to the shops nor Natalie
01:26:25
Russell 17 murdered on her way home from
01:26:28
school then two detectives came in and
01:26:32
they just said to Brian myself can we go
01:26:35
somewhere Pride
01:26:37
we went into the bedroom and I said I'm
01:26:40
sorry to tell you it's Natalie the
01:26:42
serial killer Paul Daniel was captured
01:26:45
and sentenced to life in prison on
01:26:48
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01:26:51
sentence and I guess I saw her in his
01:26:53
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01:26:56
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01:26:58
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01:27:09
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