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[Music] the chiricahua mountains comprises a desolate landscape of rugged terrain
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this beautiful but unforgiving location in southeastern arizona provides an idyllic backdrop to spend a weekend
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camping in the great outdoors it also happens to be a notorious hot spot for people smuggling and
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unexplained disappearances 44 year old jeanette castraon suffered from a disability that made it very
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difficult to walk and travel on her own in june 2015 while waiting as her mother
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took a brief stop at a park restroom jeanette vanished she would not be the last
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join investigative journalist otavia mchenry as she uncovers the secrets behind jeanette's sudden disappearance
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with interviews from jeanette's family law enforcement and criminal behaviour experts otavia uncovers much more in the
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search for jeanette castreon than she anticipated a twisted labyrinth where the most
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beautiful scenery hides sinister secrets the labyrinth is a case file presents podcast available on august 31st for
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have passed away nestled in the hinterland of mid-north new south wales is the town of
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bowerville which sits about 20 kilometers inland from the coast the fertile lands in the surrounding
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area led to a booming agricultural industry over the years with farmers raising cattle and growing produce such
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as bananas macadamia nuts and avocados bowerville itself was constructed around the timber industry
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but the area's natural beauty is equally notable characterized by rugged bushland
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life around bearville has often been described as sleepy with locals more or less keeping to themselves but
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eventually city dwellers started moving to the area in search of a tree change it was easy to see what drew them there
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driving through barrival's town center it looks like something out of a picture book
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quaint heritage buildings lined the main street ranging from an art deco era movie theater to victorian era pubs
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in 1990 the town's population numbered around 1500 but there were really two bowervilles
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the town was home to about 150 indigenous residents who all too often experienced racism
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most of them lived around an area known as the mesh sprawling along a street then called
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cemetery road now renamed gumbangya road the mish was a row of houses on the outskirts of town away from the
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gentile-looking buildings that were so attractive to tourists its name came from the unofficial
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aboriginal mission that had been there between the 1880s and the 1950s during australia's civil rights movement
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in the 1960s activist charles perkins led a freedom bus ride through barraville to protest
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discrimination against australia's first nations peoples back then baraval's indigenous residents
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were barred from the cinema the rsl the local school and even the hospital by 1990 the segregation wasn't this
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extreme yet there was still one pub for white people and another for indigenous people
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those who lived in the community at the time have described the racism as palpable
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but long before bowerville was ever known as baraville the area was home to the gumbanya people
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they are the traditional custodians of lands sprawling across more than six thousand square kilometers and have
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their own distinct language traditions and stories one of their stories has been passed
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down from elders to children as a cautionary tale it involves a goomba an evil spirit that prowls along the
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banks of a river looking for children to steal the goomba is a shapeshifter so he can
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disguise himself amongst others this way he doesn't look suspicious and can prey on his victims when they least
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expect it or he'll sit up in a tree looking down and plotting his attack it's said that he most often waits until
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night time to strike leading parents to warn their children that they must always be quiet after
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dark [Music] [Music] tap tap tap muriel craig heard a gentle knocking at the window as she bustled around her
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kitchen cleaning the mess left over from that evening's meal it was around nine o'clock and
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completely dark out muriel looked up it sounded like someone was rapping on the window from outside but she couldn't
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see anybody standing there the experience was almost unsettling until muriel realised the source of the
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noise crouching out of sight outside was her 10 year old daughter colleen the little girl was tapping against the
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glass trying to scare her mother into thinking there was a ghost outside the mischievous colleen had a reputation
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for being a practical joker she particularly liked playing tricks on her mum much to muriel's amusement
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as she got older colleen kept her sense of humor while also growing up into a responsible young woman
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she helped look after her younger siblings in particular her brother who was in a wheelchair and had special
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needs colleen hoped to become a preschool teacher one day a profession that her friends and family thought would
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perfectly suit her caring and playful nature more than six years after colleen first
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played a prank on her mother by tapping on a window muriel was once again in the kitchen
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when she suddenly heard a familiar sound tap tap tap this time the noise upset her
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muriel entered the lounge where her children had gathered and told them off for the practical joke explaining that
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they mustn't tap on the window because it was something that colleen used to do muriel's other children insisted that
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none of them had been outside they had all been in the lounge the entire time their faces were serious and muriel
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believed them yet it couldn't have been colleen either colleen who was now 16 years old had
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recently disappeared her distraught family had searched tirelessly for her to no avail
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as it was clear no one else was responsible for the tapping muriel felt certain of one thing
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it was her daughter's spirit reaching out letting her know she was there colleen craig had been excited as she
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packed her bags in preparation for a holiday the teenager was eager to start exploring the world and embrace life as
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a young adult she lived with her mother and siblings in the new south wales town of sortel
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but recently she'd taken a couple of trips to visit family in bauerville almost 58 kilometers away
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now she was going one step further by traveling with france colleen and three other girls planned to
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leave bearerville on the night of september 13 1990 to catch a 3 a.m train to sydney
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they were headed for the town of gaduga near the queensland border it was a long journey with a late start
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after she finished packing colleen headed over to a party at the mish where most of barrival's indigenous residents
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lived across the road was a small park where a campfire had been set up for the party
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attendees mingled around the fire and over the road in the home of a local resident named marjorie jarrett
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[Music] they also spilled out into a laneway that sat alongside marjorie's house
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colleen was spotted numerous times throughout the afternoon and evening sometimes she sat inside the lounge room
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and chatted with friends other times she was seen with a group gathered beneath a large gum tree in the
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park opposite they were drinking beer and colleen appeared somewhat intoxicated at around midnight colleen was spotted
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walking down the alleyway alongside marjorie's house hours later colleen's three travel
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companions were preparing to leave for the train station marjorie jarrett had offered to drive
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the group and searched for colleen in and around the party with no success in the end colleen's friends left for
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their holiday without her the 3am train to sydney departed without colleen on board
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as soon as word reached muriel craig that her daughter hadn't gone on her trip as planned and hadn't been seen
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since the party she knew that something was terribly wrong muriel travelled from her home in sortel
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to bearerville so she could report colleen missing all of the officers at barreville police
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station were white the two who muriel reported to were dubious when she showed them a picture
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of colleen noting that the teenage girl had a lighter skin than her mother the officers remarked
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she don't look aboriginal to us and asked if she was really muriel's daughter then they suggested that perhaps colleen
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had simply quote gone walkabout in australia's indigenous cultures walkabout is a rite of passage in which
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adolescent males live alone in the wilderness for a period of time the term has become twisted and misused
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by non-indigenous people who see aboriginal people as living transient nomadic lifestyles
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some used the word walkabout in a derogatory sense to imply an indigenous person has just taken off on a whim
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without warning muriel was devastated by the policeman's comments and retorted i wouldn't be silly enough to come in
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here and report her missing i am not that stupid but the officers remained disinterested
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and unwilling to take a report remarking that colleen would probably turn up soon
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enough muriel handed over her photograph of colleen for their reference then left the station
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with no help from law enforcement colleen's family took on the responsibility of finding her
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muriel moved her other children down to bowerville so she could keep searching for colleen while keeping everyone
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together with the help of some relatives muriel searched the surrounding areas and spoke
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to everyone they could find who had been at the party the police never made any attempt to
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contact her exactly three weeks after colleen vanished another party was in full swing
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at the mesh this time the get-together was at patricia statham's house three doors
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down from where the previous party had been held patricia's daughter rebecca who was in
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her early twenties and lived there too took her young children over to her ex partner's house so he could mine them
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while she was at the party rebecca and billy greenup had a four-year-old daughter named evelyn as
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well as two younger boys aidan and aaron rebecca was dismayed to discover that billy was too drunk to look after their
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young children so she took them back to her mother's house after socializing with the party guests
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rebecca decided to go to bed she slept in the same room as her three children with four-year-old evelyn
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nestled beside her rebecca fell asleep fully dressed and didn't wake at all during the night
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which was unusual as soon as she opened her eyes the following morning rebecca felt extremely sick in an
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unfamiliar way she sat up her two sons aidan and darren were awake and quietly playing together
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but there was no sign of evelyn evelyn and aaron were very close and rarely left each other's sides
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so her absence struck rebecca as particularly strange she asked her boys if they knew where
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their sister was but they just looked back at her wide-eyed and silent wondering if evelyn had wandered off to
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visit her father who lived just a few doors down the street rebecca first checked at billy greenup's
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house evelyn wasn't there nor was she at any other house in the mish rebecca expanded her search to the
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center of bearerville no one she spoke to had seen evelyn since the previous night before the
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little girl had gone to bed alongside her mother and siblings rebecca's panic grew
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by mid-morning she was back at home scouring the surroundings for any sign of her daughter
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suddenly she found something lying in the front yard was a single pink sand shoe
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it belonged to evelyn as word spread about the missing child an incident that had occurred the
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previous night took on a sinister new tone rebecca's mother patricia recalled that
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she'd been woken at around 3am by the sound of evelyn crying she got up to check on her walking down
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the hall to the room where evelyn rebecca and the two boys were sleeping the door was closed so patricia went to
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open it but it wouldn't budge then she heard a thud almost like a window being shut
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and evelyn stopped crying assuming the little girl had gone back to sleep patricia returned to her own room
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by evening rebecca and her sister michelle had arrived at the bowerville police station to report evelyn missing
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there was just one officer on duty michelle explained the situation and handed the officer a photo
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it showed evelyn with her blue eyes and mop of light brown ringlets which many people had compared to the hair of
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famous child actress shirley temple the officer replied what do you want me to do i'm the only
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one here and i'm just about to go home stunt michelle repeated that she wanted to
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report evelyn missing explaining that she was just four years old but the officer wouldn't budge
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and it took several more days before evelyn's family successfully filed a missing person's report
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just as they'd done when colleen went missing the police suggested that evelyn might have quote
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gone walkabout yet they also questioned her indigenous heritage by pointing out her fair skin
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and blue eyes despite taking statements the police didn't send anybody out to look for
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evelyn and initially her family were left to search for her alone they called everyone they knew plastered
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the town with flyers and surged high and low through bushland as so many people had been drinking and
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partying on the night evelyn disappeared it was difficult to piece together what
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exactly had gone on that night nevertheless they knew that she hadn't simply wandered off somewhere
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evelyn was a shy child who stayed close to her family and was scared of strangers
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three days after evelyn vanished the police finally began searching for her along with the volunteers from the local
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state emergency services they looked in the nearby nemboko river and the scrubby bushland that surrounded
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barrowville there was no sign of her when investigators finally started interviewing people in relation to the
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case it was clear that their suspicions fell exclusively on those closest to evelyn
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her grandmother patricia was interrogated about money that had been transferred into her bank account with
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police implying that she and rebecca had sold evelyn in reality the payments patricia had
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received were from her war widow's pension it was also evident that the police had
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no understanding of indigenous family dynamics which are more community focused because rebecca had been drinking on the
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night evelyn vanished they assumed her children weren't being looked after in reality a wider circle of ants would
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always help young parents care for their children some news outlets began to pick up the
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story of the missing four-year-old when speaking to journalists the bearerville police sergeant was adamant
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there was absolutely no connection between evelyn greenup and the recent disappearance of sixteen-year-old
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colleen craig by december of 1990 summer had arrived and brought withered a new resident
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clinton speedy juro was a 16 year old boy who had moved from queensland to bowerville to live with his father
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thomas duro a sharp dresser who loved footy and had a kind happy-go-lucky personality it
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didn't take long for clinton to make friends in particular he became close to kelly
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jarrett a teenage girl who had been good friends with colleen craig clinton and kelly soon became an item
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and were rarely seen out of each other's company on the night of january 31 1991 the
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young couple attended a party that was being held around the corner from the mish in a public housing flat situated
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on herborne drive rather than go to their respective homes when they were ready to leave clinton
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and kelly decided to sleep in the yellow viking caravan of a friend clinton took off his shoes and the
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couple watched music videos for a little while before falling asleep on the same
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double bed sometime after three am kelly slept soundly when she woke up it was 8 40 in the
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morning there was no sign of clinton perhaps he'd woken up earlier and already gone home
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but then kelly saw something on the floor of the van clinton's reebok sneakers clinton always took pride in his outfits
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and paid particular attention to his shoes he never went anywhere barefoot his father had given him the reeboks as
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a christmas present and clinton loved them in his family it was a source of amusement that he wore them at all times
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if clinton had left already it made no sense that he'd leave his reeboks behind kelly picked up her boyfriend's shoes
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and exited the caravan heading for clinton's father's house thomas juro was surprised when he opened
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his front door to see his son's girlfriend holding clinton's reeboks out in front of her
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clinton wasn't at home and the side of the shoes he was never seen without was immediately alarming
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thomas phoned the police to see if they could do anything to help find clinton but they said they couldn't get involved
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until he'd been missing for at least 24 hours so thomas set out by himself to search
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for his son as he didn't own a car he instead walked all over town first he went to the flats where the
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party was held the night before then he visited the caravan where clinton had spent the night
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there was no sign of him anywhere thomas checked the town's pubs and other social areas but nobody he spoke to had
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seen clinton since the party as the teenager had only just moved to bearerville he didn't know many of its
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residents and there was nowhere obvious he would have visited eventually thomas decided that all he
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could do was go home in the hope that clinton would turn up he waited and waited but clinton never
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arrived when the 24-hour time limit had passed thomas tried calling the police again to
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report his son missing they were in no hurry to respond waiting another full day before they paid thomas
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a visit at home as clinton was 16 years old and strongly built they suspected he'd simply taken
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off by himself his family tried to explain to them the significance of clinton's shoes being
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left behind but the officers couldn't understand how this indicated foul play all they said
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was we'll keep an eye out for him clinton's aunt began making calls phoning both the local police and law
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enforcement in the nearby larger city of coffs harbour begging for assistance most of her messages went unanswered but
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eventually a liaison officer was sent down from coffs harbour to help clinton's family search the town's
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streets and surrounding areas nothing turned up just like colleen craig and evelyn
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greenup clinton speedy giroud had seemingly vanished from bowerville fear spread through the local indigenous
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community although the police didn't seem to think the three disappearances were linked the
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children's friends and family were certain they were there was a common thread tying the
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cases together over the course of just five months all of the children had vanished after
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attending or being in the vicinity of a party at the mish they were sure that colleen evelyn and
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clinton had been attacked and weren't merely missing persons in the documentary innocence betrayed
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colleen's aunt elaine walker told filmmaker larissa burant that residents around the mission changed their
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behavior in response to the disappearances many mothers started sleeping in the same room as all of their children so
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they could keep an eye on them throughout the night where residents had once felt safe they
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started locking their doors and windows at all times when children wanted to go into town
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their parents would go with them and they'd walk close together in a tight group
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a week after clinton's disappearance the community's grief and frustration led to
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a group of indigenous residents and several white townsfolk marching on barraval's police station in protest
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they demanded that action be taken and their children's cases be taken seriously
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behind the scenes barriville police had called in colleagues from the child mistreatment unit in kofsaba
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though they'd initially suggested that the missing trio had just quote gone walkabout
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they were starting to suspect that the families themselves and the indigenous community more broadly were involved
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[Music] on february 18 almost three weeks since clinton's speedy giro had disappeared
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two men were hiking through some rugged bushland just outside bowerville they were looking for firewood in a
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rough and tangled area that ran alongside kongarini road a dirt road that headed south out of town
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as they searched for logs amongst the leaf litter scattered across the ground the two men saw something
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it was the badly decomposed remains of clinton's speedy giro clinton was barefoot but still dressed
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in the clothing he'd been wearing on the night he vanished he had been dragged through the bushland
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and the animals had scavenged his body lying nearby was a blanket which it seemed he had previously been wrapped in
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the area where he had been dumped was also close to a crop of cannabis an autopsy revealed that clinton had
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died from a severe blow to the head his jaw had been broken and he'd also been stabbed multiple times
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now investigators had to accept that the young man had met with foul play two months later on april 17 a man was
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fishing in the nambucca river by the southern end of kongarini road and just down a slight slope from where clinton
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had been found when something snagged his fishing line he reeled it in on the end was a pair of jeans and a
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belt heavy and soaking wet as they hung off the line these items were identified as belonging
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to colleen craig she had been wearing them on the last night anyone had seen her
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police divers subsequently searched the river by april 20 they had found four plastic
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bags that had been weighed down in the river these contained more of colleen's clothing including a cable knit jumper
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she was last seen in but there was no sign of colleen herself a week later on april 27 the police
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received a phone call from some concerned locals they had noticed an unpleasant odor in
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the bushland alongside kongarini road and were worried given the recent discoveries in the area
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the location was three kilometers away from where clinton's speedy giro was found
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when searchers went out there they discovered the skeletal remains of a small child
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it was evelyn greenup a pink sand shoe was recovered near her body a match to the other shoe her
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mother had found in the front yard of her home after evelyn disappeared marks on evelyn's skull confirmed that
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she too had been killed by a heavy blow to the head the discovery of clinton and evelyn's
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bodies and the clothing belonging to colleen left barriville reeling the indigenous community in particular
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was certain that all three of them had fallen prey to a serial killer there were too many similarities to
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ignore from the circumstances of their disappearances right down to where their remains and belongings were found
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and both evelyn and clinton had been killed by fatal blows to the head a homicide investigation was launched
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with detective sergeant alan williams at the helm the detective had no prior homicide
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experience but was to be assisted by local investigators and other detectives from the north region major crime squad
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some of the town's white residents queried the amount of resources the investigation was being given
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with one person remarking to a journalist from the age newspaper i wonder whether three missing white
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children would get the same attention although detective williams had no experience investigating murders
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clinton's remains contained a pivotal clue a pillow case that had been pushed down
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25 year old jay thomas hart worked at a tanning factory and was reasonably tall at six feet with a stocky but strong 105
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kilogram build heart wasn't indigenous but he was known to hang out at the mish and supplied
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alcohol and cannabis known to locals as yani to the young people who lived there
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some members of the indigenous community viewed him with suspicion it seemed to them that heart showed too
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much interest in young women and girls on the night that clinton speedy giro had disappeared he and his girlfriend
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kelly had gone to a local party jay hart had also been in attendance and made two trips into town to buy beer for
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the other party-goers sometime after midnight hart began trying to convince kelly to come back to
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the caravan where he lived which was parked at his mother's home close by kelly refused to leave the party without
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clinton so hard suggested they both join him the teenagers agreed and left the party
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with heart at around 3am they watched music videos for a little while before going to sleep
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hart said they could share his double bed and that he would sleep on a fold-out dining table
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there was something about heart that made kelly uncomfortable and she asked clinton not to leave her alone with him
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she slept deeply that night and woke up alone in the double bed to kelly's confusion she was no longer
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wearing her shorts or underwear though she was certain she'd been wearing them when she went to bed
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kelly found her discarded garments on the floor and pulled them back on then she picked up clinton's reeboks
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which were also on the floor and went to his father's house to explain that she couldn't find him
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when thomas juro went out looking for his son that day he bumped into jay hart in town
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when thomas asked if he knew where clinton was hart replied that he had gone back home
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but clinton was never seen alive again hart had been identified as a person of interest within days of clinton's
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disappearance and police had interviewed him on february 4. a little while after that officers
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informed her that they would be seizing his caravan to search for forensic evidence
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but also out of fear that the town's indigenous residents might quote trash it they agreed that he could remove some
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personal belongings before they took possession of the vehicle and asked what he
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wanted hark replied just me waits the officers let heart retrieve the barbells and take them away
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forensic detective rob wellings wouldn't learn that the suspect had been allowed
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to remove some of his possessions until sometime afterwards the small caravan was dirty and in
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disarray with detective wellings later telling journalists to dan box of the australian that it was more like a squat
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than a proper home though it was searched at the time a proper forensic examination wasn't
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completed a few days later clinton's remains were found detective wellings was called out to the
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scene and as he examined clinton's body he noticed a piece of fabric shoved down
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the front of his shorts detective wellings carefully removed the fabric and on closer inspection he saw
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that it looked very familiar it looked like an exact match to a set of pillowcases he'd seen in j hart's
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caravan when he'd examined it a few days earlier detective wellings immediately notified
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his colleagues of the disturbing discovery and investigators interviewed hart again
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he adamantly denied having anything to do with clinton's murder hart acknowledged that he'd invited
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clinton and kelly back to his caravan and had a few drinks with kelly while clinton lay on the double bed
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then hart set his alarm for between 5 15 and 5 30 so he could get up in time for
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his six o'clock shift at the tanning factory before falling asleep drunk when the alarm went off hart was so
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hungover that he automatically hit the snooze button and dozed off again but he slept so lightly that he could
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still hear someone else in the caravan get up and leave at around 5 45 hart woke and prepared
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for work although he had already organised for a colleague to give him a lift of that day
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hart thought he'd missed him due to oversleeping so he went into his mother's house and asked to borrow the
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keys to her orange red gallant then he headed off to work by himself hart's colleague confirmed that he had
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arrived to pick up heart just before 6am when he peeked inside the van he saw kelly's feet sticking out of the bed but
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no sign of heart or clinton the colleague decided to go to work without heart as he prepared to leave he spotted hart
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pull up to the property in his mother's car according to hart he'd seen his colleague arrive when he
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glanced in his rearview mirror he told his colleague to go to work without him as he'd decided he needed a
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cup of tea to treat his hangover before starting his shift about 20 minutes later hart turned up at
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work he stayed there for a couple of hours before going back home to return his mother's car
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while he was back at the property his voice woke kelly who was still sleeping in the caravan
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[Music] investigators weren't buying hart's story it was refuted by other witnesses
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as well as the colleague who had seen him heading towards the property instead of away from it
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multiple people had seen indicators that heart was up when he said he was asleep
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his mother's boyfriend had noticed a light on in hearts caravan at around 4 30 am just before leaving for his own
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job a neighbor saw hart's mother's car drive away from the property about 20 minutes
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later an hour before hart said he'd borrowed it his mother marlene had previously told
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the police she kept her keys in a handbag at the end of her bed leading them to theorise that heart had
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crept into her room and taken them while she was sleeping marlene had also said that heart used
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blankets similar to the one found near clinton's body this time jay hart wasn't allowed to leave his
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police interview as a free man he was charged with murder [Music] when colleen's clothing and evelyn's
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remains were found in the same area as clinton's body in the wakes that followed some began wondering whether
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jay hart would be charged with their murders as well for months residents on the mish had
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been murmuring his name in relation to the two missing girls years earlier jay hart had been in a
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relationship with colleen's aunt alison the couple had a son together but hart was verbally and physically
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abusive towards alison so she left for queensland taking their son with her colleen craig who was nine years younger
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than hart was familiar with him due to his relationship with allison when colleen visited bowerville in july
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1990 hart stopped by the mish and spent some time talking to her and her friend patricia
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he invited the two girls to his caravan to watch music videos and stay over he also invited another male friend
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colleen and patricia agreed when hart said they could share his double bed and he would sleep alone
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but when the girls woke the next morning hart was in bed with them sleeping soundly
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colleen told patricia that she'd been woken during the night by heart climbing into the bed and trying to have sex with
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her she added he mauled me all night he touched down below and up the top as well
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this morning i had to pull my pants up when i woke he'd got them down during the night
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though colleen had been exhausted she'd managed to fight hard off patricia had slept more heavily than
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colleen but she recalled that earlier in the night she had overheard heart ask their male friend
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do you want to have sex with the girls their friend had replied no leave him alone
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after this incident colleen was wary of the older man she went back home to sawtell then
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returned to bearerville a few months later in september on the night of september 13 she
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attended a party at the mish hours before she was planning to board a 3 a.m train to sydney
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jay hard was at the party as well colleen's friends noticed how much attention he was paying her constantly
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asking her to stay another night in his caravan colleen complained about heart's
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behavior telling others he was harassing and pestering her she was last seen walking down the
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alleyway that boarded the house where the party was taking place heart was also spotted at the same time
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following her along the other side of the house some of the circumstances around the
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disappearance of four-year-old evelyn greenup were chillingly familiar like colleen evelyn's mother rebecca had
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found herself receiving a lot of attention from jay hart he had attended the party at their
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family home on the night evelyn vanished after the party was over and rebecca had
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gone to bed with her three children hart stayed on loitering in the house rebecca's mother patricia had asked hart
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to leave then went to change into her pajamas when she left her room she saw no sign
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of heart and assumed he'd gone home several hours later patricia was woken by a sharp cry from evelyn
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she got up to check on her granddaughter but couldn't get into the room where she
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was sleeping patricia heard a heavy thud then all went silent at the time she didn't suspect anything
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untoward had happened the next morning rebecca woke from an uncharacteristically heavy sleep
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glancing down she saw that the jeans she was wearing were unbuttoned and down around her knees
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her underwear was also pulled to one side rebecca had no recollection of undressing herself
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clinton's girlfriend kelly jarrett had reported a similar experience on the night her boyfriend disappeared while
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staying at hart's caravan and colleen had told a friend that hart pulled her pants off while she was
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sleeping there was another crucial detail another woman had stayed at patricia's
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house after the party and was preparing a bottle for her baby just after patricia went to check on evelyn
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moments after patricia went back to bed the woman saw jay hart leave the room where rebecca and her children were
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sleeping he hurried down the hallway towards the front door wondering why he was leaving in such a
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rush the woman followed him but by the time she reached to the front door and looked outside he was nowhere
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to be seen a forensic examination of hearts caravan had revealed a tiny speck of human blood
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on his bed but experts weren't able to determine any more information than that the sample was so small that it was
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destroyed during the forensic process although investigators had an abundance of circumstantial evidence linking heart
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to all three disappearances there was little in the way of physical evidence and when it came to colleen craig's case
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the fact that they hadn't found her body would make securing a conviction difficult
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almost six months after evelyn greenup's remains were found hart was charged with
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her murder on october 16 1991 the director of public prosecutions was hopeful that clinton and evelyn's cases
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could be prosecuted in a single trial allowing evidence from each case to be presented side by side
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but j hart's legal team sought to have the two separated arguing that their client would be
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unfairly prejudiced by a joint trial ultimately the judge ruled in the defense's favor ordering that heart be
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trialed separately for each count moreover prosecutors wouldn't be allowed to present evidence from the other cases at
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trial clinton's case had the strongest evidence and would run first prosecutors were barred from mentioning
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the murder of evelyn or the disappearance and suspected murder of colleen in early 1994 the trial for clinton's
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speedy juro's murder began although the prosecution was somewhat limited in what they could present
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clinton's family were confident that hart would be convicted the prosecution was arguing that hart
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had sparked kelly's drink and attempted to rape her he killed clinton after the teenager awoke saw the attack and tried
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to stop him then he stole his mother's car keys from her handbag at around 4 45 am after her
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boyfriend left for work and placed clinton's body in the vehicle he drove to kongarini road to dump
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clinton's body in the bush and neighbor had seen marlene hart's car leave the property at around this time
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and hart's colleague saw it return more than an hour later kelly jarrett was able to give
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first-hand testimony that her boyfriend had gone to sleep in hearts caravan but had vanished without his shoes by
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the time she woke to find her clothing removed but the defense undermined kelly's
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evidence by focusing on the fact that she had been drinking on the night in question
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other indigenous witnesses who were called to share their recollections of heart being at the party were similarly
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scrutinized the defense also called two people who claimed to have seen clinton alive and
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well the morning after it was alleged he'd been killed jay hart testified in his own defense
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telling the court how he had heard clinton leave the caravan when he was half asleep
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a little while later at around 5 45 a.m he'd burrowed his mother's car keys and left for work
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although hart's mother originally told police she kept her keys in a handbag at the end of her bed
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she told the court that she slept with them under her pillow early that morning she was woken by her
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son coming into her room and asking if he could borrow her car marlene said when she glanced at the
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clock she saw it was 5 50. she also denied ever saying that hart used blankets like the one found near
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clinton's body and claimed the police had incorrectly inserted that into their records
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the trial concluded on february 18 three years to the day after clinton's body was found
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clinton's family and friends sat in silence as they waited for the jury's verdict to be read aloud
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the jury who had no idea that others had been murdered let alone that jay hart was suspected of killing them
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found heart not guilty [Music] shock washed over clinton's family and friends as they realized that hart had
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been acquitted clinton's grandmother fainted as they left the courtroom in a daze
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members of the media descended with cameras and microphones clamoring for a response to the verdict
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when the family was ushered into another room so they could have some privacy photographers and camera crews climbed
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up to the windows trying to get footage of them clinton's sixteen-year-old brother troy
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was so traumatized by these events that he later had no recollection of them jayhart's acquittal threw the
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prosecution of the two counts that they had charged hart with they'd thought clinton's was the
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strongest now that a jury had found in his favor they didn't think they had a chance of
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successfully prosecuting him at another trial especially since they couldn't introduce
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any evidence used at the previous one ultimately the director of public prosecutions decided to drop the second
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charge jay hart would not have to answer for his alleged involvement in the murder of
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evelyn greenup [Music] the victims families and their community were devastated the grief they had endured ever since
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the three children disappeared intensified as they grappled with the feeling that the legal system had failed
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them when they first lost their children no one had cared now more than three years later it
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seemed they were still all alone in their quest for justice unwilling to give up they continued to
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fight for colleen evelyn and clinton over the next few years demonstrations were held regularly in bowerville as a
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way for residents to express their anger and frustration in response to their grievances the
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commissioner of new south wales police met with the community and eventually agreed to reinvestigate the three
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murders in january 1997 a new strike force was established experienced investigators and analysts
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from homicide major crime and north region local area commands would take over the case
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led by detective gary jubilen a renowned homicide detective gary jubilan was known for his dedication to
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solving crimes and the strong rapport he built with victims families when he began working on the bowerville
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murders detective jubilan couldn't believe that a case involving two teens and one child who all lived on the same
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street and had gone missing from the same area within a five-month period hadn't been treated more seriously
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the fact that the prime suspect had been allowed to remove possible evidence from
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his caravan was also alarming hart had subsequently thrown away the barbells that he retrieved from the van
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and they were never found forensic experts suspected that they could have been used to deal the fatal
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blow to clinton's head as well as re-examining evidence relating to the case and chasing down
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new and previous witnesses alike detective jubilan and his team placed a strong emphasis on strengthening ties
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with the indigenous community realising the family's trust in law enforcement was at an all-time
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low the detectives undertook training in cultural sensitivity and awareness individual investigators worked
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diligently to connect with the townsfolk gradually they were able to form more positive relationships with the victims
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families and barriville's indigenous residents investigators were soon making new
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discoveries about the case one particularly interesting piece of information related to an incident that
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occurred after colleen's disappearance but prior to avalanche there was a residence on the mission
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nicknamed the women's house as only women lived there not long after colleen vanished from a
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party nearby one of the home's occupants woke up one night with a start it was about 2 am and she sensed
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something was wrong looking up the woman saw the figure of a man standing in her
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room there was something about his stance that looked threatening though she was initially frozen with
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fear the woman sat up her sudden movement prompted the man to flee she had never told the original case
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investigators about this unsettling incident when members of the strikeforce asked
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her why not she replied i'm a black lady what's the point of telling the white coppers
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as far as gary jubilan was concerned her story was consistent with the theory that investigators were leaning towards
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colleen evelyn and clinton had disappeared as part of a string of sexually motivated attacks targeting
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indigenous women living on the mish evelyn's mother rebecca and clinton's girlfriend kelly had both woken up from
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strangely deep sleeps to find their pants removed and their loved ones missing colleen craig had once complained of jay
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hart mauling her and pulling off her clothing during the night her friend patricia who had been with
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her that night said they'd both felt groggy and she had slept deeply some people who attended parties on the
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mish said jay hart regularly supplied alcohol and was known for spiking people's drinks
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he also seemed to show a predatory interest in indigenous women in early 1998 the strikeforce passed
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along their submissions to the director of public prosecutions they were recommending that new charges
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be brought against the jayhart for the murder of evelyn greenup it took 18 months for the dpp to respond
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ultimately they decided against pressing charges citing a lack of evidence dissatisfied with this the families
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community and members of the strikeforce kept petitioning for action to be taken
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it took six more years but a coronal inquest was finally granted in february 2004
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the inquest would focus on the disappearance of colleen and the murder of evelyn
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unlike the previous trial the coroner would be able to examine all of the available evidence
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seven months later the coroner handed down his findings despite the dpp's previous decision that
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there wasn't enough evidence to press charges he stated that there was a reasonable
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prospect a jury could convict a known individual of evelyn's murder even though colleen craig's body had
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never been discovered the coroner found that she had died as a result of homicide
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the consistencies between the three cases led him to believe that they must be linked and were the act of a single
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individual he added that there was a definite suspicion on the only person of interest
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the coroner would be urging the director of public prosecutions to try jay hart again
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the dpp did as requested and jay hart was once again charged with evelyn greenup's murder
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the trial began on february 6 2006 as hart had already been acquitted of clinton's murder none of the evidence
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from that case was admissible and once again the trial judge ruled that some evidence from colleen's case
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would have to be excluded as it could prejudice the jury but the prosecution would be allowed to
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mention how multiple women heart showed an interest in had awoken to find their pants and underwear removed including
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evelyn's mother rebecca the prosecution's theory was that hart had been in the process of assaulting a
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sleeping rebecca when evelyn woke and began to cry out of rage and a desire to silence the
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little girl heart had picked her up and thrown her at a wall before carrying her limp body
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away and dumping her in bushland new witnesses also testified that hart had made disturbing comments to them
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during altercations an indigenous couple from the mish said that in april 1990 hart had threatened
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to strangle them then dump their bodies near the yani plants on congorini road yani was an indigenous word for cannabis
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and there had been a cannabis crop near the areas where clinton and evelyn were found
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another man testified that hart had told him he had bodies buried in some yani crops
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and a prison inmate said that while heart was awaiting trial he had admitted to killing evelyn by slamming her head
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against a wall but due to the restrictions placed on them the prosecution wasn't able to
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detail much of the evidence uncovered by gary jubilan's strike force the defence team undermined the
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prosecution's witnesses by claiming one was quote a drunk and that the prisoner who testified was previously convicted
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of perjury just as they had done during clinton's trial they described how numerous people
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said they had seen evelyn the morning after she went missing a barriville shopkeeper said the little
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girl had come into her store at 7am that day witnesses from the victims families were
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already confused by the restrictions placed on them in terms of what they could or couldn't say
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the fact that 15 years had passed made it even easier for the defense to cast a doubt upon their recollections
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at times evelyn's relatives felt as though they were the ones on trial her mother rebecca was grilled about her
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drinking habits and sexual partners she couldn't fathom why there seemed to be more focus on her than the man
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charged with killing evelyn [Music] this time hart didn't take the stand on march 3 one month after the trial
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began the jury delivered their verdict not guilty jay hart had been acquitted once again
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evelyn's family were devastated as was their broader community and the relatives of the other victims
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now that jay hart had twice been found not guilty the victims families felt they had a little chance of ever
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receiving justice double jeopardy laws in new south wales meant that an individual couldn't be
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prosecuted again for a crime they had already been acquitted of but this changed in december 2006
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due in part to campaigning by the families the new south wales parliament made an amendment to the state's crimes
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appeal and review act now someone who had been acquitted could be retrialed if fresh and compelling
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evidence was found the strikeforce got back to work and began investigating again
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they established that witness sightings of clinton and evelyn the morning after they went missing were not correct and
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that people had either confused their dates been mistaken or were misremembering things
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as part of their reinvestigation the strikeforce also uncovered a crucial piece of information that had been
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completely ignored until now at around 5 a.m on the morning of february 1 1991 delivery drivers greg
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innis and michael scafidi were driving towards bowerville they had a load of meat to drop off at
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the town butcher and the road stretched out in front of them dim in the pre-dawn
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hours the bright headlights of their truck cast a strong light across their path
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while their surroundings faded into darkness traveling at a speed of about 80 kilometers per hour the men swung left
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as they came to a corner on that side a stretch of road known locally as norco corner
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it was then that their truck's high beams illuminated something a young indigenous man was lying on the
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road he had the smooth and youthful face of a teenager and had a shirt tied around his
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waist there were no shoes on his feet one hand was stretched above his head which was turned to one side and he was
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completely still as michael later told the sydney morning herald it looked like he was either asleep
01:14:10
drunk or dead watch out there's some guy on the road he warned greg the two men pulled over and parked the
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truck then peered out of the window at the person sprawled across the road they saw there was also a stocky white
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man at the scene and he was standing over the boy as though to help him leaning across from the passenger seat
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michael asked mate what's going on we could have hit that guy he's lying in the middle of the
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road the white man reassured michael and greg that everything was fine the indigenous boy was just asleep and
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he'd called the police to pick him up michael checked whether the man wanted some help in carrying the teenager off
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the road but the man waved him off saying he could manage by himself believing the situation was under
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control the two delivery men pulled back onto the road and continued on their way
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up ahead they noticed what looked like a mustard coloured station wagon parked to
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one side its boot was open and its lights were off when greg and michael later heard that a
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16 year old named clinton speedy duro had been found murdered in some nearby bushland
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they realised the significance of what they had seen the morning that they had seen a
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seemingly unconscious indigenous boy lying on the ground was the same day that clinton was
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believed to have been attacked perhaps the boy's killer had been hoping that a vehicle would run over the body
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making it look like an accident instead of murder the two men reported the incident to
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police when gary jubilan's team were once again investigating the case in 2007 they found a running sheet from april
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1991 that detailed the man's sighting but the information had never been properly investigated or made available
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at the trial for clinton's murder the original detectives hadn't even obtained formal statements from greg and
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michael in 2016 michael scafidi shared another detail with the journalist to dan box
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a couple of years after he'd observed the strange scene at norco corner he had been at work when some colleagues began
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passing around photographs from a community event in bearerville michael was looking at the photos when
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one person in a picture caught his eye he asked his co-workers if they knew who the person was
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and they flipped the photo over to read some names that had been scribbled on the back
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according to these annotations the person michael had noticed was jay hart michael was certain that hart was the
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man he'd seen with the indigenous boy at norco corner years earlier detective jubilan and his team believed
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that the norco corner sighting constituted fresh and compelling evidence on behalf of the new south wales police
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force they made a submission that hart be retried for the murders of clinton and evelyn and indicted for the murder
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of colleen craig but on june 4 2007 the dpp advised that the new evidence wasn't sufficiently
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fresh or compelling their application was denied over the years the lack of answers and
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resolution in the three bowerville murders has attracted attention from the media
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the case has been featured in a number of high-profile television programs and was the subject of a 2013 documentary by
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indigenous writer legal academic and filmmaker larissa burant she travelled to bowerville to interview
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the victims families and her film titled innocence betrayed won and was shortlisted for several awards
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three years later the australian newspaper released a podcast series about the case
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crime journalist dan box interviewed colleen evelyn and clinton's families as well as various witnesses
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he also spoke with jay hart at length in their conversation hart who has changed his name and no longer lives in
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barreville strenuously denied having anything to do with the murders he even stated that he wouldn't be
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opposed to being trialled again as he believed it would provide him with the opportunity to clear his name once and
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for all the series shone a new spotlight on the case and led to a renewed push for
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action as it turned out the laws on admissibility of evidence had recently been updated meaning that details of
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colleen and evelyn's cases would now be admissible in a trial for clinton's murder
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in february 2017 police charged heart with clinton and evelyn's murders yet again
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the new south wales attorney general applied to the state's court of criminal appeal for a re-trial on the grounds
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that these new laws effectively gave rise to fresh and compelling evidence the following year
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this application was rejected with the court ruling that none of the evidence was fresh
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attorney general applied to australia's high court for special leave to appeal this decision
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but was denied to this day jay hart maintains he had nothing to do with the murders of evelyn
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greener poor clinton speedy juro or the disappearance of colleen craig he asserts that the evidence against him
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is purely circumstantial and he's the only suspect because police botched their investigation neglecting to look
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at any other persons of interest hart recently spoke with indigenous filmmaker alan clark for a forthcoming
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documentary titled the baureville murders and told clark police haven't got a single witness
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that's seen me do anything they haven't got a single piece of forensic evidence to tie me to them
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not one piece case file acknowledges jay hart's right to the presumption of innocence
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colleen evelyn and clinton's families are still fighting for a retrial the victims loved ones have no doubt
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that the case would have been treated very differently if they weren't indigenous
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from the start police dismissed their concerns due to the prejudices about their community
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michelle jarrett the art of evelyn greenup has said that if colleen's disappearance was taken seriously then
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evelyn and clinton might still be alive today when two of the cases later went to
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trial indigenous witnesses found themselves up against a legal system that was foreign to
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them the juries selected didn't include any indigenous people and they weren't educated on indigenous communication
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styles which possibly led to witnesses being misinterpreted as untrustworthy for example some indigenous witnesses
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would say yes as a polite response to being asked a question before going on to give evidence that contradicted what
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jurors heard as their previous answer in 2016 the new south wales police commissioner andrew scipione met with
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all three families to formally acknowledge that institutional racism had hindered the initial handling of the
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case he stated i want to publicly acknowledge that the new south wales police force could have
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done more for your families when these crimes first occurred and how this added to your pain as a grieving community
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and for that i am sorry colleen craig's family have never stopped looking for her body
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in 2011 they thought they might have found her when some bones were discovered not far
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from bowerville but these turned out to be animal remains to this day colleen's siblings cousins
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nephews and denises still search for her the fact that she has never been found has contributed to their grief
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as one of colleen's cousins told a parliamentary committee it is something that is missing within
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all of us not actually knowing where she is and what has happened to her is something
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that we carry every single day those closest to evelyn greenup have battled guilt as well as sorrow
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her grandmother patricia has suffered as she heard evelyn cry out on the night in
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question but was unable to reach her evelyn's mother rebecca has also been tormented by the fact that evelyn went
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missing from the same room where she was sleeping in the years after her daughter's death
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rebecca directed her pain inwards and struggled with alcoholism in her own words
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my heart was ripped apart and i felt numb as i knew evelyn was never coming back to me
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i would never be able to give her a hug or give her a kiss tell her everything is all right and i would never see my
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daughter grow up into a beautiful woman i was always treated like i had no right
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to evelyn's information on updates of the investigation and i was always left out of everything because everyone
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blamed me no one will ever know how i feel because i was evelyn's mother and had that special bond with her
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i carried her for nine months i felt her move and grow in my womb and i gave birth to my firstborn child
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evelyn clarice greenup even though clinton's speedy duro was the first victim found it later emerged
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that the police had not done a thorough job in bringing him back to his family a year after clinton's murder
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two bones belonging to him were found in the bush his family learnt of this oversight 12
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years after they lost clinton when his autopsy report was accidentally shared with them
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this was an extremely painful discovery especially as the burial of human remains is a very sensitive matter
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within indigenous culture clinton's family members still struggle to speak of the boy they lost due in
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part to the sense of injustice they feel from the trial's outcome in 1994 his brother troy has said he had
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difficulty even speaking to his wife about clinton and has never really learned how to deal
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with the pain and the loss of trust in the justice system the constant battle with the
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police the legal system and the government over the past three decades has left all of clinton's loved ones
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feeling despondent the younger generation has picked up the fight from their parents
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but the last thing they want is for future generations to have to do the same thing
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in clinton's father's words each time we think we are going to get justice we are let down
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we keep going but it is hard [Music] those who knew colleen craig described her as vibrant kind and well-liked
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she had a tender and loving nature as demonstrated by her care for younger children
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her family said she had a strong character with a clear moral while still being something of a
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prankster who liked to make jokes at the time that she disappeared colleen had completed a certificate and some
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work experience in preparation for achieving her dream of becoming a preschool teacher
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before she left her home town of sortel to go to bearerville in the days before her death she kissed her mother goodbye
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colleen and her mum muriel had a special bond and everyone who knew them was sure
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colleen would never go anywhere without telling muriel of her plans despite never being reunited with her
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daughter muriel still feels her presence not long after colleen disappeared muriel heard a familiar tapping at her
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kitchen window although colleen wasn't out there muriel felt in her heart that the noise
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was her daughter's spirit reaching out evelyn greenup was shy with outsiders and scared of strangers
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when her family went for walks together four-year-old evelyn would cling tightly
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to an adult's hand but closer to home her personality shone evelyn loved visiting her aunties and
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playing with her cousins and two little brothers sweet and gentle she always had a smile
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on her face and especially liked being outside in nature clinton's speedy juro was nicknamed
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bubby by his family sometimes they jokingly called him pretty boy because he took so much pride
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in his clothes and appearance his passions were art music and the dancing when he hit the dance floor at parties
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all lies were drawn to him he was also a talented football player helping his team to win the under-16s
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grand final by scoring two tries clinton had a reputation for being friendly and kind to younger children
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with one of his aunts remembering how kids would trail behind him wherever he went
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a monument to colleen craig evelyn greenup and clinton speedy giroud was built at barreville's memorial park
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six wooden benches form a circle around three poles each of which features a plaque dedicated to one of the victims
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the three poles are linked by a triangular rooftop creating a small sheltered area where people can gather
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colleen evelyn and clinton's families were all consulted for the memorial it was envisioned as a place where they
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and the community can reflect on the loss of their three children and honor their memories
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[Music] the victims loved ones were overcome with anger after their most recent application for a retrial was rejected
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by australia's high court to protest the ruling they plastered the windows of sydney's law courts building
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with white painted handprints in a voice thick with emotion an aunt of clinton speedy giro told
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journalists we are stuck in a 29-year rut of injustice we are owed you owe us this justice
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how dare you all [Music] in june of 2015 a woman disappeared while camping with her family in the
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cherokawa mountains of arizona she vanished without leaving a trace in the course of one to two minutes this is the
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strangest search i've ever been on she just disappeared right off the face of the earth i said you're telling me you
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got signed right here i said well then we're right on the road here basically so she got another car
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somebody abducted her we were desperate we didn't know what else to do you already start to know you
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know the canine hasn't found her something really bad is going on were we a target of something
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what if somebody's got a vendetta against us the two-year quest for answers in this case led me to find out
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more than i had originally anticipated i'll challenge you to something do a homework on missing persons from
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national parks it's going to astound you that you're going to find out there's no way my brother would have
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thought of suicide he also had just purchased furniture he was very excited about fixing up his living room so
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you don't buy furniture and start fixing up your living room you're cleaning and
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dying this case has more twists and turns than the blue ridge parkway and i have to say occam's razor is normally
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the principle i operate from the simplest explanation is normally the most likely certainly what i do know is
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that in fear and under pressure people make some very bad choices i'm otavia mchenry and this is the labyrinth a true
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crime podcast brought to you by case file presents i think there's something there that we're just not seeing and
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that others aren't seeing neither because everybody now to this point in this case is just grasping so
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welcome to our world with this case and if you can give us any help i can't even
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we can't even begin to tell you how much we'd appreciate that how is it that these people disappear
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like that without a tree i'm a firm believer those things are real and there's something out there that we
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