The Claremont serial killer investigation

Maybe now he will tell where the other girl he murdered is.  I presume he was holding on to that information so that he could use it but now he has 40 years (and he will be 92) he won't be able to use that to trade some time.

Hang the bastard and hang em high.

Claremont serial killer and “sadistic” rapist Bradley Robert Edwards will likely die in prison after a Perth judge sentenced the “dangerous predator” to life behind bars with a minimum of 40 years to be served.


For the families of Edwards’ victims, this day of justice was more than two decades in the making and there was applause from the packed gallery as the sentence was finally handed down in the WA Supreme Court on Wednesday.
It is the longest minimum term ever handed down in WA and Edwards will be 88 before he can apply for parole.
Edwards did not appear to show any emotion — as was the case during much of his seven-month-long trial — but after court adjourned, the families of the victims embraced and some cried.
Police Commissioner Chris Dawson described the sentencing as a momentous day.
“Edwards is a killer, a sadistic rapist who preyed on innocent women. He devastated families and tormented the WA community,” he said outside court.
“I do not usually comment on court outcomes but I am going to make an exception today.
“It is my sincere hope ... that Edwards will never be released from prison.”
Mr Dawson said he had spoken to the families of the victims and they all believed the sentence was a just outcome.
Edwards, who called himself the “bogeyman” online and has been described as “evil”, was found guilty of murdering childcare worker Jane Rimmer, 23, in 1996 and solicitor Ciara Glennon, 27, in 1997.
But 52-year-old former Telstra technician was acquitted of killing secretary Sarah Spiers, 18, whose remains have never been found.
He also pleaded guilty to twice raping a 17-year-old girl he abducted from a park and dragged through Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995, and indecently assaulting an 18-year-old woman sleeping in her Huntingdale home in 1988.
Prosecutors had sought an order that Edwards never be released from prison, but in handing down his sentence, Justice Stephen Hall said such an order was “drastic and exceptional”.
Only one other killer — Anthony Robert Harvey, who murdered his entire young family and mother-in-law in Bedford in 2018 — has been jailed for life in WA without parole eligibility, and Justice Hall said the two cases were not comparable.
Justice Hall acknowledged one difference about Edwards’ case compared to the other double-murderers was that his killings were committed nine months apart.
“It is not necessary to make an order that you never be released ... I am satisfied there is another outcome,” he said.
“That outcome is to impose life sentences with a very long minimum term.”
Justice Hall said it was still highly likely that Edwards, who had lived an unremarkable life while committing his crimes undetected for years, would die in prison.

https://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/sex-attack-victims-speak-in-court-ahead-of-sentence-of-claremont-serial-killer-and-violent-rapist-bradley-robert-edwards/news-story/1cf72a6063410fda882f863f97cd2c0f

Thankfully they got him. What a creep!

One final suspect — the Telstra technician

The year 2016 marked 20 years since the first victim, Ms Spiers, went missing.
By this time the Macro Task Force had been subjected to at least 11 independent reviews, none of which had apparently uncovered the smoking gun.
While its detectives continued their work, people were beginning to give up hope the Claremont serial killer case would ever be solved.

Then on a hot December afternoon, just three days out from Christmas 2016, came the bombshell news many thought they would never hear.
Macro detectives had raided a home in the Perth suburb of Kewdale and had taken a 48-year-old man into custody in connection with the Claremont killings.

The following morning police held a press conference to announce the man, Telstra technician Bradley Robert Edwards, had been charged with the murders of Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon.
He was also charged with violent attacks on two other young women in 1995 and 1988, including twice raping a 17-year-old at Karrakatta Cemetery after abducting her from Claremont.
In February 2018, Mr Edwards was additionally charged with the murder of Sarah Spiers.

He has pleaded guilty to the 1988 and 1995 attacks, but continues to plead not guilty to the three murder charges.

His trial begins on November 25.

For more than 20 years, it was the notorious murder case many assumed would never be solved.
The disappearance of three young women in eerily similar circumstances from the upmarket Perth suburb of Claremont in the mid-1990s spooked the city like no other case before or since.
Sarah Spiers, 18, was the first to vanish in January 1996, followed by 23-year-old Jane Rimmer in June the same year and Ciara Glennon, 27, in March 1997.
The women had all been enjoying nights out with friends and each had farewelled their mates and headed home before abruptly disappearing.

No trace of Ms Spiers has ever been found.
Ms Rimmer's body was found in bushland in Wellard, on Perth's southern fringes, in August 1996, nearly two months after she was last seen alive.
Ms Glennon's body was found in the city's northern outskirts on April 3, 1997, less than three weeks after she disappeared.
After that, there was nothing.
No more young women went missing from the area in the same way and there were no more apparent breakthroughs in what was now openly referred to as a serial killer case.

Young people remained wary of going out, parents continued to warn their daughters of the dangers lurking in the shadows after dark, and everybody fervently hoped the case would be solved.
Pressure on police mounted as every day passed without an arrest.
It seemed hard to believe such brazen acts could be committed without detection, that a serial killer could lurk in the quiet suburbs of Perth without anyone knowing.

A special police unit — the Macro Task Force — had been established to solve the crime and resources were being allocated like never before.
Macro would grow to become the biggest police investigation in Australian history and detectives had several people in their sights for the crimes.

More here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-17/claremont-serial-killer-trial-the-wrong-suspects/11147118