Claremont Serial Killer Suspects
Ms Glennon, a 27-year-old lawyer, was the last known victim, in 1997, of the unknown man who became notorious Australia-wide as the Claremont serial killer.She was last seen after leav-ing the Claremont Hotel around midnight on March 17. Current FBI definition of a serial killer. News Article on Suspected Claremont (Aus) Serial Killer - Bradley Robert Edwards (self.serialkillers) submitted 5 months ago by mitchjaff. With all this evidence now he seems like such an obvious suspect, regardless of DNA.
The Claremont serial murders is the case of the unsolved murders of two young Australian women and the unresolved disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997 in Claremont, a wealthy western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. All three women disappeared in similar circumstances after attending night spots in Claremont, leading police to suspect that an unidentified serial killer was the offender. While the Western Australian Police established a special task force to investigate the case, they failed to find the killer.
A number of suspects have been named over the years including Bradley John Murdoch, the convicted killer of Peter Falconio and Mark Dixie (aka Shane Turner) who was convicted in the United Kingdom for the 2005 murder of 18-year-old model Sally Anne Bowman. In 2008, Dixie was ruled out as the killer.
Inquisition update 11 crackers. In a memoir titled The End of Innocence, published in 2007, Estelle Blackburn, a Western Australian journalist and author, speculated that her former partner, who had assaulted and threatened many times to kill her, may be the killer; claiming that he had performed maintenance on taxi vehicles and often had overnight access to them. This was further explored in a two-part episode of the ABC's television programme, Australian Story, in November 2007.
Here is the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_serial_murders
And some discussion of the case on webslueths.com: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222868
Also, here is the transcript from the Australian Story TV show: http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2003/s1042100.htm
This has always been a fascinating case to me as it was such an unusual event for sleepy little Perth in the 90s, causing young people, especially women, to be too afraid to venture out at nighttime.
Do you think the Claremont Serial Killer will ever be identified? Could there be more victims connected to the case? What are your thoughts and theories?
