WEBVTT - Ep 2 - The Task Force Begins 0:00:05.921 --> 0:00:07.281 Approache production. 0:00:10.041 --> 0:00:14.481 The following podcast deals with sexual exploitation and violence against children. 0:00:14.681 --> 0:00:18.481 Listener discretion is advised. This is also an ongoing investigation, 0:00:18.921 --> 0:00:22.161 so if you have information, please contact crime Stoppers on 0:00:22.161 --> 0:00:25.360 one eight hundred triple three, triple zero. We'll get in 0:00:25.401 --> 0:00:33.921 touch with me at Adam Shand writer at gmail dot com. 0:00:34.161 --> 0:00:38.120 Welcome to episode two of Creating Mister Krule. I'm your host, 0:00:38.161 --> 0:00:45.001 Adam Shand. On April ninth, nineteen ninety two, Constables Gallagher 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.361 and Farley of Thomastown Police were on the Divisional van 0:00:48.521 --> 0:00:52.281 doing patrol duty in this working class area in Melbourne's 0:00:52.281 --> 0:00:59.921 North male person and uneventful shift until five point forty 0:00:59.961 --> 0:01:04.441 five pm. A message came over the radio suspected human 0:01:04.521 --> 0:01:10.721 remains had been found. They returned to the station and 0:01:10.801 --> 0:01:13.600 met a local resident who'd been walking his dog along 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.920 a waterway called the Merry Creek. He had discovered what 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:22.761 appeared to be a human skull. Gallagher and Farley took 0:01:22.801 --> 0:01:25.841 the witness back to the scene, a desolate stretch of 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:31.161 landfill between the creek and the Thomastown Electricity substation. They 0:01:31.241 --> 0:01:33.880 drove to a point forty meters south of a large 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:39.961 concrete drain and parked up. They left the vehicle and 0:01:40.081 --> 0:01:43.401 walked about twenty meters up a small hill and across 0:01:43.481 --> 0:01:47.801 a freshly graded area of ground. At six pm, in 0:01:47.841 --> 0:01:52.481 the gathering gloom of sunset, they found the human skull. 0:01:52.601 --> 0:01:57.160 At six six a superintendent arrived to organize the recovery 0:01:57.521 --> 0:02:00.641 and a request was made for full crime scene services 0:02:00.681 --> 0:02:04.521 to attend. It appeared the greater had disturbed a shallow 0:02:04.601 --> 0:02:09.281 gray only the skull had been located so far, it 0:02:09.361 --> 0:02:12.001 was going to be a long night that would stretch 0:02:12.121 --> 0:02:17.401 into days. At six forty nine pm, even before the 0:02:17.441 --> 0:02:20.921 police surgeon arrived, a TV news crew set up on 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.641 the western side of the creek. Soon the news was 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.281 all over the media. Carmen Chan had been found. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.441 Squads of police today continue to excavate the shallow grave 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.521 site in the Desolate industrial area. Two days ago, the 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.761 skeleton was found in the landfilled dump. Now police believe 0:02:39.881 --> 0:02:41.161 it could be Carmen Chance. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.321 Two days later, Homicide boss Detective Chief Inspector Peter Halleran 0:02:46.401 --> 0:02:49.721 fronted a press conference. They hadn't found the rest of 0:02:49.721 --> 0:02:53.001 the skeleton yet, but there was little doubt who this was. 0:02:54.041 --> 0:02:56.521 Whilst we don't have any positive information at this point 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.160 of time. As I've said to you, it is quite 0:02:59.281 --> 0:03:02.641 possibly that it is in fact Carmen. It's outrageous to 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.520 think that we've got a young fear, probably around the 0:03:06.561 --> 0:03:09.441 thirteen years of age, who's received a number of a 0:03:09.441 --> 0:03:12.401 gunshot went into the head. I think that in itself 0:03:12.441 --> 0:03:13.201 is rather horrific. 0:03:14.921 --> 0:03:17.841 It was believed Carmen's remains had been buried for up 0:03:17.881 --> 0:03:22.641 to a year before, possibly soon after her abduction. The 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.520 families hoped that mister Krule might return Carmen alive had 0:03:26.561 --> 0:03:31.121 been in vain from the start. Their loved one, their cheeky, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:36.681 high spirited daughter, had been executed gangland style. Carmen's godfather, 0:03:36.841 --> 0:03:39.241 Daryl Kerr, spoke to the Age newspaper. 0:03:40.481 --> 0:03:43.681 I can't understand why anyone would shoot a thirteen year 0:03:43.721 --> 0:03:47.761 old girl like Carmen three times in the head. I 0:03:47.801 --> 0:03:50.801 could understand if this person needed a gun, if he 0:03:50.881 --> 0:03:53.321 was keeping a big man who was a threat to him, 0:03:53.841 --> 0:03:58.041 but a thirteen year old girl, it's so pointless and distressing. 0:03:58.601 --> 0:04:00.761 The whole thing is very hard to believe. 0:04:03.561 --> 0:04:07.241 To some in Melbourne's Chinese community, it was too hard 0:04:07.281 --> 0:04:11.121 to believe this brutal crime had a familiar element of 0:04:11.241 --> 0:04:15.121 punishment to it. Perhaps Carmen had not been taken for 0:04:15.201 --> 0:04:20.161 sexual motives, but as payback for something her father had done. 0:04:20.281 --> 0:04:22.921 They pointed to the graffiti sprayed on the family car 0:04:23.041 --> 0:04:27.721 that spelled out Asian drug deal payback more to come. 0:04:28.801 --> 0:04:32.921 This was how the ruthless Asian Triads did business. Even 0:04:33.001 --> 0:04:36.720 before Carmen was found, her father, John Chan was forced 0:04:36.801 --> 0:04:39.721 to come out and deny the rumors. It was to 0:04:39.801 --> 0:04:42.041 be his only public comment. 0:04:42.201 --> 0:04:44.721 And if police or reach it, by me, if he's 0:04:44.761 --> 0:04:45.481 not unclean. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.960 Police did follow up the underworld theory in Carmen's murder. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.681 We'll discuss those checks in a later episode of the podcast. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.761 All I can say is, to my knowledge, given the 0:04:58.801 --> 0:05:02.080 tools that we had at the time, and given the 0:05:02.161 --> 0:05:07.441 technology that was available at the time, a comprehensive financial 0:05:07.561 --> 0:05:14.241 background was conducted on the chance now maybe a more 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:19.561 comprehensive investigation could be conducted. That's I think logic tells you. 0:05:19.561 --> 0:05:22.561 Of course it could, and I don't know if that 0:05:22.641 --> 0:05:23.601 has been done. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.361 A monster was on the loose, The only certainty was 0:05:28.361 --> 0:05:32.121 that mister Krule would strike again. All eyes turned to 0:05:32.201 --> 0:05:36.080 Victoria police. 0:05:35.201 --> 0:05:38.321 So It was a new phenomenon, there's no question about it. 0:05:38.961 --> 0:05:41.681 And yes it did create an enormous about a fear 0:05:41.681 --> 0:05:44.801 in the community. People going to be in the house 0:05:44.841 --> 0:05:48.361 that know it, they've been woken up at gunpoint, just 0:05:48.521 --> 0:05:53.320 tried up and the young dader's rape was just something 0:05:53.361 --> 0:05:56.441 that hadn't been happening all that offered in the past. 0:06:01.601 --> 0:06:04.481 My name is Calvin Glaire. In the eighties and nineties, 0:06:05.281 --> 0:06:08.200 I worked in a variety of areas in vic POL. 0:06:08.361 --> 0:06:12.001 The last five years of my career from November nineteen 0:06:12.001 --> 0:06:15.521 eighty seven to November nineteen ninety two was as Chief Commissioner. 0:06:17.961 --> 0:06:21.561 Very idea of someone breaking in, tying up parents and 0:06:21.641 --> 0:06:25.001 nothing they do or rope and the braziness of the 0:06:25.081 --> 0:06:28.281 offending I think created an enormous amount of fear in 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.320 the community. And it's so good to say that. Well, 0:06:30.561 --> 0:06:34.081 statistically the chance of being a victim of quite small, 0:06:34.721 --> 0:06:38.640 but that doesn't allay people's fears. It's the perception that 0:06:38.721 --> 0:06:43.081 becomes the reality. And of course we had to respond 0:06:43.161 --> 0:06:47.880 and we pulled out all stop. I had a personal interest, 0:06:47.961 --> 0:06:53.640 particularly in the common chain case, because Phyllis had a 0:06:53.681 --> 0:06:56.681 restaurant here at Altam and I dined there a number 0:06:56.721 --> 0:07:00.121 of times, and I dined there after Carmen went missing, 0:07:00.201 --> 0:07:04.960 and I had a lot of conversations with Phyllis. Myew 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.361 is that the offender took great pains to see that 0:07:09.401 --> 0:07:12.481 he couldn't be identified. He never exposed his face as 0:07:12.481 --> 0:07:15.521 far as I know, and my view is that Garman 0:07:15.601 --> 0:07:17.321 must have got a mask off and got a look 0:07:17.321 --> 0:07:22.361 at him, and he felt that because of that he 0:07:22.401 --> 0:07:26.241 had to protect his identity, so she was killed. It 0:07:26.321 --> 0:07:31.241 was sad on every level because Phyllis Garman's mother thought 0:07:31.321 --> 0:07:35.161 that her daughter would still be alive, and it was 0:07:35.201 --> 0:07:37.841 a fulorn hope. But once it gets past forty eight 0:07:37.881 --> 0:07:42.601 hours that chances of that really become quite slim. And 0:07:42.641 --> 0:07:46.241 then of course he was found out three bullet wounds 0:07:46.281 --> 0:07:47.041 in the back of the head. 0:07:53.801 --> 0:07:57.361 In May nineteen ninety two, the Spectrum Task Force was 0:07:57.441 --> 0:08:01.001 created to review all the cases with a possible connection 0:08:01.121 --> 0:08:04.921 to mister Krule. There were up to twenty sexual assaults 0:08:04.921 --> 0:08:08.441 on women and children in Melbourne's East from nineteen ninety 0:08:08.481 --> 0:08:12.961 five to ninety one that were unsolved. Nearly half were 0:08:13.001 --> 0:08:17.001 easily eliminated, leaving ten cases. As the basis of the 0:08:17.001 --> 0:08:21.801 investigation At first it was nine detectives on the task force, 0:08:22.241 --> 0:08:24.481 then later it expanded to thirty. 0:08:25.881 --> 0:08:30.801 My role was ultimately if the offender had been identified 0:08:30.841 --> 0:08:36.761 and located, Micrew would have interviewed in and compiled the 0:08:36.801 --> 0:08:41.361 brief evidence. My name is Chris O'Connor. I retired from 0:08:41.401 --> 0:08:44.721 Victoria Police in twenty and thirteen as a detective senior 0:08:44.801 --> 0:08:48.961 sergeant and I was in the police force for thirty 0:08:49.001 --> 0:08:53.881 six years. From nineteen seventy seven through two thousand and thirteen, 0:08:54.361 --> 0:08:58.881 I worked on sex crimes for in excess of twenty 0:08:59.161 --> 0:09:00.881 three twenty four years. 0:09:02.601 --> 0:09:05.961 O'Connor and the other Spectrum members were given a file 0:09:06.041 --> 0:09:10.441 with ten cases thought to be linked. These included home invasions, 0:09:10.761 --> 0:09:15.881 abductions and sexual assaults carried out by masked men. Some 0:09:15.921 --> 0:09:19.801 were quickly discounted or later solved without a connection to 0:09:19.841 --> 0:09:24.441 mister Krule. However, when the breadth of the investigation became known, 0:09:24.921 --> 0:09:28.881 the shadow of mister Krule seemed to loom large over Melbourne. 0:09:29.241 --> 0:09:32.401 Carmen Chan was abducted from her home in the Melbourne 0:09:32.441 --> 0:09:35.441 suburb of Templestock. It is thought the body had been 0:09:35.521 --> 0:09:38.521 dumped in the landfill twelve months ago. Thirteen year old 0:09:38.521 --> 0:09:41.481 Carmen was snatched from her Templestow home almost a year 0:09:41.481 --> 0:09:44.281 to the day. Her parents have waited desperate to know 0:09:44.361 --> 0:09:45.561 what has happened to their daughter. 0:09:47.081 --> 0:09:50.281 In the public imagination, this was a one man crime 0:09:50.361 --> 0:09:56.281 wave over seven years, the reality was something different. At 0:09:56.281 --> 0:09:59.321 this stage, Mister Krule was no more than a collection 0:09:59.441 --> 0:10:02.321 of files, a crime spree in a box. 0:10:03.281 --> 0:10:07.321 To be fair to Victoria place this whole concept of 0:10:07.681 --> 0:10:11.401 seven years or eight years by nineteen ninety three, it 0:10:11.441 --> 0:10:15.401 was something that was identified only by Spectrum, and that's 0:10:15.521 --> 0:10:19.081 why Spectrum was put together to see if there was 0:10:19.521 --> 0:10:23.761 any nexus between a number of these other series of crimes. 0:10:23.921 --> 0:10:29.001 Prior to Spectrum, there were perhaps two, maybe three other 0:10:29.681 --> 0:10:32.801 regional task forces that have been put together to look 0:10:32.841 --> 0:10:37.601 at our series of regional crimes, which at the end 0:10:37.601 --> 0:10:43.001 of the day became the basis of investigations for Spectrum. 0:10:43.121 --> 0:10:44.081 The starting point. 0:10:46.241 --> 0:10:50.401 Investigators worked through the ten cases methodically comparing them for 0:10:50.521 --> 0:10:54.841 patterns and similarities. The starting date was February twentieth, nineteen 0:10:54.921 --> 0:10:58.401 eighty five, the night of Anthea's attack in Hampton that 0:10:58.441 --> 0:11:02.601 we discussed in episode one. Per case seemed connected to 0:11:02.641 --> 0:11:07.121 Carmen Chans in nineteen ninety one, particularly the offender's warning 0:11:07.161 --> 0:11:10.601 to Anthea that his liberty was more important than her life. 0:11:11.361 --> 0:11:15.521 This seemed to foretell of Carmen's murder. In the space 0:11:15.561 --> 0:11:19.281 of fifteen months after Anthea's attack, there were five more 0:11:19.321 --> 0:11:22.761 sexual assaults that were similar. There seemed to be a 0:11:22.801 --> 0:11:26.881 pattern in the intervals of time between each offense two months, 0:11:27.281 --> 0:11:36.161 five months, five months, two months, and five months. This 0:11:36.281 --> 0:11:39.241 series of crimes was happening long before anyone was talking 0:11:39.281 --> 0:11:42.881 about mister Krule. They were attributed to the so called 0:11:42.961 --> 0:11:46.961 Hampton Rapist. The details of these cases have never been 0:11:47.001 --> 0:11:50.561 revealed before the names of the victims have been changed 0:11:50.721 --> 0:11:57.121 to protect their identities. The first victim after Anthea, on 0:11:57.161 --> 0:12:00.081 the twenty sixth of April nineteen eighty five, was not 0:12:00.121 --> 0:12:03.241 even a child. She was a twenty six year old 0:12:03.241 --> 0:12:06.641 bank teller from Hawthorne. A man had broken into her 0:12:06.681 --> 0:12:10.721 apartment at two am and woke the victim, we'll call 0:12:10.761 --> 0:12:15.041 her Tina. The intruder wasn't wearing a mask. She got 0:12:15.081 --> 0:12:18.081 a glimpse of his face in the darkness. He told 0:12:18.121 --> 0:12:20.881 her not to look at his face. Don't look at 0:12:20.921 --> 0:12:25.041 my face. I've got a gun and knives too. He said, 0:12:25.721 --> 0:12:29.921 all she remembered was his hairline, black pants and black skivy. 0:12:30.841 --> 0:12:33.201 You know what I'm here for, he told Tina, you 0:12:33.321 --> 0:12:35.921 know what I'm here for. He tied her up as 0:12:35.921 --> 0:12:40.641 Anthea had been, with a thin plastic cord. He complained 0:12:40.641 --> 0:12:44.561 about her personal hygiene and made her bathe He seemed 0:12:44.561 --> 0:12:47.481 to be a clean freak. If he had a knowledge 0:12:47.481 --> 0:12:51.881 of police procedures, it was incomplete. It's not clear whether 0:12:51.921 --> 0:12:54.961 he used a condom, and he did not make Tina wash. 0:12:55.001 --> 0:12:58.761 After raping her, he left her tied up and made 0:12:58.761 --> 0:13:09.121 his escape. The next attack was on July third, nineteen 0:13:09.161 --> 0:13:12.801 eighty five. It was a fourteen year old boy in Hampton. 0:13:13.561 --> 0:13:16.761 He lived just over a kilometer from Anthea's house. They 0:13:16.761 --> 0:13:21.521 were unknown to each other. It was eight twenty five pm. Brandon, 0:13:21.681 --> 0:13:24.081 which is not his real name, had gone to a 0:13:24.121 --> 0:13:26.761 shop two hundred meters from his home to buy milk. 0:13:27.761 --> 0:13:30.841 On his return, he saw a man about twenty meters 0:13:30.881 --> 0:13:35.321 away walking towards him. He was about thirty years old, 0:13:35.961 --> 0:13:39.881 thin to medium build, dressed in runners, blue jeans and 0:13:39.921 --> 0:13:43.481 a hooded Duffel coat. The boys stepped onto the nature 0:13:43.481 --> 0:13:46.921 strip to allow the man to pass. The man then 0:13:47.001 --> 0:13:52.801 lunged at Brandon from behind and grabbed him by the shoulders. 0:13:53.841 --> 0:13:58.001 He demanded Brandon handover his money. Seventeen dollars in notes 0:13:58.001 --> 0:14:01.521 and coins was all he had, but this wasn't over. 0:14:02.321 --> 0:14:05.681 The man showed him a knife its razor shop. He said, 0:14:06.361 --> 0:14:09.561 feel it. He covered the boy's head with a beanie 0:14:09.601 --> 0:14:12.801 or a balaclava and dragged him into a nearby lane, 0:14:13.041 --> 0:14:17.161 where he was forced into a car. Like Anthea, Brandon 0:14:17.241 --> 0:14:21.161 was made to crouch in the footwell. They drove for 0:14:21.201 --> 0:14:26.441 twenty to thirty minutes. Brandon was taking to a suburban 0:14:26.521 --> 0:14:30.201 home that was lined with plastic sheeting. He could hear 0:14:30.241 --> 0:14:33.761 the man kicking it as he walked around. They must 0:14:33.761 --> 0:14:38.041 be renovating, he said. The offender washed Brandon, saying it 0:14:38.081 --> 0:14:41.441 was important that they be clean. He then raped the 0:14:41.481 --> 0:14:45.841 teenager without using a condom. He once again washed the 0:14:45.841 --> 0:14:49.761 boy and drove him to an intersection near Corfield Police Station, 0:14:50.641 --> 0:14:53.961 not far from where this ordeal had begun. He gave 0:14:54.041 --> 0:14:57.401 him directions to the police station. He removed the tape 0:14:57.441 --> 0:15:00.721 from the boy's eyes and then pulled up his jumper 0:15:00.841 --> 0:15:04.001 over his head. He told him to hold the jumper 0:15:04.041 --> 0:15:09.081 there until he counted to one thousand. The offender apologized 0:15:09.121 --> 0:15:11.921 for what he'd done. Sorry, it had to be you, 0:15:12.081 --> 0:15:15.561 he said, I'm a weirdo and a bastard. At least 0:15:15.561 --> 0:15:18.321 you won't have to go to school tomorrow. Police will 0:15:18.321 --> 0:15:21.801 want to know a lot of things. With that, he 0:15:21.881 --> 0:15:31.481 walked away. Then, on December sixth, two sisters were returning 0:15:31.521 --> 0:15:35.201 to their home at Donvale in Melbourne's East. They'd been 0:15:35.201 --> 0:15:38.441 out shopping after work and spent the evening with family. 0:15:39.481 --> 0:15:44.921 We'll call the sisters Helena and Susan to protect their identity. Helena, 0:15:45.041 --> 0:15:48.401 aged thirty, was driving and as they swung into their driveway, 0:15:48.801 --> 0:15:53.041 something caught her eye. A Venetian blind moved slightly in 0:15:53.121 --> 0:15:58.601 the large room window at the front. Regardless, they continued inside. 0:15:58.761 --> 0:16:01.241 Seventeen year old Susan went to the lounge room and 0:16:01.321 --> 0:16:04.761 found nothing. Helena went to the kitchen to put down 0:16:04.801 --> 0:16:09.401 some groceries and began walking down a hallway towards her bedroom. 0:16:10.041 --> 0:16:14.001 As she passed the laundry, she noticed movement. The intruder 0:16:14.081 --> 0:16:17.001 lungs at her, grabbing her around the neck. He was 0:16:17.121 --> 0:16:20.481 armed with a handgun. Don't make a noise, I'm just 0:16:20.561 --> 0:16:23.881 a burglar, he said. He hid his face with a 0:16:23.921 --> 0:16:26.841 beanie pulled down over his eyes, and a scarf covered 0:16:26.881 --> 0:16:30.361 his mouth and nose. He made Helena summon her sister. 0:16:30.841 --> 0:16:34.441 Now he had them both captive. He took Susan to 0:16:34.521 --> 0:16:37.281 a bedroom and tied the seventeen year old to a bed. 0:16:38.161 --> 0:16:40.921 He then took her elder sister to another bedroom, where 0:16:40.961 --> 0:16:45.441 he first bathed her and then raped her. He used 0:16:45.481 --> 0:16:48.681 words and language similar to the offender in Anthea's attack, 0:16:49.081 --> 0:16:53.201 and from accounts of other attacks as well. He said, 0:16:53.761 --> 0:16:57.481 your safety depends on you not seeing me. If you 0:16:57.561 --> 0:17:00.241 see me, or I think you can see me, I'll 0:17:00.281 --> 0:17:03.881 have to hurt you. I'm going to wash you. I 0:17:03.921 --> 0:17:06.761 have a fetish about bees being clean before I do anything. 0:17:07.881 --> 0:17:10.761 I don't have AIDS or any other sexual diseases, so 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.840 you won't catch anything. You can count to one thousand, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.840 but do it very slowly. I'm sorry it had to 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.920 be you, but if you'd struggled, it would have been worse. 0:17:23.360 --> 0:17:27.080 Like Anthea's attacker, this man was calm and in control 0:17:27.561 --> 0:17:31.840 and followed a well thought out routine. The victim's physical 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:36.641 descriptions of their respective offenders were not dissimilar, but most strikingly, 0:17:37.041 --> 0:17:41.561 both victims reported their attackers smelt very clean. As Anthea said, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.840 she remembered that soapy smell about him and still can 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:53.801 to this day. Part of mister Krule's legend was that 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.721 he did not make mistakes. He was clever and calculating, 0:17:58.360 --> 0:18:01.920 planning his attacks minutely as he sought to fulfill his 0:18:02.001 --> 0:18:08.721 elaborate sexual fantasies. This was not always true. There were mistakes. 0:18:09.321 --> 0:18:13.080 On February fifteenth, nineteen eighty six, twenty one year old Sally, 0:18:13.241 --> 0:18:16.281 which is not her real name, was at home in Corfield, 0:18:16.360 --> 0:18:19.720 in Melbourne's East. It was a hot summer night and 0:18:19.801 --> 0:18:23.561 most of the doors and windows were open. Sally's boyfriend 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.681 was out at a party. Sallie stayed home. She wasn't 0:18:27.721 --> 0:18:30.120 friends with the hosts of the party and she wanted 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.640 to watch a movie, The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.521 and Lauren Bacall. She watched the film alone and then 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:43.121 watched another, then an overnight music video show. After midnight, 0:18:43.521 --> 0:18:46.321 Sally decided to get a pen and paper to sketch 0:18:46.360 --> 0:18:49.921 her wedding dress. She saw a figure and a balaklava 0:18:49.961 --> 0:18:52.640 lunge at her with a blanket. She screamed, and he 0:18:52.681 --> 0:18:56.601 covered her mouth with a gloved hand. The offender claimed 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:01.041 to be after money. He showed Sally a long barreled handgun. 0:19:01.961 --> 0:19:05.680 See this, See what I've got. I won't hear to 0:19:05.761 --> 0:19:06.080 use it? 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:06.521 He worn. 0:19:07.481 --> 0:19:09.600 He told her he was going to tie her up 0:19:10.001 --> 0:19:13.400 and cover her eyes with strips of a lastoplast. He 0:19:13.481 --> 0:19:16.160 led her out of the house to a car. He 0:19:16.201 --> 0:19:19.241 placed her in the passenger seat, and as they drove, 0:19:19.360 --> 0:19:21.960 Sally could make out her location through the bandages on 0:19:22.001 --> 0:19:26.480 her eyes. Street signs and other landmarks were visible. He 0:19:26.561 --> 0:19:29.721 replaced the strips of tape with cotton wool and more tape. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.561 He asked Sally if she could see, and she lied no. 0:19:33.801 --> 0:19:37.880 She said, but he hadn't covered her left eye properly. Later, 0:19:37.961 --> 0:19:40.680 with the help of detectives, Sally was able to piece 0:19:40.681 --> 0:19:44.201 together the route they took. They drove away, and soon 0:19:44.321 --> 0:19:47.640 Sally could see a big green sign for Dandenong with 0:19:47.721 --> 0:19:50.880 an arrow to her left, and Maudi Alic with an 0:19:50.961 --> 0:19:54.921 arrow straight ahead. She saw a sign for a Toyota 0:19:54.961 --> 0:19:59.321 dealership in Moraban. He turned off the main road. She 0:19:59.321 --> 0:20:01.960 couldn't tell if it was left or right. And she 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.801 saw a sign for Warrigal Road, a busy, arterier route 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.761 that runs through Melbourne's eastern and southeastern suburbs to Port 0:20:09.801 --> 0:20:14.641 Philip Bay at its southern end. As they passed under 0:20:14.681 --> 0:20:17.561 street lights, Sally got a good look at the interior 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.761 of the car, what she later described as a Toyota Corolla. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.120 The registration sticker was on a passenger side and was 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.521 partly covered by a red and white sticker and perhaps 0:20:29.521 --> 0:20:33.481 a blue kid's soft toy, a fish or a whale. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.521 Sallie could see the radio aerial was halfway down on 0:20:36.561 --> 0:20:40.080 the passenger side. The passenger door was colored red with 0:20:40.201 --> 0:20:43.801 fawn trim. She was sitting upright in the seat, but 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.201 he pushed her head down at traffic lights and when 0:20:46.241 --> 0:20:50.561 other cars came near. He wasn't wearing a balaclava, and 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.401 she caught glimpses of him. He appeared to be driving 0:20:54.441 --> 0:20:59.121 aimlessly on and off main roads and side streets. At 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.041 one stage, he even turned onto the wrong side of 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.801 the road into oncoming traffic, forcing him to quickly correct 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:10.481 and turn around. In one street, she heard people's voices 0:21:10.961 --> 0:21:14.600 and saw a forward pickup parked on her left. There 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.521 was a girl in the car who looked directly at 0:21:16.561 --> 0:21:20.241 Sally as they passed. She turned, hoping the girl would 0:21:20.241 --> 0:21:23.721 see the bandages on her eyes. The offender then tried 0:21:23.761 --> 0:21:28.240 to disorient Sally, pulling into driveways of vacant homes or 0:21:28.281 --> 0:21:35.121 homes under construction, then reversing out her description sounded similar 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:38.120 to the area Anthea had been taken too, where houses 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.321 were under construction. He finally returned to the first driveway 0:21:42.321 --> 0:21:45.360 they'd been to. The location turned out to be a 0:21:45.441 --> 0:21:51.000 vacant Housing commission home on Embankment Drive, Chelsea. He stopped 0:21:51.041 --> 0:21:58.041 the car, got out and came to her side. Sally 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.200 had already unfastened the seat belt, ready to flee if 0:22:01.241 --> 0:22:07.160 she had an opportunity. He leaned across her and she 0:22:07.241 --> 0:22:10.080 could see he was wearing glasses and had a reddish 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:14.400 brown beard that was thick and bushy. He took Sallie 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.600 into the rear of a property and told her to 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:21.241 sit down while he tried to force a window. Sallie 0:22:21.281 --> 0:22:23.920 saw him shining at torch in the window, and she 0:22:23.961 --> 0:22:26.961 could see he was tall and wearing loose fitting jeans. 0:22:27.921 --> 0:22:30.680 After trying to gain access for about five minutes, the 0:22:30.681 --> 0:22:34.041 offender gave up and took his captive back to the car. 0:22:35.481 --> 0:22:39.201 They drove a short distance and stopped again. He helped 0:22:39.201 --> 0:22:40.120 Sally from the car. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:40.480 Again. 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.721 He walked her into the driveway of a double story 0:22:44.761 --> 0:22:48.281 house with a garage. She could feel the shape of 0:22:48.321 --> 0:22:52.521 his firearm on his hip against her. Cars were passing 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.920 and the man was forced to hide with Sali behind trees. 0:22:58.281 --> 0:23:02.321 He was becoming frustrated. Fuck it, don't these people ever 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.840 go home? He said. He then led Sallie over grass 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:10.400 onto a gravel path, possibly towards a beach. He laid 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.721 a blanket down between some trees and placed a hand 0:23:13.761 --> 0:23:16.920 on each of her shoulders. You know what I've brought 0:23:16.921 --> 0:23:21.361 you here for, don't you, he said. Sally began crying, 0:23:21.761 --> 0:23:25.041 expecting she was going to be raped. Just shut up, 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:27.561 he said. It's just going to be straight sex, no 0:23:27.681 --> 0:23:30.480 kinky stuff. I'm going to do it whether you like 0:23:30.521 --> 0:23:34.201 it or not. I'm not going to hurt you. Then 0:23:34.281 --> 0:23:38.160 Sally asked, then are you going to let me go? Yeah, 0:23:38.521 --> 0:23:40.440 I'll take you and drop you off at a police station. 0:23:41.321 --> 0:23:44.801 What's the point of all that? Sally asked, I'm a madman. 0:23:45.241 --> 0:23:47.120 This is the way I get my kicks, he said, 0:23:47.721 --> 0:23:50.480 Stalling for time. Sally said she needed to go to 0:23:50.521 --> 0:23:54.840 the toilet. He agreed, and she squatted down. He was 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.120 standing just over a meter in front of her. She 0:23:58.201 --> 0:24:00.801 could see him unbutton his trousers and open the zip 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:04.001 as he kept watch over her. I can't do anything 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:07.761 while you're watching, complained. It's all right, I won't watch, 0:24:07.761 --> 0:24:12.120 he said, averting his eyes. That was all the break 0:24:12.120 --> 0:24:16.400 that Sally needed. She jumped up and ran, tearing it 0:24:16.481 --> 0:24:19.680 the bandages over her eyes and screaming, somebody helped me, 0:24:19.761 --> 0:24:23.080 somebody helped me. She made a dash from the road 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:25.561 and could see from the corner of her eye that 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.160 he was chasing her, but he was dropping back. She 0:24:29.201 --> 0:24:32.600 heard him call out, stupid bitch, and he gave up 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:37.921 the pursuit. Sali raised the alarm at a nearby house. Coincidentally, 0:24:38.201 --> 0:24:41.920 the residents were the parents of Edwin John Eastwood, the 0:24:41.961 --> 0:24:46.120 Faraday kidnapper who'd taken six pupils and a teacher hostage 0:24:46.360 --> 0:24:51.361 at a tiny rural school in nineteen seventy two. Now ironically, 0:24:51.721 --> 0:24:55.921 the Eastwards helped to deliver another hostage to safety. This 0:24:56.041 --> 0:24:59.481 was a narrow escape. Sally believed that her captor would 0:24:59.481 --> 0:25:02.400 not have hesitated to kill her, such was his fear 0:25:02.441 --> 0:25:05.761 of being identified. His plan had on unraveled when he 0:25:05.801 --> 0:25:08.840 failed to break into a house. He'd taken her to 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:12.721 a poor location, a nature reserve on the Chelsea foreshore, 0:25:13.360 --> 0:25:17.841 bordered by numerous homes and there were witnesses. A resident 0:25:17.921 --> 0:25:21.241 told police that at three point fifteen am she'd heard 0:25:21.241 --> 0:25:24.160 a girl's screaming and saw a man walk from the 0:25:24.201 --> 0:25:29.041 reserve to Thames Promenade. Another witness heard the screaming and 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:32.001 saw a man of solid build of about five foot 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:35.120 nine to five foot ten in the same area. He 0:25:35.241 --> 0:25:38.120 was holding something in his left hand and started up 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:41.521 a small, older type car, the witness believed to be 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:45.801 colored red. He'd made more mistakes. At the crime scene, 0:25:46.041 --> 0:25:49.321 police found cotton, wool and tape in the reserve. There 0:25:49.360 --> 0:25:53.720 was also a footprint located in some sandy soil. Another 0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:57.360 five months passed before the next attack. This time it 0:25:57.441 --> 0:26:01.001 was in East Brighton, not far from Hampton where Anthe 0:26:01.041 --> 0:26:06.481 was abducted fifteen months earlier. Twenty four year old Rihanna 0:26:06.721 --> 0:26:09.201 not her real name, was taking a walk at eight 0:26:09.321 --> 0:26:13.241 forty five pm, as she had six times since recently 0:26:13.321 --> 0:26:16.801 moving back into her parents' home in the middle class suburb. 0:26:17.681 --> 0:26:20.761 The route she took was becoming a habit. She walked 0:26:20.801 --> 0:26:24.801 west along South Road, a busy, well lit duel carriageway. 0:26:25.681 --> 0:26:29.961