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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's. The Claremont Killer case is Australia's biggest,

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Speaker 1: longest and most expensive case in history. Tonight's Sky News

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Speaker 1: will exclusively air a two part documentary called Catching the

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Speaker 1: Claremont Killer. The reporter Ash Gillen lived down the road

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Speaker 1: from these horrific killings and has been right across this

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Speaker 1: case from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Ash.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, good to talk with you. It's extraordinary. When

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Speaker 1: I worked in Western Australia, it was going on all

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Speaker 1: those years ago. Well, let's go back to the beginning, Ash.

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Speaker 1: For those that don't know the story, what's the history here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was a teenager when these three young, beautiful,

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Speaker 2: well educated women disappeared from the streets, really from the

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Speaker 2: wealthy suburb of Claremont, which is you know, like Sydney's

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Speaker 2: Paddington or Taqi in Melbourne. And essentially they'd gone out

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Speaker 2: for a good night on the town and they just

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Speaker 2: disappeared into thin air. And it was really a period

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Speaker 2: where Perth was scared. People were terrified to go out.

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Speaker 2: There was a murderer stalking the streets. Young women in

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Speaker 2: particular were afraid to go out, afraid to walk alone.

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Speaker 2: It was also a ton of real suspicion because the

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Speaker 2: question was, why would these women get into a car

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Speaker 2: with someone they didn't know. There were all these conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 2: But perhaps it was a cab driver, maybe it was

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Speaker 2: a policeman. The local mayor was being investigated. It was

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Speaker 2: a really scary time for Purse, and it's taken all

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Speaker 2: this time to resolve, and the killer, Bradley Edwards, has

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Speaker 2: only just been convicted and sentenced last year.

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Speaker 1: And that was part of the thing, wasn't it That

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Speaker 1: he did seem like a regular guy. He was so ordinary,

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Speaker 1: He lived among the people. He didn't seem like a murderer.

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Speaker 2: He was a teltra technician, he was a little athletics coach.

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Speaker 2: He really did leave. For essentially the thirty years or

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Speaker 2: so since these murders happened, he led a pretty normal life.

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Speaker 2: He managed to fly on the radar for a really

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Speaker 2: long time. We don't know a whole lot about him.

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Speaker 2: He's still a mystery because he isn't giving anything away.

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Speaker 2: He didn't give any evidence at his trial. He barely

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Speaker 2: reacted when he was given the guilty verdict in court

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Speaker 2: or when he was sentenced. He's actually refused counseling services.

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Speaker 2: He won't speak to psychologists in jail. He's just not

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Speaker 2: talking to anyone. And as the judge pointed out the

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Speaker 2: trial last week last year, he has shown zero remorse

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Speaker 2: for these horrible crimes that he's committed.

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Speaker 1: How did this arrest take place? Because they was with

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Speaker 1: old evidence. There wasn't new evidence.

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Speaker 2: Was there No. So it was really a DNA breakthrough

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Speaker 2: in the end that caught him. It involved police grabbing

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Speaker 2: a coke bottle that he discarded to then match the

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Speaker 2: DNA and the rest is sort of history from there. So, look,

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Speaker 2: it was this long long police investigation and police sort

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Speaker 2: of admits that there were a lot of stuff ups

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Speaker 2: along the way. One part of it that I think

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Speaker 2: was a really sad aspect of his story is that

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Speaker 2: there was another man for a really long time, probably

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Speaker 2: a period of a decade or so, who everybody in

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Speaker 2: Perth thought was the killer. He was this real loner.

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Speaker 2: He used to drive around offering women lifts home, so

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Speaker 2: he was the main suspect, and somehow his name got

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Speaker 2: leaked in the media, so everybody thought he was a

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Speaker 2: serial killer for a really long time. A police car

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Speaker 2: was parked outside his home where he lived with his

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Speaker 2: parents for years. The TV news cameras were out the

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Speaker 2: front of the house, so essentially the whole city thought

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Speaker 2: this guy was the serial killer, but they just didn't

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Speaker 2: have the evidence anyway. That poor man actually died in

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Speaker 2: the period in between, so he didn't live to be

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Speaker 2: clear of this crime, which I don't know. That just

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Speaker 2: always makes me feel really sad to think about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Ash, thank you so much for joining us

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Speaker 1: catching the Clermont Killer on Sky News tonight at eight o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Ash Gillen, thank you, Thanks so much.

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