Ever since the search for Sarah Spiers began, the state of WA had been in the grip of a triple-murder mystery without end and without justice. But a DNA match was the breakthrough and now justice can finally be done. Gary_Adshead 9News
And ever since the search for Ms Spiers began, the state of Western Australia had been in the grip of a triple-murder mystery without end and without justice.New and old money bungalows and mansions occupy above-average sized blocks of land that skirt the Swan River and fill in the gaps between the suburb's sought-after private schools.
But neither the surge in public interest nor police manpower would lead to who was responsible and eight months later, another family was missing a daughter.On March 14, 1997, she left the Continental Hotel and was never seen alive again. That luck finally ran out on December 23, 2016, when Edwards was arrested at home and eventually charged with murdering all three women.The now 51-year-old was also charged, and pleaded guilty, to the 1995 Claremont abduction and rape of a 17-year-old, and an unsolved bedroom attack in Huntingdale that happened in 1988, when Edwards was aged 19.
In 1990, he received a criminal record after he grabbed a female hospital worker from behind and tried to drag her towards a toilet.Then aged 21, Edwards pleaded guilty, was sentenced to two years' probation and forced into a sex offender's program."The reality was thousands of pieces of information were coming in," Mr Potts said.
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