Tomorrow the verdict will be handed down in the trial of Bradley Edwards for the Claremont serial killings. Here's how the shocking murders of three women a quarter of a century ago ended up at this point.
When police swooped on an unassuming house in the semi-industrial Perth suburb of Kewdale in late 2016, it was immediately apparent this was no ordinary arrest.
Then came the news nobody was expecting — sources confirmed the raid was connected with the Macro Taskforce, the special unit set up to investigate the so-called Claremont serial killings of two decades previous.That case, the sudden disappearance of three young women late at night from the upmarket Claremont entertainment precinct in the city's wealthy western suburbs, traumatised the people of Perth and left a lingering stain the passage of time had failed to heal.
This is the strongest physical evidence the state has in its case against the former Telstra employee. It is the only scrap of Edwards' DNA found at either of the crime scenes, despite extensive testing of samples.Fibre evidence also important Other evidence against Edwards includes testimony from a series of witnesses about a man, broadly matching Edwards' description, seen driving a Telstra vehicle or vehicles and prowling around the streets of Claremont and Cottesloe late at night, offering lifts to inebriated young women as they tried to get home.
He called no witnesses and submitted just one document — a one-page summary of temperatures recorded in the Perth district of Gosnells in 1996.
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