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Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.

It deals with true crimes and real people.

Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims,

their families, and loved ones. Today's show is the second episode of a two-part case.

We recommend you listen to our episode, The Backpacker Murders, Part 1, before listening to Part 2.

Bruce Pryor, a Potter who lived in Bundenoon near Balangalow State Forest took an interest in the case of the Backpacker murders in 1992.

He had a feeling that there could be more bodies in the forest.

It's a vast and rugged terrain and not many people go there.

Bruce went into the forest occasionally to collect firewood, so he knew it rather well.

After Joanne Walters and Carolyn Clark were found in September 1992,

he made a point of going to the forest every week, looking, searching.

Perhaps, even if he saw a hunter or someone else that was there often, who he could identify, it would be a clue, or anything it became his personal obsession.

Then in October 1993 he found a human skull. The reality of what he was dealing with hit home with Bruce, knowing that he was walking in the killer's footsteps.

It was a creepy feeling, so he left as quickly as he could and notified authorities.

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