Case 31: The Killer Couple

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🗓️ 27 August 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Over a five-week period in 1986, four young women went missing from around Perth in Western Australia. 22-year-old Mary Neilson, 15-year-old Susannah Candy, 31-year-old Noelene Patterson and 21-year-old Denise Brown all disappeared without a trace, but police were sceptical that some were runaways and no links were drawn between the missing women.

That was until November 10 1986, when a man standing outside a vacuum cleaner store was suddenly approached by a hysterical, barefoot young woman.

Narration – Anonymous Host
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Writing - Victoria Dieffenbacher & the Anonymous Host
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0:00.0	10 years before the Clamont serial killings, the disappearance of four women from around
0:18.2	Perth, some from the same hallway the Clamont victims were abducted from.
0:23.4	Hardly raised any media attention.
0:26.1	It was thought that were probably just runaways.
0:29.2	There was no task force, no press conferences, no billboards and no rewards.
0:57.3	David Bernie was born on the 16th of February 1951.
1:01.9	David was the oldest of six children to parents John and Margaret Bernie.
1:08.7	They lived in a semi-rural area in Wattle Grove, located 13 kilometres east of Perth.
1:15.6	David's father John had a physical disability, consisting of a natched back, caused by a genetic
1:21.1	defect.
1:22.6	His mother Margaret was an alcoholic, described as a dirty, unkempt woman.
1:27.9	A dog dressed in woman's clothes is one description or came across of Margaret.
1:34.4	An example of Margaret Bernie's parenting skills is one time while travelling on the local
1:38.7	bus.
1:39.7	She passed on her screaming, starving baby, who also had a wet nappy to one of the other
1:44.6	bus passengers.
1:46.6	Margaret then pulled out a comic book, lit a cigarette, and completely ignored her baby
1:51.5	until it was time to get off.
1:54.6	That wasn't a one-off event.
1:58.0	The Bernie household was anything but a loving, caring place.
2:02.5	Margaret constantly screamed at her children.
2:04.9	She expected her older kids to look after the younger kids.
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