Stalking Claremont - #189

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Claremont Serial Killer. Bret Christian is a journalist from Perth, in fact he's a newspaper owner and he's been following the Claremont serial killer case from the very beginning. Now, after sitting through every day of the trial he's written the definitive book, Stalking Claremont, and he joins us exclusively to talk about it.

I've read it and it's great. It's a very intense story, especially when you think about what a great mystery it was for so long. To find out how obvious this guy actually was... well it's just mind-boggling. I hope you like the episode. “After The Night” The Stan Original documentary series about Perth's first serial killer is streaming now.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:42.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those
0:48.2	emerging. I must say that the very first inkling of it was when my wife burst in their tears on the phone and she had a call from our son who said that a
1:07.8	girl had been at Club Bay View in Claremont like before had been a had been abducted and raped at the local cemetery.
1:15.2	Little did I know that the guy who did that crime would go on to become the Claremont serial
1:19.9	killer. Brett Christian is the managing editor and owner of Perth's post newspapers, which he established in 1997.
1:40.0	The group started with the Subiaco post, but over the years it's expanded to include the Nedlands,
1:47.1	Cottislo, Mosman Park, Cambridge and Claremont posts, which means that Brett Christian and his journalists had a front row seat for Australia's longest running criminal investigation, the hunt for the Claremont serial killer.
2:02.0	This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lorry and Emily Webb.
2:06.0	Come with us as we go beyond the news cycle to find out how people become killers,
2:11.0	how people become victims and what happens next.
2:14.9	After decades of reporting the twists and turns of the investigation,
2:18.8	journalist Brett Christian sat through all 95 days of evidence against Bradley Robert Edwards. The trial finally concluded in
2:26.8	December 2020 and Brett Christian's excellent book Stalking Claremont is available now.
2:34.0	Brett joined me to talk about what he now knows about the killer who hid in plain sight for so long.
2:40.0	About the macabre trophies he kept from his victims and in one case even left in the worst possible
2:46.8	location for a family member to discover.
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