This is the same man as is accused of murdering Amber Haigh.
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12 Dec, 2003 08:23 AM - Cowra Guardian
A Harden man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend a decade ago was released on bail at Cowra Local Court on Wednesday after reinvestigations resulted in a fresh murder charge.
Forty-three-year-old Robert Samuel Geeves of Huntleigh Rd, Harden was first charged with murder after Janelle Goodwin received a fatal gun shot wound to the head on June 20, 1993 at his property near Wombat.
He was discharged at the committal hearing stage in 1993, however a police reinvestigation occurred in which new evidence from experts and witnesses came to light.
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August 18, 2007 - 11:44AM - The Age
NSW police are hoping a $100,000 reward will help solve a five-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance and suspected death of a young woman.
NSW Police Minister David Campbell said the reward could lead to finding or solving the case surrounding Amber Haigh who disappeared when she was 19.
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Author: Eamonn Duff
eduff@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Date: 06/12/2009
One woman is dead and one woman is missing.
Something bad - something awful - has happened here.
Even the police are predicting "a story to unfold like no other".
The story involves Janelle Goodwin, a pregnant 29-year-old who was shot in the head.
Another central character is orchard worker Robert Geeves, who admits dumping her naked body in a wheelbarrow.
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Amber never knew Janelle Goodwin. They met their fates almost a decade apart, but
they do have place and one person in common - the bed of Harden shire orchard worker Robert Geeves.
Ms Goodwin was first. At the age of 29, and pregnant to Mr Geeves, her body was discovered in a barrow beneath a tarp inside a shearing shed behind his Kingsvale farmhouse on June 21, 1993.
She was naked, tied from ankles to throat, wrapped in bed sheets with a shopping bag over her head. She had been shot through the nose at close range with a .22 rifle.
Police were called a day after the shooting. Mr Geeves confessed to putting her body in the shed. They had been drinking. They argued, then struggled. The gun went off. He panicked. He cleaned the scene.
It was a terrible accident.
Mr Geeves was charged with murder, pleading not guilty.
A magistrate discharged him in Cootamundra Local Court due to insufficient evidence. The ruling meant the case could be prosecuted in the future.
And it was. Police reapplied the heat after Mr Geeves and wife Anne contacted police on June 19, 2002, to report that Amber Haigh - another of his live-in lovers - had vanished in the night.
The resurrected investigation led to
Mr Geeves being tried in the NSW Supreme Court over Ms Goodwin's death. Prosecutors were confident: they had ballistics advice and fresh witness statements. The trial took more than three years. Mr Geeves was found not guilty of murder. The jury members agreed: it was a terrible accident.
Ms Goodwin's death was not the first time Mr Geeves, now 49, had been acquitted of serious charges.
In 1986, two 13-year-old girls from nearby Young failed to return home from school. They were missing for more than a fortnight.
When they finally resurfaced, one filed a police statement alleging she had been kept prisoner in a wheat silo and was sexually assaulted by Mr Geeves. The other teenager contradicted the claims.
Again, he was cleared.
Amber has not touched her bank accounts since she went missing. She has never contacted relatives or friends. Not her parents. Not her baby boy.
Turns out Amber had also fallen pregnant to Mr Geeves.
Royce was his son, although the boy is now in the custody of Amber's relatives.
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Posted Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:13pm AEDT
An inquest into the disappearance of a woman who was living near Young, in south-west New South Wales, is to be held almost eight years after she vanished.
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MEG PIGRAM - The Young Witness
14 Jul, 2010 10:32 AM
THE inquest into the disappearance of missing local girl Amber Michelle Haigh was heard in Glebe’s Coroners Court last Friday.
Cootamundra Local Area Command, crime co-ordinator Sergeant David Cockram said police applied for adjournment for a further four to six weeks to allow for the investigation to continue.
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Posted Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:00pm AEST - ABC
An inquest has been set down for five days at Parramatta starting on June 20 next year before deputy state coroner Scott Mitchell.
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Posted June 16, 2011 09:32:00 - ABC
A 9000 page brief will be presented to a coroner to next week to investigate the disappearance of a Kingsvale woman.
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June 19, 2011 - SMH
Twice Robert Geeves moved young lovers into the farmhouse he shares with his wife. The first was found dead on his property. The second is missing, presumed dead. Tomorrow a coronial inquest into her disappearance aims to unravel the truth, writes Eamonn Duff.
AMBER HAIGH was a fun-loving 19-year-old who, because of an intellectual disability, witnessed life through the eyes of a child.
How she became the live-in lover of an orchard worker while his own wife lived alongside them is a mystery. How she vanished after giving birth to his child is another.
Today marks the ninth anniversary of Ms Haigh's disappearance and sets the stage for an emotionally charged coronial inquiry, which begins at Parramatta Local Court tomorrow.
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Mr Geeves and his wife tried to retain custody of the son that Ms Haigh left behind. That bid was thwarted and the boy is being raised by Ms Haigh's relatives.
Her mother, Ms Wright, chooses not to dwell on Mr Geeves because, emotionally, she cannot afford to. But she does not believe her daughter ever made it to Campbelltown station.
''This is a very difficult time for myself and my family,'' she said in a statement. ''It will never be over for me until they find my daughter.''
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by: Mitchell Nadin From:
The Australian June 22, 2011
THE body of 19-year-old Amber Haigh was buried under a lemon tree somewhere in Kingsvale in southern NSW after she was murdered by her 40-year-old lover in June 2002, an inquest has heard.
Cindy Brown yesterday told Parramatta Local Court her nephew, Joel McCorkindale, had told her of rumours that Robert Geeves disposed of the woman's body only six months after she gave birth to his child.
Ms Brown also told the court Haigh confided in her and said she was "scared" of Mr Geeves in the months before her disappearance after he "tied her up with handcuffs and filmed himself having sex with her".
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Paul Harding, who was Haigh's third cousin and ex-lover, told the court Mr Geeves "often had sex" with Haigh, and made a recording of it before watching the footage with his wife.
Mr Harding also said the conditions his cousin lived in on the farm were appalling and the Geeveses treated her badly.
"They wouldn't let her out of the house," Mr Harding said.
"She said that he had video cameras on her. When they finished, him and Anne used to watch the video."
Mr Harding said he had also impregnated Haigh but the pregnancy had been terminated.
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by: Jodie Minus From:
The Australian July 08, 2011
AMBER Haigh was most likely murdered and her body was possibly disposed of down a disused mine shaft by, a NSW coroner has found.
Robert Samuel Geeves and his wife Anne Margaret Geeves, both 51, refused to give evidence at an inquest into Ms Haigh's death at Young Court House, in the state's southwest.
Prior to delivering his findings today, Deputy State Coroner Scott Mitchell lifted a statutory prohibition order, which prevented the media from reporting on the couple's refusal to give evidence.
The couple had exercised their right to remain silent on the basis that their evidence could incriminate them, and they told the court they did not care if the media reported this fact.
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The above are all from the same link, and there is more... what a tangled web!
Amber Michelle HAIGH
