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"Death ride . . . the car in which Masters gave Carty a lift.
head of the NSW unit. Sergeant Peter Marcon, insists there has been progress but year-oid backpacker from London was dead: sexually assaulted and throttled to death... she mentioned a man named David Troy Masters. Fiona Carty was not Masters's first victim, but she will be his last. Masters is serving a life sentence for her murder and will almost certainly die behind bars. But there are still pressing questions about his life. Police in at least three States are convinced there is a strong possibility Masters is responsible for other unsolved disappearances and murders on Australia's lonely highways. Such links are difficult to establish because police are being denied access to information they believe would allow them to track his movements during the late 1980s and early '90s.
Northern Territory detectives have been refused access to Masters's social security records which show where and when he collected dole cheques during those years as he roamed from State to State, mostly in stolen cars.
If Masters was known to be in the area at the time of a disappearance, police believe it would be worth investigating his possible involvement.
Fiona Carty's camera which Masters pawned.
David Troy Masters . . . police in three States believe he could assist their inquiries.
The reason the David Masters case is so important to police is that it is indicative of the gap which exists between a missing person inquiry, which is not a crime, and establishing evidence of criminal activity. What police do know about Masters, based largely on statements taken from other travellers who met him, paints a grim picture which points towards other crimes. Masters tried to impress people by pretending he was a successful tourist-resort manager who had money and liked to travel. In reality, he was a loner who lived on social security benefits and frequented budget accommodation. On one occasion, Masters drove a stolen car more than 11,000 kilometres in a month. In the days before he murdered Fiona Carty, the then 26-year-old from Brisbane twice drove a stolen car between Sydney and Darwin, via Ayers Rock. ence on missing persons. nology has been underutilised. Superintendent Jon Simms, a Northern Territory police officer who investigated the Carty murder, is forthright about his concerns. "How many more people are there who, like Masters, take advantage of the vastness of Australia to commit crimes and then hide in that vastness?
Which he had just committed a murder. The next morning, he checked out and drove back to Darwin.
On May 27, Masters made the mistake which ultimately led to his capture: he pawned Fiona's Carty's Minolta camera for $200. When he was arrested one month later, the redemption ticket was still in his wallet. Fiona Carty's remains were discovered by police on June 11.
Four days later, Masters was stopped in Broome, Western Australia, and arrested for stealing the Commodore. Police did not connect Masters with the Carty investigation until it was discovered he had a record of skipping bail. Inside the car, police found Fiona's lunchbox, sleeping bag and a travel guide. AT FIRST, Masters denied even knowing Fiona Carty but later confessed to the crime. He eventually pleaded guilty to carnal knowledge and murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment on November 20 by the Northern Territory Supreme Court. Publicity surrounding the case sparked the interest of West Australian CIB homicide detectives who had been involved four years earlier in the investigation of the murder of a woman. On September 11, 1987, Victoria Heather Clarke was found naked and strangled in her flat in the inner Perth suburb of Victoria Park. A post mortem revealed she had died of asphyxiation; she had been violently sexually assaulted. The name Masters sparked police interest because he had lived in the same block of flats as Clarke and had been interviewed during the investigation.
On July 2, 1992, police flew to Darwin to interview Masters.
During the interview, recorded on videotape, Masters admitted the crime.
If he is ever released from the Darwin prison, Masters will be extradited back to WA to face court over the murder of Victoria Clarke.
A Perth detective, Senior Constable John Lindley, was the last to handle the Victoria Clarke case before the books were closed. He agrees that a combination of muddled privacy laws and a lack of national police co-operation combined to make many homicide investigations difficult. "Our intelligence officers were very frustrated trying to track the movement of Masters, partly because each State police force has its own methods and reporting techniques which make transfer of information difficult," Detective Lindley told the Herald. "There have been attempts over the years to establish a national system but it really hasn't got anywhere." The Victorian police force has In five cases known to police, Masters went to backpacker hostels and obtained details of women asking for transport.
He would then approach them and offer to take them with him for little or no cost It was the same method he used to meet Fiona Carty, who had arrived in Australia in February 1991 with plans to tackle the unknown and backpack around the vast continent.
On May 10, Fiona arrived in Darwin. As was common practice among budget travellers, she tacked a note on a hostel notice-board requesting a lift.
Masters, who arrived in Darwin about the same time, read the notice and offered to take her with him. Though hesitant, she agreed and on May 25 Masters, picked her up from the hostel in a blue Holden Commodore sedan, later discovered to have been stolen.
The pair drove south to Katherine, 330 km from Darwin, where they booked into a hostel.
That night, Masters accosted Fiona and demanded sex.
She struggled so he sat on her stomach, pinning her under his 110 kg frame, and strangled her.
Masters carried her body out to his car and drove 45 km north to an isolated camping ground where he concealed Fiona near a creek bank. He then drove back to Katherine and slept...."
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