Australia Claremont Serial Killer, 1996 - 1997, Perth, Western Australia - #6

[crabstick]

If the police have someone in prison, they have them in prison. They may just sit and wait until the person is leaving prison with the exponential evidence that comes forward while they are in prison.

I guess the question is, where is Sarah McMahon??? Is she buried out east somewhere?

Kerry turned was found 40km away and the CSK girls were found 40km away

A dark blue Datsum 260Z? Im not discounting Donald Morey. He strangled a prostitute. Donald Morey about the right age with all the skill sets to carry out this crime.

This whole crime fits his capacity.

 

[Mo Joe]

Remind me which case had a POI with a scar on his face?

 

[billywhizz]

I have always thought that Gerard Ross could be linked to the CSK. Very close proximity to Wellard. Not to mention the timing

Where are all the other young Perth boys who have disappeared? Did the guy just do one and stop? I think it was done to throw police off (unless it was Cowan)

GR's case thread is here
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ard-Ross-11-Rockingham-Perth-murdered-in-1997


Police were reinterviewing witnesses earlier this year.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...s/news-story/9c62c215480a6cbd33e29584027dc4ee

 

[MyLeftFoot]

I also believe there is a link there. That area is a definite comfort zone IMO.
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[Mo Joe]

I have always thought that Gerard Ross could be linked to the CSK. Very close proximity to Wellard. Not to mention the timing

Where are all the other young Perth boys who have disappeared? Did the guy just do one and stop? I think it was done to throw police off (unless it was Cowan)

GR's case thread is here
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ard-Ross-11-Rockingham-Perth-murdered-in-1997


Police were reinterviewing witnesses earlier this year.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...s/news-story/9c62c215480a6cbd33e29584027dc4ee

"the cause of death was so horrific that it was kept from most of the taskforce"

www.news.com.au/national/no-killer-...nto-the-murder-of-gerard-ross/story-fncynjr2-

 

[MyLeftFoot]

"the cause of death was so horrific that it was kept from most of the taskforce"

www.news.com.au/national/no-killer-...nto-the-murder-of-gerard-ross/story-fncynjr2-

Yes it was horrific by all accounts but was that the real reason it was kept from most of the task force?
Experienced officers who have already witnessed the worst that life has to offer?

 

[Mo Joe]

Yes it was horrific by all accounts but was that the real reason it was kept from most of the task force?
Experienced officers who have already witnessed the worst that life has to offer?

How can Detectives investigate without all the facts?

 

[MyLeftFoot]

How can Detectives investigate without all the facts?

Probably the same way they are investigating the Claremont killings. Within the 'inner' circle.

 

[Mo Joe]

What cause of death could be so "horrific"?

 

[MyLeftFoot]

Any murder of a child is horrific IMO but in this case, he was savagely beaten. I guess you could label it as 'overkill' which signals anger as a primary motive. That's where it differs from the Claremont killings I am lead to believe.
I do think there is a possibility that it may have been to divert the police, as Billywhizz says, but it may also have been because CG's murder didn't go to plan (vented frustration)..grab an easier target etc
That is..assuming it is related to the CSK.

 

[crabstick]

Middle Swan, Middle Swan Both McMahon, and Anderson are quite tall girls in their day. Hospitality again. Cutler was in hospitality.

The 25th of January 2000, is a date that will never be forgotten by the family of Deborah Michelle ANDERSON.

Discovered in a burnt out motor vehicle parked outside Marant’s Deli Lunch Bar at the Middle Swan Shopping Centre, Deborah’s incinerated body was discovered after several triple 0 calls were made to FESA about the grim finding.

Engulfed in flames, the small white 1990 Ford Laser hatchback with Deborah’s body inside triggered a full scale homicide investigation involving Midland Detectives, the Major Crime Squad, Arson Squad and the Forensic Division.


Born in Perth on the 20th of August 1975, Deborah moved to the United Kingdom in 1990 to be with her mother, returning nine years later in August 1999 to re-unite with her father and commence a cooking course at the Australian School of Tourism and Hotel Management.
https://www.crimestopperswa.com.au/open-cases/deborah-anderson/

 

[Mo Joe]

Any murder of a child is horrific IMO but in this case, he was savagely beaten. I guess you could label it as 'overkill' which signals anger as a primary motive. That's where it differs from the Claremont killings I am lead to believe.
I do think there is a possibility that it may have been to divert the police, as Billywhizz says, but it may also have been because CG's murder didn't go to plan (vented frustration)..grab an easier target etc
That is..assuming it is related to the CSK.

How do you know that he was savagely beaten?

 

[crabstick]

Strangulation

Natasha Tracy-Ann Kendrick, whose name had been previously suppressed for legal reasons, said in a November 2011 statement to WA Police that she saw the bloodied and strangled body of Sarah McMahon, who has been missing since November 8, 2000.

Ms Kendrick originally told police she was called to a house in Marangaroo by her friend Gareth Allen, who said his trucking company co-worker and part-time housemate Donald Morey had killed a girl at the property and help was needed cleaning up.

She said in her statement that she and Mr Allen's wife, Marta Margaret Allen, had cleaned up after seeing Ms McMahon's naked body on Morey's bed, with rope looped around her neck and congealed blood on her face, and also saw the body being removed from the house, wrapped in Morey's quilt and placed in Mr Allen's ute.

But testifying today at an inquest into Ms McMahon's disappearance, Ms Kendrick denied any knowledge or involvement in the matter, saying she was "messed up'' on drugs when she made the statement to police.

"I don't remember seeing any body,'' she told Perth's Coroner's Court.

One seat has been left vacant for their daughter, granddaughter, sister and aunty Sarah McMahon, who was 20 years old when she vanished while driving home from work 10 years ago today.

Sarah's mother Patricia McMahon believes her daughter is alive and hopes someone has information to help bring her home.

Sarah left her workplace, Hugall & Hoile in Claremont, about 5.20pm on November 8, 2000 after talking on the phone. Detectives believe she drove her 1986 white Ford Meteor, registration 7FO 731, to the Bassendean area for a prearranged meeting with someone.

There was an unconfirmed sighting of Sarah driving her car east on the Great Eastern Highway, towards her Parkerville home, and her car was found by her family in a carpark at Swan Health Service in Middle Swan days later.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/8276690/sarahs-family-keep-hope-alive/#page1
LUKE ELIOT CHIEF CRIME REPORTER - The West Australian on November 8, 2010, 6:15 am

 

[crabstick]

Police would have Moreys DNA so its probably not him, if the police have tested. But it may be an accomplice DNA. Trucking companies, drugs,

Was McMahon selling drugs through Hugall and Hoille on 213 Stirling highway Claremont? $10000 is a lot of customers. McMahon was in retail.

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After her brother asked her who did it and she replied, "Don Morey'', she added, "He's a serial killer. He's done it over east''

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/la...ecants-statement/story-fnat7jnn-1226536350308

He had also been a person of interest in the death of another prostitute the previous year.

However, police were again unable to substantiate enough evidence against Morey, who has consistently denied any involvement in Ms McMahon's disappearance.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/la...as-murder-victim/story-fnat7jnn-1226556176197

There was also evidence to the effect that MsMcMahon had been obtaining amphetamines from Mr Morey Witness Christian Hilderbrandt claimed that about one week before page she went missing, Ms McMahon told him that she had obtained about $10,000 worth of drugs from Mr Morey which she had to sell. Mr Hilderbrandt also claimed that on 6 November 2000 he was present when Ms McMahon received a telephone call on her mobile telephone which she had said was from Mr Morey.
He claimed that at the end of the conversation she said, ‘... that she’d broken the code of silence over the phone’. He said that the reference to breaking the code of silence referred to saying his name and mentioning the drugs.
http://www.coronerscourt.wa.gov.au/_files/Mcmahon_finding.pdf

 

[Mo Joe]

Any murder of a child is horrific IMO but in this case, he was savagely beaten. I guess you could label it as 'overkill' which signals anger as a primary motive. That's where it differs from the Claremont killings I am lead to believe.
I do think there is a possibility that it may have been to divert the police, as Billywhizz says, but it may also have been because CG's murder didn't go to plan (vented frustration)..grab an easier target etc
That is..assuming it is related to the CSK.

Heraldsun Cold Cases list 12yr old girl abducted from shops and savagely beaten.

 

[MyLeftFoot]

How do you know that he was savagely beaten?

Sorry, I can't find the link to the report right now..maybe someone else has it at hand?

 

[crabstick]

Ex military with calm calculation killing and trained in all the skills for murder and deception. Familiar with police procedure. Access to vehicles.

MrAllen contended in his evidence that on 8 November 2000 Mr Morey had not spent the night at his home, but had borrowed one of the trucks saying that he was planning to us it to see Ms McMahon.
http://www.coronerscourt.wa.gov.au/_files/Mcmahon_finding.pdf

Ms Allen said Morey, who had lived with her husband during parts of the week in 2000, had claimed he had killed people and once asked if she was scared of him.

"He told me that he was in the SAS... that's where he was taught to kill people," she said. "He told me that he has killed before."

Ms Allen said Morey made an effort to charm women and had once offered to kill her husband Gareth Allen after eavesdropping on an argument while living at Mr Allen's home.

"He was not joking, he was deadly serious," she said.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/15606722/mcmahon-suspect-said-he-had-killed-before/#page1

She also described her shocked husband showing her a bag found in Morey's room that had contained ropes, knives, gaffer tape and *advertiser censored* including images of bound and gagged naked women who "looked dead".

Ms Allen also described seeing Morey once cleaning the floor of his truck out with hot water.

She claimed that inside the bag there were two rolls of dirty grey, used tape four lengths of ropes with knots in the ends about two feet in length,two knives, one of which was Mr Allen’s pocket knife, two large rubber bands, one condom in a packet, two pornographic magazines, between five and seven key rings and a map.
She claimed that the *advertiser censored* books contained pictures of men with blood on their genitals and women
tied up who appeared to be dead.

 

[crabstick]

Very abduction like with a fetish for raping dead people after strangulation

Did he have a buddy in east west trucking that knocked off Lorrin Whitehead? Pure speculation. Pamela Lawrence husband had east west trucking. Maybe Rochford was sent to kill her? Rochford had a drug debt? The crime was considered motiveless.

Selling amphetamine in $10000 sums
http://www.coronerscourt.wa.gov.au/_files/Mcmahon_finding.pdf

 

[crabstick]

In her first media interview since the December 2003 attack, the woman, who did not want her name published, described crawling through a swamp and scaling a 2.4m high concrete wall in a bid to escape.
"I know there are other girls who aren't as lucky as I was," the woman said.
In September 2005, career criminal Donald Victor Morey was convicted after trial of attempted murder.
In handing down a 13-year jail term, Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Miller accepted the prosecutor's submission that there was no sexual motive to Morey's crime as he was impotent at the time.
"This woman was a random target and . . . it was predatory conduct on your part," Justice Miller said. "It was a premeditated offence, that you planned to take her to a remote area and it was not the case that you voluntarily desisted from what you were doing."
http://missingandmurderedaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/sarah-anne-mcmahon.html

 

[MyLeftFoot]

Mo Joe..I can't find the link at all now! Guess that leaves me with egg on face!
GR was found with a ligature around his neck. Presumably that was the cause of death.
The rest you'll just have to treat as speculation.