Innerchild
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Hi JoWa
The original article from from the front page of The West Australian on Feb 17th 1988, which I posted an image of. Kimono Clue to a Brutal Murder which I posted an image of. The clue was DNA found on the kimono belonging to BRE.
[FONT="]Mr Edwards, 48, was alsocharged with a home invasion at a Huntingdale home as far back as 1988, when hewas just 20. Police will allege he broke into the bedroom of a young woman andlay on top of her, before she struggled and he ran away...[/FONT]DNA found on a silk dressing gown dropped near the scene of the 1988 incident allegedly matched DNA recovered from the body of Ms Glennon and the Karrakatta rape victim...
It was also made clear that the kimono was stolen from a washing line, although it doesn't say who's line in the article.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/claremont-serial-killings-police-piecing-together-the-life-of-bradley-robert-edwards/news-story/557f281e68cdf76d572843291ea9cef7
The fact that the clue linked the brutal murder of VC to the perpetrator of the Huntingdale assault was identified by profilers bought over from America by The Post Newspaper as being the key to finding CSK. Subsequently around Sept and Oct 2015 (I think) a link was made between these crimes and the KK rape.
I have gone to find the Post articles from Sept and Oct 2015 and again recently and have found possible newspapers and pages from newspaper have been redacted / surpressed / missing from online. Recently on 31st December 2016 when The Post reported on BRE's arrest there are pages 14, 15, 16 and 17 missing and from 28th January 2017, page 54 is missing. I have asked for these papers from The Post, but they will not give me copies, although I have copies of every other newspaper since start of Jan 2017. IMO any information that could be used as part of the brief cops are using for the prosecution cases may be subject to suppression orders, and this could include the above information which I've read about recently and over the years.
I don't expect the DNA from the kimono could be used because of handling errors they've made for prosecution for the earlier crimes, however I'm sure for the KK rape attack and subsequent attacks as long as correct procedure for DNA collection was followed all it has to do is match BRE's DNA profile.
Respectfully to those who do not share my view of the kimono clue, I believe it is as close to a fact as you can get that BRE was not only at the scene of the brutal sexual assault and murder of VC he left his DNA through semen at the crime.
Somebody else (David Troy Masters) did confess to this crime, and I believe he did commit the murder but not the sexual assault, as he was unable to sexually assault his murder victim in 1991. It was not that unusual for crims to confess to crimes they did not commit for various reasons, or in this case to take all the heat off BRE. This worked as cops were told to close the case as they had their man and the kimono with BRE's DNA on it was put away and forgotten about for many years.
Interestingly, the first use of DNA in a criminal prosecution in England in 1986 was to disprove a false confession (DNA profiling Wiki)
The original article from from the front page of The West Australian on Feb 17th 1988, which I posted an image of. Kimono Clue to a Brutal Murder which I posted an image of. The clue was DNA found on the kimono belonging to BRE.
[FONT="]Mr Edwards, 48, was alsocharged with a home invasion at a Huntingdale home as far back as 1988, when hewas just 20. Police will allege he broke into the bedroom of a young woman andlay on top of her, before she struggled and he ran away...[/FONT]DNA found on a silk dressing gown dropped near the scene of the 1988 incident allegedly matched DNA recovered from the body of Ms Glennon and the Karrakatta rape victim...
It was also made clear that the kimono was stolen from a washing line, although it doesn't say who's line in the article.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/claremont-serial-killings-police-piecing-together-the-life-of-bradley-robert-edwards/news-story/557f281e68cdf76d572843291ea9cef7
The fact that the clue linked the brutal murder of VC to the perpetrator of the Huntingdale assault was identified by profilers bought over from America by The Post Newspaper as being the key to finding CSK. Subsequently around Sept and Oct 2015 (I think) a link was made between these crimes and the KK rape.
I have gone to find the Post articles from Sept and Oct 2015 and again recently and have found possible newspapers and pages from newspaper have been redacted / surpressed / missing from online. Recently on 31st December 2016 when The Post reported on BRE's arrest there are pages 14, 15, 16 and 17 missing and from 28th January 2017, page 54 is missing. I have asked for these papers from The Post, but they will not give me copies, although I have copies of every other newspaper since start of Jan 2017. IMO any information that could be used as part of the brief cops are using for the prosecution cases may be subject to suppression orders, and this could include the above information which I've read about recently and over the years.
I don't expect the DNA from the kimono could be used because of handling errors they've made for prosecution for the earlier crimes, however I'm sure for the KK rape attack and subsequent attacks as long as correct procedure for DNA collection was followed all it has to do is match BRE's DNA profile.
Respectfully to those who do not share my view of the kimono clue, I believe it is as close to a fact as you can get that BRE was not only at the scene of the brutal sexual assault and murder of VC he left his DNA through semen at the crime.
Somebody else (David Troy Masters) did confess to this crime, and I believe he did commit the murder but not the sexual assault, as he was unable to sexually assault his murder victim in 1991. It was not that unusual for crims to confess to crimes they did not commit for various reasons, or in this case to take all the heat off BRE. This worked as cops were told to close the case as they had their man and the kimono with BRE's DNA on it was put away and forgotten about for many years.
Interestingly, the first use of DNA in a criminal prosecution in England in 1986 was to disprove a false confession (DNA profiling Wiki)