Recent content by Cliff Hardy

That move was as predictable as taxes and death.

It appears to be a leap linking Neville Dolling to the abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon from a crowded Adelaide oval in 1973 (that's what this thread is about) on the strength of him abducting Wendy Pfeiffer from a rural setting 500 metres from a dairy farm in 1966. I'm not...

The next ABC podcast episode is up. Easey Street Murders: Conflicting memories as witnesses give evidence

The ABC getting it wrong is a rarity. Or it used to be.

Dermott Dann, for Kouroumblis, is trying to create doubt by bringing into focus the police interest in Ross Hammond, who was dating Susan Bartlett at the time of the murders. I expect we will hear all manner of distraction and deviation from the Crown case from Dann. He will also relying...

I guess it's possible the Australian authorities added the Julie Garciacelay case to Kouroumblis' 'rap sheet' just to add weight to the argument he should be extradited? Then again, it is a completely separate case and if/when it does come up it would be treated completely separately. I guess...

Interestingly, there doesn't seem to have been any further mention of Perry Kouroumblis' name in relation to the disappearance/murder of Julie Garciacelay. If I remember correctly, when the Australian authorities were pleading their case for Kouroumblis' extradition, they argued he had...

Interestingly, there doesn't seem to have been any further mention of Perry Kouroumblis' name in relation to the disappearance/murder of Julie Garciacelay. If I remember correctly, when the Australian authorities were pleading their case for Kouroumblis' extradition, they argued he had...

The next ABC podcast episode is up. Title is 'Easey Street Murders: The case against Perry Kouroumblis'

Unless the police were just requesting DNA randomly in the hope a bow-and-arrow type approach might find a match, I can't see why they would have wanted the brother's DNA. More likely I'd say, it was familial DNA they were after, in the absence of Kouroumblis himself - who had 'fled' overseas...

Just thinking further on that, perhaps the DNA sample was taken off the knife all those years ago and stored. But that seems unlikely. Need more facts...

The police must have tracked down Kouroumblis' car, years later. Not sure exactly when they found it but a DNA sample found in the car boot was compared in 2018 to Kouroumblis' brother Antonis' DNA. A further comparison was done between the DNA found in Kouroumblis' car's boot to the DNA at the...

We have heard previously that Kouroumblis was stopped by police while driving a couple of days after the murders in 1977. From memory it was a young Ron Iddles who pulled him over. A knife was found in the car boot but Kouroumblis explained it away by saying he had found it and I thought that's...

Agreed. Good summary there.

That was extremely tell-tale but will only prove useful if there's enough evidence to get Kouroumblis to trial.