GUILTY Australia, Annette Steward, 29, Geelong, Victoria, Body Found, 1992, Arrest 2020

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Shock twist in cold-case murder

The man charged with murdering Geelong woman Annette Steward more than 30 years ago has made a startling courtroom admission.

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A Perth man has entered a shock guilty plea over a cold-case murder just five months after he was extradited to face prosecution.

Darren John Chalmers, 56, returned before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday, pleading guilty to the 1992 murder of Annette Steward.

Ms Steward, 29, was found in her home on Hope St, Geelong West, on March 18, 1992, naked and strangled to death.

 

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Darren John Chalmers, 56, on Thursday appeared briefly before the Victorian Supreme Court, where he admitted to the 1992 murder of Annette Steward.

“Guilty,” he softly replied when asked how he would like to plead.

Ms Steward, a mother of two, was found naked by a friend in her home on Hope St, Geelong West, on March 18, 1992.

By way of his plea, Chalmers admitted that he killed Ms Steward two days earlier on March 16.

He was extradited to Victoria in March this year after he was charged by homicide squad detectives over the cold case.

The court was told his last address in Western Australia was in the suburb of Medina, and his last job was as a gardener.

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The man who strangled Geelong woman Annette Steward to death more than three decades ago was sentenced to life behind bars in 2021 for murdering another woman, it can be revealed.

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Double murderer begs not to be released

A gardener who killed two women in “similar” circumstances almost 30 years apart has begged a court to spend his life behind bars, saying: “I think I deserve it”.

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A double killer has begged a court to never release him from jail, as details on how he murdered a Geelong mum are finally revealed.

 

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Double murderer begs not to be released

A gardener who killed two women in “similar” circumstances almost 30 years apart has begged a court to spend his life behind bars, saying: “I think I deserve it”.

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A double killer has begged a court to never release him from jail, as details on how he murdered a Geelong mum are finally revealed.

I wonder if he committed other murders in cold cases. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to get him to confess. He said to undercovers it was "the first time it had happened" with Annette so it could sound like a series of attacks, not 2.

There's a whole lot of similar cases around Ballarat and Geelong, over decades.