Australia Claremont Serial Killer, 1996 - 1997, Perth, Western Australia - #15

[paulrobo239]

Initially, the Macro taskforce, the unit set up to catch the killer, believed all three women may have been taken by a taxi driver because all three had left friends in search of a cab.
This lead sparked a massive overhaul of the WA taxi industry – and triggered fear among the taxi-using public.
Women no longer felt safe to travel in cabs alone.
DNA testing was carried out on all licensed taxi drivers in WA, as well as review into their personal backgrounds. Those with a criminal history were immediately de-licensed and standards for the industry were raised.
A report to the WA Parliament revealed the fear generated by the killings led to a 25 to 30 per cent drop in taxi usage in the city, prompting the taxi industry to volunteer for the mass swabs.
Eventually all the taxi drivers who had taken part were excluded from inquiries.

http://www.news.com.au/national/cri...r/news-story/98a7e7f0d5dfdebbaf997b2ab68d59d0

 

[paulrobo239]

Sorry I've never seen that article , but under what grounds can you refuse to be DNa tested ?

The attached newspaper article states that SR refused to be DNA tested - do you have a media link or knowledge that SR was indeed DNA tested.

 

[b4u]

What about all the taxi owners or taxi drivers that let others drive their taxi vehicles, including taxi vehicles that were sublet, borrowed or stolen, with or without the owners permission?

 

[paulrobo239]

He has been caught alledgelly .

 

[Spinnaker]

He has been caught alledgelly .

Still no charges for SS - we have to consider could be another assailant


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[paulrobo239]

So was ss , the one he claimed to take in the cab two nights in a row ?

 

[Bunnie]

What about all the taxi owners or taxi drivers that let others drive their taxi vehicles, including taxi vehicles that were sublet, borrowed or stolen, with or without the owners permission?

Sublet vehicles can only be let to licenced drivers. Drivers had to login to the raywood computer to get jobs dispatched otherwise they had to kerb crawl to find fares. Most owners and drivers would not hand out their cabs to randoms to drive illegally on the biggest earning night of the week. A good percentage of cab plates come witht the legal requirement to have the car on the road during peak times . That time of night is considered peak usage time.

All the suspicion surrounding taxi drivers at the time caused a great deal of stress to everyone in the industry. Crank callers harrassed the girls on the phones. We would get complaints about drivers looking at customers funny. Heaps of requests for women only drivers. It was nuts.

If it was a taxi, i would say a fake one.

 

[janwa]

Hi

& is the result of a browser interpreting coding and rendering it as such. Not a person, no. In coding it was a way of writing "&".

And as narchunter says, the amp as in &amp is just the browser showing off and inserting info not requested, the shortened word for ampersand which is the name of the symbol &. Just another red herring.

There was and is of course more than one Devil in that Garden.

 

[Bunnie]

So was ss , the one he claimed to take in the cab two nights in a row ?

Yes... then he changed his story a couple of times. There were versions of it as the night before her disappearance. Then the week before, then maybe 2 weeks before.

 

[Spinnaker]

My personal view is that we cannot rule out that there may have been other assailants or an accomplice who assisted the CSK which involved a taxi:

Below are some incidents at the time which involved a taxi in Claremont and near CG site.

1994
October 1994 Princess Rd attack - a 32 year old woman hails taxi near club Bay View. A man hiding in the back seat tries to attack her and woman jumps from the taxi breaking an ankle.

1995
Young woman got into a taxi in Claremont and the driver drove her to Claremont Golf course where he forcibly stripped her of her clothes, she managed to escape, banging on the door of a nearby house and screaming for the couple who lived there to let her in.

1996 - SS
“It was just before 2am when a tired Sarah Spiers told a friend she was going to grab a cab and head home for the night.”
Records show a call was placed at 2.06am, with Sarah telling the taxi dispatcher she would be waiting at the corner of Stirling Highway and Stirling Road.

But when the cab arrived exactly eight minutes later, Sarah had vanished.
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/the-...-from-a-claremont-street-corner-ng-b88337785z

1997
“Earlier this year, The Sunday Times revealed 17-years after Ciara Glennon’s body was found in dense bushland 45km north of Perth, a local man came forward with information that put a taxi at the scene.

The taxi had its headlights off as it turned off Pipidinny Road, Eglinton, onto Wanneroo Road in the pre-dawn darkness, the Two Rocks resident told The Sunday Times. He said he had to hit his brakes to avoid hitting it.

The man’s detailed account is supported by his wife, who insists she tried to inform police in the days after Ciara’s body was discovered in scrub off secluded Pipidinny Road on April 3, 1997.”

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...r/news-story/892372bf2e7886119c85f1860924685a

Note - both the Princess Rd and the Lake Claremont attacks have been very well documented in WS so no link provided at this point. I will attach article if I find them.

 

[Spinnaker]

So was ss , the one he claimed to take in the cab two nights in a row ?

Yes she was, however I believe that this statement was later withdrawn.

 

[paulrobo239]

Was there any thing said about meeting the two other deceased women ?

 

[petedavo.au]

So was ss , the one he claimed to take in the cab two nights in a row ?

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/24/1095961862193.html

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...s/news-story/5078c2ae4a27573f717190d749cff596

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[Spinnaker]

Sorry I've never seen that article , but under what grounds can you refuse to be DNa tested ?

The below will answer your query:

https://www.legalaid.wa.gov.au/LegalAidServices/publications/Documents/DNA testing by police.pdf

 

[Innerchild]

Yes... then he changed his story a couple of times. There were versions of it as the night before her disappearance. Then the week before, then maybe 2 weeks before.

Do you have the articles that reported that? I've seen a few but don't recall any except him making the mistake and he thought it was the night of her disappearance, but it was the night before.

That is in <modsnip> drop box. at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9ntidqi1g...J7YuW5Cua?dl=0 and more specifically, https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9ntidqi1...xq6J7YuW5Cua?dl=0&preview=I+saw+Sarah+too.pdf

SR contacted police 8 years before to say he dropped Ms Spiers off at the Windsor close to her apartment in South Perth, early morning on the day before she disappeared. He thought it was the night she disappeared but later discovered it was the night before. She was with a man who pushed her put of the car, paid and got out with her. She was independently seen with a man described by the other witness as tall, well dressed, skinny with sharp features, black hair with small curls at the back. This witness reported to police immediately he saw the posters of SS being advertised as missing but didn't hear anything from them. SS didn't know of this witness for many years. I think it was very unusual that a drunk girl got in the cab wanting to go to Dalkeith and the male appeared suddenly at the last minute apparently.

 

[paulrobo239]

So in in retrospect to declining There's no grounds because to deny giving one because he's a suspect in the case ? Wthell

The below will answer your query:

https://www.legalaid.wa.gov.au/LegalAidServices/publications/Documents/DNA testing by police.pdf

 

[Spinnaker]

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Claremont must have been a dangerous place around 1996-1999

Mark Dixie zoomed in cctv frame

The below article mentions that Dixie commenced working in Perth in January 96 and lived near Claremont - therefore very likely he went to some of the night spots.

"When Dixie strolled into a cafe in Perth in January 1996, he introduced himself as Shane Turner, a top chef who had worked in restaurants around Europe and Australia. The owner, Anthony McMahon, hired him for £160 a week. Mr McMahon recalls: "He could be moody at times, but I put that down to him being a chef."

"Dixie rented a flat a few miles away, near the coastal suburb of Claremont. Sarah Spiers, 18, went missing the same month that Dixie arrived at the cafe. Her body has never been found."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-past-Sally-Annes-killer--struck-before.html

 

[paulrobo239]

Why do you say fake ? They rang and booked a legit number didn't they ?

Sublet vehicles can only be let to licenced drivers. Drivers had to login to the raywood computer to get jobs dispatched otherwise they had to kerb crawl to find fares. Most owners and drivers would not hand out their cabs to randoms to drive illegally on the biggest earning night of the week. A good percentage of cab plates come witht the legal requirement to have the car on the road during peak times . That time of night is considered peak usage time.

All the suspicion surrounding taxi drivers at the time caused a great deal of stress to everyone in the industry. Crank callers harrassed the girls on the phones. We would get complaints about drivers looking at customers funny. Heaps of requests for women only drivers. It was nuts.

If it was a taxi, i would say a fake one.

 

[Bunnie]

Why do you say fake ? They rang and booked a legit number didn't they ?

If they rang for a taxi, then yes. If they hailed down a taxi or another car pulled over for them, then no. You were not given the car number allocated to you back then so people in crowded nightspots would ring for cars, driver pulls up says taxi for Joe Bloggs, randoms say yes that me. The reverse also applies. Someone rings, sees a cab coming, waves them down thinking thats their car, they hop in and say are you for Joe Bloggs? Driver says yep, off they go.
No so clear cut.

 

[JWSleuth]

So what's the thoughts? They all hired cabs that came along meaning suspect would have to be a "fake taxi" Sarah did not have much time To go missing.

Edit ciara was likely hailing a cab given she took a chance of walking further down where they were more frequent