Stalking Claremont
Inside the hunt for a serial killer
On Sale: 01/20/2021
Stalking Claremont
Inside the hunt for a serial killer
On Sale: 01/20/2021
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About the Book
One young woman missing, two found murdered -- the gripping true story of Australia's longest-running homicide investigation
** Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime 2021**
In the early hours of January 27, 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at Club Bayview in the Perth suburb of Claremont, 18-year-old Sarah Spiers called a taxi to nearby Mosman Park. But when the cab arrived, she'd already gone.
Sarah was never seen again.
Four months later, on June 9, 1996, 23-year-old Jane Rimmer disappeared from the same area, her body later found in bushland south of Perth. When the body of a third young woman, 27-year-old Ciara Glennon, was found north of the city, having vanished from Claremont in August 1997, it was clear a serial killer was on the loose, and an entire city lived in fear he would strike again.
A massive manhunt focused first on taxi drivers, then the outspoken local mayor and a quiet public servant. However, almost 20 years later, Australia's longest and most expensive investigation had failed to make an arrest, until forensic evidence linked the murders to two previous attacks -- and an unlikely suspect.
Stalking Claremont, by local newsman Bret Christian, is a riveting story of promising young lives cut short, a city in panic, an investigation fraught by oversights and red herrings, and a surprising twist that absolutely no one saw coming.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9781460709023
- ISBN 10: 1460709020
- Imprint: ABC Books
- On Sale: 01/20/2021
- Pages: 432
- List Price:28.77 CAD
- BISAC1 : TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers
- BISAC2 : TRUE CRIME / Forensics
- BISAC3 : TRUE CRIME / Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons
- BISAC4 : TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- BISAC5 : TRUE CRIME / General