A young girl suddenly disappears after leaving a club to head home in a suburb of Perth, Western Australia in 1996.

As the search for Sarah Spiers intensified two more young girls soon also vanish, from the same area & under similar circumstances.

Tragically after they were both later found violently murdered police in Claremont realise they have a deadly serial killer on their hands, one so dangerous that he was hunting young women at an alarming pace.

A huge hunt was launched, the task force assembled for the job was the biggest of its time & the case became the longest running, most expensive investigation the state had ever seen.

 But it wouldn't be until 2016 that the identify of the brutal killer that had left women across Claremont terrified would finally be revealed. 

This is Episode 141:

The Claremont Killer Part 1

Crime talk timestamp: 14:51 minutes

Sources:

Stalking Claremont: Inside The Hunt For A Serial Killer-book by Brett Christian /Wikipedia /All that's interesting.com/ Sky News.com/ www.abc.net.au/ www.tandfonline.com / bbc.news.com/ the guardian.com

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