Williams always maintained his innocence and after years of heavy scrutiny, including round-the-clock surveillance, he was simply dropped as a suspect without explanation.Īs our program was going to air, WA police responded to our queries about the brief prepared by Bayens. The man Macro set its sights on was a public servant named Lance Williams. "What happened in Highgate that night, what I saw that night, has haunted me for a lot of years," Bayens said. He never saw a response to the brief he prepared on the man in Highgate, despite his striking similarities to the killer profile. He could have been the killer."īut Bayens said he was told by the head of the taskforce that they already had their man. "We had one girl murdered, we had another one missing. There was wire ties, a pair of pliers, some masking tape," Bayens said. He stopped a man he believed to be loitering in an unmarked police car.
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The women were all similar in appearance and age and particular focus was given to taxi drivers in the hunt for the killer.īayens said he picked up a man in Highgate, an area notorious for prostitution, with all the hallmarks of a killer, but he was ignored by those in charge. He wanted the body found," Paul Ferguson said. First and foremost it means he's arrogant. "The fact that the body was just dumped could mean a number of things. Both decided late in the evening to leave the pack and go it alone.Ĭiara and Jane's bodies were both found dumped in bushland. They began with drinks at beachside Cottesloe and moved on to neighbouring Claremont. Their fateful nights unfolded with chilling similarity. And, yeah, I'm fully aware of that."Īfter he was removed as head of Macro task-force in 1997 David Caporn was appointed but also had no luck finding the killer.īut the former head of WA’s prostitution task-force, Con Bayens, told Sunday Night that Macro’s secrecy and obsessive focus on one suspect derailed the investigation behind the scenes.Īll victims of Perth's notorious Claremont serial killer, 27-year-old Ciara Glennon, 23-year-old Jane Rimmer, and 18-year-old Sarah Spiers were intelligent women who were abducted during a night out in Claremont, WA. "That's why I'm talking to you because WA Police have chosen not to be part of this program. I know that the offender thinks at this stage that he is/she is/they are smart and they've got away with it," Ferguson told Sunday Night. "I gave up two years of my life working on the Macro task-force.
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