Claremont Serial Killer: Where to Read the Formal Judgement

Bradley Robert Edwards IS the Claremont Serial Killer

Thursday 24th September 2020 marked the ‘Judgement Day’ for Bradley Robert Edwards. With two counts of GUILTY for the murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon and a NOT-GUILTY verdict for Sarah Spiers, whose body hasn’t yet been found.

About the Claremont Serial Killings:

Sarah Spiers was a brightly, bubbly 18-year-old secretary, working in Subiaco when she went missing from a night out in Claremont on the Australia Day weekend, 27th January 1996. Sarah had made a phone call to a Perth taxi service asking to go to nearby suburb Mosman Park. Three minutes later when the taxi arrived to pick Sarah up, she was gone. Despite desperate screams heard later that night in Mosman Park that is alleged to be Sarah, that was the last time she was heard from alive.

Six months later on the 9th June 1996, 23-year-old Childcare worker Jane Rimmer went missing after a night out in Claremont. Her last movements were captured on CCTV in front of the Club Bayview where she smiled at a ‘Mystery Man’ who she appeared to recognise. No one saw Jane get into a vehicle.

Jane’s naked body was found 55 days later in bushland in Wellard, a southern rural suburb of Perth.

Jane’s arm and wrist had been badly dislocated and she had extensive trauma to her neck consistent with a sharp instrument. Her body was partly covered in branches.

Only nine months after Jane’s disappearance, 27 years old Lawyer, Ciara Glennon was abducted from Claremont. She had last been seen trying to hail a taxi along Stirling Highway. She was last seen leaning into a light coloured vehicle.

Ciara’s body was found nineteen days later in the rural suburb of Eglington. Although she was clothed, her skirt had been pushed up around her waist and her t-shirt was up around her neck. Like Jane, Ciara had substantial arm dislocations and a very significant cut to her neck. It is believed that Ciara fought fiercely or her life. It was DNA found under Ciara’s fingernails that eventually led to the identification, arrest and charging of Bradley Robert Edwards.