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00:02it's been dubbed the outback murder highway 11 people murdered or missing in the past 50 years
00:10all on one stretch of road the Flinders Highway it's been a hunting ground for serial killers
00:19for decades and it's probably one of the most notorious stretches of road in the whole of
00:26Australia the case we're investigating is a brutal execution style triple murder back in 1978 three
00:35friends on a motorbike trip through outback Australia Karen Tim and Gordon were shot dead
00:41on the murder highway three people were murdered that's a real killer three heinous execution style
00:53murders it remains one of the most difficult unsolved murder cases for more than 40 years in
01:01Australia could this be a highway killer or a murderous local our investigators will unearth new clues new
01:14witnesses and new leads there were several things that struck me when I started reinvestigating this
01:21case in my view killers don't want to run risks this fourth man was last seen in that evening and
01:31had never been seen since that time a crucial witness we tracked her down this man clearly was the killer
02:10flinders highway starts in Townsville it goes all the way to Mount Isa and it joins on with the Barkley
02:16Highway which continues on to Northern Territory our remote highways do attract murderers with psychopathic
02:29tendencies they're out there in 1978 this stretch of road was the perfect place for people trying to
02:41stay under the radar the triple murder at spear Creek remains one of Queensland's most baffling cold cases so
03:03we're bringing together a team of investigators to shed new light on this mystery
03:11this story starts in 1978 with two Kiwis best mates Tim Thompson and Gordon twaddle they were living and working
03:21across the ditch in Alice Springs
03:28my name's John twaddle brother Gordon twaddle and friend of Tim Thompson
03:36Gordon was the youngest we got on very well because I got into motorcycling when I was 15 and then
03:43Gordon
03:43followed it was easy going it's very keen on life keen on doing all sorts of thing motorcycling cars chasing
03:52young woman Tim was very adventurous he'd been around the world a bit and he'd brought back
04:00motorcycles rear ones from overseas the two motorbike nuts wrote to John about their plans for a cross-country
04:12adventuring trip this letters from tim from Australia and a photo of his motorbike and sidecar he's just bought
04:24this this is from my brother Gordon telling me that he'd bought a GS 750 Suzuki almost brand-new $1
04:34,750
04:40there was a third person on this motorbike adventure Karen Edwards she was the Aussie of the group and Tim's
04:50girlfriend
04:54she joined the boys in Alice Springs on the 30th of September 1978
05:03it was going to be a trip of a lifetime to go across to Mount Isa and then across to
05:09the coast and make
05:10their way back down to Melbourne for for Christmas but their journey ended in bloodshed on the notorious murder highway
05:25I'm Mike King and I spend a career investigating serial predators primarily focusing on geography
05:34you know I've had the opportunity to look at the Flinders Highway murders for more than five years
05:42this is a place where people are traveling that are not from the area they are passerbys
05:50another face that's quickly forgotten which equates to the fact that they can then become
05:56targets of opportunity that they can simply disappear off the face of the map and nobody
06:02knows that they've come and gone and not only is the victim anonymous the people traveling along this
06:09highway are anonymous to unlock this mystery we're retracing their journey step by step
06:19the three friends left Alice Springs on the 2nd of October
06:26Tim rode a red motorbike with a sidecar for Karen and Gordon followed behind on his bike
06:35from Alice Springs they made several sightseeing stops this is the last known photo of the trio taken on
06:45their journey days before they disappeared they arrived in Mount Isa on the 4th of October
06:54and then they vanished
07:02my father told me that Gordon hadn't been in touch with him for some time and I said don't worry
07:09dad
07:09those boys can look after themselves they're big boys they'll be fine they're probably just having
07:15a good time and forgetting to ring home or send a letter I'm Ken Gamble I'm a private investigator that
07:30specializes in criminal investigations and I'm reinvestigating the Spear Creek murders of 1978
07:38there were several things that struck me when I started reinvestigating this case and I believe that
07:44the case was always solvable
07:54on the 24th of October 1978 22 days after Karen Tim and Gordon set out on their adventure a couple
08:07walking their dog made a gruesome discovery
08:14in a dry creek bed just off the Flinders Highway
08:19they found Tim's body
08:28it was a gruesome discovery
08:35he was lying down essentially where he had fallen
08:42it would appear that he was running away at the time that he was shot
08:50the next day police returned to the scene in the morning
08:55and they found two more bodies
09:00which was Gordon and Karen and their bodies were located quite close together
09:06they were both executed also at close range with a 22 rifle
09:17the same rifle that had been used to murder Tim
09:22this was a brutal execution style murder of three people
09:27but identifying the victims was no easy task
09:32police at the time didn't know yet that this was Gordon Tim and Karen
09:38they had no way of identifying these people at all
09:44there was very little evidence other than a couple of personal items
09:48there was no shell casings found at the scene
09:53when they found Tim
09:55Tim's thongs had come off
09:57he'd been trying to scale the sandbank
10:00he was running
10:03it appears that robbery was the motivation for this crime
10:08at least because their property was missing
10:12police were baffled by the brutal highway murder on Mount Isa's outskirts
10:19what sort of person would execute three people in cold blood and why?
10:25because so many itinerant people go through Mount Isa
10:29police possibly thought it was someone traveling through
10:38was the killer just passing through and his victims were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time
10:44or was he a local just lying in wait
10:51early on in the investigation there was a huge dramatic setback
10:56within seconds we struck the ground
11:01made it even more difficult to track down the killer
11:13it's been dubbed the murder highway
11:16a deadly 900 kilometer stretch of road with more unsolved murders than anywhere else in Australia
11:26the Flinders Highway
11:27the Flinders Highway
11:30we're investigating the 1978 execution style highway murders of three friends
11:36Karen, Tim and Gordon
11:42so this triple murder at Spear Creek remains one of the most difficult unsolved murder cases
11:49for more than 40 years in Australia
11:54was it a killer passing through
11:56or a murderous local?
12:02police had no idea who these victims were
12:06let alone who murdered them
12:12I'm Amelia Oberhart, I'm a Queenslander
12:15and I'm an investigative journalist
12:17the only clue that was left by the killer was Karen's watch
12:21police put ads in papers right across the country
12:25hoping they could identify who it belonged to
12:28but early on in the investigation there was a pretty dramatic setback
12:37on the second day of the investigation
12:40it was decided to conduct an aerial search of the crime scene
12:46I'm Jim O'Donnell
12:48and in 1978 I was a homicide detective
12:53we hired a helicopter for a 30 minute surveillance of the scene
13:03within a matter of seconds
13:09we struck the ground
13:16I slipped out of my seatbelt straight out onto the ground behind me
13:23and started to crawl away from the crash
13:29the first 48 hours of any police investigation are critical
13:33it's a crucial window to collect evidence and track down suspects
13:38before they have a chance to flee
13:39so that helicopter crash was a major setback for detectives
13:45because those vital 48 hours at the start were lost
13:50and the investigation never really regained the momentum it needed
13:57it couldn't have happened at a worse time
13:59the weeks that went by made it even more difficult to track down the killer
14:09the chopper crash
14:11the chopper crash delayed investigators
14:12giving the killer
14:13or killers
14:15a head start
14:16and time to cover their tracks
14:21Gordon's bike was found dumped in Mount Isa on October 16th
14:25but this was eight days before the bodies were discovered
14:28so no one raised the alarm
14:32in my view killers don't want to run risks
14:35I'm Dr Louise Stedding
14:39I'm an archaeologist and a criminologist
14:42in my spare time
14:45I look at cold cases
14:47Louise looks at these crimes through a different lens
14:51she's intrigued by the effort the killer took to conceal their crimes
14:58somebody rode out on one of those bikes
15:03they parked it outside a motel
15:08god how clever
15:09that bike won't be found for ages
15:12because it'll be assumed it's somebody in the motel
15:15buys them time
15:20but on the 30th of October there was a turning point
15:24a Melbourne watchmaker reading the newspaper recognised Karen's watch
15:30police could now identify the bodies as Karen, Tim and Gordon
15:35their families were given the devastating news
15:39well I didn't really believe it actually
15:43I thought no they're two strong guys
15:47they're not going to be just murdered by somebody
15:50but they were
16:01the next day another discovery
16:05the trio's property was found discarded at the Mount Isa tip
16:11now police had to work out how they ended up on the notorious murder highway
16:20mapping predatory behaviour and routes is much easier today than it was in the 1970s
16:28but detectives in 1978
16:30they had no physical or electronic evidence to track the trio's movements
16:36luckily for them members of the public who saw the three friends on their trip came forward
16:43police put together this sort of timeline of their final movements and it started with Mount Isa
16:56if you wanted to get lost in Australia
17:00you came to Mount Isa
17:03the remoteness of the place and the cheap accommodation attracts people who are on the run
17:10you can hide away there and not be noticed
17:14we did have a real rough and ready persona
17:23Mount Isa in the 1970s was an isolated outpost on the Flinders Highway
17:30our investigation is focused on a caravan park just outside of town
17:35where police got their first big lead
17:41Moondara caravan park is the last place that Karen, Tim and Gordon were seen alive
17:50they arrived at the park on October 4 on their motorbikes and they checked into the park
18:01detectives discovered that a mystery fourth man had visited the three friends here right before they disappeared
18:12so it became evident quite early in the investigation that this man gained the trio's trust
18:18at the moondara caravan park or possibly before there was already some sort of relationship
18:24some sort of trust between them
18:28the three friends left the caravan park in the fourth man's Toyota Land Cruiser
18:34and went to a pub in Mount Isa
18:38the next morning
18:40that same man with the Land Cruiser
18:42came to the campsite about 8am
18:45and he picked them up
18:46a short time later
18:48this vehicle was seen to drive out
18:51as if they were going out for a day trip
18:55and this is the last time
18:58Karen, Tim and Gordon
19:00are ever seen alive
19:09it's what happened next that made police pretty sure they were murdered on this same day
19:17witnesses told police that 12 hours after leaving the campground with the three friends
19:22the man returned without Karen, Tim and Gordon
19:29he came back alone
19:31he came back alone
19:32that man packed up all their belongings
19:34and left the area
19:38so this fourth man was last seen
19:40about 8pm on that evening of the 5th of October
19:45and had never been seen since that time
19:50police now have a prime suspect
19:52the fourth man
19:54was he a local
19:56or did he follow them all the way to the murder highway
20:01this fourth man clearly was believed to be the killer
20:07this was a crime not just of violence but certainly of betrayal
20:15it looked like the mystery of the fourth man was finally solved
20:19it wasn't a deranged highway killer
20:22it was a local motorbike thief
20:24when they arrested him
20:27we thought
20:28find me
20:28justice is going to be done
20:39in 1978
20:40three friends on a motorbike trip through outback Australia
20:44were found shot dead
20:49on the notorious and deadly Flinders Highway
20:53police had a suspect
20:57the mystery fourth man
20:59the man last seen with the trio
21:06when the three bodies were found on the banks of Spear Creek
21:11that was really upsetting to the community
21:14we were in shock
21:16I'm Kim Marie Burton
21:17I'm a local local a very proud one
21:20and by default I've become a local historian
21:23Kim Marie's archive is a treasure trove of photos that haven't been seen for decades
21:30we're looking for clues in the photos released by police at the time of the triple murder in 1978
21:38when the police released photographs of the motorbike and the sidecar everyone knew they'd seen somebody in that motorbike
21:48it wasn't a very pleasant time in the town
21:57back in 1978 Mount Isa it's the sort of place where everyone knows everybody
22:03and that's how a young guy named Bruce Preston came to police attention
22:08on the 13th of November police acted on a tip-off
22:12Tim's stolen motorbike was found in the garage of a local couple with a son by the name of Bruce
22:19Preston
22:19he was a young person of 23 years of age
22:23he gave full answers to all the questions that we asked of him
22:28he didn't appear nervous at any stage
22:32not only was Bruce Preston in possession of the motorcycle
22:37but his father owned a Toyota Land Cruiser fitting a very similar description
22:43to the Land Cruiser that had been seen at the campground
22:48the Mount Isa local had been away on a motorbike trip
22:52and took the same route from Alice Springs to Mount Isa
22:56around the same time as the three friends
23:00so this was extraordinary coincidence that this man was believed to have been riding on the same road
23:09all the way from Alice Springs
23:12his father happened to own a Land Cruiser that was identified as very similar to the Land Cruiser that attended
23:20the campground
23:20and he was now in possession of one of the motorcycles of the victims
23:28the Twaddle family was sure that Preston was the fourth man
23:34well we thought that they caught this young bloke
23:37stolen the motorbike
23:38he must be the guy that's done the murders
23:44at first Bruce Preston lied to police about how he got Tim's bike
23:51he took it and rode it around the town he was seen
23:56and then the trio were found
24:00and with the trio having been found murdered
24:04would not anyone freak
24:06what do you do?
24:08you're holding a dead man's bike
24:14the version Bruce Preston settled on was he found the bike dumped in Mount Isa
24:19and saw two hippies trying to steal it
24:22and then he scares them off and stole the bike for himself
24:26now of course Gordon's bike had also been dumped in Mount Isa
24:32so to police at the time Preston's story it stacked up
24:39Bruce Preston might have been a thief but to police he didn't fit the profile of a cold-blooded triple
24:46murderer
24:47he was in his early 20s and he had a clean criminal record
24:51it would be hard to believe that he would be capable of a triple murder
25:00but then again the circumstantial evidence it all pointed to him
25:05he had Tim's bike and he'd taken the same route as the three victims to get to Mount Isa
25:11despite the circumstantial evidence
25:14police couldn't find any proof that Bruce Preston was in town when the friends were murdered
25:23Bruce Preston has always maintained that he arrived in Mount Isa 24 hours after the trio had arrived at the
25:30Moondara campground
25:32the fourth man was seen with the trio the same day they arrived at the campground
25:38so if Bruce Preston did arrive in Mount Isa a day after the trio
25:44then he couldn't have been the fourth man
25:49there was no forensic evidence to link Bruce Preston to the crime scene
25:54and there was really no evidence whatsoever that he was actually in the company of the trio at any stage
26:03police had no hard evidence to tie Bruce Preston to any of the murders other than the stolen motorbike
26:11they charged him with theft but ultimately ruled him out as a multiple murder suspect
26:19he was discounted as a suspect that is Preston we're talking about
26:25mainly because we could not put him in Mount Isa at the time of the murders
26:31the thing is three people were murdered that's a real killer
26:37there's a huge leap between being a serial killer or being a thief
26:47he stole a motorbike that doesn't mean that he murdered people
26:52police ruled out Bruce Preston as the killer
26:56but Gordon's brother John didn't buy it
26:59we were pretty sure that he was the person that did the crime
27:06and now the police for some reason were letting him off got free
27:11it just didn't make sense
27:22The Flinders Highway in Queensland is a hotspot for unsolved murders
27:30We're focusing on a 1978 triple murder at Spear Creek
27:35for decades the case sat gathering dust
27:40but John Twaddle the brother of one victim
27:43was sure he knew who the murderer was
27:46and insisted the police act on it
27:51Nothing had happened for several years
27:53and I decided to write a letter to police
27:55and said you want to look at Bruce Preston
27:58and this is the bloke I think it is
28:04John's letters went unanswered
28:07the unsolved triple murder was a stain on Queensland for more than 40 years
28:15but after increasing public pressure
28:18police opened a cold case investigation in 2019
28:28the cold case unit firstly re-examined all of the evidence from the initial investigation by the Mount Isa CIB
28:37they obtained a lot of witness statements
28:39they also re-interviewed a lot of the witnesses
28:42to confirm the contents of those statements
28:47when the cold case team went over these old statements and re-interviewed witnesses
28:53they formed this view that Bruce Preston was actually in Mount Isa earlier than he'd originally told police
29:00which meant he could have been in town when the three were murdered
29:09but that's not all
29:11police claimed witnesses saw Bruce Preston travelling with the trio through the Northern Territory
29:17and even identified the motorbike he was riding
29:20they also claimed to have seen him with the trio in Mount Isa
29:24at the caravan park and at the local pub
29:31police claimed to have witnesses that had sighted Bruce Preston with the trio
29:37and that was very important because a positive identification by a witness is very compelling evidence
29:44that's not the case
29:45that's not the case
29:47that's not the case
29:49that's not the case
29:5141 years after Karen, Tim and Gordon were murdered in cold blood
29:57there was a bombshell
30:00John Twaddle's wish was granted
30:03Bruce Preston was charged with their murders
30:07Live across Queensland
30:09this is Live's Afternoon News with Alison Ariotty
30:13we begin with breaking news
30:15police have just charged New South Wales man Bruce John Preston with three counts of murder
30:22over the deaths of three people in rural Queensland over 40 years ago
30:30under questioning from detectives
30:32Bruce Preston finally admitted he could have been in Mount Isa
30:37on the day the three friends were murdered
30:40in a new police interview
30:42Bruce Preston has now changed his story
30:44accepting he could have been at the relevant place at the time
30:50I firmly believe now that Preston was trying to distance himself from being anywhere near the deceased people
30:58on their journey from Alice Springs to Mount Isa
31:04back in 1978 police knew Bruce Preston had stolen Tim's bike and that his dad drove a Land Cruiser
31:12the same model car seen with the trio right before they were murdered
31:20now in 2019 police discovered Preston could have been in Mount Isa earlier than he claimed
31:27and witnesses said they saw him travelling with the trio
31:38it looked like the mystery of the fourth man was finally solved
31:41it wasn't a deranged highway killer
31:44it was the local kid
31:46Bruce Preston the motorbike thief
31:53when they arrested him
31:55we thought find me
31:56maybe justice is going to be done
31:58after 40 years
32:02new evidence blows the investigation
32:05wide open
32:06the fourth man you can see the black hair and dark features
32:10and this is the photo of Preston
32:12our documentary uncovered
32:14Bruce Preston looked nothing like him
32:27in 1978 three friends were executed beside the Flinders Highway
32:36police at the time cleared local bike thief Bruce Preston as a suspect
32:43but in a bombshell a new police investigation in 2019 charged Preston with triple murder
32:52detectives assured John Twaddle they had a solid case
32:57I questioned them whether they had enough evidence after 40 years
33:02and they assured me that they did
33:06they told me that they had enough information to convict him
33:12Bruce Preston was caught with Tim's bike
33:15his father owned the same model of land cruiser seen with the murder trio
33:22and cold case detectives from the 2019 investigation said witnesses identified Preston as the fourth man
33:30seen with Karen
33:31seen with Karen, Tim and Gordon before they were murdered
33:33seen with Karen, Tim and Gordon before they were murdered
33:35so the police cold case unit believed they had a strong circumstantial case that Bruce Preston was the murderer
33:43but police still had to prove their case
33:51and on the 31st of January 2020
33:54a judge ruled police had overstated the evidence identifying Bruce Preston as the fourth man
34:03but a lot of those witnesses that were re-interviewed were vague about the identification
34:08so whilst police were able to establish that a fourth person had joined the trio at some stage
34:15there was never any evidence to prove that that fourth person was Bruce Preston
34:20the cold case team had ignored crucial evidence from the original police investigation
34:26let's go back to that time for a moment
34:301978
34:34back then multiple witnesses said that the fourth man had a distinctive black beard
34:43he was a solid build about 178 centimeters
34:47he had a black beard and dark hair and he was noted to have an olive complexion
34:55this same bearded man was seen with Karen, Tim and Gordon at a Mount Isa pub the day before the
35:03murder
35:06witnesses described him talking to them in the Mount Isa Hotel as having had a full beard, dark hair, a
35:16full head of hair
35:18and he also came along in a Toyota Land Cruiser
35:26in 1978 the detectives who had ruled out Bruce Preston as a suspect
35:31were convinced that the trio's killer was this bearded man
35:40police had made several different identicates in case the suspect shaved off his beard or something similar to avoid detection
35:47look at this one you can see the black hair and dark features
35:51and this is the photo of Preston our documentary uncovered
35:55it's actually from the 1978 arrest when he stole Tim's bike
35:59and it's never been made public before
36:03this photo was taken just weeks after the murder when Bruce Preston was charged with theft
36:12Bruce Preston did not look a thing like the identikit of the Mediterranean guy with his full black beard his
36:20black hair
36:22Bruce Preston looked nothing nothing like him
36:30he was shorter, he had fair hair, had fair skin
36:34he was certainly incapable of having a black beard
36:37and he certainly wasn't Mediterranean looking
36:39so there was nothing about the features of Bruce Preston
36:43that even remotely looked like the person described by the witnesses at the Moondara campground
36:51and so fast forward to 2020
36:57the difference between the descriptions of the bearded man and Bruce Preston was so stark that a judge granted him
37:05bail
37:06I've never heard of an accused triple murderer being granted bail before
37:18three years later the prosecution withdrew their charges
37:23Bruce Preston walked away a free man
37:28we had a zoom meeting with the prosecution
37:32they were very wishy-washy about why they dropped the charges
37:37they just said insufficient evidence
37:40and we thought that's just hopeless
37:45they had a serious problem that they were contending with
37:48a jury would never have believed the prosecution that Bruce Preston was the murderer
37:55Bruce Preston has no criminal history apart from that one theft of the bike
38:01he went on to serve in the military
38:03he became a corrections officer
38:06what is the probability that Preston would have committed three heinous execution style murders
38:15and then stole the one thing that was most identifiable to the crime and drive it around town
38:25so if it's not Preston then who?
38:27and frankly that who takes us back to the bearded man
38:31what on earth could be the motivation?
38:34and it leaves us all scratching our heads
38:38our investigators close in on a highway killer
38:41this person who is extremely violent and has a complete disregard for him in life
38:49and guess where he ended up?
38:51Mount Isa
39:01along the deadly Flinders Highway
39:03at least 11 people have been murdered or disappeared in the past 50 years
39:10we're investigating what happened to three friends who were shot dead execution style
39:18in 1978
39:21their motorbike was found with a local man Bruce Preston
39:25he was convicted of theft but the charge of murder didn't stick for one big reason
39:31Preston didn't match the description of the last person seen with the three victims
39:37the bearded man
39:41that man has never come forward to clear his name
39:47it would indicate to me that that person could have been the killer
39:52to find clues about the bearded man's identity
39:55we have to go back to the original 1978 police investigation
40:02back then a crucial witness told police she saw this bearded man with Tim in Alice Springs
40:09before the trio set out on their journey
40:12and we've tracked her down
40:14she's never spoken on camera before
40:19I'm Ermela Polner
40:21in 1978 Tim Thompson was our neighbour
40:26what Ermela saw was brief
40:28but her memory is crystal clear
40:33I was just standing at the gate in front of my house
40:37and Tim Thompson came with someone driving a Toyota Land Cruiser
40:42and Tim was sitting in the passenger seat and there was this other fellow driving
40:49he had a beard, dark hair, olive skin
40:53and that's all we saw of him really
40:58Ermela told police she saw Tim with a bearded man in Alice Springs
41:04witnesses saw a bearded man fitting the same description with Karen, Tim and Gordon in Mount Isa
41:12police believed they were one and the same
41:15it raises a startling question
41:18did Tim know his killer?
41:21was he followed up the highway?
41:26I believe that the killer knew Tim Thompson
41:31I believe that the killer travelled to Mount Isa knowing
41:35that the trio were camping in that campground
41:41Ken Gamble's investigation into the Spear Creek killings has thrown up a new suspect
41:49in 1978 there was another highway killer
41:53suspected of murdering a man called John Zalades
41:56in cold blood in remote Western Australia
42:01and like the Spear Creek trio he had just a single bullet wound to the head
42:08and had his ID and possession stolen
42:12this murder just months before the Spear Creek killings
42:16is also unsolved
42:18and is one of Western Australia's longest running mysteries
42:26the suspected killer had been nicknamed George the Money Man
42:29and he does bear similarities to the man Ermila described
42:34this is an identikit of George the Money Man
42:39and this is the Spear Creek suspect
42:42the fourth man
42:44the highway killer known as George the Money Man
42:47stole John Zalades bank book
42:50and he was cashing his checks
42:52so detectives were initially able to track the suspected murderers movements
42:57and guess where he ended up
43:01Mount Isa
43:03now that's the last sighting that police could ever find
43:08of George the Money Man
43:10George the Money Man has never been caught
43:15Ken Gamble believes the murderer could have been responsible
43:18for other highway murders throughout remote Australia
43:22this is a person that has a complete disregard for human life
43:33after Bruce Preston had his triple murder charges withdrawn in 2023
43:39it looked as if the Spear Creek killings would remain
43:42yet another unsolved case along the Flinders Highway
43:47but in late 2025 there was yet another twist
43:52and it put Bruce Preston squarely back in focus
43:56a coroner has reopened an inquest into the cold case killings of three people near Mount Isa
44:03Bruce Preston was called to give evidence to a new coronial inquest
44:08and was again questioned about his movements in the lead up to the triple murder
44:19hey Ken how are you nice to see you
44:22it's pretty interesting information coming out of that inquest
44:25Bruce Preston was very vague about his movements at the time
44:29and I think that's made the judge a little bit suspicious
44:31the coroner warned Bruce Preston that if he lied he could face a perjury charge
44:37you said that you spent 11 months in custody
44:39and the past six years thinking about nothing else other than this case
44:46for the families of Karen, Tim and Gordon
44:49this new coronial inquest is their last hope for justice
44:55the family just wants closure
44:58and that's a horrible word that really there never is closure for the family
45:02but they want answers that say it's now finished
45:10Gordon Twaddle's brother John has carried his anger at a botched investigation for nearly 50 years
45:16perhaps soon he'll have his answer
45:20if the police had done their job as they should have done from the start
45:24and investigated everything they could have found somebody or something
45:32I'm getting old and it would be good to see it all finalised before we all die
45:39we all die
45:40we all die
45:40we all die
45:41we all die
46:09we all die
46:10we all die
46:10we all die
46:11as follows
46:11just so half years
46:13this way
46:13the course
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