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Outback Murder Highway Season 1 Episode 1
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00:00Unsolved murders on a lonely highway.
00:03This is Australia's most dangerous road, a serial killer's hunting ground.
00:09That's how serial killers work.
00:11They find a place and they just repeat, repeat, repeat.
00:19We're looking into five of those highway murders.
00:22Five women and girls killed in cold blood.
00:25The Mackay sisters.
00:27Catherine Graham.
00:29Robin Hoyneville-Bartram and Anita Cunningham.
00:34We'll reinvestigate these murders and find their killer.
00:39Is it possible a serial killer is responsible for all of these deaths?
00:48It is a crime that fits his MO.
00:53Straight away she said, that's a cowboy.
00:57We couldn't find any answers, this giant question mark in this vast empty continent.
01:04We need to go that way.
01:05Finding Anita's remains is the ultimate goal for me.
01:09New information is being introduced into a murder case that's more than 50 years old.
01:15We've got a potential grave site.
01:19Police should go out there immediately.
01:25I couldn't believe it.
01:26He had a hit.
01:52The highway linking Townsville with Mount Isa is known as the Flinders Highway.
01:58Long highways have huge stretches of nothing.
02:03That then gives an opportunity for an outback murderer.
02:08This stretch of road is the perfect hunting ground for an opportunistic predator.
02:16On this highway, the police hit dead end after dead end in their search for the killers.
02:22We're now bringing fresh ice to Australia's most troubling cold cases.
02:30My name is Mike King and I spent a career investigating serial predators.
02:34Much of that time was spent looking at and interviewing serial killers who worked along
02:40some of the most terrible highways and stretches of roadway in the world.
02:47As I gained more information about the victims along the Flinders Highway, I found myself asking,
02:52is it possible that one predator is responsible for all of these deaths?
03:07In 1972, 18-year-olds Anita Cunningham and Robin Hoynville-Bartram set off on an adventure.
03:14Together hitchhiking all the way.
03:18These were two college kids that were living their dream.
03:23Taking a little time off and learning more about the Australia that they grew up in.
03:29It was the era of, you know, flower power and love.
03:35Everybody was just totally rejecting anything that was normal, casting caution to the wind
03:41and just going for freedom.
03:44There was so many hitchhikers.
03:45It was about adventure.
03:47It was about being spontaneous.
03:53I'm David Cunningham.
03:55I'm the elder brother of Anita Cunningham.
03:59Anita was very bold, very bright, very confident, intelligent,
04:09happy sort of a personality.
04:11She was somebody who filled the room, really.
04:15Anita and I were very close growing up because there's only a year and a bit separating us in age.
04:24The very good friend of Anita, Robin Bartram, had moved down to Melbourne from Bowen in Queensland to attend art
04:33school and that's where Robin and Anita met.
04:35She was somebody that she was somebody that you would just warm to straight away and she was just very
04:39friendly.
04:41I remember Dad had told me that the girls wanted to go hitchhiking to Queensland and he was really worried
04:49about it and wanted me to try and convince the girls not to go, which I tried and they just
04:56were determined.
05:01Hitchhiking wasn't unusual for young people in those days, but David's parents begged Robin and Anita to reconsider.
05:10The girls had just turned 18 and it was their first trip away alone.
05:17The girls, much to the disapproval and intense efforts of discouragement by everybody, set off hitchhiking.
05:36Robin and Anita were never seen alive again.
05:43And that was it, they were gone.
05:48No money was drawn out of their bank accounts, no phone calls, nothing.
05:56For more than 50 years, David has searched for an answer.
06:01Who took the life of his sister?
06:06Anita's disappearance affected the whole family, really.
06:12You know, it's, it was scary.
06:18After two weeks, Mum was really worried and went to police and police said,
06:24look, kids go missing all the time, don't worry about it, you know.
06:28They're old enough to look after themselves and don't bother somebody else, sort of thing.
06:34The days rolled into weeks.
06:37Still no sign of the girls.
06:42Then, on the 15th of November, five months after they set off, there was a shocking discovery.
06:50Railway workers discovered the body of Anita's friend, Robin, propped up against a pylon under a road
06:58bridge on the bridge on the Flinders Highway.
07:00She'd been shot, twice, in the head.
07:09The individual who shot and killed Robin was very close and that she was either in a position of kneeling
07:17and
07:19perhaps even begging for her life.
07:22She was unclothed from the waist down.
07:26One of the things that was so disturbing is it appeared that Robin was kneeling at the time that she
07:30was shot.
07:31The bullet wounds that entered her head entered just about the midline of the head,
07:36but they were only about a half an inch away from each other, which indicates that that person either
07:42had perfect aim or was incredibly close, or that both rounds were shot in rapid succession.
07:55Robin was killed in cold blood, no clear motive, no sign of her travel companion, Anita.
08:06Wasn't until Robin's body was found that all of a sudden police decided they would
08:15put Anita onto the missing persons register.
08:20Five months had passed since the girl's disappearance.
08:24That's how much of a head start the killer had.
08:28In the early 70s, missing persons cases weren't given the priority they are today.
08:35I don't know how to describe the effect it has on a family.
08:40The effect of one of us being murdered, but also the effect
08:46of the complete silence.
08:50Finding Anita's remains is the ultimate goal for me,
08:54because then we can bring them back and put them in the family grave with my mother and father.
09:09I'm looking into a couple of cases on the Flinders Highway and I'm hoping I could get a transcript
09:14for a coroner's report.
09:16I'm Amelia Roberhart and I'm an investigative journalist from Queensland.
09:22I've trawled through old newspaper stories, I've obtained court documents and police reports,
09:28and I've tracked down witnesses.
09:30What I know from my work investigating this cold case is that every killer does leave a footprint,
09:37some sort of clue, somewhere.
09:46Our experts break new ground in the search for Anita.
09:50We need to go that way.
09:52Someone said to me, where do you think Anita Cunningham is?
09:56Where's her burial?
09:57I would say, over there.
10:0911 people murdered or missing on one 900 kilometre stretch of road.
10:15I call it the murder highway.
10:17This is Australia's biggest cluster of unsolved murders.
10:23We're currently looking into five of those murders that took place in the same time period,
10:29the early 1970s.
10:32Could they be linked?
10:34What did the police miss?
10:36Our focus is the brutal case of teenagers Robin and Anita.
10:43The police had drawn a blank with the murder of teenager Robin Hoyneville-Bartram
10:47and the disappearance of her best friend Anita Cunningham.
10:51So I'm looking at other cases that might point to the same killer.
10:56And I found one from two years earlier.
11:04Two little girls, Judith and Susan Mackay, were walking to school near Townsville,
11:09right at the eastern end of the Flinders Highway, when they disappeared.
11:16The sisters were just five and seven years old.
11:20The entire town was mobilised to try to find them.
11:29As a 17-year-old attending Pimlico State High School in Townsville,
11:34we were asked to help in the search for two young girls.
11:40Very hard for anybody to fathom why two young girls never made it to school that day.
11:46Two days after they disappeared, Judith and Susan's bodies were found 25 kilometres along the Flinders Highway.
11:57Innocent young girls, big manhunt, remote Australia, it had all the elements for a great story.
12:05I'm Max Tomlinson.
12:07I spent the greater part of my career working here in North Queensland running country newspapers.
12:14Still, I've got a mental picture of those little girls innocently with their little sandwiches,
12:19packed in their little lunch bags, their uniforms on.
12:22Mummy and Daddy, Dad had kissed them goodbye in the morning before he went off to work.
12:26In this case, locals identified a suspect.
12:29He was an active pedophile known to police called Arthur Brown.
12:35Arthur Brown was a person of interest from day one.
12:39He worked for the Department of Works, which covered schools, hospitals,
12:43including the Aikenvale State School where the little girls were students.
12:47So he would have had access to those girls on a daily basis.
12:52And then, of course, the investigation was botched to such an extent that
12:55Arthur Brown walked the streets of Townsville for the next 30 years and was never brought to justice.
13:01Police missed vital clues. They didn't have a case.
13:06To the disgust of the community, Arthur Brown walked free.
13:12He remains our number one suspect.
13:15What's more, we can link him to another female victim on the murder highway.
13:20Her name was Catherine Graham.
13:24Catherine Graham, she was selling encyclopedias.
13:31And of all the doors she knocked on,
13:34she knocked on that of Arthur Stanley Brown.
13:43In August 1975, Catherine's battered body was discovered dumped on the old Flinders Highway,
13:50very close to where the Mackay sisters were found.
13:53Arthur Brown was linked to both crimes.
13:57So that's too much of a coincidence for me to accept.
14:01Where was Brown at the time? Well, we don't know.
14:05The murder of Catherine Graham was never solved.
14:08But in 1998, there was a breakthrough in the murder of the two little girls found dumped on
14:14the Flinders Highway. Arthur Brown was arrested and charged with their murders.
14:25Almost 30 years after the battered bodies of two young sisters were found dumped in North
14:31Queensland, an elderly man accused of their murders has appeared in a Townsville court.
14:35The police had a witness who said Arthur Brown admitted to the murders.
14:41The police. Numerous witnesses saw him with the girls.
14:45But the jury couldn't agree on a verdict. The case fell over. Arthur Brown walked free again.
14:57You know, sometimes the law works for us. Sometimes the law works against us.
15:05My name is Brendan Rook. I'm a former detective sergeant of the Queensland Police Homicide Squad.
15:10The landscape has changed since the murders. About 15 metres down the centre of the creek bed
15:17was where all the Mackay sisters' property was located.
15:20So we were looking at historical murders that could have been committed by Arthur Stanley Brown.
15:25We received information from a family member that Brown could be responsible for
15:32anywhere up to 11 murders. Now, if that's true, that would make Arthur Brown one of Australia's
15:38worst serial killers. The courts couldn't convict him and Arthur Brown took his dark secrets to the grave.
15:48But Arthur Brown stays on our list of prime suspects in at least three of the five highway murders
15:55from the 1970s that we're currently investigating. So it raises the question, could Arthur Brown
16:01be responsible for the deaths of Robin and Anita? There's no doubt Arthur Brown would have been the
16:07first person I'd interview in the investigation of those girls' murders. I'd certainly be knocking on
16:13Arthur Brown's door. So if Arthur Brown isn't our killer, who is?
16:20Arthur Brown was never interviewed by police about Robin's murder and Anita's disappearance.
16:27So the question remains, maybe we're looking in the wrong direction. Instead of looking for someone
16:34who lived in the area, maybe the serial killer was travelling through the Flinders Highway
16:39and took their chance.
16:52Our investigators have called it the murder highway. We're looking for links between the unsolved murders
16:59of the Mackay sisters, Catherine Graham and the double murder David Cunningham most once solved.
17:07It would be enormous either to find Anita's remains or to have a lot more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle
17:14put in so we can at least see a rough picture.
17:21In 1972, Robin Hoyneville Bartram and Anita Cunningham set off hitchhiking on the Flinders Highway.
17:31Robin's body was found dumped underneath a Flinders Highway road bridge.
17:39This is the road bridge and Robin Hoyneville Bartram was found beneath it. So she was found down there under
17:47Pylon 2.
17:50Anita's body has never been found. David Cunningham has committed his life to finding his little sister.
17:58We're a family with this big burning question but we're being told by police nothing could be found, nobody saw
18:06anything, nobody knew anything.
18:09But in 2003, a new witness emerged. A woman contacted Crimestoppers saying she saw Robin and Anita in the tiny
18:20highway town of Kentland before they disappeared.
18:26What's more, she saw the girls with a man known as Cowboy.
18:37Once I came up here to Pentland and met, you know, started meeting people and everybody knew about it, everybody
18:47had a story about it.
18:49The witness was a young local called Merle White. She met Robin and Anita at the Pentland Hotel in 1972.
18:58So Merle White, she was a young girl, a bit the same age as Anita and Robin.
19:05Merle remembered another person in the bar that day. Someone called him Cowboy.
19:12And Cowboy offered to give Robin and Anita a lift to the next town.
19:18Merle said that she always felt guilty, that she hadn't insisted, you know, we'll take you.
19:29But she didn't. And then what happened happened.
19:37Later that night, young Merle White left the pub with her mother. What happened next is significant.
19:46Now, what becomes so intriguing is a short time later, she and her mother get in their vehicle and as
19:52they're traveling along, as they reach Sensible Creek, they see Cowboy's vehicle turn so that it's broadside into oncoming traffic
20:01in a position where it would be T-boned on the Flinders Highway with its headlights facing toward the railroad
20:06tracks.
20:07Why would someone park across the road with their lights shining in this direction?
20:15I was absolutely convinced that Merle White was seeing things.
20:24After 30 years, memories are lost. Memory goes after the first 24 hours, let alone 30 years.
20:35And then I thought, hang on a minute. Why was Robin found naked from the waist down?
20:43And her lower clothes were not located.
20:48What I believe happened was somebody flew those doors open and she ran out.
20:56Anita ran too. One went this direction, one went that direction.
21:01With Robin's absent clothes, it was a rape or an attempted rape and she was shot.
21:14Merle White's eyewitness account suggests Anita ran into the bush near where Robin's body was discovered.
21:25Our team of experts is putting Merle's story to the test to try to find Anita's body.
21:34I'm Dr Louise Stedding. I'm an archaeologist and a criminologist.
21:38I've reached the landscape and then we work out the methods where we might be able to find someone.
21:47Dr Louise Stedding is an archaeologist and a criminologist.
21:51In her spare time, she researches cold cases right across the country.
21:57I like to think of her as sort of like a modern day Indiana Jones.
22:02Robin's body was found just as the wet season started and so that means she was buried in the dry.
22:12Could she have been simply even dropped off of the bridge and the water later moved her?
22:18No. No. No.
22:20Mike King is super interesting. He's a guy from the FBI and sometimes we agree, sometimes we don't agree.
22:32I think the killer was standing on the ledge here and shot her downwards into the skull.
22:39That's execution style.
22:42Now the horrible thing about this is it means that Robin was looking at her killer.
22:48So it's not only that she was shot, she was looking at her killer.
22:55I still have nightmares about it, but our job is not to wonder about how terrible it was. Our job
23:02is to try and find Anita's remains.
23:09It's a mystery that is about to be blown wide open.
23:14That's him. That's the guy.
23:16Straight away she said, that's Cowboy.
23:28After decades of silence, a witness came forward. Merle White told police she was there in 1972.
23:37Merle saw hitchhikers Robin and Anita leave the Pentland Hotel with a mystery man known only as Cowboy.
23:46I have been so intrigued by this Cowboy because it would take some time before they discovered that Cowboy was
23:53a nickname for a man who became one of the most notorious serial killers in Australia.
24:03Cowboy's identity was wildly revealed in 2003 when Merle White, sitting in her living room, watching the TV with her
24:11husband, eating dinner, and up he pops.
24:13It's the man she recognised from that night at the Pentland Hotel when she was with Robin and Anita.
24:20Merle White was my wife, my late wife.
24:27This fellow came up in TV like that and she said straight away, she said, that's Cowboy.
24:42Merle's daughter and husband have told me that they were watching TV and Ivan Milat came on the TV and
24:50Merle said, that's him. That's the guy. That's Cowboy.
24:56Evidence has begun in the backpacker murder trial.
25:00She had no reason to tell lawyers.
25:04And that's what caused her to go to Crimestoppers. But unfortunately, again, it didn't go anywhere.
25:13Police just didn't take this seriously. And to be honest, I get why.
25:19When I first heard Ivan's name connected to this case, I thought, there's no way a New South Wales serial
25:26killer can be responsible for murdering two women on a remote Queensland highway.
25:31It just couldn't be right.
25:34Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven backpackers in 1996.
25:39Their remains were discovered in the now infamous Belangelo State Forest, which is near Goulburn in New South Wales.
25:48Ivan Milat died six years ago and never confessed to a single murder, let alone any extra murders.
25:55So if we're going to connect Milat to the death of the girls, we're going to have to dig a
25:59lot deeper to establish where he even was during that time.
26:06There's a myth out there that Ivan Milat's responsible for every crime everywhere.
26:11But what we need to do is look at were there any crimes in those areas at that time that
26:17fit his method of operating, his MO, his modus operandi, and the answer is yes.
26:26I'm Jeremy Buckingham. I'm a politician and member of parliament.
26:29And I've been looking into the true extent of Ivan Milat's crimes and looking at the numbers of murdered and
26:35missing people across this country.
26:38Who as an adult dresses up as a cowboy?
26:41Ivan Milat did.
26:44And so it fits that he's using the name cowboy.
26:52This is what we do know.
26:54Less than a year before Anita and Robin were killed, Ivan Milat picked up two other young female hitchhikers.
27:031971.
27:04Ivan Milat picks up two young women, 18 years old.
27:14He threatened to murder the women and violently raped one of them.
27:18But they managed to escape.
27:24Years later, when Milat was safely behind bars, the women went public with their harrowing story.
27:32I've never been so sure in my life that I was in the hands of a murderer.
27:37I have never doubted from the time he told us how we were going to die.
27:44I had a feeling about him all the time as though there was something very wrong with him.
27:52When I researched this old Milat case, I got chills.
27:55These two victims, Margaret and Greta, were the exact same age as Robin and Anita, just 18.
28:03And they were also hitchhiking.
28:05They probably would have been murdered if they hadn't escaped.
28:08But Ivan Milat beat those charges and then he went on the run.
28:12And there's evidence he was in Queensland at the time our girls, Anita and Robin, go missing.
28:22This is the ignition Jeremy Buckingham needs to get the case reopened.
28:27He was on the run.
28:29We know he was up in Queensland.
28:33Ivan Milat had significant links to Queensland.
28:37He was driving trucks there.
28:39He was working on a road gang.
28:42There's a good case to be made that he was in the area.
28:46And the manner of Robin's death, bullet holes in the back of the skull, is consistent with how Milat murdered
28:55some of his victims.
28:59Back then, Milat was in his late 20s.
29:02And he went for a very specific type of victim, pairs of people, just like Robin and Anita.
29:1321-year-old British backpacker Caroline Clarke was the first to be found in September 1992.
29:18Nearby, the remains of her 22-year-old Welsh friend Joanne Walters.
29:23A year later, the bodies of 19-year-old Victorians Deborah Everest and James Gibson were uncovered.
29:29And Gabor Neugebauer and his girlfriend, 20-year-old Anja Habshid.
29:32We see a pattern of behaviour.
29:34You don't have too many serial killers abducting couples.
29:39At that time, they formed a major task force, Task Force Air.
29:43So what they did, they looked at who was missing and where there were other unsolved homicides that looked like
29:50this.
29:51So they drew up a list.
29:52Now, we've only just revealed that list for the very first time through my work in Parliament.
29:59And Anita and Robin are on that list.
30:02Malat was on the Flinders Highway in 1972.
30:07He had form, violent crimes against women, and he liked to target backpackers.
30:14Jeremy Buckingham is convinced that Ivan Malat killed Robin and Anita.
30:19The MO with Anita and Robin matches exactly the MO of Ivan Malat.
30:27He took two young backpackers into the forest and he would kill one, possibly in front of the other one,
30:34execution style.
30:37And then take the other one just a short distance away.
30:41So if we found one body in Queensland, it's reasonable we look in the same spot for the other bodies.
30:49And it's exactly what we should be doing.
30:53Back in 1972, police searched the area where Robin's body was discovered looking for Anita's body.
31:01But Merle's eyewitness account suggested Anita fled into the bush on much higher ground than the creek bed where Robin
31:09was discovered.
31:11Now, I'm not saying that police didn't do their job.
31:15They certainly gave it a good shot.
31:17My goodness.
31:19But I do believe she's somewhere along here on higher ground.
31:25But where is the question?
31:27It's really, really important.
31:31And in my view, we need to go that way.
31:33We need to go on the high ground that way.
31:36And we need to follow the water flow that way.
31:39If we can find Anita's body, then David Cunningham can finally put his sister to rest and put her with
31:47their mum and dad.
31:49What I do is to try and work out a layer cake of method.
31:55The first that we tried were the cadaver dogs.
32:00They look for skeletal remains, human bone.
32:06The first dog, Rufus, I couldn't believe it.
32:11He had a hip.
32:28Two women went missing.
32:30One is Robin, Hoyneville Bartram, and her body was found beneath the road bridge.
32:38The other woman is Anita Cunningham, and she's never been found.
32:47Finding Anita's remains is the ultimate goal for me.
32:51Mike and Louise are looking for Anita's body in an area police have never searched before.
32:57Thanks to a clue in Merle White's eyewitness account that suggests Anita could have run into bushland on higher ground.
33:07If Anita is there and we find her within 100 metres of Robin, it corroborates everything that Merle White said
33:19about Pipe and Millat.
33:24After 50 years of letdowns from the police investigations, David isn't holding his breath.
33:32I've had false leads before, you know.
33:35We'll see.
33:42I couldn't believe it. He had a hit.
33:46Good dog.
33:48Rufus has shown an indication over near the tree.
33:52We believe that there is human remains to be investigated in that spot.
33:57So how do you know that the dog is actually indicating human remains and not animal bones or something else?
34:06Rufus is a single purpose trained dog, so his only job is cadaver work, human remains detection.
34:13Look, I'm a skeptic.
34:15I'm still not satisfied.
34:18When you're on a site where you think there might be a body, nah, that would be too good to
34:24be true.
34:24What we might do later is bring out another dog.
34:28Yeah, I love that idea.
34:29I'm looking forward to seeing what the next dog has to show.
34:34That's good.
34:39The next dog, one dog gone, next dog down to verify the finds or refute them.
34:45It's just all collecting data.
34:53But as it turned out, she agreed with him and she went to the same area.
34:59How'd you go?
35:00There was a lot of interest.
35:02And for him, that was him staying in that one area for quite a long time and really trying to
35:09pinpoint it.
35:10It's well worth investigating more.
35:13Two separate cadaver dogs pinpoint the same area.
35:18Louise is a forensic archaeologist and wants to test the dog's finding with two other methods to see if they
35:25really have located a grave.
35:31The dogs have narrowed it down.
35:33The next one is to pull out the metal detector and close in.
35:39This particular metal detector can differentiate between about 40 types of metals.
35:46We want to see the gold, the silver for jewellery.
35:52We want to see brass for shell casings.
35:57So it is between here and here somewhere.
36:01And to our surprise, we got some strikes there too.
36:08We have metal hits, so what we want is another type of hit.
36:17So we move and we go to the ground-penetrating radar.
36:24Because metal detectors don't go down very far, ground-penetrating radar gives us that extra depth.
36:33When the radar sends down a signal striking a surface of a different density, we get a reading back.
36:43What did you see?
36:45This particular one is what you'd expect for bone.
36:51Suspicious.
36:53OK, so 10 and it was flagged.
36:58This is a huge breakthrough.
37:01Both dogs independently detect human remains.
37:05Then, in the same location as those cadaver dogs, the ground-penetrating radar gets a positive reading.
37:12For bones.
37:16We have come closer this time than actually anyone has come in the last 50 years.
37:24Someone said to me, where do you think Anita Cunningham is?
37:28Where's her burial?
37:30I would say, over there.
37:32That's what I'd say.
37:34I believe very strongly, and I'm a skeptic, she's over there.
37:45So, she might still be up there.
37:47Louise, I just can't describe how grateful I feel and how other people feel for what she does, because it
37:59gives me a sense of hope.
38:04I'm very lucky, so is my sister.
38:10We've got a potential gravesite.
38:13Police should go out there immediately.
38:27You have to think about whether there's intimate knowledge of the road or they stumble across and it's just opportunistic.
38:34I think there's intimate knowledge.
38:39I think there's intimate knowledge.
38:40After 50 years of false leads and misplaced hope, David Cunningham believes our investigation has brought him closer to finding
38:48his missing little sister.
38:51Things could be the closest anybody's come in the last 50 years.
38:58It's filled me with promise and hope, I suppose.
39:06Today was incredibly interesting.
39:09New information is being introduced into a criminal case, a murder case that's more than 50 years old.
39:17We will collate all of that and give it to police and we will also give it to the coroner.
39:25This is where two cadaver dogs and radar equipment have positively identified human remains.
39:32I think this site is one for a machine.
39:37I don't have the muscle or power to remove all that bulk soil, nor would I want to.
39:45That's the job of the police and forensics.
39:50We've got a potential gravesite.
39:53The Queensland Police should go out there and have a look at this site immediately.
40:00The evidence is so strong and so compelling, pointing to Ivan Milat being the one that murdered Anita.
40:08That Jeremy Buckingham is taking this all the way to Parliament.
40:12It's thanks to the new evidence that our investigation has uncovered.
40:21Louise and David are bringing the findings to State Parliament.
40:27Hey David, how are you? Lovely to meet you. Lovely to meet you.
40:30Hello Louise. Lovely to meet you.
40:32Welcome. No problem at all.
40:34Come on in. New South Wales Parliament.
40:38Now it's Jeremy Buckingham's job to put this new evidence on the public record
40:43and call for Queensland Police to finally step up.
40:48I am convinced that human remains are there.
40:53If we can hold a commission of inquiry, we can uncover further clues.
40:58Task Force AIR, in 1993, asked all the other police forces
41:03what other murders look like this at the Langelo.
41:06And they came up with Anita and Robyn's case.
41:09Now we look at, yes they did.
41:11That's why I want to raise this in Parliament.
41:13That's why I'm doing this.
41:19Nobody has done more work on the Ivan Milad cold cases than Jeremy Buckingham.
41:25And he's urging justice for Robyn and Anita.
41:29Thank you. The Honourable Jeremy Buckingham.
41:33This house calls on the Queensland Government and police to
41:36A. expedite the excavation and possible grave site of Anita Cunningham.
41:42B. initiate a commission of inquiry to establish what happened to his sister
41:46and why he, like hundreds of other families of missing persons of Australia,
41:50have been left to investigate the case himself.
42:03We gave up hope right in the beginning when we were told nothing could be found.
42:11We couldn't find any answers.
42:13This giant question mark in this vast empty continent.
42:19And now I won't give up hope.
42:28Justice needs to be, needs to be done.
42:30It's screaming to be, to be done.
42:34I don't know.
43:09I don't know.
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