![]() ![]() The cost of prosecuting the man accused of being the Claremont serial killer is about. WA Police formed the Macro task force with the aim of finding the man. Crime; Almost 20 years on police have yet to catch the Claremont serial killer. THREE young women left their friends in search of a cab. They were never seen again. Katherine Hi Empathy and Dee, Thought below may interest you (i found online here in Australia)regarding the Claremont serial killer. Kumpulan lagu cirebonan terbaru mp3. The Western Australian Police established a special task force to investigate the case. It was given the name 'Macro'. Several phases have elapsed in the course of the continuing work of the task force. Initial suspicion focused on the taxi-drivers of Perth because of the women last seen in circumstances where they may have been seeking taxi service. There had also been a predisposition to this possibility because of reports from late 1995 of possible improper conduct by some drivers. A massive DNA-testing exercise was carried out to cover all of the taxi drivers licensed in Western Australia; a group of more than two thousand. A thorough review of the character/background standards for drivers was conducted and led to drivers with any significant criminal history being de-licensed. Training for drivers and examining standards for license eligibility were raised. Stricter standards were also applied to verifying that decommissioned taxi vehicles were stripped of any insignia and equipment that could be used to falsely purport that a vehicle was a taxi. While this had the beneficial side-effect of improving the quality of the taxi service and enhancing the confidence of the public in using it, the investigation itself does not appear to have progressed. In the next major development, a junior officer of the Western Australian Public Service was targeted by police as the prime suspect, after he attracted their attention during a decoy operation.[3] The suspect made himself known to the media and asserted his innocence. He was subjected to a high level of overt surveillance, apparently with the purpose of prompting a confession. Although this continued for several years, the suspect maintained his innocence and appears to have intact alibis. He remains a nominal suspect, but the focus upon him has decreased in intensity. It has been reported that police are also investigating whether Bradley John Murdoch, the convicted killer of Peter Falconio may have been involved,[4] although Murdoch was serving a custodial sentence from November 1995 until February 1997. One of the tactics used by the Macro Task-force was the distribution of questionnaires to 'persons of interest', including various confrontational enquiries such as 'Are you the killer?' The utility of this approach was disputed and the choice of persons to whom they were sent was controversial. One was a prominent civil libertarian and local government figure, Peter Weygers. He was mayor of the Town of Claremont at the time of the women's disappearance/demise and was involved in some disputes with the victims' families concerning the duty of care of the local authority in securing the district. He also was leasing a premises to a taxi-driver who attracted police attention to himself by claiming to have transported Sarah Spiers in his taxi shortly before her disappearance. Weygers' premises were raided by the police and he and his tenant were obliged to give samples for DNA testing.[5] As with other avenues of investigation, nothing was to come of it.
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