殺人 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う's アリバイ 行方不明の 声明
No police 声明 can be 設立する for the アリバイs of two main 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うs in the 未解決の 殺人 of Melbourne woman Maria James, an 検死 has been told.
Ms James was stabbed 68 times, 含むing 38 times in her 支援する and 11 in her neck, at her Thornbury home in June 1980.
Two of the six men 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd of 殺人ing the mother-of-two are Peter Keogh, a 罪人/有罪を宣告するd 殺し屋 who stabbed his girlfriend to death in 1987, and Peco Macevski, a real 広い地所 スパイ/執行官 who had been having an 事件/事情/状勢 with Ms James when she died.
Former 探偵,刑事 Rowland Legg on Thursday 認める no police 声明 could be 設立する for the アリバイs 供給するd for Keogh or Mr Macevski during the 初めの 調査.
But he told the Victorian 検死官s 法廷,裁判所 this did not やむを得ず mean the police 声明s were never 得るd.
"If no 声明 was taken from a person who was an アリバイ, then that would be a 重要な oversight?" counsel 補助装置ing the 検死官 Sharon Lacy asked Mr Legg.
"Yes", he 答える/応じるd.
Another former 探偵,刑事 who worked on Ms James' 殺人 事例/患者, Robert Jacobs, 明らかにする/漏らすd that 血-stained bedding 蓄える/店d by police was destroyed in November 1994 after 存在 considered a 生物学の hazard.
Mr Jacobs also said he 解任するd speaking with former 連邦の MP Phil Cleary, whose sister Vicki was killed by Keogh in 1987, about 可能性のある links between the two 事例/患者s.
But Mr Jacobs said Keogh would have been 除去するd as a 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う in the 1980s.
"Phil Cleary's call was based on rumour only," the former police officer said.
Ms Lacy later told Mr Jacobs that a woman who drove into a man running across the road outside Ms James' home on the day she was 殺人d had told police she was "99 per cent sure" it was Keogh.
"I don't 解任する that," Mr Jacobs said.
Stratton Langslow, a barrister who is 代表するing Mr Macevski, the only living 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う, then 示唆するd that Ms James' 殺し屋 may not be one of the six men identi fied during the 検死.
"In the end it may be that you never got pointed toward or discovered the person who 現実に committed the 罪,犯罪 - that you didn't even get a 匂いをかぐ of him?" Mr Langslow asked Mr Jacobs.
"It could have been someone who never (機の)カム to your attention?"
"That's my belief," Mr Jacobs 答える/応じるd.
Two of the other six main 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うs are now-死んだ カトリック教徒 priests Father Anthony Bongiorno and Thomas O'Keeffe, both (刑事)被告 of 乱用ing one of Ms James' sons.
The 検死 before 副 明言する/公表する 検死官 Caitlin English continues on Friday.