His Honour allowed the prosecution to use some of that evidence for the 1988 Huntingdale sexual assault.īut Edwards pleaded guilty to this as well as the 1995 abduction and Karrakatta Cemetery double rape of a 17-year-girl, after his defence counsel’s application for a separate trial on these offences was denied. The evidence related to allegations he stole items of women’s underwear from clotheslines - a practice once called “snowdropping” - and broke into or attempted to break into houses to commit sexually motivated crimes. The court also heard that some of his peers indicated he had a collection of women’s clothing, and that this escalated into a fetish and an obsession with rape and abduction.Īlso ruled out by Justice Hall was most of what state prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo called the “Huntingdale prowler series”. The court heard that one of Edwards’ family members had walked in on him when - at age 13 or 14 in the early 1980s - he was in the bedroom of a family friend near an underwear drawer. Some of the evidence struck out by Justice Stephen Hall for Edwards’ judge-only trial echoes the sick compulsions of other violent killers or rapists.Įdwards, pictured in 1986, collected women’s underwear as a teen. While the secrets hidden inside his residence did not include any trophies from his two murders and two sex attacks, they provide chilling parallels to his actual crimes. Now that the former Telstra technician has been convicted of two of the Claremont murders - Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27 - what his trial didn’t hear can be examined.Įdwards was found not guilty of the murder of Sarah Spiers, whose body has never been found and whose 1996 disappearance remains a mystery. So disturbing was the evidence found in the house occupied by the serial killer in the eastern Perth suburb, much of it was ruled too prejudicial for his trial. In the secret lair of Claremont serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards, inside the lockup garage attached to his modest suburban home, were the vile objects of an obsession which began in childhood.Īnd like the fingernail scrapings taken two decades earlier from murder victim Ciara Glennon, the objects hidden away on Acton Ave, Kewdale, were covered in Edwards’ DNA. Extreme pornography, women’s underwear with holes cut in them, disgusting deposits in sandwich bags, bizarre homemade sex toys, and disturbing scenarios to abduct, rape and kill.