Claremont: The Claremont Serial Killings

The lead prosecutor - looking under the weather soldiered on during the beginning of her closing statements on day 86 of the Claremont Serial Killings trial, but it didn’t last long - just an hour, in fact. As Tim Clarke said, the only thing in worse health than Carmel Barbagallo was the video link. As it cut out an hour into her closings, the screen went black, and the court was delayed again. But in the hour the lead prosecutor was delivering her statement, she outlined the 25 reasons why she says she can prove Bradley Robert Edwards is the Claremont Serial Killer.   They came in four key areas - DNA, clothing fibres, car fibres and propensity - The similar crimes of the Karrakatta rape in 1995 and Huntingdale attack in 1998, which Bradley Edwards has pleaded guilty too. In front of a packed court room, which included all of the three victims’ families and well as the Karrakatta rape victim and the Huntingdale attack victim, as well as Mr Edwards’ parents, prosecutor Tara Payne asked for the trial to