Claremont: The Claremont Serial Killings

THAT moment, the phone call which changed the Claremont Serial Killings investigation after almost two decades of nothing, was described by the police officer, that took the call from UK scientists who said male DNA had been found with Ciara Glennon’s fingernail samples. That officer was former head of MACRO, Jim Stanbury, who took the stand today. What followed the call would change the whole investigation. Police no longer had to rely on alibis or witnesses. The DNA doesn’t lie, and if the person of interest didn’t match the male DNA found, they weren’t considered a suspect anymore. That’s how the man police suspected for almost a decade of being the Claremont Serial Killer - Lance Williams - was cleared. Day 51 of the Claremont Serial Killings trial also revealed the other high profile cases which police had sent tp the UK. We’d previously heard about the Gerard Ross murder case, but the FSS also tested exhibits from one of WA’s most high profile murder cases in recent history, the murder of Corryn R