Claremont: The Claremont Serial Killings

When Claremont exhibits were sent over the to the UK for expert low copy number testing, the exhibits which are now seen as crucial to the prosecution’s case - Ciara Glennon’s fingernails - went missing. It turns out they were never ‘missing’, just separated from the other exhibits and placed in a fridge for storage. As Tim Clarke explains, there must have been a sense panic that went through that lab in the time the exhibits were thought to be missing. The scientists didn’t know just how important these fingernails would be to the case at that time, because they hadn’t yet been tested. But what they did have with them, that were considered important at the time, were samples from multiple ‘people of interest’ to the case, which they planned to test against the Claremont samples. As the Claremont Serial Killings trial entered its 50th day, another cold case which gripped WA was in the headlines again, just over two years since a conviction was made. But today, that conviction of Francis Wark was overtur