Police in Australia say they fear the worst for a British tourist who disappeared … Peter Falconio was shot by a gunman who attempted to abduct his girlfriend Joanne Lees … Bradley Murdoch will spend at least twenty-eight years in prison. Murder in the Outback: The Falconio & Lees Mystery I, news clips, Channel 4 2020
We found blood, we found the Kombi kind of hidden, and a drop of blood was found on the T-shirt Joanne was wearing. ibid. rozzer
Joanne was calling the shots and refusing to do interviews. ibid. journalist
The CCTV had a man arriving [garage] in a 4-wheel-drive … to some degree a person that Joanne had described. ibid.
They found Murdoch’s DNA matched on Joanne Lees’ T-Shirt. ibid.
Joanne Lees positively identified Murdoch; we found that he had a similar car and we had the DNA. ibid. rozzer
There was no body, there was no gunshot residue found … Was Murdoch really guilty? ibid. journalist
Where’s Peter Falconio’s footprints? Where’s the offender’s footprints? Where’s the offender’s dog? ibid. defence dude
In my opinion, based on the DNA and blood evidence, I would not expect today to have a guilty verdict recorded against anybody. ibid. legal dude
Who were the blokes in the red car? Who was ‘jelly man’? And what were they doing there? ibid.
This was a real Agatha Christie thriller. No-one really knew quite what had happened. Murder in the Outback: The Falconio & Lees Mystery II, reporter
This is a one-witness case. It revolves around Joanne Lees’ version of events. ibid. defence dude
Joanne Lees spoke to an Alice Springs’ journalist 72 hours after the attack. It would be 8 months until her next one-on-one media interview. ibid. caption
What she says doesn’t stack up with what was found at the crime scene. ibid. defence dude
A murder hearing has ended with a sensational admission: she is on her way home to England after revealing she cheated on her boyfriend shortly before he disappeared. ibid. television news
I said, I don’t think you realise how big this is going to be: I said, If you’re missing a boyfriend and a car, it’s going to be huge. Murder in the Outback: The Falconio & Lees Mystery III, bloke who picked up Joanne on highway
No gunshot residue. And there was no obvious motive, and that sounded alarm bells. ibid. journalist/author
The more you looked at the case afterwards, the more you realise the evidence didn’t quite add up. ibid.
She [Lees] identified Murdoch as the man who attacked her. ibid.
So, there was a bloke in the area on the night; he fits the description of the attacker, and there’s a witness who claims this bloke spoke to a girl who could be Joanne Lees. ibid. defence dude
One such theory that came to our attention is that Peter Falconio may have faked his own disappearance. ibid.
It’s unlikely that that [figure in video of garage shop] is Murdoch. ibid. body expert
DNA found on the T-shirt of British tourist Joanne Lees was 150 quadrillion times more likely to have come from Bradley John Murdoch that any other Northern Territory citizen. Murder in the Outback: The Falconio & Lees Mystery IV, newspaper article
The DNA testing in the Kombi and on the manacles was the ‘low copy number method’ DNA … This controversial method has been called into question with critics saying it is ‘not reliable’ evidence. ibid. caption
The DNA from the manacles had been contaminated. ibid. professor
Their DNA can be transferred without them actually being involved. ibid. DNA expert
Why is their so little of Brad Murdoch’s DNA on Joanne Lees? ibid. defence dude
There was very little clear evidence at all … The chance of identifying someone clearly is very small. ibid. DNA expert
This case is riddled with doubt. ibid. defence dude
The so-called crime scene: there is no shell casing, no blood spatter, no brain matter, drag marks: absolutely no evidence of a murder. More importantly there is no body. And there are other holes: the analysis of the CCTV footage taken at the truck stop that is said to be Murdoch may not today stand up to scrutiny. And the account given by the truck driver who picked up Joanne Lees could put a number of other people in the frame. ibid.
He’s [Murdoch] not stupid. If you’ve got a load of drugs on, you don’t go mucking around up the highway shooting people and kidnapping women. It just doesn’t fit. ibid. truck driver
I do not believe that Bradley Murdoch should have been convicted. ibid. Professor Barry Boettcher, blood specialist
MURO, JUAN et al: Scene of the Crime with Tony Harris TV -
Darrell Blagg: He was in the right place but the scene was manipulated at the wrong time. His murder tore his family apart. And took a relentless investigation to become a staggering revelation. Scene of the Crime with Tony Harris s2e4: Three is the Deadliest Number, ID 2018
Darrell Blagg was executed in his own home. ibid.
Stephanie [wife] had lots of secrets … Who was that mystery man she was seen with? … Juan Muro … A confession that implicates Stephanie and Billy [lover] in a conspiracy to commit murder. ibid.
MURPHY, JACK ROLAND: Great Crimes & Trials TV - Murderpedia online -
Miami was the fashionable sixties hangout where the beach boys and girls of the East Coast showed off their tans and their physiques. Great Crimes & Trials s1e23: Murph the Surf, BBC 1993
1964: A trio of surfers left their boards in Miami and flew north to the chill of New York. They were Roger Frederick Clark aged twenty-nine ... Alan Kuhn ... Jack Roland Murphy also known as Murph the Surf. ibid.
On the night of 29th October they went museum-visiting again after it had closed ... The windows were left routinely two inches open. Amazed to realise that there were no alarms they helped themselves to twenty-four of the choicest stones and escaped undetected. ibid.
The Museum of Natural History where the robbery had only been discovered when a guard arrived for work. ibid.
The burglar alarm system had been disconnected several years before as an economy measure. ibid.
New York’s press were shocked at the daring of the robbery. ibid.
The Midnight Star sapphire – one hundred and sixty-one carats; on the right, the De Long Star ruby – a hundred carats; and as big as a golf ball the Star of India – at five hundred and sixty-five. ibid.
Explaining that there was a world of difference between beach boys which they were and beach bums which were parasites. ibid.
Actress Ava Gabor identified Murphy and Kuhn as the men who had forced their way into her apartment, beating her up and stealing her jewellery worth $50,000. ibid.
They pleaded guilty ... In the end they each got three consecutive one-year sentences. ibid.
Murph the Surf kept popping up in the public eye. ibid.
He was arrested for murder. ibid.