KILLING JODIE How Australia's Most Elusive Murderer Was Brought to Justice

Softcover. When women looked at him, what they saw was a little old man who couldn't possibly hurt them. By the time he was arrested for the murder of Jodie Larcombe in the late 1980s, Daryl Suckling had escaped conviction more than once for his brutal assaults on vulnerable young women. But without Jodie's body, prosecutors struggled to prove a murder, and once again he was allowed to walk free. Unwilling to give up, two Sydney policemen spent nearly a decade fighting to bring the psychopathic killer to justice. Frustrated by legal obstacles and sheer bad luck, one officer resigned in disgust, but detectives eventually closed in on Suckling as he stalked his next victim. Having followed the case as it unfolded the author, a journalist, recounts the grisly murder investigation from the inside. Linking the streets of St. Kilda with the lonely, windswept sandhills of the New South Wales bush, this is the gripping story of a brave family and hardened police pushed close to breaking point. Illus. in colour. 280pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.