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39th year  -  N° 88                 Thursday, 28 March 2024         Antwerpen		
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Saturday 19th of December 1959

65 years ago



Jillian Macpherson Brewer is stabbed and hacked to death with a tomahawk and a pair of scissors by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster at the age of 22 in Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia.

18-year old Darryl Beamish provided four confessions, two through a sign language interpreter, one a written statement and another in notes scrawled on the exercise yard at the Perth lock-up. Beamish said the confessions were obtained through intimidation and threats, and were untrue. Nevertheless Beamish was convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he served 15 years. After six appeals his conviction was finally overturned in 2005.