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Post by Wrapitup Sun May 13, 2012 2:15 pm

By Arlene Paredes | May 1, 2012 10:28 AM EST
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The body of missing woman Allison Baden-Clay is believed to have been found 11 days since she was reported missing. Authorities have yet to make a confirmatory announcement, but Baden-Clay's family has been informed of the latest developments, according to The Courier-Mail.

Allison Baden-Clay went missing 11 days ago. Police on Monday received a report that a woman's body has been found in a weir, which is only a 20-minute from her family home.

Initial reports indicate the woman's body was found at Mt Crosby Weir, which is a 20-minute drive from the Baden-Clay family home in Brookfield.

Baden-Clay, 43, mother of three young girls, was last seen 11 days ago in Brookfield. Her husband, Gerard Baden-Clay, reported her missing before hiring a Gold Coast criminal lawyer.

Police has done an intensive search for Baden-Clay, involving more than 80 officers and 50 SES volunteers. Air and ground search efforts were made, but the victim seemed to have just vanished without a trace.

As police made their way to the site, traffic leading to Mt Crosby Road has been re-routed from Hawkesbury Road to Tandera Roads at Anstead.

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Post by Wrapitup Sun May 13, 2012 2:28 pm

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Allison Baden-Clay : Police believe attack was not random and remain confident of an arrest. Photo: Contributed/The Queensland Times

Charges could be laid over the murder of Brookfield mum-of-three Allison Baden-Clay as early as this week with key test results due very soon.

Police said they were unlikely to make an arrest until they had the results of Mrs Baden-Clay’s autopsy and toxilogy tests.

The results are due some time this week with the usual turnaround for the tests two weeks.

Detective Superintendent Mark Ainsworth said police did not believe the attack was random and confirmed police were confident of making an arrest.

‘‘We believe that Allison may have known her attacker,’’ he told The Sunday Mail.

Mrs Baden-Clay’s body was discovered almost two weeks ago on April 30, 10 days after she was reported missing by her husband Gerard who told police he last saw her at 10pm on April 19 watching television in the living room.

Her body was found by a canoeist under the Kholo Creek Bridge ending a huge search effort which had been launched by police in the bushland surrounding her Brookfield home.

The arrest of her alleged killer will fulfil the vow made by her older sister Vanessa Fowler at Mrs Baden-Clay’s funeral in Ipswich on Friday.

‘‘Allison, there are many questions that are unanswered, many pieces of a puzzle that need to be put together, and we your family pledge to you that we will have these questions answered,’’ she said during the eulogy.

‘‘We will bring you justice and you deserve nothing less.’’

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Post by Wrapitup Sun May 13, 2012 2:32 pm

POLICE believe Allison Baden-Clay knew her killer, and are confident they will make an arrest soon.

As they continued to scour the leafy suburbs of west Brisbane yesterday, the chief investigating officer confirmed to The Sunday Mail that her murder was not random.

Brookfield residents who have contacted police in recent weeks are being told they have nothing to fear from a random killer prowling their suburb.

"At this stage we don't believe it is random," Detective Superintendent Mark Ainsworth said.

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"We believe that Allison may have known her attacker."

The Sunday Mail also understands that Allison's husband, Gerard Baden-Clay, is yet to make an official statement to police after he reported her missing from their Brookfield home at 7.30am on April 20.

He told police he last saw his wife about 10pm the night before, when she left for a walk.

The body of the 43-year-old mother of three was found under the Kholo Creek bridge on April 30.

About 30 police continued to work on the investigation yesterday, with a continued focus on the Kenmore roundabout located at the intersection of Brookfield and Moggill roads.

Supt Ainsworth said detectives were keeping an open mind as to whether there was one offender or more involved in Mrs Baden-Clay's death.

He said he believed there would be an arrest resulting from the investigation, but he would not give a timeframe.

It is understood police are still awaiting toxicology and other cause-of-death examination results, however Supt Ainsworth would not comment.

On Thursday night police spoke to several people driving both ways through the Kenmore roundabout between the hours of 11.30pm and 4am, hoping to talk to anyone who may have been in the vicinity at the same time on April 19.

A number of people gave police information.

The Sunday Mail observed as many as 25 cars travelling through the roundabout every five minutes at some times.

Meanwhile, police yesterday visited Gerard Baden-Clay at his parent's home.

Two plainclothes detectives arrived at the Kenmore house just after 10am and spoke to Mr Baden-Clay for about 10 minutes at the front door of the home.

It is understood Mr Baden-Clay was visiting his parents.

Police said it was part of their routine inquiries but would not elaborate.

More than 600 people attended the funeral for Mrs Baden-Clay at St Paul's Anglican Church in Ipswich on Friday.

Also on Friday, police issued a personal safety strategy for those exercising in isolated areas such as on bike paths or along river walkways, advising them to stay aware of their surroundings while maintaining a "streetwise" appearance.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Post by Wrapitup Sun May 13, 2012 2:43 pm

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If Allison Baden-Clay's three daughters take any of the past three weeks with them into adulthood, let it be yesterday, when 600 friends and family and a city full of strangers honoured a remarkable woman who lived more in 43 years than most of us could given twice the time.

The girls led their father into the church yesterday.

They sat on his lap as he squeezed them tight, two arm lengths from their mother's casket.

Grandparents Priscilla and Geoff Dickie met them in the front pew.

Mr Dickie, a man who fought fire for a living, hugged the youngest granddaughter so tight that it felt like he'd sooner have the world dissolve around him than leave her side.

Gerard Baden-Clay rested his head against his eldest daughter's, whispering answers to her questions as they stared past a box of tissues and a memorial booklet to an A3-sized black and white portrait of Allison so beautiful it looked like a film still from an MGM classic.

His sister, Olivia Walton, reached her left hand across to her brother's shoulder, rested it there for the opening hymn: "Frail as summer's flower we flourish, Blows the wind and it is gone."

Allison's siblings, Vanessa Fowler and Ashley Dickie, somehow got through a deeply emotional eulogy that spoke of a bright spark and a bright smile that left this world far too soon.

"A life so full of adventures and rich experiences yet cut so short. She was always one to inspire you to greater things."

One of her little girls drew tissue after tissue as she heard the story of her mother's life: from a boisterous and free young woman in Redbank to the vice-captain of Ipswich Girls Grammar School to the corporate leader to the woman who gave up everything to be there for the three girls in the front pew with braids in their hair.

Every time someone told a story about Allison, Priscilla Dickie would squeeze the youngest girls that little bit tighter.

Mums and dads watched on and squeezed their own children in kind.

The pews were full, the upper balcony was full and guests spilled out to the church lawn.

There was no better way for the three girls to celebrate their mum, just after a slideshow of her life, than by placing their posies on the casket to the sound of Away in a Manger.

That was breaking point for many of the mums in the church who knew the significance of the song, the gentle lullaby that Allison sang to send her daughter's off to sleep.

"A void," said Vanessa Fowler. "A dark void."

There are many questions left unanswered, she said, not shying away from the spectre of an ongoing murder investigation that loomed occasionally over the church.

The heavens were silent, she said.

Vanessa made a pledge to Allison that her family would have those questions answered.

Best friend Kerry Anne Walker then conjured up one of Allison's favourite things: laughter.

Her infectious laugh is one of the defining things many recall about Allison. And Kerry Anne Walker shared a few laughs with the guests, before, like all who came before her, sharing a few tears.

"Allison was love," she said.

Outside the church, students from Ipswich Girls Grammar and members of the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service formed a guard of honour as Allison's casket was driven from the church.

Then, as the hearse met bustling Brisbane St, the people of Ipswich stopped and formed an honour guard of their own.

Amid the 600 guests spilled on to the lawn, friends and family embraced a weeping Gerard Baden-Clay. And in amongst all the shuffling adult bodies stood three young girls dressed in black.

Allison's two youngest angels were nestled behind the legs of their big sister, who stood silently watching the faces pass, holding her sisters' hands with a bond best described as unbreakable.

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Post by NiteSpinR Fri May 31, 2013 12:55 am

June 27, 2012

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Allison and Gerard Baden-Clay on their wedding day

The beauty queen wife. The successful husband. And the three sweet little girls, whose lives will never be the same after their father was accused of murdering their mother.

Queensland is gripped by the case of Allison Baden-Clay, the young mother whose body was found on the side of a creek 10 days after her husband reported she failed to return after a walk.

Allison's disappearance devastated the tight Brisbane community that had held the Baden-Clays in such high esteem. They were further shocked when police searched Baden-Clay's home, his office, and seized his laptop.

The police investigation revealed hints that the couple's family life was not as rosy as it looked from the outside.

Gerard had been having an affair with a colleague, and had not made much effort to hide it from mutual friends. His business was also struggling.

On June 13, Baden-Clay was arrested and charged with murder. Through his lawyers, he protested his innocence. His guilt or innocence will now be determined by the Queensland courts.

At a bail hearing last week, prosecutors alleged Baden-Clay was more than $1 million in debt and stood to gain $967,000 from his wife's insurance policies and superannuation fund.

The court heard that he had told his mistress, a fellow real estate agent, that he would be separated from July 1; he was committed to her, but had to sort out his financial situation first.

Police also alleged he'd had three affairs since 2008.

In the days before Allison went missing, the court heard he made inquiries about her life insurance and Googled 'taking the fifth' (in the United States, the fifth amendment provides that no person be required to bear witness against themselves).

On the morning he reported Allison's disappearance, prosecutors allege, Gerald Googled "self-incrimination" before he called police.

But in an affidavit Baden-Clay tendered to the court, he said he sent two early-morning text messages to his wife soon after he woke on the day she disappeared, asking where she was.

The first read: "Good morning! Hope you slept well? Where are you? None of the girls are up yet! Love G." The second read; "All, getting concerned. Where are you? The app doesn't say either. (two children) are up now. I'm dressed and about to make lunches. Please just text me or call! Love G".

Lawyers for Baden-Clay have described the case against him as weak. They said there was no cause of death determined by the post mortem and no evidence Gerard left the house on the night she died.

Baden-Clay was refused bail. His trial could be another two years away due to delays in the Queensland legal system.

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Post by NiteSpinR Fri May 31, 2013 1:16 am

March 12, 2012

Queensland MP Bruce Flegg heard a "bloodcurdling scream" on the night his neighbour Gerard Baden-Clay allegedly murdered his wife, a Brisbane court has been told.

It is the second day of a committal hearing for Baden-Clay, who is accused of murder and interfering with the body of his wife Allison, who was found at Kholo Creek in western Brisbane last April.

Dr Flegg lives near the Baden-Clay family home at nearby Brookfield and is the Member for Moggill.

Today Dr Flegg told the court he was sitting in bed on the night of April 19 when he heard a woman scream.

He said it was followed by another scream, identical but softer.

But Dr Flegg said he had no reason to think the two screams were anything to concern the police.

Dr Flegg also told the court Baden-Clay, 42, had asked him for a $400,000 loan, an option which Dr Flegg described as "pretty unattractive".

Speaking outside the court, Dr Flegg said he had known Baden-Clay for a long time.

"I am purely a citizen doing my duty, I've come forward voluntarily, I've cooperated with police," he said.


Another neighbour, Anne Rhodes, told the hearing that she heard a woman scream and a heavy thud the night before Mrs Baden-Clay was reported missing.

Ms Rhodes said she heard a number of noises.

She said she heard an argument, a woman's single scream, a noise like a sack being dropped and a squeal of car tyres.

The defence questioned why she did not mention what she had heard when she first encountered the police.

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Post by NiteSpinR Fri May 31, 2013 1:19 am

Mar 14, 2013

A forensic expert has told a Brisbane committal hearing that scratch marks on accused murderer Gerard Baden-Clay's face could have been made by his wife before she died.
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But Baden-Clay's sister today publicly declared that he is innocent.

Baden-Clay has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Allison and interfering with her corpse.

Her body was found at Kholo Creek in western Brisbane in April last year.

The crown says Baden-Clay wanted out of his marriage to be with his mistress and was also motivated by the chance to clear his debts as a result of his wife's insurance payouts.

Senior Queensland Health forensic doctor Robert Hoskins examined photos of the accused taken in the hours after he reported his wife missing.

Dr Hoskins told Brisbane's Magistrates Court today that Baden-Clay's claims the marks on his face were caused by shaving were "extremely implausible".

He said it was possible some of the injuries had been caused by Allison Baden-Clay scratching her husband before her death, but could not rule out other causes.

However, defence lawyers argued Dr Hoskins had not physically examined the accused and suggested his medical opinion was based on hearsay.

Defence counsel Peter Davis said Dr Hoskins had not referred to any "scientific learning".

Dr Hoskins said his statement dealt with the questions asked.

The barrister responded: "there's no need to be defensive".

Dr Hoskins also told the court he did not believe Mrs Baden-Clay had a fatal toxic level of an anti-depressant drug in her system, but he could not rule it out.

Associate Professor David Wells, from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, has testified that Mrs Baden-Clay's fingernails were the type that could produce the marks photographed on her husband's face, hours after he reported her missing last April.

He told the Brisbane Magistrates Court the injuries were more than three hours old, but beyond that, they could not be precisely dated.

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Post by NiteSpinR Fri May 31, 2013 1:23 am

Mar 19, 2013

The former mistress of alleged murderer Gerard Baden-Clay says he told her to "lay low" the day after his wife disappeared.
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Toni McHugh, a property manager who worked at Baden-Clay's western suburbs real estate office, has given evidence on day four of the committal hearing in Brisbane's Magistrates Court.

Baden-Clay has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Allison and interfering with her body, which was found at Kholo Creek in western Brisbane last April.

The hearing heard last week Baden-Clay was stressed, in financial trouble, and had planned to leave his wife, before she was found dead.

The court was told Baden-Clay called off his four-year affair with Ms McHugh six months before his wife died.

Ms McHugh told the court today she met Baden-Clay in 2005 and went for a job in his office a couple of years later.

She says their relationship started in August 2008 and she then broke off her own marriage because she could not continue being unfaithful.

Ms McHugh also told the court she never spoke to Allison Baden-Clay on the phone, even after she learned of the affair.

She said the circumstances around the affair were constantly sad and that Baden-Clay had told her he would be out of his marriage by the end of 2012.

She said when Allison Baden-Clay found out about the affair she imposed conditions on her husband, which included being home at a certain time and reading his text messages.

Ms McHugh told the court that Baden-Clay said he would one day leave his wife to be with her unconditionally.

She said she loved him and pressed him for a date he would commit, although he had told her he was not in a financial position to afford a divorce.

Ms McHugh also told the court that Baden-Clay had admitted to two other affairs.
Conflicting accounts

The hearing was told Baden-Clay was in financial strife, with large debts and loans from friends and family.

However, it heard conflicting accounts as to the amount of the debt.

Ms McHugh told the court that Baden-Clay's debts totalled about $1 million.

"He could hardly look at me because he was in so much trouble with owing money... to nearly $1 million," she said.

But a forensic accountant for Queensland Police, Kelly Beckett, told the court Baden-Clay's net financial position was about $70,000.

She said he owed about $300,000 to friends and family but that he was still solvent.
Shocked

The court heard Ms McHugh's relationship with the accused ended abruptly in September 2010.

When asked if it was Baden-Clay who called off the affair, she replied "yes".

Ms McHugh said she was shocked when she found out about Mrs Baden-Clay's disappearance.

During a telephone conversation Ms McHugh said she asked Baden-Clay whether they had argued before she went missing, to which he replied, "no".

She also asked him could he think of anything that triggered her going away.

Again he replied, "no".

Ms McHugh said Baden-Clay sounded very distressed during the conversation and that he told her the pair should lie low.


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Post by NiteSpinR Fri May 31, 2013 1:44 am

Plant matter found in Allison Baden-Clay's hair was not native to the area where her body was found, a court has heard.

A Queensland government botanist has told the Brisbane Magistrates Court he identified six plant species from material found in Mrs Baden-Clay's hair.

Dr Gordon Guymer was giving evidence on the fifth day of the committal hearing of Gerard Baden-Clay, who is accused of murdering his wife and interfering with her body.

Mrs Baden-Clay was reported missing from her home in Brisbane's west on April 20, 2012, and her body was found 10 days later in nearby Kholo Creek.

Dr Guymer said he surveyed Mrs Baden-Clay's house and yard and Kholo Creek.

All six species of plant found in the hair on her body were found at her house, while just two were also found at Kholo Creek, he said.

"The other species I did not see (at the Kholo Creek), even though I conducted an extensive survey," he told the court.

Crepe myrtle, cats claw creeper and fishbone fern were among the species of plant found at the Baden-Clay's home that Dr Guymer didn't find at Kholo Creek.

Eucalyptus and chinese elm were found at both sites.

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Post by raine1953 Fri May 31, 2013 2:32 am

How sad! Thanks for the update Nite!
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Post by NiteSpinR Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:01 pm

July 10, 2013

Drivers stopping at the spot where a murdered woman’s body was found have forced the authorities to create a parking area amid safety fears.

Allison Baden-Clay's remains were discovered near the Kholo Creek bridge at Anstead, 10 days after she was reported missing in April last year.

The State Government said it had turned a narrow roadside strip into parking as the scene was attracting grieving family and friends as well as strangers who have followed the high-profile murder case.

Motorists slowing down, driving erratically and performing dangerous U-turns raised fears of crashes, News Ltd reports.

Allison's family has installed a stone monument at the site in Mt Crosby Rd and plans to add a memorial plaque at the site.

"We wanted a permanent memorial as a tribute to Allison," her sister Vanessa Fowler said.

"We go there to reflect on Allison's life. It's not just to remember Allison's birthday or the day of her funeral, we go there often."

Moggill MP Bruce Flegg says it has presented a safety hazard for some time.

"I go through there regularly and there were frequently people leaving flowers and people going down there just to sticky beak.

"It's a very dangerous bit of road because the cars couldn't get off so they'd be on the verge and half protruding on the road.

"They’ve tried to make it as safe as possible to encourage cars to get off the verge of the road."

The government doesn’t encourage monuments on state land but tries to accommodate relatives, he said.

"There's a bit of concern about it but people were going there anyway," Dr Flegg said.

"While it's not supported, there is understanding for why grieving families would want to commemorate a site."

Allison’s husband Gerard Baden-Clay has been charged with her murder and is due to face trial next year.

A Main Roads spokesman said the department had been working with Allison's family to find a safe location for a memorial.

Since Allison's body was discovered, signs have been erected at either end of the bridge warning motorists that stopping within 500m of the overpass was prohibited.

But the new road reserve would be used as a turnaround and parking area for maintenance vehicles along the stretch, the spokesman said.

"It can also provide room for family and friends to stop safely to pay their respects," he said.

Memorials are allowed on state roads provided they are not distracting and do not pose a safety hazard.

Main Roads have assisted families with roadside memorials at Gaven, Tamborine Mountain and Blackbutt Range.

Under guidelines from 2009, generally a permit is required for memorials beside state-controlled roads and each is assessed case-by-case.
"Transport and Main Roads developed the guidelines with the aim of being sensitive to the needs of grieving families and communities, while balancing the safety needs of the travelling public," the spokesman said.

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