David Webber

Special Crime Squad detectives extradited Reddington back to Perth.

They were experiencing marriage difficulties and Reddington thought he would suffer financially if she left him.

The fact that there was no body, the fact that the time between the prosecution and the events was so long, 40 years.

And while people remember the last time they saw her, there were no witnesses to the crime.

The interesting thing about this one was the challenge for the prosecution because of the lack of evidence.

Other murder trials, including ones that have finished just recently,

what you end up with, with a couple of people who are accused of murder and they all blaming each other.

And that's what it comes down to.

But there's little argument about the fact that somebody is deceased because you have a body.

you have a post-mortem and you have all of this other evidence in the court, which makes it less of a challenge for the prosecution to convince a jury that a murder has occurred.

But in this case, they had to convince the jury that a murder had occurred.

The lack of evidence, I think, is what stood out to me.

And from the very beginning, you sort of thought, wow, this is going to be very difficult for the prosecution.

Probably easier for the defence in some ways to say, well, there's nothing there.

There's nothing here to prove what you say has happened.

I'm not aware of anything like this in Western Australia.

There has been at least one other case in Australia that I'm aware of, of course, is Chris Dawson, that bears similarities.

No body, a circumstantial case, sort of pieces of a jigsaw being put together.

So in March 1986, according to her husband, he'd said that he'd come home and she wasn't there.

But then he later said that he had dropped her off at a train station, so he gave different versions of events.