David Webber
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That's a lot of mental institutions, I'd suggest.
There was no evidence, of course, as I mentioned before, of phone records being presented from that period of time.
And in 1990, Sharon Fulton's disappearance formed part of an episode of Australia's Most Wanted,
a TV show at the time, and there was no response whatsoever.
The friends that gave evidence said that they did not hear from him.
There was no reaching out to them as such, including Narelle Harrison, who's considered herself to be her best friend.
There was some slightly conflicting evidence that the fellow from the Uniting Church said that she had arrived at the house.
at some stage, but it would seem there was very limited contact, which is passing strange if you are looking for your wife, especially someone who is closely connected to people she was bowling with.
There didn't seem to be much contact with them at all from him.
So ringing around friends is contrary to what they said in court.
So David and Catherine Burney, they abducted five women and girls aged from mid-teens to 31.
The first victim was detained and murdered.
She had actually gone to the home.
She was after some tyres and he said, oh, I've got some at my house.
She went there and she was murdered and then others were abducted.
and murdered and one 17-year-old girl, she managed to escape.
So there were five victims and after the 17-year-old escaped, her name was Kate Moyer, police arrested David Burney and he was confronted during questioning with some of the evidence that they had against him and he basically told them everything and then Catherine Burney ultimately made some
I think she started making admissions out at one of the grave sites.
The women were left out in bush graves and quite horrible circumstances for all of those victims.
They were tortured before they were murdered.