Nina Funnell

I should have asked for them to resolve the entire backlog.

Yeah.

I mean, in that moment I was, you know, I think I was 24 by then and in deep trauma, but yeah, like I walked away from that going, huh, there's a lesson there for next time.

So I spoke out five weeks after and it was because he hadn't been apprehended.

My goal at that point in time was to get him arrested and removed from the street so that he couldn't do this to anyone else.

And...

That was my motivation in speaking publicly because we know, as you know, working in media, that when you attach a face and a name to a story, it gives it more prominence in the media.

100%.

So that's why I did it initially.

They now have his DNA on file.

They've never found a match.

That's not to say that they won't now find a match given advances, particularly in like genealogy, DNA testing and so on.

Yeah.

Yes, but I think mainly for that first six months when I was waiting every day to get the phone call to tell me whether or not they'd found his DNA and whether or not – because for that six months I was in complete paralysis because –

I didn't know, are they going to call me and say, we've got his DNA and we know who he is and we're going off to arrest the guy.

You need to get ready for court.

In which case I need to preserve every detail in my mind of what happened, you know, for the purposes of cross-examination and so on.

Or am I going to get the phone call saying, you know, sorry, love, we couldn't work out, you know, we don't, we didn't get any DNA.

We don't know who he is.

In which case I need to