EXCLUSIVE Inside the filthy, fetish-filled home where one of Australia's most notorious serial killers hid his darkest secrets from the rest of the world
The rundown property where Claremont serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards was arrested, decades after a violent campaign of abductions, rapes and murders, has been exclusively revealed for the first time.
Eerie images of the killer's property, taken by an urban explorer, offer a rare glimpse into the private world of one of Australia's most evil predators.
Edwards' shocking murders triggered the largest, longest, and most expensive criminal investigation in Western Australi a's history, haunting residents for over 20 years.
Sarah Spiers vanished in January 1996 after leaving the fashionable hot spot Club Bay View. The 18-year-old's body was never found.
Jane Rimmer, 23, disappeared five months later after a night out with friends that ended at the same club. Her body was discovered in bushland in August 1996.
Lawyer Ciara Glennon, 27, vanished in March 1997, also after a night out in Claremont. Her remains were also later found in bushland.
Edwards purchased the modest three-bedroom home in Kewdale, 8km from the Perth CBD, for $135,000 in 2000. It sold in October 2021 for $390,000.
Shortly after the sale, the rundown building was demolished with the vacant plot listed for sale by Ray White last month with a price tag starting at $699,000.
Edwards murdered Jane Rimmer (centre), followed by Ciara Glennon (left) who both vanished from the Perth suburb of Claremont just like Sarah Spiers (right) in the late 1990s
Images show the interior and exterior of the rundown home, which forensic police tore apart hunting for evidence - including the body of Spiers and personal items belonging to the victims.
During the investigation into Edwards' crimes, authorities discovered items in his garage that were deemed too prejudicial for trial.
These included homemade sex toys, women's underwear with holes cut out, and plastic bags containing semen, women's hair and hair ties.
Scattered personal belongings, including a box of teddy bears, a stained pillow, clothing and household items, remained after the search adding a chilling sense of the owner's sudden departure.
The photos show a cluttered living area with discarded personal items, highlighting the juxtaposition of domestic life against the backdrop of criminal notoriety.
A whiteboard listing common canteen items may have been for Edwards' involvement with the Kewdale and Belmont Little Athletics clubs, where he was president.
Edwards, a former Telstra technician, was arrested in December 2016 with a seven-month, judge-only trial that began in 2019 finding him guilty of the murders of Rimmer and Glennon.
Justice Stephen Hall, in his written verdict, concluded that while the prosecution couldn't prove Edwards' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in the case of Spiers, it was more likely than not he was involved in her disappearance.
Edwards was deeply involved in Little Athletics at both Kewdale and Belmont clubs holding the position of president. This whiteboard found at his home appears to depict a list of items needed for the canteen
The back door of Bradley Edwards property in Kewdale is pictured
Justice Hall described Edwards as a dangerous predator who had sought out vulnerable young women and attacked them for his own gratification.
'Your actions were premeditated and executed with pitiless determination and remorselessness for the pain caused,' he told Edwards.
The Supreme Court trial also found Edwards guilty of the 1995 graveyard rape of a 17-year-old girl he abducted as she walked through a park after she left Club Bay View.
He tied her up, gagged her and raped her twice at Karrakatta Cemetery before dumping her in nearby bushes.
Single mother Liz Kirkby revealed how she survived an attack by Edwards in 1988 - eight years before the disappearance of Spiers - in her home in the Perth suburb of Huntingdale.
Liz, who was left with a fractured skull and two black eyes, claimed that police did not treat her case as important because she was a single mother living in a modest neighbourhood.
'I just got home from work in the evening, I worked in a bottle shop. I let the cat out, because I had kittens, that's why the door was opened. That's how he got in,' she said.
'I was just going out of the shower and he was in my toilet. He had a woman's nightie on and what I think were undies on his head,' she added.
'At first I thought it was a joke, when I saw him. I couldn't see his full face; I could see his eyes, they went dark, clearly to match his soul.
'Then he pushed me against the wall and I had a fractured skull and I fell onto the floor and he was beating me.
'I kneed him in the groin and he got off and ran out the backdoor and it wasn't until I saw myself that I realised how bad it was.
'Cause my face wasn't recognisable because it was so swollen. And the bruises and the two black eyes. He was very brutal, very strong.'
The mother-of-three claimed that not enough police resources were put into finding the man responsible for her attack.
'I think if I lived somewhere in a better suburb, there perhaps would have been more resources put into looking for him.'
Edwards is likely to die behind bars serving two life sentences with a non‑parole period of 40 years.
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