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With regard to the Birnies, there is some useful information on this page about them. I can’t speak to its accuracy because elements of it conflict with other information I’ve seen, but I found some details about prison stints and their relationship timeline that seems to be accurate, at least as a starting point.
David & Catherine Birnie — MR + MRS MURDER
David & Catherine Birnie. An Australian couple that murdered 4 women ranging in age from 15 to 31 at their home in 1986, and attempted to murder a fifth. They would be forever known as the Moorhouse Murders, as the crimes all taking place in 3 Moorhouse Street in Perth.
It appears that they were in strife for their first series of crimes is June 1969. David then broke out of jail (? hadn’t head that before) in June 1970 and when they were apprehended he was given an additional 2.5 years on his sentence. From what I gather they didn’t have anything to do with each other until they found their way together again sometime around 1980-1985.
ETA: I am not dismissing LAM’s comment about them reconnecting in 1984; I’m trying to draw the broadest possible interpretation of when it might have been.
The crimes that interest me that may be related to David Birnie specifically are the ones that occurred after his release and before he hooked up with Catherine again, mainly because I think anything that occurred after they hooked up would have been them together, and their spree didn’t seem to start until 1986.
So that is Lorraine Kessey, Felicia Wilson, Cheryl Hawking, Kerryn Tate, Pauline Walter, Annette Deverell, Lisa Mott. As OES identified, it is confusing as to why some of these have been commented on as potentially linked to Birnie while others not. But there may be further reasons to eliminate Birnie from some of these, of course. There was certainly a spate of disappearances around the late 70s-1980 when Birnie for all intents and purposes seems to have been out of jail and pre-Catherine.
The two that occurred just prior to the Birnie’s spree - Cheryl Renwick and Barbara Western - I can see why those have been specifically linked given the timing and the info provided by Cheryl’s daughter, Michelle.
The article does mention that Catherine and David broke up in 1984 for a short time.
David & Catherine Birnie — MR + MRS MURDER
David & Catherine Birnie. An Australian couple that murdered 4 women ranging in age from 15 to 31 at their home in 1986, and attempted to murder a fifth. They would be forever known as the Moorhouse Murders, as the crimes all taking place in 3 Moorhouse Street in Perth.
I wonder if there's any exif data attached to the image? I'll have a look at it tomorrow at work.
I saw that.
I cannot believe somebody didn’t peg David as the sick and twisted person he was much earlier than the killing spree. Surely there must have been people who knew how dangerous he was?
With regard to the Birnies, there is some useful information on this page about them. I can’t speak to its accuracy because elements of it conflict with other information I’ve seen, but I found some details about prison stints and their relationship timeline that seems to be accurate, at least as a starting point.
David & Catherine Birnie — MR + MRS MURDER
David & Catherine Birnie. An Australian couple that murdered 4 women ranging in age from 15 to 31 at their home in 1986, and attempted to murder a fifth. They would be forever known as the Moorhouse Murders, as the crimes all taking place in 3 Moorhouse Street in Perth.
It appears that they were in strife for their first series of crimes is June 1969. David then broke out of jail (? hadn’t head that before) in June 1970 and when they were apprehended he was given an additional 2.5 years on his sentence. From what I gather they didn’t have anything to do with each other until they found their way together again sometime around 1980-1985.
ETA: I am not dismissing LAM’s comment about them reconnecting in 1984; I’m trying to draw the broadest possible interpretation of when it might have been.
The crimes that interest me that may be related to David Birnie specifically are the ones that occurred after his release and before he hooked up with Catherine again, mainly because I think anything that occurred after they hooked up would have been them together, and their spree didn’t seem to start until 1986.
So that is Lorraine Kessey, Felicia Wilson, Cheryl Hawking, Kerryn Tate, Pauline Walter, Annette Deverell, Lisa Mott. As OES identified, it is confusing as to why some of these have been commented on as potentially linked to Birnie while others not. But there may be further reasons to eliminate Birnie from some of these, of course. There was certainly a spate of disappearances around the late 70s-1980 when Birnie for all intents and purposes seems to have been out of jail and pre-Catherine.
The two that occurred just prior to the Birnies’ spree - Cheryl Renwick and Barbara Western - I can see why those have been specifically linked given the timing and the info provided by Cheryl’s daughter, Michelle.
Would there be anyway we could find out the dates David spent in prison. From most of what I've read he lived in the southern suburbs of Perth.I feel in my gut David Birnie is responsible for the disappearance of Lorraine
