Unsolved Missing Perth Mother Helen Rocha

[FreoGirl]

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...spected-homicide/story-fnhocxo3-1226744018288

Very sad. My son used to go to school with one of her kids, but have not seen her in years.

 

[CAS79]

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...spected-homicide/story-fnhocxo3-1226744018288

Very sad. My son used to go to school with one of her kids, but have not seen her in years.

Searched bushland in Bertram and a house in Parmelia. I understand these suburbs are close together down near Rockingham?

It sounds like they are focusing heavily on one suspect. how old are the kids likely to be FreoGirl? It's interesting that the kids don't seem to live with her.

Freogirl as sometimes WA news is isolated from the east coast news are you able to keep us up to date with this one as this case progresses.

 

[FreoGirl]

well her daughter Chloe would be in year 10 (15 or 16) now. Andrew would be a few years older. My son started at a different school in year 4, so not sure what happened to the family. I understand she has a husband named Michael.

There's apparently been 2 other women go missing in the same area who look similar to Helen - the most recent was about a year ago. Her name is Iveta Mitchell http://aussiecriminals.com.au/2012/...iveta-mitchell-can-you-help-solve-her-murder/

 

[FreoGirl]

looks pretty grim

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...spected-homicide/story-fnhocxo3-1226744018288

 

[Oneiros]

Starting to look a little like a pattern here...

 

[FreoGirl]

Starting to look a little like a pattern here...

with the woman who went missing a year ago in the same area?

 

[FreoGirl]

looks like they found her remains this afternoon

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/21262386/property-search-in-rocha-case/

 

[Ted38]

looks like they found her remains this afternoon

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/21262386/property-search-in-rocha-case/

It seems that the Police had previously searched the property where she has now been found. Some red faces perhaps amongst the Police hierarchy?

 

[FreoGirl]

It seems that the Police had previously searched the property where she has now been found. Some red faces perhaps amongst the Police hierarchy?

I think they were always on to him as they had been there 3 times before, so not sure why the delay. Am surprised that didn't give him the opportunity to move the body.

 

[Ted38]

I think they were always on to him as they had been there 3 times before, so not sure why the delay. Am surprised that didn't give him the opportunity to move the body.

Fair comment. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they concentrate fairly heavily on the husband/partner?

 

[FreoGirl]

Fair comment. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they concentrate fairly heavily on the husband/partner?

I've been following the case pretty closely as my son used to go to school with her daughter. He hasn't appeared to have been a person of interest. I did wonder myself, as he was doing a heck of a lot of posting on facebook with their wedding pics etc (it almost looked like he was over doing the "I had nothing to do with it" panic). From what I understand, it was a family friend. This woman CLAIMS she tried to stop Helen from getting in to a car with the accused, but she sounds like a lunatic (she posts heavily on facebook)

 

[quickstraw]

Wasn't there even another woman who went missing 5 years or so ago from same area and they kept hounding the husband (because he probably did it!)?

Kwinana might give Albion Park and Adelaide a run for their money soon.

 

[FreoGirl]

Wasn't there even another woman who went missing 5 years or so ago from same area and they kept hounding the husband (because he probably did it!)?

Kwinana might give Albion Park and Adelaide a run for their money soon.

Yes - did they solve that one?

it's probably nasty to say, and it doesn't mean Helen deserved to die, but am suspecting drugs might have been involved

I am amazed by the lack of media attention compared to other Perth murders

 

[quickstraw]

I don't recall if they solved that one. So two or 3 murders of women in the Kwinana area that all seem unrelated and all are probably committed by men they have close relationships with.

And yes, I have noticed there seems to be different rules for different murder victims. The better looking someone is, the more attention it seems. Anglo women seem to rank high as well.

There's lots of Asian women and girls go missing and they seem to get little media attention. Is it because the mostly anglo media are unknowingly biased, or because Asians don't know how to work out system, or because Asians don't like the publicity, or some sort of combination of these?

Whenever an Aussie anglo drug smuggler gets caught there is massive media attention, but if they are of Asian extraction it seems to be "yep, they're one of "them"". Doesn't matter too much.

 

[quickstraw]

Also check out the link I posted in the Missing Women/SK thread. There's lots of disappearances in there that I've never heard of and have little media attention.

http://missingandmurderedaustralia.blogspot.com.au/

I think this site needs more searching ability.

 

[FreoGirl]

I don't recall if they solved that one. So two or 3 murders of women in the Kwinana area that all seem unrelated and all are probably committed by men they have close relationships with.

And yes, I have noticed there seems to be different rules for different murder victims. The better looking someone is, the more attention it seems. Anglo women seem to rank high as well.

There's lots of Asian women and girls go missing and they seem to get little media attention. Is it because the mostly anglo media are unknowingly biased, or because Asians don't know how to work out system, or because Asians don't like the publicity, or some sort of combination of these?

Whenever an Aussie anglo drug smuggler gets caught there is massive media attention, but if they are Asian it seems to be "yep, they're one of "them"". Doesn't matter too much.

I'm actually studying Journalism so probably take an interest in this too.

Going by what I have read on facebook, I think her friends and family would be really difficult to interview. Some of what I have read is hard to decipher!!!

there's a big spit (Houso's style) about who can and can't attend the funeral...will inbox you an example of the language used...

 

[quickstraw]

Just read it. Sort of goes hand in hand with the area. Kwinana is steeped in working class battler roots which often means family infighting and all sorts of dramas. Lots of drugs and stuff around so most families would have someone involved.

The working class and the Irish always seem to have a punch up at funeral wakes. can't see this being any different.

 

[Oneiros]

There's lots of Asian women and girls go missing and they seem to get little media attention. Is it because the mostly anglo media are unknowingly biased, or because Asians don't know how to work out system, or because Asians don't like the publicity, or some sort of combination of these?

That reminds me, there was an Asian girl who was murdered a few years back in Glendalough on her way back from the train station; the trial for that one just kind of disappeared out of view, I never heard if they got the conviction for that one. Anyone know what happened?

 

[vealesy]

I lived in the heart of kwinana for 2 years.

Imo the shitness stems from industrial fumes/fertiliser getting caught in the sea breeze and blowing straight over the entire town.

Looked on google earth at how green the area is compared to bushland around it, years ago.

 

[Oneiros]

I lived in the heart of kwinana for 2 years.

Imo the shitness stems from industrial fumes/fertiliser getting caught in the sea breeze and blowing straight over the entire town.

Looked on google earth at how green the area is compared to bushland around it, years ago.

I used to live about a km from where they found Rocha's body. It's an ... interesting neighbourhood.

The smell you sometimes get in Kwinana from what I've been told has more to do with the occasional wind bringing down odours from the water treatment plants to the north.

 

[vealesy]

Yes but if you look directly west there is CSBP in all its putrid glory. They "say" its safe.

I have my doubts.

 

[Oneiros]

That reminds me, there was an Asian girl who was murdered a few years back in Glendalough on her way back from the train station; the trial for that one just kind of disappeared out of view, I never heard if they got the conviction for that one. Anyone know what happened?

Managed to find it; murder of Jiao Dan by Daniel Adam Wright, convicted, life sentence, 18yr minimum non-parole. The saddest part of the case, I always felt, was that she was alive and undetected for hours before she died (blood loss+exposure), and could have been saved if someone had seen her.

 

[quickstraw]

I remember occasional turning off the Paterson Road onto Mandurah Road (driving south) and I could always smell the same factory. Don't know what it was but something is wrong if you can smell industrial fumes from a factory not withing site, with your windows wound up, every single time you drive there.

 

[FreoGirl]

 

[Hillsguy]

Iveta Mitchell..