Unsolved Murder of Marsha Johnson - Warnbo WA

[Krusty Crab]

In Justice Hall's findings, Bates Pets Paradise is placed at Rockingham Centre and as away from the foreshore. Roughly about 3km from where Gerard was last spotted in Kent Street.

228 At the start of their relationship EB was working as a clerk for a law firm in Perth and the accused was working for Telstra. Because EB did not have a car the accused drove her to work in his van and dropped her off between 8.00 am and 8.30 am and picked her up between 5.00 pm and 5.15 pm. She recalled that she stopped working at the law firm during the time they were living in Huntingdale. At some point she had started working casually in a pet shop in Thornlie on Thursday nights and Saturday mornings, in addition to her work at the law firm. Eventually she left the law firm to work at the pet shop, Bates Pet Paradise in Thornlie, and was then offered a full time position at Bates Pet Paradise at Rockingham City Shopping Centre.67

So EB works at a law firm, but also takes up a casual job working at a pet store while BRE is a telstra tech. What happened to all the money? 3 jobs, no kids between them.

EB then left the law firm to work in a pet store? seems an odd decision. She went from working full time in a law firm plus casual in a pet store, to working casually in a pet store, before getting an offer to work full time at a different branch of the pet store. Either pet store employees get paid more than I think, or there was something going on here.

 

[Ostins_Park]

This is eerily reminiscent of another Perth murder from the same era, the murder of Elizabeth Trenoworth in her home during the day by Dale Robert Miller.

 

[BonzaRam]

So EB works at a law firm, but also takes up a casual job working at a pet store while BRE is a telstra tech. What happened to all the money? 3 jobs, no kids between them.

EB then left the law firm to work in a pet store? seems an odd decision. She went from working full time in a law firm plus casual in a pet store, to working casually in a pet store, before getting an offer to work full time at a different branch of the pet store. Either pet store employees get paid more than I think, or there was something going on here.

EB was very close friends with one of the big Wigs for Pets Paradise. That came up in the CSK trial.

 

[Krusty Crab]

This is eerily reminiscent of another Perth murder from the same era, the murder of Elizabeth Trenoworth in her home during the day by Dale Robert Miller.

cant seem to find anything online about this? only snippet i found is a unrelated mention in a news article

 

[Ostins_Park]

cant seem to find anything online about this? only snippet i found is a unrelated mention in a news article

I know, it's very odd, I remember the case quite well but there is almost nothing about it online. The only article I could find was this one, where the killer is named Mitchell, not Miller:

Link to News article

There is another article which references the 'famous' element of this case, which was the almost photo-like identikit drawn by the police artist which ultimately brought down the perp:

West Australian article about the police artist

However, the identikit isn't shown in the article itself, nor can I find a copy of it online. Very odd that this case is seemingly buried.

With full respect to the family who may not wish for this to resurface, but I thought it would be in the public interest, especially due to the similarities with the Marsha Johnson case, i.e., seemingly committed by a perpetrator gaining access to a home during daytime hours and ambushing the victim in their own home.