Unsolved The kehletts (one found ) Western Australia

[Kurve]

Link to CORONER'S FINDINGS

 

[Iworkthecircus]

Jennie KEHLET

Remains found in Western Australian outback confirmed as missing prospector

Raymond Kehlet went missing in March when he and his wife embarked on a prospecting expedition armed with just a GPS, metal detector and water

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Clues found in search for Jennie Kehlet

MAJOR Crime Squad officers have found potential clues into the disappearance of Jennie Kehlet — the prospector who has been missing for more than six months.

www.perthnow.com.au

Interesting case this one .

 

[Iworkthecircus]

It really is the wild Wild West , no police station in sandstone...
the friend whom they were camping with is sketchy but seems scared .

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I lived just down the road from Sandstone for 7 years up until Dec 2017, and there were a few dodgy things going on out there as far as prospectors go. Let's face it, outside of prospecting and maybe wildflowers, there's really no other reason to be out in that neck of the woods.

This created a lot of local interest and once he was found there wasn't much more ever said about it.

 

[Iworkthecircus]

I’m interested 4000 kms away .
You working the prison there too star.

 

[FTY1]

A dog tipped off police to a gruesome discovery in the desert after a fateful prospecting trip

A prospecting couple, their dog and their friend entered the remote WA desert five years ago, but the alarm was raised when the dog wandered back into town alone. When police went looking, they found a body down a mine shaft, a coronial inquest is told.

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Prospector describes eerie scene as he stumbled on missing WA couple's deserted bush camp

A prospector who stumbled across the abandoned campsite of a couple who went missing in remote Western Australia tells an inquest it looked like it had been vacated for days.

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Day 2 of inquest.

 

[Kurve]

A dog tipped off police to a gruesome discovery in the desert after a fateful prospecting trip

A prospecting couple, their dog and their friend entered the remote WA desert five years ago, but the alarm was raised when the dog wandered back into town alone. When police went looking, they found a body down a mine shaft, a coronial inquest is told.

www.abc.net.au

Prospector describes eerie scene as he stumbled on missing WA couple's deserted bush camp

A prospector who stumbled across the abandoned campsite of a couple who went missing in remote Western Australia tells an inquest it looked like it had been vacated for days.

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Day 2 of inquest.

What a horrible way to die down the bottom of an old mine shaft. I wonder where Jennie is, if maybe somebody took her away from the campsite.

 

[FTY1]

Couldn't find anything today but the inquest is due to go until 17 January 2020

The Court is open to the public.


Jennie Anne KEHLET (Suspected Death)
Raymond Keith KEHLET

Before: State Coroner : R V C Fogliani
Counsel Assisting: B Nelson


Location: Court 51, 5th floor Central Law Courts, 501 Hay Street, Perth
Date & Time: 6 to 17 January 2020 at 10.00am

Inquest List

Perthnow has a video.

Friend ‘a suspect’ in prospector deaths

The last person to see a couple alive in remote Western Australia remains a suspect in their deaths but has never been charged, an inquest has heard.

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Witness saw Graham Milne near the area.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Yeah, this doesn't seem so much of a whodunit as how and why?

 

[FTY1]

Suggestion made from a search expert that a possible scenario was that the Kehlets went puppy searching and Mr fell in a Shaft while looking and that Mrs got lost in the dark and eventually perished.

Lets face it a dog will always find its way home.

Dog may be behind disappearance of prospecting couple in WA outback, expert says

A search and rescue expert testifies that the dog belonging to a prospecting couple may have sparked their deaths and disappearance in the WA outback five years ago.

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[Belnakor]

Suggestion made from a search expert that a possible scenario was that the Kehlets went puppy searching and Mr fell in a Shaft while looking and that Mrs got lost in the dark and eventually perished.

Lets face it a dog will always find its way home.

Dog may be behind disappearance of prospecting couple in WA outback, expert says

A search and rescue expert testifies that the dog belonging to a prospecting couple may have sparked their deaths and disappearance in the WA outback five years ago.

www.abc.net.au

their “friend” killed them. Pretty obvious. His story makes absolutely no sense is filled with holes and lies.
Just wonder why he hasn’t been charged.

 

[FTY1]

their “friend” killed them. Pretty obvious. His story makes absolutely no sense is filled with holes and lies.
Just wonder why he hasn’t been charged.

The Office of the Department of Public Prosecutions knocked it back. I guess not enough evidence. It may be what the inquest is about.

 

[FTY1]

Suspect in deaths of WA prospecting couple unable to explain blood on his boots

The couple's friend and colleague Graham Milne, who the court heard was a suspect in their deaths but never charged, has been forced to give evidence despite concerns he could incriminate himself.

www.watoday.com.au

Friend of missing prospecting couple refuses to testify, fearing trap by police

A man named as a suspect in the disappearance of two prospectors in remote WA is compelled to answer questions at an inquest after voicing fears his evidence may "incriminate" him.

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Prospector admits changing story to police about leaving couple in WA outback

A man named as a suspect in the case of two prospectors who disappeared in WA's remote Mid West denies deliberately misleading police in their search for the couple.

www.abc.net.au

A few more articles about Graham Milne's questions.

 

[Jinty]

For what it’s worth, I reckon there may be some truth in both versions put forward at the inquest - the search officer who thinks the dog took off and Mr Kehlet fell down a shaft and Mrs Kehlet subsequently got lost; and the police who think the friend murdered them both.

Possibly: the dog did indeed take off after a roo. The Kehlets took off after it, Mr Kehlet stumbled and fell down the mine shaft. Mrs Kehlet and their friend sat at the top hoping he would regain consciousness- thus accounting for the mix of cigarettes with Mrs Kehlet and the friend’s DNA found at the top of the mine shaft.
At some point, the friend has attempted to seduce Mrs Kehlet, she’s rejected him, it’s turned nasty, he kills her. Spends the next day disposing of her body, then lies and lies to police because he’s guilty as all hell. Pffttt who prospects until 3am in the morning? For 16 hours straight? (Drugs??)

I can find no other motive for why the friend would kill them both. A sexual motive is often the most likely. And why he would spin such tall stories to police about his movements on the way home, and then backtrack. ‘Oh, well yes, now that you have evidence from my gps that I was on the gravel track, I’ll admit I was there. But then changed my mind. Then changed it again. And somehow all the security cameras on the bitumen way home missed me’. If he is in fact innocent, he’s done himself no favours by lying. I’ll bet my money he disposed of Mrs Kehlet along the gravel shortcut he’s denying going down.

 

[Truckosaurus]

For all of his lies, it'd be very difficult to get a murder conviction with one body missing and the other one down the bottom of a mine shaft with an unknown cause of death. Plenty of room to argue for reasonable doubt.

 

[Belnakor]

Possibly: the dog did indeed take off after a roo. The Kehlets took off after it, Mr Kehlet stumbled and fell down the mine shaft. Mrs Kehlet and their friend sat at the top hoping he would regain consciousness- thus accounting for the mix of cigarettes with Mrs Kehlet and the friend’s DNA found at the top of the mine shaft.
At some point, the friend has attempted to seduce Mrs Kehlet, she’s rejected him, it’s turned nasty, he kills her. Spends the next day disposing of her body, then lies and lies to police because he’s guilty as all hell. Pffttt who prospects until 3am in the morning? For 16 hours straight? (Drugs??)

the cigarettes near the shaft is a puzzling bit of information. if the husband fell in i doubt you just stand there having cigarettes waiting for him climb up.

I think the most likely scenario is the wife + the friend were banging on the side, they murdered him and at some point the friend decided to bump her off too. The prospecting until 3am is one of the more preposterous explanations of someone's time, fairly obvious that was the time when he was dumping her body.

 

[sprockets]

"A prospector whose body was found down an abandoned mineshaft in remote Western Australia had injuries to his face, neck and right hand, but his cause of death could not be ascertained, an inquest has heard. ..."

WA prospector's body had multiple injuries

A prospector whose body was found down an abandoned mineshaft in remote Western Australia had injuries to his face, neck and right hand, but his cause of death could not be ascertained, an inquest has heard.

www.news.com.au

 

[Fortune Cookie]

"Bones on the tips of three of his fingers on his right hand were also missing, she said."
from the link in the post above.

Sounds like old mate had a gun and he's blown Rays fingertips off? Defensive wound?

 

[Jinty]

I guess the important question here is - was there also Jennie or Ray’s DNA on the water bottle? If so, and they had shared the water bottle at some point, then Jennie could have transferred Milne’s DNA from the water bottle onto the cigarette (contact DNA). Unless the cigarette butt with his DNA on only had his DNA, not a mixed profile...

This article also mentioned a Jerry can full of stones at the bottom of the mineshaft with Ray’s body. WTF Why? As a counterweight if abseiling down? I can’t think of any explanation for it. Anyone?

 

[Kurve]

This article also mentioned a Jerry can full of stones at the bottom of the mineshaft with Ray’s body. WTF Why? As a counterweight if abseiling down? I can’t think of any explanation for it. Anyone?

Not sure I understand why you would need a counterweight and it being so particularly awkward? How weird. As if they all took some new psychedelic drug and wigged out although the pathologist might have picked that up on tox screens.

I cant think of one reason why a jerry can full of stones would be down there.

 

[Jinty]

Not sure I understand why you would need a counterweight and it being so particularly awkward? How weird. As if they all took some new psychedelic drug and wigged out although the pathologist might have picked that up on tox screens.

I cant think of one reason why a jerry can full of stones would be down there.

yup. Makes absolutely no sense at all. I’d love to hear even a half plausible reason for why it would be there, even if it’s a coincidence and nothing to do with the Kehlets

 

[imho]

...article also mentioned a Jerry can full of stones at the bottom of the mineshaft with Ray’s body. WTF Why? As a counterweight if abseiling down? I can’t think of any explanation for it. Anyone?

perhaps it was remnant of a makeshift weight that may have been lowered on some type of pulley ; designed to bring a heavy bucket of finds up to the surface ...
just a thought


imho

 

[imho]

"Bones on the tips of three of his fingers on his right hand were also missing, she said."
from the link in the post above.

Sounds like old mate had a gun and he's blown Rays fingertips off? Defensive wound?

you would think there may be gunshot residue(?)

picture winching finds up to ground level by using a weighted jerry can on a rope or cable ... some type of distraction at ground level causing a malfunction, totally unexpected by him below - a sudden jolt - and fingertips severed by the rope tightening as he secures the finds bucket ; neck & facial injuries caused by the falling jerry can.
how much would that weigh?



imho

 

[FTY1]

Sounds like the conclusion that is going to come out of this inquest is that Jennie Kehlet is no longer alive. Wait for the publication of the inquest for other possible conclusions.

Kehlet inquest hearings conclude, hearing of family's 'terrible, sick' feeling over fatal trip to WA outback

With a stepfather dead and a mother vanished, a family's worst-case scenario has been realised

The mystery surrounding the death of Raymond Kehlet and the presumed death of his wife in WA's outback realised their family's 'worst case scenario', a coronial inquest has been told.

www.abc.net.au

 

[sprockets]

Coroner rules man found in abandoned mine shaft was homicide victim

A prospector whose body was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft in a remote part of Western Australia was the victim of a homicide, while his missing wife is also dead, a coroner has concluded.

www.news.com.au

 

[SquiffyRae]

"I am satisfied that Ray came to harm at the base of the mineshaft. His death was violent and attributable to trauma from injuries sustained as a result of the actions of a person, or persons unknown."

Psst, Ms Coroner lady, I'll give you a hint. When 3 people go out into the wilderness to camp, one ends up murdered, one ends up dead presumably also murdered and one makes it out alive that's usually a good clue who did it.

Just a shame there wasn't more evidence found in this case cause the picture as it stands is pretty clear cut there's just not enough evidence from a legal standpoint to prosecute Milne.

I wonder though if the coroner hadn't granted him immunity whether it might be a different case. If a prosecutor could take Milne's statement and try to poke as many holes in it as possible whether you could convict Milne on such a circumstantial case