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Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon all disappeared from the streets of Claremont, Perth, in the late nineties.Source:Supplied
DUSK is falling on one of Australia’s most exclusive suburbs where Australia Day is being celebrated in scorching 40C heat. But a more sinister anniversary approaches.
Claremont in Perth is a wealthy suburb much like Ascot in Brisbane, Sydney’s Double Bay and Melbourne’s Toorak.
But among the elegant million-dollar houses, boutique shops and designer chain stores which now cluster around Claremont’s Bay View Terrace, there is the shadow of the girls who were taken.
Late on Australia Day, 21 years ago, 18-year-old Sarah Spiers was enjoying the last drinks and fun of her young life.
Just a few hours later, about 2am on January 27, 1996, Ms Spiers would walk from Bay View Terrace down to Perth’s Stirling Highway and vanish into the night.
Ms Spiers had been drinking at Club Bay View and the Claremont Hotel.
The Claremont Hotel, previously known as the Continental Hotel, by night. Picture: The West AustralianSource:News Corp Australia
Two more girls would follow Ms Spiers and disappear from the same hotels, same streets.
But the bodies of Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27, were found dumped in scrubland north and south of Perth.
Perth shearer Don Spiers and his wife Carol face another sad anniversary with the uncertainty of whether their girl will ever be found.
Despite the passage of two decades since the murders, locals told news.com.au they hadn’t forgotten Claremont’s missing girls.
“It’s creepy,” one boutique shop owner under Club Bay View said, “and even though they have a suspect I don’t think the families ever get closure do they?”
Claremont is in the news after the arrest of a 48-year-old Perth man, who has been charged with the murders of Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon.
Telstra technician Bradley Robert Edwards has also been charged with the 1995 abduction and sexual assault of a 17-year-old taken from Claremont, and a 1988 indecent assault.
He has not been charged in relation to the disappearance of Ms Spiers.
An interior design shop staffer in the Claremont Quarter precinct told news.com.au that startled locals placed flowers outside the Claremont Hotel after Mr Edwards’ arrest, three days before Christmas last year.
Sarah Spiers went missing late on Australia Day, 21 years ago.Source:Supplied
It was here on June 9, 1996, that childcare worker Jane Rimmer was captured on CCTV smiling in surprise or delight at a mystery man before she disappeared.
And it was from here that lawyer Ciara Glennon was seen walking down Bay View Terrace towards the Stirling Highway and leaning into a car that had stopped.
Both were never seen alive again.
Inside the cavernous Claremont Hotel, groundsman Tony Wood told news.com.au that the pub had always been a hook-up point young people flocked to from other suburbs.
“Some people would call it a meat market, but it’s a magnet for young people and it’s right on the train line,” Mr Wood said.
“I was living down the road when Ciara Glennon was taken from here.
“People were living in fear. Parents were telling their daughters don’t go there.
“But even after the second girl, Jane Rimmer, disappeared and they found her body, young people came here because it was infamous.
“It’s been said that Ciara Glennon’s mother warned her daughter not to come here, but I suppose she did because her friends were here.
“They didn’t think it could happen to them.”
Claremont is situated in Perth’s leafy west, next to the ritzy suburbs of Peppermint Grove and City Beach, which house Western Australia’s billionaires with their huge estates and the mega mansions of the seaside rich.
The Claremont Hotel at night on Bay View Terrace.Source:News Corp Australia
The Claremont Hotel, previously known as the Continental Hotel, and Club Bayview, which now only opens twice a week, were known in the 1990s for lively drinking sessions and late night carousing.
Young people from hotels in surrounding suburbs converged on Claremont as a primary entertainment district in which to party on into the early hours.
Today’s 40C heat promises an unbearably hot night at the Claremont, but it was not much cooler on the Australia Day of 1996 when legal secretary Sarah Spiers met up with friends.
A country West Australian girl, Spiers had moved to Perth to study at the Olympia business college and had found work as a secretary with town planning company BSD Consultants.
Ms Spiers had made friends with a group of young women who, like her, were making their way in life and working out their futures in Perth.
Australia Day fell on a Friday in 1996, and Ms Spiers had gone with her girlfriends to the Ocean Beach Hotel in Cottesloe, a suburb away from Claremont.
At midnight, Ms Spiers’s elder sister Amanda picked the girls up and dropped them near Club Bay View, on St Quentin Ave in Claremont.
Club Bay View in Claremont, Perth, from which Sarah Spiers vanished in the aftermath of Australia Day 21 years ago, is open for festivities today. No one has ever been charged in relation to her disappearance. Picture: Candace SuttonSource:News Corp Australia
Just before 2am, Ms Spiers told a friend she was going to get a taxi and go home to the house she shared with her sister. She was tired.
Ms Spiers walked down the nightclub’s stairs and chatted briefly with a doorman. She then went to a nearby phone box and booked a taxi.
Police would later examine taxi records that showed a call was placed at 2.06am. Ms Spiers had told the taxi switchboard she would be waiting at the corner of Stirling Highway and Stirling Rd.
Bay View Terrace and the corner of the Stirling Highway at Claremont, around where the serial killer struck. Picture: Candace SuttonSource:News Corp Australia
Two men saw a woman police believe was Ms Spiers at the same corner, but when the cab arrived eight minutes later, she had vanished.
It takes only a few minutes to walk from Club Bay View down St Quentin Ave to the junction of Stirling Rd and Stirling Highway, which even in 2017 seems more like a busy road than a major freeway.
Six months after Ms Spiers disappeared, Jane Rimmer was reportedly seen walking along the Stirling Highway east, in the opposite direction Ms Spiers had taken.
On March 14, 1997, three young men in a car saw Ciara Glennon walking along the Stirling Highway near the 24-hour Hungry Jack’s, which is still a late night stop for revellers.
The Hungry Jack’s on the Stirling Highway, Claremont, near where Ciara Glennon was last seen alive in March 1997. Picture: Candace SuttonSource:News Corp Australia
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Bradley Robert Edwards’ arrest on eight charges, including the two alleged murders of Ms Glennon and Ms Rimmer, has aroused much interest on the streets of Claremont.
But for the family of Ms Spiers, there is only continuing agony and an empty void.
Last Australia Day, 20 years after his daughters presumed murder, Don Spiers spoke of the family’s despair.
He said that every hour of every day he thought of Ms Spiers, whose loving bond with her family was so strong that he knew immediately on January 27, 1996, that something was wrong.
The investigation into Ms Spiers’ disappearance continues and no one has ever been charged.
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Ciara Glennon.Source:News Limited
But Mr Spiers said that since Mr Edwards’ December 22 arrest, the family had been experiencing “unbelievable” anxiety.
“I’m feeling pretty bad. The anxiety is unbelievable,” he told Perth media.
“We’re very anxious because we haven’t resolved anything. Over the 20 years I’ve never ever thought there would never be a result.”
The Claremont Hotel has promised “Australia Day’s hottest party” today with a barbecue and paddling pool filled with beach balls and pink flamingoes.