The Crime Scene Examiner by Vikki Petraitis

Author:Vikki Petraitis [Petraitis, Vikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, Crime Shots
ISBN: 9780987553843
Publisher: Clan Destine Crime Shots
Published: 2013-04-11T04:07:57+00:00

By this time, the anonymous caller, Theo, had told the police that he had gone to the local pub for a drink when he'd met up with a man called Joseph DeFalco, aged 30, and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Pamela. According to Theo, over several beers, the conversation went something like this:

DeFalco: Hey you know Corie, the druggie?

Theo: Yeah.

DeFalco: Well we killed her.

Theo: Bullshit!

DeFalco: Come on, we'll show you.

Theo: Orright.

And that's how Theo - who had the sense to not go alone, and picked up his brother, Con on the way, came to be at the house in Main Road West. When they got there, DeFalco had jumped up onto the table at the back of the house in order to climb through the window. Once he was inside, he had unlocked the door for his girlfriend and Con and Theo to enter. Theo told the investigators that he and Con hadn't wanted to get too close to the body and that DeFalco had gone right up to it and illuminated her face with his cigarette lighter while they had stayed as far back as they could.

And the motive: apparently DeFalco thought that Corie had broken into his parents' house a year before the murder. A ring of great sentimental value was stolen in the burglary. DeFalco had given Corie's name to the police as a suspect and the police had interviewed her, but Corie denied stealing the ring. Joseph DeFalco didn't believe her.

On the night of the murder, DeFalco and his girlfriend Pamela had met Corie at the St Albans railway station and they had again argued about the ring. Then, DeFalco told Corie about an abandoned house that he sometimes used and invited her over. Corie was perhaps persuaded by having somewhere warm to spend the night. At the house on Main Road West, the three unlikely companions drank a cask of wine, and Corie soon fell asleep on the floor in front of the hearth.

It was then that Joseph DeFalco told Pamela that he was going to kill Corie. He got a brick from outside and dropped it onto her head a number of times, crushing her skull. When he was done, he could hear her making gurgling sounds, so he rolled her over and slashed her throat with a knife. Mistaking the sound of air escaping through her severed trachea, DeFalco thought she must still be alive, so he stabbed her in the chest and neck.

All the evidence that Trevor Evans found at the crime scene corroborated the stories of those involved. The brick taken from the scene, found in the creek with blood, hair and fibres matching the body, the shoe impressions which were later matched with Joseph DeFalco's Doc Martens boots, and some of the cigarette butts found in the house had DeFalco's DNA on them. Blood from the victim was also found in the ridges of the soles of his boots. Pamela's Converse Skate Star runners matched the other shoe impressions found at the house.

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