After attending night spots in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia, all three women disappeared in similar circumstances leading police to suspect that an unidentified serial killer was the offender.

[1] Noting the long line at the club, her friends then caught a taxi home, but Jane opted to stay, and she was last seen on security footage waiting outside the Continental at 12:04 am.

[1] Fifty-five days later, on Saturday, 3 August 1996, her naked body was found 40 kilometres (25 mi) south in bush-land near Woolcoot Road, Wellard by a family picking wildflowers.

[15][16] Nine months later, in the early hours of Saturday 15 March 1997, Ciara Glennon (aged 27), a lawyer from Mosman Park, also disappeared from the Claremont area.

[1] Nineteen days later, on 3 April, her semi-clothed body was found by a bush walker, 40 kilometres (25 mi) north, near a track in scrub off Pipidinny Road in Eglinton.

[1] After the disappearance of Rimmer, the Western Australia Police set up a special task-force called "Macro"[20] to investigate the two similar cases.

[24][25] Given evidence of a number of unlicensed operators, examining standards for eligibility were raised, and 78 drivers with significant criminal history were de-licensed.

He remained the prime suspect for many years despite a lack of direct evidence (as occurred in the cases of Andrew Mallard and Lloyd Rayney).

[2] In April 1998, a public servant from Cottesloe, Lance Williams (aged 41), was identified by police as the prime suspect, after his behaviour attracted their attention (e.g. driving around after midnight and circling the Claremont area up to 30 times)[29] during a decoy operation.

[33] However, Western Australia Police Deputy Commissioner Murray Lampard was later quoted as saying: "Dixie was closely investigated at the time and eventually ruled out as a suspect.

[38] According to ABC News, he is believed to have had no previous link to the case, though he had pleaded guilty to the aggravated assault of a social worker at Hollywood Private Hospital on 7 May 1990.

This was corroborated by a witness, a security guard, who recalled seeing a Telstra van parked on multiple occasions at the Karrakatta Cemetery "for no apparent reason", both after the 1995 attack and before Spiers' 1996 disappearance.

[5] Justice Hall then retired to consider his verdict in the case, flagging that it may potentially be handed down before Edwards's remand in custody ends on 24 September 2020.

[8] In April 2008 journalist Liam Bartlett reported that police told the father of a fourth missing woman, 22-year-old Julie Cutler, that his daughter was probably a victim of the Claremont killer.

[30] Cutler, a university student from Fremantle, vanished after leaving a staff function at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel in Perth at 9:00 pm on 20 June 1988.