[1] On 10 February 1966, the two co-workers had attended a rock concert with their respective friends at the Shepparton Civic Centre, but neither returned home.
[citation needed] Edmunds was also convicted of a series of rapes in the 1970s and early 1980s that led the police to dub the then-unknown offender "The Donvale Rapist".
[citation needed] Edmunds was dubbed "Mr Stinky" by a sub-editor from Melbourne's Sunday Press newspaper due to his offensive body odour, which was believed to have been caused by a mixture of milk, manure and chemicals from his work as a sharecropping farmer on dairy properties.
[citation needed] On 16 March 1985, Edmunds was arrested on unrelated charges of indecent exposure while parked in his station wagon in Albury, New South Wales.
Police sought to utilise new legislation that allows them to compel convicted prisoners to provide a blood sample for DNA testing.