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The crimes of Leonard Fraser, which made international headlines with the murder of a nine-year-old schoolgirl in 1999, are chronicled in this true-crime book. In April 1999, Keyra Steinhardt was beaten, raped, and murdered in a brazen daylight attack as she walked home from school in the Australian town of Rockhampton. When her killer, Leonard Fraser, finally led the police to her body two weeks later, it was the catalyst that went on to expose him as a murderous sexual predator, and in 2005 he was found guilty of the murders of Keyra and two other women, and found guilty of manslaughter in the death of another woman. The book discusses other crimes possibly committed by Fraser, as he is currently a suspect in at least three unsolved disappearances of women in Australia, though no remains have been found. He is serving four indefinite life sentences.
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Paula Doneman is the chief police reporter at the Courier-Mail, Brisbane's daily broadsheet newspaper. She has been a journalist for 11 years, specializing in investigative journalism in crime reporting. She has covered the Leonard Fraser story from the beginning, and throughout the investigation has worked closely with the team of Queensland homicide detectives who tracked the serial murderer.
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In this overwrought police procedural, Australian investigative journalist Doneman examines the case of serial rapist and murderer Leonard Fraser, who by 2003 was reviled throughout central Queensland as one of the most vicious criminals in modern Australian history. Caught stealing at age 15, Fraser served two stints in a local boys' home whose alumnae, according to locals and officials, have wound up "committing some of the country's most heinous crimes." When Fraser was released in 1968, he began the next phase of his criminal career: raping, and later murdering, a succession of women. It was Fraser's 1999 murder of 9-year-old Keyra Steinhardt that would eventually end Fraser's 30-year criminal career and condemn him to four life sentences in prison. Readers accustomed to dispassionate, objective reporting may have difficulty with the emotional and incredulous tone that pervades Doneman's writing. In addition, attribution is infrequent and organization of the timeline proves confusing. Still, Fraser's striking story makes for a page-turning look at the development of a serial killer and the inadequacies of a penal system that, despite correctional staff who "were confident Fraser would kill," set him loose.
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THINGS A KILLER WOULD KNOW The True Story of Leonard Fraser Is he Australia's Worst Serial Killer?
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ISBN 10: 1741142318
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Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition. Softcover. Thursday 22 April 1999 started normally for Fraser. For him, rape, sodomy and murder were like making a cup of coffee - easy, natural and addictive. Nine year old schoolgirl Keyra Steinhardt was bashed, raped and murdered in a brazen daylight attack as she walked home from school in the central Queensland town of Rockhampton. This murder was the catalyst that exposed Leonard Fraser as a murderous sexual predator with a criminal history spanning more than 30yrs. The author covered Fraser's story from the day Keyra went missing. While on trial for murder, the court heard how Fraser had bragged to a fellow prisoner about murdering Natasha Ryan, whose body had never been found. A few days later, Natasha turned up in court, very much alive, a bizarre twist in the story of a brutal and cunning killer. Deemed unable to be rehabilitated, Fraser is serving 4 indefinite life sentences. This is a chilling portrait of a remorseless killer. Illus. in colour. 316pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Tiny mk. to fore-edge o/w F. with no creasing to covers. Seller Inventory # 16464
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