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Paul Wilkinson Killed A Young Nurse (Full Documentary) Fatal Obsession _ Dark Crimes · History Dark

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  Speaker 1: In Sydney, a torrid, ill-fated affair that ends in tragedy
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  Speaker 1: and an enduring mystery. This is a lurid story of adultery, arson,
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  Speaker 1: and finally, murder.
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  Speaker 2: I was numb. I just, at first, I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to hear what they were saying.
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  Speaker 1: It started with a chance meeting at a Sydney hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Kylie Lou Bouchardier was a nurse. Paul Wilkinson, a liaison
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  Speaker 1: officer with the New South Wales Police Force. They'd met before,
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  Speaker 1: but this time, something clicked.
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  Speaker 2: It's very manipulative. Very, very manipulative. She was looking for
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  Speaker 2: something and thought that she found it.
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  Speaker 1: Soon, Kylie and Paul were in the throes of a
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  Speaker 1: wildly passionate affair. And it mattered little that they were
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  Speaker 1: both married or that Paul had a tiny baby. And
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  Speaker 1: they weren't involved in their sordid sexual trysts. They were
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  Speaker 1: madly phoning and texting each other. In just four months, 23,836 times.
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  Speaker 1: Yet incredibly, they managed to hide their dirty little secret.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be one secret you probably wish Kylie hadn't kept.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But as we'll discover tonight, when Kylie became pregnant and
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  Speaker 1: their secret was about to be exposed, things changed dramatically.
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  Speaker 3: And she was scared.
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  Speaker 2: Very scared. Very, very scared.
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  Speaker 1: These are the last haunting images of Kylie Labouchardier. What
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  Speaker 1: really happened to her, only one person knows. Paul James Wilkinson.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not telling anyone.
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  Speaker 5: Well, can you think of anywhere she might have gone?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Very, very many people leave. A pathological liar. Quite incredible,
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  Speaker 2: the stories that he actually had made up.
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  Speaker 1: It's 10 years since Kylie Labouchardiere was murdered, her body
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  Speaker 1: never to be found. In life, she was outgoing, vibrant, happy.
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  Speaker 5: Is that a good-looking woman? Oh, yeah, and the bride.
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  Speaker 2: She was beautiful. She was generous. She was very kind-hearted,
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  Speaker 2: very loving, very caring person. When she went into nursing,
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  Speaker 2: that's what she did. She cared for people. She just
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  Speaker 2: loved life.
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  Speaker 1: It was through nursing that Kylie fell for the charming,
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  Speaker 1: persistent Paul Wilkinson.
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  Speaker 4: Julie says she's never seen a deer like this before.
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  Speaker 1: Paul was a patient at Sutherland Hospital, where Kylie worked.
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  Speaker 1: They'd met before, but this time something clicked, and they
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  Speaker 1: started an intense affair. It mattered little that both were
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  Speaker 1: newly married, although Paul's wife Julie had a baby on
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  Speaker 1: the way.
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  Speaker 3: At the time, did you think there was something else
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  Speaker 3: going on.
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  Speaker 6: Not really because I was so consumed with, one, the
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  Speaker 6: pregnancy not going the way I thought it would and
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  Speaker 6: then trying to work out being a first-time mother.
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  Speaker 3: What about him? Was he at home all the time
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  Speaker 3: or was he going out?
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  Speaker 6: He was going out a lot. He would tell me
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  Speaker 6: he was going fishing and things like that.
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  Speaker 7: Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: In retrospect, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: When they weren't engaged in steamy sexual trysts, Kylie and
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  Speaker 1: Paul were endlessly texting and phoning each other. In four months,
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  Speaker 1: they made contact a staggering 23,836 times. That's more than
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  Speaker 1: once every 10 minutes, every hour of every day. The texts,
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  Speaker 1: the sheer volume of texts between Wilkinson and Kylie was
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  Speaker 1: pretty extraordinary, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 7: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not much of a texter myself, but, yeah, they
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  Speaker 8: were almost 24 hours a day, you know, seven days
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  Speaker 8: a week.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the incessant phone calls and texts, Kylie's husband, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: was also oblivious to the affair. Like Paul and Julie Wilkinson,
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  Speaker 1: they'd only been married for a year, but already the
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  Speaker 1: relationship was all but over.
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  Speaker 2: Kylie's behaviour... changed dramatically, absolutely dramatically. Kylie announced to the
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  Speaker 2: family that Sean and her were getting a divorce and
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  Speaker 2: their family were very much shell shocked. Couldn't believe that
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  Speaker 2: this was actually happening.
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  Speaker 3: Did she say why?
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  Speaker 2: She didn't really give a reason why. And at that
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  Speaker 2: point in time, the family had no knowledge of Paul Wilkinson.
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  Speaker 1: Wilkinson's marriage was also doomed. There were tensions in the household.
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  Speaker 1: He was constantly on sick leave from the police force
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  Speaker 1: where he worked as an Aboriginal community liaison officer. Wilkinson
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  Speaker 1: was eventually sacked because of his appalling work record and
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  Speaker 1: it didn't help he was a chronic gambler, a fantasist
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  Speaker 1: and a controlling bully.
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  Speaker 3: Can you give an example what sort of things he'd do?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't be allowed to wear anything low-cut. could have
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  Speaker 6: no male friends, only had a couple of female friends
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  Speaker 6: that he approved of. So yeah, it was very isolating.
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  Speaker 7: Did he ever get aggressive?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Physically violent? Physically violent, threatening.
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  Speaker 6: He'd threaten to kill me, he'd threaten to strangle me, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Over what sort?
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  Speaker 6: And I think it did get worse probably in that
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  Speaker 6: time period after our son was born.
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  Speaker 1: And it was when their son was born that things
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  Speaker 1: really got weird in the Wilkinson household. To continue his affair,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Wilkinson needed an empty nest. And so he concocted
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  Speaker 1: an extraordinary story to convince his wife to move out,
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  Speaker 1: saying that his police work had put them in danger.
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  Speaker 6: Paul then said we got death threats. It was apparently
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  Speaker 6: to do with a case and he said it'd be
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  Speaker 6: safer if I stayed at mum and dad's. So my
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  Speaker 6: son and I went straight from the hospital to my.
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  Speaker 3: Parents' house. Didn't even get to go home?
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  Speaker 5: Nope. No.
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  Speaker 7: Did you have suspicions then? No. No. Did you see
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  Speaker 7: the death threats?
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: What did they say?
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  Speaker 2: There was one that I remember vividly.
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  Speaker 6: It was my son's teddy bear stuck to the wall
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  Speaker 6: with a knife through it with a handwritten note, bye-bye baby.
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  Speaker 3: By early 2004, something had to give.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Wilkinson was busy juggling a wife, a new baby
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  Speaker 1: and a secret lover. Then in April came the bombshell.
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  Speaker 1: Kylie was pregnant.
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  Speaker 3: Did she like to confide in you? Did you feel
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  Speaker 3: you were a trusted friend as well as a mum?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, Kylie didn't confide in anybody. She was her
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  Speaker 2: own person. She was very supportive. Very secretive.
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  Speaker 3: Looking back, that'd be one secret you probably wish Kylie
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  Speaker 3: hadn't kept.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But Kylie did tell one person, Paul Wilkinson. Little could
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  Speaker 1: she know that this joyous announcement would seal her fate.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't know she was pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't know what was going on. We hadn't met
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  Speaker 2: this person. We didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: The control... That he had over Kylie at that point
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  Speaker 2: of time, yeah, no idea.
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  Speaker 1: While Kylie was looking forward to a new life with
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  Speaker 1: Paul Wilkinson, he had other ideas. Nevertheless, he agreed to
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  Speaker 1: leave his wife and move with Kylie to.
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  Speaker 3: Dubbo in central New South Wales. Well, at least that's
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  Speaker 3: what he told her.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he ever actually planned to start a
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  Speaker 1: new life with Kylie?
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  Speaker 7: I don't think so, no. He was just stringing her along.
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  Speaker 7: It looks that way. We didn't have any evidence to
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  Speaker 7: support that.
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  Speaker 1: Two days before her murder, Kylie excitedly made arrangements for
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  Speaker 1: removalists to transport her furniture to Dubbo. Then she sent
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  Speaker 1: this text to Paul Wilkinson.
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  Speaker 9: Today, and then Wednesday, and then it's Dubbo. You and
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  Speaker 9: I together forever.
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  Speaker 3: Did she tell you she was planning on going to Dubbo?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Was she ready to stop and leave?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We had no idea. But that's what she was planning
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, the secretive Kylie told her family she was going
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  Speaker 1: to the country to spend a few days with friends.
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  Speaker 1: On the 28th of April 2004, Kylie set off to
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  Speaker 1: meet Paul Wilkinson for the drive to Dubbo. With her,
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  Speaker 1: she had $ 25, 000 in cash, but she still stopped off
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  Speaker 1: here at the local ATM to withdraw even more money.
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  Speaker 1: It is the very last image of Kylie La Bouchardiere.
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  Speaker 1: When Kylie arrived here at Sydney's Central Railway Station, this
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  Speaker 1: is something she'd been planning for months. She'd been excitingly
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  Speaker 1: texting and phoning Paul all the way here. The furniture
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  Speaker 1: was already on its way to Dubbo. She just had
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  Speaker 1: to change trains and then it was a short ride
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  Speaker 1: to Sutherland where she and Paul.
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  Speaker 7: Begin their new life together.
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  Speaker 3: She had no.
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  Speaker 4: Idea what was coming next.
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  Speaker 3: She thought she was starting a new life.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He planned to end her life.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it would appear that's what happened on the night.
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  Speaker 2: Disbelief. I was numb. I just.
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  Speaker 4: At first.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to hear or couldn't... didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: hear what they were saying. It was very, very hard.
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  Speaker 5: Very, very hard.
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  Speaker 1: Kylie Labouchardiere thought she was starting a new life with
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  Speaker 1: her lover, Paul Wilkinson. But just hours after these images
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  Speaker 1: of her were recorded, She was dead. It would be
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  Speaker 1: weeks before her terrible fate was revealed.
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  Speaker 2: Alarm bells rang within me. Alarm bells started ringing. We
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  Speaker 2: kept on ringing her mobile phone and there was no answer.
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  Speaker 2: This was totally out of character for Kylie to be
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  Speaker 2: gone days, even visiting friends with no contact.
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  Speaker 1: Kylie's family reported her missing here at Gossard Police Station
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  Speaker 1: on the 8th of May. Right from the start, police
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  Speaker 1: were interested in Paul Wilkinson. Three days later, they asked
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  Speaker 1: him to come in for an interview, but he didn't
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  Speaker 1: turn up. It soon became apparent that getting the truth
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  Speaker 1: out of Wilkinson, in fact, getting anything at all, would
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  Speaker 1: be a long and tortuous business.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think the radiation might have gone? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Police suspected Wilkinson because they now had the records of
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  Speaker 1: the thousands of text messages and phone calls he and
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  Speaker 1: Kylie had exchanged. But for the next three years, he
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  Speaker 1: consistently denied having an affair with her.
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  Speaker 5: Did you ever reply to her? Yes, I did. What,
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  Speaker 5: did you ring her up or did you send her SMS?
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  Speaker 10: I didn't bring her all that often. Well, I'd say
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  Speaker 10: we'd known each other three times, two, three times. I
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  Speaker 10: made contact.
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  Speaker 8: It was a good lie. An experienced lie. It was
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  Speaker 8: an experienced lie, yes. I wouldn't say it was a
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  Speaker 8: good one, but it was an experienced one. It would
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  Speaker 8: appear that way, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I know I've wasted your time in the past, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm not... I'm beyond it now.
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  Speaker 1: But the lies just got bigger and more outlandish. In
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  Speaker 1: the days after Kylie disappeared, there was a mysterious fire
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  Speaker 1: at Paul Wilkinson's home. He claimed it was started by Kylie,
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  Speaker 1: who wanted revenge after he rejected her sexual advances.
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  Speaker 5: Can you just tell us a little bit more about
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  Speaker 5: the threats, what sort of threats she was making towards you?
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  Speaker 10: Said there was going to be harm to myself, harm
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  Speaker 10: to me little boy, and harm to Julie.
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  Speaker 4: She actually said that me little boy and Julie would
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  Speaker 4: be killed.
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  Speaker 3: What sort of lies did you have to try and
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  Speaker 3: work through?
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  Speaker 7: What type of lies did we have to work through?
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  Speaker 8: That Kylie was involved in a drug syndicate, that Kylie
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  Speaker 8: was standing over him.
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  Speaker 7: If you don't kill her, I will. Wow, I just, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I can't remember the lies of so many.
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  Speaker 1: When were you aware of this other woman, Kylie?
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  Speaker 6: Not fully aware until detectives interviewed me and they told
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  Speaker 6: me that he'd been having an affair and the amount
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  Speaker 6: of SMSs and the pregnancy.
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  Speaker 3: What was it like eating that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that was a bombshell.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Very much so.
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  Speaker 1: But despite that bombshell, Julie Wilkinson stood by her husband
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  Speaker 1: for months.
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  Speaker 9: It is now two minutes past three and we have concluded.
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  Speaker 1: He taunted Kylie's family and detectives with endless false leads
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  Speaker 1: about her fate and where he'd hidden her body.
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  Speaker 8: Before we came down here with Paul James Wilkinson, He
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  Speaker 8: said he couldn't be sure, but it's somewhere located within
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  Speaker 8: this area.
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  Speaker 1: At one stage, Wilkinson even tried to frame another policeman
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  Speaker 1: with Kylie's murder.
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  Speaker 4: The statement is true to the best of my knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: And he did try to implicate another policeman?
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  Speaker 7: He did, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And the pressure you've got is you're pretty convinced there's
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  Speaker 1: been a murder, but you don't have a body?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: Don't have a witness?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: No crime scene?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: What are the odds of success in a case like that?
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  Speaker 7: We had no forensic evidence either.
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  Speaker 1: But their luck was about to change. Julie Wilkinson eventually
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  Speaker 1: saw through her husband's lies and decided to help police.
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  Speaker 1: When did you start to think that your husband could
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  Speaker 1: have killed Kylie?
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  Speaker 6: I don't remember exactly when it was, but all the
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  Speaker 6: stories that didn't add up and didn't match and kept changing.
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  Speaker 3: How did that make you feel?
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  Speaker 7: It was.
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  Speaker 6: The fear of.
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  Speaker 2: My son's father's done this. That's hard.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to cry.
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  Speaker 4: We can stop for a sec.
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  Speaker 7: This is really.
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  Speaker 4: Normally it doesn't get to me.
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  Speaker 1: This is the moment for you where you had to
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  Speaker 1: make a decision for you and your son. And you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do something where you could both be safe.
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  Speaker 1: And soon there was another dramatic breakthrough. Paul Wilkinson sent
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  Speaker 1: Julie this incriminating text.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone has a reason for hiding a crime.
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  Speaker 7: Call me nasty.
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  Speaker 4: Call me cruel.
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  Speaker 7: Her family can live their lives in misery for all
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  Speaker 7: I care.
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  Speaker 4: Fuck them. Weapon they can have.
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  Speaker 5: Her? No.
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  Speaker 3: How crucial was that text?
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  Speaker 8: It indicated that he knew the weapon, where it.
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  Speaker 7: Was and what was used and where the body was.
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  Speaker 3: But that wasn't enough on its own.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, far from it.
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  Speaker 1: But what did finally crack the case was not one
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  Speaker 1: of Paul's texts, rather the text Kylie had so excitedly
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  Speaker 1: sent to him just before she disappeared.
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  Speaker 9: Today and then Wednesday and then it's Dubbo. You and
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  Speaker 9: I are together forever.
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  Speaker 8: For the purposes of the interview, Paul, could you please
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  Speaker 8: state your full name and spell your surname?
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  Speaker 1: There was now no way of denying the affair. Wilkinson
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  Speaker 1: was charged with Carly Labouchardiere's murder.
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  Speaker 4: I lost my temper and I just went straight for
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  Speaker 4: the throat.
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  Speaker 1: He finally confessed, but even then he claimed he only
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  Speaker 1: killed her because she was threatening his family.
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  Speaker 7: So you've lost your temper, you've grabbed her around the throat.
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  Speaker 4: And before I knew it, she was limp.
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  Speaker 8: I know it sounds like a silly question, but what
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  Speaker 8: was Kylie doing at the time?
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  Speaker 7: Was she obviously trying to scream or trying to freeze herself?
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  Speaker 4: It was a bit of a.
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  Speaker 4: Bit of a struggle.
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  Speaker 7: You've dug the hole. You've then put Kylie in the hole.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: And then you've put the dirt back on top.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: And what did you do with the shovel?
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  Speaker 5: I took it.
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  Speaker 4: I took it and I filled it in the river.
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  Speaker 1: But true to form, Wilkinson's cruel games continued. police tried
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  Speaker 1: unsuccessfully to find Kylie's body.
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  Speaker 8: We're currently on Karool Road at Moonee Moonee, directly beneath
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  Speaker 8: the Moonee Moonee Bridge.
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  Speaker 1: This is Moonee Moonee, north of Sydney, and it's here
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  Speaker 1: that Paul Wilkinson led police on a wild goose chase.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed that this is where Kylie LaBouchardiere's body was buried. Now,
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  Speaker 1: because of his police background, Wilkinson knew that they would
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  Speaker 1: have to take his claims seriously, that they would have
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to follow up each and every lead. But Wilkinson was
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  Speaker 1: playing a cruel game, one that raised and then dashed
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the hopes of Kylie's family. And he did it time
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  Speaker 1: and time again.
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  Speaker 7: After each search, it was just gut-wrenching.
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  Speaker 8: And as an investigator, you can only imagine what it
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: would have been like for the family.
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  Speaker 3: The frustration must have been enormous.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 2: I was on an emotional rollercoaster. There was just days
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  Speaker 2: and days of uncontrollable sobbing. I suffered a massive breakdown
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  Speaker 2: with the searches. I slept with the mobile phone to
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  Speaker 2: my ear.
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  Speaker 3: How would you describe what he was doing with these
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  Speaker 3: false searches?
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  Speaker 5: Very cruel.
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  Speaker 4: Very, very cruel.
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  Speaker 1: But while police never found Kylie's body, her family did
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  Speaker 1: get their day in court. And it was the first
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  Speaker 1: time they'd ever come face to face with her killer.
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  Speaker 3: What did you think of Wilkinson? When you first saw
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: him in court, what did you think of what you saw?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I don't even know how I can answer that, Brett. I, yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Among all that murdered my daughter.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: It had taken five years, but on the 22nd of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: May 2009, Paul Wilkinson was sentenced to a minimum of
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: 24 years in prison for Kylie LaBouchardiere's murder.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: That was a feeling of absolute jubilation that we had
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: won it for her. Yeah, jubilation. The whole family just
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: could not believe it. Couldn't believe it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: I fucked around with you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: For a while.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I apologize for that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Paul Wilkinson was finally behind bars.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: He played a cruel five-year game.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Of cat and mouse with police and Kylie LaBouchardiere's grief-stricken family.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: The life sentence of grief he has given to my family.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I was numb, relieved. It was very, very emotional. Very
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: emotional for all of us. Very emotional at the time. Finally, finally,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: it was over. That's, yeah. We had got a result.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: There's one thing that's not quite over, though.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: No, that's correct. We haven't found her. He holds the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: golden key, Brett. He knows what he did that night
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: and he knows where she is. And I'm hoping, within hope,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: that one day that he will let us know and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: that we will find her.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: For Paul Wilkinson's wife, Julie, it's been an incredibly traumatic
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: experience too, finding out her husband was having an affair
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and a child with another woman. and discovering he was
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a killer.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Look, don't sit and think for one second Julie's entirely innocent.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: She's lied to you through her teeth.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: But perhaps cruelest of all was the fact Wilkinson had
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: tried to implicate her in Kylie's murder.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: She was aware of the murder. She was well aware
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: of it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: What's Paul done to you?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: He ruined my life for several years.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Both him and Kylie took away my ability to enjoy
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: parenthood for the first time. He's a narcissist and I
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: don't know, he's evil.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: He's not insane, he's very cunning, but evil, yeah.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And even in prison, Paul Wilkinson is still pulling the strings,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: manipulating those left behind.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: So to this day, we still don't know where Kylie
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: was buried?
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: No.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: No.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: No.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And what does that mean for the family?
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, can't even imagine. It's got to be horrendous.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I'd like to have closure. I'd like to know that
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I can give her the funeral that she deserves. To
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: be able to talk to her. I talk to her
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: every day. I see this shining star in the sky
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: and that reminds me of Kylie.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: And you feel Kylie's looking over you?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. She's my guardian angel.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: She's still being smiley, Kylie?
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, definitely.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And she'll always be smiley Carly to me.