‘I SPENT 39 YEARS PROVING I WAS INNOCENT’

The peaceful Perth community was shattered in the late ’50s and early ’60s when Eric Edgar Cooke committed a string of murders. Known as the “Night Caller”, Cooke was an opportunistic killer who used different methods to commit his crimes, including shooting, stabbing and strangling, as well as hit-and-run attacks.

But it wasn’t just the people he murdered who became his victims. Nineteen-year old John Button was wrongfully convicted of one of Cooke’s crimes in 1963. Sentenced to 10 years in jail, John struggled to move on with his life after his release – until he met investigative journalist Estelle