Peter Falconio 20 YEARS ON THE DAY I MET THE DEVIL
Jul 15, 2021
4 minutes
• By Michael Crooks
After Colleen Gwynne inherited the outback murder case in 2002, one of the first things she did was visit the English victim at the heart of the puzzling crime. The Northern Territory police officer had just been promoted to region superintendent in Alice Springs, and she was now in charge of a case that had gripped two nations – the presumed outback murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio and the attempted abduction of his girlfriend, Joanne Lees. So far, the investigation had gone nowhere and speculation was rife that Lees was hiding something, and as a result she had grown wary of the police.
“She was very guarded,” says Gwynne of meeting with Lees at a police station,
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