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CATCHING THE KIMBERLEY KILLER 35 YEARS ON

It was supposed to be a happy occasion – a wedding in the beautiful Kimberley region of Western Australia between two young people very much in love.

But only weeks before Phillip Walkemeyer, 26, and his fiancée Julie Warren, 25, were to be wed, they were murdered by German tourist Josef Schwab as part of his maniacal reign of terror, which ultimately claimed five lives and saw him renamed as ‘The Kimberley Killer’.

This month marks the

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