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Family's life of mixed emotions

On the same day every year, she walks down death row, flowers in hand, to a cell where the condemned once waited for the noose and a long drop. Within the walls of the old Fremantle prison, she lays the stems and petals down in memory of the last man to hang in WA.
January 25, 2013, 9:10 am
'Angels' return a childhood taken by violence

When Eric Edgar Cooke committed his first murder 54 years ago this week, he left an eight-year-old boy without a mother and without any memory of her.
January 24, 2013, 7:40 am
How the cops caught a killer

It was dark as hell on Rookwood Street, midnight had been and gone like a faithless lover, and the two lawmen waited silently for a killer to come calling.
January 23, 2013, 7:59 am
No escaping unharmed for Cooke victims

There is a horseshoe-shaped scar on the inside of Rowena Driscoll's left wrist, where the murderer they called a monster left his mark.
January 22, 2013, 9:24 am
Police pictures revealed

Chilling crime scene photographs and evidence gathered by police in their hunt for notorious serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke can be shown today for the first time — 50 years after the last man to hang in WA went on a murderous rampage which shattered Perth’s innocence for ever.
January 21, 2013, 9:41 am
Police pictures emerge after 50 years

Chilling crime scene photographs and evidence gathered by police in their hunt for notorious serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke can be shown today for the first time - 50 years after the last man to hang in WA went on a murderous rampage which shattered Perth's innocence for ever.
January 21, 2013, 9:34 am
Chilling murders shocked us all

Can it really be 50 years ago that The West Australian’s front page jumped out and walloped me? The memory is so sharp that it seems barely months ago that I read that my friend John Sturkey had been murdered in his bed.
January 21, 2013, 8:00 am
The making of a serial killer

Eric Edgar Cooke was a perfect fit for the serial killer type identified by criminal profilers.
January 21, 2013, 8:00 am