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Murder victim's name is Mr.

Harris Rectard.

The killer restrained the victim, battered him to death.

That's what you might want to think of there. Did your brother use Druster to

meet men?

Users can send messages to one another and they don't show on front records.

Well, it's the perfect tool for our killer to lure his victim.

Yeah, there was a prior murder at Cardinal Park and the victim profile's

the same, they're both gay men.

26 years apart, just find me the rejected one.

Who wants to ask about shame?

Shane was a happy boy.

The ocean boy.

Is this blood?

It is. My victim came for it. Then they often didn't. The judge came from behind

and smacked him over the head. The pointers, led by a vicious kid called

Kyle Hammond.

Hammond, he runs the green room. That's where our victim had his last drink.

I did not hurt her! I know you didn't! Put the knife down now, Rowan, and you

let her go!

Hey.

Got any sleep?

Not much. You?

No storm woke me.

Could have washed away a lot of the evidence.

Sorry.

Shouldn't have said that.

Our critical incident team are going to want to take your statement.

I don't know what they're going to ask.

But I'm not going to lie.

I don't want you to.

I had to assume he was going to kill you, so I stopped him.

I don't want to talk about it.

Can you show me that message again?

See, from that angle, it had to have been taken from the north.

While we were pursuing the wrong man, the killer was watching us.

You two got your stories straight?

Um, well, we haven't talked. I didn't think it was appropriate.

Appropriate? What are you fucking talking about?

What's appropriate is you support your colleague, you comply with CIT, you're

back to work.

The Minister wants this off the front page.

Yeah, the front page is the least of it. There's footage all over the internet.

Whoever filmed it might have footage of real men. He was there, he was watching,

he had to have been to take that photo.

Well, since we don't know, and as I have no desire to make us the butt of a

cartoonist's humour, we don't advertise that.

What we do know is that real man used Harris Rexhaj's phone to send that

message. Why?

Because he's thumbing his nose at us.

We also know that Harris Rexhaj received a call an hour before he was killed from

an Adrian Cohen who lives at Brumpton Avenue.

I've called him several times. He hasn't returned.

Well, check it out.

Uh, Tora, you take Brenda, will you? The take out of the ear.

Just tell the truth.

The truth is subjective.

Just stick to the facts. You pulled a knife and you shot him.

Hey,

hey, hey.

Hey, we should be calling this in. Yeah, you do what you need to do.

I'll be back to fix.

Adrian Cone was last seen leaving his gallery opening on January 15th, and we

presume that's the night he was killed.

He was also assaulted with a friend a few weeks before, after leaving

synagogue. We don't know if it's related. It could be nothing.

So when he called Harris Rexhaj on the 25th, just before he was murdered, the

real Cohen had been dead for up to 10 days.

So the killer keeps the victim's phones and he uses them as bait for the next.

We printed the flat.

Nothing came up on the Heller's lager bottle. The blows and the injuries were

similar to Rexhaj.

The killer is using thruster. Both of our victims let somebody in that they

were expecting.

You sent messages to all of Harris' thruster contacts. Do you have any luck?

No. Did you say police business?

Yes.

Maybe you should exaggerate. Well built, hung, horny, that should do it.

Well, why don't you do it, Tori? Dig in, find your inner male.

Use it for a change.

We have an invite list from the night of the gallery opening.

Cohen's business partner said Cohen got into a fight with Christopher Toohey.

Lee Chris Tui?

I've known him since he was a kid.

He's no killer except from the footy field.

What's the fight about?

We're not sure, but we should probably check it out.

Well, you just speak discreet.

No, it's not actually the first time I've heard Tui's name mentioned.

Detective Chalmers. Ex-Detective Chalmers and conspiracy theorist.

Chalmers has more than theories, sir. He has evidence.

This lead pipe was taken off Toohey and Hammers, 1989.

The handle is bound in leather, just as our club is.

You know, one is wooden and carved. The other one, it's no lead pipe.

Now, I don't want anyone talking to the press. I don't want anybody leaking

anything. Sir, shouldn't we alert the gay press so they can issue a warning?

Yeah, well, just keep it subtle and general. Just on... Gay meeting sites.

And for goodness sake, do not mention the word cereal.

So I take it it didn't go well with CRT?

Well, you clearly think I fucked up.

He wasn't going to stab me.

How do you know that, Tori?

You don't?

Yeah, look, sorry.

Tori's doing publicity shots for the new season. Yeah, that's great.

Look, we can make a big deal of this, or a small one.

You choose.

January 15th, Adrian Cohen's gallery. We heard you had a bit of a fight.

Can you tell us about that?

Well, I wanted to buy a painting, and Adrian wouldn't sell it.

A picture to me, and I said, where's my moral rights?

Was there anything off-key that night? Did he seem on edge in any way?

No.

You ever been to his house?

No.

Why would I go to his house?

Could you tell us what you did that night after you had your little fight?

Well, I toddled up the hill with teens and fell into bed and woke up on

Saturday.

You know a bloke called Rex Hodge?

Prop forward?

Murdered man.

Cardinal Park.

Does that remind you of something?

No. It's the first time hearing of it.

Back in the day, you used to hang out with a gang called the Pointers.

Hang out with?

It was a beach suburb. You'd go to school with kids, you'd meet them

everywhere.

Yeah, I think it was a bit more than that.

Christmas Eve, 1989, you and your pal Hammers were stopped by the police and

they took a weapon off you.

Sorry, what the hell has 1989 got to do with Adrian?

You tell us.

In 1989, my life was training and more training.

I didn't have any time for gang.

Any weapon in my hand was a football.

I'll make an appointment through my lawyer.

What do you think?

Looked like the sort of bloke who'd hop on thruster, lure a man to his death.

No.

But he's hiding something.

Youths attacked Cohen.

Could we be dealing with some kind of copycat?

In the Cohen assault report, he said they were local kids.

Three of them were laying into him and then one of them yelled out, Tex, cops

are here.

It was Friday night. There were brawls in every pub up and down the strip. We

grabbed a youth, a kid called Tech.

Did you get an address?

Samaritan House, Bondi.

A week later, I called Mr Cohen in for an ID. He never called back.

Samaritan House.

What, is that a refuge or something?

Yeah, full of juvie. A man called Thomas Katz runs the place.

Hates cops.

That'll be fun.

What's he done?

You want to talk to Tex about an assault.

Assault or fight?

Boys at 15, 17, they fight. It's primal. It's a way of expressing strength.

When you're a kid, you're powerless, but then the hormones kick in.

You think you're acting like a real man.

A real man knows that masculinity is not about being macho. It's about emotional

self-awareness, mindfulness, discipline.

Does Tex know Adrian Cohen?

No, but I know him. He's one of the local benefactors.

Yeah, not anymore.

He's dead.

Thomas, did you pick up an attitude of bias or fanaticism with Tex or any of

the other kids? If Tex has done something wrong, he's got to deal with

the consequences.

But there's a right and wrong way of bringing him to you.

What's the wrong way?

Compelling him.

I know how to protect these kids, how to reach out to them.

Protect them from what?

From people like you, quite frankly.

I know who you are, the cop on the beach.

Last time I helped a cop, someone was hanged.

Adamski. Get out, I'm done.

Get out, I'm done.

It's called Smug Bondi Buddhist.

Why is her down on Buddha?

I'm not. I was one for years.

But a lot of these Johnny-come-lately Buddhists tend to think enlightenment

shines out their arse.

Are Thruster going to come through with our killer's name?

Thruster only keep records of users who upgrade with credit. Otherwise, anyone

can sign in. Once they do, their messages are trapped on each other's

phones, which we don't have.

Everyone's masking themselves.

It's a lot of torso images.

Can we do a photo match?

Real man and macho, same sort of.

All of our victims live in Bondi.

Most likely, so does real man.

He watches them before he meets them.

But why was he at the beach that day?

Maybe Rohan knew something.

Or maybe Thomas Katz is real man.

Hey, I took your advice.

My giant thruster.

Total boy.

Who's that?

It's my brother, Shane.

You saying cool with that?

He drowned a long time ago.

What was that?

What's your take on him?

I would have thought he was a good kid until he fell in with the likes of

Hammers.

You questioned him about a 1989 October assault.

On a man named Ned Davies, who later went missing, presumed dead.

On December 17th.

December 17th. That's close enough to when you picked up the weapon of Amazon

Tui. I'd like to have it tested for DNA.

But does Phil?

Why wouldn't he?

Justice wasn't done back then.

Are you saying he prevented it?

Peel went after me at the Royal Commission.

My real crime?

I didn't fit in.

If the DNA amounts to nothing, I want it back.

Of course.

Can I ask you, when you picked up the weapon off the boys, did either of them

have blood on them?

Hammers was wearing a brand new pair of white Nikes.

One was covered in fresh blood.

It never concerned me that Ned was a poofter.

Unfortunately, not everyone felt the same.

Last known sighting of Ned was right here.

Missing ever since.

He's not missing.

He's dead.

You know, I knew a couple of the local coppers.

That made no difference.

They weren't interested in Ned. They reckoned he was asking for it.

So a mate of his, Wazza and I, we... We went looking for him.

We found his glasses.

Where?

Just over there.

How did you know they were his?

Checked the prescription.

Ned went missing on the 17th of December.

That's right.

Look, it'll probably come to nothing, but I'd like you to come into the

station, give a DNA sample, see if it matches the DNA found on a weapon that

the cops picked up in 1989.

Sham has parted with this, did he?

He thinks that it might link to an unsolved murder from 1989.

Who's the victim?

I don't know, but I'd like to find out.

It might be Ned Davies. I have his father coming in to give a DNA sample if

there's a match.

I've got some info on the kid who assaulted Cohen.

His name's Tech Palmer.

Uniforms picked him up for a prior assault.

Guess who went to court with his character reference?

Cats. Eddie Mack.

Trains with him most mornings, apparently.

Right.

Well, 7.50. We might be in luck.

Yeah, I think it'll have to wait. CRT have still got some more questions.

Sorry, can't wait.

One, two.

One, two.

Go for it.

One,

two. One, two.

Tack.

Tex Palmer.

I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I might.

Don't say a word, Tex.

Call Thomas. Yeah, call Thomas. Tell him to get down here now.

In relation to?

Assault. And murder.

We have CCTV footage from Roscoe Street that clearly identifies you and your two

mates. I don't know who they are.

Well, you knew them well enough to go looking for someone to bash.

I was pushed, so I hit back.

Hmm.

So you said you were partying on the beach?

Maybe you had something to drink? Maybe you took some drugs?

Let's make some noise for the fellas.

Where did you get that from?

Listen, Tex, I'm not interested in drugs.

You're not sobbing.

I just want to know what happened to Mr. Cohen.

Heavy dude, down the strip.

Came, rat's tail, he came up to us and offered us.

Is that man all right?

He's dead.

The hell do you think you're doing?

Now, I am well within my rights to report you.

For what? For talking?

Tex isn't under arrest. Not yet.

Tex didn't kill Adrian Cohen.

No, but he did assault him.

You are walking a dangerous line, detective.

Am I?

I was talking to Ned Davey's father last night, and he is desperate.

to find out what happened to his son.

Missing since December 1989, he went for a walk in Cardinal Park.

The old Cardinal Park was pretty dangerous, though, Faith. Yeah, well,

the danger's back with us.

Secrets you know could give answers to grieving families.

What secrets? What are you talking about?

1989.

Appointed.

I was 12, right? I had to choose.

Hang out with them or become a victim.

And were you still hanging out with Hammond on Christmas Eve 1989?

No.

By then I was over Hammond.

He was manipulative, sadistic.

He liked to cause pain, make you watch, make you participate.

In what? Violence, sex, crime.

Would you be willing to talk about it?

I have already.

You're the unidentified witness in the Mills murder.

And what about the Davies killing?

I wasn't there.

Did Pooey see Davies killed?

How would I know?

Do you still see him?

Yeah, on telly.

I am dealing with the families of the dead.

And they need to know the truth.

The truth is, you need to find the pricks who fell the ice to give and get

them up the streets.

Tex got his eyes from O'Donoghue.

The O'Donoghues were Hammond's bully boys.

They got off on violence. They haven't changed.

Go.

Brett O'Donoghue's prison record reflects a violent temperament, an

unhealthy interest in Nazis, and he's suspected of killing a transgender

woman, Ada, on the inside.

She was stripped.

Her head was shaved.

Before she was hanged.

Charming. Oh, yeah. It gets better.

Ada was, in fact, Adamski, who transitioned on the inside. Brett's

friend.

Brett was released a year ago on parole to his brother, Terry.

He sells ice.

He's got history.

Hangs around the beach. He could have taken the shot. Let's go.

I know who you are. So just stay away from me, you bitch.

You alright?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I lost Emma.

But I did get this.

We can match this to the ice we found at Harris's flat, then we've got him.

All we need to do is lay down a few LDs in the meantime, listen to the

conversations, and then we'll know if we're barking up the wrong tree or not.

Well, you are barking up the wrong fucking tree.

So, is that a yes, boss?

Look, we could have this whole case cleared in a couple of days and off the

front pages.

Yeah, okay, it's worth a pun. I'll give the minister a call, but it's phone taps

only. Yep.

You, your CIT interview is scheduled for tomorrow.

Remember, we're a team, and loyalty's important.

Hey.

You been in front of the CIT before?

I can't say it's high on my list of career goals.

You want some advice?

No.

Look, you're new around here, Tori.

People don't know who you are yet.

But there's one thing that they are going to want to know, and that's

whether you've got their back.

In other words, don't be a snitch. Okay.

You too, huh?

That lead pipe you gave me?

Have you spoken to Peel about it?

The paperwork rolled up with it.

It's got his name all over it.

Thanks, Brenda.

October 2nd, Ned Davies makes the complaint.

He mentions Kyle Hampton is one of his attackers. He recognises him from his

parents' fishing chip shop.

He also recognises a footballer who plays for Easts. Name unknown.

9th of October, Davies no longer wishes to take the investigation further.

Closed. See, you can't blame Peel. That is not what his father said.

Well, maybe he lied to his father. It happens, doesn't it?

Football has got to be Peely.

It can't be.

Says the complainant's missing or dead.

Come on, Nick. That means not once, but twice, Peel has covered for Hampton. No,

no, no.

I know Peel.

All right?

He's just not corrupt.

Look, there's corrupt, and then there's supporting a maid.

I'd say he's dancing pretty close to the line, huh?

Brenda.

Yep. Okay.

Thanks.

Adrian Cohen's phone record.

Last person to call him was Tui.

What do you reckon?

He's just in from the techies.

All right, they've triangulated his calls.

On the 25th, the phone's pinging off the mobile tower at Cardinal Park.

On the 15th, he goes home to the gallery.

Back home, then around midnight, he's in the vicinity of Cohen.

Hangs around there for a bit, and then down to Bondi.

Let's not do this in front of the kids. Let's not be discreet.

Listen, I'm getting a lot of pressure from everyone about this.

But we've been through your misgivings.

I know you didn't mean to kill him.

Thank you.

But I've got to tell the truth.

You do what you've got to do, Tori.

Where does he go?

Oh, Tiwi.

Shall we go and have a look?

Catch him in one act or another.

Open up.

Come on, open up, please, Mr Tiwi.

Detective.

Give me the phone, will you, Timmy?

Don't have it.

What are you charging me with? At this stage, nothing.

Look, I'm a family man.

You know, I'm stressed.

I'm just getting a bit of relief, a massage.

Do you need all your messers on thruster?

Where's Peele?

We just want to go over your movements for the 15th of January.

Now, I have here Adrian Cohen's phone records, and I think you told us you

last saw him at the gallery.

Is that right?

Actually, I went to his house.

I think on our last interview, you told us you'd never been to his house.

Why were you visiting him?

My wife wanted me to apologise.

What, at midnight?

In person?

Who cares what bloody time it was?

I wanted to buy the painting.

He told me someone had bought it and he slammed the door in my face.

OK. Was he with anyone?

I didn't get that impression.

But I didn't go inside.

Do you have any masseurs in common?

He is gay.

I am not.

Look, Chris, I really don't care how you get your jollies, but Section 61N of the

Crime Act states that any person committing an act of indecency with or

towards another person faces prosecution and up to 18 months in jail.

Your private life.

It's one step away from becoming very public.

Hey, Tui.

Don't worry, we'll sort this out.

Now, I would like a word with my client alone with that thing off now. Thank

you.

No, he's not gay. He just likes having sex with men.

Who knows what kind of secrets he's keeping.

Consenting sexual activity between two adults is legal, as you well know.

Police department should be careful wasting my client's time.

I know you want to go away, but it's not going to. You were picked up with

hammers with a bloody weapon in your hands in 1989.

Does the name Ned Davies mean anything to you?

Get out of my way.

Whose blood is on that weapon? This interview is over.

Talk to hammers.

What's not up?

How did Rowan get a hold of you?

I moved in close to get the knife.

You've been taught defensive measures, how to deal with a mentally ill person

with a knife?

Yes. And did you do any of these things?

Well, not strictly, but... And why not?

The situation was unique.

Where was your baton?

It was in the car.

Well, you should have drawn your pistol and used your voice to take control.

I did use my voice.

I was trying to get him to lower the weapon.

I was letting the other officers know that he wasn't our killer.

Okay, so he grabbed you, you pulled away, and then what happened?

I could see they were going to shoot.

They?

Detective Manning and the other officers.

So it wasn't just Detective Manning that made the decision to shoot?

I don't know.

I was trying to...

Tell the other officers he wasn't our man and the suspect was getting

increasingly agitated. I managed to get out of his grasp and that's when he

raised the knife and Nick took the shot. It must have been very close to his

heart because Rohan died quickly.

So would you say that Detective Manning behaved appropriately under the

circumstances?

It was a hasty shot. No, you put your fellow officer in a situation where he

felt that he had no other option.

So I'm going to recommend that you repeat basic training in defensive

tactics.

Sir, yes, sir.

You've just moved from the country, haven't you?

Yes, sir. What, Goulburn?

He'd want to be careful.

The city's dangerous.

Don't put your fellow officers in jeopardy again.

Are you happy now? You, Peel, your old boys club.

Five minutes time, you'll be down at the pub slapping each other on the back

while that poor man lies in the morgue.

Didn't go well then.

The truth is, Rohan Asad was gay and illegal and because of that no one gives

a shit, including you.

Well, actually I do, Tori.

Keep going over it, hoping the outcome is different.

What did he say to you on the beach?

His last words were, tell Harris, the wound is where the light enters.

What does that mean?

I don't know. Sorry to break up the party.

Police doctor's here. So is your DNA match.

I don't know why they couldn't have done this back then.

The technology didn't exist then.

Thanks for coming in. It's a long shot.

I thank you, detective.

I appreciate it.

Yeah. You know that Ned could have slipped and drowned.

Well, maybe, but if he was killed, I want to know.

Jill will show you that, Jill.

Can you take mine as well?

Contamination. Sure.

What's going on, Tori?

If I tell you, you have to tell Peter and I'll be off the case.

I can't put you in a position where you're not.

Your brother, you think he was murdered.

Oh.

I said a gay man went missing.

Same location, same night that Thuy and Hammers had a bloodied weapon taken off

them.

Well, I could see why you'd want to look at it as a cold case.

Nick, it's the weapon, the location, the O'Donoghues.

There was a killing epidemic that went on in the past. It went under the radar

and it is back because it was not dealt with.

Tui ran with the pointer.

He knows things.

He won't talk.

I need a way to break through that silence.

I don't need any more shit.

If I help, my assistance has to be buried so far under the cone of silence.

It never existed.

People can't remember yesterday's news, let alone what happened 26 years ago.

Who cares?

I think you'll find the public cares, Mr Stout.

I need the contact details of the detective who investigated these past

murders, the victims, survivors.

And an insider.

Someone in the gang that saw things.

Thomas Katz?

Or Christopher Toohey? He'd be a hard nut to crack.

The Toohey? He was a pointer?

Yeah. Oh yeah, baby. Now you're talking.

Can I quote you about the current murder? I don't think that would be in

the public interest. Look, detective, you'd scratch my back, I'd scratch

yours.

Thrust, are the killers using thruster to contact victims? You have different

identities. Back in 89 and 90, gangs like the Pointers preyed on gay beats

like Cardinal Park. Now the killer's using thruster.

You look like shit. Yeah, whatever.

Do we?

No, Mr.

Stout, I don't have a comment.

NRL legend Christopher Tuohy has been named among witnesses to the murder of a

man thrown from a cliff in Bondi in 1989.

One of a spate of gay hate killings and bashings linked to a gang of local

teenagers. Former detective Abel Chalmers believes it's among a hidden

epidemic of about 80 gay hate murders in New South Wales over three decades, as

many as 30 of which remain unsolved.

It was a blood sport, hunting gay men and bashing them, Mr Chalmers said this

week.

Now, the Herald does not suggest, this is a nice of them, that Tui, who was 17,

17 at the time, is directly involved in the assault or killing. And when asked

about the case, Tui replied, no, I do not have a comment.

Did either of you go to the press?

What, with the critical incident team breathing down my neck?

Charles.

I never trusted that prick.

How do you know about thruster?

Did you tell him? No, sir.

It was in the gay press, sir, on your authority.

Look, Stout's a bloodhound. If it was out there, he'd find it.

It's already getting a reaction.

Jill, can you play the tape?

Brett's got to go. He's a fucking loose cow.

He attacked a female cop and you know who she is.

You're paranoid.

No one's talked to us.

We're not under any suspicion.

Until he's frightened.

Until he doesn't talk.

Because if he talks, we'll all go down.

He's got too much to lose, he might as well top himself Bloody hell

You know about this?

Yeah, it's me.

Take it down.

No, I'm not taking it down.

There's someone luring people with that app and then killing them. You shouldn't

be on it yourself.

And neither should you.

But Don will flip if he finds out.

Why? Because his son was gay?

Because this will hurt him, Tori.

Look, Don's not going to know because Don doesn't want to know a thing about

any of it.

Do you realise we've never even once talked about the night that Shane died?

You know, we've never had one fucking conversation.

Oscar, it was me.

I went into his room, I found those magazines, and I went and told Mum and

Dad about it.

I still don't fucking know why I did that.

You're 11.

For Christ's sake.

I knew what I was doing. I was trying to get him in trouble.

In the fight.

Mum was just crying and Dad screaming and screaming and Shane walked out the

door.

It was Christmas Eve.

I never saw my brother again.

Thanks for your call.

I did all I could to make my life good.

And you ruined that with one story.

Best and fairest is a thug.

But I didn't do anything.

Have a witness, Pilly.

I was a witness myself. That's not a crime.

But you didn't come forward, and that is.

And now two men, maybe more, have been killed.

I'm convinced that what you witness is connected to these present-day killings.

You just have to talk.

Speaking out of the pride.

You knew this day would come.

I can't predict anything, but I do know people value honesty.

Really?

Christmas Eve, Chalmers and Peel took a weapon off you and Hammers. Who was the

victim?

I don't know.

Oh, for fuck's sake. You are wasting my time. Look, I grew up with Hammers, but

I never liked him.

I bumped into him on the way home from the team Christmas party.

He was pissed out of it.

waving a lead pipe in my face and saying that he'd killed another faggot.

And I asked him who and he said, oh, you'll never believe it.

Then the cops grabbed us and Peel drove me home that night and said to me, you

want a career in professional football, you've got to turn your back on scum

like Ammers.

And I did.

My brother was gay.

He died Christmas Eve 1989.

I can't tell you what I don't know.

Who did you see killed?

We were young, high on speed.

Hammers was revving up the boys and this bloke came along. They just jumped on

him, hit on him with clubs and he was bleeding.

I'm a fireman. You made a mistake. Let me walk on.

They just picked him up and threw him over the edge.

What did you do?

I shut my eyes.

I was afraid to see.

It would have nailed him, mate, when he went over.

When that poor bastard hit the rocks on you, I had to hide who I was for the

rest of my life.

The victim was Ned Davies.

His father needs to know.

No, I know I did this for you.

If you ask me to repeat this, I'll deny it.

This has to finish.

The only choice you have is whether you come in, make a statement, make it

official, or you wear a wire and you get Hammers to talk.

I'll come in with my brain first.

I'll make a statement, but that's all.

You do after that. That's up to you.

When I was a boy, my father told me that God knew everything about me,

good and bad, but he loved me anyway.

And Dad said, there could be no secrets from God.

And there should be no secrets between me and Dad.

But I was afraid.

I kept some secrets that I shouldn't have.

Then a man was killed.

Now I'm going to speak out.

Some people might say things about me that might be hurt.

And your friends?

Your friends might even reject you.

But if that happens, come to me and we'll

work it out together.

Philly.