so what, the others said you had to do it? Travers: yeah and she got all our names and we just. Travers: We were all drunk and she f****** seen us. Their conversation was chilling in its pathology: Later, he told Miss X they had burned her clothes in an incinerator in the back garden and got rid of the ashes. Travers told her to go back to his home in Doonside and get the knife with the 'brown wooden handle out of the kitchen draw' because that was the one he had used to kill Anita Cobby. Once again, Travers openly discussed the murder with Miss X. Miss X went back down in the cell and got Travers to repeat on tape what he had previously admitted. 'He's not human.'Ī mini cassette recorder was then taped to the small of Miss X's back and a small microphone was secreted between her breasts to record the conversation.
' Travers had spoken to her of the brutal acts 'with sheer joy,' she said.
Helped upstairs to where the detectives were waiting for her, she told them breathlessly, 'It's him there were five of the bastards. When Miss X came out of the meeting with Travers, she collapsed in Raue's arms. Michael Murdoch and the three Murphy brothers, Mick, Les and Gary. In a rambling discussion in whispered tones, Travers told her that he had committed the murder of Anita Cobby and told her the names of the other four people involved. 'This was for two reasons: one, it might be construed by lawyers as coercion, trying to get him say certain things and two, he might become suspicious and clam up.' John Travers' recorded conversation and admissions to the woman dubbed Miss X was a major breakthrough in the case In a following police photo, Gary Murphy shows Graham Rosetta how the five men dragged the now beaten Anita Cobby through the paddock.įor detectives Ian Kennedy and Graham Rosetta, who were part of the team which solved the horrific case, there is still the unthinkable that her killers may one day walk free. Les Murphy is pictured revealing where he and his co-conspirators had burned her clothing in the backyard of John Travers' Doonside home.Īnd then they move onto the so-called 'boiler paddock'. 'They assault in a pack for the purpose of satisfying their lust and killed for the purpose of identification.' However, they do so for the purposes of survival. 'Wild animals are given to pack assaults and killings. The extent of their savagery was best summed up on sentencing by Justice Maxwell on 19 June 1987, in which he said the killers were 'worse than animals'. And it describes the depths of depravity included celebrating his 18th birthday by having sex with a sheep and then cutting its throat. The book recounts how Travers was believed to have raped at least four other people including a teenage boy in WA. Travers then cut her throat as she fought to stay alive.Īnita Cobby's plot at the Pinegrove Memorial Park in Minchinbury in Sydney's west She was dragged through a barbed wire fence to a paddock, as her attackers argued who would have sex with her. They even stopped to put petrol in the car before driving to Reen Road. She was raped, punched and kicked repeatedly in the car and had a knife held to her throat to stop her screaming.
'We were just going to grab her handbag until John (Travers), "Let's take her with us.",' claimed his brother Gary Murphy.īut what followed was a sickening sequence of physical and sexual assaults. Mick Murphy later claimed they needed money for petrol and then they saw Anita Cobby walking down the road. Whiticker details how the gang of five stole a car, got drunk at Doonside and drove to Windsor looking to buy drugs. Then they drive the short distance to the bottom of Reed Road at Prospect, where Anita Cobby was raped repeatedly and then had her throat cut. In the first photo Murdoch, shoeless and shackled in handcuffs, shows detectives Ian Kennedy and Hugh Dundas the spot on Newton Road where he and his co-accused snatched Anita Cobby and threw her into a car.
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