The Evil Within - A Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals The Chilling True Stories of The World's Most Notorious Killers by Trevor Marriott Page A
Authors: Trevor Marriott
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walked back the way he had come in, his blood-soaked hands concealed in his pockets, Denyer saw two uniformed officers taking details from the registration sticker on his car, so he turned around andwalked home the other way. At home, he washed his clothes and hid the murder weapon in his back yard. Denyer told the detectives that he had been stalking women in the Frankston area ‘for years, just waiting for the right time, waiting for that silent alarm to trigger me off. Waiting for the sign.’
‘Can you explain why we have women victims?’ a detective asked Denyer. ‘I just hate ’em.’ The detectives said, ‘I beg your pardon?’ ‘I just hate ’em,’ Denyer repeated. ‘Those particular girls,’ asked the detective, referring to the victims, ‘or women in general?’ Denyer replied ‘general’.
Paul Charles Denyer was charged with the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, Debbie Fream and Natalie Russell and the attempted murder of Rosza Toth, which was later changed to the lesser charge of abduction. At his trial, on 15 December 1993, he pleaded guilty to all charges. He showed no remorse for his crimes. During the trial, it emerged that his murderous intentions started at an early age when he regularly dissected his sister’s teddy bears with a homemade knife and, when he was 10, he stabbed the family kitten and hung it from a tree in the back yard. Later on, while working at what would be his last place of employment, he allegedly slaughtered and dismembered two goats in a paddock next door.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no fixed nonparole period. He appealed to the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria against the severity of his sentence and, on 29 July 1994, he was granted a 30-year non-parole period, making him eligible for parole in 2023.
During his imprisonment, Denyer has requested to be allowed to purchase and wear cosmetics, but this has been denied. He has sought to learn of the state government’s policy on gender reassignment for prisoners and asked for evaluation to determine his suitability for such surgery, but this was rejected.
LEONARD FRASER
From the age of 15, Leonard Fraser (b. 1951) became involved inpetty thefts, before going on to commit more serious offences of robbery and numerous offences of rape. The first of these rapes took place on the morning of 11 July 1974, just three weeks after he was released from prison. He accosted a young woman as she walked along a road in Sydney’s outer western suburb of St Mary’s and attacked her from behind. The MO (
modus operandi
) he used in committing this offence was unique to him and would turn out to be his signature, connecting him to a subsequent string of similar offences. The method he used on this occasion was that he physically took hold of the woman, forcing her arm up behind her back and forcing her down an embankment, where he raped her. Fraser believed that his victim had enjoyed him sexually assaulting her and, after getting back up, he held her hand as he walked her back up onto the roadway, before making off.
On 17 July, Fraser struck again. He went into a shop where a 20-year-old female was working alone. When she went into the back of the shop, he followed her and again took hold of her by forcing her hand up behind her back. Fortunately for his victim, someone came into the shop and Fraser fled before he was able to rape her. However, his sexual urges remained, and three days later he accosted a woman as she walked along a quiet road. He punched her in the face and forced her arm up against her back. As she struggled, she tried to remain calm, and by talking to him somehow convinced him that she was indeed in the mood for sex, and suggested that they go back to his house and have sex there. This ploy worked and Fraser walked the woman hand- in-hand back up onto the road and, as soon as she saw her chance, she broke free and fled to the nearest house and raised the alarm. Fraser was soon arrested. He
‘Can you explain why we have women victims?’ a detective asked Denyer. ‘I just hate ’em.’ The detectives said, ‘I beg your pardon?’ ‘I just hate ’em,’ Denyer repeated. ‘Those particular girls,’ asked the detective, referring to the victims, ‘or women in general?’ Denyer replied ‘general’.
Paul Charles Denyer was charged with the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, Debbie Fream and Natalie Russell and the attempted murder of Rosza Toth, which was later changed to the lesser charge of abduction. At his trial, on 15 December 1993, he pleaded guilty to all charges. He showed no remorse for his crimes. During the trial, it emerged that his murderous intentions started at an early age when he regularly dissected his sister’s teddy bears with a homemade knife and, when he was 10, he stabbed the family kitten and hung it from a tree in the back yard. Later on, while working at what would be his last place of employment, he allegedly slaughtered and dismembered two goats in a paddock next door.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no fixed nonparole period. He appealed to the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria against the severity of his sentence and, on 29 July 1994, he was granted a 30-year non-parole period, making him eligible for parole in 2023.
During his imprisonment, Denyer has requested to be allowed to purchase and wear cosmetics, but this has been denied. He has sought to learn of the state government’s policy on gender reassignment for prisoners and asked for evaluation to determine his suitability for such surgery, but this was rejected.
LEONARD FRASER
From the age of 15, Leonard Fraser (b. 1951) became involved inpetty thefts, before going on to commit more serious offences of robbery and numerous offences of rape. The first of these rapes took place on the morning of 11 July 1974, just three weeks after he was released from prison. He accosted a young woman as she walked along a road in Sydney’s outer western suburb of St Mary’s and attacked her from behind. The MO (
modus operandi
) he used in committing this offence was unique to him and would turn out to be his signature, connecting him to a subsequent string of similar offences. The method he used on this occasion was that he physically took hold of the woman, forcing her arm up behind her back and forcing her down an embankment, where he raped her. Fraser believed that his victim had enjoyed him sexually assaulting her and, after getting back up, he held her hand as he walked her back up onto the roadway, before making off.
On 17 July, Fraser struck again. He went into a shop where a 20-year-old female was working alone. When she went into the back of the shop, he followed her and again took hold of her by forcing her hand up behind her back. Fortunately for his victim, someone came into the shop and Fraser fled before he was able to rape her. However, his sexual urges remained, and three days later he accosted a woman as she walked along a quiet road. He punched her in the face and forced her arm up against her back. As she struggled, she tried to remain calm, and by talking to him somehow convinced him that she was indeed in the mood for sex, and suggested that they go back to his house and have sex there. This ploy worked and Fraser walked the woman hand- in-hand back up onto the road and, as soon as she saw her chance, she broke free and fled to the nearest house and raised the alarm. Fraser was soon arrested. He
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