She has remained silent, withdrawn, not revealing her emotions (which are nobody's business in my opinion). I believe it helped her to make an escape, but it often didn't help her before and during the trial.
#PAUL HUMMINGS TRIAL#
I followed the reports of the trial and admired Joanne Lees' stoicism. (Update: Murdoch's appeal was rejected in January 2007.) Murdoch will serve at least 28 years of a life sentence, unless his appeal (due for hearing in December 2006) is successful. After a two month trial he was found guilty in December 2005. His lawyers couldn't explain how his DNA had ended up on the makeshift handcuffs that Joanne was tied up with, if he'd been nowhere near her. Murdoch is a self confessed drifter, drug runner, and regularly transported large amounts of cannabis between Alice Springs and Broome in Western Australia. But speculations revolve around paranoia and aggression induced by his heavy amphetamine use. He claims he wasn't even near Barrow Creek, had taken the Tanami Road instead (a rough bush track from Alice Springs to Western Australia. Whether he targeted them at random or followed them from Alice Springs is not known. He had been in Alice Springs the same day as Joanne and Peter, he had also visited the same fast food outlet. Murdoch was caught in the largest Northern Territory police investigation ever.
#PAUL HUMMINGS DRIVERS#
When she finally staggered back onto the highway two truck drivers stopped and helped her. Joanne waited for hours, making sure that he was really gone and not coming back. She hid in the bush as Murdoch was searching for her with his dog. It is assumed that he dealt with Peter's body during that time. He bound her hands and dragged her into his four wheel drive. Then Murdoch, holding a gun, came to her window. She later said she thought she heard a shot. Peter went to the back of the van with Murdoch to have a look, and Joanne was asked to rev the engine.
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Roughly half way between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, just outside Barrow Creek, a mechanic called Bradley John Murdoch managed to make them pull over, and told them that sparks were coming out of the exhaust of their van. On July 14, 2001, British tourists Peter Falconio (then 28) and Joanne Lees (who in October 2006 finally launched her book, the only true story!) travelled on the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs in the direction of Darwin.
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The true Wolf Creek story happened about two thousand kilometres from Wolfe Creek National Park, and not in Western Australia, but in the Northern Territory.