Vicki Cleary

On the 14th of August, a young detective named Ron Iddles, a few weeks into his first homicide case, went to see Kehoe at his flat in Northcote.

Kehoe said that on the 17th of June, he would've been with his girlfriend, Judy McNulty, and when Iddles asked her, she agreed, and on that basis, Kehoe was eliminated.

Iddles confirmed at the inquest that he took no statement from McNulty, and nobody on the investigation ever spoke directly to Margaret Hobbs.

The coroner found that Kehoe was eliminated without proper grounds.

Miles names Peter Kehoe as the man who killed Maria James, a butcher who carries a knife, and Ron Iddles writes it up as an information report.

That same day, another woman, Josephine Reeves, calls to name her sister's boyfriend, a man who had threatened her with a knife, and the name she gives is Peter Kehoe.

A note added to her report says Kehoe had already been interviewed and eliminated on the word of a previous girlfriend.

Nobody noticed that Mrs.