Mark Sheridan Waden appeared before the Supreme Court in Brisbane for a pre-trial hearing, marking the latest step in a case that has lingered for more than seven years. The 50-year-old has been charged with the murder of his former girlfriend, Priscilla Brooten, who vanished without a trace in 2018. Despite extensive searches and repeated public appeals, Brooten’s body has never been found, yet Waden is also facing an additional charge of interfering with a corpse.
According to People, a magistrate previously ruled that prosecutors had presented enough circumstantial evidence for the matter to proceed to a full trial, pushing the case into its next phase. Waden, who has not yet entered a plea, remains free on bail while legal proceedings continue.
