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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent

Australian outback killer Bradley Murdoch never revealed where Peter Falconio’s body was. Now he’s taken his secret to the grave

Bradley John Murdoch
Bradley John Murdoch in Perth, 1995, before his conviction for the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio. Photograph: Barry Baker/Associated Press

The unofficial policy of the Northern Territory Department of Corrections was to “destabilise” prisoner number 257128.

For more than 20 years, Bradley John Murdoch was sent back and forth from the Alice Springs correctional centre, surrounded by outback red dirt and scrub, to the maximum security prison at Berrimah in Darwin’s industrial outskirts.

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