WA Police have denied press reports that detectives overlooked potentially vital clues in the Claremont serial killer case in the late 1990s.
The Weekend West reported on Saturday that investigators had access to video tape of traffic around Claremont on the night that Ciara Glennon disappeared - but had not checked to see who owned the vehicles in the footage.
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Ms Glennon disappeared around midnight on March 14, 1997. Police had installed a camera to monitor traffic in the area following the disappearances of Sarah Spiers and Jane Rimmer.
The Weekend West claimed the error over the video tape had been spotted by a new team of cold-case detectives but that the the job of identifying a suspect from the vision was likely to have been compromised by the 19-year-delay.
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However on Saturday afternoon WA Police denied that such a mistake had been made.
"It is WA Police policy not to comment about the Macro investigation. However on this occasion police would like to correct reports that number plates captured on video in Claremont on March 14, 1997 were not checked - that is inaccurate," read a statement.
Such a statement is a major break with tradition as far as the Macro investigation is concerned.
Normally any police comment on media stories about the Claremont serial killer is limited to the general statement; "speculation about operational lines of inquiry with regard to the Macro investigation has the potential to damage the investigation, impact negatively on any future prosecutions and to further traumatise the families of the victims."
WA Police broke with normal protocols with the comment on Saturday's story to claim elements of the article were inaccurate and untrue.
Ciara Glennon, a 27-year-old lawyer, was the third woman believed to have been murdered by the Claremont serial killer. Her body was found on April 3, 1997 near a track in scrub of Pipidinny Road in Eglinton.
Sarah Spiers, 18, disappeared on January 26, 1996. Her body has never been found.
On June 9, 1996, 23-year-old Jane Rimmer disappeared from Claremont. Her body was found in bushland near Woolcoot Road in Wellard in August 1996.
Each of the woman had been to either a pub called The Continental (now known as The Claremont Hotel) and/or the nightclub Club Bayview.
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