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Police search second house connected with man charged over Claremont murders

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Police are continuing to search a house in Madora Bay belonging to the parents of Bradley Robert Edwards - the man charged with the Claremont serial killer murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon.

Police officers were on guard at the Challenger Road property on Friday night, with the back yard under lights.

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Man appears in court charged with Claremont murders

Jamie Freestone from 7 News provides an update about the man accused of being the Claremont serial killer, Bradley Robert Edwards who appeared in court on Friday morning. Audio: 6PR.

It's understood that although the property is owned by Edwards' parents they have not lived there for some years and the house is now a rental property. They also own a property in Halls Head.

Mr Edwards, 48, was arrested on Thursday after police raided his home in Kewdale.

He appeared in court on Friday charged with the kidnap and murder of Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer in the mid to late 1990s.

He was also charged with a sex attack on a teenager at Karrakatta cemetery in 1995 and assaulting another woman in Huntingdale in 1988.

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When he appeared in court Edwards said nothing other than to confirm his name before he was remanded in custody.

He has not been charged in relation to the suspected murder of Sarah Spiers after she disappeared from a nightclub in Claremont in 1996. Her body has never been found.

Mr Edwards' home, which he bought in July 2000 - three years after Ms Glennon's body was found - was raided by police on Thursday morning, with several bags of evidence taken away.

He was charged with a series of alleged crimes over a nine-year period.

He was 29 when Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon were found dead.

It is understood he lives in his Kewdale home with his adult daughter and is the former president of a Perth little athletics club and is understood to be an electrical engineer.

In 2013, Mr Edwards and his wife at the time were awarded life memberships at Kewdale Little Athletics Club and Mr Edwards has held several positions with the sporting faculty, including president at the Belmont Little Athletics Centre in 2008.

He currently volunteers for the Belmont club as a timekeeper, photographer and website administrator.

WAtoday understands he works as an electrical engineer and may have previously held positions with Telstra and in the mining industry.

- With The Mandurah Mail

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