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20/02/2014

LEES & FALCONIO

– Property Inventory Analysis – SUMMARY These 26 pages document an analysis of a property inventory described as follow:

FORM 7 NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE FORCE

RECEIPT AND INDEMNITY Station: Alice Springs Reference No: 163401 Date: 15th of August 2001 The principal conclusions of the analysis of said property inventory are as follows: � The inventory lacks systematization – it is a disordered compilation of entries many of which are questionable and which suggests a concocted document; � The inventory is incomplete – items of property which are highly significant in the Falconio case are not listed which suggests a concocted document; � The inventory has entries which are meaningless – for almost all entries there is a complete lack of description which suggests a concocted document; � The inventory has entries which are deceptive – listed items of property can be quickly but falsely interpreted to support the corrupt official narrative; � The inventory confirms that property items belonging to Peter Falconio have not been accounted for – said items being ones he would have taken with him if his vanishing was voluntary; and, � The inventory has no integrity – it was prepared by the Northern Territory Police which has a record of incompetence, corruption, and violence, and it has been signed by the recipient Joanne Lees who committed perjury and who has no alibi related to the killing of Falconio, if he was murdered. FOOTNOTE Mention has been made of a security box which allegedly was fixed inside the VW vehicle (hereafter Kombi). But no images or credible documentation of this alleged box seem to exist. Given the passport and some other official, but not detailed, documents bearing the name Joanne Lees do appear on the inventory, it is reasonable to conclude all the equivalent documents of Peter Falconio should also be on the inventory. But they are not – which makes them highly suggestive facts.

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INTRODUCTION Joanne Rachel Lees amended and approved the listing on an inventory of property prepared by Northern Territory police subsequent to the disappearance from the Northern Territory of Peter Falconio on 14 July 2001. The delivery at Alice Springs to Lees then said to be from 87 Eastlands, Almondbury, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England*, was approved by a senior sergeant John Nixon (reg. no. 879). This nine-page inventory is headed as follows:

FORM 7 NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE FORCE

RECEIPT AND INDEMNITY Station: Alice Springs Reference No: 163401 Date: 15th of August 2001 Note on the official inventory the identifiers Station: Alice Springs, Reference No, and Date: 15th August 2001 are all in a different [serif ] typeface having a different point size. This suggests these identifiers were added at some time after the official inventory was signed. If they were, why were they? Also note it must not be interpreted that said inventory lists all items found within the burnt-orange Kombi vehicle which Lees and Falconio (allegedly) purchased in Sydney, NSW, and drove within Australia. On accepting and signing for receipt, Lees did not indicate on the list whether the listed property represented a complete or incomplete list of all items which were in said Kombi, or at any place where she and/or Falconio might have placed or stored their property. In fact, the list does not purport to be an accurate and complete list of every item from the Kombi or any place, nor does it identify that vehicle by description or registration plate number. The sub-heading on the nine-page document is “Property Inventory” and neither Falconio nor Lees are identified as the owners of the listed property. Lees is iden-tified by name and she applied her signature to every page on 15 August 2001 as the receiver of the items – not the owner. Ownership is raised as the number and size of certain types of items (cosmetics, toiletries, underwear) suggest the possibility of the property having belonged to more than one female other than Lees, said female(s) having possibly travelled in said vehicle at some time prior and up to the time of the vanishing of Falconio. (The Canadian backpacker Isobel Jetee/Jetté, who travelled in the Kombi in the Northern Territory, being a possibility.) Ownership is also raised as Lees received and signed for property which was not hers, property which undeniably belonged to Falconio. At the base of the first page of the document, the following appears in small type: “Strike out if not applicable” What applicable means is not defined. Lees amend-ed one property description, and struck out completely 11 listed items some of which consisted of more than one piece of property: for example, “2 x floppy discs” (entry 217) which is one listing with two items. Why the struck-out items were on the list is not defined, nor is why Lees considered them “not applicable.” Who the owner(s) is/are is not defined, nor is it known what was subsequently done with the said items after they were struck out. * 2014: 7 Ladyhouse Lane, Berry Brow, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England HD4 7QD

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LIST OF PROPERTY What follows is the listed property as it appears in italics on the official 9-page document which has 239 line entries. The listing here is a literatim verbatim listing. The order of listing is an exact replication of the order on the official document, which reveals an unexplained space between entries 108 and 109 – an entry could have been omitted intentionally or unintentionally. Items amended or struck out by Lees were lined out by hand using a writing device. Each amended or struck-out item is accompanied by handwritten initials JL and what seems to be the initials PD (believed to be Paula Dooley-McDonnell). Sequential numbering was added here to facilitate subsequent discussion. The use of commas, periods, and colons is not consistent throughout the original document – omissions might have occurred. Approximately 300 individual items of property are part of the inventory. One entry has been amended, 11 entries are struck out with a hand-drawn line through them – no details about why certain items were struck out are provided. Based on the case literature, the inventory is, very suggestively, incomplete. Entries on it are iden-tified incorrectly by Northern Territory (NT) police, which reflects an unacceptable in-vestigation documentation and/or a wilful attempt to deceive readers. 1. 1x long sleeved green jumper (no obvious markings) label girls casual wear rocky size large. 2. 1 x white short sleeved T-shirt mambo graphics on front left hand side and sleeve. 3. 1 pair of blue diesel industry denim jeans size 28. 4. 1 x Kookai blue paper bag containing: 5. 1 x pair of grey Donnany [Donnay] socks, 6. 2 x pair of black socks, 7. 1 x pair of grey two tone socks, 8. 1 x pair of black socks, blue Donnany [Donnay] brand, 9. 1 x single black socks, [sic] 10. 1 x black undies, 11. 1 x pair of pink/purple socks, 12. 1 x size 8 black knickers, 13. 1 x pair of size 8 black knickers, [sic] 14. 1 x pair of size 8 black knickers, [sic] 15. 1 x size 8-10 e+m purple knickers, 16. 4 x pair of white 8 size 8 knickers, [sic] 17. 1 x green pair of green size N/k knickerbox, [sic] 18. 1 x black pair with roses on front panel knickerbox, 19. 1 x white bra 36C, 20. 1 x 36B bra BMS tran01 white

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21. 1 x nightie marron [maroon] contessa, 22. Blue toiletry bag containing: 23. Clear plastic minute bleaching cream labelled 0 white lid empty, 24. White container – minute bleaching cream, white cream, 25. 1 x white container labelled beauty essential nail polish remover containing one pad, 26. 1 x Reach Wax dentape, 27. 1x Ponas [Ponds?] tinted moisturizer tube, 28. 1 x Opitex [Optrex?] eye drops container, 29. 1 x tube of sunshimmer suntan cream, 30. 1 x tube of veet hair removal finishing cream, 31. 1 x Nation [Nano?] brand atomizer face mist, 32. 1 x Nation [Nano?] brand facial cleanser tube, 33. 1 x tube veet hair removal cream, 34. [?] x Natio [sic; Nano?] natural vitamin E cream, [sic; file hole punched through number] 35. L’Oreal brand translucid [translucent?] makeup jar, 36. 1 x jar of Australian Body Care brand Tea Tree Oil, 37. 1 x square container ROHTO 21 for eyes – clear liquid, 38. 1 x nail polish, 39. 1 x tube of even tone freckle lade [fade?] cream, 40. 1 x tin labelled red head styling wax, 41. 1 x name tag of Fleur, 42. 1 x Natio [sic; Nano?] lip balm stick, 43. 1 x container of coverup No 17 on lid, 44. 1 x coverup in green container with gold lid, 45. 1 x container labelled No 7, lip liquid gloss, 46. 1 x clingre [clinique?] – lip liquid gloss, 47. 1 x green bic razor, 48. 1 x pink razor 49. 1 x blue toothpaste Colgate, 50. 1 x red handled culticle [cuticule?] scissors, 51. 1 x pair of tweezers 52. 1 x packet stainless steel tweezers,

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53. 1 x black hair clip, 54. 1 x makeup brush, 55. 1 x emery board, 56. 1 x pink comb large, 57. [?] x stainless steel nail clippers, [sic; file hole punched through number] 58. 1 x green shoe horn, 59. 1 x Rimmel compact mirror, 60. 1 x purple hair clip, 61. 1x Malaysian / Sen coin, [sic] 62. 1 x Opitex eye drops container, 63. 1 x sheet containing 6 panadol tabs, 64. 1 x box containing hair bleach cream Nair brand, 65. 1 x tampon, 66. Blue backpack 67. 1 x small green envelope with a card inside from a Julia – [sic] 68. 1 x soul patterson [Soul Pattinson] chemist paper bag 69. 1 x libra sanitary pad 70. [?] libra empty wrapper super ultra thin, [sic; file hole punched through number] 71. half a white paper bag with hand written in blue pen 72. “email” 73. “accountant” 74. “phone people” 75. “sewing stuff” 76. “food” 77. “Sydney flight” 78. “CNS–PPG” 79. “- - charge tag” [sic] 80. “Record shop” 81. “hair clip” ? maybe [sic] 82. “car cassettes” 83. 1 piece off white paper with handwriting 84. 1 x makeup brush PP bronze container,

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85. 1 x blush container, 86. 1 x pair of Georio [Giorgio] Armani sunglasses and case (brown) 87. 1 x black and gold circular hair brush, 88. 1 x black hair brush semi circular, 89. 1 x empty tin canister 90. 35 cents in coins, 91. 1 x black purse containing notes $110, denominations, 1 x $100, 2 x $5, 92. Foodland docket Collinswood 83 44 9644 dated 4/7/01 grocery items, $15.15 at 17.21 hours paid cash $50.15 tendered, $35 in change. 93. 1 x 45c stamp (Australian), 94. Partial beer coaster written or [on?] rear email address: TimFordoi@yahoo.com.au, Nickjreilly@hotmail.com 95. Piece of Benson and Hedges smoke packet (lights 6mg) written on rear handwriting texta [sic] and pencil 0408 241 039, simonkneafsey@hotmail.com [sic] 96. $1.50 stamp, 97. Travel pass red 3 x $1.50 Australian stamps, 98. Kurrara Guesthouse Blue Mountains business animal, [sic] 99. Thomas Cook travel consultant business card in name of Joanne Lees 100. NSW city rail pass 17/5 – Wyard [Wynyard] and Newton [Newtown] 101. 1 x passport photo Joanne Lees 102. 1 x Thomas Cook travel card Joanne Lees, 103. 1 x Commonwealth Bank receipt dated 30/6/01 Leongatra [Leongatha] in Victoria time 11.08 hours account balance $2,421.00, card number 601 335 318 [sic] 104. Piece of paper with handwritten “Tracey 0416 197 551” 105. Piece of blue paper “Jo, it would give me great pleasure etc. refer to photograph”. 106. Receipt [sic] 107. Part of beer coaster, handwritten www.simonkenafsy.com.ok, [sic] simonkenafsy@hotmail.com [sic] 108. 1 x ID card Johnny’s nightclub Huddersfield 51211 in name of Joanne Rachel Lees, 87 Eastlands Almondbury Muds [sic] DOB 25/9/73 [sic]

space here on original document

109. 1 x HSBC card in name of Joanne R Lees valid Feb 03 card number 601335011 0359120318 [sic]

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110. YHA card England and Wales in name of Joanne Lees number 018 3420552 dated 25/9/73, expiry 15/11/01. 111. Halifax visa card of J.R. Lees expiry 1/03 number 4556 470800395415 112. Flc card flexible learning centre, business card. Handwritten 23 Tue 6-8, 25 Thur 6-8, 30 Tue 6-8, closed 15-23 June, 113. Coins $12.35 Australian, 114. 1 x two pence, 115. Black and Tan suitcase 116. 1 x empty Thomas Cook exchange plastic bag, 117. 1 x large blue towel with words colour [color/colors?] of benetton, 118. Black cardigan long sleeved “Portmans” Brand size small timber particle [sic] on front, 119. White “Gap Brand” shirt sleeveless, 120. 1 x red “Kookai” singlet 10p with flower motif on front, 121. 1 x “zimmeran” [Zimmermann?] brand pink Tshirt, 122. Denim faded shirt “Romp Grand” size medium containing Thomas Cook business card “”Karen Nunn” [sic] is name on card 175 Pitt Street Sydney, 123. “Done” plastic envelope 21 p 10p [sic] containing a “Done” bikini orange, pink, blue, strip, [sic] 124. “Done” plastic envelope containing purple bikini, 125. 1 x loveable zebra print bra size 14C, 126. Black Thomas Cook “Duckwater” brand [sic] 127. White bra “knickerbox” brand, no size. 128. Pair of black slip on high heels Phillips Raphel [Filippo Raphael?] brand no

size, 129. Black bra “next” brand 36B 130. 1 x hairdryer and adaptor plug US Sasoon [Sassoon?] brand, 131. 1 x green shorts size 10 St Michael’s brand, 132. 1 x pair of lace up “quicksilver” brand grey shorts, 133. 1 x pair of elastic wasted blue and white shorts, 134. Black bra “Morgan” brand UK size 14, 135. 1 x black lace-up “Lipsesy” [Lipsy?] brand top, 136. 1 x “Claudia Shabo” [?; unverified] brand black knickers, 137. 1 x box of unopened libra tampons, 138. 1 x pair of black socks, 139. 1 x white electrical adaptor,

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140. 1 x receipt Emporer [sic; Emperor] Shoe Company name of JR Lees dated 10/2/00 141. 2 x brown toothbrushes electric type, 142. Hair dressing card Private@Salon Singapore 143. 1 x pair of “warehouse” brand cargo pants size 8, 144. 1 x pair of grey long pants size and make unknown, 145. 1 x pair of long 3/4 pants with silver trim, 146. Black bustier next size 10, 147. Black/grey/silver bustier, no size or make, 148. Grey “warehouse” silver sequins size 10 bustier, 149. Pink bustier no size, 150. White “Events” brand size 10 wrap skirt, 151. Dymocks plastic bag containing a lavreni [?; unverified] size 10 bone bustier, 152. Power adaptor cords black, red and white, 153. Pink plastic containing a pink scarf, 154. [?] tampons, [sic; file hole punched through number] 155. Black bustier, Miss Seltidge [Selfridge], size 12, 156. Dymocks blue pen “Wynyard” 157. Purple paper containing “Eartnangle” [sic; Earth Angel?] brand size M dress, Kookai paper, 158. rape alarm Mini torch and pager style thing with cord. 159. Blue Berghaus backpack [Blue Berghaus lined out, amended with blue mountain craft handwritten after backpack, initialed with JL and PD] 160. St Patricks Tavern drink coasters, 161. newspaper clipping [sic; no details re newspaper or date] 162. house warming invite [sic; no details re address or date] 163. Two postcards to Jo and Pete 164. Hotel Alice business card Nepal, 165. Singapore International Docet [sic; no details of docket or date] 166. Carwash Disco Flyer, 167. Prouds jewellery Pouch, [sic] 168. Joanne Lees reference [sic; no details of provider or date] 169. Post Card from Frazer Island 170. Two blank St. Patrick’s drink coasters

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171. Blackbird café postcard 172. Thailand rail-ticket 173. List of staff likes and dislikes 174. One black bird business card 175. Assorted photos 176. Yellow plastic envelope 177. Ac [sic] adaptor x 2 and plugs, 178. Six individual CD’s; Be here now – Oasis, Embrace, Drawn from Memory, Radiohead Ok computer U2 – all that you can’t leave behind, Madonna FNWSIC [?; unverified] Garage – in the mix 179. one pen 180. Documentation [sic] 181. Blue bag – containing head phones [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 182. Construction industry training advisory Board NSW, training OH+S card name of Peter Falconio, certificate number NW 007 5556, workcover course c105267, dated 15/3/01, 183. British Passport no. 027 220817 in name of Joanne Lees 184. Tiger beer calendar 2001 185. Club direct claim envelope 186. Sharp Warranty 187. National Panasonic tourist warranty 188. International Vaccination records x one of Jonanne Lees [sic] 189. List detailing 190. – HSBC – collect cards, 191. – Lush, 192. – Post CV to Multiplex Job Agency, 193. – May walk to Bondi Junction and distribute CV’s, 194. – Things to buy – suntan cream, hair leave in conditioner, silver convert car [sic], bikini, 195. Photocopy of Joanne Lees Drivers’ Licence, [sic] 196. Bon voyage card, post marked UK, 197. Thomas Cook travel documents, in name of Lees/Falconio, flight tickets for bookings 198. Panasonic walkman portable CD player, serial FBOEA06192, 199. Box of CD’s x 33, black zipper type box container,

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200. 1 x Kookai bag, 201. 1 x blue toiletry pack, 202. Blue shirt, white Tshirt, jeans [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 203. White joggers, 204. Tan/Black case, 205. Grey and Black jacket – hooded letter DUFFER across front diagonally, 206. Bag containing open weave, [sic] 207. Green undies, 208. Pink undies, 209. Black undies, 210. Blue and white striped travel iron, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 211. Shoe box [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 212. Vitamin E, 213. Leave in conditioner, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD 214. Calamine lotion, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 215. Cotton buds, 216. Body shop bag containing hair ties, 217. 2 x floppy discs, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] Why not applicable? 218. 1 x sculpture lotion, 219. [?]atio bag containing [file hole punched through first letter] 220. four red Beaded red jewellery braclets silver necklace, 221. Battery charger A/C adaptor, 222. Shell necklace on fishing line [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 223. Gold necklace with blue stone pendant, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 224. Sure deodorant, 225. Solpeaine tablets. [sic; solpadeine; lined out,, initialed with JL and PD] 226. Green socks, 227. Back Gammon (game) wooden game, [sic] 228. Piatza Flyer phone, no recorded on back in handwriting Mitchelle 0403 895 845 Gin – 0438 144 106. 229. [S?]ony SRS 917 speakers, [sic; file hole punched through first letter; lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 230. Photos [sic; no number] 231. Photo of Tess [sic; no surname]

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232. Blue Cargo pants 233. Green bag containing hair ties 234. Giorgio Armani Sunglasses 235. Green polo fleece jacket Berghaus brand 236. Brown wallet 237. Panasonic discman 238. Ericson [Ericcson] mobile phone battery 239. batterycharger [sic] INDIVIDUAL ENTRY CONCERNS Throughout the list there are entries which prompt many significant questions which should have been answered during a trial. But what took place in Darwin in 2005 was a show trial conducted by a kangaroo court. Questions and concerns were not addressed as the determination of truth was not the purpose of this trial. 66. Blue backpack no size; no brand name; no external description; no description of contents if any; no location (where found) description; etc. Who used this backpack and when cannot be determined from the inventory and answers should have been determined in a sound (not show) trial. 77. “Sydney flight” Nowhere in the inventory is this flight ticket to Sydney listed. Lees claimed that she planned to have a holiday within a holiday by returning to see her many friends in Sydney. What happened to this flight ticket, if Lees did buy one as she alleges she did? 78. “CNS–PPG” These are 3-letter codes for international airports. CNS is Cairns, Queensland. PPG is the code for Pago Pago (pop. c.12,000), capital of American Samoa which is located in the west of the South Pacific Ocean. The air distance between the two places is c.4500 kms and it is believed there were no CNS- PPG flights in 2001. The entry suggests that either Lees made an error on her list, or the cop who transcribed Lees’ original note onto the original inven- tory made a mistake, of the entry was a wilful attempt to deceive. There are statements in Falconio case literature related to allegations that Falconio planned to fly to Papua New Guinea. In No Turning Back : p. 46, Lees says: “Pete made enquiries about adventure trips to Papua New Guinea.” The international airport code of the capital Port Moresby is POM. That Falconio disappeared and subsequently Bradley Murdoch was imprisoned for the rest of his life, means this matter is not insignificant. That Falconio was not with Lees late on the night of 14 July 2001, and that allegedly he had booked a flight out of Australia, should have been thoroughly investigated and metic- ulously recorded. Robin Bowles says this in her book Dead Centre; p. 306: “On the Friday before they left Alice Springs Peter bought a ticket to travel to Papua New Guinea for a week.”

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80. “Record shop” Why would Lees use this phrase? And why would she/they have wanted to go to such a shop? In her book No Turning Back ; p. 52, Lees states this: “Pete and I love music and had lots of CDs with us.” This is supported by an item in the inventory: 199. “Box of CD’s x 33, black zipper type box container.” Another phrase, 82. “car cassettes” was also used by Lees. Why? Why would she have made a note to find or go to some “Record shop” when there were nearly 40 CDs in the Kombi? Why would she refer to “car cassettes” when it seems there was no working cassette player in the Kombi, and when Lees referred to their vehicle with the word Kombi or Taz, not car? Based on the other words on her list (see entries 72-82) it suggests Lees intended to go to a shop at Alice Springs and purchase music cassettes which would be played in a “car” not the Kombi. But whose car is not stated in the inventory and it should have been determined during a sound (not show) trial. 91. 1 x black purse containing notes $110, denominations, 1 x $100, 2 x $5, In her book No Turning Back: p. 61, Lees says the following: “I envisaged him ransacking our Kombi.” So according to Lees, she thought the (alleged) gunman would steal valuables from the Kombi. Stealing money from purses and wallets in that vehicle is reasonable to expect. But we are to believe that not only was the (alleged) gunman incapable of restraining and then finding Lees after she (allegedly) escaped, he was too honest to steal the cash from a black purse (belonging to Lees?) which was in the Kombi. On page 60 of her book, Lees says this: “I could see the man’s single [why say single?] spot of torchlight moving through the trees.” So the alleged gunman had a torch which would have allowed him to find and steal cash from the Kombi.) 92. Foodland docket Collinswood 83 44 9644 dated 4/7/01 grocery items, $15.15 at 17.21 hours paid cash $50.15 tendered, $35 in change. This entry in the inventory is amazing. According to Lees, she and Falconio drove from Sydney in New South Wales to the Australian Capital Territory, then on to Victoria, South Australia, and the Northern Territory where their Kombi came to a final stop north of Barrow Creek which is c.280 kilometres north of Alice Springs. The distance is not the point. The point is the number of days Lees and Falconio were allegedly on the road between when they left Sydney and that night Lees alleges a gunman ended their trip in the Northern Territory. Because Lees evasively did not state the departure date from Sydney in her book, the exact number of days they were on the road is uncertain. A de- parture date of 25 June 2001 appears in the literature. It has not been verified. But based on Lees’ book, it is reasonable to accept that she and Falconio were on the road during the last week of June and for the first two weeks in July 2001. Three weeks in total. Yet, only one receipt for “grocery items” was found in the Kombi – one receipt for $15.15 worth of groceries in three weeks for two adults. Compounding this fact, Collinswood is a suburb of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. This is the Australian state about which Lees mentioned almost nothing – nothing about Collinswood, nothing about Sedan (pop c.100) a notorious marijuana growing area where literature says she and Falconio went. In the books And Then The Darkness by Sue Williams and The Killer Within by Paul Toohey, the route maps therein show Lees and Falconio passed right through Sedan far off the main interstate highway.

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100. NSW city rail pass 17/5 – Wyard [Wynyard] and Newton [Newtown] In her book No Turning Back, there is no mention by Lees of her living at Newtown. But it seems her British bonker Nick Reilly lived there. That she might have travelled to Wynyard in the city centre to go to her workplace (a Dymocks bookshop) is reasonable to believe as Lees said she lived at Bondi. So did Lees tell the truth in her book, or does this rail pass confirm her assignations – the ones she first denied and lied about in court? Was this sexual attraction the motive for her to have Falconio killed on 14 July 2001? 103. 1 x Commonwealth Bank receipt dated 30/6/01 Leongatra [Leongatha] in Victoria time 11.08 hours account balance $2,421.00, card number 601 335 318 Like the Foodland docket from Collinswood, South Australia (entry 92), this is the only bank receipt found in the Kombi – the only one for Lees and Falconio. But what is even more troubling is that it is from a bank at Leongatha in Victoria. A check of a google map or an atlas, confirms this town (pop. c.5000) is south-east of Melbourne, capital of Victoria. What exactly did Lees and Falconio do in Leongatha that Saturday in addition to using a Commonwealth Bank automated teller machine? It is a nowhere place, off the major highway routes, which it is reasonable to believe Lees and Falconio would have driven. The town is c.135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, but it does not appear on any maps or in any text of the books written about the case, including Lees’ own book. To get to the Great Ocean Road which Lees does mention and which is west of Melbourne, the logical route is to drive through that city. But like Leongatha, Lees does not mention Melbourne which, with all its sub- urbs, is a sprawling metropolis of c.4 million inhabitants. Why did Lees not mention a single word in her book about Leongatha or about Melbourne? And, what drew Lees and Falconio to that small town so far off the logical route? 182. Construction industry training advisory Board NSW, training OH+S card name of Peter Falconio, certificate number NW 007 5556, workcover course c105267, dated 15/3/01, This entry on the inventory confirms that not all items of property belonging to Peter Falconio were retained by NT officials. Clearly this card belonged to Falconio, not Lees. And if this card was found in the Kombi, where are all the other personal cards and documents belonging to Falconio which he must have had with him? It seems officials want you to believe Falconio had all his credit cards, certificates, dockets, receipts, references, plus his passport, flight ticket and all other pieces of paper with his name on stuffed into his pockets before he casually got out of the Kombi that night on the highway, where officials and Lees want you to believe he was fatally shot and carried away. 212. Vitamin E, This is a staggering example of the pathetic police work that went onto com- piling the inventory. What does Vitamin E mean as it is used. Was it Vitamin E cream? Or Vitamin E liquid? Or Vitamin E capsules? If it was capsules, were they analyzed to be certain that is was Vitamin E? Or did some idiot cop just say: No worries mate, I know Vitamin E when I see it? (Most cops would not know the difference between Vitamin E or hash oil in capsules, or any- thing else in capsules.) Another excellent example of police incompetence is Bag containing open weave, (entry 206). What in the world is open weave? An open weave what? And what sort of bag was it? No worries mate…….

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REPLICATION ENTRY CONCERNS The inventory reflects amateurish, or intentionally corrupt, work by the NT police. Absence of a numbering system, plus a lack of definitive descriptions throughout the list could have led to items being listed more than once. Here are examples: 6. 2 x pair of black socks, 9. 1 x single black socks, [sic] 138. 1 x pair of black socks, 10. 1 x black undies, 12. 1 x size 8 black knickers, 209. Black undies, 13. 1 x pair of size 8 black knickers, [sic] 14. 1 x pair of size 8 black knickers, [sic] 17. 1 x green pair of green size N/k knickerbox, [sic] 207. Green undies, 66. Blue backpack 159. Blue Berghaus backpack [Blue Berghaus lined out, amended with blue mountain craft handwritten after backpack, initialed with JL and PD] 86. 1 x pair of Georio [Giorgio] Armani sunglasses and case (brown) 234. Giorgio Armani Sunglasses 115. Black and Tan suitcase 204. Tan/Black case, 139. 1 x white electrical adaptor, 177. Ac [sic] adaptor x 2 and plugs, 221. Battery charger A/C adaptor, 198. Panasonic walkman portable CD player, serial FBOEA06192, 237. Panasonic discman AMENDED / STRUCK OUT ENTRY CONCERNS Why did Lees amend or strike out the following property? Whose property was it? 159. Blue Berghaus backpack [Blue Berghaus lined out, amended with blue mountain craft handwritten after backpack, initialed with JL and PD] 181. Blue bag – containing head phones [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 202. Blue shirt, white Tshirt, jeans [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 210. Blue and white striped travel iron, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 211. Shoe box [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 213. Leave in conditioner, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD 214. Calamine lotion, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 217. 2 x floppy discs, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 222. Shell necklace on fishing line [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 223. Gold necklace with blue stone pendant, [lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 225. Solpeaine tablets. [sic; solpadeine; lined out, initialed with JL and PD] 229. [S?]ony SRS 917 speakers, [sic; file hole punched through first letter; lined out, initialed with JL and PD]

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QUANTITY ENTRY CONCERNS Lees described herself and Falconio as backpackers. But the number of identified types of items on the inventory are not easily reconciled with any budget traveller. Below are the quantities of some types of items allegedly belonging to Lees and Falconio. (Did they?) 10. 1 x black undies, 12. 1 X size 8 black knickers, 13. 1 x pair of size 8 black knickers, [sic] 14. 1 x pair of size 8 black knickers, [sic] 15. 1 x size 8-10 e+m purple knickers, 16. 4 x pair of white 8 size 8 knickers, [sic] 17. 1 x green pair of green size N/k knickerbox, [sic] 18. 1 x black pair with roses on front panel knickerbox, 207. Green undies, 208. Pink undies, 209. Black undies, (14 items) 19. 1 x white bra 36C, 20. 1 x 36B bra BMS tran01 white 125. 1 x loveable zebra print bra size 14C, 127. White bra “knickerbox” brand, no size. 129. Black bra “next” brand 36B 134. Black bra “Morgan” brand UK size 14, 146. Black bustier next size 10, 147. Black/grey/silver bustier, no size or make, 148. Grey “warehouse” silver sequins size 10 bustier, 149. Pink bustier no size, 155. Black bustier, Miss Seltidge [Selfridge], size 12, (11 items) 178. Six individual CD’s; Be here now – Oasis, Embrace, Drawn from Memory, Radiohead Ok computer U2 – all that you can’t leave behind, Madonna FNWSIC [?; unverified] Garage – in the mix 199. Box of CD’s x 33, black zipper type box container, (39 items) MISSING ENTRY CONCERNS A highly significant aspect of the official inventory is the fact that many things are not listed on it. That certain items, some of which the Falconio-case literature clear-ly states were in the possession of Lees and Falconio, are not on the inventory confirms it is an incomplete listing – a suggestively incomplete listing. Case inves-tigators have identified over 40 items around which there are concerns as the items are not in any way listed. It is these many missing items that confirm the inventory is not only unprofessional work by the NT police, but is also a deceptive and un-ethical compilation. The missing entries are listed below with brief details. That the absence from the inventory of a small number of them might be because of benign reasons is acknowledged. But that all the items, some of which Lees and Falconio used just prior the alleged incident north of Barrow Creek, can be explained away is not credible and not acceptable. That a man has been imprisoned base on appalling police work as is reflected in this inventory is a blatant injustice.

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1. ADDRESS BOOKS Lees and Falconio were not travelling with any type of computer. It seems they used Internet cafes and libraries to access and send their emails. That neither one of them had some form of address book is not believable. They travelled in south-east Asia before arriving in Sydney and they would have met other travellers. People with similar interests, likes, and/or destinations tend to exchange addresses for which some form of book(let) is used. But no address book for Lees or for Falconio appears on the inventory. 2. BANK WITHDRAWAL SECRECY There is a Commonwealth Bank receipt listed on the inventory. At Leongatha there was a transaction on 30 June 2001, a Saturday. This means the transaction was done using an automated teller machine and entry 103 shows a card with the number 601 335 318 was used. If it was a Commonwealth bank card, details of that card should be on the inventory. But there is no such card listed. However, the inventory does list one HSBC card bearing the name Joanne R Lees (see entry 109). The card number listed is 601335011 0359120318. Note the underlined similarities of the two numbers. But far more significant is the fact that the sum of money withdrawn, which would have appeared on the Commonwealth Bank receipt, is not revealed on the inventory. Why is this sum not on the inventory? What did Lees and Falconio do with that money to make the NT cops keep it secret? 3. BATHING TOWEL On the inventory, a large blue towel is listed. (entry 117) That Lees and Falconio travelled for c.8 weeks together, then lived together in a flat in Sydney, then drove together across half of Australia with only one towel is not believable. No other towel, large or small, is on the inventory. 4. BEDDING Lees and Falconio slept in the Kombi. They left Sydney in June and arrived at Alice Springs in July 2001. These are Winter months in Australia. They must have had some form of bedding to keep warm. And they did. Lees states this in No Turning Back ; p. 43, about one overnight stop at Uluru: “Sitting curled up next to Pete we cuddled under the blankets and watched one of the most dramatic games of tennis.” There was bedding in the Kombi, but none of any type appears on the inventory. 5. BONDI RSL IDENTIFICATION In her book No Turning Back ; p. 18-19, Lees says: “The Bondi RSL (or Returned Servicemen’s League) is quite an insti- tution, as Pete and I were to discover. Pete and I ended up joining the club.” When Lees and Falconio became members of this club, they would have received some documentation in addition to badges which they would have used as IDs for entry into the club. No RSL documentation of any kind, or RSL badges of any kind, or anything which identifies Lees and Falconio as members of the Bondi or any other RSL club, are listed on the inventory. 6. BOOKS That no books are named or numbered on the inventory screams the inventory is a corrupt list. Again in No Turning Back; pp. 35 & 48, Lees says: “[H]e, knew I’d have a pile of books to read on our journey”; and; “Pete pick- ed up his book from the shelf below the dashboard and began to read.” In his book Where’s Peter? ; p. 268, Roger Maynard says: “Joanne was driving and Peter was lying in the back and reading Catcher in the Rye.” And there are these two statements from Lees, again in her book on pp. 16 & 38: “We had come to rely on our Lonely Planet guidebooks”; “Jesse gave us a book, which he had inscribed with a message.” But no books are on the inventory.

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7. BOOTS In the literature on the Falconio case, there are images of Lees and Falconio, together and each on their own. The image below is of them seated on Uluru (Ayers Rock) a few days before Falconio vanished.

Joanne Lees & Peter Falconio on Uluru c.10 July 2001 Note that both of them are wearing lace-up boots. That Falconio was wearing his pair when he vanished might explain the absence of his boots from the inventory. But the boots of Lees are not listed on the inventory, and the night she alleges Falconio disappeared she was wearing open sandals with Velcro straps. This is what Lees says, in No Turning Back ; p. 77, she was asked to do at the Barrow Creek Pub after the alleged incident: “…place my clothes and sandals into paper bags.” So Lees’ boots would have been in the Kombi, and thus should have been on the inventory. But they are not. 8. BROWN WALLET CONTENTS On the inventory (entry 236), a brown wallet is listed. It is a useless description revealing how amateurish the NT police were. Was it intentional? Not only would it be impossible to differentiate this wallet from any number of other brown wallets, there is no description of any- thing being inside the wallet. If there was, what was it? The description does not say the wallet was empty. Whose was it? Some women use wallets. That it was found in the Kombi does not prove it belonged to Falconio. This brown wallet might have been left in the Kombi as part of the staging of the incident north of Barrow Creek. People who view the inventory might quickly conclude this wallet proves Falconio stepped out of the Kombi and was shot. But this listed wallet (empty? full? plastic? leather? new? old? big? small?) proves no such thing. 9. CABLE TIES In Falconio case-related literature, it says cable ties were found in the Kombi. Cable ties are highly significant in the case as Lees presented herself at a place north of Barrow Creek wearing crude manacles made from looped cable ties. This is what Roger Maynard says in Where’s Pete? ; p. 61: “Mark, one of the Canadians, helped to repair a steering problem on the Kombi. He found some cable ties in the back of the van and used them to fix the steering rod.” In his book The Killer Within; p. 171, Paul Toohey writes this:

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“Forced to admit it, Lees came unstuck. She denied that she and Falconio had fought the night they left Alice Springs; she admitted they had cable ties in the Kombi – such as were used by her alleged attacker to fashion handcuffs.” But on the inventory no cable ties are listed. Why? 10. CAMERA In the book No Turning Back authored by Joanne Lees there are plates (copies of photographs) which were taken during her travels with Falconio in south-eastern Asia. It is very understandable they would have and did travel with a camera (film not digital). In her book on pages 6-7, Lees says: “Whenever I got any holiday photos developed I would inevitably find photo- graphs of construction sites, scaffolding and cranes among our snapshots.” In the article My Story – Joanne Lees on adelaidenow.com.au, 30 September 2006, she is quoted as follows: “Whenever we bought anything, he’d be like, We’ve got to have an Olympus camera and I’d be why-ee? And he’s say, Cos my mums got an Olympus camera.” It is reasonable to conclude that the image above, which was taken on the top of Uluru a few days before the alleged Barrow Creek incident, was taken with that Olympus camera. But on the inventory, there is no camera of any type listed. 11. CAMERA FILM There are no listings for exposed or unexposed rolls of film on the inventory. Lees and Falconio had a camera and did take photographs (see above) during their travels. But just as there is no camera listed on the inventory, there are no camera films either. This is highly suggestive. 12. CLOTHING (male) None of the clothing listed on the inventory is identified as being male clothing. There is no notation anywhere on the 9-page docu- ment that any of the clothing listed thereon is male clothing or the clothing belonging to Peter Falconio. So what happened to all of his clothing? 13. CLOTHING (female) There are many items of clothing listed on the inventory which clearly are clothes (outer & underwear) for females. But this does not mean they all belonged to Lees. In the above image, Lees is wearing a green coat/jacket/pullover/etc. But there is no such green clothing on the inventory? Green knickers, green bic razor, green shoehorn, green undies, green socks, but no green coat/jacket/pullover/etc. 14. CONTRACEPTIVES Lees and Falconio lived together as an intimate couple for a few years prior to their arrival, living (as an intimate couple), and travelling in Australia. At that time, Lees was 28 years of age and Falconio was 29 – but no contraceptives are listed on the inventory. Are we to believe Falconio also had their contraceptives in his pocket when he vanished that Saturday? 15. CURRICULA VITAE It seems that both Lees and Falconio had their CVs with them in Sydney, and used them in their job-finding process. But there is no entry on the inventory of any CVs, either originals or copies . 16. DIARY It is credible that Lees kept notes of her life and travels with Falconio. Related to this point, Robin Bowles states these words in Dead Centre; p. 135 about two supposedly independent officials who reviewed the ruined investi- gation: “[Superintendent George] Owen and [retired Assistant Commissioner Jim] Lister saw the Kombi at the vehicle lock-up and pored over items police had bagged and tagged. An air ticket in Falconio’s name, Joanne’s diary, a bong, some dope.” But no diary is listed on the inventory.

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17. DOCUMENTATION The word Documentation (entry 180) appears on the inventory. But what specific documents, the number of pages, the dates, etc. are not mentioned. The word Documentation should have been accompanied by the type, number of pages, dates, etc. But these details are not provided. On its own the word Documentation means nothing. 18. DRIVING LICENCES Falconio and Lees each had a vehicle driving licence, and both drove the Kombi. But where was Lees’ driving licence? A photocopy which was given to her (see entry 195) is not a driving licence. On the night of 14 July 2001, the night Lees claims a gunman wanted to rape and kill her but ended up shooting (no hard evidence) Falconio and bizarrely removing his body (no hard evidence), Lees did not have her licence clutched in her hand. In No Turning Back ; p. 83, she states: “I had none of my possessions, no clothes, no phone, no money.” So where was her driving licence? And note that there is no licence for Falconio listed on the inventory. 19. DRUGS (illegal) Both Falconio and Lees used illegal drugs in Australia. Lees tried to distance herself from this, but she admits it in her own book. In No Turning Back : p. 50, she states: “Pete decided he’d roll a joint to smoke as we watched the sun set and he...went to the passenger door. He leaned in and picked up his cannabis, Rizla papers and cigarettes, which were lying on the shelf below the dashboard. He came back and sat in the side doorway while he put together a joint. When he finished he lit it, smoked some, and then passed it to me. I smoked a little but soon passed it back.” But, there is no cannabis listed on the inventory. Nor are Rizla papers listed. In Dead Centre; p. 135, Robin Bowles says the NT police did discover a bong* and cannabis in the Kombi. (* pipe for smoking illegal drugs) Bowles also says this on p. 374 of her book: “The same person had told me that the Kombi had been searched more ruthlessly in Darwin, with the new panels installed by Peter Falconio and Paul Dale pulled out and found to have hidden a bag of ecstasy tablets.” In the same book on p. 12, Dale is also quoted by Bowles: “[Lees and Falconio] were not what I’d describe as addictive people, but they did take pills and they enjoyed life.” But we are to believe not one pill, not one milligram of any drug was found in the Kombi because there is no illegal drug of any type listed on the inventory. 20. EATING & DRINKING UTENSILS Not one utensil for eating or drinking is listed on the inventory. Not even a can-opener or a cup. Lees’ book clearly states the Kombi was used as a kitchen. Yet, not one single eating or dining utensil was listed as being found in that vehicle. This is not believable. 21. EYE COSMETICS/MAKE-UP Given the large number of cosmetic/make-up listings, we have to ask why there is no eye mascara, no eyeliners, eyelash brushes and liquids, etc. on the inventory. There are images of Lees in which she has her eyes made up, so she did wear such cosmetics. 22. FLIGHT TICKET DOMESTIC In No Turning Back; p. 47, Lees claims she booked and paid for a domestic flight: “I purchased a return flight ticket from Brisbane to Sydney at the Ansett [Airlines] desk.” But this flight ticket does not appear on the inventory. It was a ticket for an internal domestic flight, meaning Lees could not flee the country. So what happened to Lees’ ticket for a flight from Brisbane to Sydney?

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23. FLIGHT TICKETS INTERNATIONAL Again in No Turning Back; p. 7, Lees confirms she was leaving England on a “round-the-world trip.” But neither her tickets, nor Falconio’s tickets out of Australia are described on the inventory which only states (entry 197) the non-specific “flight tickets for bookings.” 24. FOOD PREPARATION EQUIPMENT There is not one bit of food preparation equipment mentioned on the inventory. How could Lees or Falconio have prepared meals without pots or pans or any basic kitchen equipment? They could not. So when Lees makes statements in her book, as she did, about preparing hot meals in the Kombi, was she lying again? If she was not, what happened to all the food preparation equipment? 25. FOOD STUFFS Lees says this in No Turning Back ; p. 48: “I wasn’t feeling hungry and Red Rooster wouldn’t have been my first choice if I had been. We had healthier food inside the Kombi and our cupboards were stocked with pasta, herbs and spices for whenever I wanted to put a meal together.” But on the inventory, not one item of foodstuff is listed. What happened to all that alleged pasta stuffed in those cupboards? Or was Lees lying again? 26. HOT WATER BOTTLE Here is another item missing from the inventory. In her own words Lees states in No Turning Back ; p. 43: “I filled my hot-water bottle, closed all the curtains in the Kombi and tuned the TV to the men’s Wimbeldon final.” What happened to Lees’ hot water bottle? 27. INHALERS Falconio suffered from some form of asthma or a similar re- spiratory problem. He used a medicated inhalent when breathing was a problem for him. Writing about Falconio and the Kombi, Sue Williams says this in And Then The Darkness ; p. 49: “Peter installed a lamp in the back to read by and a shelf under the dashboard for things like cans of drink, his Ventolin inhaler and his cigarettes.” It is a fact that people who need these inhalers can have more than one of them handy. (What if they only had one and it was almost empty?) Falconio would probably have had several of these medicated inhalers in the Kombi. But not one appears on the inventory. 28. KOMBI-RELATED DOCUMENTS Lees say nothing about being in Adelaide. The following documentation described by Sue Williams in And Then The Darkness; pp. 49, 62-63, would have been in the Kombi: “It had seen better days but it came complete with a fridge, a fitted gas cooker and sink, a CD player, curtains on the back windows, and a full service history.” And: [T]hey also picked up another six months worth registration for the Kombi with new South Australian plates, WOI 597.” And with that full service history and the new registration papers might have been a vehicle accident insurance policy. But on the inventory, no Kombi-related documents are listed. 29. LIGHTERS Both Lees and Falconio smoked, he more than her. The cooker (stove; hot plate) operated with gas. Yet, there is not one cigarette lighter, or any matches, or any fire-making device on the inventory. 30. MATERIAL In And Then The Darkness; p. 92, author Sue Williams says this: “Peter bought some material [in Alice Springs] to try to make new seat covers to replace the torn ones.... ‘that was ambitious,’ smiles Joanne later.” But Lees does not mention this in her book No Turning Back. The fact is there is no “material” listed on the inventory. What happened to this alleged material?

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31. MOBILE PHONE In No Turning Back; p. 21, Lees states this: “As soon as we arrived in Australia, Pete and I had bought a mobile phone to share.” On the inventory there is a listing (entry 238) for a mobile phone battery (“Ericson mobile phone battery”), but there is no mobile phone of any type listed on the inventory. Who took the mobile phone from the Kombi? What happened to that mobile phone? How could Lees not know their phone was not in the Kombi? Nowhere in her book does Lees say the police kept the phone, or removed the card from it for examination. She wrote a note to “phone people” (entry 74), presumably, based on her notes (entries 72-82), when she was in Alice Springs. So their (Lees & Falconio) mobile phone had not been lost or stolen. So why isn’t it on the inventory? 32. MONEY In the book FIND! FALCONIO – Dead or Alive; pp. 86-88, a Statutory Declaration prepared and signed (with witness) by Geoffrey Gerard Atkins, is reproduced. In this document dated 11 October 2010, Atkins declares the following about his alleged experience at Barrow Creek Pub: “I said she won’t be able to afford a hitman. I said they’re only driving a Kombi. He replied no she does. She just showed me a wad of $2600. I said that’s not enough to blow someone out. He said it ’s a start. I said it ’s not like buying a car, you won’t get anymore out of her. He said you don’t know how much she is going to make out of this. I said how is he going to get any dough out of it he said, she planned to write a book and the media would pay plenty.” There are three mentions (entries 90, 91, 113) of money which it is reasonable to conclude was Australian money. But the total sum is only c.$120. So if what this Atkins swore is the truth, what happened to the $2600 Lees allegedly had with her immediately before the alleged incident north of Barrow Creek? 33. PASSPORT On the inventory, the British passport bearing the name Joanne Lees is identified (entry 183). But a passport in the name of Peter Falconio is not identified. What happened to his passport? 34. RECEIPTS Lees tried to make something of the fact that she and Falconio kept all their receipts. This is what is in No Turning Back ; p. 51: “[Falconio] handed me the receipt and I wrote the mileage on it and then added it to the rest of the receipts, which were clasped with a bulldog clip to the shelf.” Though the clip seems to have been attached to a shelf in the vehicle, the number of receipts should have appeared on the inventory. But they do not. All that is on the inventory (entry 106) is just one meaningless word, “Receipt.” 35. RED BACKPACK In Lees’ book No Turning Back, there are several coloured plates (copies of photographs). There is one of Falconio above this caption: “Once we bought our Kombi, Taz, Pete and I made a number of day and weekend trips out of Sydney. I took this photo of Pete in the Blue Mountains.” It shows Falconio alone with what appears to be a red coloured backpack. There is no red, or reddish, backpack listed on the inventory. So what hap- pened to that red backpack? 36. ROAD MAPS No road maps of any kind are listed on the inventory. Nor are any street maps or street directories (Gregory’s) on the inventory. Neither Lees nor Falconio had undertaken the trip previously. That they drove out of Sydney and arrived at Alice Springs without once using a map is not true. This is what Lees states in No Turning Back ; p. 45: “When we got back to the

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Kombi, Pete checked out the map and worked out two possible routes to Alice Springs.” So they did have at least one map. What happened to it? 37. SHAMPOO & SOAP A large number of cosmetic and make-up items are listed on the inventory. But there is not one entry for any type of shampoo or any type of soap. With her long hair, hair ties, brushes, and combs, are we to believe Lees had no shampoo in the Kombi? Did she and Falconio not take a bath between Sydney and Barrow Creek? 38. SKIRT In No Turning Back ; p. 24, Lees writes about a navy-blue skirt from a uniform shop in Sydney. It was expected she wear it when working at a Dymocks book shop franchise. But there is no such skirt on the inventory. 39. TAXATION DOCUMENTS Both Lees and Falconio worked in Sydney. She longer than he did. When they ceased work there, their employers would have issued them with documents (Group Certificates) indicating the amount of tax which had been deducted from their gross wages. Both of them were entitled to submit a claim to have taxes they overpaid refunded. This is what Falconio, and only Falconio, made enquiries about at the Deloitte (accounting & taxation) office in Alice Springs. On the inventory, there are no taxation- related documents bearing the names of Lees or Falconio. What happened to all their taxation-related documents (Group Certificates)? 40. TELEVISION SET What happened to the television set in the Kombi? In No Turning Back: p. 38-39, Lees says: “Just before we drove off [from Sydney] Pete told me that he had bought me a present to cheer me up. He climbed out of the driver’s seat and walked through to the back of the Kombi. He turned around to face me holding a small portable television.... Pete could see the unimpressed look on my face, and still beaming with enthusiasm he nodded his head and said: ‘Wimbeldon, babe.’ Then I knew that he had bought the television for me.” (original italics). And on p. 43 of the same book, Lees said this happened when they over-nighted at Uluru: “I filled my hot-water bottle, closed all the curtains in the Kombi and tuned the TV to the men’s Wimbeldon final.” But you will not find a television set of any kind on the inventory. 41. TISSUES There are no facial or toilet tissues on the inventory. Nor are there any paper towels, or cloth towels or any type of hand towels, listed. 42. TOOLS Falconio was mechanically inclined. He had a building construction qualification and before he and Lees left Sydney, he worked on the Kombi. Yet there are no electrical tools, or mechanical tools, or any other type of tools listed on the inventory. Not even a screwdriver or a pair of pliers. 43. TRAVEL ITEMS Both Falconio and Lees must have spoken with people who were more knowledgeable about or who had undertaken long-distance road trips in outback Australia. That the inventory does not show any type of travel items on it is hard to believe: no water container of any sort; no spare engine oil; no extra fuel in a container; no torch; etc. The absence of anything which could be of use to them during their travels in a 30-year-old-and-worn vehicle, especially during an emergency, suggests clueless stupidity or officials wilfully omitting items from the inventory. Etc.

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DISCUSSION Inventories such as the one addressed here have two primary functions: 1. Defend the State (here the NT) from accusations of failing to protect and provide items belonging to some party or person; and, 2. Enhance the investigation of any crime, actual or perceived, within which items placed on the inventory might have some significance. The manner in which the inventory was compiled – no system of ordering; no grouping; no essential details – suggests that the inventory was com-piled merely to ensure the NT police would not be faulted for failing to protect and provide every item belonging to Lees and Falconio. But the inventory is not com-plete, and it does not indentify itself as being a complete listing of property owned by Lees and/or Falconio. And then on further analysis it has been determined that things which should have been listed are inexplicably not on the inventory, things which might be highly significant in relation to Falconio’s suspicious disappearance. To those with little or no knowledge of how crime scene should be investigated by police, this inventory could be deceptively misleading. The fact it is nine pages in length suggests it is was painstakingly prepared. But this is far from the truth. Listing things like 1x Malaysian / Sen coin, (entry 61), and $1.50 stamp, (entry 96) does not confirm thoroughness. The inventory is an unsystematized listing of items which it is suggested belonged to Lees and Falconio, but for which the place of finding for each items is not even identified. Most of the items on the inventory are not clearly defined. Without a doubt it is a good example of police incompetence and/or corruption. What follows are brief discussions of some major concerns which arise from the unprofessionalism of the NT officials associated with the inventory. A. The following statement is that of a former police officer and it is quoted in Corrupt To The Core; p. 416: “How and why miscarriages of justice occur can be difficult to explain to the lay person. The root cause of the majority of cases is due to poor investigation in the initial stage of the enquiry.” And in the Falconio case, what compounds matters is the fact that right from the very beginning when facts suggested foul play, it did not seem to be considered a case of homicide. The very person, the only witness then believed to have been at the scene, Joanne Lees, was treated as a troubled tourist not as a suspect in the death of Peter Falconio. This little rabbit, as the corrupt prosecutor Rex Wild QC (Qualified Corrupter) later called Lees, quickly learnt how to exploit police incompetence which developed to such an extent that two supposedly independent officials (Lister & Owen) had to be appointed to review the investigation which had been ruined by NT officials. Of course no blame was apportioned. It rarely is when State officials are involved. B. The context of the preparation and the presentation (to Lees) of the inventory is not stated on the inventory itself. Alice Springs is identified on page one, but this does not necessarily mean that is where the inventory was prepared, or signed, or signed on the 15 August 2001. Items belonging to Lees and Falconio could have started disappearing from the Kombi as early as 14 July 2001, the day Lees claims a gunman wanted to rape and murder her, but who seems to have made a mistake and murdered then removed Falconio from the crime scene. Given that evidence proves that alleged scene was staged, interference with items in the Kombi had/has to be suspected. This interference could have included the addition of and/or the removal of items from the Kombi to enhance any (too) hastily con-ceived theory about how and why Falconio vanished.

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C. That Lees was a deceptive person is evidence in her many stories about the case – stories which she changed as time passed, stories liberally larded with lies, stories which even the incompetent NT police proved were untrue. There is much evidence of Lees’ dishonesty and deceptions. The following is an extract from the book FIND! FALCONIO – Dead or Alive; pp. 385, 386:

So given the alleged incident took place north of Barrow Creek on 14 July 2001, Lees indirectly tells us the date Kerr asked the question is 14 August 2001. But Lees told us that she had a flight booked for 8 August 2001. So what happened? Why did she stay in Alice Springs and why didn’t she tell her readers that she stayed? If Lees was innocent and had nothing to do with Falconio’s disappearance, none of her readers would have thought anything about her staying to assist the police with their enquiries. But Lees stayed and did not say why she stayed, which tells us she did not want us to know.

Under the heading, Barrow Creek update – Joanne Lees leaves Alice Springs Wednesday 15 August 2001, a media release (NTAPL – Intranet) announces this: “Northern Territory Police have confirmed British tourist Joanne Lees has left Alice Springs.” And on 16 August 2001, The Evening Standard (London, UK) reported this: “Outback kidnap victim Joanne Lees has left Alice Springs without knowing the fate of her missing boyfriend, Briton Peter Falconio.” In Joanne Lees’ book, this week disappears and it seems that during this missing week she was interviewed by the cops because they were having difficulty with things she said and which made no sense at all. Lees did not want her readers to know this – thus, it is reasonable to believe she felt guilty, and is guilty, in relation to the disappearance of Peter Falconio.

Two other things Lees does not tell her readers is that, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2001, Northern Territory detectives “arrived in Sydney to start interviewing friends and former colleagues of Joanne Les as part of their investigations into the disappearance of her boyfriend Peter Falconio three weeks earlier.” Lees never mentions this. Nor does she mention that on 10 August 2001, two days after her booked flight on 8 August 2001, she attended a media conference at Alice Springs but she refused to speak. The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 August 2001, said this: “Speaking on behalf of Ms Lees, who declined to answer questions, Mr [Paul] Falconio said that they had not given up hope of being reunited with Peter.” (added emphasis) Nearly four weeks went by, but Lees still refused to speak with the media. She says she was trauma-tized, but it seems that she knew her dishonest stories were doubted....

On p. 128, Lees states this: “During those twenty-four days that I spent in Alice Springs.” This is a blatant lie. Lees was there for at least 32 days (15 July 2001 to 15 August 2001). She attended a media conference at Alice Springs on 10 August 2001, which was 27 days after the incident, and she stayed there several days after that. It is not just a matter of a mix-up over some dates. It is a serious matter of Lees attempting to cover up what happened there. And what happened is that the cops were interviewing her because her stories did not make sense. They still do not make sense. Lees does not want you to know that – this is why she is deceptive in her book.

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In the Index of FIND! FALCONIO – Dead or Alive, there are six things qualified with missing. One of them is the missing week (8-15 August 2001) which Lees does not want you to know about. In No Turning Back, Lees makes no mention of the property inventory which is dated 15 August 2001. She whined about not having her own clothes: “I had none of my possessions, no clothes, no phone, no money.” (see above; MISSING ENTRY CONCERNS; 17. DRIVING LICENCES) But about her clothes and lots of cosmetics being returned to her, she never wrote a word. Not one word about having all her knickers and her all her beautification aids being back in her possession. With reference to the property inventory, what really went on in Alice Springs during that missing week at the end of which Lees got back all her bras and bustiers, and postage stamps, and Falconio’s OH+S card, and….? D. It has been suggested to this author that the inventory discussed here was only a partial inventory and that another inventory, or other inventories, was/were pre-pared by the NT police. This might be so. But there seems to be no mention of any other inventory in the case-related literature. And if there is/are, what was the criteria used to differentiate what items were placed on each inventory? It cannot be said that the inventory addressed here lists only the property of Lees as several of the items can be associated with Falconio. That he owned or supplied the electrical items listed is a reasonable conclusion. And the above mentioned OH+S card clearly belonged/belongs to him. Are we to believe that all the identified miss-ing items are on other inventories, and that in some storehouse somewhere, all of those items wait patiently to be picked up by Falconio? More realistically, what is listed on the inventory at hand is all the property that was placed on an inventory and it was acknowledged by Lees with her signature allegedly on 15 August 2001. E. That Lees was asked to and that she did sign the inventory and presumably was given all the listed items tells us a lot about the case investigation. Without having located the Falconio alive, without having a forensically identified body confirming Falconio was dead, without have conducted a thorough and complete investigation of the incident, without anything definitive other than unknowns, idiot officials in the NT returned the passport bearing Lees’ name to her. That she did not return immediately to Britain is believed to be true. But she could have flown out of Australia at any time and within a few weeks she did. (That she spent time partying in Sydney before returning to Britain does not prove her innocence.) Lees had/has no alibi. She is an eyewitness who it seems had a motive, the means, and the opportunity to cause, either directly or indirectly, the death of Falconio. The only so-called evidence she has to prove her allegations are her own words, which, time and time again, have been shown to be deceptive, devious, and dishonest. In conclusion, the inventory shows that officials in the NT were/are more concerned about having a narrative to aid them, not a narrative of the whole truth. As the brutal facts reveal, innocent Bradley Murdoch has been incarcerated by a pathetic legal system. This system in the NT is managed an operated by corrupt and incom-petent employees of the State, the likes of whom have produced an incomplete and idiotic inventory such as the one analyzed and described here. Said inventory has the appearance of a shopping list and the utility of toilet tissue. That it is part of a grossly misinvestigated case involving the missing Peter Marco Falconio who was possibly murdered through the efforts of Joanne Rachel Lees – cannot be denied.

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REFERENCES BOWLES, Robin. Dead Centre; Sydney: Bantam; 2005.

Exposition of case involving British tourists (Peter Falconio, Joanne Lees) in Northern Territory, Australia, which justifiably drew world-wide attention. Evidence that convicted Bradley Murdoch for murder seems concocted and exculpatory evidence was discounted.

BOWLES, Robin. So Bizarre You Can Hardly Believe It (pp. 193-213) in Rough Justice: Unanswered Questions From the Australian Courts; Rowville: The Five Mile Press; 2007.

One of eight chapters on contentious cases with four chapters of related analyses. Rattle-the-bars writing which draws attention to contemporary miscarriages of justice. Damning and distressing.

LEES, Joanne. No Turning Back: My Journey; London: Hodder & Stoughton. 2006. Allegations of British woman whose partner (Peter Marco Falconio) van- ished suspiciously in Australia (July 2001). Whitewash – emotionally over- drawn, lacks evidence, not credible – does not address serious questions related to the disappearance, focuses on Lees the narcissist who describes (ad nauseam) herself as the victim. MAYNARD, Roger. Where’s Peter?: Unravelling the Falconio Mystery; Sydney: Harper Collins; 2005.

Well-written work with coloured images, but no contents page. Documents many examples of reasonable doubt re guilt of Bradley Murdoch who was convicted of killing Peter Falconio.

NOBLE, Keith Allan. CORRUPT TO THE CORE: Concealing Crimes in Queens- land, Australia; Internet: bookfinder.com; Big Worm Books; 2010. Exposé of homicide misinvestigated by a detective, a physician (c.10- minute autopsy), then a corrupt coroner who hid the body. Details fake documents submitted to and accepted by judges of Queensland Courts. Contains insights of 12+ forensic consultants. NOBLE, Keith Allan. FIND! FALCONIO – Dead or Alive: Concealing Crimes in North- ern Territory, Australia; bookfinder.com; Big Worm Books; 2nd edition 2011.

Documents background and legal case associated with the disappearance of Peter Marco Falconio on 14 July 2001 in Northern Territory, Australia. Con-firms official corruption associated with setting up of Bradley Murdoch who was imprisoned with concocted evidence presented by Joanne Lees.

SHEARS, Richard. Bloodstain: The Vanishing of Peter Falconio; Sydney: New Holland: 2005.

Written by an international correspondent for the Daily Mail (BR) newspaper. Raises serious questions related to disappearance – questions which have never been answered. (book cover: reddish coloured irregular patch on road surface is not actual bloodstain)

TOOHEY, Paul. The Killer Within: Inside the World of Bradley John Murdoch; Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin; 2007. Takes a position against the man convicted of alleged murder. Author’s un- reserved praise for a source (police informer & drug thug James Tahi Hepi) destroys credibility of this work. WILLIAMS, Sue. And Then The Darkness; London: John Blake; 2006.

Book of faction which has definitely not “closed the last chapter of this thrill-ing mystery” of the Falconio case as falsely stated on the dust cover. Well-written, but contains concocted dialogue and deceptive content.

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