Three Months After Her Wedding, Anthea Bradshaw Was Murdered

tells her. Don't you say that to me? Don't you say that to me? She replies. By the time Martin runs into the room, his wife is slumped on the floor in the fetal positions, screaming. He grabs the phone, but Jeff isn't making sense. The couple are in Brunei in Southeast Asia. They're in the process of moving over there for work, but Anthea was supposed to be coming home to Adelaide tomorrow to finish up work at a

local school before making the move. Permanently killed in a burglary gone wrong, Her family is told they've given very little information about the circumstances surrounding her death. Forced to say goodbye to her in the same church she said her vows only a few months prior, but four years later they discover information from the night she died that rocks them to their core. All this time, the police had a name an official suspect in the murder of

Anthea Bradshaw. I'm Jemma Bass and this is True Crime Conversations a Muma mea podcast exploring the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. The body of twenty six year old Anthea Bradshaw was found on the floor of the apartment her husband Jeff Hall, was living in in Brunei. South Australian police believe there is enough evidence in this case to arrest, charge, and potentially convict someone, but Brunei doesn't agree, despite numerous

attempts by our authorities to make that happen. In twenty twenty four nine, senior reporter Ben Avery has been reinvestigating this case and he's determined to help put her killer behind bars. He's spoken at length to Anthea's family, friends, and the Australian police involved in the case in a new podcast called The Anthea Bradshaw mystery, Ben joins us.

And I could tell in Craig's voice that a lot of years may have passed, but he was still deeply upset and frustrated by not only the fact that he'd lost his sister, but also justice hadn't been served in a case that seemed somewhat solvable. And so I got to know Craig quite well. I've got to know the rest of the family quite well, and it's very clear to me that they're consumed by this case and that

they won't rest until it is solved. And so a lot of people will say to them, and they get frustrated by people saying to them that you should just move on, and they just say, look, we don't want to move on, and we can't move on. And so here we are, thirty years later, still talking about it, perhaps no closer to the answers that they need.

about what had happened. But obviously, these days, this is something that would be covered at length, day in day out, perhaps for a good couple of weeks, if not longer. And so a very unique situation here where a horrible murder of a much loved, innocent South Australia went almost unnoticed for a very long time.

it's twenty years and there's nothing. And then they get to twenty years and think, surely we won't have to go another ten years without getting the justice that we need. And now we're at the thirty year point and they can't even comprehend the fact that they're still living with this and that potentially another ten years will pass and will be still here.

listened to. She can't bring herself to listen to it, but it's Anthea singing a song Morning Has Broken and such a sweet, innocent young voice, and we play that on the podcast. And then grew up being the middle child, so she was a big sister to her younger brother Paul, and Paul says that she really looked after him. She always loved children. She helped him a lot growing up and that developed, I guess into her growing up to

ultimately wanting to be a teacher. Her mum was a registered nurse, so there was a period where she thought she might want to be a registered nurse, but there was her love of kids that took her into teaching, and she ended up working at a school for underprivileged children in murray Bridge, about an hour out of Adelaide.

It was called the Fraser Park Primary School. And I'm told by her brother Craig that these were kids who didn't have much support at home for the most part, and so they wouldn't get birthday cakes on their birthdays. And so Anthea went right through the list of her children, found out when their birthdays were and would make a

birthday cake for them on their birthday. And Craig got quite emotional when he told me that story, but it just really highlighted how caring she was and how she went to those extra lengths and did a lot for those children.

They became mates, the three of them, and it was a relationship that continued right through high school into obviously, you know, their late teenage years early twenties. And the family says that it was always a really good relationship that they got along well. They didn't see any signs

of tension. Maybe the odd argument here and there, but definitely and if you look at the photographs and the home videos, to me, it just looked like he was really welcomed and he was part of that Bradshaw extended family.

the family. And that's what makes this case, I think so shocking, is to know some of the allegations and the suspicions and the fact now that there is this wedge between the Bradshaws and Jeff Hall all of these years later, and that's just a horrible thing to lose your sister or your daughter, but then also have that shadow in the background.

family were there. Anthea looked extremely happy, not a worry in the world, as she always did, and it just looked like your every day suburban wedding. I've also seen video of the reception, and a typical reception as well, lots of drinking and laughing. You see all of the speeches,

really funny speeches. Lots of people spoke. Anthea's eldest brother was the MC for the wedding and he tells me that it was the best wedding he'd ever been to, and a few people have said that, and really difficult to watch that now knowing what would happen only ninety six days later.

went over there pretty soon after the wedding. Anthea, though, was going to stay at home because she was still teaching at the Fraser Park Primary School in murray Bridge, and so she wanted to finish that teaching contract before she would eventually move over to join him permanently. Now there was then a decision though, that she would go and visit in this period while Jeff was over there alone, and so she organized to go over to Brunei for

ten days. She would obviously catch up with her husband and socialize with him and his workmates, and she would also want to look for jobs, so she would go and visit other schools in Brunei to see if she could organize a job for when she did move over permanently. And so her mum and dad recall taking her to the airport. She gets on the plane to fly over for this visit, sadly not knowing that she would never return home. And back then there were no mobile phones.

Communication was more difficult. There was no Facebook or email, certainly not what they used anyway, and Anthea had told her mum and dad, look, don't ring me while I'm in Brunei because Jeff is worried about phone tapping. He was worried that Brunei authorities listened to phone calls and he told Anthea that before she went over as well, so she didn't have much contact with him either while

he was there alone. And so Anthea's mum and dad took this on board, although they do tell me now that they would not have cared if Brunei authorities were listening to their phone calls, because they would just ring and say how are you going? Are you safe?

they went there in the morning. They had that interview. They get back to the apartment complex at Geredong Park, which is not far from where Jeff works, at about eleven o'clock in the morning. Jeff has a shower, they have something to eat, both of them. Again, this is Jeff's story from his witness statement, and then his shift was beginning at the Geredong Park Sports Medicine Center at midday that day. He had a car there, a red Toyota Salika, and Anthea was going to drive him to work.

And so shortly before midday they get in the car, they make the very short journey to Geredong Park Sports Medicine Center. Anthea drops Jeff off, he goes to work, she goes back to the apartment complex. Now, Jeff says that he was at work for all of that day in terms of from midday until five pm, and then he goes out for his dinner break, and the plan was that Anthea would come and pick him up from

the medical center for that dinner break. So he's standing out the front of the medical center along with a few other people as they were either lead for the day or leaving for dinner, and he's waiting for Anthea. And I've spoken to lots of witnesses and I've seen

lots of witness statements. People that saw Jeff standing there and they went to him and said, would you like a rite home, because a lot of them lived in the same apartment complex or nearby, and Jeff was repeatedly saying no, No, Anthea is coming to pick me up. She shouldn't be too long, and this happened, as I say, with several witnesses I've spoken to. However, as time went on and I think, you know, maybe ten to fifteen

minutes past. Jeff then made a phone call to one of his colleagues, a woman named Peter, who lived in the apartment complex, and Peter said, yeah, look, the car is still here, so I will try and ring, and I think she made a phone call to the apartment complex. Nobody answered, so Peter went and picked up Jeff from

the medical center. Then Peter says that Jeff was worried about where Anthea was, and they made a decision to drive around where she may have gone walking or running because she'd been doing that while she was in Brunei. There was no sign of Anthea, so a short time later they returned to the apartment complex. Peter and Jeff get out of the car. Peter says, she heads to her apartment and says, I'll see you again soon. Jeff goes to his apartment, which is on the third floor.

He opens the door and Anthea is in a pool of blood and it is clear that her body's cold and that she's dead, and he screams out to Peter, because Peter's a nurse. Peter comes up sadly. It's clear that there's nothing anyone can do by that point, and really that's where this mystery begins.

that's how he explains that. There are also photographs that show a bloodstained knife, which was presumably the murder weapon, near the front door, so the killer had discarded the knife right near the front door on the way out

is what we can take out of that. Another thing to note about that knife is that people I've spoken to from the other apartments say it appears to be the standard issue knife for all of the apartments, which indicates that perhaps, and this hasn't been confirmed, that perhaps that knife came from Jeff's kitchen. There was also an ironing board out, and there was a business shirt draped

over the ironing board. The iron was plugged in and it was still switched on, so it appeared that someone had been ironing a shirt and for whatever reason, stopped abruptly there. I guess the key pieces of evidence from inside the apartment. Piecing it all together is difficult. I guess it can tell a story whatever way you look at it, but this would form part of that initial Brunei police investigation.

answering the phone. Roz says that she picked up the phone and it was Jeff and he didn't say hello, he just said and he's dead. And she doesn't remember much from that point apart from saying, don't say that to me. Don't say that to me. Martin says he heard this commotion, he went downstairs and by this point Roz was curled up in the fetal position. He took the phone, and he says that Jeff was that hysterical

he could barely understand what he was saying. So he was asking for someone else to take over the phone call, you know, put someone else on the phone, and eventually, and he doesn't know who it was, but eventually someone told him that his daughter had been murdered. And then he says, Martin says that he thought that he was the calm one in the room, rose obviously in the fetal position, but he looked down and realized that he had urinated in his trousers after hearing that news.

you need to go home. Presumably he had somehow found out from Martin and Ross Craig's parents, and Craig hopped in his car. He didn't know what was going on. His friend didn't tell him, and so he had that painful drive to his mum and dad's house, and he said the moment he arrived, he approached the front door and he could hear his mum howling, absolutely howling inside

the house. And went in and again he was given a phone and it was Jeff, and Jeff said that Annie had been murdered, and Craig then had to try and get his head around that, and obviously couldn't get his head around that, because why would anyone murder her? It was a relatively safe country. She'd been there for nine days, she didn't know anyone apart from Jeff and perhaps some of his other colleagues who she would have only just been introduced to, So almost an impossible thing

to fathom for Craig Bradshaw. And he says that he then tried to get hold of his other brother, Paul, and he was out at the pub that night, and obviously, again mobile phones weren't a thing, so they struggled to get hold of him. Paul was still living at home and late that night he came home in his car and he saw all of the cars in the front yard. So by then, I guess a lot of the extended family had arrived at the house, and he just looked

and thought, what is going on here? And he said that he was that concerned and confused that he actually didn't go into the house. He drove up and parked on the side of the road for an hour, just sat there. Perhaps he knew at that point that his life was about to change, and that if he could have another hour without knowing then he would take that. But eventually he went into the house, and he says that he thinks it was his auntie who told him what had happened.

that Jeff had said, there's nothing you can do. Leave it with me, essentially, and so no member of the Bradshaw family went to Brunei and that's something that they regret to this day. Instead, Jeff Hall's father went over and Jeff Hawlls best mate went over together. And I think what the Bradshaws perhaps didn't know at that time, well I'm almost certain they didn't know at the time was that Jeff was being treated as a suspect by

the Brunei police. He was actually in custody. I was told by one of Jeff's colleagues in the podcast that he had been held for questioning and that they went and visited him and he was behind bars. So he was in some form of custody at that point, and he was beside himself. He was crying and saying that

he was innocent. Again, these are all things that the Bradshaw family weren't aware of at the time, and they really do wish that that had some representation I guess as a family over there in those initial days.

apartment complex who no one recognized. And when I say no one, there was only one person I'm aware of who saw that man, and I've spoken to her and she's described him as being of Thai or Vietnamese descent, that he had a cap, and that cap was pulled down over his face to the extent that she couldn't really make out any distinguishing features. And this was looked

at thoroughly by the Brunei police. They did a photo fit of this man, even though the woman who spotted him says that that was pretty pointless because she didn't

know what he looked like anyway. And news would filter back to the Bradshaw's that there was this theory of an itinerant worker, a tie worker perhaps, who may have worked in maintenance on the apartment complex, or who may have worked on a nearby construction site and may have gone up to that third floor apartment and killed Anthea, And they, to an extent, I guess, accepted that they accepted that perhaps this was an unfortunate random killing.

one Jeffrey John Hall. However, the finding also said police investigations could not find any evidence to justify any charge against him.

the case. There's no jurisdiction obviously for South Australian Police in Brunei, but that doesn't stop them from making their own inquiries. And so that started to begin and really ramp up in the early two thousands, led primarily initially by Detective Rownie.

You may have heard of the police tattoo that is held around the world and police forces will come with

their police bans and things like that. Well that was being held in Adelaide this year, and so the Royal Brunei Police Force Band was coming and so as part of that, Brenton Rownie organized for the South Australian Police Commissioner at the time to meet with a high ranking official from and they had a meeting when they were here for the police tattoo, and as a result of that meeting, Brunei said yes, look, we are prepared to pay for the flights and accommodation of your detective to

come over to Brunei wow and conduct his own inquiries, which was a real breakthrough for the Bradshaws and for say police they could go over and for the first time have a look at this for themselves in terms of someone from South Australia at least, and so that happened. It was in two thousand and four that Brenton Rownie bordered a plane and headed over to the place where Anthea.

in the decade preceding Anthea's death. I haven't been able to confirm that because the stats from Brunei are very patchy and unclear. Probably the best data I could get was from the United Nations. Actually that showed between nineteen ninety six and twenty thirteen, so this is a period really after the murder, But probably the best data I could get there were fifty four murders, an average of

around three per year for that period. Now it is a small country, about around half a million people, but still, even if you go off that data, it's fair to say that murders were quite rare, and so the police force over there wouldn't have had the same skills that someone from South Eastutralia would have. Brenton Rownie would have investigated other murders before. The major crime branch here in South Australia handles a lot of murders and a lot

of cold cases too ongoing. So that's the first thing that stood out to him. And he also learned for the first time that Jeff had been held in some form of custody after the murder, and he says that's something that he didn't know previously, and obviously, as I've mentioned, the Bradshaw family wasn't aware of either. He says that

the Brunei police were helpful to an extent. They provided him with exhibits from the case, he was able to visit Geredong Park where this murder took place, and he ultimately returned home after four days with dozens of exhibits that he was allowed to physically take back to South Australia.

Hence why a lot of people I've spoken to said that this murder of Anthea Bradshaw was very out of the box.

like stains on Jeff's shirt. Now, there would be various forensic reports done that looked at that shirt, and a DNA examination of the shirt found that the blood stains on Antia's shirt weren't Jeff's blood, ruled out that it was Jeff's blood, and one report from Singapore found that there was only a one in fifteen chance that that blood was anyone else's but anteis, So we can take out of that there was a high likelihood without being one hundred percent, that Jeff Hall had his wife's blood

on his shirt on the day of the murder. Now that's obviously significant, But the other thing you need to look at then is how did the blood get there, Because he does say that he went and checked his wife's body when he got back to the apartment and saw her on the ground, so very possible it could have happened then, and that's why you need to look further into the evidence and further at those blood stains and further at the crime scene to try and work out, okay, well,

how did he get that blood on his shirt. There was a report done in the year or two after the murder by a forensic scientist named doctor Henry C. Lee from Connecticut. He worked for the Connecticut State Laboratory, and he was very well known. He's worked on thousands and thousands of cases. He worked on the OJ Simpson case, he worked on the John Benet Ramsey case. And I was only watching a Netflix documentary the other night called The Staircase, and in it he was used by the defense.

So this was a well known forensic scientist. He looked at the blood stains that was his speciality, and he determined that there were what he called medium velocity blood stains, which sounds very technical, but essentially what it means is that there were microscopic droplets that appeared to have got there after traveling through the air. So this wasn't a smear, it wasn't a white that there had been some kind of projected mechanism that got the blood on Jeff's shirt.

Now that's significant. It doesn't necessarily say that it got there through the process of stabbing Anthea, but it does say that perhaps some of the blood got there through traveling through the air. And so then you need to think about, Okay, how could Jeff have got the projected blood onto his shirt by just viewing and checking Anthea's body. And it's possible he could have stepped in the pool of blood, for example, and it could have splashed up

onto his shirt. He could have had the blood wipe onto his shirt and then that could have gripped from one sleeve to the other. That's also possible. But it was definitely evidence that would support a theory that perhaps it had got there through the process of stabbing Anthea. And then it became about not necessarily just taking Henry C. Lee's word for it, because in these cases there are varying opinions and if you go to another forensic scientist

it can be different. And that's what police did. They went to someone in Western Australia who looked at the evidence as well and wasn't as convinced that there was this medium velocity blood. He said that it was possible that there was projected blood stains on the shirt. And there were also similar findings from a South Australian forensic scientist who said the same thing. But one thing that they all agreed on was that there was blood or

at least blood like stains on the shirt. And then to wrap that up, they need to then go, okay, well, let's look at the crime scene. Let's see how Jeff may have got that blood on his shirt without being too graphic anthey's on the ground, there's a pull of

blood off to one side of her body. And there's a pathologist here in South Australia named Roger Bayard, Professor Roger Bayard, who looked at the crime scene photographs and was asked to make a determination on how Jeff could have got the blood on his shirt in checking the body. And I've spoken to Roger in the podcast and he tells me that when he looks at the photo, he thinks if Jeff had come around from one side and approached her. And we need to keep in mind, and

this is something that I might not have mentioned. Jeff has been specific about what he did he touched Anthea's face, he checked her pulse, and he touched her leg. And Roger says that if he had come from one side of the body and done those things, he can't see how Jeff could have got blood on him because there wasn't any blood on that side. Then Roger says, Okay, if he went around the other side, yes he could have got blood on him, but he would have disturbed

the pool of blood. And when you look at the photograph, there is no evidence that there was any disruption to that pool of blood. And so this became important evidence as well in that it raises doubt about whether Jeff could have got blood on his shirt when he checked Anthea's body.

to the Bruney police. They made a determination not just based on that, but also based on alibi accounts that we should talk about at some point, witness accounts that there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute jeffrel.

she says that that day she was at work as well. However, she went home for lunch, and she did this at around one pm, and there was a shuttle service, so there was a van that the employees could get in at the medical center and then make the short journey

to the apartment complex. So she went home for lunch, and then at around one point fifty she went back into the van to go back to the medical center, and she said she looked up at Jeff and Anthea's apartment and Anthea was on the balcony, and so this is a sighting of Anthea alive at one fifty pm.

It's also important to note that a short time after that, around two ten PM, another woman who was living at that apartment complex named Carolyn Chilcott, heard a domestic dispute and she's described it to Brunei police as a domestic dispute at around two ten pm, the sound of a man and a woman having an argument and also the

sound of furniture being moved. She says that went for about seven minutes, and then she heard the sound of footsteps going down the stairs and out of the apartment complex. So we have a sighting of Anthea alive at one point fifty we have the sound of a domestic dispute at two ten, not necessarily coming from Jeff and Anthea's apartment, but certainly from somewhere in the apartment complex. If the sighting and that sound is linked to Anthea's murder, then

Jeff Hall is at work at the time. Few things we need to question there. Firstly, there was only one person that saw Anthea alive, and identifications like that have been notoriously unreliable. I've interviewed neur Angela. I think she is credible and one hundred percent believe she saw Anthea. But that has been the case in many murder investigations where those accounts have turned out to be wrong. So

we need to take that for what it is. And I've been told by prosecution experts that in any trial that would become under a lot of scrutiny, there'd be a lot of questions asked about that sighting. The other thing obviously we need to ask, is well, are we sure that the sound of the dispute came from Jeff and Anthea's apartment. It could have been someone else, could have been a complete coincidence. And the police say that any investigation there will be red herrings like this. They're

the first two things we need to consider. But then we also need to look at Jeff Hall's version of events. Was he really at work that whole time? Who saw him at work was as someone that can account for him being there every minute of the day between twelve and five. And I have to say there are alibi witnesses for Jeff Hall, people who say they saw him around two point fifteen, although they couldn't be completely sure

of the time. But I think just to simplify it a little bit, because Jeff Hall's version of events is probably most important. He said in his original police statement that he had a coffee break at two o'clock in the afternoon. He says that he had that coffee break on the clinic grounds. He never went home. He says he never went back to the apartment and he says that he had that coffee break with his superior Varghi's Powlos, who was the head of the MRI department where he worked.

Problem is Fagie's powerloss in his statement says, yes, I did have a coffee break with Jeff Hall, but that was at two forty five, and so there's a difference in timings there, and it is possible that one of them has just got their time wrong. But a fact of this case is that Jeff says he had a coffee break at two and the person he says he had a coffee break with says, no, it happened at

two forty five. Crucial timing when you consider the sound of the domestic dispute at the apartment complex at about two ten pm. The other important thing to note there is that whilst Jeff's car wasn't with him by all reports. At the medical center. It's a fairly short walk. I've looked at it on Google Maps. As the crow flies, it's less than a kilometer from the apartment complex to the clinic. Jeff was a fit man. If he wanted to run, he'd cover a kilometer in five minutes. If

he walked, he might take ten to fifteen. He could get a ride. That's something that has been investigated. What it essentially shows is that there is a possibility that Jeff could have gone home during that five hour period. I will repeat, though, that there were several people who certainly say that they were with Jeff the large chunks of the day. The other thing that Jeff said was that he spent a lot of that afternoon with var

Geese and with another colleague, Emmett Timperley. Emma has been supportive in her witness statement of what I've seen in terms of spending a lot of time with Jeff. Var Geese, though, who I've interviewed, has said that he would have only spent a few minutes here and there with Jeff, and certainly doesn't think he would have spent a large chunk of the afternoon with him.

is what he did every day. So that evidence was presented to him, and he tells me after examining that evidence, he came to the conclusion that there was not only enough evidence to charge Jeffrey Hall, there was enough evidence to put him on trial for murder. This was a

determination he made in two thousand and eight. And I do want to caveat that with the fact that perhaps evidence has been gathered since then that might change his mind, but certainly that was his determination in two thousand and eight.

They put an alert on his passport so that whenever he enters the country they would know about it. Jeff Hall eventually comes back to Australia and he's staying at a hotel in the CBD and detective Rownie and schnee Milch go to his front door at the hotel room. Jeff, to their surprise, agrees to talk to them and they interview him at length. Jeff sticks to that original story. I've got varying accounts from those two detectives. One of them believes that he thought that at one stage Jeff

Hall was going to confess to the murder. The other detective certainly didn't agree with that at all, but both of them do agree that Jeff Hall was extremely upset. He was obviously extremely shocked to suddenly have detectives arriving at his door all of these years later, but they did interview him. He agreed to the interview. Jeff's story didn't change, and then the detectives went to the Bradshaw's home, sat them down and said, we think we've done all

we can here. Now we don't have any jurisdiction and we're going to have to leave it at that. And Craig Bradshaw, Anthea's eldest brother, who very frustrated by this point, says that he went outside. He had a punching bag and he punched the punching bag and he broke his wrist because he felt like it was just another as I say, brickwall that they had faced. And so when he had eventually calmed down, he said to these detectives, Okay,

well where can we go from here? And they said, well, we don't think your chances are very good, but you could go to Federal Parliament and you could change a law so that police in Australia can investigate this crime, because at the end of the day, the victim was Australian and there was legislation in place already that came in in two thousand and two after the Bali bombings

that allowed Australian police to investigate overseas murders. The problem with that though, was that it wasn't backdated, so the legislation only began in two Anything before that, including Anthea's murder in nineteen ninety four, wasn't subject to this legislation, and so what the Bradshaws would need to do is changed that legislation so that it was retrospective. And that's

where a whole new fight began for the Bradshaws. They went to journalists at the time and one of them was probably me, but also a reporter with a local paper who wrote a feature article about this. It gave the case a bit more prominence. And then I'm sure you'll know Nick Xenophon, a very prominent independent senator at the time, became aware of the case and he went and met with the Bradshaws and he said Okay, well,

let's see if we can change this legislation. It was going to be difficult though for Nick on his own because he was an independent wasn't aligned to either of the major parties here in Australia. But perhaps another stroke of luck was that the local member for the Bradshaws was Christopher Pine, a prominent cabinet minister at the time, and so Nick and Chris and the family get together and they try to work out, okay, how do we

go about this. Christopher Pine approached the Attorney General at the time, who was George Brandis, and they decided that if they introduced a private member's bill through Nick Xenophon, that perhaps this could get past the Senate and the House of Representatives. And it didn't happen easily, but eventually that did happen and the law was changed, and the

Bradshaws went to Canberra. They fronted the cameras and this was an historic day and they changed federal law and it became known as Antia's Law or the Bradshaw Bill, and that would not just help them, but potentially help many other Australian families as well. That could be seen as a victory For the Bradshaws, they certainly didn't see it that way and they said as much. This was just Martin Bradshaw that his father said. They were never going to be any winners in this. It's just about

pursuing justice. But this allowed them to take that next time step.

given the task of not conducting an investigation. They used the word evaluation to evaluate the evidence to then make a decision whether it was even worth investigating. Those two investigators spent around eighteen months looking at the evidence, conducting their own investigations, re examining forensic exhibits, They visited Brunei,

they spoke to witnesses. However, they then summoned the Bradshaws, or called the Bradshaws to their AFP offices in Adelaide, sat them down and told them quite bluntly that they would not be conducting a full investigation into the matter.

let's go and arrest Jeff Hall. It was about let's investigate who killed Anthea. There are other theories, but someone killed Anthea. So Let's find out who it was. Let's not just allow a South Australian woman to be murdered overseas and do nothing about it. That was their frustration, and it was a shock for me too. I've been following this case. I tried to ring the Brawdshaws. They weren't answering their phones. They dropped off the grid for

a few days, maybe a few weeks. And I'm only being told now the reason that was was that Martin Antea's father started to spiral. His health started to suffer and he had a stroke a couple of weeks after being told this news. He survived that stroke. Craig was there and managed to get into a hospital, but sadly, he had a few more strokes and he continued to go downhill, and a few years ago he passed away without knowing what had happened to his daughter.

full investigation into the matter. And I found that very unusual for several reasons. And I'm not saying that they didn't do a thorough job. And I'm sure that they are aware of evidence that I'm not aware of, and perhaps the other police forces aren't aware of, and the former South Australian DEPP isn't aware of. But did they do everything they could? And should they be saying that they're not going to conduct a full investigation. I think that's a horrible thing to tell a family. I really do.

And for example, if there's a cold case in South Australia the South Australian Police, it'll always be something that they never give up on and they will hold press conferences or they'll keep pushing it out there and calling for information. Now, I'm not aware of a single police officer in the world having ever done a press conference about Anthea's murder. Not one nearly thirty years not one might have happened in Brunei. Perhaps I'm not sure. Certainly

not in Australia. And that's what I guess what we can focus on now, because clearly it's now Australia's job to do this, because Brunei is not going to I would have thought that at some point you front the cameras and you say it's not acceptable that an innocent South Australian school teacher was killed in the prime of her life in a foreign country. We want to do something about it. Who knows something? If you know, call this number, put out a reward, like you do with

every other unsolved murder in Australia that hasn't happened. Either. There's no reward. The AFP might say, I will look, this happened overseas. Why would we call for witnesses here in Australia. Well, a lot of the witnesses now live in Australia. Well, the key one, nor Angela, who I spoke to, who was the last to see anthrough her live will, says she was the last to see anthrow your lives. She lives in Perth. I've spoken to another witness who had dinner with Anthea and Jeff the night before.

She lives in Borough, South Australia. A lot of these expats are in Australia and anti families in Australia. Antea's friends are in Australia. It's important to know about Jeff and Anthea's relationship before they went overseas. You need to build a full picture, and so I think there is good reason to do a press conference or a recorded interview here in Australia and I have reached out to

the AFP with a full list of questions. It took me a long time to get an answer as to whether they would speak with me, and six weeks after that first inquiry I got an email saying that they would politely decline. And what's particularly frustrating about that is that podcasts they extend beyond borders, don't they Like people in BRUNEI might listen to the podcast, the American expats

might hear it in the US. There are witnesses in the UK, and there is a very good chance that once the podcast starts getting shared around, it will get to the right people. I was extremely disappointed that they

didn't want to talk. They did provide me with an extensive written statement, and I should acknowledge that they certainly say that they did everything that they could, that they feel like they turned over every stone, that they interviewed all of the right people, They re examined the forensic evidence.

They also say that they uncovered new evidence, including some injuries we weren't aware of to anthea, which is well and good, but I would have some follow up questions for that, and I'd like to know a little bit more. And if there is some stuff that they know that we don't the public doesn't know, that doesn't sit very comfortably with me either, because that would mean that Martin

Bradshaw passed away without knowing the full story. And they probably do say that they need to keep some things up their sleeve because it might compromise the investigation if they release that information. But my response to that would be what investigation.

Adelaide court since then. Given those things, it's important to go back over their relationship because that helps build a picture. So I want to talk about a few things there. Firstly, the Bradshaws say that they never saw many signs of tension between the couple, only an argument here and there. I've spoken to friends of Anthea who say that they did like Jeff, but they've also painted a bit of a different picture about what was happening behind closed doors.

There was one letter in particular that Anthea had sent to one of her friends that spoke about them having some doozy of arguments, is how she described them, arguments that involved furniture throwing and minor injuries. Now, I want to make it clear that that doesn't make Jeff a murderer either, and that lots of couples would have arguments,

and lots of couples probably have quite volatile arguments. Again, I think it's important to paint the picture though about their relationship, given that he is a suspect in the murder. There were other friends as well that also recall there being arguing. And there are some friends as well that say that there was some strange behavior, erratic behavior from Jeff after Anthea died, after the funeral, and I guess

that could be explained. He would have been grieving at the time, but I think important to put that on the record. So there were those things from Antie's friends. Essentially, it was not a perfect relationship. Also, when you mentioned Jeff coming out as gay, that happened around ten years after the murder, that was a real shock for the Bradshaw family because they were still close with Jeff, particularly the brothers. They were still mates, but Jeff didn't tell them.

One of the brothers, Paul, was at a social event. It was a cricket party, he says, and he was talking to a mutual friend of Jeff's and Paul said, how is Jeff? And this friend said, well, you know, I was a bit shocked about him coming out with this young fellow. And Paul said, what do you mean coming out of what? And would soon put two and two together and that was how he found out that Jeff was gay. And so Paul says, why didn't Jeff

tell me that? Why didn't he come to meet with it, and at no point did these brothers think, oh, okay, that's it. That means that he killed Anthea. Far from it. In fact, Craig says that when he found out this news, he essentially said, look, so what doesn't make him a murderer. And he even reached out to Jeff. He called him and said, I've just built a new house at Morson Lakes. Would you like to come and see it? And Jeff said, no, I can't, I'm too busy with water Polo and basically

hung up. And that was the last interaction that Jeff and Craig had ever had, and the Bradshaws haven't spoken to him for many years. And so why is his sexuality relevant? It's potentially not reallyan Why am I mentioning it in the podcast? Well we need to know did Jeff know he was gay when he married Anthea? And if he did, why did he marry Anthea? And it speaks to the dynamics of the relationship. I think it's an important thing to mention.

Jeff for comment a few years ago. He was polite on the phone and certainly indicated that he would like to help, but ultimately declined the request for an interview. And more recently, the AFP has told me that they reached out to Jeff for an interview for their investigation

and he declined, which is his right to do. So that's where we're at at the moment, and I do want to maintain that whilst Jeff has been named as a suspect, there have also been other theories including a stranger seen outside of the apartment complex, including the fact that there were a lot of people around the apartment complexes at that time.

phone call to say that she'd been murdered. Unthinkable. There's that, and that's the worst part, right that's the worst part. They've lost their sister, they've lost their daughter. But I think what has really destroyed them is this ongoing fight for justice and the frustration of that and that anger that that would bring. And that's what I think really comes out when you speak to them. They want whoever was responsible to suffer in the way that they have suffered.

And I've spoken to the former victim's Rights commissioner here in South Australia who had some strong things to say on this, and he said that families don't ever move on from these things. You know, time doesn't really heal wounds. People just learn how to live with what's happened to them. And he's made the point of saying that these families shouldn't be expected to move on afterwards and just to drop the investigation and think this isn't getting anywhere, Let's

go on with our lives. Well, I think it's offensive when people say that to them, because it's not for other people to decide that. And when I made inquiries with witnesses and investigators, some of them said they've got to get on with their lives. Anthea wouldn't have wanted this. Well, I even question that because Anthea obviously knew who killed her. There are people that have said to me anthey will

be saying go and get them. It's not good enough to say that the family should be expected to move on because they're never going to have any kind of peace until the case is solved. And that's for them to decide. And so if there are reasons why things can't be investigated further, I mean there are people I approached for interview for the podcast who said no, and

that's completely fine. People have their reasons for that. I just don't want one of those reasons to be that the family should just move on and that it's best for the family, because it's not for us to decide what's best for the family.