Article: Stalker investigates: A chill of death..as the sun blazes down The mistake; We flew the country's top cop JOHN STALKER 12,000 miles to Australia to investigate the riddle of vanished British backpacker Peter Falconio, feared murdered in the Outback. This is his report...(Features)

Byline: JOHN STALKER

THE CRIME

-JOANNE Lees, 27, and Peter Falconio, 28, quit their jobs in Britain to travel the world. Seven months into the trip they are driving on the Australian outback's desolate Stuart Highway when their VW camper van is flagged down.

-PETER gets out to talk to a man in a utility truck and they ask Joanne to rev the van. She hears a loud bang, then is bundled at gunpoint into man's truck where he binds her hands and feet.

-SHE manages to escape into the bush, evading him for several hours before he drives off. ...

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