Ciara Eilish Glennon was a young woman who disappeared from Perth, Western Australia, on 15 March 1997. Her body was found on 3 April 1997, 19 days after her disappearance.
Case[]
Ciara disappeared from the Claremont area in the early hours of Saturday, 15 March 1997. Her disappearance occurred nine months after Jane Rimmer and fourteen months after Sarah Spiers.
She was out with workmates at the Continental Hotel in Claremont. Shortly before midnight, she told her workmates she was going home and started to walk down Bay View Terrace to Stirling Highway. At around 12:30 a.m., three men at a bus stop noticed Ciara walking south along Stirling Highway. Believing she was hitchhiking, one man yelled that she was "crazy", but Ciara waved him off. They then observed her interacting with a light-colored vehicle that had stopped by her. The men stated she was leaning over to talk to the vehicle's occupant, but she and the car were gone when they turned back.
On 3 April 1997, her semi-clothed body was found 40 km away in Eglinton, a northern suburb of Perth, near a track in scrub off Pipidinny Road. Her cause of death was never established due to decomposition, but her manner of death was deemed a homicide.
Investigation[]
Ciara's disappearance was connected to the Claremont serial killings, a series of disappearances involving young women who went missing from the Claremont area of Perth after a night out with friends.
In December 2016, police arrested Bradley Robert Edwards on suspicion of being the Claremont serial killer. His trial concluded on 25 June 2020, where he was found guilty of the murders of Rimmer and Glennon but not of Spiers, as her body was never found. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 40 years. DNA found under Ciara's fingernails that matched Edwards was crucial in securing a conviction.
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