Jane Louise Rimmer was a young woman who disappeared from Perth, Western Australia, on 9 June 1996. Her body was later found on 3 August 1996.
Case[]
Jane disappeared in the early hours of 9 June 1996. She had been enjoying a night out with friends and decided to head to Club Bay View, the same place Sarah Spiers disappeared from five months earlier. When her friends saw the queue, they decided to head back to the suburbs. However, Jane decided to stay out. Following Jane's disappearance, the Western Australian Police set up the Macro Task Force to investigate the cases after they were linked. Ciara Glennon would disappear nine months later, leading police to announce they were searching for a serial killer.
Jane's body was discovered 55 days later, on 3 August 1996, in Wellard, south of Perth.
A decade after Jane's disappearance, CCTV footage was released that showed her on the night of her disappearance conversing with a man outside the Continental. The camera then pans to another location in the pub, and when it comes back, Jane and the man have disappeared.
Investigation[]
Jane'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 socializing.
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.