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a teenage girl in australia was found00:00:08
dead on the side of a road00:00:10
her boyfriend became the prime suspect00:00:13
eventually he confessed to her murder00:00:15
but00:00:16
so did another man00:00:18
who was telling the truth00:00:21
[Music]00:00:22
it took 40 years a writer and a00:00:25
pedestrian crash reconstructionist to00:00:28
finally uncover the truth00:00:34
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the city of perth sits on the western00:01:02
coast of the vast continent of australia00:01:05
it's a modern example of the industrious00:01:08
but laid-back aussie lifestyle00:01:12
where beaches barbecuing and sport are00:01:15
critically important00:01:17
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in 1963 the city was smaller but not00:01:26
that different00:01:29
perth had been a sleepy little hollow00:01:31
just a beautiful little town where you'd00:01:33
never thought of any sort of crime or00:01:34
murder very innocent very secure00:01:38
at that time john button was a teenager00:01:41
in love with 17 year old rosemary00:01:43
anderson00:01:45
very quiet a bit headstrong at times but00:01:49
very enjoyable00:01:50
company-wise00:01:52
on john's 19th birthday00:01:55
rosemary stopped over at john's house to00:01:57
celebrate00:01:58
john's little brother was also there00:02:01
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the three teens spent the night watching00:02:07
television00:02:09
while they were eating the fish and00:02:10
chips john watching tv saw a hand come00:02:12
across for his piece of fish00:02:14
yelled at the person thinking it was his00:02:16
little brother but it was rosemary00:02:19
she got upset she stormed off and said00:02:21
that was over she was walking home00:02:23
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button said he got into his car and00:02:35
drove alongside her apologizing and00:02:38
trying to convince her to get into the00:02:40
car so he could drive her home00:02:43
she'd done that once before00:02:45
and after he stopped for a little while00:02:48
and after a five minute walk on her own00:02:50
she cooled down he thought she would do00:02:51
that again00:02:53
so he watched as rosemary walked under a00:02:56
railway overpass and around the corner00:03:00
i sat there i smoked a cigarette00:03:03
and just in those two or three minutes00:03:05
she was00:03:06
out of sight00:03:10
john claimed he drove after rosemary and00:03:13
found her face down on the side of the00:03:16
road unconscious bruised and bleeding00:03:21
so without thinking i just put it00:03:23
straight in the car and washed it00:03:24
straight off to her family doctor00:03:27
dr alastair turner treated rosemary that00:03:30
night00:03:31
she had severe00:03:33
injuries where she was scraped down the00:03:35
road to her face and to her lips and00:03:38
her blood pressure was very00:03:40
unstable going up and down as she was00:03:41
losing blood into abdominal organs and00:03:43
so on00:03:45
really i don't think she ever had any00:03:47
chance of survival00:03:49
when the police arrived they noticed a00:03:51
dent on the front of john's car00:03:55
and they also noticed00:03:56
fresh blood00:03:59
john was interrogated for several hours00:04:02
there was the accusations why did you00:04:04
knock it down we know it was you that00:04:05
knocked her down of course it was you00:04:06
look at the front of the car it's00:04:07
damaged you had an argument it must have00:04:09
been you00:04:10
eventually button confessed to hitting00:04:13
his girlfriend with his car00:04:16
in his written confession he admitted00:04:18
the couple's argument was over something00:04:21
more than a piece of fish00:04:23
they wrote down that i tried to get fish00:04:25
with rosemary00:04:27
but i tried to try to come on to her and00:04:30
and she refused my advances and that's00:04:32
what caused the argument00:04:36
when rosemary refused to get in the car00:04:38
button said he got angry and tried to00:04:41
scare her so he sped towards her00:04:43
intending to stop but lost control of00:04:45
the car and inadvertently hit her00:04:50
prosecutors had all they needed for a00:04:53
conviction00:04:54
[Applause]00:04:56
[Music]00:04:59
just a few hours after he confessed to00:05:02
killing his girlfriend with his car00:05:12
john button recanted00:05:14
he now said his confession was coerced00:05:18
and that police hit him during the00:05:20
interrogation00:05:21
and i think was after about four hours00:05:22
of questioning that i received a quick00:05:25
punch to the stomach which00:05:27
put me underneath the table00:05:29
they pulled me out and00:05:31
set me back in the chair again and i00:05:32
realized at that point that they weren't00:05:34
going to let me out of here until they00:05:36
got a confession00:05:37
and00:05:39
the way they were going was just going00:05:40
to get more and more physical00:05:43
buttons said the body damage on his car00:05:45
happened a few weeks earlier and that00:05:48
rosemary's blood dripped onto the front00:05:50
bumper when he picked her up to take her00:05:52
to the hospital00:05:53
[Applause]00:05:56
trevor condren examined the car at the00:05:59
request of the local police00:06:01
if this car had struck a pedestrian i00:06:04
would have expected to find00:06:06
damage to the bonnet00:06:08
like such as dented bonnet00:06:10
drag marks scrape marks00:06:13
but john button went on trial for murder00:06:17
and his earlier confession made it an00:06:19
open and shut case00:06:21
the jury deliberated for six hours00:06:23
before returning to the courtroom with00:06:25
their verdict00:06:26
[Music]00:06:29
members of the jury how do you find the00:06:32
accused guilty or not guilty not guilty00:06:35
your honor00:06:39
i'm thinking i'm going home00:06:41
could i go now could i run for the door00:06:43
and i decided well i better not i've got00:06:45
to wait until the judge tells me i can00:06:46
go so i turn back to the joke00:06:50
oh terribly sorry your honor i made a00:06:53
mistake00:06:55
we find him guilty00:07:02
the judge had to say guilty of what00:07:04
guilty of manslaughter00:07:07
a manslaughter verdict meant john00:07:08
button's life had been spared but he was00:07:11
sentenced to 10 years of hard labor in00:07:13
fremantle prison the police succeeded in00:07:17
the jury thinking he was a terrible00:07:19
young man trying to have sex with that00:07:21
beautiful young girl i've heard that00:07:23
that's what the foreman of the jury said00:07:25
hang the bastard trying to have sex with00:07:27
that beautiful young girl00:07:29
why did i sign that confession why did00:07:31
they force me into it why why do we have00:07:34
that argument with my girlfriend00:07:37
fremantle prison was a relic from00:07:39
victorian times with no plumbing heating00:07:43
or air conditioning00:07:45
you locked up a cell with nothing but a00:07:47
mattress on the floor a rubber bucket in00:07:50
the corner a plastic plate and a wooden00:07:52
spoon a very simple little argument over00:07:54
just a small bit of fish00:07:56
that's all00:07:58
all that it00:08:00
it started with00:08:02
seven months later00:08:04
another man arrived at fremantle prison00:08:07
to await his execution00:08:09
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eric edgar cook had been convicted of00:08:14
killing a young man in cold blood00:08:17
he had also confessed to other acts of00:08:19
random violence00:08:21
well cook confessed to eight murders and00:08:24
about 12 home invasions in which women00:08:27
were attacked in their beds00:08:29
but that wasn't all00:08:31
incredibly00:08:33
cook also said that he00:08:35
was the one who killed rosemary anderson00:08:40
cook said he intentionally ran her down00:08:43
when she was walking on the side of the00:08:45
road00:08:49
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for john button00:08:54
it was an answer to his prayers00:08:57
as soon as my lawyer came in and told me00:09:00
of this confession00:09:02
i believe then well this is it i'm free00:09:04
it's only a matter of time00:09:05
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and for the first time00:09:08
button recalled seeing cook's car pass00:09:11
him when he was looking for rosemary00:09:13
that night00:09:14
what i didn't realize at that very00:09:16
moment as it's turned out00:09:18
driving past on the other side of the00:09:19
railroad line at that moment was eric00:09:21
cook00:09:22
but there were problems with cook's00:09:24
confession00:09:25
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police took cook to the scene of00:09:29
rosemary anderson's murder and asked him00:09:31
to identify where the incident took00:09:34
place00:09:35
cook pointed to the wrong spot00:09:39
police didn't believe cook's story00:09:42
so the court denied john button's appeal00:09:45
what should have happened is that the00:09:47
court of criminal appeals should award a00:09:48
retrial of john button00:09:51
at which eric cook would be the star00:09:53
witness00:09:55
button clung to hope00:09:57
until the day it disappeared00:10:00
along with the birds gathered on the00:10:03
roof of the prison gallows00:10:09
they all of a sudden just fly off into00:10:11
the air as the trap door is released and00:10:13
you know just by that that00:10:16
a person's been hanged00:10:19
eric edgar cook00:10:20
was executed00:10:22
i knew that once eric was hanged that00:10:25
was the end of any chance i had of being00:10:27
released00:10:28
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the minister attending cook's execution00:10:32
said cook took the bible from his hands00:10:35
and again confessed to rosemary's murder00:10:39
but it was of no help to john button00:10:43
it would take years before he'd get00:10:44
another chance to prove his innocence00:10:53
after serving five years of a 10-year00:10:55
sentence john button was released from00:10:57
prison for good behavior00:11:00
the first thing he did00:11:02
was visit rosemary anderson's grave00:11:05
he was out of prison physically but not00:11:07
out of prison emotionally he led his00:11:09
life with a big sign over his head00:11:11
convicted killer and a big rock in his00:11:13
heart injustice00:11:15
button eventually got married had two00:11:18
children found a job00:11:20
and battled a serious depression00:11:23
i desperately wanted to live but the00:11:25
heartache and the pain00:11:27
of living with the injustice which was00:11:29
so intense that i knew that i just00:11:30
wasn't going to make it that i'd finish00:11:32
up doing something foolish00:11:34
it was00:11:35
seven years00:11:36
after i was released i did do something00:11:38
foolish00:11:40
in desperation button took an overdose00:11:42
of sleeping pills got into his car and00:11:45
drove off a steep embankment at a00:11:47
hundred miles an hour00:11:51
miraculously00:11:53
he survived00:11:54
from that point on my life changed00:11:56
completely00:11:58
um00:11:59
and00:12:00
a couple of things that i asked of this00:12:03
this god that had watched over me was00:12:05
would he would he would he give me back00:12:08
a life and would he give me justice in00:12:09
my lifetime00:12:12
he wrote to government officials looking00:12:14
for a way to clear his name00:12:16
with no luck00:12:18
he even tried writing a book00:12:21
but no publisher would touch it i00:12:24
remember standing there with the00:12:25
rejection slip in my hand and i raised00:12:26
my hands up and i said god if you want00:12:28
this book written you better do00:12:29
something00:12:30
in the phone rank00:12:32
it was my father bringing me up to uh00:12:34
just to mention that he'd been out00:12:35
dancing with the young lady last night00:12:37
and he told her about the injustice he00:12:40
wanted and she wanted to meet me00:12:42
the call was about estelle blackburn a00:12:45
journalist and the former government00:12:47
press secretary she was intrigued by the00:12:50
case and agreed to help investigate00:12:52
button's story00:12:54
i had the skills and the doors that were00:12:56
slammed shut in his face opened for me i00:12:58
had the networks and the contacts i00:13:00
could get the files and everything that00:13:01
he needed i knew how to research i was00:13:04
playing a detective i was investigating00:13:06
a 30 year old murder trying to find00:13:08
fresh evidence00:13:10
blackburn wasn't entirely convinced that00:13:12
button was innocent she had serious00:13:15
doubts about eric cook's credibility00:13:18
now i lived through the cook era i knew00:13:20
cook didn't run down girls cook shot00:13:22
people and later we learned that he00:13:24
stabbed and strangled as well but he00:13:25
certainly didn't run down girls00:13:28
but in the files of button's 1964 appeal00:13:31
estelle found something surprising00:13:34
something that had not been widely00:13:36
reported 30 years earlier00:13:40
six women had survived hit and run car00:13:42
crashes and eric cook had confessed to00:13:45
being the driver in each of them00:13:49
each woman's story was eerily similar to00:13:52
rosemary's00:13:55
young women on dark isolated roads run00:13:59
down by a stolen car00:14:03
estelle eventually wrote her own book00:14:05
about john button's case00:14:07
and she too had problems finding a00:14:09
publisher00:14:11
that is until she asked her friend a00:14:14
local newspaper publisher for help00:14:17
when brett christian read the manuscript00:14:20
he agreed to personally finance the00:14:23
publication of blackburn's book00:14:25
having met john i realized it was just00:14:27
not possible for him to have done it it00:14:30
and it didn't seem the physics didn't00:14:33
seem right to me either00:14:35
christian also questioned the lack of00:14:37
damage to the front of button's car00:14:40
the police were trying to say that00:14:41
john's little lightweight french simca00:14:44
had hit a girl hard enough to kill her00:14:46
and yet there was only there was really00:14:48
no discernible damage on it didn't add00:14:50
up simply didn't add up00:14:54
but could science back up his suspicions00:14:57
the answer to that question would come00:15:00
from the world's smartest crash test00:15:02
dummy00:15:08
estelle blackburn's book convinced many00:15:11
that john button was innocent and that00:15:14
serial killer eric cook was the one who00:15:16
killed rosemary anderson00:15:19
without a uh a legal verdict i saw00:15:22
classed as a killer a convicted killer00:15:25
his only hope of overturning the verdict00:15:27
was to find new or fresh evidence in00:15:30
this 37 year old case00:15:33
fresh evidence at law in this00:15:35
jurisdiction is evidence which was not00:15:38
available at the time of the trial00:15:40
which obviously didn't feature at the00:15:42
time of the trial and which could not00:15:44
with reasonable diligence have been00:15:46
available at the trial00:15:49
publisher brett christian believes so00:15:51
strongly in button's innocence that he00:15:53
searched all over the world for an00:15:55
expert in the new field of forensics00:15:57
called00:15:58
pedestrian crash reconstruction00:16:01
[Music]00:16:02
in texas he found rusty hate a former00:16:06
policeman and one of the most respected00:16:08
crash reconstructionists in the field00:16:11
accident reconstruction is an effort to00:16:13
explain how a crash a car crash happened00:16:15
we use a lot of common sense00:16:18
some elementary applied physics and00:16:22
more common sense00:16:23
and try to piece together the objective00:16:26
information we have for a given car00:16:27
crash00:16:28
to make some sense of it to sort out00:16:31
how things happened00:16:34
when hate first looked at photographs00:16:36
taken of john button's car after the00:16:38
accident he didn't believe there was00:16:41
damage consistent with the fatal00:16:43
collision00:16:44
rosemary anderson the girl that was hit00:16:46
by a car00:16:48
was hit in the in the range of 30 to 4000:16:49
miles an hour and00:16:51
that leaves you know that kind of00:16:52
contact with the body leaves00:16:54
distinctive marks on a car and there00:16:56
were none of those marks on00:16:58
the car that i saw photos of nothing00:17:00
even close00:17:02
the mark would be on the hood because of00:17:04
the way a body moves when hit at that00:17:07
speed00:17:08
i think you can envision you know person00:17:10
as a struck by a car00:17:11
basically wrapping or or bending onto00:17:14
the to the front of the car00:17:16
the technical term we use when we're00:17:17
describing the trajectory is a wrap00:17:19
trajectory where the force applied on00:17:21
the body is below the body's center of00:17:23
mass and so the body is going to bend00:17:25
usually about the waist and that's going00:17:28
to leave some sort of mark in the hood00:17:32
but in an appeals court hate would need00:17:34
more than just an opinion00:17:36
he would need hard forensic proof00:17:40
for that00:17:41
he needed to perform pedestrian crash00:17:44
tests on a 1963 simca brand car00:17:48
a model that by this time was 35 years00:17:52
old00:17:54
despite the age00:17:56
brett christian found00:17:58
three usable cars00:18:00
he also found a 1963 holden the model00:18:04
eric cook said he was driving when he00:18:07
killed rosemary anderson00:18:09
cook's version is that he drives up00:18:11
behind her and hits her from behind00:18:14
a biomedical dummy was used to mimic the00:18:17
reactions of rosemary's body00:18:20
hate suspended it by a fishing line that00:18:23
breaks on impact00:18:25
the police didn't accept eric cook's00:18:27
version of the crash because the00:18:29
exterior sun visor on his car wasn't00:18:32
damaged as one would expect00:18:35
when hate's test car struck the dummy00:18:37
from behind it rolled onto the hood and00:18:40
over the roof just as eric cook had00:18:43
claimed00:18:44
but i was focused on the visor i was00:18:47
focused on the alignment and then i00:18:48
looked at the visor and and i remember00:18:50
seeing the visor bend when the dummy hit00:18:52
it and it sent a cold chill in my back i00:18:54
thought ah no this is not good it can't00:18:56
be good00:18:57
but the visor had snapped back into00:18:59
shape with no damage00:19:02
this explained why eric cook's visor00:19:04
showed no damage when police inspected00:19:07
it00:19:08
they actually flex that's what this this00:19:10
visor had done when the body hit it so00:19:12
now all of a sudden what was kind of a00:19:14
tense moment became hey we've done it so00:19:17
the dummy did exactly what cook said it00:19:20
was just a moment of wow this is it00:19:23
we've done it00:19:25
and the dummy landed face down00:19:28
consistent with how john button found00:19:31
rosemary's body00:19:34
but the tests on john button's car the00:19:37
simca were even more persuasive00:19:40
we found marking at the leading edge of00:19:42
the hood and more important we found a00:19:44
big dent a big depression in the hood00:19:46
where the dummy had come down and00:19:48
basically smacked its head on the hood00:19:51
whether we hit it on the right more in00:19:52
the center or on the left it just didn't00:19:54
matter00:19:55
there was no similar damage to buttons00:19:58
car00:19:59
and each time the dummy landed on its00:20:02
back00:20:03
inconsistent with the injuries on the00:20:05
front of rosemary's body00:20:09
rusty hate concluded that john button00:20:11
did not kill rosemary anderson00:20:15
so with estelle's research00:20:17
and with00:20:18
with hate's evidence we were able to00:20:20
show both of those things i it must have00:20:22
been cook00:20:24
and b00:20:25
it could not have been button you can't00:20:26
get a much stronger case than that00:20:30
this was enough to convince three judges00:20:32
on the supreme court of west australia00:20:35
that the verdict must be regarded as00:20:37
unsafe and unsatisfactory on the ground00:20:40
that there has been a miscarriage of00:20:42
justice00:20:43
[Music]00:20:44
[Applause]00:20:45
[Music]00:20:47
we went back and corrected a wrong and00:20:50
we did it with an appropriate use of of00:20:54
of the forensic evidence but also a00:20:56
liberal use of00:20:58
good investigative techniques that00:21:00
didn't come from the police that came00:21:02
from basically laypeople00:21:04
i think it makes us all a little bit00:21:06
more aware of the fallibility of the00:21:08
system and have a little bit more faith00:21:10
that can be rectified and that it is00:21:12
possible00:21:13
it's the advance of science that's only00:21:15
just been made possible and the00:21:17
recognition of that branch of science00:21:19
that is motor vehicle crash00:21:21
reconstruction00:21:23
that i would say beyond any doubt put00:21:25
the seal00:21:26
of success on john button's case00:21:29
[Music]00:21:39
[Music]00:21:58
[Music]00:22:11
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When Rosemary Anderson is found dead on the side of the road, her boyfriend becomes the prime suspect. He eventually confessed to her murder, but so did another man: serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke. Forensic Files is the longest-running true crime series in television history. Evidence and interviews with experts help solve real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world. Click here to watch full episodes from Forensic Files - Season 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gAB0hcY3Z0&list=PLC4mqmKvz1IbdnLKfCt8--pOV0xEpMIP5 Forensic Files is the longest-running true crime series in television history. Evidence and interviews with experts help solve real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world. #truecrime #forensicfiles #fullepisodes Click here to watch full episodes from Forensic Files - Season 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gAB0hcY3Z0&list=PLC4mqmKvz1IbdnLKfCt8--pOV0xEpMIP5
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