When detective Peter Seymour’s wife started receiving ominous phone calls at home, his boss permitted him to put everything aside and investigate the case himself.
“We got married in 1985. I’d moved to Penrith Detectives in 1986. And Sue fell pregnant with the first pregnancy around that time. And I was doing a lot of landscaping at our house.”
Seymour had gotten in contact with a man selling bush rock in the local paper.
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To arrange delivery times, the man would ring the police station and ask for Seymour. The second time he delivered, his wife was home alone.
Months later, Seymour’s wife started receiving calls from a man threatening her, but only when Seymour wasn’t home.
“He would start ringing her at these times when he knew I wasn’t there and saying he was watching her and that he was going to rape her and how he was going to do it and all these sorts of things.”
Seymour tracked the phone calls to a woman’s house.
Crime Insiders Detectives host Brent Sanders asked, “Still at this point, there’s no connection that you’re making to this bloke that’s delivered rocks to your home months and months before?”
“None whatsoever. Yeah. So we were left with no other alternative but to bring [the woman] in. Calls are coming from her place.”
The woman told police the only man who comes to her house is her boyfriend, and Seymour asks her to bring him into the station.
At this point, Seymour steps aside and leaves it to other detectives to interview the woman’s boyfriend. Seymour waited at the station to see who was going to walk through the front door.
“As soon as I saw him, the penny dropped. That’s him. And it all of a sudden made sense.”
“The boss saw my reaction and he just grabbed me. ‘Come out, come right out. What the hell’s going on?’ And I filled him in. ‘There’s a bloke who delivered Bush rock to us…’
“So he said, ‘right, leave it with us.‘”
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