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On April 16, 1994, Anthea Bradshaw married her high school sweetheart, Jeff Hall, at Tudmore Park Uniting Church in the leafy Eastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Months later, her friends and family gathered again in that same chapel, but this time for her funeral. A few months after being married in that church, she's then in a coffin in that church. Yes. That's something that no mom should have to go through. I think I've just blocked it. It's too painful. I'm Ben Avery, a reporter with the Nine News team, and you're listening to Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw mystery. In previous episodes, I've spoken to Anthea Bradshaw's family about her life, right through to the moment they learned she'd been brutally murdered in a Brunei apartment. I've spoken to people who were in the small Southeast Asian country when the crime was committed and whose accounts of the days leading up to the killing became came crucial to the police investigation. In this, the third episode of the series, I'm investigating what happened next, the aftermath of a rare and unusual Brunei homicide. I'll reveal what Anthea's newly-wed husband told police in his first interview, hours after her body was discovered.

His colleagues will describe not only his reaction, the mood within the walls of their workplace, the cloud of secrecy and suspicion that hung above them all, the rumors, the insinuations, and the accusations. But we begin this episode 5,000 kilometers away from Brunei in Adelaide, South Australia, where Anthea's murder is now on the TV news. Brunei police still trying to solve the murder of an Adelaide teacher. 26-year-old Anthea Bradshaw Hall had been married only 12 weeks. She was visiting her husband in Brunei when she was fatally stabbed. Interpol has called on South Australian police to help. The 26-year-old's fatally injured body was found in her husband's bungalow just outside Brunei's capital on Thursday. The husband of 12 weeks is now making arrangements to bring her body home. The family is being kept informed by foreign affairs officials through the Australian Embassy. This for the Brad Shores was a painful, frustrating, confusing period. Anpia's eldest brother, Craig, says reports they were being kept informed were wrong.

I know we got very little information from Brunei, and it It was as if nothing happened. There was no details.

Did you or any member of the family consider going to Bruno?

Yes. I'd spoken to one of my aunties, and she strongly suggested to go. She'd been very much a trave herself and lived overseas. She said, These countries, the family needs to go because it makes a big impression on them. I discussed this with Jeff and others, and he convinced me that there's nothing I could do. Don't worry about it. Looking back, I should have made sure I went. I'm disappointed that I made that decision.

But he told you not to, and you trusted him.

He's my brother-in-law. He's already gone through enough. Why would I want to argue with him? He lost his wife. I know I've lost my sister, but he's lost his wife.

For Anthea's family, the reality was no matter what they did, Anthea was never coming back. Mom, Roz, says she was so traumatized, she simply wasn't thinking straight. For dad Martin, it was only years later that he began to wonder why they weren't on the first plane to Brunei.

I look back now and I don't know why we didn't. I think that was the beginning of the The cover up, for want of a better expression. Jeff's father went over there, and Bill was a pretty okay man. He went there, as did one of Jeff's friends went, and we actually didn't go. It's one thing that I do think about. You can be smart in retrospect. I I had.

But Anthea's parents and brothers weren't to know what was really unfolding in that tiny country. They were oblivious to events I'm now being told about by people who were there.

It was a very unsettling time.

Narendra Hilliard, a colleague of Jeff Halls from the Gerardong Park Sports Medicine Center, which was owned and operated by the Bruneian Royal family, has bombshell recollections about the days after the murder. She says that Jeff, the man who said, I do to Anthea only three months earlier, was being treated as a suspect in her murder. That's right. The grieving husband, also a police suspect.

We heard that Jeff had been arrested, and a few of us actually one day went to visit him, and he was just crying his heart out and saying he was innocent and he had nothing to do with it.

What did that entail? Was he in a cell?

Yeah, when When we saw him, he wasn't behind bars, yes. All I know is that he was the main suspect because he discovered the body and they had to look at him being the husband and that thing. To be honest, nobody else knew Antheo I mean, she was visiting. And thinking back, we'd all been there for so long and everyone felt safe and nothing like this had happened. She comes in and the only person who knows her is Jeff. And the day before she leaves, this It just happened. It just seemed really out of the blue. Why her? Why that day? So it almost seemed someone knew her movements, knew she was going to leave the next day. Just the timing, something didn't gel.

I've tried to contact Brunei police to ask whether Jeff was, as Narendjula claims, arrested, but I'm yet to receive a response. What I have confirmed from South Australian police sources, though, is that Jeff Hall was detained in a form of custody and that he was photographed and his clothing was seized before he was ultimately released without charge. During that period in custody, what did he tell Brunei police? Well, I have the handwritten document, the account he gave about the day his wife was murdered. At the top is his name, Jeffrey John Hall, his nationality, Australian. At a time of interview, 12:35 AM on July 22, 1994. That's just after midnight on the day after the murder. Here is a reading of what Jeff Hall said in that statement.

On July 21, 1994, at about 08:00 AM, my wife and I woke up, and we had breakfast and shower at home. At about 09:30 AM, we went to Jigsaw School, where she was interviewed for a teaching job. We left the school at about 11:00 AM. We went back to our apartment where I showered and got ready for work. I had lunch with my wife at home. At about 11:50 AM, my wife took me to work in my car, a red Toyota Celica. My wife dropped me at work and my wife agreed to meet me at 5:00 PM at the clinic. At about 5:00 PM, I went to the car park to wait for my wife. At 5:10 PM, when my wife wasn't there, I called the apartment and there was no answer. I thought maybe she was confused about the time for dinner break and perhaps she had gone out walking. I rang my friend Peter at the flat and my car was still there at the apartment, and Peter said she would come and take me to the apartment. On the way to the apartment, Peter and I drove around the horse paddocks to look for my wife.

This is where she usually walks. Peter and I couldn't find my wife and returned to my apartment, where I went up to my apartment alone, then opened the front door, which wasn't locked. I saw my my wife, lying on the floor, and I saw a lot of blood, and then yelled for Peter as she as a nurse. I went back inside and went over to my wife and checked for the pulse and looked at my wife's face and felt her leg, and she was cold. After that, I was crying, and Peter was trying to comfort me. I went to the bedroom and kicked the chair and the bed out of frustration. Peter took me from the apartment and took me downstairs. Then the police came and went upstairs, and I stayed for about half an hour downstairs. Then after that, I went to my colleague, Bill Bowles' house in Jerodong, where Peter took me there in Beverly. And myself, Peter and Beverly, went back to my apartment block, and at the apartment block, I called my parents and my wife's parents in Australia by using mobile phone. I can't remember whose mobile phone I used.

Then I was in the hands of police.

The witness statement also Which is a series of questions and answers. Police asked Jeff if he went back to his apartment block at break time or coffee time, and he says no, he didn't go back to the apartment block, and that he, in fact, took a coffee break in the clinic grounds with his colleague, Vargiee Paolos. He says that coffee break happened about 2:00 PM. Police also ask him if when he discovered his wife's body, he tried to pull her up or embrace her. Jeff says, I tried to check her pulse touched her leg and touched her face, but I did not try to pull up and embrace my wife. Now, you will have heard in that statement from Jeff, reference to his colleague, Peter, who he says, picked him up from the medical center, drove him around paddocks looking for Anthea, and then drove him to the apartment complex where he'd make the grim discovery. Here's what Peter told Brunei police about that afternoon. At about 5:00 PM, Jeffrey was standing outside the hospital. I asked him whether he wanted a lift home, and he replied, no. He was waiting for Annie, his wife, to take him home for dinner.

When I arrived at my apartment, I saw Jeffrey's car was underneath, and I knew that Annie was inside the apartment When I went into my room, I made a call to Annie when there was no answer. At about 5:15 PM, Jeffrey called me and asked if I had seen Annie, and I replied, no. He requested if I I could get him at the hospital, and I straight away went to hospital. When I picked him up from the hospital, he said that he wondered where Annie was and if she was okay. I told him that I'd tried to phone her, but there was no reply. Jeffrey said that his wife used to go walking, and we went driving around the paddocks to see if we could find her. Then we got home, and Jeffrey walked upstairs, and I was left behind, and I watched him climb the stairs and said that I'd be up later. As I was turning my key, I heard Jeffrey scream, and I went upstairs and saw Jeffrey standing at the door, and I saw Annie was laying with a pool of blood. Now, with these statements in mind, let's revisit the timeline from the day of the murder.

Jeff says that at 9:30 AM, he and Anthea visit a school where she was applying for a teaching job. He says they get home at 11:00 AM and have some lunch before his wife drops him at the medical center for work just before midday. You'll remember from last episode, a colleague of Jeff's, Narendjula Hilliard, believes she saw Anthea alive on Jeff's apartment balcony around 1:50 PM. Jeff says he had a coffee break just after this at 2:00 PM, but that he stayed on the clinic grounds. Then a very short time later, around 2:10 PM, Caroline Chilkot, another of Jeff's colleagues, hears the sound of a fight between a man and a woman at the apartment complex. At 5:00 PM, Anthea fails to arrive to pick up Jeff from the medical center, and when he's eventually dropped home by his colleague, Peter, he opens the door of his apartment to see Anthea dead on the floor in a pool of blood. This timeline that potentially places Jeff Jeff Hall at work at the time of the murder is likely at least part of the reason why he wasn't charged by Brunei police. Instead, the detectives would need to see whether there were any holes in his story and also investigate the movements of everyone else.

Who was in the Gerardong Park area that day. In all, they would take more than 30 witness statements, mainly from Jeff's colleagues and those staying in the apartments. Among them was Narendjula Hilliard.

I ended up going to the police station, I think two or three times.

Police were particularly keen to talk to Narendjula, and not just because of that sighting of Anthea alive at 1:50 PM. You might remember from the previous episode, Narendjula says she also saw an unknown man, possibly a Vietnamese or Thai background, hanging around the apartment complex at around the same time. The Brunei investigators wanted to know more.

They made me do a photofit of that man, but I kept telling them It was a pointless exercise because even I wouldn't have recognized him, in fact, seeing him again. It was just a quick-sight, long glance, but they insisted that I'd do it.

It's my understanding that Narendra's brief sighting of someone she could barely begin to describe, forms It's on the basis of a prominent Brunei police theory that Anthea may have been killed by one of the many Thai laborers who worked at Jerodong Park.

I got the feeling that because there was this royal family connection, they just felt they had to produce a of someone. I mean, that's the impression I got. They just forced me to do it. I just had to pick a set of eyes and nose and mouth, but it really seemed pointless at the time.

As I mentioned, there were a lot of Thai workers in the area. Some perform maintenance tasks at the apartments, others worked on nearby construction projects. However, I'm not aware of any other witnesses seeing that unknown man on the afternoon of Anthea's murder. There were dozens of people who gave statements. Also, interviewed interviewed by the Brunei police was Lindy, Jeff's neighbor and friend, who you also heard from in the last episode.

All the people in F block, which was the block of Jeff and Annie's flat and mine, were interviewed by the police. We spent nearly a whole day sitting around in the Brunei police station, waiting to be interviewed, and they took us in one by one. They were just very pleasant, but they were not They used to murder because murder in Brunei was unheard of. There was a feeling of safety and security in Brunei. In my case, they asked if there had been a relationship between Jeff and I in Adelaide prior to him coming. The reason for them asking that was that they believed that the murder, and his murder, may have been committed by a jealous lover. If you ask me, How did I feel about that? What does one say? Apart from the fact he happened to be 10 years younger than me. But also when they asked me, they said, Adelaide said, My answer was, and it will be on the record, it's very important But you need to know, he didn't offer. And second, and one of them interrupted me and said, And if he had, you would have refused. I said, Exactly.

That was always the way it was.

So basically, he wasn't interested, and I would have said no That is 110% correct.

I did say, We have an expression in Australia, Why go out for a hamburger when you got a steak at home? And they thought that was funny.

And then all sorts of rumors start to circulate among the expats there that were working at the clinic, including one that you were the suspect?

Absolutely, yes.

Can you go into how that felt at the time and what you were hearing along those lines?

There was a place that the expatriates went to called sailing Club. It was a regular place we went to where you swim and drink. A friend of mine who was not in Bruna at the time of the murder, but was later. We're talking a fair while after the murder, months at least, told me that someone at the medical center, a lady, a nurse, had said, Well, actually, I think Lindy did it. So these conversations were not out of her question. It was still being discussed and gossiped about all the time. When I heard about it, I was angry, to say the least.

Now, Lindy says she did go to the apartments for lunch on the day of the murder, but she was back in the office by 1:20 PM. That's well before the last sighting of Anthea alive on the balcony. That version of events is consistent with her original witness statement and a statement from her colleague, Xanada Victoria. The reality is that rumors and speculation around who killed Anthea were common at Jeridong Park.

It was a fear that was it one of us, Could it have been?

Narendra Hilliard tells me that life at the exclusive, peaceful, royal facility had changed dramatically. Dozens of expat employees were coming to terms with the murder of their colleague's wife and looking at each other, wondering, who is the killer?

It was very subdued, very solemn, very different. It was like this huge bubble had burst because we were all living in this beautiful safe haven And suddenly someone came and just... It was just in that minute from the time her body was discovered, everything changed. And it was a very different atmosphere. And also it was difficult because I guess because of the royal family connection, they didn't want a scandal. So we were given strict instructions that we were not to discuss this with anyone outside of the hospital, as in staff only and police or investigators, but to no one outside, not even friends or family outside. That was quite difficult because you had to bottle it up and talk among yourselves.

Talk amongst themselves, they did. I've confirmed with others who worked at Gerardong Park in 1994 that there were indeed many rumors and many theories about how an innocent Australian school teacher could end up murdered after only nine days in the country.

I'm Kevin Carr. I was I'm in Brunei working for Gerardong Park Medical Center from August 1994 to January 1996. My role was the procurement and supplies officer for Gerardung Park Medical Center.

So this means that you arrived in Brunei at the Medical Center a matter of weeks after Anthea Bradshaw's murder took place. What do you remember when you got there in terms of how people were talking about it and the mood there amongst the expats.

It was quite a frightening time for everyone. Not a suspicion innuendo. It's almost like everybody was under suspicion. But there was a few people in particular who were in Jeff's group who came to the fore. A few of those names were mentioned to me when I landed, when I arrived. But to be frank with you, I wasn't particularly involved in that social group, but I was aware that the social group that Jeff operated in was quite close.

Would you say an undercurrent of suspicion, mistrust?

Absolutely, yeah. I think people were struggling to deal with that. It was a big event for the hospital, and the hospital itself was, as I said, it was and was just establishing itself. It was very much an international group of people from various countries across the world. The Australian contingent tended to be quite supportive of each other. I know I got on very well with them and I could see them. They were very good at socializing and supportive of each other when I got there. But I think I think a couple of them in particular who were involved in that group, their names came up as being… People were speculating about whether they were involved and relationships and so forth. So it was quite destabilizing time, generally, for the hospital and for myself as a new arrival. I was quite shocked, really, by what I walked into.

Kevin was reluctant to name the people who were being spoken about because as far as he knew, the rumors were only that, rumors.

I presumed that the police had investigated and discussed it with those people, and I'm pretty sure that most of those people were interviewed, but to what extent I couldn't comment.

Having read the witness statements given to Bruneye police, I can confirm Jeff's closest colleagues were interviewed, and ultimately, none of them were identified fight as suspects. Instead, the theory that a mysterious Thai worker was responsible for Anthea's death would garner a level of acceptance. As for Jeff Hall, well, he was given the all-clear to fly back to Australia for his wife's funeral, and the Bradshaws would welcome him with open arms. Back in Adelaide, South Australia, as the days after Anthea Bradshaw's murder ticked by, her family waited impatiently for any information about exactly what happened. Eldest brother, Craig, says the big question lingered. Who was it? Who wanted her dead?

We didn't know. Someone. We thought something had happened. At that time, we hadn't got any coroner's report from Bruno. We hadn't got any police reports from Bruno. We hadn't got anything from Jeff.

At no stage did the Bradshaw's even entertain the thought that Jeff, who they'd known and loved for years, could have been responsible.

We didn't think it was him. We didn't think it was him at all. But I got offended by people who suggested it might be him, which I used to get. And I just said, No, he didn't do it. Why would he do it? They were happy.

Soon, Jeff would return home to Adelaide.

He came back under the provision that he was to go back to help continue the police investigation.

At the airport, he'd receive a warm welcome from the Bradshaw family, including Anthea's parents.

When they came back on the plane, they got off the plane, we were all standing there, and we gave him a hug.

He was as brown as a Berry. Gave him a hug and all this stuff.

I had a conversation, and I really, He really questioned him. And then I said, Who do you think it was? And he said, Oh, you have to be a psycho. He said, How people can do things, and we all can do things, and they're The brain then says we didn't do it. That's what he was saying to me. When I look back now, I think that's his very strange comment. But at the time, I didn't think anything of it at all. I thought, Yeah, that's right. People can do things and then manage to put them out of their brain. You think the alarm bells would have gone off, but they didn't.

At the time, the Brad Shores were dealing with many other challenges, including trying to get Anthea's body back to Australia.

That was a battle itself, getting the body back as well. I remember hearing something like, We had to pay $15,000 to get the body back. And I was like, We haven't got that money.

A lot of money back then.

Heaps of money back I'm not too sure who took care of it, but I think someone in government said, No, we're being her body back.

But eventually the body comes back and you have a funeral for Anthea. Jeff's there.

Do you recall the day? Yeah, I sat next to the hour. It was a terrible day. We had at the church where we used to go as a family in Tasmore Park. I remember carrying Anthea's coffee and out and just bawling. And my boss at the time, who was at the Grove Hotel I used to work at, and he was here at Craig. He was like, Steering at me. Come on, mate. And I looked at him and said, Fuck off.

We can only imagine what this day was like for Craig and the rest of the family who had only just celebrated one of the happiest days of their lives. She was married, and in three months later, she had a funeral in the same church. A few months after being married in that church, she's then in a coffin in that church. Yes. That's something that no mom should have to go through. I think I've just blocked it. It's too painful. And he was there. Of course, Jeff was there right down the front, and Paul was crying his eyes out. I remember my mates being there. Tom. No. They were waiting for me at the front. It was good.Sorry, mate.It's all right? A lot of people standing by you at the time. Of course, yes. Our whole system, my brother's friends, my sister's friends, my friends, the families, everyone was… It was a very good unit. Very good. Do you remember the first time when you started to turn your attention away from the fact that your sister's dead to, hang on a minute, what actually happened over there? Well, originally, I don't know who told me, but I don't know how I got any information, but I was told it was like an itinerant worker or something like that.

I just kept that. I didn't really question it at all. Jeff came back and didn't show any type of anything's wrong, which in hindsight, I just look at it now and go, Wow, man, he didn't show anything. He didn't cry in front of me. He wasn't upset. He just went on. But because you're in your own, you're head-spitting yourself. You just don't see what's happening around you. As the Bradshaw's continued to grieve, Jeff Hall would return to Brunei as requested by Brunei police. He would have done this in the knowledge that if he was found guilty of Anthea's murder in the strict Asian country, he could face the death penalty. At Jeridong Park, staff, old and new, didn't seem to think he could be responsible. They continued to treat him as a grieving husband.

My My name's Debbie Taylor, and I arrived at Jeridong Park, Brunei, a couple of days, maybe not even that after Anthea had been murdered.

What a time to arrive in a foreign country.

Yeah, I was relatively young. I was 23, and it was my first ever experience of living overseas. I don't think I'd even heard of Brunei before, to be honest with you. I just applied for the job on a bit of a whim. When I turned up, my manager picked me up from the airport, and she didn't say anything about the murder at all. But when I walked into the apartment, she started to open cupboards and behind the shower curtain and check the balcony, which was just random. And then she told me what had happened. So she was obviously really concerned. And then pretty much I was left to get on with it, which It was pretty a bizarre experience.

For you then arriving in a foreign country and then being told that a woman around your age had been murdered in that same apartment complex and they hadn't arrested the killer, that must have been extremely confronting.

Yeah, it was horrific. I sat on the bed thinking, Oh, my God. And we had no way of contacting my parents. It was the days before we all had mobile phones. So I was just sat there, other side of the world, thinking, Oh, my God. It's funny when you reflect. I don't even know how I bothered staying, to be honest with you.

Yeah, but you did stay, and you then, I guess, got to know people that lived in the apartment complex. Most of those also worked in the sports medicine center. What discussions were there around what had happened to Anpia? What were people talking about?

Early on, it was about the fact that she'd been murdered. She'd been found in the apartment. Obviously, the stories were quite gruesome in the sense that there was blood and what had happened to her. I suppose the overriding sense was poor Jeff, the husband. I only met him very briefly a couple of times, obviously in the early days. Wasn't it awful? Then the rumors of they think it was A Thai worker, somebody who'd seen her and decided to go in and murder her.

Was it strange to people? Did it feel strange to people that Jeff Hall had come back to Brunei given what had happened there?

It's strange. I don't really remember so much. I suppose it felt a bit like a wound was being opened again. I think by that point, people were coming out the other side of it almost, and then for him to appear again. I think on reflection, seems bizarre It would be the last place I would ever want to go.

During that time, the time after the murder, and you were there, there were discussions weren't there, obviously, around what had happened and who may have been responsible, because everyone worked with Jeff at that medical center and they also lived in that apartment complex. I'm assuming everyone would have been pretty keen to know who the killer was, because there was a chance that the killer was still living amongst them, potentially. And so what discussions did that lead to? I think it's quite interesting to reflect.

So other than when my manager searched the apartment to make sure there wasn't anybody hidden in there, I didn't even ever get the sense that we were living in fear, ever. And yet, actually, when I reflect, we should have been because it could have been anybody, but we weren't. There wasn't a sense that you had to be a escorted places. It just didn't have that vibe. So on reflection, I now think, why wasn't I terrified that either somebody working in the vicinity or one of the residents of the apartment blocks had done that. It's now speaking about it, it feels really strange. I should have been terrified. I should have been mistrusting of my colleagues, and I should have been scared walking around the complex. I used to walk or drive from the apartment to the hospital all the time. We were socializing, and I didn't actually feel scared.

Why do you think that is? Have you thought about that? Why weren't you scared?

I always felt, and I don't know why I had this instinct, I always felt that this random Thai worker scenario was rubbish. The only reason I felt that was because you didn't see random people wandering around the complex, particularly. It felt very safe and secure. In the early days, the doors were always closed downstairs. So somebody would have had to have either been let in or known the code to get into our blocks. My experience of the workers out there that either were Thai or Filipino were just generally, they were desperate to work. They were lovely people. I didn't feel scared. I probably feel more intimidated where I live now than when I did out in Brunei. On reflection, I find that in itself bizarre. If we'd have thought it had been a Thai worker. Why weren't there police everywhere? Why didn't we have some sense of security? It just didn't occur to me. That in itself makes it feel weird. We should have been thinking slightly more suspiciously of our colleagues and the people we were working with.

What you're telling me there, I guess, is that you and potentially the majority of the people that were staying in the apartment complex didn't think that this was a random murder. You thought that the person that killed Anthea knew who Anthea was and did it for a personal reason.

Yeah, I can't see why anybody thought it was random. To Target an individual when there could have been multiple people in these blocks of apartments at that time, yeah, that doesn't strike me as random, and it didn't at the time, in fairness. I think people became attached to the Thai worker theory quite quickly, and I think it suited people to allocate that to somebody else. I think it was very convenient to attach this to a random stranger. If a Thai worker wanted to go murder somebody, there would have been plenty of opportunities outside of the complex over time. We'd mill around, we'd go and walk over to the amusement park. We didn't hide, we didn't feel unsafe. There would have been plenty of opportunity to randomly attack somebody else if they wanted to.

When you say that it was convenient for people to cling on to the tire worker theory, convenient for who?

I think all of us, to a certain extent. I think as soon as somebody says, Oh, we think it's a tier worker because they were spotted, I think everybody thought, Oh, okay. Oh, that's fine then. It's not one of ours. It's no one we know, and you can detach yourself from it. But that said, I suppose Why weren't we scared? Even then, why weren't we scared? We should have been scared. If it was a random Thai worker who was going to go around and just either murder you in your flat, then they could have murdered you outside of your flat, right? Why weren't we scared? I think there's a lot of questions that we should all ask ourselves. We should have been absolutely crapping ourselves, to be honest with you.

Were there rumors getting around about other people that were living in the apartment complex and perhaps their involvement in the murder? Were there rumors getting around about Jeff, for that matter?

Not that I had heard. I think Jeff had quite a lot of… He had a few supporters, mainly the guys I think he worked with quite closely. Then because the rest of us were relatively new, we didn't know him well enough to make that judgment, I don't think. But he seemed to have a lot of supporters. I didn't hear anybody go, I absolutely think it was him that did it, which I think I've said to you before, it's a bizarre country, right? We should have been thinking it could have been the husband. I suspect because he was supposedly at work and everybody just moved on from that theory really quickly, even if they had thought it in the first place. He had some supporters, though.

At this point in time, Jeff had supporters everywhere, in Brunei and at home. For quite a while, the grieving Bradshaw remained close with the grieving husband. Anthea's mom and dad tell me that he was still their much loved son-in-law.

We had Christmases together. He gave us Christmas cards.

We spent so many hours with him, playing cards and all this stuff, being so kind and nice to him. But four years after the murder, in 1998, a report from the Bruneye coroner would change everything. It said, There's only one suspect. It's Jeffrey John Hall. It's 1998, four years after Anthea Bradshaw's murder, and her mom, Ros, has in her trembling hands a letter from the Magistrate's Court of Brunei. It's the official finding from a coronial inquest into her daughter's death. Up until this point, the Bradshaw family has assumed Anthea was the victim of a random killing, maybe a robbery gone wrong. But what Rose is about to read will make her rethink everything. So here it is, a reading of the coroner's finding. Without going to get me into details, I can safely conclude that sexual assault as a motive for the murder can be ruled out. Despite some injuries found on the lower limbs, there was nothing to suggest either medically or otherwise, that there was an attempt at sexual assault. The deceased was found dead and fully dressed and the clothes well intact. Robbery as a motive also can be ruled out as the police found nothing was stolen or missing from the house.

There is nothing to suggest revenge or enemy as a motive because the deceased was a visitor and was on a short visit. She has few acquaintances who are mostly friends of her husband. In short, the police investigation could not reveal any apparent motive for the death of the deceased. The only apparent suspect in this case appears to be the deceased's husband, one Jeffrey John Hall. However, police investigation could not find any evidence to justify any charge against him. At that moment, did you start to think that Jeff could potentially be the killer? Well, it's it. The only suspect. But until then, we had no idea. So you were completely shocked by that? Was I what? At this point, Roz becomes suspicious of Jeff for the first time since Anthea's murder. But the rest of the family, Martin, Craig, and Paul simply don't believe it. It couldn't be true.

Automatically, when any wife dies, the first suspect is the husband. That happens in nearly every crime. And I said, Oh, that's just part of the routine.

Well, I didn't believe it. I thought, Well, of course, they're going to say that. What else are they going to say?

So you still didn't believe that Jeff would have done this?

Why would he? He's with her for 10 years. He came to all of our He was a family member. I mean, there's just no reason that we had, or it was completely against our nature to think badly of someone like that. He was my fucking brother-in-law. It wasn't as if we had a fight and didn't talk to each other for years. Nothing, literally nothing. So we had no reason to think that.

But reading the coroner's report would be a shock for Craig. That's because it also included details of Anthea's cause of death. It revealed a postmortem and autopsy had both confirmed Anthea died from manual strangulation and that multiple stab wounds to the chest and abdomen were made after her death. So according to this report, whoever killed Anthea had, for an unknown reason, repeatedly stabbed her lifeless body.

She was strangled first, and she was stabbed post-mortem, meaning she was already dead before someone stabbed her, which means more than likely, the person that strangled her probably stabbed her as well. Now, if it was a robbery, why on earth would a person want to strangle someone, then stab them, and they walk out of the unit with nothing. If it was a sexual assault, why would someone not sexually assault her, strangle her, and stab her? Strangulation is a very personal way of killing someone. It's not a way that someone doesn't know you will generally kill you.

Still, at this point, it was only Roz who was starting to wonder if her son-in-law, Jeff Hall, had questions to answer. Did you ask Jeff about it? Jeff came around to the old house, and we were just going to talk. We wanted to ask him questions, and he was quite happy to do that. Then I said, I've got a tape on here to record that. Are you okay with that? No. He said no. No. I just turned it off. I didn't think anymore.

Body language is actually what I noticed. He was sitting on the floor and he wouldn't look at us. He had head down like this the whole time. And then he just got up and walked out. And we've never seen him since.

In the next episode of Just Married, Anthea's friends tell me about her relationship with Jeff. All I have is that it's in writing, and I'm using hindsight. I'm being reflective and thinking things were not good. The letters, the untold stories, and the secrets. Oh, my God. I just didn't expect him to say that. I went, Wow. If you have any information about the Anthea Bradshaw case, you can contact me and the team behind this investigation anytime through our secure email, justmarriedpodcast@protonmail. Com. That's justmarriedpodcast@protonmail. Com. Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw mystery is researched, written, and hosted by me, Ben Avery. The executive producer is Del Fordem. Senior producer is Hannah Sterling, with sound design by the nine podcast team..