19-year-old Annette Deverell met friends in Mandurah on Saturday 13 September 1980, and she was last seen talking to an unidentified man after 11pm that night near the Mandurah Post Office. Her remains were found by trail bike riders near Pinjarra on Sunday 4 June, 1982.
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00:00We're here in Mandurah today reinvestigating the disappearance and
00:05murder of Annette Deverell back in 1980. This area that we're in, her last
00:10location she was seen was out the front of the post office at around 11.30 at
00:14night and some 22 months later her remains were found at the back of Pinjarra
00:21in bushland. It was only a skeleton that was found. It was ascertained that she
00:26was murdered at the time. The murder investigation was conducted back in 1980
00:31and 82 and obviously no perpetrator has been brought forward for justice so we're
00:38just still investigating and we're trying to appeal to the public who are
00:42around at the time for further information so that we can keep going
00:46with the investigation. Behind us is the boat shed, boathouse tavern. That's where
00:50she was dropped off at around 8 o'clock at night and during the night she went
00:55to another hotel just down further to our right at the Brighton Hotel and this
00:59block is where she spent most of the night. So her last known movements were
01:04out the front of the post office at around 11.30. The last time that anyone
01:09saw her she was speaking to a young male, long blonde hair and that's the only
01:13information we've had. Over all this time, 40 years, we've never been able to
01:17identify who that person was. We're pretty certain that someone would know
01:22and even the male himself, he may not realize that he's wanted to be spoken
01:28to. He might have been someone that just spoke to Annette on the night and didn't
01:32think any more of it. He might not have been a local at all. There's nothing
01:37sinister about it but without talking to him we can't say yes or no.