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margaret hobbs was no stranger to sex offenders after working as a parole officer for
many years she had become a psychotherapist and ran her own private practice in the inner city victorian
suburb of fitzroy margaret had treated killers and various other criminals but her specialty was in
providing therapy to men who had committed sexually based offences as well as counselling these individuals
margaret reported on them to the courts and over the course of 20 years almost every convicted sex offender in
melbourne had been referred to her at one time or another due to the difficult nature of her work
margaret had grown adept at compartmentalizing her life professional and compassionate she was able to
present her composed mask to her clients even when they spoke of having done terrible things
after each working day was over margaret would retreat to her home in the dandenong ranges a striking region on
the eastern fringes of melbourne that is characterized by rolling hills tall mountain ash trees and dense ferny
foliage weekends were a chance to completely switch off nestled in her picturesque setting
margaret completely avoided all news reports and instead spent her time reading and writing
one day in november 1984 margaret was preparing to meet a new client 47 year old robert arthur selby low
his lawyers had referred him to margaret in anticipation of an upcoming hearing robert lowe had exposed himself to some
school girls at a shopping center near his home and made some lewd remarks he'd been charged and was set to appear
in a magistrates court so his defense team needed a report they could present when margaret greeted lo she noted that
he didn't look like most of her other clients he was of average height with a lean
build and a dressed in exceptionally neat clothes his light-colored slightly curly hair
was beginning to turn grey and his eyes were framed by fine rimmed glasses when lowe spoke margaret detected a
polished english accent she found him to be exceedingly polite and well-mannered
as well as working as a salesperson robert lowe volunteered his time to the community as a church elder a sunday
school teacher and a children's sports coach he had been married for more than a
decade and had two sons with a ready smile and a respectful heir low appeared in every way to be an
upstanding member of society and yet from almost the first moment that margaret hobbs met robert lowe
there was something about him that made her skin crawl [Music] [Music] [Music] the obscene exposure charge that had led
to margaret hobbs meeting robert lowe proceeded to court lowe was given a one-year good behaviour
bond on the proviso that he begins seeing margaret regularly for therapy sessions
he agreed at first lo denied that he had done anything wrong despite being charged with a crime
he explained that he had not exposed himself to the schoolgirls as doing so was against the law
he had spoken to them but lowe pointed out that this was not a crime yet margaret was soon able to coax some
admissions from him lowe acknowledged that he had been previously convicted on one count of
indecent exposure and one of theft despite his respectable appearance steady job and solid home life
there was something about low that made margaret intuitively suspicious of him he visited for regular sessions and
always arrived right on time armed with a neat sheaf of papers on which he would
jot down notes as they talked but margaret sensed that his efforts to change his behavior were insincere
he minimized and denied the nature of his crimes and was a habitual liar his dishonesty was often characterized
by sly emissions or denying something on a technicality in a book titled the evil co-authored by
margaret hobbs and journalist andrew rule margaret described low's slippery way of
avoiding the truth ask him if he has a blue car and he will say certainly not if you change the question slightly and
ask him if he drives a blue car he will say yes but point out that he doesn't own it
[Music] over time low admitted to more and more crimes predominantly indecent exposure
and theft as he became more comfortable with margaret lo told her how he often exposed himself to young girls
sometimes he deliberately placed items of pornography that he'd stolen in full view of his victims hoping to shock them
with the material he had committed these acts in his homeland of england and his adopted
country of new zealand as well as australia where he had settled in 1967 yet thanks to his skillful lying he was
rarely convicted when lowe was charged his punishment usually came in the form of a small fine
sometimes he received good behaviour bonds he lived in the eastern suburb of glen
waverley but his work as a travelling salesperson meant he visited a wide range of areas
this enabled him to operate more stealthily than if he always struck in the same neighborhood
[Music] in 1985 robert lowe's good bond expired and he was no longer required to attend therapy
but he kept scheduling the occasional appointment with margaret or sometimes he called her on the phone
she felt as though he got off on telling her about the obscene things that he'd done
[Music] by april of 1990 robert lowe had been in and out of margaret hobbs life for five
and a half years one day he arrived for an appointment and almost immediately announced that
some police officers had just visited his workplace they had wanted to question him about an
attempted child abduction margaret was shocked what happened she asked lo claimed that he hadn't done anything
wrong he'd just stopped to talk to some schoolgirls in the inner northern suburb
of northcutt while he was in the area for work by now margaret recognized when lowe was
attempting to minimise a crime gently she tried coaxing more information from him with carefully
phrased questions he eventually admitted that he'd seen the girls as he was driving down the
street they were on so he pulled over and approached them lol attempted to engage the girls in
conversation but when a woman emerged from a nearby shop and stared at him he decided to
leave as he walked away he noticed a little girl playing in the front garden of her
home did you speak to her margaret asked as described in her book the evil lo said he hadn't
well did she speak to you then margaret persisted yes i think she did but i didn't speak to her first
lo sounded smug margaret asked if he had suggested that the little girl go somewhere with him
he gave a vague reply i may have i don't know margaret was deeply disturbed she couldn't help but feel that her
client had crossed a whole new line in his offending she next saw low about one month later
he hadn't been charged for the attempted abduction but he revealed that the police were now
investigating him for something else this time he had just tried to chat with some 12 year old girls he'd seen at
flinders street train station in melbourne's cbd moments after this innocent conversation
a suspicious police officer had approached out of the blue and arrested him lo asked if margaret's son-in-law who
was a solicitor could represent him his office was in the same building as margaret's
after lowe left margaret decided to look into the matter further she called the police officer who had
interviewed lowe about the matter to hear his version of events the officer told margaret that the girls
were younger than low described approximately between 8 and 10 years old they had been standing on a railway
platform holding some balloons when lowe walked up to them and said the balloons
looked like quote big dicks then he asked if they'd like to go somewhere with him quote for sex
the terrified children ran away and flagged down a police officer when the officer approached low he fled
and had to be tackled to the ground it was obvious that low couldn't be trusted he was playing down his crimes and lying
about the details moreover his victims were getting younger and he was becoming bolder
instead of just exposing himself now he was attempting to engage girls in conversation and lure them away out in
public in the middle of the day robert lowe was soon charged over the incident at flinders street station
he asked margaret to write a report that could be used as part of his defense as
he was planning to plead not guilty angered by his decision margaret initially refused
she knew that lowe was guilty and was upset that he was defending their charges by pleading not guilty he would be
forcing his young victims to testify at trial and exacerbating their suffering when she questioned why he wouldn't just
admit what he had done lo smiled and replied you know me mug what do you think i pay lawyers for
[Music] margaret had had enough it was clear that low had no remorse and no desire to stop his criminal behaviour
he wasn't treating therapy seriously and instead seemed to take a perverse pleasure in the time they spent together
calmly margaret asked her client to leave stating i really don't think i want anything
else to do with you it's obvious you're not benefiting from coming here in fact i think you're
getting worse shocked by her demand low refused to leave but margaret insisted realising he was fighting a losing
battle lo stormed out of her office slamming the door as he went [Music] eventually margaret did agree to provide
a court report but it was a damning one she made a point of noting how dangerous
low's behaviour was proper punishment would be the only deterrent after reading what the psychotherapist
had written lowe's lawyer decided not to submit her report it would only harm his client's defense
in november of 1990 lowe was convicted of harassing the children at flinders street station and fined seven hundred
dollars when margaret hobbs heard this sentencing she was very concerned surely such a poultry fine would only
serve to further convince robert lowe that he had done nothing wrong and most likely he would go on to commit
more offenses with impunity months ticked by and margaret hobbs moved on she was no longer treating robert lowe
and didn't miss his absence from her life by the start of july 1991 it had been more than six months since she'd seen
him on the morning of tuesday july 1 margaret was making the long drive from her home in the dandenongs to her office
in melbourne it was the first day of her working week and as per usual she had avoided the
news all weekend long as margaret drove she switched on her car radio and listened as a presenter
ran through the latest headlines the lead story was about a little girl who had gone missing over the weekend on
victoria's mornington peninsula just before 2 p.m on saturday june 29 in the seaside town of rosebud six-year-old
cherie beasley had ridden her bike to a local milk bar to pick up some things for her mum
almost half an hour later her bright pink bicycle was found abandoned in a nearby residential street
a large-scale search of the region and its surrounding bushland had found no trace of the little girl
police believed cherie had been abducted and held grey fears for her safety they were on the lookout for a blue
toyota corolla as margaret listened to the report she immediately felt her sinking feeling
although she hadn't seen him in months her mind immediately went to robert lowe she knew that he and his wife owned a
holiday home in rosebud which was a popular tourist destination in the summer months
sheree beasley's age and agenda fit with low's general pattern of victims and margaret had a long suspected that
his crimes were escalating but she had no idea what sort of car he drove and there was nothing tangible
that pointed to him as the suspect perhaps she was just being paranoid with nothing more than a hunch to go on
margaret kept her suspicions to herself as the days passed margaret hobbs kept an eye on the news
cherie beasley's school portrait was regularly featured in updates depicting her freckled face bright blue eyes long
brown hair and cheeky smile yet there was still no sign of the six year old nor had police arrested anybody
or indicated that they knew who might be responsible some victorians worried that sheree was
yet another victim of the unidentified serial child rapist that the media had dubbed mr cruel
covered in episode 41 of case file mr cruel attacked several girls in melbourne's northern and eastern suburbs
during the late 1980s and early 90s mr cruel was also the main suspect in the abduction of 13 year old carmen chan
who was taken from her home almost three months before cherie beasley vanished but despite these concerns about mr
cruel that was robert lowe who margaret hobbs couldn't stop thinking about by monday july 29 exactly one month had
passed since cherie's abduction that same afternoon margaret received a surprise at work
she was in her office when her son-in-law's receptionist danielle appeared at her door
danielle worked downstairs where margaret's son-in-law had a law firm a client had arrived at the building
wanting to speak about a legal matter but margaret's son-in-law wasn't in would margaret be willing to talk to the
client instead it was robert lowe margaret hadn't seen lo since his court hearing at the end of the previous year
she agreed to speak with him and danielle sent him upstairs margaret immediately noticed he looked
different low had always dressed smartly but that day his jacket clashed with his
trousers and tie instead of smiling and making polite chitchat like he usually did he was rude
and upset lowe explained that he'd come to see margaret's son-in-law about a bill
before launching into a tirade about the negative court report she had written for him months earlier in relation to
the flinders street station incident agitated and irritable low left abruptly his erratic behavior was out of
character and only served to increase margaret's suspicions she went downstairs and asked danielle
whether she had seen what sort of car low had been driving the receptionist replied that she hadn't
but the next morning she surprised margaret by saying low had loitered in the area longer than they realized
shortly after margaret left for the day he too had driven away from the premises
in a blue toyota corolla two weeks later margaret received a phone call from robert lowe some
detectives had shown up at his house early in the morning his prior criminal record and the blue
toyota corolla he drove had brought them to his door lowe didn't own the vehicle it belonged
to his employer but he used it daily low hadn't wanted to let the detectives inside but when they presented him with
a search warrant and informed him he was suspected of abducting six-year-old cherie beasley he had no other option
low's wife and sons were shocked and confused by the sudden influx of police officers to their home
the family all held hands in the kitchen while lowe prayed aloud then some of the detectives informed lo
that they would be taking his car in for a forensic examination and he would need
to come with them for questioning as they bundled him into a police car other officers continued searching the
low family home upon arriving at melbourne's police headquarters robert lowe was permitted to make a
phone call as described in the book the evil he dialed margaret hobbs number and told
her i'm in real trouble could you suggest the best lawyer available margaret suggested he stick with the
lawyer that he already had and the call concluded the following month she heard from lo
again when he scheduled his first appointment with her in almost a year the first since she had told him she
didn't want to treat him anymore it turned out that detectives had questioned low for more than four hours
but he had resisted their efforts to obtain his fingerprints or a blood sample they had to let him go as they had no
actual evidence to hold him low turned up for his appointment looking messy and disheveled
as he explained to margaret things have gone off the rails a bit since you threw me
out investigators had informed lo's family what he was suspected of and questioned them at length
none of them had been able to provide him with an alibi for the afternoon of cherie's disappearance
with lorraine telling investigators that she and her husband had attended a prayer meeting at their church in the
morning when the meeting ended at 10 45 lo told lorraine and some other churchgoers that he planned to go to
rosebud to carry out some repairs on their holiday home rosebud was roughly an hour's drive from
the couple's house in glen waverley lorraine went home alone that morning despite multiple people hearing low say
he was going to roseboard that day he claimed to have no recollection of travelling to the area
later he amended this to say he had driven to his holiday home but had finished making the repairs by 1250 and
was back in glen waverley by 2pm shortly before cherie was abducted but lorraine disputed this
she said her husband hadn't arrived home until after 5pm and he'd immediately stripped off his clothes and put them in
the washing machine it was the first time she had ever seen lo do laundry in his life
now harboring the same suspicions as margaret hobbs and victoria police lorraine asked lowe to move out of their
house he began residing at their holiday home in rosebard not far from where cherie beasley had
been abducted his employer fired him and handed over his company car to detectives
but lowe assured margaret that he wasn't worried he wasn't guilty and if the police had any evidence he
would have been arrested and charged by now soon enough all of his troubles would
fade and life would return to normal three months after sheree beasley was abducted some teenage horse riders were
traveling along a country road in red hill a rural town about 10 kilometers inland from rosebud
suddenly the teenage girls smelled a foul odor one of their horses spooked as they
passed a concrete storm water pipe that jutted out beneath the driveway of a property
squeezed inside the pipe's narrow 30 centimetre entrance was a badly decomposed corpse that the girls
initially believed belonged to a kangaroo when they passed the same spot the following day the remains had been
dragged out into the open presumably by scavenging animals in the harsh light of day it was clear
they belonged not to a kangaroo but to a small human they were lying on a dirty bright pink
jumper an article of clothing that matched the pink tracksuit cherie beasley had been wearing on the day of
her disappearance forensic testing confirmed that the body was hers but she was too badly decomposed for a
cause of death to be established margaret hobbs learned about the heartbreaking discovery in the news
she had been following cherie's case closely ever since she'd grown suspicious of robert lowe
after lowe's long absence from her life he had started making regular appointments again
away from his family and with the police watching him closely lowe had grown to view margaret as his primary confidant
when margaret first saw lowe after cherie's remains were recovered she remarked i believe they found the body of sheree
beasley lowe appeared unfazed and merely replied have they then he abruptly added
i don't know the spot where they found it i've never been there i wouldn't have a clue where it was
margaret had mentioned nothing about the body's location margaret noted that lowe was looking
worse with every session he had always taken pride in his appearance but he had suddenly stopped
shaving and was wearing mismatched clothes the papers that he always brought with
him were also starting to look messy as he scrawled notes to himself crossing things out and rewriting over the top
convinced that lowe was responsible for cherie beasley's murder margaret tried frequently to draw information from him
it was obvious that he enjoyed their conversations about the little girl viewing them as a kind of cat and mouse
game gradually he would admit to more and more things though he always twisted away from confessing at the last minute
the more that they spoke about the case the more low began to discuss the location where cherie's body had been
found upon learning that it was in red hill he said that he thought he might know which
spot it was he and his wife had driven to the area once but lowe insisted he never got out of
the car and didn't see a stormwater drain margaret suspected that low was in the
process of making a partial confession he had a tendency to deny things outright before slowly revealing that he
knew more than he was letting on he wouldn't admit outright involvement in one of his crimes but would change his
stories over time and twist the truth to minimise his culpability margaret fetched a street directory and
handed it to low asking him to show her where he thought the location was he turned to the map of red hill and
pointed to a spot with a pen that he was holding about here he said margaret took the directory from him and
shifted it up ever so slightly so the tip of the pen touched the page staining it with
ink it marked the exact same spot where cherie beasley had been found not long after this low arrived for an
appointment carrying a small backpack and a plastic bag taking a seat in his usual chair he
placed each bag on either side of him on the floor then he looked at margaret and asked
margaret do you really think i could bury a child in a drain to be eaten by maggots
his expression made margaret's blood run cold she could tell he was enjoying himself
then she noticed there was something small and white on the back of lo's chair it looked like a piece of cotton
except that it was moving thinking it was a caterpillar margaret walked over to dispose of the insect
but as she drew closer she realised it was actually a maggot and it wasn't the only one
crawling all over the floor the wall and lowe's chair were hundreds of maggots margaret screamed at lowe ordering him
out of her office he grabbed his backpack and exited leaving the plastic bag behind
margaret saw that was where the maggots were crawling from without looking inside she bundled the
plastic bag up and ran downstairs to throw it in a bin months went by lowe spent the summer travelling
interstate first visiting sydney and then going further north to queensland by this stage his wife lorraine had told
him she wanted a divorce and low did not take the news well in march of 1992 he began seeing
margaret hobbs again during one appointment lowe told margaret that he would typically forget
bad things he had done if he was forgiven for them he was also prone to blocking out
memories that he didn't want to recall margaret asked lo if such a thing could have happened with regards to cherie
beasley's murder what lo said next sent a chill down margaret's spine quote could i have blocked something out that
much taking a body and ramming it into a drain i might have done it i cannot remember it
despite this disturbing admission low appeared more concerned with the breakdown of his marriage than with what
had happened to cheray beasley in multiple sessions he told margaret hobbs of his love for his wife lorraine
and his desperation to reconcile with her lorraine had ended their relationship because she knew lowe was a suspect in
cherie beasley's murder lorraine also harbored her own suspicions that her husband was involved
all she wanted as she put it was for lo to tell the truth discussing this matter with margaret
hobbs lowe asked what would happen to him if he confessed to the crime purely in order to win lorraine back
margaret explained that he would likely receive a manslaughter charge how many years low queried
eight with probably a four-year minimum margaret replied lowe went back and forth on this topic
over time sometimes he outright denied having anything to do with cherie's murder
other times he said he would admit to manslaughter if lorraine agreed to recommit to him
meanwhile the police continued to haul low in for questioning about the case every so often
it was clear that the stress and the scrutiny was starting to get to him finally during an appointment on april 1
1992 robert lowe said something to margaret that changed everything if you want me to tell you the truth
i can tell you how i was involved yes i could tell you how i was involved margaret tried to mask her shock
she asked lo to repeat what he just said he did and then he added will you help me
margaret agreed lo began to speak he had driven to rosebud on the afternoon of june 29 1991 and noticed
two children arguing near a milk bar on the pean highway it was cherie beasley and a little boy
presumably a friend of hers lo pulled over and opened the passenger door then asked if cherie wanted a lift
as he put it he was trying to help her escape the disagreement with the boy cherie got in the car and low buckled
her seatbelt he drove in the direction of a creak he knew but as they got further and further away
from where he had picked up cherie the little girl began to look scared deciding he would take her back home low
made a u-turn still distressed cherie began coughing and choking in panic suddenly all went silent
low quickly pulled over and a saw that cheree had stopped breathing he attempted to revive her
but it was too late she had died low's immediate reaction was that he needed to dig a grave
but he didn't have a shovel with him realizing that there was a storm water drain beneath the road he was on low
decided he would hide cherie's body in there instead as he related how he shoved the little
girl inside the pipe lo suddenly remarked i need to go to red hill to the spot where the body was found
something may jog my memory margaret agreed to accompany low to red hill although she was terrified she felt an
obligation to extract a full confession from the man who had been her client for
more than seven years several days after lowe had given his version of events margaret drove down to
the peninsula to lowe's holiday home in rosebard where he had been living since splitting with lorraine
she collected low and the two drove west along the nepean highway which begins in
melbourne's cbd and takes motorists through the city's southern suburbs before concluding at the tip of the
mornington peninsula lowe provided directions first he wanted to point out the spot
where he had quote picked up cheree it was on a residential street called parkmoor road near a corner where it
intersected with nepean highway as they lingered on parkmoor road lowe pointed out an old rotting pine tree
growing in the nature strip by the street the tree marked where cherie beasley's
bright pink bicycle had been found after she went missing someone had tied a yellow ribbon around
it in remembrance of the little girl that's where i picked her up low explained then he told margaret to make a u-turn
and drive back along nepean highway while pointing out exactly where margaret should go
he kept a running narrative of what had happened after cherie had gotten into his car
after asking margaret to pull into a car park on a nearby foreshore lo said she's panicking i'm taking her home now
then he directed margaret to a tree-lined country road where a concrete stormwater drain lay beneath the
driveway of a property this is the spot low said and margaret parked the car low exited the vehicle but margaret
stayed seated scared that she might faint from the stress of the experience low strolled along the road then down to
the pipe where cherie's body had been found mourners had left flowers by its entrance
after a little while low returned to the car and told margaret that looks like it
as margaret drove her low back to his home he kept talking in detail about how he had forced sheree's body into the
narrow pipe quote i got down on my bottom and kicked the body down i said a prayer
oh god forgive me for this terrible thing i've done please take care of this child
something like that margaret turned slightly to hide the fact that her eyes had filled with tears
and wiped her face on her sleeve it seemed as though lo was excited to be reliving these memories with another
individual and his excitement only increased margaret's distress she dropped low off at his unit
declining his offer to come in for a cup of tea then she drove a short distance away
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six-year-old cherie beasley woke up before anyone else in her family and addressed herself in a pink tracksuit
after leaving the bedroom she shared with her two little sisters she carefully closed the door so she
wouldn't wake them she also shut her mom's door for the same reason after making herself some toast for
breakfast she fixed another plate for her mother kerry and carried it into her with a glass of cordial so her mum could
have breakfast in bed eventually the rest of the family had gotten up and at around 1pm cherie asked
if she could ride her bike to a nearby milk bar on nepean highway to buy some lollies
cherie loved her pink bicycle it had been a christmas gift six months earlier kerry agreed and also asked cheree to
stop at a nearby boutique that owed her money she wrote a note for cheree to give the
shopkeeper and also handed over an envelope with twenty dollars inside on the envelope she wrote the word
cigarettes an instruction for the milk shop owner who was familiar with the family and accustomed to cherie running
errands for her mum kerry told cherie she could spend one dollar from the change on some lollies
for herself the note and the envelope with the money were placed in a beige handbag which
cherie carried in her bike's basket cheree cycled to the boutique first and returned 20 minutes later with her
mother's money having forgotten about the second part of her trip kerry jotted down a few more orders on
the envelope a bottle of coke a pasty and a pie then cherie rode away again it was just before two o'clock in the
afternoon parkmoor road resident vera and her daughter susan had made plans to go
shopping that afternoon it was a dreary winter's day with heavy clouds hanging low in the air
rosebud was always bustling with tourists during the summer months but in winter it was something of a ghost town
escaping to a shopping mall was one of the few reasons to leave the house on an overcast day
[Music] vera and susan both wanted to pick up a few things from kmart a budget retailer
that had a franchise nearby at around 2 20 pm the mother and daughter climbed into susan's car then
started along parkmoor road towards nepean highway as she drove susan noticed a child's
bicycle popped up against the rotting pine tree next door to her mother's house it was a girl's bike colored bright pink
with a white woven basket attached to the handlebars and the brand name poppy emblazoned in
white lettering along the frame mum whose bike's that susan asked glancing over vera recognized the bicycle right away
she had seen a little girl riding it up and down park moore road over the past few months
[Music] one day as vera and her husband had been doing some repair work on their driveway
the little girl had walked past their home with her mother and two smaller sisters
the girl's mother had paused for a friendly chat and mentioned that they lived on south road which intersected
with parkmoor vera ordered susan to turn around and drive to south road so she could tell
the girl's family about the bike after knocking on a couple of doors they found the right house
a small fibro and timber property with a sprawling front lawn the little girl's 24 year old mother
kerry answered the door and listened as vera told her that her daughter's bike had been left unattended around the
corner [Music] sheree usually returned from visiting the milk bar within a quarter of an hour
so when 20 minutes had passed with no sign of her kerry was a little worried but perhaps cherie had just run into a
school friend and stopped to play for a little while by the time vera knocked on her front
door more than 45 minutes had passed upon learning that sheree's bike had been abandoned kerry's concern grew
substantially she asked her partner stephen to go check and he walked quickly to the
location vera described the bike was still leaning against the rotted pine tree inside the basket was the beige handbag
kerry had given cherie before she left home checking its compartments steven saw a
packet of cigarettes a pasty a pie and a bottle of coke as well as the envelope with change inside
so cherie had definitely made it to the milk bar starting to panic stephen called out
fishery and looked around for her she was nowhere to be seen stephen made his way to a nearby pay
phone and placed a call to rosebud police then he raced home to kerry with tears
in his eyes the police were at kerry's home within minutes they took down a description of cheree
borrowed a photograph of her and began door knocking the neighborhood asking if anyone had seen the little girl
officers took sniffer dogs out to search surrounding bushland and were joined by
state emergency service volunteers a police command center was set up on parkmoor road near to where cherie's
bike had been found the bike remained propped up against the pine tree the scene now secured with
crime scene tape a forensic team was summoned to examine the evidence by late afternoon the media had gotten a
hold of the story and radio bulletins alerted the public to the six-year-old's disappearance
kerry and her boyfriend were asked to provide a statement down at rosebud police station
kerry explained that she always told sheree to come straight home after running an errand
then added i don't know where my daughter is or who could have taken her i love her very much
police wondered whether cherie's biological father had snatched her perhaps wanting full custody of his
eldest child but he was away fishing with friends in victoria's alpine region he didn't learn of his daughter's
disappearance until he returned home late the following day when he heard what had happened he raced
to rosebud where his parents were already waiting with kerry shocked and upset he could barely manage
to speak police instead turned to their attention to the possible sightings and leads that
had started trickling in almost as soon as word of cherie's disappearance spread
there was one tip that sounded especially promising a woman had seen a little girl matching
cherie's description on the afternoon in question she had been riding a pink bicycle
but she wasn't alone riding on another bike behind her was a little boy investigators had no idea who the little
boy might be no parents had come forward to say their children had been playing with cherie
before she went missing on the morning of monday july 1 detective peter butland decided to visit
cherie's school rosebud primary he worked his way through the classrooms asking students if any of them had seen
cherie beasley with a boy two days earlier eventually an older male student revealed that his little brother had
said something about seeing cheree on saturday his brother was in cheray's class and
his name was shane detective butlin fetched shane from his class the little boy was shy and reluctant to
talk at first but soon he began to open up shane's initial reluctance in coming forward was because he had snuck out on
saturday without his parents knowledge they had gone out for the afternoon leaving shane in the care of his older
siblings while they listened to music upstairs shane secretly left on his bmx bicycle
to go buy some lollies at a nearby petrol station when he reached the petrol station shane
saw cherie beasley on her pink bicycle cherie was in shane's class at school and the two were friendly so they began
to play together they cycled towards the milk bar on the pan highway where cherie had to buy some
things but shane stopped on parkmoor road he didn't think he should go any further
so he waited there while cheree went to the milk bar as he stood by his bmx watching for
cherie's return a small blue two-door car turned off nepean highway and into park moore
road the driver braked and pulled over very close to where shane stood [Music] soon cheree reappeared
cycling around the corner from nepean highway and back on to parkmore road where shane was waiting
the blue car was still there as shane watched the driver called out to cheray to stop
he was middle-aged and lean with a clean-shaven face [Music] come here the man said to cherie
[Music] cherie reluctantly approached the vehicle still wearing her bright pink bicycle helmet
then the man got out strode over to cherie picked her up and put her in the front passenger seat
quickly he walked back to the driver's side and jumped back in reversing into a u-turn he almost ran
over cherie's pink bicycle which lay discarded in the middle of the road then the man turned back onto nepean
highway the entire abduction took place in a matter of seconds shane was scared and didn't quite
understand what had happened he didn't think cheree had wanted to go with the man
shane kept standing there alone soon after the car disappeared with sheree inside some other motorists drove
up parkmoor road and noticed sheree's abandoned bike they stopped and wheeled it over to a
nearby tree assuming its owner was off playing nearby with friends after seeing this
shane rode his bike home and crept inside without his siblings realising that he'd ever gone out
when his parents returned home a little after 3 p.m shane was still playing in the same spot that he'd been when they
left hours earlier detective butlin was impressed with shane's recollection upon re-examining the crime scene at
parkmoor road the detectives saw that tire marks on the bitumen perfectly matched the vehicle maneuvers that shane
had described shane didn't know enough about cars to identify the vehicle's specific make or
model but now investigators knew they were looking for a two-door car that was small and blue
likely a hatchback there was something else some early media reports had mistakenly
reported that cherie's pink bike helmet was found at the scene alongside the bike
but police had never come across the helmet in any of their searches and shane said that when the man had
grabbed cheree she was still wearing it the detectives knew that they had to release this updated information as soon
as possible once the media began reporting that cherie had in fact been wearing her
black helmet when she was taken witnesses who had previously discounted things that they'd seen began coming
forward a woman driving along the highway that afternoon had pulled up alongside a blue
hatchback being driven by a white man who looked between 50 and 60 years old sitting beside him was a little girl in
a pink bike helmet sobbing as the man stared straight ahead and studiously avoided eye contact
the woman assumed the girl was the man's granddaughter and that he'd told her off
for some reason or other a mother and daughter out the front of a motel on the pean highway had seen a
terrified looking little girl being driven in a blue hatchback the girl had a pink helmet on and stared
desperately at the mother through the passenger window as though trying to communicate something
this woman was able to help police identify the exact type of car the abductor had been driving
a blue toyota corolla [Music] detectives obtained a list of all blue toyota corollas registered throughout
the state there were more than 700 and they would have to follow up on each and every one
senior detective andrew gusky was responsible for calling the car's owners and asking questions in an attempt to
determine whether or not they might be a suspect most people were polite cooperative and
eager to be of assistance on the morning of tuesday july 30 detective gusky's phone rang
it was a man returning a call that the detective had placed a week earlier the man didn't own a blue toyota corolla
but he drove one that belonged to his employer unlike most of the other people detective gusky had spoken to
this man was standoffish and abrupt yet he also had a crystal clear recollection of what he'd been doing a
month earlier on saturday june 29 something that struck the detective azad he said that he'd spent the day at home
with his family in melbourne's eastern suburbs the man's name was robert lowe when detective gusky asked lo for his
phone number low had abruptly refused he explained that he had an unlisted number and didn't want to give it out to
anyone detective gusky's curiosity was immediately peaked he searched lowe's name in victoria
police's records and saw he had multiple charges for indecent exposure and defensive behavior
four months earlier low had been spotted lurking by the fence of a public swimming pool in the outer eastern
suburb of croydon a school sports event was taking place at the pool two teachers soon noticed a low chatting
with two young boys while touching himself when confronted he ran away to his car
but a teacher had managed to take note of his number plate and passed it on to police
soon after detective gusky became convinced that robert lowe looked like a prime suspect another member of the task
force showed him an interesting report from crime stoppers the service had received hundreds of
tip-offs in the weeks since cherie was abducted but this one seemed especially promising
an anonymous woman had called to report a man named robert lowe in connection with the cherie beasley case
she had told the operator i know a guy going through therapeutic dealings who has a history of sex
offenses both obscene and willful exposure and approaching young girls the woman's reference to therapeutic
dealings was curious then one investigator noticed something while scrutinizing court reports from
lowe's various charges one of the expert witnesses listed was a psychotherapist by the name of margaret
hobbs margaret had made the decision to call crimestoppers the same day that she
discovered robert lowe drove a blue toyota corolla margaret's gut instinct that he was
involved coupled with his sudden reappearance in her office made her sick with worry
when she realized he drove the exact same car as sheree beasley's abductor she knew she needed to alert the
authorities her tip-off combined with detective gusky's suspicious conversation with lo
and his prior criminal record led to lowe becoming the investigation's prime suspect exactly one month after cherie's
abduction detectives searched lowe's home questioned his family and took him in for interrogations multiple times over
the following months detectives found out he had no alibi for the day of cherie's disappearance and
had told multiple people at his church that he was headed for rosebud after his initial interview low was
placed under 24-hour surveillance and it quickly became evident he was a compulsive serial
predator investigators watched as he went to public areas to masturbate or approach schoolgirls
a search of the work car he drove revealed that lowe had collected a number of newspaper clippings about the
carmen chan abduction some words were underlined and he had jotted down some bizarre notes of his
own although they didn't believe he was involved in carmen's case as his offending fit an entirely different
pattern the clippings indicated low was fixated by the girl's abduction his wife confirmed that low had been
obsessed with the carmen chan case and spoke about it so much that she'd had to ask him to stop
despite all of this there was no tangible physical evidence tying him to cheray beasley
this didn't change when her body was found in september nothing belonging to low was recovered
from cherie's remains or the crime scene nor did investigators ever find the pink
helmet that cherie had been wearing when she was taken a nine-year-old girl who lived in red
hill later came forward to say she'd seen a pink bike helmet lying discarded in some bushes near her school sometime
in the spring but it had disappeared by the following day detectives knew they needed to work
harder to definitively link lowe to cherie beasley and they believed their best bet was margaret hobbes
her anonymous tip-off indicated she was already suspicious of him meaning he likely made incriminating
statements during their appointments two detectives paid margaret a visit to explain that they were looking into
robert lowe she cooperated with them but she wasn't able to offer the definitive evidence
they were looking for so the investigators decided to go a step further without margaret's knowledge they
secretly installed a small microphone in a van above her office ceiling her sessions with robert lowe were all
recorded and detectives listened in on them from a flat in the building next door
each time lowe edged closer to making a confession when he discussed pleading guilty to
manslaughter and the spot where he thought cheree might have been found investigators heard every word
in late march of 1992 detectives reached out to margaret and told her that one of
them would be acting as her liaison detective alex bartch would speak to her regularly about the case and a debrief
with her after her sessions with lo upon sitting down with margaret for the first time detective bartsch noted that
she seemed uncomfortable discussing one of her clients with a police officer at the same time he could see
that the strain of working with low was taking a heavy toll on margaret she seemed relieved to have someone she
could confide in about it all in early april lowe made his first genuine confession to margaret
telling her if you want me to tell you the truth i can tell you how i was involved
yes i could tell you how i was involved unaware that investigators were already listening in on her conversations with
their prime suspect the distressed margaret in turn spoke with detective barge she informed him that lowe had made what
she believed to be in admission and she had another appointment with him that day
she would keep him posted on what happened next later that same day detective bartsch
and his colleague detective andrew guskey sat quietly in the flat next door as they listened in on margaret's latest
session with robert lowe to their shock low began to detail how he had driven to rosebud on saturday
june 29 1991 and picked up cherie beasley he described how she had panicked and choked to death in his passenger seat
and the way he had subsequently disposed of her body then he told margaret he needed to visit
red hill seeing the exact spot where he had left the little girl might jog his memory
further the two detectives stared at each other they finally had him detective bartsch and another officer
soon paid a visit to margaret's office when she told them of her plans to drive low to red hill they told her they would
need to monitor the trip for her own safety detectives would tail them out to the
location and margaret would be given a panic button she could press if she began to feel unsafe
but without her knowledge the police also did something else they installed a covert listening device
in her car so that they could hear everything that was said throughout the journey
a few days after margaret took low to red hill detectives obtained a statement about the trip from margaret
the experience had fundamentally changed something in her before she had felt a professional
discomfort about working with the police against her client now she felt she had to help hold him
responsible for the terrible thing he had done she began recording her sessions with
him though she didn't tell anyone she was doing so meanwhile the detectives collated their
evidence on march 31 1993 they finally struck arresting robert lowe at a backpacker
hostel he was now staying at in the melbourne suburb of saint kilda he refused to speak with them instead
insisting they call his lawyer then he proudly told detective alex bartch that he was just like jesus
christ he would have to endure a terrible trial but all would be right in the end
as described in the book the evil detective bart retorted that low was half right
but he had no chance of being resurrected when lowe later appeared in melbourne's
magistrates court he was greeted by a crowd of journalists news crews and angry members of the public
cherie beasley's mother kerry had travelled to the city so she could see the man accused of her daughter's murder
finally in handcuffs when low was brought into the dark the grief-stricken kerry screamed abuse and
attempted to run over to him before being restrained robert lowe was charged with the
abduction and murder of sheree beasley denied baal and taken into remand to await his trial
when it came to the details of cherie's murder investigators had never believed lowe's version of events
his story that she had agreed to get into his car directly contrasted with the description given by shane
the little boy who cherie had been playing with no doubt lo's claim that she had choked
while panicking was another attempt to cover up the truth of his crimes as cherie's remains had been so badly
decomposed it was impossible to determine exactly what she had endured or what caused her death
as detailed in the book the evil three weeks after lowe was charged detective alex bartch received some
intriguing information from a colleague in victoria police's prison squad an inmate at melbourne's notorious
pentridge prison was sharing a cell with robert lowe while the latter was awaiting trial
peter reed was a violent criminal who had been convicted of murdering a police officer in 1982
during a series of conversations with reed lowe had supposedly made some admissions about cherie's murder
providing a different version of events than he'd given to police depending on a jailhouse snitch for
evidence was always risky those who knew reed said he was dangerous manipulative and not to be
trusted but the information he was providing also seemed consistent with the robert
lowe police had become familiar with through his psychotherapy sessions it was agreed that peter reed would wear
a wire and attempt to cajole more information from his cellmate reed's strategy was to tell lo that he
knew a lawyer who could create a fake story for lowe's defense but only if he was given a true account
of what had really happened he needed to draw upon facts when designing a false narrative
low fell for it he gave reed a very different story admitting that he'd seen cherie in the
area on several previous occasions before abducting her each time she had been riding her bike
to the local shops where she sometimes ran errands for her mother lo had followed her making a note of
where she lived and decided to abduct her he went to rosebud on june 29 1991 with
the express purpose of taking the little girl after forcing cheree into his car he
drove her to a remote farmland area where he brutally raped her cherie had cried and begged to be taken
home to her mother lo maintained that while she had choked to death this hadn't been due to a panic
attack instead it had resulted directly from him assaulting her when cheray started to choke lo removed
the pink bike helmet that she was still wearing he later discarded it somewhere after realizing that cherie was dead
lo drove down a country road and pushed and kicked her underwear clad body into the stormwater drain where she was later
found his semen had stained most of cherie's clothing so he threw the garments away in a
rubbish skip when reed met with detective bartsch after obtaining this confession the
detective noticed how pale and sick the convicted criminal appeared listening to lowe's admissions over the
course of multiple days had clearly taken a severe mental and emotional toll on him
despite this he thanked detective barch for giving him the opportunity to assist
in convicting a child killer robert lowe's trial finally began in october 1994 more than three years after
sheree beasley was murdered the prosecution alleged that the crime had been carefully planned and
premeditated by lowe who clearly had a fascination with such crimes as evidenced by his obsession with the chan
case margaret hobbs was the prosecution's star witness she testified over four days and
sections of the secret recordings that had been made of her sessions with lo were played for the court
low's soulmate peter reed also gave evidence about his own taped conversations with lo
as detailed in the evil everyone present in the courtroom listened attentively as
reed made a personal address to the jury he described himself as one of the worst
criminals in the system but said that even he was shocked and angered by cherie's murder
that was why he had decided to testify for the prosecution this admission held raid in good stead
with the jury despite the defense's attempts to undermine his credibility as a witness
throughout the duration of the trial robert lowe showed a little emotion he sat in the dark with a blank
expression as one reporter who was quoted in the evil wrote the only hint of feeling behind his
perspective and grey bearded visage was a nervous facial twitch it surfaced when witnesses gave evidence
that sat uncomfortably with his version of events a month after the trial began the jury retired to consider their
verdict after five hours they returned they had found robert lowe guilty of abducting and murdering cherie beasley
when cherie's mother kerry heard the verdict she cried out suffer low cherie got her revenge this time
rod in hell the public gallery clapped and cheered lo's face remained impassive but he
blinked several times upon learning his fate his ex-wife lorraine fainted and the
couple's two sons rushed to her aid followed shortly by paramedics the sentencing judge teared up as he
gave robert lowe life in prison for murder and 15 years for the abduction charge
he refused to give a minimum term describing the trial as the most harrowing he had ever experienced
addressing low directly he stated what you did was every child's fear and every parent's nightmare
when robert lowe was removed from the courtroom kerry shouted just remember lo cherie got a death sentence
you've still got your life despite bringing a child killer to justice margaret hobbs had battled with
her decision to assist the police and then testify against him as a psychotherapist she felt she had an
obligation to keep the things her clients told her in confidence and had indicated to robert lowe that she would
never disclose what went on during their sessions but she was so disturbed by the things
he told her and the brutality of his actions she felt she had no choice but to help the investigation
many praised margaret hobbs for her actions while others criticized her for breaking patient therapist
confidentiality she accepted what her critics had to say content in the knowledge that she had
done what she knew to be right in 1997 robert lowe lodged an appeal against his conviction arguing that
evidence from his appointments with margaret shouldn't have been allowed at trial due to confidentiality issues
his appeal was rejected and the court made clear that public interest overrides confidentiality in situations
where an individual in therapy has committed a serious crime margaret hobbs was left
traumatized by her dealings with robert lowe learning of the terrible things he had
done took a serious toll on her health and well-being and she suffered insomnia and nightmares
she wrote of the experience i took to staring at children who are judged to be aged about six watching
their movements and imagining one day i found a little lost girl who was about this age
she had lost her mother and was sobbing and stuttering out her name we found her mother and i sat in my car
and cried aware of the terror of the child and having lost her mother for ten minutes
margaret began working on a book about the case then almost six years after cherie's
murder on january 17 1996 margaret and her husband were driving home when her husband blacked out behind
the wheel their car ran off the road and hit a fence killing margaret instantly in the wake of margaret's death
journalist and author andrew rule completed the book she had been working on it was titled the evil and published
under both their names the title was chosen because margaret's dealings with lo convinced her that she
had quote encountered the face of evil in human form detective alex bartch who worked closely
with margaret during the investigation wrote a foreword for the book he described her as someone driven by
the desire to serve the common good regardless of personal cost in life margaret hobbs was loved by
those who knew her in death she is mourned by them as of mid-2021 robert lowe remains alive
and incarcerated for his crimes with his file marked never to be released he has continued to maintain his
innocence from behind bars and on the 23rd anniversary of cherie's murder he wrote a letter begging authorities to
reinvestigate the case was extremely distressed by this action telling 7 news he is evil
he's not a man after cherie's murder kerry found a living in rosebud too painful
being in the neighborhood constantly reminded her of what had happened to her firstborn child
she moved to another area of the mornington peninsula with her partner stephen and cherie's little sisters
in the lounge room of their new home was a small shrine to cherie five photographs of her in a frame with
the words our little angel at the top another large portrait of cheree hung from a nearby wall
for years the pink bicycle that cherie had loved so much was kept in victoria police's headquarters in melbourne in a
conference room alongside boxes of files from the case kerry made a point of visiting the
location in red hill where cherie's body had been found explaining that she had wanted to be in
the same place where cherie last was once cherie was laid to rest at mornington cemetery kerry and her other
two daughters would visit her headstone regularly cherie's sisters would bring gifts and
chat to cherie sometimes when kerry found herself struggling late at night she visited
alone the cemetery gates were locked after hours but kerry would park her car outside and talk aloud to her daughter
in the hopes she could hear her kerry married stephen and the couple had a daughter together
in an interview with the journalist from the age kerry explained that her new baby helped
keep her occupied but one hundred percent of the time i always have cherie in the back of my mind
nothing will ever replace her or be like cherie was she was just so special words cannot explain
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Case 191: Sheree Beasley

Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients were men who had been referred to her through the court system after committing terrible crimes...

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Brief Summary

Robert Lowe, a sex offender, abducted and murdered six-year-old Cherie Beasley; psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs played a key role in his conviction.

Key points

Margaret Hobbs' Career. Margaret Hobbs specialized in therapy for sex offenders, gaining a reputation in Melbourne.
Robert Lowe's Disturbing Behavior. Despite a respectable appearance, Robert Lowe's actions raised red flags for Margaret Hobbs.
The Abduction of Cherie Beasley. Six-year-old Cherie Beasley goes missing, raising fears of a child abductor on the loose.
The Discovery of Cherie's Body. Teenage girls discover a decomposed corpse in a stormwater pipe, later identified as Cherie Beasley.
Lowe's Disturbing Admission. Lowe admits he might have blocked out memories of the crime, chillingly stating, "I might have done it, I cannot remember it."
Lowe's Confession. In a shocking turn, Lowe offers to tell Margaret how he was involved in Cherie's murder.

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