A police superintendent and an inspector who investigated the Claremont serial killings case when they were detectives in the mid-1990s are expected to be recalled to the stand to be cross-examined.
Former Telstra worker and confessed rapist Bradley Robert Edwards, 51, is on trial in the WA Supreme Court charged with murdering Sarah Spiers, 18, Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27.
Superintendent John Leembruggen, who was a Macro Taskforce detective at the time, testified on Monday he attended Ms Rimmer's post-mortem where he learnt her hyoid bone was missing.
He was also responsible for collecting a pocket knife found near the body in Wellard, which prosecutors allege was the type issued to Telecom/Telstra employees at the time.
Supt Leembruggen also collected Ms Rimmer's watch and enquired about telecommunication work done in the area the previous year.
The court heard Supt Leembruggen also attended Ms Glennon's crime scene in Eglinton with two FBI-trained consultants - Victorian profiler Claude Minisini and US officer David Caldwell.
Inspector Mark Bordin, who was a detective at the time, testified he took Polaroid photographs at Ms Glennon's crime scene but never touched the body.
He attended the post-mortem and said he mostly stayed back but at one point looked at an item through a microscope.
Both officers will return to the stand on Tuesday to be cross-examined.
Edwards denies murdering the women but has pleaded guilty to two separate crimes against women - the abduction and double rape of a 17-year-old girl at Karrakatta cemetery in 1995 and an attack on a sleeping 18-year-old woman at her Huntingdale home in 1988.
Prosecutors rely heavily on DNA and fibre evidence but Edwards' defence team argues exhibits may have been contaminated.
Australian Associated Press
