CLAREMONT: Ciara’s Last Night

CLAREMONT: Ciara’s Last Night

From Secrets We Keep by LiSTNR

September 7, 2026 · 38 min · Season 12 · Episode 21

About this episode

The episode discusses the last night of Ciara Glennon and the events surrounding her disappearance in the context of the Claremont serial killings trial.

March 14, 1997 was the last time Ciara Glennon was seen alive. She’s been at a work function and by all accounts she didn’t want to go out that night, because she had her sister's hen's night the next night. But she was convinced to go out to Claremont. She’d only been back in Perth for two weeks, after travelling for six months. In this podcast, Tim Clarke and Damien Cripps ask whether she had known about the other missing girls as well as the rest of Perth, simply because she wasn’t in the country when Sarah Spiers and Jane Rimmer went missing. In May 1997, WA Police released a re-enactment of Ciara’s final hours in a desperate attempt to jog someone’s memory of the night of March 14, and the early hours of March 15 1997. Eleven people did see Ciara that night. On day 16 of the Claremont serial killings trial, they gave evidence of seeing a woman matching Ciara’s description walking alone on Stirling Highway. Some witnesses say they saw her talking to a man in a white car, even starting to get in. In a tragic premonition, a worker at a Thai restaurant over the road from where she was last seen even made a passing comment that “she…

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Hosts: Tim Clarke, Damien Cripps, Natalie Bonjolo

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Places: Perth, WA, Eglington, Stirling Highway, Claremont, Thai restaurant

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