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confessing to that crime and later made the same confession to his publisher. However, he has otherwise consistently denied involvement in the murder and has maintained that he knew that he was being secretly recorded in his cell and made the statement to gain publicity for his book. He was
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with his half-siblings, and was sometimes cared for by his grandmother. He was first convicted of a crime at the age of 11 for stealing and was sent to a boy's home in
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after a row outside a Sydney nightclub. However, he denied committing the rape for which he was imprisoned in 1968 and the numerous murders of which he was accused.
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