Friend of murdered woman laments: 'She told me things, I should have done more'
Police are close to arresting the killer of Allison Baden-Clay, writes Lisa Davies....So what led to Mrs Baden-Clay's body being found in a secluded bush creek?
Police are confident they are well on the way to finding out. Officers have refused to rule out anyone as a suspect.
Gerard Baden-Clay hasn't said much since his wife vanished on Thursday, April 19.
Sprung by a TV crew about a week after she disappeared, before her body was found, he was a bundle of hand-wringing nerves, tears not quite visible...
...While detectives are publicly keeping their options open about a suspect, as one of her closest loved ones, Mr Baden-Clay is automatically under scrutiny.
Their home, his belongings and his workplace - a Century 21 real estate franchise - have been raided. Police have taken a laptop, computer equipment, a hard drive, and other boxes and bags of evidence.
A woman who worked alongside the Baden-Clays at the agency has also been interviewed extensively, although why this particular colleague has been questioned is unclear.
Mrs Baden-Clay's grief-stricken parents, Geoff and Priscilla Dickie, hinted at the underlying discontent in their daughter's life in an interview with a Brisbane newspaper. Mrs Dickie said her daughter wasn't the type to complain...
...''She was probably so proud,'' she said. ''She had all the stresses and strains of a 43-year-old mother of three.''
Her best friend, Kerry-Anne Walker, told the newspaper Mrs Baden-Clay ''wouldn't have wanted anybody to think she failed at anything''. ''She wanted that appearance that things were good. She always looked good, whether she felt bad on the inside, she always looked good,'' she said.
''She told me things and I should have done more.''...
...Detectives appear to be making progress as they methodically investigate this mysterious murder.
They originally urged the public to reflect on whether they had seen the Baden-Clays' cars between 6.30pm that Thursday and 8am Friday, as they travelled through a busy intersection.
But after the missing person's inquiry became a murder investigation, they narrowed the timeframe, suggesting one of the family cars, a Holden Captiva and a Toyota Prado, could have been on the move between 11.30pm on April 19 and 4am the following day.
Mr Baden-Clay was involved in a single-vehicle accident two days after his wife disappeared. Asked about the accident, which resulted in a brief trip to hospital, Mr Baden-Clay answered a Channel Nine reporter almost bashfully.
''I was hurt a little bit, but I'm OK,'' he said, dipping his head ever so slightly.
Police say they have an ''open mind'' in the case, but are confident of making an arrest.
Mrs Baden-Clay's father says his family's prayers were answered when her body was found and now, ''the second prayer is that we find who did this awful thing to our daughter''.
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