Claremont serial killer Bradley Edwards will today learn whether he will spend the rest of his life in jail when he is sentenced in a Perth court.
Edwards, 51, was found guilty in September of the murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon in 1996 and 1997 respectively.
He was acquitted of the murder of Sarah Spiers, whose body has not been found since she vanished in 1996.
Edwards had earlier admitted to the rape of a teenager at Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995 and a sex attack in Huntingdale in 1988.
The killer pleaded not guilty to the murder charges.
Edwards refused to look at his surviving two victims today as they read their victim statements in court ahead of sentencing.
"I hope you are treated as well in prison as you have treated us ... I will live and you won't," the woman attacked by Edwards in Karrakatta Cemetery said.
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The Huntingdale victim said she was a "survivor".
"Every night of my life I fall asleep with the fear someone will attack me," she told the court.
"Bradley Edwards now features as the villain of my nightmares and I can't make it stop."
The long investigation
The Claremont serial killings case began in 1996 when Sarah Spiers vanished from the suburb in Perth's west after calling a taxi.
Five months after that, 23-year-old childcare worker Jane Rimmer also disappeared.
And then 27-year-old lawyer Ciara Glennon went missing the following March after a night out with colleagues.
Edwards was brought to trial after a DNA match blew the decades-old cold case wide open.
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The DNA sample linked to the Telstra technician was allegedly found under Ciara Glennon's fingernails.
Prosecutors said during the trail that fibres from Edwards' work clothes and his Holden Commodore VS station wagon were found on Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon.
Fibres were also recovered from a 17-year-old girl Edwards admits twice raping at Karrakatta Cemetery after abducting her from a dark park in Claremont in 1995.
Unanswered questions
WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson welcomed the two guilty verdicts when they were handed down in September, but emphasised that the police investigation into Sarah Spiers' death remains open.
"This is an important day for justice in Western Australia," Mr Dawson said at the time.
"The Claremont killings struck at the heart of our way of life, stretching to become almost a quarter of a century.
"Three innocent young women were killed along with the hopes and dreams they never got to fulfil."
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