Don’t Make a Fuss, It’s Only the Claremont Serial Killer
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: June 2022
Genre: Memoir
Thirty-two years ago, Wendy Davis was attacked by the man who would go on to become one of WA’s most notorious serial killers. In the immediate wake of her pain, Davis’s distress was dismissed, and inadequate justice arose from a system designed to protect men’s interests at the expense of women’s safety.
Decades later, Davis bravely re-lived her ordeal in order to contribute to the case being built against her past assailant, Bradley Robert Edwards. During the trial, Davis couldn’t help but wonder whether the lives of Ciara Glennon, Jane Rimmer and Sarah Spiers might have been saved had the authorities listened to her to begin with.
This fact-deep memoir is a personal account of the battle between the psychological urge to be heard and a deeply conditioned reluctance to make waves. With pragmatic hindsight and attention to context, Davis’s tale cautions society against the dismissive treatment of women and the silencing of their voices.