The chilling confessions of murderer Malcolm Naden, contained within a 25-page hand-written document, have been made public.
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Monday night’s episode of A Current Affair featured interviews with state homicide squad boss Detective Superintendent Mick Willing, as well as detectives Sue-Ellen Scott, Ricky Hennessy and Paul Mangan.
It also featured an actor reading excerpts from Naden’s confession letter, a tool which officers used to garner a confession to his involvement in the 2005 deaths of Lateesha Nolan and Kristy Scholes.
In relation to Ms Nolan’s murder, Naden described the circumstances leading up to it as a “chance meeting” and outlined how he killed the mother-of-four at Sandy Beach before disposing of her body at Butlers Falls.
“It was a chance meeting, unfortunate for her. A few minutes earlier or later we would have missed each other and maybe she would still be alive,” he said.
“Poor Lateesha didn't even seen it coming. She didn't know death was travelling with us and that it would take her that night. I still can't believe it.
“Lateesha stopped to let me out. I reach around and grab Lateesha by the throat with the purpose to strangle her.”
The aftermath of the killing is just as chilling as the act itself.
In fact, the details of Ms Nolan’s dismemberment are so grisly they have been suppressed by the courts.
“I sat in the back briefly, just looking at her. She was so peaceful, so quiet, so empty. I’ve never seen a body so relaxed, not even in sleep. She crossed from life to death in an instance,” Naden wrote.
In relation to the murder of Ms Scholes just a few months later, Naden conceded the rape and murder of her was inhumane, but added he felt no emotion.
“This inhumane act I did without thought or feeling,” he wrote.
“I clothed her like she was a life-sized doll and then placed her body amongst pillows and blankets to make her comfortable.
“There was no reason for my actions. It was really a senseless, uncaring and regrettable waste of life for her and Lateesha.
“My head understands the awful truth of what I have done, but my emotions won’t engage.”
After a seven-year manhunt, Naden was captured by police in dense bushland near Gloucester in 2012.
He is currently in jail at Goulburn, where he will remain for the rest of his life.