Overview
- A WA Supreme Court jury convicted the 79-year-old after a three-week trial, reaching its verdict in about four hours.
- Fulton’s body has never been found; prosecutors said he most likely attacked her at their Duncraig home on March 18, 1986 and later disposed of her remains.
- The case was revived after a 2022 coronial finding of likely foul play, prompting cold-case detectives to reopen the investigation.
- Evidence included Reddington’s DNA on a 2021 letter to the coroner that falsely implicated another man, inconsistent accounts to police, an alleged feigned dementia claim, and a life insurance policy taken out before she vanished.
- The defence’s references to other possible killers, including the Birnies, were rejected as unsupported, and sentencing is pending as her sons vow to keep searching for her remains.