Hours after Annette Steward first met Darren John Chalmers, he bashed her head in with an iron and violently strangled her in her own bed. He was a friend of.
When Dianne Barrett was killed by her neighbour while they shared a cup of tea in Perth it helped solve the brutal 27-year-old murder of a Victorian mother.
Darren John Chalmers showed little emotion as chilling details of the 1992 murder of a young Geelong mum south-west of Melbourne were read out, his eyes fixed on the floor.