It was June 1996, and Daryl Francis Suckling was gazing from a dock in the Sydney Supreme Court where he was standing trial for the murder of 21-year-old Jodie Larcombe.
Killer offers police victimâs body in grim parole bid Ageing killer Daryl Suckling, who has until now denied the 1987 murder of Jodie Larcombe, is hoping to get parole.
Crime by Janet Fife-Yeomans
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Subscriber only One of the state s most notorious murderers and suspected serial killers is trying to do a deal to get out of jail by showing homicide detectives where he buried one his victims. Suffering from emphysema and liver disease, Daryl Suckling has been secretly taken under heavy security from his maximum security cell at Long Bay jail down to the desolate sandhills outside Mildura where he killed Jodie Larcombe, 21, in 1987.
Ms Larcombe â then aged 21 â was last seen on December 22, 1987 in Coburg, Victoria.
Following a detailed investigation, homicide detectives arrested and charged Daryl Suckling on June 2, 1994.
Jodie Larcombe was last seen alive in 1987.(NSW Police / Supplied)
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While he has always denied killing Ms Larcombe, the now 83-year-old was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1996.
Over the years police have continued their investigation into the cold case killing, including searches of Mildura bushland, but have so far come up empty handed.
Earlier this year, a special strike force was established after Suckling provided new details into the possible location of Ms Larcombe s remains.