CCJ20 –Assessment 2 Case Study S5052632 JORDAN CRAWFORD-MILLER
Paul Denyer, commonly known as the Frankston Serial Killer, is currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the abduction and murder of three young women in Frankston, Victoria in 1993[ CITATION Swa04 \l 1033 ]. Since his imprisonment in 1993 Paul prefers to be addressed as Paula and identifies as female. For the purposes of this case study, I will refer to Denyer as Paul as this was his legal identity at the time of his crimes.PaulDenyerliveda lifethat was rampant with crime before hisfinal imprisonmentin 1993.This paper will examine and analyse themajorcrimes of Paul Denyer through the application of development theory, more specifically moral development theory. Paul Charles Denyer was born on the 14th of April 1972 in Campbelltown, New South Wales. As the third of six children Paul was not overly close with his siblings and had trouble mixing with other young children throughout his formative years. However,asPaulas Paulprogressed throughpre-adolescencepre-adolescence,he seemed to grow out of this and presented as a normal child with plenty of friends. This remained the case until his family made a significant move to Frankston, Victoria for his father’s work in hospitality management in 1981[ CITATION Pau04 \l 1033 ]. It was around this time that Paul started displaying concerning behaviour. He was suddenly a loner at school who was completely lacking in self-confidence. In addition to the loner tendencies Paul had formed, his violent behaviours also began to emerge from his growingly dark persona– at just ten years old Paul had stabbed and killed the family cat hanging it in plain sight from a tree in their backyard[ CITATION Art20 \l 1033 ]. This concerning behaviour was continued throughout Paul’s teenage years which became rife with crime. At 13 he was charged with stealing of a motor vehicle, theft and wilful damage on several occasions. Perhaps most concerning of these manifesting behaviours, was the occasion which saw Paul, 15, charged with assault for forcing another boy to masturbate in front of other children. These actions began to clearly demonstrate that Paul was troubled andthatthe many and varied family issueshe experiencedthatmay have contributed to Paul’s poor behavioural choices.
On the 11thof June 1993, 21-year-old Paul Charles Denyer brutally murdered his first victim, 18-year-old female Elizabeth Stephens. In a similar fashion to Denyer’s later two victims, Elizabeth’s body was discovered in a park with her throat slashed and having been repeatedly stabbed and strangled[ CITATION The18 \l 1033 ]. In just the next month Denyer would murder two other women, Deborah Fream - a young mother whom he kidnapped by sneaking into the back of her car while she was in the corner store buying milk and lastly school student Natalie Russell, who never made it home from school on the day of her murder. It formed part of Denyer’s modus operandi to lay a branch over the bodies he left in open bushland and
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