Michael Duffy is a Sydney-based journalist who writes a crime column on trials for the Sun Herald. In Call Me Cruel, he examines an unusually cruel killer and the devastating impact of his crime on the many victims.
The investigation into the murder of Kylie Labouchardiere has been described by one of the state’s most experienced Crown prosecutors as among the most complex and bizarre in his experience. Kylie disappeared in 2004. Her killer, Paul Wilkinson, was convicted in 2009. Her body has never been found.
Michael Duffy approaches the murder from the viewpoint of four of those most affected by the crime: Kylie’s parents, Paul’s wife, and a policeman caught up in the events entirely by accident.