Secret lover of Claremont killer’s first wife breaks silence
<p>The flatmate who is blamed for destroying Bradley Robert Edwards' marriage has spoken out and admitted he feels sickened that his actions could have been for the trigger for the Claremont killings.</p>
<p>The secret lover, who has kept his identity a secret due to legal reasons, has broken his silence on his affair with Edward’s first wide.</p>
<p>While appearing on the<span> </span>Nine News Perth special, the man revealed a paternity bombshell.</p>
<p>He had a daughter with Edwards' ex-wife 24 years ago and now wonders if the child could be his.</p>
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<p>Edwards' ex-wife always said the man was the girl's father, but then came revelations from his former partner on the stand.</p>
<p>She told the court that while she was with the new man she had also been sleeping with Edwards.</p>
<p>The secret lover admitted "I can't help but think, in the back of my mind, is this child mine?”</p>
<p>The 60-year-old met Edwards' first wife towards the end of 1993.</p>
<p>He had been going through a divorce and she was unhappy.</p>
<p>"So I moved in. And it was awkward at first. I was trying to be more friendly towards him, hoping that the attraction with her would fade," he said.</p>
<p>"I miss those times, playing softball, being friends with him."</p>
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<p class="first"><em>Sarah Spiers, Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer all disappeared from Claremont in the 1990s.</em></p>
<p class="first">A man already accused of killing Jane Rimmer</p>
<p>He said the Telstra technician was unaware that his wife would sneak into his room on Sunday mornings.</p>
<p>"When we got caught kissing, I thought nup, I'm not hanging around here.</p>
<p>"It's the fear of what he had under the bed.”</p>
<p>The rival lover revealed it was a rifle and a baseball bat.</p>
<p>He said: "I just didn't want to not wake up in the morning. You just can't sleep with that kind of fear."</p>
<p>Edwards told him to stay, but he moved out within weeks.</p>
<p>She soon followed.</p>
<p>The same night, the usually mild-mannered Edwards made an explosive phone call and it would be the last time they spoke.</p>
<p>"He said, "You're having an affair with her." I said, "You're stupid. You know I am".</p>
<p>“He said, I know where you live, and I'll come and kill you, he said."</p>
<p>Not long after, Edward’s wife fell pregnant to her new lover.</p>
<p>Prosecutors claimed Bradley Edwards attacked women he didn't know when his life was in turmoil.</p>
<p>His marriage broke down around the time Sarah Spiers vanished.</p>
<p>Around the time of Jane Rimmer’s murder, Edward’s ex-wife dropped her pregnancy bombshell.</p>
<p>But despite that, and despite the decades old threat to kill, the 60-year-old believes Edwards is no killer.</p>
<p>"I don't think so. I really, deep inside, really don't think it was him," he said.</p>
