Leonard John Fraser

Mr. Squeaky

Having sold her story to 60 Minutes and Woman's Day magazine for an undisclosed sum, Natasha Ryan appeared in court as a defense witness and told a packed gallery that she had never seen the accused man, Leonard Fraser, before in her life. She said that her mother had dropped her off at school on August 31, 1998, and after having gotten into trouble with a teacher she decided that it (school) was the last straw. She decided to run away and stay with Scott Black and she had been with him ever since.

According to the police investigation into her disappearance, the last time Natasha had been seen by anyone was by two friends near a Rockhampton cinema several days later.

As the trial drew to a close it was revealed by the prosecution that Fraser had sent police a "press release" from a "Mr. Squeaky" in an attempt to throw them off his trail. "I want you to understand that I am responsible for all the murders in the Rockhampton area," Mr. Squeaky said in the release produced by Fraser in prison (unbeknownst to Fraser, detectives were recording his and Quinn's conversations about the release through a listening device in Quinn's cell) on January 18, 2001, three weeks after he had led police to the graves of three of his victims. "You will never know my real name, you can refer to me as Squeaky," it read.

Mr. Squeaky's release said the information it contained about the murders was only known to him, obviously Fraser's alter-ego. But the plan failed miserably as it contained intimate information that only the killer — and not yet even the police — knew.