As the final episode of The Confession podcast goes to air,no one can say with certainty who killed Eliah Abdelmessih,Katia Pyliotis remains in legal limbo,and Victoria Police is yet to hold anyone to account for its botched investigation.
As the case against accused killer Katia Pyliotis crumbled,the detectives who investigated the murder of Eliah Abdelmessih faced searching courtroom questions about the quality of their investigation.
Detective Warren Ryan told a jury his missing diary would exonerate alternate murder suspect Susan Reddie. But then someone found it,and the case against accused killer Katia Pyliotis unravelled.
When another woman’s murder confession was reneged,Katia Pyliotis faced the grim realisation that she had little hope of convincing a jury she wasn’t the person who bashed Eliah Abdelmessih to death. In episode four of The Confession,she considers owning up to a killing she did not commit.
Days after finding Eliah Abdelmessih’s bloody corpse,detectives knocked on Susan Reddie’s door. Her carer later told them she confessed to the killing. Episode three of The Confession ponders why they never called her in for another interview.
The police brief explains how the Kew man lived,but the unknown female DNA found at the murder scene raised many questions about how he died. Episode two of The Confession charts the final days of Eliah Abdelmessih.
For 11 years,the brutal murder of Eliah Abdelmessih was a mystery. Then,Katia Pyliotis was charged. Police said she did the deed with a statue of the Virgin Mary and a tin of fruit,but,eventually,their case unravelled.