IN A SMALL house in northern New South Wales, hunched forward in a chair, a woman is facing painful memories from her past. “I am still numb about it, I am still in shock about it.”
When she fled a violent relationship as a young woman, Alison Walker could not have known that she was the beginning of something that would become far bigger and far worse than she could ever have imagined. Her partner of four years, Jay Thomas Hart, is suspected of murdering her 16-year-old niece, Colleen Walker, four-year-old Evelyn Greenup, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, 16, in a five-month period from September 1990, after she had left him.
Alison was, in effect, his first victim. “He had already expressed what his nature was to me. He tried to kill…