Lake Mungo Page #2

...their final respects

to a young woman taken too soon.

She was a great person.

Very popular...

...clever, lovely.

Alice is remembered as

a happy, fun-loving girl...

...with a zest for life.

Described as always...

The Palmer's were really

doing tough at the time.

l think about how bad

it was back then...

...it was hard to imagine

how worse it would get.

the 1 5th of January...

...stuff started happening

around the house.

Noises on the roof.

Sounds coming outside

the windows...

...and other movements

that seemed to come...

...from Allie's old room.

So we rehung the door...

...to Allie's room and

we got a pest controller...

...to come in and check

for termites.

It didn't help at all.

Doors kept slamming...

...and we still kept getting

noises from her room.

There was just something

weird about that house.

It had a fairly strange

feeling about it...

...I can't explain to you

what it was exactly.

You'd go in there

and have this bad feeling...

...in your gut.

I started having

these nightmares...

...and they were

so distressing...

...that sometimes

I wouldn't want...

...to open my eyes.

l'd woken up but l didn't

want to open my eyes.

There was one particular one.

It was quite vivid...

...and recurring. Alice would

come down the hall...

...still dripping

from the dam...

...and just stand at

the foot of our bed...

...staring at us.

It was quite terrifying.

As I said, I didn't want

to open my eyes.

By early February...

...my nightmares were

getting so bad that...

...I began to go

for walks at night...

...sometimes

for hours at a time.

Just so that I didn't

have to go to bed...

...close my eyes

and go to sleep.

Sometimes, I'd actually

go into people's houses.

I didn't feel like I was

doing anything wrong.

l guess l really wanted to be

in someone else's life.

Do you remember

how Russell was doing?

Yeah, Russell was

working a lot.

At that point, I think

it might've helped him...

...with his grief.

Russell and I met

on a project in '98.

We worked together.

You've known each

other for years?

Yeah, a good few years.

Do you remember him

after Alice's death?

-What changed?

-It was work as normal.

It was troubling, I didn't

know what to say.

Did you notice a breakdown?

Not really. Everyone grieves

in their own way.

lt wasn't really my place

to tell him how to feel...

...but l certainly

was concerned.

I was really grateful

that I had my work.

l felt really guilty

about that at the time...

...but l just wanted

to get on with it.

One night in late February,

I came home from work...

...and I was sitting

in the kitchen.

I heard a noise coming

from Allie's room.

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