Mother of three Allison Baden-Clay was engaged to a strapping scuba diving instructor before she was pursued by Gerard Baden-Clay, the real estate agent she would eventually marry and who would later strangle her and dump her body in a creek near their family home. The new revelations about the murder that gripped Brisbane society are in a new book called The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay by The Courier Mail's crime and courts editor David Murray. Baden-Clay, who had a string of affairs throughout his marriage and who was jailed for life in July, two years after his wife's murder, wooed Allison. They eventually married and had three daughters.
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New book about murdered mother Allison Baden-Clay reveals detail's about her first fiance
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It has also revealed Gerard Baden-Clay expected to be arrested after he reported his wife missing in April 2012
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Gerard's family also sought help from a wealthy state MP following his arrest
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Gerard Baden-Clay was found guilty of murdering his wife, Allison, and dumping her body under a bridge
Almost immediately police treated her death as a murder and two months later in June 2012, charged the former @placeholder real estate agent.