ANNA-JANE’S MYSTERY DEATH

When Henry Keogh arrived at his Adelaide home on the evening of March 18, 1994, “he was met with silence,” writes journalist Graham Archer in his book Unmaking a Murder. Noticing the bathroom light on, he “paused in the hall and pushed on the partially open door,” writes Archer. “There, slumped in the bath, was Anna-jane. When the paralysing shock of seeing his fiancée lying limp in the bath subsided, the first things that struck Henry were the bluish pallor of Anna-jane’s skin and her glassy eyes. He says he felt a mixture of confusion and panic ... He hugged her back to his chest and dragged her around as he backed towards the bedroom door, sliding it open with his foot. He said in his official statement, ‘I held Anna tightly to my chest. She did not make a sound or any movement at all.’ As she came out of the bath her legs slid across the lip of the bath and flopped onto the floor.”

The bathtub in which Cheney drowned. Bruises on Cheney’s legs were submitted as proof of murder. The couple’s Magill, Adelaide, home on the 1994 night of the death. Keogh had taken out five life insurance policies in his wife’s name.