Kill accused had Karlie bank card
ACCUSED killer Daniel Holdom was found in possession of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson’s bank card more than four years after he allegedly murdered her in Belanglo State Forest.
The revelation came as police spent four hours questioning the 41-year-old’s former girlfriend, wheelchair-bound Hazel Passmore, 33.
It is understood detectives are investigating whether Ms Passmore was the woman in a wheelchair who allegedly impersonated Ms Pearce-Stevenson at an Adelaide bank after her death.
Ms Passmore lost a leg and two of her children died when a car driven by Holdom crashed in northern SA in 2008.
She went to a police station in Adelaide yesterday, with her lawyer, current partner and a child but left without being charged.
A day after Holdom fronted Maitland Court charged with Ms Pearce-Stevenson’s murder, it emerged police questioned him while on patrol in Narara, on the NSW Central Coast, on January 31, 2013, and allegedly found the dead mother’s bank card in his wallet.
Court documents claim police came across Holdom, 41, stopped on the side of Mangrove Rd with property piled in the vehicle.
Holdom told police he was “just broken down” but according to the documents, they questioned him further when he became “very nervous and his hands were shaky”.
When they opened his wallet, they found the bank card belonging to Ms Pearce-Stevenson, who had been reported missing with her daughter several years earlier. Her remains were found by motorcycle riders in the Belanglo State Forest in 2010.
The remains of her daughter Khandalyce were found in a suitcase by the side of a South Australian highway earlier this year.
The report was withdrawn by her family after someone posing as Karlie contacted them to say she was alive.
“He advised police that she was an ex-girlfriend. Police allege that the accused is using this keycard as another form of identification,” court documents read. “The owner resides in another state, and so police destroyed the card.”
Holdom was unemployed at the time and told police he had moved to the Central Coast a few days earlier, spending a few nights at a motel to gain an address for Centrelink benefits.
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