How Baden-Clay girls helped police

A court has heard a woman's cry rang out in the Baden-Clays' Brisbane street the night Allison vanished.

The family of accused wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay has rallied around him on the first day of his trial.

THREE little girls facing a future without their mum helped police to unravel the final night they shared with her in video interviews played back to the jury yesterday.

Allison Baden-Clay's daughters, aged 10, eight and five, told police officers at the Surfers Paradise Police Station on June 27, 2012 all they remembered of their seemingly normal and happy childhood before April 20, 2012.

The eldest daughter told police the family brainstormed together to name the eight-seater Prado her father usually drove "Snowy" and silver Holden Captiva her mother often used, "Sparky".

When police searched Sparky after Ms Baden-Clay's disappearance, they photographed plastic containers filled with children's toys in the boot.

The photos were shown to the girls.

The eldest said the items were packed up to go to a charity and they had been stored downstairs near the garage door so someone could some and pick them up.

"They were put outside the garage door, just downstairs so that when she came to pick them up, she could," she said.

"I think they were just downstairs or something.'"

The girl said she did not remember the boxes being put into the back of Sparky.

She said the old toys and clothes were packed into the boxes after Easter.

The middle child said she had never seen the boxes in the back of Sparky before: "Only here."

The girls said they had never been very sick and did not need to take medication for serious illness, although their father had a shellfish allergy.

The eldest daughter said her mum would walk every morning, unless she had to be at work early, and would usually take her phone.

She said her mother always wore jumpers because she got cold easily, often wore grey tracksuit pants and white runners.

The middle daughter said her mum would usually wear a blue or pink singlet and black leggings when she walked, but later added ``sometimes she wears just her t-shirt and pants".

The 10-year-old said her mum usually wore relaxed pyjama pants and a top when she went to bed, while her dad wore an old top and boxer shorts.

She said her father was worried on the day her mum disappeared but was "trying to be confident".

She said her grandfather, who she called "Bwana" , came around to look after the three of them that morning, before they went to school.

Meanwhile, Gerard and Allison Baden-Clay's three daughters were asleep in the house the night their mum disappeared and didn't hear a sound.

In interviews conducted by detectives from Indooroopilly's Child Protection Investigation Unit, the girls, then aged 10, eight and five, told how their mum and dad had put them to bed around 7pm.

All three said they'd slept soundly until waking at 6.30am the following morning.

DAY 3: How the trial unfolded

ALLISON'S PAIN: Father-in-law tells

Neighbours have described hearing shouts, thuds and squealing tyres late at night.

"Can you remember hearing anything that night?'' a detective asked the eldest daughter in an interview conducted in June.

"No,'' she replied.

She said she hadn't heard any car noises.

The girl told the detective she last saw her dad going to the downstairs fridge to get milk.

She said she had gotten up to get a glass of water and her mum was lying on the couch watching television.

The middle child told a similar story.

Asked to think back to the night her mum went missing, the girl said she heard a TV on when she went to bed.

"Just voices,'' she said.

She thought her mum and dad were watching TV "because they usually do''.

She said she hadn't heard any sounds of cars starting or car doors opening or any fighting.

The girl said she didn't know if her dad and mum had ever argued.

A court has heard Gerard Baden-Clay's father was about to leave his son's Brookfield house with a vacuum cleaner when police stopped him on the morning Allison vanished.

Nigel Baden-Clay yesterday told court of asking his son if there was anything he could do to help while he was busy talking to police about his missing wife.

His son, who was then a real estate agent, said a friend's house was on the market and he'd promised to vacuum the floors and water the lawns.

"It was Friday and traditionally on Saturday real estate gets very busy with open houses,'' Mr Baden-Clay said.

"He said `the vacuum is in the car and so is a hose pipe, so if you'd like to just go and get them out of my Prado, if you could go and do that it would be a great help'.

"I took the vacuum cleaner and the hose pipe and put them in the boot of my car.

"I was about to leave and go and do these little jobs and the police Constable asked me to stay where I was and not to take the car.''

Mr Baden-Clay, who said left the house at about 9am, was questioned by prosecutor Todd Fuller QC about whether he saw Allison's parents Priscilla and Geoff Dickie that morning.

"I don't recall seeing them at the house,'' he said.

Asked if he'd talked to his son about contacting Allison's parents that morning, he said: ``I don't recall. I'm sorry.''

He told court he helped his son open a real estate business a decade ago, but since retiring in 2009 he merely helped put up signs on open houses. He was unaware his son's business was in trouble.

Meanwhile, neighbours have told of hearing screams or the sound of a woman calling out in the darkness at Brookfield on the night Allison Baden-Clay disappeared.

On day three of Gerard Baden-Clay's murder trial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, a jury heard evidence from seven witnesses who claimed they were woken or startled by strange noises on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

The former Brookfield real estate agent, 43, has pleaded not guilty to his wife's murder.

Neighbour Kim Tzvetkoff, who lived opposite the Baden-Clay home on the corner of Boscombe Rd, said he was in the kitchen with his wife Julie when he heard a "startled, cut-short exclamation" between 7.30pm and 9pm.

"It didn't last very long at all, it was an abrupt, cut-short type of thing," he said.

"I believe it was a female voice and, like I say, startled, I can't really put it into any better words.''

He said he said to his wife: "What was that?"

"We stood for a second or two and then we continued what we were doing," he said.

Mrs Tzvetkoff said the noise was a "sharp or urgent yell out" that lasted a few seconds. "I believe it came from the area of the Badens' house," she said.

Sue Braun, who lived near the tennis courts on Brookfield Rd, said she was woken by "a loud human noise" calling out from the direction of the Baden-Clay residence at 11.30pm.

"I was sound asleep and I heard a loud human noise that was calling out, I don't know what the words were," she said.

"It woke me up with a fright and I just lay there to see if I could hear anything else and if it would continue and it didn't, and I fell back to sleep."

What the neighbours heard on the night Allison Baden-Clay went missing. Source: CourierMail

Another Brookfield resident, Anne Marie Rhodes, said she heard an argument followed by a woman's scream at 10pm. Roughly 30 minutes later she said she heard a "loud, dull thud" and screeching tyres. Ms Rhodes said the fighting came from the direction of Brookfield Rd, near the day care centre. "I just heard an argument, I couldn't make out what was being said," she said. The thud she heard later sounded like "a sack of horse feed falling on to concrete" and the screeching tyres made her think a car had run off the road, she said.

In cross-examination by barrister Michael Byrne QC, for Baden-Clay, she agreed she gave two statements to police, one on May 30 and the second on June 2, 2012. She agreed she did not go to police to tell them what she had heard until she could check the date with her husband.

Fiona White, who lived at Kenmore Hills, said she heard a woman scream twice as she put her dog outside before bed sometime in April. "It was like … someone falling off a cliff, a push, high-pitched, it happened twice,'' she said.

She agreed in cross-examination she reported the scream to police on May 15, 2012, adding that it had "tormented" her.

Another local, David Jenkinson, told the jury his barking dogs woke him around 10.30pm on April 19, 2012.

"After that, the noise that I heard was initially two heavy thuds, one straight after the other," he said. "Not too long after that, maybe half a minute, I heard what sounded like a car door close."

What witnesses heard to the east of the Baden-Clay residence. Source: CourierMail

Daughters didn't hear anything

GERARD and Allison Baden-Clay's three daughters were asleep in the house the night their mum disappeared and didn't hear a sound.

In interviews conducted by detectives from Indooroopilly's Child Protection Investigation Unit, the girls, then aged 10, 8 and 5, told how their mum and dad had put them to bed around 7pm.

All three said they'd slept soundly until waking at 6.30am the next day.

Neighbours have told of hearing shouts, thuds and squealing tyres late at night.

"Can you remember hearing anything that night?'' a detective asked the eldest daughter in an interview conducted in June 2012.

"No,'' she replied.

She said she hadn't heard any car noises.

The girl told the detective she last saw her dad going to the downstairs fridge for milk.

She said she had gotten up to get a glass of water and her mum was lying on the couch watching television.

The middle child told a similar story. Asked to think back to that night, the girl said she heard a TV on when she went to bed. "Just voices,'' she said.

She thought her parents were watching TV "because they usually do''.

She said she hadn't heard cars starting or car doors opening or any fighting. The girl said she didn't know if her parents had ever argued.

What witnesses heard in the vicinity where Allison Baden-Clay's body was found. Source: CourierMail

'Mum always took her phone'

THREE little girls facing a ­future without their mum helped police to unravel the final night they shared with her in video interviews played back to the jury yesterday.

Allison Baden-Clay's daughters, aged 10, 8 and 5, told police officers at the Surfers Paradise Police Station on June 27, 2012 all they remembered of their seemingly normal and happy childhood before April 20, 2012.

The eldest daughter told police the family had brainstormed together to name the eight-seater Prado her father usually drove "Snowy" and silver Holden Captiva her mother often used, "Sparky".

When police searched Sparky after Ms Baden-Clay's disappearance, they photographed plastic containers filled with children's toys in the boot.

The eldest said the items were all packed up to go to a charity and they had been stored downstairs, near the garage door, so someone could come and pick them up in the future.

The eldest daughter said her mum would walk every morning, unless she had to be at work early, and would usually take her phone.

She said her mother always wore jumpers because she got cold easily, and often wore grey tracksuit pants.

The 10-year-old said her father was worried on the day her mum disappeared but was "trying to be confident".

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