One of Tuno’s distinguishing features was the number of witnesses the detectives eventually persuaded to give evidence, despite the danger this created for them and those near them. In each case the motive was different. For one person, as we’ve seen, it was redemption. For another, it was fear. Before arresting Anthony Perish in September 2006, police had discovered he was in frequent contact with two men nicknamed Larabee and Redmond. They had no luck identifying Redmond, but did discover that Larabee (named after an agent in Get Smart) was David Taylor, former boyfriend of Colleen Perish. Photos they obtained of Taylor showed a clean-cut man who resembled the witnesses’ descriptions of one of those who’d abducted Terry Falconer. Naturally this interested Tuno a lot. The detectives knew from the descriptions that neither Anthony nor Andrew had been among the kidnappers, but until now they’d had no idea who any of the three were. In fact, they’d wondered if the men had been brought in from interstate to do the job.
