Moxley offered to take MacKay and others to the places where he held up Dorothy Denzel and Frank Wilkinson, to point out where the vehicles were situated and to show them the house at Moorebank where he allegedly left them unharmed. Moxley thought this would help him. He said that it had been raining on the night of 5 April and that the girl's footprints would show in the soft ground. He was hoping ‘to get something there that will prove I am telling the truth’. This was a bizarre offer. Three weeks had passed and it was unlikely that any footprints could be seen. Even if they were, it would scarcely carry much weight against the other evidence the police had accumulated, at least some of which Moxley must have known about from the newspapers. According to the police his manner was calm, but his statement and behaviour suggest that he was not thinking very clearly. MacKay agreed to the plan. In the company of Detective Sergeant Hill and Detective Constable Newton, whose involvement was evidently a partial reward for his role in capturing Moxley, they set out in a squad car followed by another car with three more detectives.
