Jane Louise RIMMER

Some time between 8.00 pm and 8:30 pm on Saturday the 8th of June, 1996, Jane Rimmer attended the Ocean Beach Hotel in Cottesloe. This is the same hotel that Sarah Spiers was drinking in on the night she disappeared.

At that location, Jane met up with some friends. They stayed there for about an hour , before Jane and her friends caught a taxi to the Continental Hotel in Claremont arriving at about 9:30 pm.

Jane and her friends stayed at the Continental Hotel until they left just after 11:30 pm, to go to Club Bay View. This is the same nightclub that Sarah Spiers was socialising at shortly before she went missing.

Jane and her friends didn’t enter the nightclub, instead they decided to catch a cab to a friend’s place where they would continue to party. As they got to the taxi rank near the Continental Hotel, Jane informed her friends that she didn’t want to go home and without any more explanation, she walked off back to the Continental.

Her friends jumped in a cab and pulled up outside the Continental and yelled over to Jane who was standing outside to join them but she declined.

At about midnight, Jane is sighted on security camera footage outside the Continental.

At about a minute past midnight, a male person is seen to approach Jane and there is a brief interaction between the two before the security camera recording changes views to another part of the hotel.

When the recording returns to Jane, about 28 seconds later, this man is no longer in view.

This person has been named the ‘mystery man’. Despite extensive inquiries police have been unable to identify this person. Approximately 700 people were shown the footage or still photographs of the male.

Jane remained outside the Continental Hotel for another 2½ minutes.

At about 4 minutes past midnight , the security footage changes view and when it returns to where Jane was standing she is no longer in view.

Police have several possible sightings of Jane in the immediate vicinity but nothing is confirmed.

55 days later on the 3rd of August ,1996, Jane’s body was discovered in Wellard, about 40 kilometres south of the Perth CBD.

If you are the ‘Mystery Man’ or if you know the identity of the ‘Mystery Man’, Please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, where all calls are striclty confidential and rewards are offered.