A FORMER Queensland police officer has told a cold-case inquest he heard "blood-curdling screams" that could have come from two nurses who were murdered near Toowoomba nearly 40 years ago.
Ian Hamilton told the inquest he and his partner were called to the site of a youth camp near Murphys Creek near the foot of the Toowoomba range one night in October 1974.
Caretakers had been disturbed by screams.
He said he also heard the screams of two women over about 40 minutes that night.
The incident came a month after Sydney nurses Wendy Evans, 18, and Lorraine Wilson, 20, went missing while holidaying in Queensland.
Their bodies were found two years later about four or five kilometres from the youth camp.
"(It's) probably the only time in the service I've ever experienced the hairs stand up on the back of my neck," Mr Hamilton told the court.
"They were just the most blood-curdling horrendous screams I've ever heard in my life.
"It was obvious that they were in desperate trouble."
He recalled the screams growing fainter before they died out.
The retired officer spoke of being annoyed and upset about not being able to pinpoint where the screams were coming from because it was a windy night.
Mr Hamilton said police only made a link between the screams and the Sydney nurses when their bodies were found in 1976.
Earlier a former police investigator said he would have arrested one of the persons of interest in the case if he was alive today.
Former senior sergeant Graham Ruge said Wayne Hilton, who died in a car crash in 1986, was one of a group of men who had been named as persons of interest.
"If he had have been alive I would definitely have had sufficient evidence that I would have arrested him for the murders," he told the court.
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