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August 18, 1997, ABC newsreader Rod Young tells viewers snuff films have allegedly been produced in Brisbane, citing alleged existence of video tape shot on the bank of the Brisbane river in which a young male person is murdered .. Young claims someone alleges police are aware of the existence of this tape and alleges high level police and government corruption.

August 19, Young reiterates the allegation of the existence of the taped killing and of cover up Channel 10 News has picked up the story, Premier of the day Peter Beattie says on television there should be a Royal Commission.

August 25, Young introduces the story again, the station shows corrupt black and white footage clearly shot with a hand held black and white camera, of a heavyset dark haired man sitting on a ratty couch in a tatty room watching television.

Showing on the television is footage of a male person approximately twelve years old, accompanied by a heavyset man with dark closely cropped hair aged about mid to late twenties, who resembles the man watching the television set, a copper or a security man maybe.

Young says then a hand clutching a knife emerges from off camera and the young person is slain, in the background one can see the mangrove banks adjacent to Queensland University at St. Lucia, and across the river the high ground near the ferry terminal adjacent to Dutton Park cemetery.