your hands up on your head on the 26th of September 2019 in tweet heads detectives from the homicide Squad went to the local bus station after receiving information that a person of interest or POI was on a bus Bound for syney the male person was identified as Kevin James pedit 38 years old the self-proclaimed Hand of Death and his gruesome murder that shocked the nation with chilling aspirations of becoming a serial killer Pediped driven by his morbid desires saw the homeless as easy prey in his Sinister game when describing why he would Target the homeless he said less dead less alive almost and that he wanted to be Australia's most prolific serial killer on the 21st of November 2019 5 days prior to the arrest Andrew White Murray a 56-year-old man fell victim to ped's merciless onslaught while he slept at Jack Evans Boat Harbor he was bludgeon to death with a rock the detectives took Pediped into custody because he had an outstanding matter in Victoria for assault recording on all right Sergeant Woods just about B A Premier T Victor 9371 to affect the rest passenger Kevin ped put your hands up on your head us to take your sh of M Woods put your hands up on your head put your hands up on your head my arm is DET take the of M Woods I'm a member of the new police force do you understand that mhm all right the time is now 4:15 p.m. mhm eastern Daylight Saving Time M okay I'm arresting You by virtue of an interstate warrant okay for assault in the state of Victoria understand that fair enough what the purpose is what will happen now is you'll be taken back to tweet head's police station booked into custody fair enough you understand that just stand up for me no Dr keep your hands up on your head y turn around and face me put your hands behind your back you're going to be handcuffed behind your back MH okay are you here with anybody else Kevin just say name my name I've got a body camera on the moment it's recording video and audio do you understand that you don't have to say anything or do anything if you don't want to good all right what's is there anything in here that may hurt me no syringes or anything like that no why the hell would there be oh know I'm just asking that's all take will I sight that property just yep go backwards sorry guys we be back on the road in a second yeah all that property up the back and the cans everything I don't know Kevin Kevin did you have any L underneath no sir right you haven't got any injuries or illnesses or anything I've never met you before in my life that's all now CH police custody we got a Dy care to you it's all good okay all right thank you do you know about the m Victoria oh probably punching on why do you say that well you know back in my early days I like to get into a bit of uh fisty cuups okay you didn't didn't mind a few punch on here and there yeah okay supposed to go to court didn't go to court okay so were you aware of the warrant oh hell yeah okay no drums where were you headed then just now obviously may I was going to Sydney but for what my when say what do you mean drunk as okay and were they your drinks on the bus are you feeling okay yeah I'm sweet man all right how many drinks did you have oh well I had a few in surface Paradise probably what probably probably two two jugs of beer and then grabbed uh six pack and then jumped on is that today yeah so how do you feel now SC I'm a bit I'm a b okay okay so what we'll do we won't speak to you about things okay we'll take you back to cing in Finish to you and put you in what we call them timeout do a refreshment break or a move or something I'll range any of that okay yeah no dramas Man Okay Kevin James pedford was charged with murder and wounding with intent to murder which he was charged with after slashing the throat of an inmate during his custody in cord pet pleaded not guilty and the trial was conducted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales his defense claimed that he had a mental health impairment a jury rejected this claim making him criminally responsible for the incident Justice ham Dani handed down a sentence of 39 years comprising a non-parole period of 26 years he will be eligible for release on the 25th of November 2045 [Music] [Music] [Music]