Stanley Braddy, 82, has not been charged with an offence but police believe he could be involved in or responsible for the four-decades-old mystery disappearance of his 16-year-old daughter, Maureen Braddy, and her boyfriend, Allan Whyte.
The teen sweethearts were last seen heading off to a Bendigo YMCA dance in November 1968.
For decades they were wrongly treated as young runaways.
Mr Braddy gave evidence for the first time today at a coronial inquest into the disappearance of the teens after it was alleged he was involved in their murder and disposal of their bodies.
Mr Braddy, who has been interviewed twice by police in the past 12 months, said he believed the teens had been abducted from a pub and used as slaves as part of a government conspiracy.
He claimed they were still living in the area, and had children, after the "slavery trade arrangement''.
He said his son Stanley Jr, now deceased, saw Maureen at a Nagambie caravan park in the years after her disappearance.
The court heard his son never mentioned this in his statement to police.
Mr Braddy said the couple lived in Nagambie with their two children and were being paid by the government.
He told police in 2012 that he received a call a few weeks after Maureen disappeared from now deceased former police officer Frank Baker telling him, "Don't worry, she's in good hands".
He didn't ask any further questions because "it was too far down the track" and because she was quite happy with her abduction, he said.
Mandy Fox, counsel for two of Maureen's sisters, suggested he had nominated two deceased police officers as the source of his information because his story could not be checked.
"Mr Braddy, you've made the whole thing up - it's a ridiculous story," Ms Fox said.
"I'm sorry, it's real," Mr Braddy said.
She asked whether he was aware he was the prime suspect in the murder or disappearance of the young couple.
"Prove it," Mr Braddy said.
"I have nothing to hide."
Mr Braddy, a pensioner, has always been opposed to any official inquiry.
Three of his daughters told the court they believe he was responsible for their sister's death.
Lyn Ireland, aged eight at the time, said she was woken by a commotion outside her bedroom window the night Maureen went missing.
She later saw her dad and another man carrying a young person ``covered with blood''.
She said she believed her sister's body had been buried in a well at the family's Bendigo home while Allan's may have been in an abandoned mine shaft.
Another sister, Suzanne Braddy, told the court she had seen her dad acting ``highly suspicious'' around the family well the day after the teens went missing.
The court heard she came home from work early the Monday after the disappearance and saw her dad near the well with two rolls of carpet.
Mr Braddy said he did not recall this and had trouble even remembering what he ate for breakfast.
The well, which was covered by a building in the 1970s, has never been searched.
Other witnesses have told the court they heard arguing and ``loud bangs'' the night the pair went missing.
Investigating officer Allan Birch previously told the court he believed Mr Braddy was ``involved in, or responsible for, the unlawful killing of Allan and Maureen''.
``Mr Braddy gives accounts that are wholly incredible,'' he said.
``Mr Braddy has not been co-operative (with police) to the fullest extent as a father would be expected to,'' he added.
heraldsun.com.au 20 Mar 2013
Many cases of abduction in an era synonymous with the 'Stolen Generation' were perpetuated by government or other 'authorities'.
Some children were condemned to medical procedures (read experiments) and their parents framed by government and corrupt police.
Anyone who would come out and claim otherwise would not just be labelled as a 'conspiracy theorist' but also dealt with in the appropriate manner.
Child abuse in the hands of government organisations has been occurring for decades, and confirmed cases have been reported from both the victims and workers (anonymously) in the departments concerned.
Government coverups concerning child abuse are very sophisticated.
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