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Was Amber Haigh murdered? More than 20 years on, a judgment will be delivered

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The nine-week trial of Robert and Anne Geeves, accused of killing teenager Amber Haigh in 2002, comes to an end on Monday

The enduring mystery of the disappearance of Amber Haigh faces a key reckoning Monday morning, with judgment in a trial for her murder.

Haigh, who had an intellectual disability, vanished without trace from the New South Wales Riverina in June 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.

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Murder-accused couple spoke about Amber Haigh in the past tense to police, prosecutors allege

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Crown alleges in closing statement Robert and Anne Geeves acted like teen was already dead when she was still considered missing

As police were still searching for missing teenager Amber Haigh, Robert and Anne Geeves were speaking about her in the past tense in police interviews because they knew she was already dead, prosecutors have argued before the New South Wales supreme court.

In closing submissions to the nine-week trial over Haigh’s alleged murder, the crown prosecutor Paul Kerr argued Justice Julia Lonergan “would be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Amber Haigh is dead and that she is dead because Robert and Anne Geeves – in the execution of a joint criminal enterprise – murdered her”.

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When Amber Haigh vanished, police planted listening devices in home of murder accused. This is what they heard

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Robert and Anne Geeves recorded discussing how investigating police ‘can’t find nothing’

Listening devices planted in the home of a New South Wales couple accused of murder reveal the pair discussing allegations the husband tied up and raped a teenaged Amber Haigh while his wife filmed. They make no admissions on the clandestine recordings but say, “there’s not enough evidence to back it up”.

Haigh, who had an intellectual disability, was 19 when she vanished from the NSW Riverina in June 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.

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Police allege couple murdered Amber Haigh and used pigs to dispose of body, court hears

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Robert Geeves, who has pleaded not guilty, was accused of calling eight neighbours in just 90 minutes seeking permission to access their land, murder trial hears

Police accused Robert and Anne Geeves of murdering teenager Amber Haigh to take her baby and then disposing of her body by feeding it to pigs, the New South Wales supreme court has heard.

The seventh week of the Geeves murder trial heard extraordinary evidence about the arrest of Robert and Anne Geeves in May of 2022, two decades after Haigh disappeared without a trace.

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Amber Haigh’s crying baby was cuddled and consoled by Anne Geeves during police interview, court hears

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When detectives asked Anne Geeves, who has pleaded not guilty to her murder, if she had caused harm to missing teenage mother, she swore ‘on the baby’s grave’ she’d done nothing wrong

Within days of Amber Haigh going missing, police told Robert and Anne Geeves they were suspects, interrogating the couple in individual recorded interviews on the teenager’s last known movements.

Haigh was 19 when she vanished from the New South Wales Riverina in June 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.

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Couple accused of murdering Amber Haigh gave differing accounts of final car journey with her, court hears

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Robert and Anne Geeves gave inconsistent details to police about their alleged last trip with the 19-year-old

The married couple on trial for murdering Amber Haigh initially gave police investigators differing versions of their alleged final car journey with the teenager.

Haigh was 19 when she vanished without trace from the New South Wales Riverina in June 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.

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Amber Haigh murder trial: CCTV with potential vital clues lost forever, court hears

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Robert Geeves, who is accused of teenage mother’s murder, waited 14 days to report her missing, court hears

Any CCTV footage that might have captured Amber Haigh’s last movements was lost because it was a fortnight before she was reported missing, and days later before any vision was requested by police, the NSW supreme court has heard.

Prosecutors also argued in court that the vanished teenager was not reported missing by the father of her baby – the man now accused of her murder – until others raised concerns she had not been seen.

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Amber Haigh said she was tied up by Robert Geeves and questioned about other relationships during sex, murder trial told

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Paul Harding tells court Haigh had recalled to him having her hands tied ‘together at the wrist’

Amber Haigh said she was tied up by the man accused of her murder and questioned by him during sex, after he claimed to have video of her having sex with her third cousin, a court has heard.

Haigh was a 19-year-old mother when she vanished from the New South Wales Riverina in June 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.

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‘Incident of extreme violence’ on Geeves property made child protection workers worried for Amber Haigh and her son, court hears

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Police files document that a former partner was found to have died from a gunshot wound on his property, court has heard

Child protection workers were worried about Amber Haigh and her newborn son because of an earlier “incident of extreme violence” that occurred at the home of the baby’s father when a woman was found tied up in a wheelbarrow with a bag on her head and dead from a gunshot wound, the New South Wales supreme court has heard.

Robert Geeves, who the court has heard fathered Amber Haigh’s child, is on trial for Haigh’s murder, alongside his wife, Anne Geeves.

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Amber Haigh showed cousin bruises on wrists she said were from being tied up by Robert Geeves, court hears

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Jackie Winn tells court she warned Haigh to stay away from Robert because of alleged previous incidents at his property

Amber Haigh told her cousin bruises across her wrists were injuries caused by being tied up by the father of her baby, the man now accused of her murder, a court has heard.

Haigh’s cousin testified she warned her “naive” relative to stay away from the man, Robert Geeves, because of his previous alleged incidents at his property. In one she said that she had heard, two girls were “kidnapped”, tied up and put in a silo. In another, a woman was allegedly fatally shot in the face.

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Amber Haigh forced to change locks on flat after alleged killer broke in, court told

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Counsellor tells court she took file notes that Haigh expressed concerns for her own safety and the future safety of her baby

Disappeared teenager Amber Haigh feared losing her baby to the man now accused of her murder, and was forced to change the locks on her apartment when he broke in to steal the infant’s cot, a court has heard.

Haigh was a 19-year-old mother when she vanished from the New South Wales Riverina in July 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.

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Missing teen Amber Haigh was ‘removed from the equation’ after giving birth, court told

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Husband and wife plead not guilty before prosecution lays out case in NSW murder trial after 2002 disappearance

A couple from country New South Wales used the intellectually disabled teenager Amber Michelle Haigh as a “surrogate mother” so they could have another baby, before they killed her, a court has heard.

Robert and Anne Geeves, now of Harden, face one count each of murder over the suspected killing of Haigh, who disappeared without trace in June of 2002. On the opening day of the trial, the court heard how the couple had deliberately tried to “plant the seed” Haigh was suicidal, and they had set out to have her “removed from the equation”.

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