 Lees reveals she has tracked down her Australian sister, Jess, and is planning to become an Australian citizen 
 
 Joanne Lees, the girlfriend of the murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio, has returned to the Northern Territory outback for the first time in 15 years to join in attempts to find his body. Murdoch was found guilty in 2005 based on DNA evidence and the testimony of Ms Lees, who said he had flagged down the pair on a remote highway in the Northern Territory and then shot Mr Falconio and attempted to kidnap her. His spirit just feels stronger whilst I’m in this area because I know he’s nearby.” 
 
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 When asked by the reporter, Liz Hayes, if she was “stepping inside your attacker’s mind”, she said: “I guess it is a very alien thing for me to do because I’m not a violent person.
– It was crime that shocked Australia: A British man shot dead in the wild outback of the Northern Territories by a man who then abducted his girlfriend. She managed to escape and hide in the scrub for hours as the killer stalked her with a dog. Now, 15 years later, Joanne Lees is back in the "untamed heart of Australia" to look for Peter Falconio's body, trailed by an Aussie TV crew. "I need to bring him home," she tells Network 9's 60 Minutes. "Pete lost his life on that night, but I lost mine, too." Bradley Murdoch, the man convicted in 2005 of killing Falconio, 28, has never revealed what he did with Falconio's body, the Guardian reports. The vacationing couple was driving on an isolated highway at night in July 2001 when Murdoch flagged down their camper van. He shot Falconio in the head, and beat Lees, then 27, and tied her up. When Murdoch left her to check Falconio, Lees bolted. She was found on the highway with her hands bound. Her calm demeanor during questioning initially led police to consider her a suspect, per the Telegraph. Flying over the remote scene in a helicopter, Lees, now 43, tells 60 Minutes, "I know that he’s somewhere here. His spirit just feels stronger." Members of the local Aboriginal community are helping scour the bleak landscape for the body and have donated artwork to help Lees pay for a memorial. She is planning to dedicate a silver falcon sculpture to Falconio's memory. (The killer of the ex-wife of a Righteous Brothers member was identified after 41 years.)