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David John Birnie (16 February 1951 – 7 October 2005) and Catherine Margaret Birnie (born 23 May 1951) were an Australian couple from Perth Australia. They murdered four women ranging in age from 15 to 31 in their home in the 1980s and attempted to murder a fifth. These crimes were referred to in the press as the Moorhouse murders after the Birnies’ address at 3 Moorhouse Street in Willagee a suburb of Perth Western Australia.