Homicide detective recalls horrific scene at 147 Easey Street – and the day he spoke to alleged killer

Homicide detective Douglas Carroll was only two weeks into his new job when he came face-to-face with the accused Easey Street killer in 1977.

An aged Carroll gave evidence in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday about the day he took a statement – and a knife – from a then-teenage Perry Kouroumblis, who decades later is facing a preliminary hearing charged with the murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett.

Former homicide detective Douglas Carroll arrives at the court. Credit: Eddie Jim

Carroll told the court he first became involved in the case when he and other detectives were called to the Collingwood home on January 13, 1977, to respond to a possible double murder.

He said the horrific nature of the scene, two women with multiple stab wounds, meant it was a memory t