Fresh appeal to find body of British backpacker murdered in Australia 20 years ago Peter Falconio, 28, was killed by Bradley Murdoch on a remote stretch of highway about 200 miles north of Alice Springs in 2001 Joanne Lees and her boyfriend Peter Falconio were travelling around Australia Credit: Shutterstock Police have appealed for information to locate the body of a British backpacker murdered in Australia on the 20th anniversary of his disappearance. Bradley Murdoch was convicted in 2005 of murdering Peter Falconio, 28, and assaulting his girlfriend Joanne Lees at gunpoint on a remote stretch of highway near Barrow Creek, about 200 miles north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, on July 14 2001.