Geoffrey Adams is facing a Supreme Court trial over the murder of his wife, Colleen, in 1973. Photo / Supplied
Geoffrey Adams is facing a Supreme Court trial over the murder of his wife, Colleen, in 1973. Photo / Supplied
Jurors have watched video of the moment Australian murder accused Geoffrey Adams finally revealed a secret he had been hiding for 45 years: he killed his wife.
Adams sat at the kitchen table of his Wallaroo home and told detectives he would "come clean" on the death of 24-year-old Colleenin November 1973.
"I just struck her a bit hard and that was it," he said.
"She fell to the floor and then she died."
Adams had previously told police his wife had post-natal depression and said "goodbye, you little bastards" to their two young daughters before she walked out on the family.
When asked what led him to lash out, Adams replied: "continuous having a go at me over nothing".
"Nice guys get caught up in this, they are pushed to the limit," he said.
"Some people just get on your nerves."
Adams told detectives he felt "pretty horrible" and he left his wife's body on the kitchen floor overnight before he dug a grave in their backyard and buried her the following morning.
He said police had come close to finding the body during a dig 15 years prior, but now was "just time" to talk about her death.
The remains of Colleen Adams were found in 2018 in the backyard of the couple's former home at Maitland. Photo / Supplied
"My two daughters, they always had a suspicion," he said.
Later in the video, which lasts more than two hours, Adams accompanied detectives to the house at Maitland, on the Yorke Peninsula, where the family was living when his wife disappeared.
He said "sorry" during his visit to the home, and appeared upset as he pointed out the location of his wife's body to police co-ordinating the dig.
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