Michael Guider’s first police interview reveals bizarre claims

Serial paedophile Michael Guider made a mockery of schoolgirl Samantha Knight’s disappearance when they first interviewed him in jail in 1996. The interview was released in a bid to keep him locked up before his sentence runs out on Thursday.

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Child killer Michael Guider made a mockery of the disappearance of schoolgirl Samantha Knight, blaming it on UFOs, witches, white slavery or time warps.

“I believe that it’s possible that there are aliens here and they are kidnapping our young and other people,” the serial paedophile told homicide detectives when they first interviewed him about Samantha Knight in jail in 1996.

The interview was released last week as part of the State of NSW's bid to keep Guider, 68, locked up when his sentence runs out on Thursday.

Justice Richard Button will rule in the Supreme Court on Tuesday whether to place him on an interim detention order to keep him jailed pending a full hearing in August about whether he should be held on a Continuing Detention Order.

Otherwise he will be released under strict supervision.

Michael Guider claimed UFOs, witches, white slavery or time warps were to blame for a schoolgirl’s disappearance.

Samantha Knight’s body has never been found.

The police interview details Guider’s fixation with other missing children like the three Beaumonts, who vanished in Adelaide in 1966, and Renee Aitken, 5, taken from her bedroom in Narooma in 1984. It also reveals he kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about nine-year-old Samantha’s disappearance from Bondi in 1986.

Guider, 68, was once considered a person of interest in the abduction of Renee Aitken.

He was working in Canberra, two hours’ drive from Narooma, at the time she disappeared. Like Samantha Knight, Renee’s body has never been found.

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Guider was serving a sentence for 68 sex crimes against 14 girls and boys when he was first questioned about Samantha Knight in 1996.

Before he finally admitted to her manslaughter in 2002, claiming she had accidentally overdosed after he drugged her to sexually assault and photograph her, Guider also raised the possibility she had been the victim of witchcraft or Satanists who would “difficult to prosecute”.

The Supreme Court will decide whether to place him on an interim detention order to keep him jailed pending a full hearing in August.

He said he made notes from TV reports about missing children.

“I think I would look at white slavery, I believe that exists. I believe that kids can be taken out of the country and shipped overseas quite easily,” Guider said.

“Witchcraft, Satanists do exist but (they are) extremely hard to find to prosecute.

“Now I believe they do exist but I’ve never seen them but aliens as in worldwide abductions, a distinct possibility, a UFO, a US Government conspiracy, mystery, other dimensions, time warp, accidental death.”

He also said Samantha may have just vanished into thin air.