Speaking exclusively in April issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly, Denise tells of how she begged Bruce for a divorce, but, thankfully, he refused to grant her one.
“I knew it wasn’t Denise talking,” Bruce says. “And truly, I’m not the kind of person that can just walk away.
“You get married – you stand there, you say, for better or worse. That’s what you said, that’s what you agreed to. That’s a verbal contract as far as I’m concerned.
“You don’t say, okay, I’m leaving. It might be easier to leave, but I don’t have that make-up.
“I was going to hold the family together. We had two others sons. Whoever did this, I didn’t want him to destroy the rest of my family. And he didn’t.”
Denise also speaks of the nightmares she has endured almost nightly in the decade since Daniel went missing.
She says she was somewhat naively hoping they would stop once Cowan was convicted, but they haven’t yet.
“Maybe because of what we had to hear in court – all the evidence of him chopping up Daniel’s skull and the wild animals dragging him around – it’s probably a
bit much to think it would just stop. It was still bad.
“But I’m hoping in the next few months they might stop. I hope so, anyway.”
As for closure, Denise says, “We don’t use that word. There will never be closure because Daniel’s still gone. But with the funeral and now the trial, I do feel that maybe we can start to move on.”
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