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Murdering His Brother at the Behest of his Ku Klux Klan Teacher _ Murder of Robert Rowlingson(M4A_128K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: Tonight on Inside Story, Dark secrets, strange rituals inciting hatred
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  Speaker 1: and fear.
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  Speaker 2: For God's sake, was a bloody murder.
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  Speaker 1: Two shocking murders. A teenager executed by his own brother.
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  Speaker 3: The wife and I walked around for weekden days, don't
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  Speaker 3: know where we were what we were doing.
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  Speaker 1: A young mother fatally trapped in a web of black
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  Speaker 1: magic and sex.
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  Speaker 4: Just get on top of Melissa throat.
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  Speaker 1: And in the shadows, the manipulators pulling the strings.
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  Speaker 5: The schoolteacher was a member of the notorious Ku Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 6: It's a little bit scary that something like that can
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  Speaker 6: be on your back door step.
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  Speaker 7: Add some shock.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Leila McKinnon. Welcome to Inside Story. You have
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  Speaker 1: to ask how could it happen here? A respected school
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  Speaker 1: teacher by day, high priest of the Ku Klux Klan
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  Speaker 1: by night. His malign influence would cause havoc and utterly
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  Speaker 1: destroy an Australian family.
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  Speaker 7: Then the self styled.
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  Speaker 1: Guru who ruled in his own little world of demons,
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  Speaker 1: supernatural sex, and ultimately murder. Two twisted men with very
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  Speaker 1: dangerous ideas, as Deborah Knight discovered firsthand.
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  Speaker 5: Leila, it's very twisted indeed, and the consequences of what
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  Speaker 5: these men do. It's just so tragic. Two innocent lives lost,
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  Speaker 5: a single mum and a teenage boy. It's shocking what
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  Speaker 5: these evil men get up to. A real eye.
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  Speaker 8: Opener, it sure is.
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  Speaker 1: As we'll see, while things appeared seemingly normal, what was
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  Speaker 1: going on behind closed doors was anything but normal.
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  Speaker 5: It's late afternoon on a crisp winter's day in Queensland's
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  Speaker 5: Darling Downs. Robert Rollingston is tinkering on his car, oblivious
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  Speaker 5: to his impending doom. It's over instantly a shot to
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  Speaker 5: the back of the head from a high powered rifle.
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  Speaker 5: Roberts deared before he hits the ground, but his killer
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  Speaker 5: is taking no chances.
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  Speaker 2: And the poor lad was lying on the ground and
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  Speaker 2: he shot him again in the head. That's smart and
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  Speaker 2: Bryant stuff.
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  Speaker 9: It was an execution, not a shooting. It was an execution.
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  Speaker 1: Late last night police made the grizzly discovery, a nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Pittsworth man's body dumped in a culvert near Clifton.
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  Speaker 5: What rocked the Rollingstons family to its core was the
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  Speaker 5: identity of the killer. It was Robert's sixteen year old brother, Anthony.
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  Speaker 8: You just couldn't believe it, and your heart must have been.
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  Speaker 3: I think the wife and I walked around for for
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  Speaker 3: week ten days, dumbfounder.
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  Speaker 9: I didn't know where we were, what we were doing.
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  Speaker 5: It was the ultimate betrayal. But as we'll discover tonight,
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  Speaker 5: the mind of the young, impressionable Anthony Rollingson had been
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  Speaker 5: poisoned by the violent hatefield preachings of the ku Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 2: The kek k is a despicable quasi terrorist group of
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  Speaker 2: idiots who've got a history of violence, and certainly with
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  Speaker 2: a young, inexperienced mind to be filled have it filled
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  Speaker 2: with violence and that sort of rubbish. Obviously, it's got
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  Speaker 2: to influence anybody.
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  Speaker 8: We're actually just wanting to give him an opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: But when we go searching for answers to what finally
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  Speaker 5: made him snap, not everybody is.
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  Speaker 7: Happy to talk.
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  Speaker 5: In the suburbs of Sydney, an equally bizarre murder, Melissa
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  Speaker 5: Mayfield died at the hands of a controlling sexual predator
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  Speaker 5: after being drawn into the dark world of the supernatural.
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  Speaker 10: What he done to my daughter. He didn't just kill her,
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  Speaker 10: He killed me and he killed the spirits of her
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  Speaker 10: two children.
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  Speaker 5: Melissa Mayfield did dabble in the spiritual world, but it
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  Speaker 5: was harmless enough. When she met Angela Wells, though and
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  Speaker 5: her partner David Shephard, she crossed the line into a
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  Speaker 5: dark and dangerous world of demons and supernatural sex. Before
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  Speaker 5: she knew it, Melissa was in way too deep. Melissa said,
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  Speaker 5: it just happened so quickly.
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  Speaker 11: She was in shock, and she said she didn't willingly
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  Speaker 11: partake in that she didn't know. She felt dirty, she
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  Speaker 11: felt demoralized.
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  Speaker 5: Everything she stand.
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  Speaker 10: For, she felt she had lost.
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  Speaker 5: Melissa's life was soon dominated by Shepard and Wells. The
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  Speaker 5: couple claimed they could channel spirits, and it was one
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  Speaker 5: of these spirits that finally drove them to kill. July
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  Speaker 5: two thousand and seven, and the rural community of Pittsworth.
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  Speaker 7: Is in mourning more tow like this, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: it was a bit of a shock.
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  Speaker 5: Nineteen year old Robert Rollingson has been shot dead by
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  Speaker 5: his younger brother Anthony just sixteen.
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  Speaker 12: Absolute shock and everybody said, why could this happen in
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  Speaker 12: a town like Pittsworth. Robert Rollingston was one of these lovely, bigger, softer,
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  Speaker 12: wonderful young man, a big teddy bear type of a boy,
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  Speaker 12: and everybody liked him.
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  Speaker 5: As if this crime wasn't shocking enough, it soon emerged
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  Speaker 5: that Anthony Rollingson had an accomplice. Incredibly, it was his
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  Speaker 5: high school teacher, Graham McNeil, who later confessed a police
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  Speaker 5: to being the local head of the Ku Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 7: H power in Prince Worth.
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  Speaker 6: You probably don't think that that sort of thing exists.
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  Speaker 6: It's a little bit scary really that something like that
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  Speaker 6: can be on your back doorstep. Words can't describe what
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  Speaker 6: you feel when we heard that that's what had happened.
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  Speaker 5: Graham McNeil may not have pulled the trigger, but his
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  Speaker 5: malign influence on the impressionable young Anthony Rollingson was the
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  Speaker 5: catalyst for his brother's murder.
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  Speaker 8: So you're adamant that Anthony's been put up to this.
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  Speaker 13: Well, all the evidence when you're lying up the ducks
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  Speaker 13: or points that way.
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  Speaker 8: So he was much more than just a teacher.
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  Speaker 5: As we'll see tonight, there were disturbing glimpses of Anthony's
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  Speaker 5: troubled state of mind long before the murder. You know what,
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  Speaker 5: even plans for a Columbine style massacre.
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  Speaker 2: He had prepared a list as I understand that of
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  Speaker 2: Robert's friends that he apparently intended to kill, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: he didn't get the chance to do it, thank God.
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  Speaker 5: But sadly, Anthony's parents didn't know just how troubled their
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  Speaker 5: youngest son was until it was too late, and as
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  Speaker 5: the police investigation gets underway, they make the shocking discovery
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  Speaker 5: that will break their hearts.
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  Speaker 13: I personally couldn't believe it. Anthony would do it.
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  Speaker 9: His mother.
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  Speaker 13: Sort of realized that he was the Carlbrigs.
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  Speaker 8: So she knew.
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  Speaker 9: She knew.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up on the inside story how the high priest,
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  Speaker 1: his school teacher twisted a young boy's mind.
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  Speaker 12: Remember he was sixteen sixteen.
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  Speaker 5: John Rollingston is a third generation farmer. His family has
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  Speaker 5: been working the rich soils in these parts for close
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  Speaker 5: to seventy.
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  Speaker 13: Years, largely grain growley.
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  Speaker 5: And the farm has been your life, really, You've been
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  Speaker 5: on the farm since a boy in It was always
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  Speaker 5: John's dream his two boys, Robert and Anthony, would take
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  Speaker 5: over when he retired. Until that fateful winter's afternoon in
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  Speaker 5: two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 14: This lush rolling farmland in the heart of Queensland's Darling
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  Speaker 14: Downs was the backdrop to what seemed to be a
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  Speaker 14: happy childhood for Robert Rolingson and his younger brother Anthony,
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  Speaker 14: but from his early teens a toxic mix of hatred
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  Speaker 14: and resentment was simmering away in Anthony's mind.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was jealous of the fact that his
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  Speaker 2: older brother was popular, was successful, had friends and all that.
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  Speaker 2: I think there was a big resentment thing in him,
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  Speaker 2: But I think that he was twisted by McNeil.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly, Robert, an apprentice motor mechanic, and his young brother, Anthony,
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  Speaker 5: a gifted student, couldn't be more different.
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  Speaker 13: Robert was always an outdoor boy. Anthony was always an
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  Speaker 13: indoor boy. We used to often call him nocturnal because
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  Speaker 13: he ain't seem at night. He'd be in his room
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  Speaker 13: all day whenever he was dealing with the games.
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  Speaker 8: And how would you say their relationship was.
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  Speaker 13: There was some friction between the two boys, but I
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  Speaker 13: mean there was nothing major as far as we were concerned.
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  Speaker 5: School friend John Stevens remembers Robert Rollingson as a gregarious,
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  Speaker 5: knockabout bloke who loved his footy, fast cars and girls.
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  Speaker 6: Fate Rowa was just a great mate. He was always
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  Speaker 6: there to talk to and pick you up. He was
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  Speaker 6: just a ball a laughter. He was a little bit
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  Speaker 6: crazy at times, but that's what Robert was, and that's
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  Speaker 6: why everyone loved him.
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  Speaker 8: What sort of person was happening.
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  Speaker 6: Just seemed to me a little bit with hell and
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  Speaker 6: was never friendly and warm, never never warm, I suppose
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  Speaker 6: you would say.
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  Speaker 5: As he grew older, Anthony became increasingly withdrawn, his behavior
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  Speaker 5: more and more bizarre other students here at Pittsworth High School.
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  Speaker 5: So he became obsessed with violent video games and guns
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  Speaker 5: and even fantasized about killing someone. It was just a
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  Speaker 5: matter of time before he did.
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  Speaker 6: There was word out that there was a hit list
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  Speaker 6: and a large group of good mates and friends and associates.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose you'd say, we're on this list, and that
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  Speaker 6: in itself is a little bit baron chilling.
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  Speaker 5: And you were on that list too, were you?
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  Speaker 6: Word has it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: While Anthony was shunned by fellow students, he became close
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  Speaker 5: to one of his teachers, Graham McNeil. McNeil was also
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  Speaker 5: a counselor at Pittsworth High But this seemingly respectable man
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  Speaker 5: had a dark secret. He was a high priest of
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  Speaker 5: the Ku Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 2: Now I think he was. He had really evil intent.
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  Speaker 2: You can put a lot of that down to just
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  Speaker 2: a wido or something like that. But the Blake was
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  Speaker 2: a school teacher.
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  Speaker 5: And in Anthony Rowlingson, the manipulative Graham McNeil found a
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  Speaker 5: willing student for his twisted teachings.
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  Speaker 12: This kid, I think was possibly like a sponge and
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  Speaker 12: he just soaked it all up. And when you've got
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  Speaker 12: somebody with ideas that are very different and why out,
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  Speaker 12: and you're a child with an inquiring mind, you soak
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  Speaker 12: it all up readily. Remember he was sixteen sixteen.
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  Speaker 5: It appears what finally drove Anthony to murder his brother
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  Speaker 5: was a seemingly minor incident here at the family farm,
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  Speaker 5: Robert had discovered secret evidence of Graham McNeil's involvement with
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  Speaker 5: the Ku Klux Klan. When Robert threatened to go to
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  Speaker 5: the police, Anthony decided his brother had to die. The
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  Speaker 5: terrible climax to this family tragedy came on the afternoon
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  Speaker 5: of July fifteenth, two thousand and seven, while the boy's
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  Speaker 5: parents were visiting friends. After going to church, Anthony took
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  Speaker 5: his father's point two four to three caliber rifle from
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  Speaker 5: the gun safe and crept up on his brother, who
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  Speaker 5: was working in the back shed.
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  Speaker 8: So he came up from behind him, no warning at all.
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  Speaker 15: That's right, shot him once in the back of the head.
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  Speaker 15: He then walked over, stood over Robin and shot him
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  Speaker 15: a second time.
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  Speaker 5: A close range range, two shots to the back of
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  Speaker 5: the head.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, I mean it's just awful. It's a poorly
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a really twisted mind. That's that's smart
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  Speaker 2: and Bryan stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Anthony then used a forklift to load Robert's lifeless body
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  Speaker 5: into the boot of his brother's car, Graham. He phoned
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  Speaker 5: Graham McNeil, told him what he'd done, and drove into town,
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  Speaker 5: where they met outside the local bakery. Problems in the boot,
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  Speaker 5: they were the words he used used, the problem being
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  Speaker 5: his dead brother. It's a very cold and calculating way
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  Speaker 5: of describing the situation.
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  Speaker 15: It's very removed.
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: The pair then drove forty kilometers out of town to
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  Speaker 5: an isolated bridge. So they've chucked it over the edge.
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  Speaker 15: And then what Anthony's come down to where we are
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  Speaker 15: here and just dragged the Robert's body underneath the bridge.
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  Speaker 5: So he's dragged him underneath out of sight yes, and
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  Speaker 5: then they've gone back into town.
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  Speaker 15: We've turned to the vehicle and driven off back into.
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  Speaker 7: Town, coming up the startling confession.
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  Speaker 15: And his head exploded like a watermelon, and I pulled
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  Speaker 15: the trigger.
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  Speaker 7: And a confrontation with the klan.
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  Speaker 5: Robert Rollingson has been shot dead by his younger brother Anthony,
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  Speaker 5: his body dumped under a bridge with the help of
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  Speaker 5: his teacher, Graham McNeill. When Robert didn't return home that
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  Speaker 5: Sunday night, apparents weren't unduly concerned, and it would be
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: two days before they learned the shocking truth. So did
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  Speaker 5: you have a gut feeling that something was wrong?
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  Speaker 13: Not specifically when one of his mates rang up and
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  Speaker 13: said that they found the car in a backstreet at Pittsworth,
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  Speaker 13: we wondered what was going on.
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  Speaker 5: Meanwhile, Anthony Rollingson continued to act as if nothing had
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  Speaker 5: happened the day after the murder, going to school as normal.
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  Speaker 5: So it didn't show any unusual behavior.
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  Speaker 13: Not from his behavior. But when you start looking at things,
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  Speaker 13: you picked up this. This wasn't right, and that wasn't right,
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  Speaker 13: and you started putting it all together and it just
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  Speaker 13: all led one way.
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  Speaker 5: Alarm bells rang for John Rolinson when he discovered a
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  Speaker 5: large pool of blood and spent rifle casings near this
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  Speaker 5: machinery shed. There was also blood on a fork tractor
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  Speaker 5: parked nearby. When he quizzed his youngest son about it, Anthony,
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  Speaker 5: he told him he'd shot a cat. Instantly John knew
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  Speaker 5: his son was lying. He knew Anthony had done something terrible.
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  Speaker 9: We knew something had gone on.
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  Speaker 16: His mother.
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  Speaker 13: Sort of realized that he was the gold Bridge, so
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  Speaker 13: she knew.
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  Speaker 9: She knew he had the disappearance of your brother.
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  Speaker 4: No comment, no comment.
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  Speaker 5: When police first interviewed Anthony, he lied, He was evasive,
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  Speaker 5: He treated it all as a bit of a joke.
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  Speaker 17: I had informed him that I shot a cat.
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  Speaker 15: The scribe very with a cat.
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  Speaker 5: But he finally confessed to the murder.
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  Speaker 15: Then proceeded to come up from behind him with the
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  Speaker 15: two four three rifle and I shot him from behind twice.
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  Speaker 15: He said his head exploded like a watermelon when I
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  Speaker 15: pulled the trigger.
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  Speaker 8: And he just came out with that completely outright to yep.
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  Speaker 5: So what was the response to police when he said that,
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  Speaker 5: I just.
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  Speaker 15: Complete shock that, particularly in the manner which was delivered,
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  Speaker 15: was quite unexpected.
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  Speaker 8: And what sort of manner was that.
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  Speaker 15: They're again very calm, very measured in control.
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  Speaker 8: And no emotion, no emotion or remorse on it all.
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  Speaker 5: Two days after Robert Rollingson disappeared, police gave his parents
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  Speaker 5: the news they'd been dreading. His body had been found
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  Speaker 5: dumped here in this colvert at the remote Rifled Waterway,
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  Speaker 5: about forty minutes drive from the family farm. He'd been
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  Speaker 5: shot twice in the back of the head at point
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  Speaker 5: blank range.
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  Speaker 9: There was an execution, not a shooting. It was an
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  Speaker 9: execution measure. Don't put two bullets.
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  Speaker 8: In like that, and your heart must have been breaking.
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  Speaker 3: I think the wife and I walked around for a week,
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  Speaker 3: ten days.
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  Speaker 9: I didn't know where we were, what we were doing.
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  Speaker 6: I think you're go into like a disbelief. It didn't happen.
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  Speaker 6: It couldn't happened. You know, there are blue falcon is
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  Speaker 6: going to come roaring around the corner sideways any minute,
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  Speaker 6: and Robbie is going to be driving it. You know
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  Speaker 6: what I mean, it's not yes, So I think you're trying.
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  Speaker 6: You don't let it in, if you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 6: You try and pretend that it hasn't happened, and everything's
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  Speaker 6: going to.
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  Speaker 18: Be all right.
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  Speaker 5: Despite his at times graphic confession, Anthony Rolingson refused to
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  Speaker 5: implicate his accomplice Graham McNeil.
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  Speaker 9: So did he ring you before you got home?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, and what was that conversation there? So you had
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: a conversation on Sunday and you can't call it.
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  Speaker 15: Us about He never made admissions to be with mister
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  Speaker 15: McNeil at all. In fact, he said that he had
• 18:52
  Speaker 15: transported the body himself. He removed the body from the
• 18:54
  Speaker 15: car himself and placed on the bridge himself. He never
• 18:59
  Speaker 15: placed mister McNeil anywhere at the scene.
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  Speaker 5: McNeil eventually came under suspicion after police discovered Anthony had
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  Speaker 5: phoned him on the afternoon of the murder. When police
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  Speaker 5: arrived at Graham McNeil's house, they were shocked to find
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  Speaker 5: white robes, hoods and race hate material. The school teacher
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  Speaker 5: was a member of the notorious white supremacist group, the
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  Speaker 5: Ku Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 8: So this is the clansman costume, that's for.
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  Speaker 15: Regalia, with his particular signals of office.
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  Speaker 8: Were you surprised?
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  Speaker 15: Absolutely? It was a not what you would expected at
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  Speaker 15: all from someone in that position, a.
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  Speaker 8: School teacher, a school teacher.
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  Speaker 5: With impressionable young children, Yes, who he played a counseling role,
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  Speaker 5: helping them in their own problems in their lives.
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  Speaker 17: Yes, Graham, for the record, can you just state your
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  Speaker 17: full name again? Thanks, Frederick McNeill in your adress.
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  Speaker 5: Two weeks after Robert's shooting, Graham McNeil was arrested.
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  Speaker 9: What's your role in the clean?
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  Speaker 3: I am the chapman.
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  Speaker 17: Does that make you some sort of ahead of the clean?
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  Speaker 3: I'm one of the Imperial officers?
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  Speaker 5: And just like Anthony Rowlingson, he was arrogant and evasive
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  Speaker 5: when questioned by police.
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  Speaker 17: Did you have any concern at all that you had
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  Speaker 17: assisted someone after the completion of a murder?
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  Speaker 5: But he finally admitted he'd helped dispose of the body,
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  Speaker 5: claiming he'd only done so because he was scared of Anthony.
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  Speaker 16: I'm in the.
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  Speaker 4: Middle of nowhere.
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  Speaker 17: I'm thinking that I'm sitting next to a young fellow
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  Speaker 17: who's done this, and be quite honest, I don't think
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  Speaker 17: we'd have any problem doing.
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  Speaker 19: It to me.
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  Speaker 5: So it's concerned for his own safety absolutely, And then
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  Speaker 5: why did he not then go to police after it
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  Speaker 5: all occurred?
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  Speaker 8: That's the question.
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  Speaker 15: We don't know the answer.
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  Speaker 8: To oh both.
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  Speaker 4: What he feared for.
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: He feared if they got hold of Anthony, Anthony might
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: spill the beans about all the other crap that was
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: going on. Fear good God, No.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Anthony Rollingson and Graham McNeil were tried separately. Rollingson pleaded
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: guilty to his brother's murder, but he continued to protect McNeil,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: denying he had any influence over him whatsoever.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: So your adamant that he's been put up.
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: To this, Well, all the evidence point that's way. Anthony
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: won't talk about it, and McNeil's never said anything about it,
• 21:35
  Speaker 13: But all the evidence, when you line up the ducks
• 21:39
  Speaker 13: at all points that way.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Anthony Rolinson was sentenced to life in jail, with a
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: minimum fifteen years. The sentencing judge described the crime as
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: henus and said Anthony had displayed absolutely no remorse.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Do you think that a sixteen year old deserved a
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: penalty that.
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: Harsh I tend to think he deserved.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: And has he ever expressed any remorse?
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: Not a manage brother.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Now, Graham McNeil pleaded guilty to helping out and he
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: disposed of his brother's body and of lying to police.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: He received eight years in prison, but was released after
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: just three years. Mister mcnill, would you mind just having
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: a quick chat. Unbelievably, he's now back in Pittsworth living
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: with his parents McNeill, but he refuses to talk about
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: the case.
• 22:32
  Speaker 19: Kiss.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he got a very light tariff.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: So you think his sentence was too lenient?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, yeah, I mean he he's not fit
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to walk the streets that lay.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: While Graham McNeil may be a free man, John Rollingson
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: and his wife Wendell will never be free of the
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: torment they suffer in the aftermath of this tragedy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: You've lost two sons, haven't you really tried? And you
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: and Wendell, now, how are you doing?
• 23:05
  Speaker 13: I'm probably doing a little bit better than Wendell. There's
• 23:09
  Speaker 13: a few photographs around the place, not a lot in
• 23:12
  Speaker 13: me removed most of them because it is hurtful to
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: see the memories and.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: That sort of thing.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Still to come, The inside story of a young mother.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: She was a beautiful soul seduced by devil worshipers.
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: She felt dirty, she felt demorialized.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: A dark world of sex, jealousy, and finally, murder. She
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: was easy pray and impressionable young mother searching for.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Some meaning in her life.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: He was a natural.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Predator, a devil worshiper who claimed he could communicate with
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the spirits. It would turn out to be a deadly combination.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: In Sydney suburbs, a brutal attack on a terrified woman.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Melissa Mayfield has crossed over to the dark side. She's
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: diced with the devil and now she's going to die.
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: She was giving and loving. She was a beautiful soul.
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: But where is she now?
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: A scheming, sex chrazed couple, a naive single mum, a
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: demonic cast of characters. This is a real life horror story.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: But tragically, Melissa Mayfield didn't realize exactly what she was
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: caught up in until it was too late.
• 25:00
  Speaker 20: She was scared.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: She was very fearful. She just said that she felt scared.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Melissa Mayfield was a single mother living in Sydney's Western
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: suburbs with her two young daughters, Kira and baby Candace.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: She was a very good mum, wasn't she.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: Yes, she was.
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: She'd done it on her own and she was a
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: proud mother. She just was coming all together. She she
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: was just I think loving a life, loving it that
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: she's got the two girls and just having a family there.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: That's her end. Her old dog.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: She looks like a wonderful mom.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Melissa's eldest daughter, Kira, was only twelve when her mother
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: was murdered, but the memories are still vivid.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: What do you remember about her?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: She was really hyper. Yeah, she was always very active
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: and hyper and stuff. Very talkative, not shy. Yeah, she
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: was nice.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Melissa had always been interested in the spiritual world, something
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: she'd inherited from her mother, Donna May.
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: I brought my daughter up that there's another side out there.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: I tried to show her the whole world, to open
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: her up to that, not doing black magic and stuff.
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: My daughter wouldn't know anything about stuff like that. My
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: daughter would never go near the bad.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: But when Melissa met Angela Wells and her partner David Shepherd,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: that all began to change. They soon became the best
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: of friends. Before long, though, a much darker side to
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: this couple emerged.
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: So he tried to put on.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he'd put on a different voice and stuff and
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: act like he was possessed and stuff. I know, it
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: really creeped.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: That's out and Why do you think he was doing that?
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Probably to try and take control of my mom.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Shepherd claimed he was a psychic who could channel spirits,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: and he prayed on Melissa's trust and naivety, saying he
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: could help her connect with her dead grandmother. You think
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: that Melissa would have been open to being manipulated.
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: She believes in her friends, and if one of her
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: friends was to stay something to her.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: She believed that friend, Melissa's former schoolmate, Kelly Chapman, introduced
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: her to Angela, a decision she bitterly regrets for.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: A very long time.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: I felt it was my fault and did still dwell
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: on that now.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: Abeit.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: What started out as little more than a flirtation with
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: the occult soon spiraled out of control. Before long, David
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Shepherd convinced Melissa that she was possessed, but he had
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: a solution. He could drive out her demons by sleeping
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: with her.
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: Melissa said it just happened so quickly. She was in shop,
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: and she said she didn't willingly partake in that.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: What did she say about having sex with David?
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: She felt dirty, She felt demoralized.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Everything she stands for.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: She felt she had lost.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: David and Angela now had total control over Melissa, but
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Angela was getting increasingly jealous of her husband's growing attraction
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: towards her friend.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: Angela's a very jealous person.
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: I've known Angela for quite a few years, and she
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: was very jealous.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Melissa decided that she had to escape the dark world
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: that she'd been drawn into, but it wasn't that easy.
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: He was telling her things like, don't go to work today,
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: You're going to get killed by a drunk truck driver.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: You will die if you leave the house.
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: Telling her to take clippings of her hair and her
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: daughter's hair and put him outside the house, which, when
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: we looked up on the internet, was a devil cork card.
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: So how did that make her feel?
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: She was scared, but she was scared to go to
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: the police.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: And it was scared.
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: Because because she didn't know how bad David would get.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Melissa had good reason to be scared of David Shepherd
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: and Angela Wells, and in the weeks leading up to
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: her murder, she thought she'd finally gotten them out of
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: her life. And then in the early hours of June
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: the fourteenth, two thousand and six, Melissa was proved terribly wrong.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: As David choked Melissa in the lound room, her two
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: children slept just meters away. David then fled. He was
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: picked up down the road by Angela and they drove home. Yeah,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: but fearing Melissa may have survived the attack, the couple
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: returned several hours later to finish off the job.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: I remember waking up from him being on my window,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: and I was really confused because I didn't know what
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: was going on. He was like, well, you know, I'm
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: here to help and stuff. So when I opened the
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: door for.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Him, did you know that your mum had actually been hurt?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: No.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: I knew something was wrong because obviously she was laying
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: on the floor and she couldn't eve. She was like
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: lifting up her arm and she was trying to mumble
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: something to me, but I couldn't understand. I stood there
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: and he's like, go to your room. I was like okay,
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: and then I ran into my room.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: And what was their behavior like on the night?
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Very aggressive?
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: He was very aggressive, so he felt like you had
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: to do what he said.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: It just scared me because I was only young and
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what was going on.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: At five twenty six am, Emergency Services received this frantic
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Triple zero call.
• 31:09
  Speaker 20: Publications.
• 31:10
  Speaker 21: At the moment when David Hip was on the phone,
• 31:13
  Speaker 21: he was still strangling Melissa, at one hand calling speaking
• 31:18
  Speaker 21: to the Triple O operator and the other hand strangling
• 31:21
  Speaker 21: Melissa around her.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Throat, seemingly trying to save her life.
• 31:24
  Speaker 21: That's correct, strangled her then until her till we heard
• 31:28
  Speaker 21: the neck crack.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: Brutal.
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: It was.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: When the ambulance crew arrived, Melissa was unconscious on the floor.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: She'd gone into cardiac arrest. David and Angela claimed she'd
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: phoned them after hearing an intruder in her backyard. As
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: they worked desperately to revive her, paramedics noticed Melissa had
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: extensive bruising on her neck and around her eyes.
• 31:58
  Speaker 18: Position.
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: So when I saw her next door neighbor who come
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: running over to me screaming saying she's gone.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: She's gone.
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: They've taken her, And I said, what are you talking about?
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: And she goes Melissa. Melissa was in hospital on life support.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: As she teetered on the edge, her family and friends
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: gathered at her bedside.
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: So I didn't even recognize her.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: She was that swollen.
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: It looked like a totally different person.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: It didn't look like my friend.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: So did you get to at least spend time with her?
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: Yes? I did. Did you talk to her? I did?
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: What sort of things did you say? Don't leave me?
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: So next Angela's surprise betrayal as the killers turn on
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: each other.
• 33:00
  Speaker 21: You can hear this blood curling screen.
• 33:03
  Speaker 19: That's terrible.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Melissa Mayfield is in hospital after a brutal attack at
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: her home. She's in a coma, brain dead.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I was fine until I saw her and then kind
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: of broke down, Like all the bruises and stuff. That's
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: what kind of freak me out a lot.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: After four days, Melissa's family makes the painful decision to
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: switch off her life support system.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: I just held her hand and I talked to her.
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: What can you say? I held a hand.
• 33:51
  Speaker 18: I have to warn you that you're not obliged to
• 33:53
  Speaker 18: say or do anything unless you wish to do so.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Police now had a murder on their hands, and right
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: from the start, but they suspected Angela Wells and David Shepherd.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Their story about an intruder attacking Melissa just didn't stack up.
• 34:08
  Speaker 18: It was like they practiced what they were going to
• 34:09
  Speaker 18: say to us.
• 34:11
  Speaker 21: It was just so so clinical. Was trying to explain
• 34:15
  Speaker 21: away even his DNA on Melissa. He was just trying
• 34:19
  Speaker 21: to explain everything away, which is strange from a person
• 34:22
  Speaker 21: that found one of their friends lying dying on the ground.
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: Wasn't natural, I know.
• 34:27
  Speaker 19: I break a neck, cracked their hand which she was unconscious.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: And detectives soon uncovered the sordid truth.
• 34:35
  Speaker 19: We should never have gone back over there.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: In these overheard conversations, Wells and Shepherd leave little doubt
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: about their guilt.
• 34:42
  Speaker 19: I think they're going to try and nail me today.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: So they didn't really think through everything. They were quite clinical,
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: but didn't actually follow it through.
• 34:52
  Speaker 13: No.
• 34:52
  Speaker 21: Yeah, their biggest thing was they thought they were smarter
• 34:55
  Speaker 21: than everyone else.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: I think police brought David Shepherd in to question him further,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: and he'd changed his story completely. No longer was he
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: blaming intruders for the fatal attack on Melissa Mayfield. Now
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: he claimed it was the devil and Angie woke.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Me and said that she been speaking to my voices
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: and that it had happened right now.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: It was one of several different stories Shepherd told police.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: He even tried to claim Melissa was blackmailing him and
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: had attacked him with a knife. When he confronted her
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: about it.
• 35:30
  Speaker 21: He said, a blissu pored a knife on him, which
• 35:32
  Speaker 21: is a liar.
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: We never believe that, never believe that at all.
• 35:36
  Speaker 18: Was he still trying to resuscitate that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: He was still trying to get Melissa to respond to him.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Up until now, Angela Wells had loyally stuck by David Shepherd,
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: backing up his version of events, but what happened next
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: would turn her against him for good. Fearing that Angela
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: would confess, Shepherd decided to kill her too. He drugged
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: her evening meal, when she passed out, placed her in
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: the bath. He then wrote a fake suicide note, but
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: when Shepherd realized his lover was still alive, he tried
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: to slit her wrists. Angela woke in terror. That alerted
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: police who were listening in.
• 36:27
  Speaker 21: She goes from snoring to this blood curdling screen.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: It's terrible, and.
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: He could hear that all very clearly.
• 36:32
  Speaker 18: Yes, could you get into the position where you think
• 36:36
  Speaker 18: David was At that.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: Time police interviewed Angela and now she turned on Shepherd.
• 36:42
  Speaker 19: David was strangling Melissa with his hands.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: She admitted she'd lied to protect her partner. And gave
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: a graphic account of how he strangled Melissa Mayfield.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: Oduri tried strangling. He put his knee into her throat,
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: pushed down me with you until her neck Craig.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: So she implicated David entirely.
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: In the crime.
• 37:06
  Speaker 21: Basically rollo.
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: But I know, like Melissa, like everyone thieves.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: Shepherd was charged with Melissa's murder and the attempted murder
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: of Angela Wells, but he wasn't going down alone, and
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: in a desperate attempt to incriminate Angela in Melissa's death,
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: he changed his story yet again.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: For two hours.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: Told me that she did what I couldn't do.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: But Wells was sticking to her version of events, claiming
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: she was an unwitting accomplice.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: Understanding behind.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Both Melon and David and a froze. I didn't know
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: what to do. So do you think that Angela had
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: a big role to play in this?
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: I think they worked together.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: And why do you think that.
• 37:51
  Speaker 21: I think she'd become very jealous of Melissa, and I
• 37:58
  Speaker 21: think she basically wanted her out.
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: Of the way.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Keep going straight.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Shepherd later took police to the car park where he
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: and Wells disposed of Melissa's handbag to support their story
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: that she'd been robbed by an intruder. Here, detectives found
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: some of Melissa's hair clips and bobby pins and her
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: bag in a nearby drain. Wells denied she'd helped get
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: rid of Melissa's belongings, but CCTV footage proved she was
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: in the area at the time that Shepherd claimed police
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: charged her with being an accessory.
• 38:31
  Speaker 21: Wos the laws I now informing you that they were
• 38:33
  Speaker 21: going to be formerly charged with the murder of Nissa Mayfield.
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: Accessory art in fact going.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: To send that.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: What was Angela's demeanor like when she was charged?
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say remorseful.
• 38:45
  Speaker 18: She was just.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Upset.
• 38:47
  Speaker 18: She was in self protection mode.
• 38:49
  Speaker 21: Now do you want to participate in this interview?
• 38:50
  Speaker 13: Now?
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I've got much weather comments.
• 38:53
  Speaker 21: These two people are very selfish. So she was just
• 38:56
  Speaker 21: upset because she was basically caught. She wasn't concerned about Melissa.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Or I know, on top of Melissa.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: Around the throat. It wasn't until his third interview that
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: David Shepherd finally confessed to actually strangling Melissa, claiming voices
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: had driven him to do it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: I just couldn't let go.
• 39:19
  Speaker 18: So voices were so out Who thought of these?
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: You go crook A be I slipt.
• 39:29
  Speaker 21: Sometimes he'd be crying, he'd be very emotional. Other times
• 39:34
  Speaker 21: he'd be straight, straight talking like you and me. Other
• 39:38
  Speaker 21: times he'd be just staring in the space. I think
• 39:41
  Speaker 21: he was just trying to play the mental health card.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: At his trial, David Shepherd pleaded guilty, so he didn't
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: have to give any further evidence. The judge accepted his
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: claim that the killing was spontaneous, but he said there
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: was no proof that he suffered from a mental illness.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: He was sentenced to jail for nineteen years, with a
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: non parole period fifteen years. David Shepard will be free
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five.
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: And what did you think about that sentence?
• 40:13
  Speaker 10: Free meal, every day, shower, dentist, doctors, visitors, family can
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: still come and see you. You could see him smile,
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: you can talk to him.
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: I can't.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: At her trial, Angela Wells pleaded guilty to being an accessory.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: In sentencing her, the judge described her as an unreliable
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: witness of questionable credibility. Well served just eighteen months in prison.
• 40:52
  Speaker 11: I didn't think justice was done. I thought she got
• 40:56
  Speaker 11: away basically Scott free for what she had done.
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: Having driven.
• 41:03
  Speaker 11: David to her house knowing what he was going to do.
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: She's a very manipulate lady.
• 41:09
  Speaker 21: She's also neutrality person and very selfish.
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: And she had the power to protect her friend. That's right,
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: and she didn't.
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: Coming up. The torment continues.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous situations for two families. This, Forgour's sake, was
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: a bloody murder.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Melissa Mayfield was betrayed by friends, strangled in her own
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: lounge room while her daughter slept. Just why David Shepherd
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: attacked Melissa Mayfield that night has never been fully explained.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Shepherd blamed it on inner voices demons urging him to kill,
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: a claim dismissed as nonsense at his trial, but even
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: the judge conceded that Shepherd's interest in the supernatural could
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: well have driven him to murder.
• 41:57
  Speaker 10: They were jealous of who she was because my daughter
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: was beautiful, and she was very pretty and loving. She
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: had the package.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: And what do you think about when you see when
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: you see your mother. Eldest daughter, Kira was twelve at
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: the time of this terrible family tragedy. Her baby sister,
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: Candace just eighteen months old, and do you think about
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: her offer?
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It just like sometimes when I'm like, let me
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: meet someone new, I'll be like my mom would like you,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: stuff like that. Yeah.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: Melissa Mayfield's killer, David Shephard, is now behind bars at
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Koma Prison. He'll be there for another eleven years, but
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: his accomplice, Angela Wells, is free.
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: If you ever.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Bumped into Angela, what do you think you'd say?
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: I hope I don't.
• 42:53
  Speaker 11: Because I wouldn't be saying anything.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: What would you be doing. I'll probably go to jail.
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: You hate her that much beyond words.
• 43:08
  Speaker 10: I cry.
• 43:11
  Speaker 22: I cry more than tears. I cry. I cry for Kira,
• 43:22
  Speaker 22: I cry for Candice.
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: Only this morning I.
• 43:27
  Speaker 16: Heard the picture h and I was cuddling in and
• 43:38
  Speaker 16: holding it, and I said, oh.
• 43:41
  Speaker 20: No, I won't get you back, but just be here
• 43:44
  Speaker 20: for me, Just be here for me, yes, tell me.
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: Up in Queensland, John Rowlingson can only ponder what might
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: have been.
• 43:57
  Speaker 14: This is your Heartland, your your con You've been up
• 44:00
  Speaker 14: here a long time.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: He's lost one son and the other is in prison
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: for his murder. It's a burden no parent should ever
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: have to shoulder.
• 44:09
  Speaker 13: It's like a scam on a woon. Once you brush
• 44:11
  Speaker 13: it off, it all ooses out again and you can
• 44:15
  Speaker 13: talk yourself around to getting up and getting on with it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 13: But I mean it's still there. It looks upset every day.
• 44:22
  Speaker 13: The waste, that's what it is. It's just a damn waste.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: A year ago John and wife Wendell sold the family farm.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: There were just too many painful memories. They moved into
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: town to try to start again. But now there's a
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: new threat to their peace of mind. We actually just
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: wanted to give Graham a chance to give you so
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Graham McNeil is now out of prison after serving just
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: three years behind bars. He's back in the district and
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: incredibly he's soon eligible to teach again.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous situation. Teachers get being for low life for
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: sexual abuse of children, as they should. That's appalling. This,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: for God's sake, was a bloody murder.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: It's now seven years since Anthony Rollingson was jailed for
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: the murder of his brother Robert. Each month his parents
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: visit him in Queensland's gat in prison. When their boy
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: finally gets out of jail in twenty twenty three, he'll
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: be thirty two years old.
• 45:26
  Speaker 8: Have you forgiven.
• 45:27
  Speaker 13: Anthony Well, I think basically yes, There'll always be questioned,
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: you'll ask, and it'll always be things that you look
• 45:39
  Speaker 13: at and wonder about.
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: But that's their, I mean, that's it