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preferred platform it was just after 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday March 13 1996 when a team of eight
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detectives were called to a residence in the New South Wales suburb of albian Park
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rail detective Sergeant Danny shaky who headed the crew quickly drove to the address in sheerwater Boulevard
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accompanied by several colleagues the house was easy to spot thanks to an ambulance parked
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outside as the detectives pulled up to the small one-story brick home they saw a tall darkhaired teenager doubled up on
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the front lawn with an older man next to him the teenager was crying and asking repeatedly what's happened who's done
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this he was so distraught that the paramedics rushed him to hospital detective shaky briefly spoke
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to the old man a neighbor whose name was Steve Bailey Steve described how he'd been out
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side talking to a friend when the teen ran out of the home screaming that something had happened to his mother and
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sister Steve had entered the residence only to be confronted by a terrible side in the front
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bedroom he immediately called the police detective shaky carefully entered the house and headed straight towards
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the dimly lit front bedroom the windows were closed with the blinds drawn but amongst the darkness
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was a double bed a dressing table and a treadmill on the floor lay a broken denture plate a pair of slippers and a
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book with the words Love Story printed in bold on the back cover detective shaky could make out a
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figure laying on the bed it was a woman dressed in a nighty partially covered with a blanket the mattress and a pillow
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beneath her head were soaked with blood the woman herself was unrecognizable she had suffered multiple
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severe fractures to her skull and facial bones causing extensive underlying brain
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trauma the cause of death appeared to be a shotgun blast to the Head looking around the room shy saw
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several family portraits along the wall they depicted a family of five consisting of a mother a father and
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their three adolescent children all smiling [Music] [Music] the deceased woman was identified as 41
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year-old Jennifer deuchi she lived at the home with her husband Wayne and their three children
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18-year-old Matthew 15-year-old Adrien and 13-year-old Sarah detective shaki moved out of
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Jennifer's bedroom and into the next one along the hallway a big white teddy bear Sat by
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the door and band posters decorated the wall a portable Walkman cassette player lay on the floor by a single bed with
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pink sheets lying on the bed on top of the floral blanket was 13-year-old Sarah deuchi
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she was wearing pajamas and one of her legs was dangling over the side of her bed though her face was half concealed
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by a blood soaked cushion it was clear that Sarah had also sustained severe and fatal head
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injuries detective shaky and his team did a quick walkthrough of the premises careful not to touch
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anything they needed to make sure there weren't any other victims inside or an offender after they confirmed that the
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house was clear they called in the crime scene examiners a pathologist estimated that
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Jennifer and Sarah deuchi were killed between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. the previous
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Night Jennifer appeared to have been targeted first she had gone to bed read for a while then taken off her glasses
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and put them on the bedside table before turning off the light and going to sleep while Jennifer's pillow and
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Mattress were soaked with blood the absence of blood elsewhere suggested that the killer had covered her head
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while attacking her injuries to her hands indicated she had woken during the assault and tried
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to defend herself small spots of blood on the wall above the body were swabbed for further
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analysis as was a small reddish stain at the bottom of the wash basin in the on Suite next to be examined was Sarah's
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room the Walkman on the floor indicated she might have been listening to music through its headphones when her mother
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was attacked preventing her from hearing the assault the blood soaked cushion which
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partially covered Sarah's head had come from a chair in the dining room the killer had presumably taken it into
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Sarah's bedroom to cover her face during the murder just like they'd done to Jennifer as Sarah raised her right arm
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in defense her killer pressed the cushion down on her head smothering her notably Sarah had a bruise on her
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right forearm that resembled a tram track it was about 15 cm long and 5 mm wide with two parallel lines that seemed
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to close off at the [Music] end throughout the house various cupboards had been left open
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disconnected cords in a cabinet under the television suggested a video cassette recorder had been stolen in
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Matthew dei's bedroom drawers and a wardrobe appeared to have been rifled through and a metal Money Box sat on the
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floor aside from these disturbances the house was neat and tidy valuable items including a jewelry box containing
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earrings necklaces and Rings had been left untouched there was no sign of forced
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entry but some of the windows and the rear sliding door had been left unlocked detectives noted that the house
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backed onto a reserve that joined into the banks of auna bay a quiet picturesque
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Inlet they considered the possibility that an intruder had entered the property from the reserve with the
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intention of committing a burglary and then kill Jennifer and Sarah during the course of the
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crime a search of the deuchi backyard fish pond and roof space turned up nothing of Interest the shotgun believed
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to have been used in the double homicide was nowhere to be found Matthew guci had spent the night
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at his girlfriend's house he'd arrived home that morning to discover his mother and sister
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murdered there was no sign of Jennifer's husband Wayne or the couple's middle child 15-year-old
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Adrien given it was a Wednesday officers contacted adrianne's school to see if he
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was there he hadn't turned up for class the washing machine in the deuchi laundry contained two towels and a pair
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of of rubber gloves the items had recently been washed yet some faint staining remained on the towels which
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looked like blood investigators theorized that the killer had used these items to clean up
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the scene in the tiled hallway that connected the bedrooms testing of some faint reddish stains revealed them to be
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blood diluted with water this indicated that someone had tried to wash the blood away rather than
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simply wiping it up perhaps this meant the killer had bled too and tried to remove any evidence of their
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presence next to Jennifer's side of the bed something else caught the eye a large piece of carpet had been cut
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out from the floor and removed closer inspection revealed that two smaller sections of carpet had also
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been exiled and taken tffs of carpet fibers around the cuts suggested these removals were
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recent detectives surmised that the killer had done this to hide identifiable evidence there were more reddish stains
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in the family bathroom this time in the bottom of the wash basin and on the mirror above the vanity unit in a faint
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red smear on one of the vanity unit doors was a partial fingerprint after the entire house had
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been examined from top to bottom the forensic investigators turned their attention to the property's garage
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there was no internal connecting door between the garage and the house access was either through the garage doors at
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the front or via an exterior door at the rear of the house detectives were cautious as they
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approached the garage it occurred to them that the perpetrator could be inside hiding with shotgun
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ready they carefully opened the door wondering if they would find an armed Adrian deguchi inside
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but instead they saw a body spra across the floor its upper half was concealed by a
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blanket that had blood pulled beneath [Music] it the body was identified as 15-year-old Adrien
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DUI he lay next to an oozing glue gun and an overturned small wooden chair it looked as though he had been fixing the
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chair when he was attacked when crime scene examiners pulled back the blanket they confirmed
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that adrianne's injuries were as brutal as Jennifer and Sarah's his head had been so severely
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wounded that a number of his teeth were lying on the ground next to him flaks of
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castoff blood Streed across the ceiling indicated that Adrian's body had only been covered after the violent
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assault beneath adrianne's t-shirt his chest was marked with the same parallel [ __ ] track like of bruises as Sarah's
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right arm there was also a circular mark But unlike his mother and sister Adrien had
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no defensive injuries when it came time to transfer adrianne's body from the crime scene
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investigators noticed large areas of skin peeling off his left arm where it had been in contact with the concrete
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floor as soon as his body was removed they were hit with the strong strong smell of petrol his clothing was soaked
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with it a red Jerry can sat nearby it appeared that the killer had poured petrol on Adrian's body as if intending
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to set him a light before changing their mind the triple homicide was sustained and extremely violent a number of police
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who attended the crime scene were subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress
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disorder while the brutality they saw in the deuchi home wasn't the only reason they acquired this mental health
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condition it was a contributing factor given that all three victims had been killed in the same way the attacks
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were likely committed by one person yet autopsies revealed that the murder weapon was not a shotgun as
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initially believed the victim's head and facial injuries were actually caused by
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repeated blows with a heavy object such as a crowbar or wheel brace the handle of a wheel brace the
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device used to loosen and remove the nuts on a car wheel before changing a tire could cause the long parallel
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bruises found on Sarah and Adrien the circular wound Adrian sustained to his chest could also
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correspond with the wheel brac's round head Jennifer dci's Toyota Seeker was parked in the family's driveway a search
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of the car revealed a tuft of carpet fibers on the floor near the back seat similar in color to the great carpet
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removed from Jennifer's bedroom it had a tiny reddish stain that looked like blood an expert concluded it
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was highly probable that the tuft had its origin in the bedroom carpet the rear space that contained the
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car jack was closed but it hadn't been clicked shut the Jack was inside but there was
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no sign of the wheel brace in the boot detectives found a brand new spare tire the car itself was less than a year
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old if the tire had never been changed it seemed odd that the Jack Hatch was open and the wheel brace was
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missing police sourced a wheel brace from the same model Seeker from a local Toyota dealer when they compared the
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tool to Sarah and adrianne's injuries they found that it was a perfect match right from the start the investigators
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knew there was something about the deuchi murder scene that wasn't quite right Jennifer and Sarah had been in bed
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not disturbing an intruder and Adrien was in the garage where the killer would have had to actively seek him
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out while a burglar interrupted in the ACT might ass sold a homeowner in order to get away quickly committing a triple
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homicide of such violence seemed an extreme way to cover up a Breakin the frenzied nature of the crime
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was also in contrast with the careful efforts the killer had made to clean up the
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scene if the robbery was staged the detectives had to look at alternative theories the most likely being someone
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wanted members of the deuchi family dead and had tried to throw the police off with Matthew deuchi having been
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taken to the hospital that left only the patriarch Wayne deuchi unaccounted for when detectives called Wayne's
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workplace they were told that he was on the road but eventually the dci's home telephone rang detective shaki
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answered Wayne deuchi was on the other line calling home to check in on his family he sounded surprised to be gred
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by a detective in stud Wayne was almost 2 hours away in the greater Western Sydney suburb of
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paramat detective shaki carefully broke the news of the family members deaths he
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then arranged for officers to collect Wayne and bring him in for an interview upon arriving at the police
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station Wayne sat down to provide a statement he explained that he'd spent the previous night at his parents' home
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in Western Sydney which he often did on week nights due to his workplace being located there the last contact he'd had
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with his family had been when he chatted on the phone with the Jennifer at around
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6:30 the night she was later killed Wayne had told Jennifer he intended to stay at his parents' home for an
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additional night at the station Wayne was also reunited with his only surviving child
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Matthew the teenager had spent the morning in the hospital being treated for shock and the pair spoke to a grief
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counselor in his own police interview Matthew elaborated on his whereabouts during the
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killings he said he driven to his girlfriend's house the previous night where he'd spent the entire evening
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including the crucial time period between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. when the crime was thought to have taken
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place it was only when he returned home in the morning that he discovered the crime
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[Music] scene Wayne and Matthew were permitted to return home to examine their belongings in case anything was missing
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that police hadn't noticed they couldn't find Jennifer's purse Matthew also pointed out that some
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CDs and a number of other items including two calculators belonging to him and his brother were also
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gone as husbands are more usually the perpetrators in family Annihilation cases it was vital that Wayne de gruchi
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Alibi be confirmed on the day of the murders Wayne claimed to have attended a company
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golf day at penet Hills Golf Club in Sydney before spending the night with his parents two colleagues confirmed that he
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was at the club till around 700 p.m. Wayne's dad confirmed he was with his son in the evening until 10:30 when he
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went to bed however a neighbor of the deuchi reported having seen a car similar to
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Wayne's hold and Bina being driven in sheerwater Boulevard in the early morning hours before the murders were
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discovered the driver looked like Wayne detectives began to calculate whether it was possible for Wayne to
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have driven back to his house in the middle of the night to kill his family but that theory was scrapped when
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detectives found out his Holden bolina had been in an accident and was in for repairs the car Wayne had been driving
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at the time was a rented Holden commodor 9 days after the murders a memorial service was held for Jennifer
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Adrien and Sarah deuchi among the MERS was Wayne deuchi supported by his only surviving
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child sometime after the deuchi triple homicide several local boys were riding their BMX bikes alongside a dam at the
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old Boral Brick Works the structure was located on the western side of the princess Highway in
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w Huna a coastal suburb 30 minutes Drive North of albian Park rail as they cycled along the boys
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spotted a bag in the shallow water they fished it out and went through its contents among other things the bag
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contained a hammer and a big piece of carpet the boys helped themselves to a couple of items from the bag then tossed
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it back into the dam while they thought nothing of the incident one of the boys mentioned it to
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his father a few weeks later it occurred to the boy's father that the bag might hold
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some significance to the murder investigation that was currently featured all over the
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news the discovery was brought to police attention on Sunday May 12 1996 exactly 2 months after the deuchi
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murders the following day officers headed to the old Boral Brick Works Dam police divers Lo located not one but
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two bags a red and white sports bag and a black backpack their contents were laid out
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onto sheets of plastic there was a VCR a calculator labeled a deuchi various CDs and
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videotapes and Jennifer dei's purse the sports bag contained a piece of carpet similar in size to the piece
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missing from Jennifer's room and a small Ziploc bag containing a number of UN opened
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Band-Aid there were also pieces of a torn-up note one of the officers remarked wouldn't it be funny if that
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note was a how-to list the note was carefully dried out and then the pieces were put back
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together like a jigsaw puzzle printed on the flip side of the paper was the letterhead for a hotel located further
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north along the New South Wales Coast noers on the beach pieced together the handwritten
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portion did in fact contain a list it read in part open gate throw bottle down the
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track throw things down wall in roof tracksuit pants one knife two T-shirts Two Shoes
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two open blinds to see through Sarah mom Adrian in have a shower the note appeared to be a list of
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instructions to fake a burglary while it was possible that the items in the bag could have been stolen and discarded by
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a random Intruder this seemed unlikely due to the use of one single word mom this was a name only one of
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Jennifer's three children would call her and there was only one deguchi child whose name wasn't on the list
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at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday June 22 detective shaki found 18-year-old Matthew deuchi at his girlfriend's
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house he told the teenager that he wanted to speak to him about the murders of his mother and
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siblings Matthew asked when shaki replied now detective shaki and his colleagues
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had been suspicious of Matthew deuchi ever since they found a problem with his Alibi in a police interview on the day
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the bodies were discovered Matthew said he'd been at his girlfriend's house the previous night from the early evening
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on but when detectives checked with Matthew's girlfriend she told police that Matthew had called her at around
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8:00 p.m. and said he would be over shortly yet 2 hours passed with no sign of him at 10 p.m. Matthew's girlfriend rang
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the deuchi house to check where he was was there was no answer he finally arrived at her house roughly an hour
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later Matthew explained he was late because his mom had asked him to stay the deuchi had received some prank
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phone calls saying three members of their family would die that night and it had left them
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shaken Matthew hadn't mentioned anything about prank calls or death threats in police
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interviews if True Detectives couldn't understand why he would have admitted this
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detail and since it was estimated that the three deuchi family members were murdered between 8:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.
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his girlfriend's story put Matthew at home for several hours during this crucial
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Window phone records revealed that Matthew had spoken to his girlfriend from the deuchi house on the night of
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the murders but there was no record of the alleged prank calls there were a few other factors
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that caused the detective's attention according to Wayne deuchi when he called home on the evening of the murders
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Jennifer told him that she' refused Matthew's request to borrow her car yet Matthew had told detectives that
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he'd borrowed the Toyota Seeker to drive to his girlfriend's house he'd driven it
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back home the next morning at around 8:30 and parked it in the driveway before entering the home to find his
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mother and sister murdered this meant that Matthew deuchi was the last one to access the seeker
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and its wheel brace which was suspected to be the murder weapon had been stored in the back prior to disappearing
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[Music] altogether the deuchi extended family had picked up on the suspicion against
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Matthew and were not happy about it Wayne dci's brother Paul even advised Matthew not to
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cooperate but Matthew agreed to a follow-up interview as requested accompanied by several
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relatives as he was over 18 and could be interviewed without a parent or Guardian
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present Matthew was escorted into an interrogation room alone after some preliminary questions
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detective Danny shaki became more direct he said Matthew I believe that you know a
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lot more about what happened to your mother brother and sister more than what you said in the statement you made
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is there anything you want to say to me about what happened Matthew sat silently with his
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arms across his stomach rocking back and forward with his head bowed another detective asked if Matthew
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had anything to say about the night of the murders he didn't answer detective shaki then
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stated Matthew this is not going to go away we will be investigating this for as long as it takes do you understand
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what I'm saying after a long silence Matthew finally spoke I told the policeman the other
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night what I know the detectives questioned why Matthew didn't return home until after 8
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on the morning after the murders when his mother needed her car much earlier to drive his siblings to
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school why would he have kept the car from her unless he knew she no longer needed it
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they then turned their attention to the car's missing wheel brace asking Matthew
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if he knew where it was Matthew told the detectives that he felt sick they wrapped up the interview by
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informing Matthew that they would need blood and hair samples from him for elimination
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purposes when detective shaki opened the door to the interview room Matthew's Uncle Paul was waiting right
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outside while Matthew was taken back to the rest of his family Paul made his displeasure known to the
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detectives as far as the family was concerned their grief over the loss of Jenifer Adrien and Sarah was being
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compounded by the police's baseless and unfair pursuit of Matthew the investigators weren't
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dissuaded they questioned Matthew again they wanted a record of his exact movements in the house when he
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discovered the bodies to compare his account against the evidence Matthew gave mostly monosyllabic answers
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as he leaned on the interview table his chin on his hand and his face expressionless this time he told police
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that he'd arrived home at 8:30 a.m. he said he'd gone inside to get his wallet then left straight away to go buy
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cigarettes he hadn't seen any members of his family at the time when he returned he walked back
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down the hallway to the kitchen and noticed the house was unusually quiet he retraced his steps up the hall
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past Sarah's door and into his mother's room it was then he discovered his mom's
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body and immediately ran outside in a panic when asked if he'd gone into Sarah's bedroom Matthew said that he
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hadn't this was one of the first anomalies in his account neighbor Steve Bailey was certain that when Matthew ran
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out of the house on the morning of the murders he had said there's something wrong with Mom and
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Sarah but according to Matthew he hadn't gone into Sarah's room at all so how could he have known there was anything
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wrong with her detective shaki also noted it as strange when Matthew had listed two
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calculators as missing from the house he wondered how a young man who had just lost three members of his family would
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notice something as inconsequential as this at such an intense time by this point police had canvased the
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neighbors they learned that Matthew was sometimes violent towards his mother and
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that the two often fought about him wanting to drive her car when police asked Matthew if this
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was true he replied I wouldn't call them arguments the detectives wondered whether the whole terrible incident had
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been over something as trivial as Jennifer's refusal to let her son borrow her car the partial bloody fingerprint on
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the vanity door in the family bathroom was found to be Matthews blood spots throughout the
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house including in his mother's room and the attached onite were also confirmed to have come from
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him this hinted that Matthew had not only interacted with the crime scene but had entered several rooms he had not
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established in his sequence of events as Matthew had no wounds on his body detectives were aware that all this
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could be brushed aside by claiming the blood was the result of an innocuous and unrelated incident like a nose
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bed yet his prints were also found on the Jerry can of petrol left near Adrian's
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body while he did use the Jerry can to put Petrol in both the family cars the last person to use the can would have
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been the one who poured petrol on Adrien Matthew was brought in for questioning for a fourth time so that detectives
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could see how he responded to the mounting evidence against him Matthew again arrived at the police
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station with his supportive father and a number of relatives in tow they were still angry feeling that detectives were
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still wasting time on Matthew instead of going out and catching the real killer in the interview room it appeared
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that Matthew was starting to feel the pressure at at one point detective shaki thought the young man was on the verge
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of making an admission suddenly one of Matthew's uncles burst into the room even though
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the detectives escorted the uncle out again the moment was lost Matthew deuchi was subsequently
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placed under covert surveillance but he never said or did anything incriminating with nothing close to a
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confession the police built the case against him from the mounting forensic EV evence over a 100 samples specimens and
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Exhibits had to be examined Matthew's DNA was found on the carpet tuft recovered from Jennifer's
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car on the hallway tiles and on the wall above his mother's bed detective shaki looked at his
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suspect's known movements on the night of the murders Matthew had spoken to his girlfriend from the sheerwater boulevard
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house at 8 and arrived at her house around 11: her home was the only place detectives
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knew Matthew had definitely driven to that night perhaps he'd dumped the stolen items from the deuchi residence
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somewhere along the way investigators found out there were 15 creeks and water holes on the route
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between the two houses police Rescue Squad officers began searching the area's water courses
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to a distance of 500 M from the banks looking for anything from the deguchi residence
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when they leared that some local boys had found a bag in a nearby Dam they finally had a
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lead the dam where the bag was found was located at the old Boral brickworks between the Dei residence and Matthew's
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girlfriend's house to test a theory detective shaki drove the distance between the three
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locations and found the 31 km Drive could be comfortably completed in 26 minutes when traveling 5 km below the
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speed limit Matthew deuchi had plenty of time between the phone call to his girlfriend
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at 8 and he's arriving at her house at 11: to drive via the dam and ditch the evidence with lines like quote hit arm
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with pole hit leg with pole and cut somewhere with knife the note recovered from the dam suggested Matthew had
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intended to harm him himself to make it look like he too had been attacked the lack of follow through
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indicated that part of the plan had changed a handwriting expert later found 12 points of comparison between the
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how-to lists and Matthew dci's writing his report said there were many significant
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similarities between the note and samples of Matthew's writing and no significant
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differences it is my opinion that the person who wrote the specimen writings also wrote the questioned writings on
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item one on the morning of Saturday June 22 3 months and 9 days after the murders
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Matthew deuchi was arrested at his girlfriend's home and taken into custody Wayne arrived at the police
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station soon after and arranged legal representation for his son after another interview during which
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Matthew made no admissions of the 18-year-old was charged with the murders of his mother brother and
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sister later that day police went back to the dci's house to search Matthew's bedroom they found a single sheet of a
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notepad bearing the words Noah on the beach the same letterhead on the back of the hat to
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list the note indicated an intention to dispose of evidence in the walls via the
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roof Space Police checked the roof space only to discover that there was no access to the internal wall
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cavities no evidence had been disposed of there in the immediate aftermath of Matthew's arrest headlines in the local
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newspaper declared father vows to stand by his son in the first court appearance after
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his son's arrest Wayne deuchi was quoted in the metor as offering to put up a $100,000 short for his bail to open his
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home to him and to drive him to and from work each day in an effort to acquire his
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freedom Matthew dei's legal aid solicitor applied for bail telling the court the accused young man had the full
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support of his father and the remaining members of his family they had found the allegations
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against Matthew unbelievable and Matthew had continued to live with his father in
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The sheerwater Boulevard home where the murders were committed despite his father's
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unwavering loyalty Matthew was denied baale and remanded into custody by the following day the family
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had appointed a senior Barrister to represent Matthew in another bail hearing according to Media reports the
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lawyer had angry outbursts and was critical of the police case saying that it was dangerous stuff when people were
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convicted on forensic evidence alone despite the lawyer appeals Matthew was again denied bail with the
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magistrate stating I am also not satisfied he's not a danger to the community or that he would
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not commit further offenses 2 and a half years later Matthew deuchi stood trial his defense endeavored to present
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their client as a gentle and loving boy who never fought with his family or had any anger
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issues this description contradicted statements given by outside observers of the deuchi family Dynamic including
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Matthew's girlfriend she attested to the anger Matthew hared towards his mother and that he had a
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pension for alcohol and cannabis the torn up how-to list penned by Matthew was considered the strongest
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piece of evidence against him he had never confessed the murder weapon was never located and no clear motive had
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been established while Matthew conceded to writing the damning note he insisted it
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was a to-do list for his upcoming birthday not a murder plot after a period of being deadlocked
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on Wednesday October 14 1998 the jury found Matthew deuchi guilty he received a maximum sentence of
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28 years with a non-parole period of 21 years Matthew failed to appeal his conviction in 1999 before making a final
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attempt to the high court in 2002 at age 24 the Court's five judges unanimously agreed that the arguments offered
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against Matthew's guilt were too improbable in addressing the particularly brutal nature of the
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murders one of the judges stated the Mind recoils from the idea that an apparently quiet gentle young
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man of good character and with no known animous against his family should brutally slay his mother and young
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sister and brother during Matthew dei's incarceration he was involved in a brutal group attack
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against two inmates who were brothers the others who participated in the assault included three other
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convicted killers and two violent sex offenders the prison attack resulted in one of the brothers suffering severe
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head injuries and requiring brain surgery the other victim was treated for a broken arm
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aside from this incident Matthew seemingly served the rest of his sentence quietly with the 21-year non-parole
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period his earliest possible release date was in 2017 that Year Matthew was approved for
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day release and began working in an abire in an attempt to reassure the public a spokesperson clarified that the
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gruchi had been working in the chill room and had no access to knives despite the day release Matthew was
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refused parole at his first attempt the state Parole Authority said he presented an unacceptable risk to the
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community and he had not participated in the required external leave programs 2 years later in April 2019 it
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was announced that Matthew deuchi had been approved for parole he walked out of prison in August
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that year aged 41 years old under the conditions of Matthew's release he was forbidden from returning
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to the areas related to his crimes while he was not allowed to contact stalk harass or intimidate any
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of the family members of his victims he was permitted to reach out to those who continued to support
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him Jennifer deuchi side of the family spoke to the media through a representative they said that while
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Matthew's sentence would end they had to endure a life sentence because of what he had
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done Matthew's supporters claimed that he was motivated to do nothing else than live a normal community life and his
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legal representative maintained that he was no longer a risk to society yet in a letter to the Parole
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Authority before his release Matthew expressed his own concerns about his ability to reintegrate citing limited
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support and his lack of skills to contribute [Music] the family members who remained
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supportive of Matthew including his father Wayne felt he had been unfairly stitched up by the
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investigators to this day Matthew asserts his innocence this is in stark contrast with
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the opinions of case detectives who never doubted Matthew's guilt they are still left questioning what perceived
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indiscretion LED Matthew to bludgeon his mother and siblings a forensic detective who worked to the
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investigation told the camra times Matthew deuchi has never admitted to it for someone who doesn't admit they
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did it how can they be rehabilitated if he's done something like this over something so trivial if
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something made him snap down the track you wouldn't know what he would do I wouldn't want to be living anywhere near
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the guy if he gets out by the time his son was released Wayne deuchi was a pensioner living in
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Tasmania Matthew was permitted to contact his father who continued to support his only living
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child Wayne had been a witness at the trial and because Witnesses are not permitted in court until after they've
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given evidence he'd never heard the full case against his son but by 2003 7 years after the
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murders enough time had elapsed for the bereaved hus husband and father to want to know the
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truth he contacted the cas's lead detective Danny shaky to request a meeting to discuss the
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crime the subsequent appointment ended up taking nearly an entire day the detective showed Wayne
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statements photographs and evidence lists and patiently explained why the detectives had targeted his
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son right from the start everything had pointed to Matthew detective shaki detailed the holes in
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Matthew's story until it became obvious that Wayne could understand why the police concluded his son was a killer it
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was a lot for the father to take in detective shaky told Wayne to get in touch if he ever needed any further
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information he didn't hear from him again [Music] [Music]