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in mid-2004 Australian real estate group LJ Hooker posted a for sale sign on the
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front lawn of a vacant address in North Ryde a cosmopolitan suburb in northwestern Sydney the modern two-story
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home had been constructed for years prior at Sandy brick veneer as pristine as the day it was built his windowed
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facade overlooked the leafy residential strip of Collins Street a small quiet thoroughfare lined with similar
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medium-sized family homes the 4-bedroom 3-bathroom property was spacious though homely and boasted a double garage with
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an adjoining carport a pathway led from the smooth concrete driveway to the front door framing the manicured lawn
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the entrance foyer and hallway granted access to a study laundry large dining area and kitchen which overlooked a
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small grassy courtyard framed by a sunlit garden bed a curved wooden staircase led to the upper floor where
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the four bedrooms were located including a master with on sway the property presented ample opportunity for a young
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family wishing to capitalize on the superb location North Ryde is nestled on the banks of lanco River and enclosed
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the coastal Inlet the joins Parramatta River to form an arm of the iconic Sydney Harbour only 15 kilometers from
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Sydney's central business district North Ryde is popular with professionals and families alike attracted by the strong
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community spirit and abundance of schools parklands transport services and shopping districts the stately Collins
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Street property caught the eye of the Lin family Taiwanese immigrants looking to settle in the area the Lin's were
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shown through the house by LJ Hooker real estate agents on three separate occasions each time they admired the
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freshly painted cream-colored walls glossy floor tiles and warm natural light pouring in from the
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floor-to-ceiling windows the vacant property had been on the market for three years the lack of
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interest the leading the estates trustee to periodically lower the asking price in the hopes the declining offer would
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tempt a buyer when the Lin family expressed interest in the : Street house in 2004 they offered $800,000 for the
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property a significant bargain as many homes just like it in the area sold for over a million their real estate
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purchase contract was quickly drafted and signed with the new homeowners handing over an 80 thousand dollar
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deposit excited for their promising future in North Ryde a sold sticker was firmly planted on the sale sign out the
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front of the Cullen Street property prompting local news outlets to report on the controversial purchase upon
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reading a local newspaper the Lin family were horrified to learn of the events that had once taken place in their new
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home having never been informed by real estate agents of the : street addresses shocking history the Lin's felt deceived
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and demanded to be released from their purchase contract LJ Hooker initially refused their request but increasing
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public pressure led them to buckle a settlement was reached wherein the Lin family were lawfully released from the
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contract and refunded their full deposit the OJ hooker real estate agents involved in the transaction maintained
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they had done nothing wrong in their conduct of selling the North Ryde property but the New South Wales Office
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of Fair Trading started investigating the matter in December 2004 the New South Wales Fair Trading Minister ruled
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that the agents had breached both the property stock into business agents Act and the Fair Trading Act by not acting
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honestly fairly or professionally LJ Hooker were fined twenty thousand nine hundred dollars for their misconduct the
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first time such a penalty had been imposed in the state at Bataan no laws existed in New South
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Wales that compelled real estate agents to disclose whether a crime or death had
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taken place in any purchasable property as a result of the scandal a new state law was established requiring real
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estate agents to disclose the history of a property to bias prior to its sale the
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next time a for sale sign was placed out front of the Collins Street property in
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2005 and carried a new detail in small print at the bottom of the sign were the words this is the former home of the
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Gonzalez family [Music] the Filipino city of Baguio lies 250 kilometers north of the country's
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capital Manila it was here in the mountain resort city nicknamed the city of pollens
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where Teodoro was born in 1954 the fourth child of the close-knit Gonzalez family fondly nicknamed
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Teddy the youngest of the Gonzalez siblings exhibited a strong work ethic continuously achieving and setting new
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goals for himself as he grew older Teddy showed a proclivity for academics excelling at political science and
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economics upon acceptance into university he studied law having his scholarly efforts validated upon passing
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the bar exam in 1977 Teddy met fellow University student eighteen-year-old Mary Claire
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adidas who was known to friends and family by her middle name Lou Eva the oldest of six children Luther was shy
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and soft-spoken a delicate man poised woman there's was a mutual wistful romance and Teddy and Weaver were
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married within months of their first encounter over public displays of affection were frowned upon in their
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conservative culture so the couple may do by constantly holding hands an affectionate habit they maintained too
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long into their marriage it was a respectful devoted marriage with the husband and wife treating each other as
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equals in 1980 the couple welcomed their first child a son they named to serve the origin of the unique name would
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remain a curious mystery with Teddy promising the gift the story behind his son's namesake on SEFs 21st birthday
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in 1983 the Gonzalez's welcome to their second child a daughter named Claude Dean known for his idealism and
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determination teddy Gonzalez worked hard to provide a good life for his family ensuring that would never have to enjoy
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the burdens of financial struggle he faced during his own upbringing after excelling at University
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Teddy worked in real estate before moving on to property development assisted by louisvil the
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husband-and-wife duo also ran a local video shop and the pharmacy in 1989 Teddy achieved his greatest work
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endeavor to date building and opening an impressive four-story forty room hotel in the Baguio area boasting a restaurant
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and musically arch the Queen Victoria Hotel was a roaring success and a source of great pride for the industrious Teddy
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his family resided in the hotel itself making the Queen Victoria more than just a business venture
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but also their home in 1990 the Las on earthquake devastated the Philippines producing a 125 kilometers on ground
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rupture that claimed to the lives of 1,600 people and a leveled entire cities including Baguio the Queen Victoria
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Hotel collapsed but not before the Gonzalez family managed to flee the building or so they thought upon
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reaching safety a horrifying realization dawned nine-year-old SEF had not made it
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out Teddy rushed into the rubble and began crawling on his hands and knees to locate his son to the father's relief he
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found self alive and promptly pulled him to safety with their hotel structurally and
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financially in ruin the Gonzalez family made the decision to relocate to an area
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where such a disaster was unlikely to happen again several members of their extended family had since resettled in
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Australia and during visits louisvil found sydney particularly appealing it was soon decided the Australian state of
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New South Wales was to become the new home for the Gonzalez family life in Australia was one of progress and
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success for the Gonzalez family Teddy studied to gain the relevant qualifications needed to practice law in
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the country and after graduation he opened his own law firm T Gonzalez & Associates where he focused on helping
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Filipino nationals prepare their immigration documents louisvil worked alongside him as the office manager
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taking care of the company's administrative duties by late 1999 business was thriving Teddy and Weaver
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purchased the block of land on Collins Street in the middle-class neighborhood of North Ryde where they built their
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dream family home [Music] the two Gonzalez children had an idea love bringing in Australia with the
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success of their parents providing the siblings with an abundance of opportunities and financial stability
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eldest SEF was the quieter and more academically inclined showing great promise from a young age with many
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anticipating the straight-a student would one day become a doctor or lawyer despite his academic achievements surfs
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true passion was music considered quite the singer surf held a grandiose dreams of fronting his own mainstream R&B hip
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hop band these lofty ambitions were far too unconventional for his down-to-earth
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career orientated parents so SEF began pursuing professions more worthy of their approval music remained a major
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interest of surfs that was relegated to a side hobby he joined to the hip hop a boyband definite
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vibes who to it at nightclubs and hosted dance parties throughout Sydney although
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their initial performances were met with mixed reviews with criticism centered on
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the group's awkward stage presence their parties were a financial success the combined talents of definite vibes
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appeared of lucrative with SEF posting of a $40,000 recording contract offer from a major music company the mild fame
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fostered SEFs dating life and even garnered him an obsessive fan named Daisy Diaz Daisy created and maintained
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a web page titled Daisy's dedication page to sefie with an introduction that read hi in case you stumbled into here
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by accident I'm Daisy Diaz and I wrote this page for my best friend to surf remember that
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he's a sweetie and a true friend besides being caring trustworthy cute adorable kind understanding intelligent
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and can sing in a way that makes any girl's heart know and if you mess with him you mess with me littered with
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rambling adoring posts about surf Daisy sight also featured romantic song lyrics she dedicated to
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him along with a candid collection of photographs of her beloved one showed self with microphone in hand performing
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on stage with definite vibes while in another a smoke safely across the laps of several female models an intimate
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photo of Saif posing shirtless for a professional shoot was captioned steam steam babyface in one post Daisy wrote
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every time I close my eyes I thank the Lord that I've got you babe and you've got me too some people think there's no
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such thing as a dream decent God well in my eyes you prove them wrong sefie if you ever stop being my friend I would be
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so incomplete SEFs friends and acquaintances also knew of his accomplishments in kickboxing modeling
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and personal training nevertheless academic study remained a primary focus for surf after initially pursuing
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tertiary studies in medicine surf determined to the field was not for him and instead began following in his
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father's footsteps he enrolled in a law degree in Macquarie University which was
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much better suited to the 20 year old as his end-of-semester report cards indicated he was excelling in the course
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meanwhile Saif worked part-time at his father's Law Firm where he provided paralegal and itay assistants around at
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the office proud of their son's efforts Teddy and Oliva rewarded him with a green Ford Festiva with the personalised
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number plate Saif G ad the vehicle became their sons pride and joy although academically overshadowed by
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her older brother Claudine Gonzalez also did well at her studies unlike reserved and studious SEF her
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strengths arose from her outgoing and affable personality long drives always went by quickly when the animated and
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talkative clodine was in the car with a talent for both athletics and cooking and hopes to one day become a teacher
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the high school student had many opportunities ahead of her but still had plenty of time to determine her path in
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life the high expectations of their parents was a source of rivalry between the Gonzalez siblings enter the pair
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were not immune to typical sibling arguments but they were never malicious enough to break the long-standing bond
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they shared since childhood with SEF constantly maintaining his role as clodine 'he's protective older brother
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SEF and Clawdeen's lives were comfortable albeit heavily moderated by their strict devout Catholic parents
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when clodine started a relationship with 19 year old Chris the firm grip of her parents tightened strong-willed and
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independent clodine pushed back resorting to sneaking out of the family house to see her though Teddy and her
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Louisville were vocal in their disapproval of the relationship regarding Chris as a bad influence
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heated words were once exchanged between all parties making tensions abundantly clear concerned that their daughter's
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social life was interfering with her studies Teddy and Oliva sent clodine to live with a relative in Melbourne where
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she would finish her final year of high school without distraction Clawdeen maintained contact with her sydney-based
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boyfriend via phone causing her older brother to step in SEF sent Chris veiled threats implying he was in a criminal
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gang and warning him to stay away from his sister although it was all pork chefs
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intimidating message was heard loud and clear and Chris ended his relationship with clodine soon after
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although stern and rigid with their children there was little doubt Teddy and Oliver loved SEF and clodine the
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parents had plans to solve their collins street address in the future using part
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of the payout to buy both of their children a place of their own by July 2001 each member of the Gonzalez family
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was working towards their own goals teddy was mentoring his son at his law office anticipating SEF would one day
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take his place as the head of the business Louisville was planning her upcoming wedding anniversary
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where she and Teddy would renew their vows clodine was visiting home from Melbourne for the school holidays
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excited about celebrating her upcoming 19th birthday the morning of Tuesday July 10 2001 started typically for the
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Gonzalez family Teddy and Louisville rose early and left for work in separate cars SEF headed off to Macquarie
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University where he'd spent most of the morning before commencing his parts on job at the family legal office later
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that evening he had made plans to catch up with a friend clodine remained home alone with plans to spend the day
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studying as she was scheduled to return to Melbourne in two days time to resume her schooling later that same day
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Leivers sister 35 year-old Emily Luna finished work at her corporate office in Sydney's north and went to pick up her
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eight-year-old son from daycare given she was only a short drive from Lewis place Emily decided to pop by for a chat
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it was nearing 6 p.m. when emily began navigating north roads dense suburbia towards collins street
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when Emily pulled up to the Gonzalez property she was surprised that no one appeared to be home the garage door was
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down into the windows of the house were dark Emily thought this strange as her sister was typically home from work by
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6:00 the green Ford Festiva belonging to Emily's nephew was parked in the carport
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yet the Gonzalez property setting uncharacteristic darkened to silence when something quickly swept by one of
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the downstairs windows Emily presumed someone was home after all it had been a wet winter's day and emily was thankful
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the drizzling rain had stopped long enough to allow her and her son to get out of their car without needing an
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umbrella they approached the entrance noticing a faint light emanating from a frosted window alongside the front door
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that appeared to be coming from the kitchen at the rear of the property Emily was certain now that someone was
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in the house but after ringing the doorbell multiple times there was no answer and nothing stirred within her
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sister owned six small dogs that always barked excitedly when someone was at the
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door but the house remained eerily silent peering through the frosted window by the door Emily was immediately
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startled by an upright figure standing on the other side wearing a long coat and baseball cap she
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thought she saw the figure move slightly there couldn't be certain in the dim light alarmed emily remarked i thought
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there was a man her young son had also noticed the shadowy figure who quickly dismissed his mother's concern
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explaining it was just the coach stand in the foyer with a jacket and hat hanging off it emily headed towards the
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side of the property to check a rear door she got as far as the carport before an unsettling gut feeling
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compelled her not to go any further deciding she'd just found her sister later Emily turned around returned to
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her car with her son and to drive away from Collins Street throughout the night Emily called the gong
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Alice Holmes found multiple times but was met with a busy signal on each occasion at 8:45 p.m. that night SEF
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gonzales and his best friend Sam dined at the Planet Hollywood restaurant on the popular main strip of George Street
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in Sydney picking hesitantly at the cheeseburger he'd ordered SEF was reluctant to eat telling Sam his mother
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had recently contracted food poisoning while starting out at a restaurant during their dinner Sam received a phone
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call from his younger sister Michelle who was friends with SEF sister clodine Michelle was seeking an explanation from
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SEF she'd been attempting to get in touch with clodine all night but her mobile phone was going on ears and the
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Gonzalez homes phone line was busy using his mobile SEF trying his family's home
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phone but was met with the busy signal he suggests that someone might have been using the dial-up internet which
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prevented incoming calls from connecting through after their dinner Sam and SEF went next door into the galaxy road
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arcade where they played video games before calling it a night at around 11:00 p.m. SEF dropped Sam home and two
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drove the four blocks back to his family's house on Collins Street at 11:48 p.m. in New South Wales ambulance
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service operator received a triple zero phone call from a young male located in the North Ryde area
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frantic and shaken the caller struggled to get the words out his parents had been shot and were bleeding on the floor
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minutes later collins straight resident John at a Mian was abruptly awoken by a loud thumping sound on the exterior wall
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of his bedroom someone yelled frantically health help John where are you John recognized the distressed voice
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is that of his 20 year old and next-door neighbor SEF Gonzales Ceph screamed my parents my family have
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all been killed across the street Shane Henley was watching television when he overheard the frantic cries from outside
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and went to check what was going on he was met by SEF Gonzales sobbing hysterically neighbours Shane and John
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were able to decipher some of the young man's barely coherent blubbering hearing
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something about chefs family being shot dead all of them gone John raced off the phone and ambulance
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as SEF anxiously paced the Colin Street before collapsing in an emotional heap on his family's driveway
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Shane attempted to comfort the young man but within seconds SEF abruptly left up
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explaining that he knew how to perform CPR and rushed into his home Shane followed SEF into the house where 46
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year-old tena Gonzales was laying on a white rug by the front door the stout older man lay unmoving on his back in a
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pool of blood SEF rushed over and wailed by his father's body but Teddy didn't respond the gaping wound in his chest
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clearly fatal shane attempted to pull safe away but the young man wrestled out of his grip and ran into another room
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following behind SEF shane entered the combined a lounge and dining area where he saw a figure sprawled on the floor by
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a glass coffee table it was the petite body of 43 year old boy for gonzalez she too was
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unresponsive her body riddled with open bloody wounds SEF rushed back and forth between his parents
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weeping hysterically fearful the perpetrators may still be in the house Shane coached safe outside before
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rushing back to his own house and calling triple zero Shane waited on the line until he heard
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the sound of police sirens approaching police and paramedics swiftly descended on Collins Street though immediate entry
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into the Gonzalez home was halted due to fears the perpetrators may still be inside eventually armed officers
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escorted a medic into the dimly lit interior entering via the garage they found the bodies of teddy and deliver on
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the ground floor of the address before cautiously heading upstairs where another grim discovery was made the
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bloodied body of 18 year-old clodine Gonzalez was found curled in the fetal position inside her bedroom a Raider
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jumper placed over her to cover the savage injuries she had sustained none of the victims had been shot as
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initially suspected but all had been brutally stabbed in total teddy Gonzalez had suffered 12 injuries a majority of
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them centralized in his upper body his lungs and heart had been penetrated whilst his jugular vein carotid artery
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and spine were severed the spinal injury alone would have partially paralyzed the
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Teddy defensive wounds on his arms and fingers indicated he attempted to fight for his life louisvil Gonzalez sustained
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wounds to her face back chest abdomen and groin along with defensive wounds to her hands and arms a six centimeter long
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laceration across her throat had severed her windpipe but the lack of active bleeding indicated this they'd cut had
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been inflicted postmortem upstairs Claudine Gonzalez had been bludgeoned with a heavy object
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fracturing her skull distinctive arc shaped dents in the wall above her body identified the weapon as likely to have
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been a baseball bat clodine had also been strangled and stabbed with seven wounds located throughout her body five
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to her neck and two to her torso established evidence coupled with the body temperatures of the victims we used
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to determine the order and approximate time in which each member of the Gonzalez family was murdered clodine
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Gonzalez was targeted first with unanswered text messages to a friend leading investigators to presume she was
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confronted shortly after a 4:00 p.m. open school textbooks on the year 12 students desk indicated she was ambushed
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while studying and did not anticipate the attack at 4:50 p.m. louisvil Gonzalez left work with a colleague whom
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she dropped off at their house before heading to Collin Street arriving home soon after believer was confronted by
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her killer upon entering the living space mobile phone records of teddy Gonzalez showed he left work around 6:20
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p.m. placing two calls home during his drive both going unanswered he was immediately struck by his killer upon
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entering the front door as the last surviving member of his family SEF Gonzales at hunched on the ground inside
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the garage of his family home in a heightened emotional state requesting rosary beads he stumbled through his
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recollections of the night to police explaining that he discovered the bodies of his family members upon returning
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home from an evening out with a friend he spotted one or two perpetrators fleeing southward down Collins Street
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and after a futile attempt to give chase SEF rushed back home and to perform CPR
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on his parents before calling emergency services and seeking help from his neighbors
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Ceph couldn't identify anyone specific who would target his family but record an incident from the night before that
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police believed may have been connected the Gonzalez family were driving home together from Clos Dean's 18th birthday
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dinner when a road rage incident occurred with another vehicle the driver of the other vehicle sped past the
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Gonzalez's car yelling out quote bloody Asians the possibility the Gonzalez Lang's were a racially motivated hate
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crime was further substantiated by evidence found at the crime scene a wall hanging in an area by the Gonzalez's
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kitchen had been torn down and replaced with graffiti scrawled in blue spray-paint at red quote [ __ ] off Asians
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with the letters KKK sprayed nearby there were also indications that a robbery had taken place as Teddy's
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briefcase and to leave his handbag had been clearly rummaged through leaving their contents scattered in disarray the
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doors of several wardrobes were left hanging wide open suggesting someone had hastily looked inside them the cord to
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the landline phone had been cut explaining why the many calls made to the homestead throughout the evening had
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been met with a busy signal Louisville's pet dogs were all found unharmed though restrained or behind
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closed doors if a robbery had taken place it appeared to have been an incompetent one the
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Gonzalez house was neat and orderly without the overt signs of mess and carelessness akin to typical robberies
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nothing appeared to be obviously ransacked or missing expensive jewelry and electronics had been ignored as was
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the $700 cash in Teddy's wallet and to the $300 in Weaver's handbag the wardrobes were open but their contents
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were undisturbed notably the blood spatter on the floor underneath Teddy's briefcase into Weaver's handbag showed
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the items did not fall to the ground haphazardly mid attack but were later emptied and planted there this was the
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first clear indication to investigators that the crime scene was not an amateur robbery but was instead carefully staged
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to appear like one other evidence correlated with this theory the fly wire mesh screening that had once covered the
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window above the kitchen sink was found discarded outside having been slashed and ripped off its frame upon first
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glance it appeared this window had been the entry point for the perpetrator however there were no pry marks on the
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window frame or large employing the frame was not removed with any overt force or sense of urgency furthermore
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there were no shoe prints found on the kitchen counter inside which would be expected if the perpetrator climbed in
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through the window the estimated timings of each victim's murder was also of great interest to investigators as it
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showed the killer had remained inside the Gonzalez house for several hours between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. this
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didn't correspond with expectations of a brash and sudden home invasion but implied the killer patiently lay in wait
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as each family member returned home attacking them one by one with calculated purpose adding to the
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evidence the killer acted methodically was the discovery of fresh water found pooled on the tiles of a bathroom
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revealing someone had only recently taken a shower there this act couldn't have been performed by the
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victims as it was determined to the show I was taken after their deaths it was likely the killer had taken the time to
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rinse off after carrying out the murders instead of hastily fleeing the scene aside from the baseball bat
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the only other weapon used in the crime appeared to have been a knife a knife block displayed on the kitchen bench had
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two of its largest than the longest knives missing forensic experts determined the smaller of the missing
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knives could have caused the type of wounds inflicted on Teddy Hoover and clodine the murder weapons having been
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sourced from inside the Gonzalez homes thought out a strange and introduced some major red flags in the racially
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motivated home invasion theory a home invasion especially one committed against a
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specific target involved a certain level of planning and preparation perpetrators
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would not run the risk of arriving to the scene unarmed bloody shoe prints tracked throughout the house did not
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match the Footwear worn by anyone who had since entered the crime scene including victims police officers
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neighbors and SEF Gonzales investigators were quick to identify the style of shoe
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a laceless UK size 7 human brand running shoe believed to have been worn by the killer police door knocked the local
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area and spoke with neighbors but no one reported hearing any suspicious noises or signs of an altercation potential
00:36:29
witness accounts were impeded by the wild winter weather that evening moderate to heavy rain rolling thunder
00:36:35
and the gusts of wind police dogs were brought to the scene but they were unable to pick up a scent
00:36:46
at 3:00 a.m. on July 11 the sole surviving member of the Gonzalez family was escorted to a local police station
00:36:53
to provide an official written statement SEF detailed his morning trip into University and his afternoon spent
00:37:01
working at his father's law office that was approaching 5:00 p.m. when SEF left work to meet up with his friend Sam for
00:37:08
they plan to catch up he then received a text message from Sam asking to postpone
00:37:14
their meeting until later that evening as he had committed to playing a game of basketball SEF agreed and decided to go
00:37:22
home in the meantime during the drive to North Ryde SEF called both his mother's
00:37:27
mobile phone and at the family house phone but neither calls were answered SEF arrived home at around 6 p.m. with the
00:37:37
unanswered calls and overall darkened stillness of the house leading him to presume no one was home as he remained
00:37:45
sitting in his vehicle waiting for a break in the rainy weather he received a phone call from Sam the pair agreed to
00:37:52
meet up at 8:00 p.m. as a means to fill the two hours before he met with Sam SEF
00:37:58
drove off towards King's Grove a suburb 22 kilometres south of North Ryde a friend of his had recently moved there
00:38:06
so SEF thought it would be a good time to visit and check out his new place upon arriving to King's Grove Sefton
00:38:15
have the address so we drove around aimlessly attempting to find his friend's new house realizing it was
00:38:22
nearing the time he was due to meet up with Sam SEF gave up on seeing the Kings Grove house and went to pick up Sam
00:38:29
instead the pair left Sam's house at around 8:15 p.m. and drove into the city where they dined at Planet Hollywood
00:38:36
then played in the galaxy world arcade leaving shortly after 11:00 p.m. CCTV footage retrieved from cameras
00:38:45
along George Street confirmed SEFs whereabouts at this time SEF drops Sam home and to drive onwards
00:38:53
towards his house where he parked his car in the carport upon entering the house via a side
00:39:00
access door he immediately came across his father's body in the foyer miss identifying the stab wounds in Teddy's
00:39:07
chest four bullet holes SEF called triple zero and requested an ambulance before discovering the bodies of his
00:39:14
mother and sister whilst attending to his sister's wounds SEF ever heard a sound from downstairs
00:39:21
followed by the side gate slamming shut outside he raced into the garage and pressed the button that opened to the
00:39:29
roll the door had slowly creeped upwards and when there was enough space SEF squeezed through the gap underneath and
00:39:36
ran out onto the road he caught sight of a male figure running away towards a nearby intersection
00:39:42
he thought he glimpsed another man fleeing to but couldn't be certain that it wasn't just the shadow of the first
00:39:49
person as news of the triple homicide spread speculation ran right over who could be responsible for the horrific
00:40:00
crime rumors circulated about the legitimacy of Teddy's legal business suggesting the father may have been
00:40:06
involved in some shady dealings there were unconfirmed claims that SEF had ties with a local criminal gang and to
00:40:14
the killings could be a warning for the twenty-year-old the hate crime theory was heavily hypothesized with images of
00:40:21
the racist graffiti inside the home featured throughout news reports suspicions aroused that there was more
00:40:28
than meets the eye for the seemingly typical upper middle-class family as members of the public considered whether
00:40:34
the slayings were revenge for a personal vendetta a look into Teddy Gonzalez's background revealed that during the late
00:40:43
1990s he had come under the radar of the Department of immigration for allegedly
00:40:47
helping Filipino immigrants lie on documents seeking refugee status in Australia
00:40:53
Teddy's actions were noticed by government officials and he was subsequently charged with four counts of
00:40:59
falsifying documentation two of these charges were dropped enter the remaining went to trial where Teddy was eventually
00:41:07
cleared nevertheless Teddy had ruffled the feathers of several clients who accused
00:41:13
the immigration lawyer of keeping the money they paid him despite their visa applications being denied earlier in
00:41:23
2001 teddy was overheard in his office arguing on the phone in his native Filipino language of Tagalog in an
00:41:31
uncharacteristic display of anger were usually proud and a resolute teddy shouted [ __ ] you before slamming down
00:41:38
the phone when a work colleague asked what was wrong Teddy explained that he was in the process of selling a property
00:41:46
to an investor in the Philippines dealings had become heated with the investor threatening to kill his family
00:41:53
Teddy didn't appear overly rattled by the threat but soon afterwards he placed a phone call to his father where he
00:42:00
cryptically remarked I have a big family problem I'm dealing with but I think I can solve it on July 13 three days after
00:42:13
the murders of his father mother and sister SEF Gonzales fronted the media offering a $100,000 reward for
00:42:20
information that would help identify his family's killer expressing his overwhelming grief SEF told reporters
00:42:28
quote my father is my hero in all matters my greatest thing was to one day become at least half the man he was my
00:42:38
mother was the heart of the family a very strong passionate character she made it seem that nothing was impossible
00:42:45
no problem insoluble my sister was the life of the family an expert on smiling she made us believe that life should be
00:42:54
taken lightly it is difficult to explain the love and ties in my family but if you were to picture the four corners of
00:43:02
the world in my world we were the four the three corners in my world are now gone
00:43:09
my family friends and myself would like to ask anyone out there to please help us later that same day SEF gonzales
00:43:21
visited his father's accountant and inquired about accessing his inheritance taking into account the Gonzalez's north
00:43:29
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00:43:34
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00:43:44
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00:43:53
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a joint funeral service was held for Teddy louisvil and clodine Gonzalez on July 20 2001 at North roads Holy Spirit
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Catholic Church close to 300 mourners gathered to pay their respects to the slain family including the colleagues
00:49:20
and clients of the Gonzalez legal office include Eanes many school friends also present were members of law enforcement
00:49:28
still in the midst of conducting their investigations into finding the family's killer eulogies fondly remembered the
00:49:37
lives of the father mother and daughter whilst grieving friends and family retold their final encounters with the
00:49:43
deceased never expecting these fleeting moments would become the last time they would see the trio seated on the front
00:49:52
pew was SEF Gonzales surrounded by supporters the young man kept his head bare throughout most of the service
00:49:59
until he was summoned before the crowd to deliver his eulogy SEF lamented his father as his hero referencing his
00:50:08
childhood terror of being trapped after the Lozano earthquake before Teddy bravely rescued him he expressed sadness
00:50:16
ed now never knowing the backstory of his unique name a story Teddy had promised to reveal on Steph's 21st
00:50:23
birthday SEF said I will never find out the meaning of my name because it was taken
00:50:30
away along with my father that part of me will always be incomplete at the conclusion of SEFs eulogy he took a deep
00:50:40
breath in turn enact that would be later described by witnesses as bizarre and uncomfortable he began singing a solo a
00:50:47
cappella rendition of the R&B ballad one sweet day ba Mariah Carey in two boys two men it was a flawless performance
00:50:57
given without a single tear regarded by listeners as emotionally attached self-indulgent and inappropriate given
00:51:04
the somber circumstances of The Gathering Teddy Hoover and clodine were buried together on the grounds of
00:51:12
Macquarie Park symmetry the memorial parks declaring the cherish Trio would forever live in the hearts
00:51:18
and smiles of those they left behind including SEF it hadn't just been funeral attendees who had noticed SEF
00:51:28
Gonzalez's odd behavior in the days following the murder of his family police were suspicious of SEF from the
00:51:35
moment he made the frantic call to zero on the late nights after midnight on July 11 2001 first responders raced to
00:52:39
Collin Street following alarming reports that a gunman was active in the area they arrived to the scene and
00:52:46
nondescript homestead belonging to the Filipino Australian Gonzalez family where they found a 20 year old SEF
00:52:53
Gonzales sitting on the floor of the open garage the young man was in hysterics imploring paramedics and
00:53:01
police officers to enter his house and help his family attempting police were quick to notice F Gonzalez's odd
00:53:09
behavior at the scene although sobbing intensely SEFs face remained completely dry not a single tear was shed
00:53:19
he appeared frenzied and panicked yet his answers to questions were noticeably thought out and rational he claimed to
00:53:27
have performed CPR on both of his parents and too later added he had tended to the wounds of his sister with
00:53:33
his bare hands there was blood staining on the leg of his jeans a little on the back slave of
00:53:39
his jumper as well as a few spots on his boots barely anything given the state of
00:53:44
the victims Seth was quick to offer a dubious explanation claiming that the rain at
00:53:52
which point was only a drizzle had washed most of the blood-stained from his clothing and he had wiped the
00:53:57
remainder from his hands onto the damn floor an astute police officer noticed some blue colored staining on the left
00:54:06
sleeve of Ceph jumper towards the edge of the calf the color resembled the spray paint used to graffiti racial
00:54:13
obscenities on an interior wall in the Gonzalez house later analysis determined this staining on Seth's jumper was
00:54:21
indeed a blue paint a shoebox was found in a wardrobe in Seth's bedroom and according to the label that had
00:54:30
originally contained a pair of UK saw seven human brand running shoes the shoes themselves were missing from
00:54:38
Seth's footwear collection but were an exact match to the bloody footprints tracked through the crime scene by the
00:54:43
killer SEF insisted the shoes had never belonged to him they had been purchased by his father for a cousin who lived in
00:54:52
the Philippines knowing a thorough search of his bedroom was underway Sep confided to a police officer about a
00:55:01
pornographic video he had hidden away in a dresser drawer and he appeared very embarrassed by the prospect of
00:55:07
investigators finding it given the tragic circumstances the officer felt uncomfortable the chef's primary concern
00:55:15
was about his pornography stash and not the murder of his family nearly a week after the murders SEF gonzales was
00:55:25
escorted by police to : straight after agreeing to participate in a full reenactment of the night of July 10
00:55:33
calmly and precisely Ceph retraced and described his movements upon finding the brutalized bodies of his parents and
00:55:40
sister at no time did he indicate reliving these traumatic events was causing him any distress of particular
00:55:49
interest to investigators was the claim SEF had witnessed the perpetrator fleeing the house and had subsequently
00:55:55
given chase police tested this theory and determined by the time SEF would have exited the house via the garage and
00:56:04
emerged under Collins Street the killer would have most certainly been long gone
00:56:08
and completely out of sight CCTV footage retrieved from cameras within Sydney's CBD confirmed SEFs alibi on the night of
00:56:21
July 10 proving he had dined out and played arcade games with a friend between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 11:00
00:56:28
p.m. SEFs claims that he was out driving around King's Grove prior to this Meetup
00:56:34
could not be verified nor could his whereabouts between the crucial time frame in which the murders were carried
00:56:40
out sometime between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. a client of Tony Gonzalez's law firm told police they had stopped by the
00:56:50
Collins straight home between 4:10 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on July 10 around to the approximate time clodine was killed as
00:57:00
this witness dropped some documents into the Gonzalez as the letterbox they recalled seeing a green Ford
00:57:06
Festiva parked at the front of the house this was not the only witness who saw SEF Gonzalez's vehicle parked at the
00:57:14
Collins straight address within the time frame of the murders Emily Luna SEFs on had visited the
00:57:21
Gonzalez home at approximately 6:00 p.m. on July 10 and recalled SEFs Ford Festiva was parked in the carport
00:57:29
she believed someone was home at the time as she had spotted movement through a window and noted the kitchen light was
00:57:36
on yet when Emily rang the doorbell several times there was no answer Emily's statement wasn't surprising
00:57:45
given the chef's written statement also declared he'd stopped by the house around this time SEF said it had been
00:57:52
raining so he remained in the car and had never entered the house before deciding to drive off to King's Grove to
00:57:58
visit his friend yet Emily Luna provided two crucial details during her interviews that contradicted SEF
00:58:07
statement firstly Emily distinctly remembered it was not raining when she visited the house as she didn't require
00:58:15
the use of her umbrella during further talks with police Emily also admitted that she did not see SEF sitting in his
00:58:23
vehicle at the time the two suspected murder weapons a knife believed to have been sauce from the Gonzales kitchen and
00:58:32
a baseball bat had not been recovered according to SEFs close friend sam SEF mentioned he kept a baseball bat in the
00:58:41
boot of his car as a means of self-protection when questioned about the bat SEF said he may have carried one
00:58:49
in the past but he couldn't account for its current whereabouts investigators were certain SEF was being deceitful but
00:58:59
it wasn't until they began questioning his friends and extended social group that they uncovered the sheer extent of
00:59:05
deception the twenty-year-old had cultivated throughout the years Ceph gloated two acquaintances of being
00:59:12
at Auckland Oh expert who ran his own security company owned property and frequently traveled to New York to
00:59:19
negotiate elaborate business deals he also claimed to be the manager of a boy band a music producer a successful
00:59:27
singer with a record deal a world champion kickboxer a lawyer a personal trainer and the manager of a modeling
00:59:34
agency in early 2007 used the friends that he had been diagnosed with cancer later revealing he had beaten the
00:59:43
disease and was now in remission the depth of Seth's deception went far deeper than seemingly harmless arrogant
00:59:52
brags to friends and associates music was clearly seft greatest passion yet his R&B group definite vibes had to
01:00:01
staunch critics his own parents Teddy and Oliver were vocal about their disapproval of their son's musical
01:00:09
ambitions as it had caused everything else in his life to fall by the wayside including his education SEF failed to
01:00:18
submit assignments or attend exams his musical priorities having irreversible negative impact on his medical science
01:00:25
degree which he hastily dropped out of his parents threatened to take away his beloved car if his studies didn't
01:00:32
improve which would strip the twenty-year-old of his independence teddy and Olivia were pleased when Saif
01:00:39
started achieving high results in his new legal studies degree indicating a positive change in his attitude however
01:00:47
it was discovered safe had been falsifying university documents to deceive his parents into thinking he was
01:00:53
doing much better than he was in reality Saif was failing all four of his subjects the truth about surfs academic
01:01:04
failure and forgery had only recently been exposed the teddy and over there disappointment causing a rift between
01:01:11
son and parents adding fuel to this tension was SEFs romantic relationships he introduced one girlfriend to his
01:01:20
mother in the hopes of gaining her approval but louisvil was dismissive expressing concerns a girlfriend would
01:01:27
only be another distraction to saif SEFs parents threatened to disinherit him if he continued to see his
01:01:35
girlfriend leading the relationship to come to an end chefs temperamental relationship with
01:01:42
these parents may have had roots in his upbringing although the Gonzalez parents were
01:01:47
loving Saif was harshly disciplined when he misbehaved during his childhood it appeared Saif carried the emotional
01:01:55
baggage from his youth into his adult years which manifested in frequent bedwetting
01:02:01
louisvil had encouraged serf to seek professional help for this reoccurring issue but her attempts to assist were
01:02:07
futile the true level of SEFs dishonesty was exposed when a family friend accused
01:02:14
him of stealing money from her purse SEF didn't deny the allegation simply saying
01:02:20
he was an opportunist he came as little surprised the Teddy or louisvil when they found out as they had suspected for
01:02:28
some time that Saif was stealing cash from their wallets after his parents and sister were murdered Saif was approved a
01:02:38
fifteen thousand dollar payment from the government as part of her victims of crime compensation scheme however he
01:02:45
didn't use this money to pay for his family's funeral or his own living expenses as it was intended instead he
01:02:52
used part of the payout for cosmetic enhancements to his mother's car which he had taken to driving following her
01:02:59
murder [Music] the overwhelming circumstantial evidence was mounting against SEF Gonzales who
01:03:09
stood to gain immense profit from the deaths of his parents especially if his sister was removed from the equation
01:03:16
Seve meant li denied accusations of involvement in the crime alleging that a hit had been taken out on his family by
01:03:23
one of his father's wealthy influential filipino business rivals Saif believed the killer's intentionally spared one
01:03:31
family member to serve as the scapegoat and was living in fear that someone would be coming for him next it wasn't a
01:03:40
completely inconceivable prospect as a colleague of Teddy's had overheard the immigration lawyer aggressively arguing
01:03:46
and swearing on the phone with a Filipino property investor months prior to the murders according to Teddy
01:03:54
the caller threatened to kill his family but other than Teddy's word investigators failed to find any
01:04:00
concrete evidence to support this threat was ever made they identified several business rivals
01:04:07
of Teddy's who may have stood to gain marginally from his death yet they liked motive to order the deaths of liver and
01:04:14
close dane and subsequent investigations ruled them out as suspects despite this the hitman theory arose
01:04:23
again in August when SEF gonzales handed police a copy of an anonymous email he had received a month after the murders
01:04:31
Britain in a mix of English and Tagalog the email stated a hitman was paid for three murders and implied SEF had been
01:04:39
the intended third target alongside his parents the email read you're supposed to be the third person they were paid
01:04:49
for three it's a blessing that you were not there SEF was convinced his life was
01:04:57
still in danger enlisting friends to act as bodyguards police later seized SEFs personal computers and found a draft of
01:05:06
the threatening email stored on one of them Cerf had written it himself surfs on Emily Luna refused to accept that her
01:05:18
baby face but nephew could be guilty for the violent triple murder despite recognizing many inconsistencies
01:05:23
in his statements and having some awareness that he was not the perfect son nevertheless Emily remained
01:05:32
supportive of Cerf even holding his hand as he gave his first interview with police regarding July 10 emily listened
01:05:41
as seft de tower driving to the gonzalez house at 6:00 p.m. before departing soon
01:05:46
after it was his remark that the rain prevented him from getting out of his car that caused Emily's hand to
01:05:53
instinctively jerk away from surfs she stopped by the house at 6:00 p.m. and knew without a doubt that it had not
01:06:01
been raining and SEF was not in his car it was in that moment the haunting realization dawned on Emily she knew her
01:06:10
nephew was lying upon accepting the possibility that SEF may be responsible for the brutal murder of her sister
01:06:19
brother-in-law under niece Emily agreed to discreetly work with investigators against her nephew a listening device
01:06:28
installed in her car and a plan constructed in which she was the TEL SEF she knew he was responsible for the
01:06:34
killings and wanted to protect him but the ploy didn't work not only did SEF continually deny having
01:06:43
anything to do with the crime he also told Emily he was so depressed over the matter that he was considering taking
01:06:49
his own life two months after the murders of Teddy liver and clodine Gonzalez SEF was at a coffee shop when a
01:07:02
passerby complimented him on his clothing flattered SEF struck up a conversation with a man who revealed
01:07:10
himself to be a gangster with connections to the police force SEF claimed he too was in a gang called the
01:07:17
white dragons Asian in truth there was no such gang SEF made it up the to build a rapport forming a
01:07:27
friendship over the following ways the man was aware of the allegations SEF was facing and in an act of good faith
01:07:35
offered his new friend an opportunity he knew a guy in prison who was dying and who was willing to take the rap for
01:07:42
crimes he didn't commit if SEF wanted to the terminal prisoner could confess to the Gonzales family
01:07:49
murders on SEFs behalf taking the heat off him completely in the end SEF didn't accept the offer
01:07:58
only going so far as providing the gangster with hand to draw on floor plans at the Gonzales home marked with
01:08:05
the location where each member of his family was found unbeknownst to surf his gangster friend
01:08:12
was actually an undercover police officer police promptly compared surfs handwriting from the map provided to the
01:08:20
undercover officers so the racist graffiti on the internal wall at the Gonzales house and found
01:08:25
despite similarities between the two that wasn't the only valuable piece of information SEF had unwittingly provided
01:08:33
on the floor plan he had also noted the time of death of each family member information police had intentionally
01:08:42
withheld as it was a detail only the killer would know during the surveillance SEF told the undercover
01:08:51
officer people don't suspect me it's just SEF with the little baby face I have a split personality I can hide
01:09:00
what I do they've got nothing on me it's all circumstantial stuff however as the undercover operation progressed SEF
01:09:11
didn't confess telling the undercover officer he was not involved in the murders into maintaining his story that
01:09:18
a contract killer hired by one of his father's rivals was responsible for the crime
01:09:25
serfs personal computer had been confiscated from the crime scene and an examination of its contents revealed a
01:09:32
disturbing internet history in the months leading up to the triple murder searches were made online for poisons
01:09:40
that could be easily disguised within food an online purchase was made for the seeds of two types of highly lethal
01:09:47
plants from a United States supplier delivery expected in early July the website of an Australian based seed
01:09:56
supplier had also been visited but their orders were temporarily unavailable an email had been sent from Seth's computer
01:10:04
to this supplier requesting they make an exception explaining it was his mother's
01:10:09
60th birthday the following weekend and he wanted to buy the seeds as a present the email read she's been looking for
01:10:18
those particular seeds ever since she saw them in Florida last year this email was misleading on two accounts louisvil
01:10:27
Gonzalez was only 43 years old not 60 and she had not recently traveled to Florida
01:10:35
Sefton odd performing The Searchers ordering the seeds or sending the email pinning the actions on his deceased
01:10:42
father claiming Teddy must have been researching the sades online to ensure he didn't plant anything poisonous in
01:10:49
the garden unbeknownst to SEF police had found a vial of clear liquid taped under
01:10:56
his desk during an earlier search of his bedroom scientific testing revealed the
01:11:02
mysterious liquid to be a poisonous substance derived from one of the plants searched for online highly lethal to
01:11:09
anyone who consumed it days before her murder Lou Eva Gonzalez had been admitted to
01:11:16
hospital after suffering from intense fever and severe abdominal pains she suspected the culprit was undercooked
01:11:23
food she consumed whilst donning out with her family as SEF had also complained of feeling unwell after the
01:11:29
meal as such she was diagnosed with colitis an inflammation of the bowel associated with food poisoning
01:11:38
Lou Eva received treatment and was discharged from hospital after an overnight stay the link between the
01:11:46
purchase of the poisonous seeds and to Eva's sudden illness was not lost on investigators who were coming to realize
01:11:52
that the deaths of the Gonzalez family may have been months in the planning the poisons weren't the only troublesome
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discovery within the internet history of SEFs computer frequent visits were also
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made to the web page operated by SEFs number one fan teenager Daisy Diaz where she boasted about her love for the
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singer and raved about his outstanding personality good looks and incredible talents when investigators questioned
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SEF about his relationship with Daisy he revealed she had recently passed away during the September 11 terrorist
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attacks on the World Trade Center Ceph claimed he had flown to New York City with Daisy's mother to attend the
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funeral but investigators soon learned the truth Daisy Diaz didn't exist her dedication page to sefie and all its
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gushing posts of adoration was created and managed by saif himself in September 2001 SEFs relatives who were left shaken
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and distraught when he broke the devastating news that he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor he
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contacted his aunt Annie to inform her of the grim diagnosis requesting she sent him one hundred and ninety thousand
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dollars to pay for life-saving surgery Annie who was responsible for managing Teddy's
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overseas investment properties was immediately suspicious of her nephews claims she refused his monetary request
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instead informing the police about her concerns by this stage Saif had not yet gained access to his deceased family's
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multi-million dollar estate and his request for further victim compensation payments had been refused by the
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government Saif did manage to amass approximately eighty eight thousand dollars by selling his parents cars his
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mother's jewelry and his beloved Ford Festiva in the following month of October Saif placed the deposit on a
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$175,000 Lexus SC 430 telling the car dealership he would pay the remaining balance when his inheritance money came
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through Cerf eventually had to cancel the order for the Lexus as he was unable to come up with the remaining balance he
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purchased the more affordable car instead personalizing the license plate to raid t oh say yes the initials of the
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first names of his immediate family since the murders Saif moved between relatives homes before he finally
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settled into a rental apartment on the 11th floor of a secured building in the North Shore suburb of Chatswood the
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apartments rent and bills were financed by his relatives and Saif furnished it with property taken from his families :
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street he told relatives police recommended the relocation as a safety precaution which
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was entirely untrue in December SEFs our Emily Luna agreed to attend the Gonzalez
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residence to reenact her version of events from the evening of July 10 Emily had arrived to the house at 6:00 p.m.
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with the impression someone was home she spotted SEFs Ford Festiva in the carport
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and noticed that was empty she had seen what she believed was a figure wearing a
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baseball cap and coat on the other side of the front door standing in the foyer but her young son had convinced her it
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was just a coat stand during the December reenactment emily realized the coat stand in the foyer was actually
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situated much further back from the front door than she originally thought Emily was now certain it was a person
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she saw on the other side of the door that night 4 foot 4 inches tall the same height as SEF Gonzales by January 2002
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SEF was made aware that investigators were doubting his alibi for the night of the murders the Daily Telegraph
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newspaper reported the police when they are following a line of inquiry around a
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green hatchback similar to SEFs Ford Festiva he undercover officer still posing as SEFs gangster friend also
01:16:17
intentionally leaked information to SEF that witnesses had cited his empty vehicle at the front of his house on the
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afternoon of the murders SEF was oblivious to the fact he's phones were buck and his calls were
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being monitored and recorded by police during a phone call to a friend dated January 10 Cepheid admitted his original
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alibi on the night of the murders had been a lie but he had a new one that he was certain would convince police of his
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innocence although he admitted he was worried it could quote blow up in his face again
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after this call police confronted SEF about his alibi and he decided to come clean SEF did not go driving around to
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King's Grove looking for his friend's new house on the night of the murders he had actually visited a sex worker he
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wasn't upfront about it initially as he was concerned - the Act could bring shame upon his religious family who
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believed he was a virgin SEF now claimed that on the evening of the murders he left his father's legal office just
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before 4:00 p.m. he parked his car at home before walking to a nearby petrol station where he called a taxi to a
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brothel located in Chatswood he left his car at home because he didn't want to risk someone's sighting at near the
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brothel SEF engaged in the services of a sex worker and boasted she tried to refuse
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his payment because the sex was so good afterwards SEF walked the Chatswood train station where he called a taxi
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back home to : street he got straight into his car and to drove to his friend Sam's place for their scheduled a p.m.
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Meetup as they continued to monitor SEFs phone calls police were aware that SEF had
01:18:08
recently been contacting numerous brothels in the North Shore area hurry and at the same time they noticed he was
01:18:15
having telecommunications with an unknown male officers tracked down this man and paid him a visit to inquire
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about his relationship with Saif and the purpose of their recent phone calls the
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man was a local taxi driver he revealed SEF had approached him at the taxi rank at Chatswood train station On January 12
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2002 five months after their triple murder SEF offered the taxi driver $50.00 to write a formal statement
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confirming that he had picked SEF up on the evening of July 10 2001 and had dropped him off at a brothel SEF
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reassured the taxi driver the request didn't relate to anything serious when police informed to the driver that Saif
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was implicated in a triple homicide he immediately retracted his statement which was just as well as he's driving
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records for the evening of July 10 failed to support SEFs new alibi by early April police had spoken with the
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sex worker SEF claimed to have been with the evening of July 10 who revealed she
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had not been working at the brothel that night since the slangs saif had been harassing the woman sending her over 100
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text messages in an attempt to convince her to say they had been together that night
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on May 30 SEF contacted police to report a break-in at his Chatswood apartment he
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also told them he had received two threatening emails one which warned him quote make it easy on yourself confess
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to the police near your father deserves to die don't talk to reporters police found no evidence at the apartment to
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support SEFs claims that a break-in had occurred they traced the location where the threatening emails had been sent
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determining their origin to have been an internet cafe in Sydney as there was no
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CCTV footage inside the cafe the sender could not be identified with media interest heightened around SEF
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he offered to speak to journalists for a fee claiming his safety was a risk and he needed money to hire a bodyguard when
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he realized that asking for payment for an interview about his family slaughter was a bad look SEF agreed to chat with
01:20:44
the journalist Cara Lawrence from The Daily Telegraph newspaper for free during his interview with Lawrence
01:20:53
Sephirah iterated his suspicion that his family's killer had been responsible for
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the break-in at his apartment he declined to say whether he had given police any specific information about
01:21:03
who he suspected was responsible for the murders and subsequent break-in but concluded quote I know that somewhere
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out there there is someone who knows something about someone who's afraid to speak out for whatever understandable
01:21:19
reasons I'm sure the police would do whatever they can to assist whoever is brave enough to come forward with
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information Carol Lawrence later detailed this interview along with her investigations into the case for her
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book titled unmasked the Gonzales family killer at 8:30 p.m. that night SEF was found lying in a gutter in Chatswood a
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plastic bag was found beside him SEF was rushed to hospital where he told doctors
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he couldn't remember who he was or what year it was despite his apparent memory loss there was no evidence indicating
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SEF had sustained any head trauma after he supposedly regained his memory SEF made a police report alleging that
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he had been abducted whilst walking down the street someone had pulled him into a
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car covered his head with a plastic bag and hit him across the head with something resembling a piece of wood the
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abductors warned him to withdraw the reward money he had offered to the public for information on his family's
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killers they also demanded he stop speaking to the media otherwise there would be serious consequences for his
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extended family especially his grandmother and the leader further investigations into this alleged
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crime came up empty there was no proof it took place with SEF specifically singling out threats against his
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grandmother police became concerned for an elitist safety lurid SEF would put anyone in harm's way in order to deflect
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suspicion from himself On June 13 2002 police executed a search warrant on Seth's Chatswood apartment and to
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charged him with three counts of murder as per protocol SEFs fingerprints were taken and entered into the police
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database the database revealed they matched to a previously unidentified fingerprint that was found on an
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envelope of a letter sent to a food manufacturer on July 2 2001 the threatening letter claimed to the
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manufacturers products had been contaminated with deadly poison the letter stated three of your products
01:23:39
have been poisoned by now they are on supermarket shelves this is what you get for treating employees like garbage good
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luck finding infected cans before someone dies go to hell [Music] Australian Federal Police entered the
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Australian quarantine and Inspection Service received similar letters around to that time day letters claimed to be
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from concerned food production employees who had received an anonymous tip-off advising that some of the company's
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products had been poisoned traces of all three letters along with an online search history for the
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addresses of all recipients were found on SEF Gonzales laptop police believed the letters were residue of SEFs initial
01:24:26
plan to poison his family to death going so far as the fabricating evidence to redirect any suspicion away from himself
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along with murder SEF was also charged with threatening product contamination surf's grandmother Emily de and art
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Emily both openly spoke about their fear of SEF during his bail application bail
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was rejected on the basis that SEF was considered too strong a flight risk two months later SEF launched an
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application to gain access to his parents estate in order to fund his trial defense but the request was denied
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the trial for the murders of Teddy Lou Eva and clodine Gonzalez commenced in early April 2004 with chefs defense
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funded by legal aid legal representation given to defendants who cannot afford their own the lesser charge of
01:25:26
threatening product contamination would only proceed to trial if SEF was founded not guilty of the
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murders SEF testified during the trial fielding questions from senior Crown prosecutor mark Tedeschi who argued SEF
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had spent several months planning the murders of his family his premeditation was evident in his attempt to poison
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Weaver Gonzalez in early July the many loss F had told friends and family about his movements on the night of the
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murders were put before the court corroborated by the information provided by SEF himself during over 8,000 phone
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calls police had covertly monitored as further proof of SEFs habit of lying to protect himself the prosecution also
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alleged that the defendants claims he had been abducted assaulted and left for dead in the gutter in Chatswood was yet
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another ruse the full police the prosecution maintained the Ceph murdered his parents amid fears of their incoming
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punishment for failing his second university course fully aware that their first act of discipline would be to
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confiscate his beloved car his motive for murdering clodine was more personal perhaps indicating why she was also
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bludgeoned it was known clodine was the one who had told teddy and Weaver about SEF faking his university results SEFs
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greed was another motivating factor in the slaughter of his sister driven by his desire to be the sole beneficiary of
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his parents multi-million dollar estate based on evidence and forensic findings the prosecution concluded that on the
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afternoon of July 10 2001 SEF Gonzales returned home after working at his parents legal office he collected the
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baseball bat he had kept in the boot of his car as well as two large knives from
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the kitchen wearing gloves a coat and a hat he went upstairs to Claudine's bedroom he surprised the teen as she sat
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at her desk studying bludgeoning throttling then stabbing her to death after murdering his younger sister SEF
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covered her brutalized body with a red jacket he then headed downstairs and to lay in wait for his mother to arrive
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home at approximately 6:00 p.m. SEF confronted liverish she entered the living space stabbing her to death
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he then waited in the foyer for his father to return home within this timeframe Emilie Luna visited the
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Gonzales house and inadvertently saw SEF through the frosted glass by the front door in his baseball cap and coat teddy
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arrived home at around 7 p.m. where he was immediately killed by surf upon entering the house after the murders SEF
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showered and got changed and proceeded to stage the scene to look like a racially motivated break-in and robbery
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he graffitied the walls with racial slurs accidentally leaving evidence of the blue spray paint on his jumper
01:28:38
sleeve previous testing had confirmed the blue staining on Seth's jumper was indeed paint but it was revealed during
01:28:47
the trial that it was an exact match for the paint used for the graffiti after staging the scene SEF left the
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house in his car to dispose of the kitchen knives baseball bat spray can shoes and clothing he was wearing at the
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time of the murders items which have never been recovered he then went to pick up his friend Sam insuring they
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hung out at a crowded area with plenty of security cameras to solidify his alibi when he returned home later that
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evening he called triple zero feigning hysterics of finding his family murdered but no matter how much SEF
01:29:27
carried on he couldn't even manage to fake a single tear to sell his performance to
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attending police officers SEF gonzales was the only witness for the defense during cross-examination he confessed
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his first alibi was a lie driven out a panic and embarrassment from admitting the truth of visiting a
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brothel he also revealed he had lied in many other instances during the investigation confirming it was he who
01:29:57
researched and ordered the poison seeds online he also admitted he authored the threatening emails he allegedly received
01:30:04
from his family's killer on May 20 2004 the jury found SEF Gonzales guilty of the murders of Teddy
01:30:17
Louisville and clodine Gonzalez SEF was visibly shocked when the verdict was announced the outside court his artani
01:30:26
he said I just feel that we have lost another member of the family we're really in pain I think justice has been
01:30:35
done but it would have been easier to accept if it were a different person it's just so hard to accept I just wish
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it wasn't him during sentencing on August 27 2004 victim impact statements from the Gonzalez's extended family were
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read out to the court louisvil sister Rani spoke of the relief that their cry for justice had been answered but added
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it came with profound sadness wrapped in sorrow and teased Seth's grandmother Hamill ADA also prepared a victim impact
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statement part of which read to this day I am struggling to cope with the emotional pain and trauma of what has
01:31:19
happened I miss all of them every day psychiatry professor David Greenberg was tasked with concluding whether Cerf had
01:31:30
any mitigating psychiatric illness that could have contributed to the crimes professor Greenberg concluded there was
01:31:38
insufficient evidence to suggest the diagnosis the possibility that Saif had repressed
01:31:45
the post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from being trapped in the rubble of his family's hotel following
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the 1992 Luzon earthquake was also denied professor Greenberg stated that during pre-sentencing assessments Saif
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told him quote I was put on trial for being a lousy person I have deep remorse for people I lied to but they can't make
01:32:10
me plead guilty to murder at sentencing Saif focused on his own suffering telling his grandmother in court if you
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don't think I'm feeling any pain you're wrong whatever pain you're feeling I am feeling that much worse than you I'm not
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going to plead guilty to something I didn't do just to make people happy on September 18 2004 the day after his 24th
01:32:40
birthday SEF gonzales said emotionless in court as justice Bruce James sentenced him to three concurrent life
01:32:47
sentences without the possibility of parole Judge James declared SEF lacked inside into the enormity of his offenses
01:32:56
and had failed to accept any responsibility for his crimes due to being found guilty of triple murder SEFs
01:33:05
lesser charge of threatening product contamination was dropped our side court chefs are Emily Luna said it's actually
01:33:15
a very sad day because we love SEF very much but I'm just glad it's all over as well we will always love him three years
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later in June 2007 the New South Wales Supreme Court granted SEF approval to appeal his conviction based on the fact
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that it was not cautioned by police on the night of the murders and therefore statements taken from him may have been
01:33:42
deemed inadmissible but the appeal was eventually dismissed and these convictions were upheld on the
01:33:48
basis that there had been no evidence that a miscarriage of justice had occurred to this day SEF continues to
01:33:56
protest his innocence his concurrent life sentences mean he will remain in jail for the rest of his life in
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November 2005 the former Gonzalez home on Collins Street was finally sold for seven hundred and twenty thousand
01:34:12
dollars to a buyer who was fully aware and accepting of its dark history in 2017 the owners of the former Gonzalez
01:34:22
homestead spoke publicly about life in the house saying they had a very good feeling about the property from the
01:34:28
moment they walked inside after many happy years spent creating their own memories inside the home one of the
01:34:36
owners told Woman's Day magazine quote this is my home I get really annoyed when people ask about what happened to
01:34:45
you because it happened before us I know the Gonzalez's were a good family and would have liked to know we've taken
01:34:52
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