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preferred platform on the evening of Tuesday May 10 1994 staff had a home on Grano Street in the
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regional Victorian town of varat served up dinner at the usual time of 6:00 p.m. the home was a residential care
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unit for people with disabilities the unit's five inhabitants were cared for Around the Clock by
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living and staff from the Department of Health and Community Services it was their job to support and
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empower the residents to live as independently as possible but as the staff and residents
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gathered around the dining table to eat their dinner together one chair remained
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empty the cheerful and gentle fifth resident of the unit 41-year-old Lindsay gelot was nowhere to be seen
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[Music] Lindsay galot was a creature of habit shortly before 4:00 that afternoon he
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asked the staff at Grano Street for permission to go for his daily walk this was Lindsay's favorite part of the day
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the only time he was free and unrestricted although it was rare for Lindsay to be late he loved food and his
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carers were sure he'd be back before long they put his plate in the microwave so they could reheat his dinner as soon
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as he showed up but by 6:30 there was still no sign of Lindsay his carers checked his bedroom
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and the backyard in case case he'd returned without them noticing one of the staff drove around
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the streets on the lookout but had no luck finding him by 7:00 they were really worried it was dark and cold
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outside and Lindsay had never come home this late the police were promptly called Lindsay was last seen by Grano
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Street staff at 3:45 p.m. as he set off for his afternoon walk while a traumatic head injury at the age
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of two had left Lindsay with cognitive disability and developmental delays he was more than capable of navigating his
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daily routine he could shower feed and address himself he couldn't read or right but he could communicate
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coherently count to 30 and knew the value of money to $10 Lindsay particularly loved walking
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to a nearby Golf Course where he'd collect a lost golf ball walls and bring them home to clean and give to his
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friends his other favorite walk was to the main street of town Lindsay had a sweet tooth and he'd spend his $5 daily
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allowance on cigarettes coffee Coca-Cola and biscuits one of his legs was shorter
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than the other so he tended to shuffle along slowly often stopping to talk to people in the
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streets in the first few months of living at Grano Street Lindsay walked so much that he wore out several pairs of
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shoeses he walked for hours each day but was always home in time for dinner with Lindsay now failing to
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return home time was of the essence it was a frosty rainy night and he was Ill prepared for the weather having left
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home in just a pair of trousers and a blue fleece top adding to the urgency was the fact that at 8:00 each night
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Lindsay took the drug Ral to treat his epilepsy a missed dose could put him at risk of a
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seizure as luck would have it the Ararat branch of the state emergency service were in the middle of a training session
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and could be deployed immediately to help police with the search they were advised that Lindsay
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was timid and there was a possibility he might hide if approached by someone he didn't
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know search units scoured the town by car and on foot with the sces truck driving slowly along the back roads
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using a search light to sweep the surrounding paddocks and Farms sheds and out buildings were
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checked in case Lindsay was seeking Shelter From the bad weather but he was nowhere to be
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found the following morning of Wednesday May 11 police narrowed in on Lindsay's home they rechecked the residence and
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the surrounding area just in case he'd returned and was too too frightened to come inside because he knew he was late
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yet there was still no sign of him all available Crews from police stations in neighboring towns joined the
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search with the airwing dispatched to search overhead with no reports coming in about
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a lost or disorientated man police contacted all the local radio stations to broadcast Lindsay's details so the
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entire Community would know to keep a lookout a local farmer heard the reports and sat
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on a drive around the roads that boarded his property as he made his way along down
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Road a dirt stretch roughly 2 km Northeast of lindsy jal's home the farmer saw what looked like a white
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running shoe on the grassy Verge at the side of the road he kept going but the image of the
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shoe worried him he did a u-turn and drove back towards it as as he approached he realized there were
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actually two shoes the farmer pulled over on the opposite side of the road and got out of
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his car lying on the grassy Verge was the body of Lindsay galot Lindsay's blue fleecy top was
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pulled up exposing his thin white torso which was stained with a liver colored patch of ConEd blood under the
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skin his eyes and mouth were half open his left cheek grazed and his nose unnaturally
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bent while his belt was still buckled it had been melted apart on the left hand side his white running shoes were still
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on his feet but the right one was crushed its Soul bursting from torn stitching three packets of cigarettes
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and a cigarette tin lay next to his body with a $5 bill discarded at his right elbow nearby was an empty beer can
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it appeared as though lindsy gellot had been struck by a car not only were there
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obvious Crush injuries to his legs and torso tire tracks in the dirt road LED straight to his body but as soon as the
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crash investigators arrived from Melbourne they knew this wasn't a standard hit and
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run there are six elements that correlate with this type of impact the first three are injuries to
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the Shin's hip and head as the victim strikes the vehicle's bumper bar Bonnet and windscreen or
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Roof then there's the scene itself blood from the victim as well as some trace of
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the car involved such as broken glass or paint flakes are expected to be found the Sixth Element is that the
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victim is usually shoeless it is a little known phenomenon but when people are hit by cars they are
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generally knocked clean out of their Footwear in fact the crash investigators had
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never attended a hidden run where the victim was still wearing shoes a cursory examination of the scene
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showed that none of these six elements were present furthermore Lindsay's body was arranged too neatly by the side of
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the road if he'd been hit by a car while walking his body would have been flung and landed
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awkwardly his top being pulled up all also indicated that someone had gripped him under the arms and dragged him along
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this was supported by marks in the road with two parallel lines appearing to have been made by the heels of Lindsay's
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shoes Lindsay might not have been hit by a car but from his injuries it was obvious that he had indeed been run
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over he had abdominal bruising consistent with a car tire and the lower parts of his legs had severe Crush
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injuries there were smears of grease on his body and clothing as well as burn marks where
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he'd come into contact with the hot exhaust section underneath the vehicle yet the lack of blood at the
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crime scene intrigued [Music] investigators this indicated that Lindsay was already dead when his body
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was run over a lack of bleeding confirmed this Theory Marx in the dirt showed that
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Lindsay had most likely been dumped from a vehicle before being dragged to the side of the road and then run over on
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the verge fibers consistent with his trousers were found near the drag marks and there were acceleration scuff marks
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alongside his body the resulting spray of gravel coupled with the tire tracks indicated
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that a vehicle had reversed to where Lindsay's body lay and then backed right over him twice
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after running over Lindsay the car then turned around and headed in the direction of
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Ararat the pathologist conducting Lindsay's autopsy couldn't determine what had caused his death given
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Lindsay's history of epilepsy she considered a syndrome known as sudden Unexpected death in epilepsy or
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suap this is where an otherwise healthy person with epilepsy dies prematurely typically in their
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sleep in cases of step a postmortem examination shows no cause of death sometimes there are signs that a
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seizure has occurred such as the individual losing control of their bladder but Lindsay's autopsy showed
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that his bladder was full furthermore if Lindsay had died from suap it didn't explain why someone would drag him to
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the side of the road and run him over with a car crash investigators sought to identify the type of car that had run
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Lindsay over the owner of a local tire shop agreed to accompany police to the scene upon seeing the tracks he was
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certain they'd been made by Bridgestone eager s340 tires smears of red fluid on Lindsay's white running shoes were
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suspected by one investigator to be automatic transmission fluid if he was correct this meant police were looking
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for an automatic car probably an older model which would be more likely to leak leaking transmission fluid didn't
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necessarily drip out instead it formed a film over the car's transmission pan located in its
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undercarriage the fluid could have been transferred to Lindsay's shoes when the car ran over him the fact that Lindsay's
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body was smeared with black grease also suggested an older car slowly but surely a picture of The
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Wanted vehicle emerged an automatic older style car with Bridgestone eager s340 tires if the vehicle had left tracers on
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Lindsay then he'd likely left traces on the vehicle the only problem was that the evidence would largely be underneath
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the car rather than obvious visible damage to the car's exterior detectives began looking into
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Lindsay's life for Clues as to who could be responsible by all accounts lindsy gellot was a har less and friendly man
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who was well known and well liked in his community the more the detectives learned about Lindsay the harder it was
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to imagine why anyone would want to kill him they did a door knock of the houses
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surrounding lindsy many of which housed residents with disabilities but no one had a bad thing to say about
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him on the afternoon that Lindsay's body was discovered a roadblock was organized
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on Grano Street for the same period of time that Lindsay went missing with detectives stopping all cars to ask if
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anyone had seen Lindsay walking the previous day Grano street is one thoroughfare
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through Ararat and 400 p.m. is a change of shift time for workers for the local prison and Railway as well as health and
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community services staff one man stopped at the roadblock new linsay by sight he told detectives
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that at around 400 p.m. the day before he seen Lindsay climbing into a car that was parallel parked to the curb a short
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distance away from his house it was an old a model brown colored sedan with a red LPG gas sticker
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on its number plate the man had caught a glimpse of the driver it was a middle-aged woman
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with dark hair who he didn't recognize this description immediately gave investigators pause
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[Music] in 1955 when lindsy Jella was 2 and a half years old his mother was pushing
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him and his twin sister along in a pram as she edged the pram out between two parked cars a truck suddenly struck
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the front of it the force of the Collision threw Lindsay heavily onto the road while his twin sister Judith was
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unheard Lindsay suffered severe brain damage and was in a coma for 9 weeks by the time he was finally allowed
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to return home from the hospital his behavior had changed significantly and his parents struggled to control him he
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was eventually diagnosed with epilepsy and an intellectual disability when Lindsay was seven his
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parents made the difficult decision to place him in a living Care Facility they visited him often and he
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was occasionally allowed home in time Lindsay grew into a gentle and loving man he'd pick flowers from the garden to
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give to visitors and was always quick with a hug and a joke when Lindsay's parents passed away
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his twin sister Judith became his closest living relative even though she had her own
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health problems and priorities in life Judith always made time to visit her brother she'd often take her four
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children with her making the 4-Hour round trip to AR at from their home in the suburb of
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Melton they take Lindsay out to lunch or to visit a museum or Park Judith bought
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Lindsay clothes and anything else he needed treating him to Chocolate lollies and sweet
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drinks while the drive there and back with a car full of kids was grueling it was never a
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chore a friend of Judith said she had more patience love and understanding for Lindsay than she did for her own
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children in late 1993 the facility that Lindsay had lived in for 20 years was shut down
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as part of the Victorian government's commitment to move residents from institutions into the
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community Lindsay made the move to the greno street residential unit where Judith continued to visit every month or
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so on Tuesday May 10 1994 Judith scheduled a 1:00 meeting with Grano Street staff followed by a 3:00 meeting
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with support staff from a nearby organization that ran a day program Lindsay attended she did this every so often to
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check how her brother was doing Judith picked Lindsay up at 11:30 a.m. then took him to the Ararat RSL to
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play the pokies after having lunch together they headed to Lindsay's Grano Street unit for their 1:00
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meeting the staff told Judith that her brother's epilepsy was under control but that he should avoid beer in case it
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triggered a seizure beer wasn't really an issue with Lindsay he mainly drank coffee or
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Coke with an hour to kill before their next appointment Judith took Lindsay to the shops to buy him a couple of things
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then they attended their 300 p.m. meeting after which Judith dropped Lindsay back at Grano Street at around
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340 she bid Lindsay goodbye just as he was preparing for his afternoon walk before leaving Judith left some
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treats in her brother's bedroom for him to enjoy later when Lindsay was reported missing
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later that evening his carers attempted to call Judith at her home in Melton but
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there was no answer they left her a message and she called them back at 8:00 p.m. they informed to Judith that
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Lindsay hadn't returned home after his walk she shared that concerns but offered a simple
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explanation she'd had given Lindsay $25 that afternoon it might have been possible that he was spending it in
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town 15 minutes later Judith called back having just remembered a significant incident years prior Lindsay had run
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away and was found wandering down a highway into Melbourne on route to Judith's home she recommended that the
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search party keep an eye out for him on the out skirts of town and along the railway lines before asking if it was
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raining her voice was tinged with worry when she remarked he doesn't have his coat with
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him when Lindsay was found dead detectives paid Judith a visit in Melton having already been delivered the
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news she was visibly upset but she managed to tell the detectives about her final encounter with her brother the
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afternoon prior she detailed their lunch errands and meetings before recalling one notable
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moment while in town Judith ducked into a pharmacy leaving Lindsay waiting outside when she came out Lindsay was
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talking to a woman parked in a battered old van he told her that he just won money
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at the pokies to the detectives this was a solid lead could Lindsay have been targeted by someone who thought he might
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be in possession of some [Music] winnings wondering whether drugs or alcohol could have also played a role in
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Lindsay's death the detectives asked Judith about the medications her brother had been
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taking as far as Judith knew the only thing Lindsay took was his anti-seizure medication
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tegral in regards to the beer can found near Lindsay's body Judith said she didn't think her brother really drank
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beer he had had done so on occasion but it left him sleepy but there was one incident that
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raised Judith's concerns a few months earlier Lindsay had been visiting Judith when she ducked
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across the road to visit a neighbor when she came back Lindsay said he was tired
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and didn't feel well he went to lay down telling his sister he was having a fit she took his pulse but it was normal
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Judith called one of Lindsay's carers who advised her to roll him onto his side but by this time Lindsay appeared
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to be sleeping the carer assured Judith he was probably fine but when he wouldn't wake
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up after 20 minutes Judith called an ambulance after the paramedics took him away Judith noticed a drawer had been
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opened in her bedroom and she wondered if Lindsay had taken some of her medication Judith suffered from chronic
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back pain and a Litany of other health problems for which she kept a wide assortment of medication in her
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home detectives had noticed this for themselves as hundreds of bottles of medicine lined her
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shelves Judith said she'd rang the hospital and shared her suspicion that Lindsay might have taken valium or
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painkillers the doctors gave him an antidote for Valium after which he was fine for detectives this was another
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interesting lead they wondered if Lindsay had a habit of taking medication that didn't
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belong to him Judith told the detectives that on Tuesday May 10 she left Grano Street
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just as Lindsay said off for his afternoon walk and she didn't see him again after
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that but detectives were curious about this the witness who claimed to have seen Lindsay climbing into a car at 400
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p.m. a short distance from house had described the driver as looking exactly like
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Judith the car they described an older model brown colored sedan with a red LPG sticker on its number plate also looked
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just like her vehicle detectives had given Judith's Car a once over when they saw it parked
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in her driveway it was a two-tone Brown 1982 Ford Fairmont Gia sedan with a red sticker on the number plate to show that
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the car had been and converted to gas it also had Bridgestone eager s340 tires the same type identified at the
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crime scene a cursory look over the vehicle revealed no obvious fresh dance or signs
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of recent damage Judith told the detectives that on the drive home from visiting Lindsay
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her car overheated and she had to park by the side of the road for 30 or 40 minutes while the engine cooled down she
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she arrived back in Melton at 7:20 p.m. after collecting her young children from the babysitter Judith drove to the
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local Petrol Station filled her car and took it through a car wash she said she always did this after visiting
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Lindsay this was another red flag for detectives the trip that should have taken just over 2 hours had taken Judith
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3 hours and 20 minutes not only was Judith the last person to have seen her brother alive there was an unaccounted
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for period of time in her journey home police impounded Judith's Car and took it to the Forensic Science Center
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for a thorough examination as was expected of a car that age the undercarriage was covered
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in dirt grease and oil plenty of sources that could have caused the smears on Lindsay's
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body the automatic Pan was also leaking and covered in a film of automatic transmission
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fluid near the front and rear driver's side Wheels examiners found spots of blood caught in a screw head and in
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various other sections of the undercarriage were fabric fibers several fabric Impressions were
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also visible in the grease and dirt from the front end to the rear and a burn mark on the engine pipe was consistent
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with the melting of Lindsay's belt police had no doubt about it this was the car used to run over Lindsay
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galet although this was concrete evidence that tied Judith to the crime scene Lindsay's autopsy revealed he'd
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already been dead at the time he was run over therefore it didn't necessarily mean that Judith had killed
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him detectives began examining Judith's timeline from the day her brother had died starting with the pharmacy in
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Ararat she already told them she'd visited inquiries revealed Judith had filled a prescription for a Hypno a
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powerful sedative only offered to those with severe insomnia with the postmortem proving
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that Lindsay was dead before he was run over detectives wondered whether his sister could have poisoned him with an
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overdose the contents of Lindsay's stomach showed that he was killed within 60 to 90 minutes of eating a substantial
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meal due to digestion it wasn't possible to tell what he'd eaten Judith said she'd taken Lindsay to
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lunch around midday and then for ice cream around 2:00 p.m. however the food in his stomach
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could only have been consumed after leaving for his walk police canvased eateries in town
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but no one remembered seeing Lindsay at that time it was possible Judith had given
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him some food herself had she done so as soon as Lindsay got in the car his time of death
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could have been as early as 5:30 p.m. when the results of Lindsay's toxicology tests came back they showed
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two drugs were found in his system the first was his anti-seizure medication tegral which was as
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expected but surprisingly the other wasn't reynol it was noch noac is the commercial name given to
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chloro hydrate a powerful hypnotic prescribed by doctors to treat insomnia or calm patients before a surgical
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procedure it can be dangerous because the treatment dose is close to the toxic dose the problem was that the amount
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found in Lindsay system was listed as a therapeutic dose in other words there was not enough in his system to kill
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him the det Ives wondered if the noch could have reacted with the tegral Lindsay was taking for his
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epilepsy medical advice suggested that these two drugs should not be taken together small traces of alcohol were
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also found in Lindsay system another substance that shouldn't be mixed with these
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medications detectives wondered whether the combination of tegral alcohol and noch could have been
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toxic and if Judith was responsible did she give her brother alcohol on purpose only hours after his carers told her it
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could cause a seizure to make things more complicated it couldn't be said with certainty that
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Lindsay had consumed alcohol when bodies begin to decompose they produce alcohol as part of the
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natural decomposition process the empty beer can found near Lindsay's body was tested but it
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revealed no traces of noch or any other the drugs inquiries at Grano Street showed
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no residents were prescribed to noch meaning Lindsay couldn't have accessed the drug at
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home detectives asked local pharmacists to go back through their records but there had been no prescriptions written
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for noac in the last 2 years there was little chance Lindsay could have come upon the drug by
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accident police confiscated hundreds of bottles of medic from Judith's home but found no sign of
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noch they drove across town and visited medical clinics near where Judith used to
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live one doctor recalled prescribing noch to one of Judith's children 5 years earlier when they were having trouble
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sleeping the police visited local pharmacies and found the chemist who had dispensed the noch prescription to
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Judith it was the break they were looking for now they had the proof that Judith
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filled a prescription for noac and even though it wasn't found in her house it was clear from the volume of medication
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scattered all around that she didn't throw anything away the detective's theorized that
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Judith could have given her brother food or drink laced with noac and waited until he passed out she could have then
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smothered him with something soft like a pillow which would have left no Trace an eminent forensic pathologist also
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said that the noct tech combined with Lindsay's tegral could have stopped him breathing then either to make it look
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like an accident or to make sure she'd finished the job she ran him over twice although this seemed like a solid
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Theory without hard evidence detectives knew they'd have a hard time proceeding with charges against
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Judith yet one major question question still remained Judith appeared to be a loving
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sister who had always been there for her twin brother what reason could she have to
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want Lindsay [Music] dead speaking with staff at Lindsay's Grano Street Unit a motive
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emerged 2 years after the accident that irreversibly changed the course of Lindsay's life forever the the truck
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driver who hit the pram faced Court the judge took pity on the plight of the galot family and awarded Lindsay
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£5,000 at the time that was a small fortune enough to buy four or five houses the judge ordered that the money
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be invested for Lindsay's future use by 1994 the original Award of £15,000 had grown into a significant
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nest egg in excess of $120,000 an examination of Lindsay's Financial records revealed that in
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recent years his trust fund balance had dropped from $ 128,000 to $117,000 this depletion was due to the
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fact that Lindsay had moved out of government care and had bored into the Grano Street
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Unit a clerk from the trust fund had written a letter to Judith explaining I have recently reviewed
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Lindsay's file and have noted a rapid depletion of his funds particularly in the past 6
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months this rate of depl is such that the capital is eroding and will continue to do so even if his funds only make
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payment of the service charge and household expenses for Grano Street I have enclosed a financial
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statement which shows the expenditure for the previous 7 months could you please contact me at your earliest
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convenience to discuss this matter detectives contacted the clerk who said that Judith had complained in
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response she said that she visited Lindsay every 5 to 6 weeks during which she was forced to buy him everything he
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wanted using money from his account if she didn't Judith said that Lindsay became very aggressive and would steal
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instead Judith told the clerk that Lindsay's demands had become worse since he'd moved to Grano Street and that was
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why her requests for reimbursements had drastically increased with dire predictions about
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Lindsay's rapidly depleting trust fund the clerk's memo was dated 3 weeks before Lindsay was
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killed with fen's death his money would pass to his next of kin his sister Judith although the forensic examination
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of Judith's Car proved this was the vehicle that ran Lindsay over it didn't prove that she was behind the wheel at
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the time detectives set out to discover if anyone else had access to the vehicle Judith stopped cooperating with
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the police but she told family and friends she had her own suspicions about who was
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responsible after arriving home from visiting Lindsay on May 10 Judith claimed that her ex-husband iler cirok
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must have taken her car from the driveway and driven it to Ararat police went to speak with ier who
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explained that he'd met Judith 6 years earlier after migrating to Australia from Romania in
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1987 the pair married a year later and he moved in with Judith but it was an odd
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Arrangement as soon as ier moved in Judith told her oldest son Greg to move out Greg began sleeping in his car in the
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front yard of the house a week later Social Security stopped Judith's pension payments so she told iler he would have
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to move out again iler knew Judith was still seeing her ex-husband she had retained his surname
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jenit but when she told Ilia she was pregnant he accepted responsibility when she said the child was
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his they split up shortly after the child was born but ier agreed to pay child support of
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$183 per week ier didn't understand the Australian court system so he signed any
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papers Judith gave him without question iler continued to pay for anything Judith needed but it was never
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enough she rang him so often at work that his employer complained the calls were always about
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money when ier came to visit his child the fridge was always bare and he would buy
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groceries Judith was nice to him at Easter and Christmas so he would come over and buy all the children's gifts
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and stock the cupboards ier claimed that on the day Lindsay went missing he'd been sent home
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early from work with an infected tooth and had gone straight to the dentist for a lengthy
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appointment his Alibi checked out but the police already knew there was no waight to Judith's claim that iler could
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be responsible for her brother's death by the time she'd returned to Melton it was 7:20 p.m. and Lindsay had
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already failed to return home from his walk by casting suspicion on iler Judith inadvertently revealed a
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bombshell ier told the detectives that 4 months earlier Judith had invited him to
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her place for dinner he'd felt fine at the time but the next day he felt so sick that he spent N9
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days in hospital the doctors suspected he had some type of poison in his system but
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they weren't sure what type ier was a bit vague on the details because Judith had been the one talking to the doctors
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on his behalf now speaking to the detectives he was certain that Judith had put something in his food
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according to iler Judith treated Lindsay's money as though it were her own she kept receipts for her own
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groceries and car expenses and claimed them from Lindsay's account every month this could be anything from $500 to
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$1,000 when the care facility that Lindsay had lived in for 20 years closed down she was angry that Lindsay had to
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spend $177,000 from his trust to pay to live in the residential accommodation on
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Grano Street had he been on a pension the government would have given him a place to live for
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free Not only was there a buyin cost but there was a weekly cost of $60 as well everything Judith bought for
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Lindsay from clothes to sweets was purchased with his own money Judith talked to iler about bringing Lindsay to
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live with her at Melton she said the Govern govern would pay her $300 per week to look after him
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and she could use his money to buy her house from the Housing Commission the only catch was she wanted
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iler to do the actual caring for Lindsay Judith did a test run and brought her brother home a couple of
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days before Christmas but it didn't work she returned him to Grano Street by Boxing
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Day in that time she used Lindsay's money to buy presents for her children detectives asked AER if Judith
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had been in the habit of washing her car after driving to Ararat to visit her brother iier had gone with the Judith
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half a dozen times she had never washed her car once as for the noock TAC iler knew all
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about the syrup Judith gave her children at night the last time he'd seen it happen
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was on the New Year's Eve it just passed ier had arrived at Judith's house at 10:
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p.m. so he wouldn't be alone for the occasion the lights were on but her car wasn't in the
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driveway he went inside only to find Judith's small children asleep in the house alone with Judith nowhere to be
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seen she returned home around 1:00 a.m. saying she'd just popped out to play the
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pokies it wasn't the first time something like this had happened iier said Judith gave the children syrup to
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make them sleep I don't know what this syrup is called but I saw her give it to them if these Revelations weren't
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significant enough iler then dropped another bombshell he told detectives that Judith
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had a legally purchased a blank Prescription Pad for $100 and could write herself any prescription she
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wanted police spoke to Judith's eldest son 24-year-old Greg who confirmed that his mother had always spoken of
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Lindsay's money as being hers after he died Greg had found out about Lindsay's death from a neighbor rather than his
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mother he assumed she was too upset to call him when he did speak to her Judith allegedly told Greg that when she
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visited Lindsay on the day he died she had taken him for a drive around the dirt roads of
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Ararat at one point she stopped so that Lindsay could relieve himself on the side of the
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road Judith hadn't mentioned this when she gave her original account to the police the detectiv suspected she was
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trying to lay the groundwork for explaining why her Tire Impressions were on down
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Road Greg was also candid about a phone call with his mother where she talked about washing her her car she apparently
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said to him you know I always wash the car and under the car after I have been to see
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Lindsay Greg told the detectives it was as though she was asking me to confirm this over the phone
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I thought this was unusual I know that she washes her car but I have never seen her wash under the
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car Greg said it was impossible that anyone could have stolen his mother's car to drive it to Ararat and kill
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Lindsay he had recently fitted an alarm to it which operated automatically once the key had been removed from the
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ignition even if the car was left unlocked the alarm would sound if someone opened the
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door after four months of gathering evidence detectives felt they finally had enough to present their case to the
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Department of public prosecutions but they still faced a challenge from a legal standpoint
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because the cause of lindsy jal's death couldn't be determined it would be legally difficult to convict Judith the
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Jen giz of killing him as such when Judith was charged with murder and the committal hearing went ahead in Ararat
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the magistrate threw it out of court normally a person goes through a committal hearing and then is sent to
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trial but another option is for the crown to present them directly to trial without
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testing the evidence at a committal hearing after much discussion this is what the Office of Public prosecutions
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decided to do Judith was recharged with murder and summoned to trial however in a major blow to the
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prosecution the judge ruled the noch evidence as inadmissible while Judith had purchased
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a noch on three separate occasions in 1989 he ruled that there was no evidence to suggest she was still in possession
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of it 5 years later despite the fact that she had hundreds of bottles of medicine in her house from years
00:43:41
earlier the judge ruled that if the jury knew that Lindsay had therapeutic doses
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of noch in his system they would assume that it was part of a plan to kill him this according to the judge could not be
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established the possbility couldn't be ruled out that Lindsay took the medication from somewhere and
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administered it to himself based on the evidence the judge had no doubt that Lindsay was already
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dead when his sister allegedly ran him over what was unclear was where and when his death had
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occurred Judith's lawyers argued that Lindsay could have died following a seizure or from
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suab but as the prosecution pointed out if Lind had died from natural causes why
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would Judith go to the trouble of dragging his body to the side of the road running him over fabricating a
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story and lying to the police the only logical conclusion they argued was that Judith believed Lindsay
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was still alive at the time without knowing for sure how Lindsay had died the judge ruled that
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the murder charge be thrown out in favor of a charge of attempted murder this meant that if the jury were
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convinced by the evidence under the car And Judith's motive to inherit her brother's money they only had one option
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to convict Judith of the attempted murder of a dead man and that's what they did Judith the jengis was declared
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guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to 10 years with a 6-year non-parole period
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Judith appealed against both conviction and sentence her lawyer argued that the judge should have thrown out the
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attempted murder charge since the only thing the crown could prove Judith did was run Lindsay over but he was clearly
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dead when this happened in June 1997 three Supreme Court judges rejected Judith's appeal
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with one concluding quote the deceased was vulnerable he had been brain damaged as a young child he trusted the
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applicant she however being concerned that the fund invested on behalf of the deceased was dissipating steadily was
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determined to obtain possession of it the applicant was prepared to kill to satisfy her greed she did everything
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possible to affect her an the evidence is that had her brother not been dead when she drove her car
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over him he would have died as a result she has shown No Remorse Judith the Jenis was released
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from jail in February 2002 after serving her minimum sentence two years later an application
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was made to the Master's fund that held Lindsay gal's money surviving relatives agreed among themselves as to how the
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money would be divided who got what is sealed in confidence itial court records when Judith was first being
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questioned about her brother's death she told detectives she'd seen him talking to a woman about his recent winnings on
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the pokies she'd framed it in a way that sounded somewhat Sinister when in reality the woman Lindsay was speaking
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to was the former employee of a local kosk with his love for biscuits and his addiction to cigarettes Lindsay had been
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a frequent customer and the woman liked him from the moment they met he was always happy and very
00:47:32
friendly on the day Lindsay died she had been in the main shopping center of Ararat when she heard Lindsay call to
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her they got chatting and he told her that he'd had the best day ever because he was out with his
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sister Lindsay's gravestone says just one thing about him cherished twin brother of Judith
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Judith passed away in 2017 she was buried alongside Lindsay their shared gravestone
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