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New South Wales. Their first child, Caleb, was born in February 1989. The child had breathing difficulties. One night, Craig was woken by his wife’s screams. He found her standing over the crib. The baby was dead. The cause of death was recorded as “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome”.
In June 1990, Kathleen had a second son, Patrick. Soon after the baby arrived home, Craig was again woken by his wife’s screams. She was standing over Patrick’s cot. The child seemed inert, but Craig noticed faint signs of breathing and revived him. After he was rushed to hospital, it was found that Patrick was blind and suffering from epilepsy. In February 1991, he died while Craig was out at work. A post-mortem determined that he had suffocated while suffering an epileptic fit.
The couple moved to Thornton, New South Wales, and Kathleen fell pregnant again. In October 1992, she had a daughter, Sarah. At eleven months, the child caught a cold and had trouble sleeping. That night, Craig was woken by Kathleen’s screams. Sarah was dead. According to the death certificate, it was another case of cot death.
The couple moved to Singleton where Kathleen gave birth to Laura in August 1997. At nineteen months, she caught a cold and died. Laura was considered too old to have succumbed to SIDS and, this time, the coroner ordered an investigation.
As the police began their enquiries, Kathleen left Craig. In a bedside drawer, he found her diaries, revealing a woman with enormously conflicting emotions, especially where it came to her children.
“My brain has too much happening, unstored and unrecalled memories just waiting. Heaven help the day they surface and I recall. That will be the day to lock me up and throw away the key. Something I’m sure will happen one day,” she wrote on Wednesday, 11 June 1997.
The diary also revealed a terrible secret. In December 1969, Thomas Britton had stabbed his lover Kathleen Donovan to death in the Sydney suburb of Annandale. Britton allegedly told a witness: “I had to kill her because she had killed my child.”
At the time, the couple had an eighteen-month-old daughter, also called Kathleen, who was sent to an orphanage before being adopted. Kathleen Marlborough was grown up before she learnt the truth. In her diary, for 14 October 1996 – with three of her children already dead – she wrote: “Obviously, I am my father’s daughter.”
On 19 April 2001, Kathleen Folbigg was arrested and charged with the murder of her four children. After a four-month trial, she was found guilty of all four murders and sentenced to forty years with a non-parole period of thirty years.
A few weeks after her conviction, Kathleen wrote to the
Sydney Morning Herald
, protesting that she had been convicted merely on circumstantial evidence and attacking her husband for betraying her.
Her appeal against the convictions was dismissed, but her sentence was reduced to thirty years with a non-parole period of twenty-five years. She is kept in protective custody due to the danger of violence from other inmates.
THE PIG FARM
T HE PROSECUTION OF Canadian pig farmer Robert William “Willie” Pickton tested crime scene investigation to its limits. Charged with the murder of twenty-six women, he was only tried for the slaying of six. But the court was shown a videotape where Pickton boasted to an undercover policeman posing as a cellmate that he had actually killed forty-nine women.
“I got a murder charge,” he said after he was first arrested, “and forty-eight more to come. Whoopee.”
But he rued being stopped before he had made it fifty.
“Fifty?” asked the undercover cop, Sergeant Bill Fordy.
“I made my own grave by being sloppy,” said Pickton. “Doesn’t that kick you in the arse now? I was going to fucking do one more; make it even.”
Even then his lust for murder would not be satisfied. He said he intended to let everything die down for a while, and then kill another twenty-five.
During the
In June 1990, Kathleen had a second son, Patrick. Soon after the baby arrived home, Craig was again woken by his wife’s screams. She was standing over Patrick’s cot. The child seemed inert, but Craig noticed faint signs of breathing and revived him. After he was rushed to hospital, it was found that Patrick was blind and suffering from epilepsy. In February 1991, he died while Craig was out at work. A post-mortem determined that he had suffocated while suffering an epileptic fit.
The couple moved to Thornton, New South Wales, and Kathleen fell pregnant again. In October 1992, she had a daughter, Sarah. At eleven months, the child caught a cold and had trouble sleeping. That night, Craig was woken by Kathleen’s screams. Sarah was dead. According to the death certificate, it was another case of cot death.
The couple moved to Singleton where Kathleen gave birth to Laura in August 1997. At nineteen months, she caught a cold and died. Laura was considered too old to have succumbed to SIDS and, this time, the coroner ordered an investigation.
As the police began their enquiries, Kathleen left Craig. In a bedside drawer, he found her diaries, revealing a woman with enormously conflicting emotions, especially where it came to her children.
“My brain has too much happening, unstored and unrecalled memories just waiting. Heaven help the day they surface and I recall. That will be the day to lock me up and throw away the key. Something I’m sure will happen one day,” she wrote on Wednesday, 11 June 1997.
The diary also revealed a terrible secret. In December 1969, Thomas Britton had stabbed his lover Kathleen Donovan to death in the Sydney suburb of Annandale. Britton allegedly told a witness: “I had to kill her because she had killed my child.”
At the time, the couple had an eighteen-month-old daughter, also called Kathleen, who was sent to an orphanage before being adopted. Kathleen Marlborough was grown up before she learnt the truth. In her diary, for 14 October 1996 – with three of her children already dead – she wrote: “Obviously, I am my father’s daughter.”
On 19 April 2001, Kathleen Folbigg was arrested and charged with the murder of her four children. After a four-month trial, she was found guilty of all four murders and sentenced to forty years with a non-parole period of thirty years.
A few weeks after her conviction, Kathleen wrote to the
Sydney Morning Herald
, protesting that she had been convicted merely on circumstantial evidence and attacking her husband for betraying her.
Her appeal against the convictions was dismissed, but her sentence was reduced to thirty years with a non-parole period of twenty-five years. She is kept in protective custody due to the danger of violence from other inmates.
THE PIG FARM
T HE PROSECUTION OF Canadian pig farmer Robert William “Willie” Pickton tested crime scene investigation to its limits. Charged with the murder of twenty-six women, he was only tried for the slaying of six. But the court was shown a videotape where Pickton boasted to an undercover policeman posing as a cellmate that he had actually killed forty-nine women.
“I got a murder charge,” he said after he was first arrested, “and forty-eight more to come. Whoopee.”
But he rued being stopped before he had made it fifty.
“Fifty?” asked the undercover cop, Sergeant Bill Fordy.
“I made my own grave by being sloppy,” said Pickton. “Doesn’t that kick you in the arse now? I was going to fucking do one more; make it even.”
Even then his lust for murder would not be satisfied. He said he intended to let everything die down for a while, and then kill another twenty-five.
During the
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