Murder Down Under The Toolbox Murders Season 1 Episode 2

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00:00It felt like it was from a horror movie.

00:18You couldn't believe that it would happen here in South East Queensland.

00:24You kind of have a really awful feeling in the pit of your stomach.

00:28What's inside the toolbox?

00:32And there was a moment where the crane just brings up this toolbox, just swinging in the air.

00:44It's one of the most horrific crimes that we've covered.

00:52To me, this is pure evil.

00:59This was a case that we thought was finished, but it wasn't.

01:05The murder convictions have been overturned on appeal.

01:08To me, this is the story.

01:15To me, this was a new story.

01:18To me, this is a zombie.

01:21To me, this is a zombie.

01:22To me, this is a zombie.

01:25To me, this is the zombie.

01:26I'm not sure what the killed you.

01:29This is a zombie.

01:31To me, I was just going to try to shoot out of the house.

01:33I was going to try to shoot out a little bit of a knife.

01:34So this is the track that Detective Tunks was led along by Mr Tejada on the night of the 10th of February 2016.

01:54Now if we're looking out this way, it's part of the Scrabby Creek area.

01:57This is part of the watercourse that runs along Kingston Road

02:00towards where the toolbox was eventually deposited into the Scrabby Creek.

02:11Good evening.

02:13A mother of seven is among six people charged with murder

02:16over the killing of a man and woman at Logan.

02:19A macabre end to a savage crime.

02:22Crane swings Atreides' toolbox from the water.

02:25It became a makeshift coffin.

02:27For two people, officers allege were killed in cold blood.

02:35Since that point in time, it's consumed a lot of my life.

02:39It's consumed a lot of detectives' lives.

02:40It's part of something that has continued on

02:43since people being charged on the 10th of...

02:46..since 11th of February 2016.

02:49It is something that we've had to live and breathe

02:51through all the trials

02:53and it's still continuing to date.

03:04This is their final resting place.

03:08It's not something we, you know,

03:12make something off.

03:13It's, um...

03:15Yeah, it's a rather...

03:16It can be a little bit of a touchy subject,

03:19especially for myself and some of the others.

03:21This is where...

03:23..two people met their end

03:25at the hands of some rather...

03:28..nasty people.

03:30The scale of the toolbox murders was enormous.

03:49There was nine defendants on various charges,

03:51including torture, manslaughter and murder.

03:54It is, without a doubt,

03:59one of the biggest cases in living memory,

04:01particularly in Australia.

04:07This is a lengthy investigation

04:09and thousands and thousands of text messages to be read.

04:15How do you go through 83,000 text messages?

04:20Witnesses to be sought,

04:22travelling to New Zealand

04:23to bring an accused back.

04:24The crime scene, it was massive.

04:27Things started to ramp up

04:28where the decision was made,

04:30we need to locate these people

04:31and arrest them before they leave

04:33or try to get out of the country.

04:37They were held in custody.

04:39They were going to be charged with murder.

04:42And now the work begins.

04:46You're drained.

04:47You're trying to put through

04:49every piece of evidence

04:51you can put through

04:53and then be cross-examined on said evidence.

04:58Trying to remember

04:59anything that may

05:02or could be an issue for the prosecution,

05:08anything that a defence lawyer may try and

05:10not trip you up on,

05:13but it's to try and negate their client's capability

05:18in the murder of Corey Breton and Ileana Trascaro.

05:22This case had very gory,

05:32gruesome elements

05:33and even the judge

05:35when he was empanelling the jury

05:37warned them

05:38and said,

05:39you will hear

05:41some things that

05:43will be hard to forget

05:45and said to them,

05:47if you want to be excused,

05:48you can.

05:49No one did.

05:50And it felt like it was

05:51from a horror movie.

05:54You couldn't believe

05:55that it would happen

05:57here in South East Queensland.

05:59The nature of it

06:00it was hard to watch

06:05every night,

06:06that's for sure.

06:15The troubling aspect

06:16of this case

06:17is its protracted nature.

06:21Occasionally,

06:22in fact,

06:22more often than not,

06:23murders occur

06:24on impulse,

06:25spur of the moment,

06:26a person pulls out a gun or a knife.

06:28These two people

06:30were kept

06:32for some period of time.

06:34There was certainly

06:35sufficient time

06:36for any one

06:37of the people

06:37in the group

06:38to notify the police

06:39to secure their release.

06:46This didn't happen.

06:48I think it speaks

06:49to the power

06:50of peer group dynamics

06:51and people being

06:53enthralled by the leader.

06:56And of course,

06:57their judgment

06:58inevitably was impacted

06:59by the use

07:00of stimulant drugs

07:01such as ice,

07:02which has a dramatic effect

07:04on people's judgment

07:05and impulse control.

07:11Well,

07:12so many players

07:13involved in this

07:13horrific homicide,

07:14the two double homicides,

07:16someone's going to break.

07:18Something's going to happen

07:19eventually down the track.

07:20Someone's going to tell

07:20somebody what happened.

07:22Maybe they can't live

07:22with their conscience.

07:23They have to tell somebody

07:24and get it off their chest.

07:25There's always a weak link

07:26in any chain.

07:29A witness has told

07:30a double murder trial

07:31he watched as two people

07:33were forced into a toolbox.

07:34They just told them

07:35to get up

07:36and go and lay down

07:37in the box.

07:38Corey did.

07:39I remember when

07:40Tabita was trying

07:40to stop the lid

07:41from closing,

07:42Stu was slashing

07:43at her forearms

07:44with the knife

07:45that he'd stabbed Corey with.

07:49The court case

07:50has started

07:51with Leland Harrington.

07:53He sings

07:55like a bird

07:55to police

07:56and just outlines

07:57everything.

08:00Leland Harrington

08:01was a key crown witness

08:03in this case

08:04and he had so many

08:05different areas

08:06of involvement.

08:07It was him

08:08who showed the photo

08:09to Stowe Daniels

08:10on his phone

08:12that Corey had text him.

08:14It was his apartment,

08:15the Tav,

08:16where this horrific incident

08:17all played out

08:18and then again

08:19it was him

08:20who had that moment

08:21with Uleana

08:22where she tried to escape

08:23and he called out

08:24for Daniels

08:25and the others

08:25to come back.

08:27And she was coughing

08:30and choking

08:31on her own blood.

08:40So that is just

08:42absolutely horrendous

08:43details to hear

08:44for anyone

08:45knowing that

08:46their families

08:47were in the courtroom

08:48hearing this evidence

08:49just really hit home.

08:51Leland Harrington

08:57who rolled over

08:58and double-crossed

08:59the gang

09:00to police

09:00was convicted

09:01of deprivation

09:03of liberty

09:03and assault

09:04occasioning bodily harm.

09:06For assisting police

09:07he got a suspended sentence

09:08and served

09:09no jail time.

09:14It's not fair

09:15to think about that

09:17what she would have

09:18gone through

09:19the last moments

09:20of her life.

09:22But

09:22I was you know

09:24at this still thought

09:25well Uleana's

09:26a strong person

09:27she would have fought

09:27and she did

09:30according to

09:31what's been reported

09:33and you know

09:35that gives a little bit

09:36of like

09:37at least she fought

09:38for the last moments

09:40of her life.

09:41Uleana did you know

09:42and that's the

09:43feistiness in her.

09:50There were a number

10:00of court proceedings

10:01that played out

10:03over quite a prolonged

10:04period of time

10:05but there was

10:06this real focus

10:07on the man

10:08that police allege

10:09was the ringleader

10:10the puppet master

10:11in all of this

10:12Stowe Daniels

10:13and his two enforcers

10:16Thrupp and Teo.

10:17Three men

10:22found guilty

10:23of murdering

10:24Yuliana Triscaro

10:25and Corey Breton

10:26have today been

10:26sentenced to life

10:27imprisoned.

10:29Trent Thrupp

10:29Stowe Daniels

10:30and Davey Teo

10:31were last week

10:32found guilty

10:32of torturing

10:33and stuffing

10:34the pair

10:34in a toolbox

10:35and dumping it

10:36in a Logan dam

10:37back in January

10:382016.

10:39In court today

10:40Justin David Boddus

10:41describing their

10:42actions as

10:42completely lacking

10:43humanity.

10:45They are

10:46despicable crimes

10:47involving

10:48senseless

10:49yet sadistic

10:50conduct

10:50perpetrated

10:51against two

10:52defenceless

10:53individuals.

11:01Throughout the

11:02court proceedings

11:03we did hear

11:04from Yuliana

11:05Triscaro's

11:06mother.

11:06She gave

11:07a very powerful

11:08victim impact

11:09statement

11:09showing how

11:11loved she was

11:12to her family.

11:13She said

11:13things in

11:13court like

11:14what kind

11:14of mind

11:15is capable

11:16of thinking

11:16that it's

11:17okay to do

11:17that to

11:18another human

11:18being.

11:19My heart

11:20is literally

11:20broken.

11:21You did

11:21that.

11:23She also

11:23said that

11:24Yuliana's

11:24children were

11:25asking for

11:26their mother

11:26every day.

11:30You hear

11:31about these

11:31people as

11:33victims but

11:33this is when

11:34you really hear

11:35about them as

11:35people and

11:36hear about the

11:37impact they had

11:38on others'

11:38lives.

11:39We also heard

11:40during these

11:41court proceedings

11:41from the family

11:42of Corey

11:43Bretton.

11:43We heard

11:44from his

11:44partner

11:45Miranda and

11:46she said in

11:47court through a

11:47victim impact

11:48statement,

11:49how do you

11:50tell a three

11:50year old that

11:51you're never

11:51going to be

11:52able to see

11:52your father

11:53again?

11:59It's so brutal.

12:00They are sitting

12:01metres away from

12:02the people that

12:03have been accused

12:04of killing their

12:05loved ones and

12:06they have to hear

12:07about every

12:08gruesome detail

12:10when they're

12:11getting tortured,

12:11you know,

12:12taped and zip

12:13tied to a

12:14couch,

12:14getting beaten

12:15up, flogged,

12:16jammed into a

12:17toolbox.

12:18The family

12:18members clearly

12:19were feeling

12:21that.

12:21It was like

12:22they were going

12:23through the same

12:24experience and

12:25this is day

12:25after day

12:26after day.

12:27You know,

12:27this is facing,

12:29really, they are

12:30facing their own

12:30type of torture.

12:32This time it

12:32just happened to

12:33be in a

12:33courtroom.

12:35And those

12:37are the moments

12:37that you just

12:38don't really

12:39forget.

12:39Yeah, you

12:40don't forget.

12:44No amount

12:44of time

12:45served will

12:46ever bring

12:47Corey back

12:47to us.

12:48My life

12:48is gone.

12:50My daughter

12:51is gone.

12:53Maybe

12:53the God

12:54give him

12:54more.

12:57It was

12:58quite a great

12:59relief.

13:00The family

13:00is very

13:01appreciative of

13:01the amount

13:02of work that

13:02went into

13:03preparing

13:05the court

13:06matters.

13:07And

13:07obviously

13:09they're not

13:09going to get

13:09their family

13:10members back

13:11but they

13:12saw it as

13:13justice

13:14being served.

13:17Over the

13:18last five

13:18years we

13:19have not

13:19been able

13:20to properly

13:20grieve for

13:21Corey due

13:22to court

13:23proceedings.

13:25Now we

13:26have some

13:26sort of

13:27closure.

13:32so it's

13:35not one

13:35of these

13:35ones where

13:36you're

13:37punching

13:37in the

13:37air,

13:37it's

13:37high

13:38fives

13:38everywhere.

13:38It's

13:38not like

13:39that at

13:39all.

13:40In fact

13:40it's

13:41quite sad.

13:42Two people

13:42have lost

13:43their life

13:43and I

13:44don't believe

13:44it's a

13:45moment to

13:45be overjoyed.

13:46people never

13:51recover from

13:52this type

13:53of crime

13:54and it's

13:54not just

13:55the loss

13:56of two

13:56loved ones

13:57it's the

13:58knowledge of

13:58how they

13:59died.

14:03You would

14:04not be able

14:04to extricate

14:06yourself from

14:06those feelings.

14:08This was an

14:15extremely complex

14:17court case to

14:18cover.

14:18We had nine

14:19separate defendants

14:20on a range of

14:21charges, varying

14:23charges from

14:23assault, torture,

14:26deprivation of

14:26liberty, manslaughter

14:27and murder.

14:29Some of these

14:30defendants were

14:30being dealt with

14:31individually, some

14:32were being dealt

14:32with together.

14:33So the court

14:34proceedings to get

14:35through them all

14:35took a couple of

14:36years.

14:38The leader

14:41Stowe Daniels

14:42charged with

14:43double murder

14:44and torture

14:44received a

14:45life sentence

14:46from the

14:47judge.

14:48Terangi

14:48Tahiata

14:49who drove

14:50the ute with

14:50the toolbox

14:51to Scrubby

14:52Creek and

14:52later took

14:53police to

14:54the dumping

14:54ground got

14:55life for

14:56double murder

14:56and torture.

14:57Enforcer

14:58Trent Thrupp

14:59who yelled

15:00time to die

15:01got life for

15:02double murder

15:03and torture.

15:04Henchman

15:05Davey Tao

15:06also got life

15:07for double

15:07murder.

15:08and torture.

15:10Tepuna

15:10Mariri

15:11was jailed

15:11for torture

15:12and manslaughter.

15:14Webster

15:15Latu

15:15guilty of

15:16two counts

15:16of manslaughter.

15:18So too

15:19was mum

15:19of seven

15:20Nagatuna

15:20Marietti

15:21guilty of

15:22double manslaughter.

15:24Waylon

15:25Walker

15:25was guilty

15:26of manslaughter.

15:26This was a

15:33case everyone

15:34thought it was

15:35done and

15:35dusted.

15:36Over.

15:36These men

15:37have been

15:37found guilty,

15:38convicted,

15:40sent to

15:40prison and

15:41then.

15:42One of the men

15:47serving a life

15:47sentence for a

15:48shocking 2016

15:49double homicide

15:50known as the

15:51toolbox murders

15:52is appealing

15:53his conviction.

15:54A jury

15:55found

15:55Taurangi

15:56Thomas

15:56Tahiata

15:57guilty of the

15:58murders of

15:58Luliana

15:59Triscaru

16:00and Corey

16:00Breton.

16:03Tahiata

16:04today lodged

16:05an appeal

16:05in Brisbane's

16:06Supreme Court

16:07arguing inadmissible

16:08evidence was

16:09placed before the

16:10jury resulting

16:11in a miscarriage

16:12of justice.

16:15This was

16:16a shocking,

16:17a shocking

16:17turn of events.

16:19There are no

16:20winners in

16:21cases like this.

16:22It's no doubt

16:23stressful and

16:24no doubt the

16:25families would be

16:27continuing to

16:28suffer as

16:29a result of

16:29that.

16:30I miss her

16:30very much.

16:32I'm so upset.

16:41One of

16:41Queen's Anne's

16:42toolbox killers

16:43has lost an

16:44appeal against

16:45his double

16:45murder conviction.

16:47Tahiata's appeal

16:47contended that

16:49an off-camera

16:49confession should

16:50have been

16:51inadmissible

16:51during his trial.

16:53But the

16:53Court of Appeal

16:53judges pointed

16:54out that he

16:55had also

16:56confessed on

16:57camera to

16:58police.

16:59We felt

17:04relief but

17:06still very,

17:07very sad and

17:08we should have

17:11never been in

17:12that situation,

17:13I suppose.

17:14No one should

17:14ever go through

17:16that.

17:16When we've had a

17:20guilty verdict, it

17:21will help the

17:21victim's families

17:22move on.

17:23About the

17:24family having

17:24closure, that's

17:25the most we can

17:26bring to them.

17:27So hopefully they

17:28now can move

17:29forward and move

17:29on with their

17:30lives.

17:32One of the

17:33other players in

17:34this is, Natakuna

17:36Marietti.

17:37She was a friend of

17:39Yuliana and

17:40Corey's.

17:43Natakuna used to

17:44come to our

17:46house and we

17:47would babysit her

17:48children, me and

17:49Yuliana.

17:51Marietti went to

17:53this place to buy

17:54drugs and she

17:56discovered that

17:57Yuliana had ice

17:58secreted in her

17:59bra.

18:00She took that

18:01ice from her and

18:02then became involved

18:03in this horrendous

18:03crime.

18:04I find that

18:17extraordinary in

18:18terms of being

18:20friends.

18:21She would have

18:21understood the

18:22impact on Yuliana's

18:24children by losing

18:26their mother as a

18:27mother herself and

18:28none of that appears

18:29to have been factored

18:30into her thinking,

18:31judgement and conduct

18:33at that time.

18:35It's the ultimate

18:36betrayal.

18:37Friends, they were

18:38mothers who looked

18:39after each other's

18:40children.

18:42How do you go from

18:43looking after each

18:44other's children to

18:45being part of the

18:49murder of that

18:50person?

18:51The clean up.

18:59This was a friend

19:00who turned just

19:03like that.

19:03and was able to be

19:06part of this

19:08murderous plot.

19:10And not only that,

19:11in the days

19:12afterwards, she

19:13contacted Yuliana's

19:15family and lied

19:18and said,

19:18she's fine,

19:20they're fine.

19:21That level of

19:22deception is beyond

19:25most of us.

19:26How could she?

19:31She was friends with

19:32Yuliana.

19:35You know,

19:35they hanged out,

19:37both Yuliana and

19:38Gatakuna and their

19:39children.

19:40That's, you know,

19:41how could you do that

19:42to your friend?

19:43That's,

19:44how could you be able

19:45to stand there and

19:46clean up a mess that

19:48you know for a fact

19:49that your friend was

19:50just there?

19:54It's, I can't understand

19:56how it, what went on

19:58with her mind in that

19:59regard.

20:00It clearly speaks to

20:07the bonds of friendship

20:08being just an illusion

20:10in this case.

20:11No empathy.

20:12You would imagine that

20:13she might have thought

20:14about the impact on

20:16the children, knowing

20:17their mother was going

20:18to be murdered, in

20:19terms of her position

20:20as a mother of seven.

20:22But that does not seem

20:23to come into play here.

20:27Yuliana didn't deserve

20:28any of it.

20:29the, the horrible,

20:32horrible way to go.

20:35It's not fair.

20:37She didn't deserve it

20:38as a person.

20:40She was a beautiful

20:42human being.

20:50A mother of seven

20:51involved in the grisly

20:53deaths of a man and a

20:54woman whose bodies were

20:55found inside a toolbox

20:56in a Logan Creek is

20:57admitting to her

20:58part in the evil crime.

21:00Natakuna Marietti

21:01pleading guilty to the

21:02pair's manslaughter.

21:04She wasn't involved in

21:05the actual killings, but

21:07she did assist by buying

21:08cleaning products, a mop,

21:10a bucket, methylated

21:11spirits to clean the unit.

21:13The judge told her she

21:14allowed events to unfold

21:16that caused the deaths.

21:18She was at the Logan

21:19unit in 2016 to buy

21:21drugs.

21:22She saw the victims tied up

21:23and later heard them

21:25screaming from inside the

21:26toolbox.

21:27She must have known this

21:28was not going to end well.

21:36But then comes a cruel twist

21:38for Corey and Uleana's

21:40families.

21:42Marietti is set free after

21:44serving part of her nine-year

21:46sentence for manslaughter.

21:47She is deported to her home

21:49in New Zealand.

21:51Then there's a development

21:54which absolutely shocks

21:56police, families and the

21:59community.

21:59So my involvement with the

22:04toolbox murders started when

22:06the matter came before the

22:07criminal court of appeal.

22:09Waylon Walker had requested

22:11that I act on his behalf with

22:12respect to an appeal after he

22:14was convicted of two

22:15manslaughters.

22:18He was charged with murder at

22:20the time of the trial and then

22:22on appeal we applied to the

22:25court to overturn those

22:26convictions.

22:27Our argument was that it

22:29could not be said and the jury

22:31could not have been satisfied

22:32on the evidence before them

22:34that Waylon had knowledge

22:36that these persons were going

22:39to be taken to Scrubby Creek

22:41and ultimately drowned.

22:43His knowledge was that they

22:45were just going to be taken

22:47for what was referred to as a

22:48boot ride and released.

22:50Now if Waylon didn't have the

22:52knowledge that these persons

22:54were going to be taken and

22:56drowned then it couldn't be

22:57sustained that he could be

22:59convicted of the manslaughter.

23:06In underworld language a boot

23:08ride is when you put someone in

23:10the back of your boot and take

23:11them for a ride as a bit of a

23:13scare tactic before letting them

23:15go.

23:16So Waylon appealed on the basis

23:18that they thought that the

23:19victims in this case were going to

23:21be let go.

23:35There's no fairness in any of these

23:37things.

23:39Waylon Walker wins his appeal

23:42against a manslaughter conviction

23:43and he then is set free.

23:46That is a shocking outcome for

23:48families and all of the police

23:50involved, anyone involved.

23:52Logan is a fascinating place.

24:05It's about half an hour south of

24:07Brisbane and it's situated maybe 20

24:10minutes north of the Gold Coast.

24:13There's beautiful places, beautiful

24:18people, there's bad in every suburb.

24:21When it comes to troubles in Logan,

24:24a lot of it revolves around drugs.

24:26The scourge of Logan is ice, readily

24:28available, cheap, easy for people to

24:31produce.

24:32Not only does it warp people's minds,

24:36it just changes people completely.

24:40My team seem to lose their sense of

24:43humanity.

24:48It's all about them and what they need

24:50to do to facilitate their habit.

24:58Let's face it, this is what happens

24:59when people get involved in drugs.

25:01They become involved with people

25:02trafficking drugs.

25:11Gangs and organised crime are two

25:13things that can overlap, like a Venn

25:15diagram.

25:16So gangs are a group of people who

25:19form to pursue whatever it could be.

25:23So it could be just normal, this is

25:25our territory, there's a bit of street

25:27violence and that.

25:28Organised crime is usually defined as

25:30three or more people in an ongoing

25:32relationship, seeking power or profit

25:36through committing of serious criminal

25:37offences.

25:39They were clearly in it, it appears from

25:42the evidence of the court cases, in an

25:43ongoing relationship, making profit from

25:47selling drugs.

25:51Any gang of any type, whether it's a

25:52motorcycle gang, whether it's a football

25:54club, there's always a hierarchy.

25:56So at the top are the people who best exemplify the

25:59lifestyle that everyone's looking for.

26:01That also means they're the most extreme person.

26:04And Stu is obviously that, Stu Daniels is that person in this group.

26:09There are rules within the criminal gang and you walk into any jail in any decade, the lowest of the low in a prison is a dog, a person who's a police informer.

26:21So if there was a belief amongst the group that Corey was informing about them to the police, that in itself would feed into the self-justification for what they're about to do, because he was a dog and he had to be killed.

26:38There was a real sense of fear in this group, some of the people in the group felt that if they didn't go along with this, that they might be next, they were worried they could be in the toolbox next.

26:54So they really did this out of fear, out of a misguided sense of loyalty, and it just ended up with the most horrific consequences for Uliana and Corey.

27:03STO Daniels is a New Zealander, but he was living in Australia, living in Logan.

27:20Everybody looked up to him, everybody took his orders.

27:24When he spoke, they came. When he called them, they came.

27:27Meanwhile, his brother Tyson Daniels is the deputy leader of the New Zealand chapter of the Comancheros biker gang, a notorious, a very scary gang.

27:42I'll just quote the judge in one of Daniels' cases. That was in February of 2020.

27:47And he says, you clearly knew that the money was derived from a significant drug importation and supply operation by the group of which you are a member.

28:00In this video of Tyson Daniels, you'll see him showing off his closet full of designer runners, expensive shirts and really trying to betray this idea of wealth and power to people.

28:12There's all my gym clothes and stuff. I got all my gym clothes all in there, all over there, and then all my gym shoes and shit.

28:25Show you guys the other side.

28:27All TNs, TNs, TNs, TNs, more TNs.

28:32And a few more Versace things, all that type of shit.

28:37Oh, this is my Versace rack here.

28:39Everyone trying to say I'm wearing fake Versace.

28:43Get the f*** out of here.

28:45Tyson Daniels showing off that he has money is not unusual in the organised crime community either.

28:52Why do people join organised crime? Because they want the lifestyle.

28:55How do you advertise your success in organised crime? Have the lifestyle and let everybody see it.

29:02Organised crime members don't think they're going to live to get their superannuation.

29:07Can I see my future wardrobe?

29:10The drug money must be good over there.

29:14Definitely a cop.

29:17Spending the money and being seen, that is organised crime culture from the movies.

29:22So, the cruelty is part of the culture.

29:26If I'm going to join the culture, and I know, because I've got the same sources as everybody else in that culture,

29:32meaning the media that we've all watched, the movies we've watched, this is what the lifestyle looks like.

29:38And I still voluntarily participate, then I also know that this is one of the consequences.

29:44So, I must have some level of awareness and acceptance that this is going to be possible, and it doesn't really worry me as much.

29:49Whether there's any connection to the Comancheros over in New Zealand, and this local Logan drug group, really isn't clear.

30:03This wasn't discussed in court, but something we do know for sure is that Tyson Daniels visited his younger brother after the murders.

30:15And we can prove that because he was pictured on CCTV.

30:18He's come over to meet up with them.

30:23I can't really say too much more about his brother, but, yeah, that's a significant meeting.

30:32I don't think one can overstate the importance of sibling bonds in situations like this, because blood runs thicker than water.

30:43When people grow up together, there's inevitably some sort of bond that occurs, and there's a power dynamic which can occur.

30:50I would be wondering how much competition there was between Daniels and his brother Tyson Daniels, who is also involved in criminal enterprise.

31:04What the male influences in their childhood looked like, whether there was a domineering parent, and what they're like in their intimate relationships as well.

31:19Whatever Stowe Daniels motivations, it's incredibly clear that he exerts this vice-like control over others.

31:34That crew did everything he told them.

31:37They followed every instruction, regardless of how brutal and violent it seemed.

31:49There were plenty of opportunities for those friends who were gathered at the TAV that they could have extricated themselves.

32:01They could have told the police, they could have helped Yuliana escape, but they didn't.

32:07And it shows what kind of control was being held over them.

32:19The context under which this happened, where you have one person giving an order, and other people acting on it, but no one being the main violent perpetrator, means that everyone then can minimize their own involvement, which seems to be exactly what happened.

32:42You can see people who take a lot of drugs, who become desperate on drugs, are willing to do things they would never have done in their sober lives.

32:57Steal, destroy things, harm their own family members just to get another opportunity.

33:03Well, likewise, the addiction to the lifestyle, as well as the use of drugs, can mean that people will be willing to do things they would never have otherwise done.

33:12This whole episode started over a photograph of Stowe Daniels on a mobile phone device taken from a CCTV camera.

33:34And paranoid about his photograph being out there, believing that Corey may have been a police informant and ratting on him or setting him up for something.

33:43It's never been explained properly by Daniels as to why he took the actions that he did.

33:49But I think maybe that's what kicked it off and perhaps mixed in with a little bit of paranoia and perhaps some drug-affected thinking.

34:01But then to go from that to kidnap, torture, homicide was a massive escalation that happened very, very quickly and doesn't seem to have any reason whatsoever.

34:17Especially the involvement of Yuliana out of nowhere.

34:21So it became a crazy reaction to this perceived slight that didn't even actually exist.

34:31So after years of this case playing out in various court proceedings and all nine of these accused being convicted for their various roles in this horrific murder, there comes what is an absolute shock.

34:50A twist in the case, a twist that nobody saw coming.

34:56The murder convictions of a trio sentenced to life behind bars over the gruesome toolbox killings of two people in 2016 have been overturned on appeal.

35:04The men were first tried in 2021 following the callous deaths of Corey Bretton and Yuliana Triscaru, who were tortured, locked in a toolbox and dumped in wetlands in Logan.

35:15The court of appeal finding there was a miscarriage of justice and ordering a retrial.

35:22The ringleader, Stowe Daniels, his double murder conviction was set aside on appeal.

35:29He's then granted a retrial.

35:31Then Trent Thrupp, David Tao also win appeals to have their double murder convictions set aside and they win a retrial.

35:40I don't think anyone saw that coming.

35:45You have to go back to everybody and say, sorry, we have to do this again.

35:50As you can imagine what witnesses are like that one don't want to do it, but to have to come back and do it again, you can imagine what some of them were like.

36:01The victims' families, to drag them through that horrific story yet again, must be so disheartening and so unforgiving for them.

36:14Because you're talking about people potentially taking months of time, the families of the victims can really suffer when things continue like this.

36:24Having to re-hear all of the gory details of something that happened to their loved one can be very, very difficult, but it is never truly over for a lot of these families.

36:41It's, of course, disappointing.

36:49My reading of it is, put simply, an error in the instructions that were given to the jurors and that those instructions had the potential to be prejudicial.

37:00I don't know that it's like a technicality in the law, but sort of.

37:05I mean, it's not a shortcoming in the evidence, which is good in terms of future prospects for conviction.

37:12It's that the judge made an error.

37:17If you look through all the people, you will see different levels of participation from, I'm actively going to participate in the torture, pushing them back into the toolbox, through to, I'm really just watching.

37:31But you're still there.

37:32And you're still participating.

37:34And that is one of the big issues in the court case.

37:38And the retrials is how well that conspiratorial aspects were covered in those previous court cases.

37:47That's your right, as a citizen, to have an argument, a legal argument, about the verdict and to hear.

37:54And that will go back to another new trial and that evidence will be retested again.

38:01I think they deserve to be behind bars for the rest of their lives.

38:05For the, for the severity of what they've done to Juliana and Corey.

38:13That's, that's horrible.

38:15That's very horrible, what they've done.

38:18Having to hear that how your family member, your daughter, your mum, your cousin has been murdered in that way.

38:26It's like almost watching a horror movie.

38:31Living through a trial like this is one of the most difficult things any family members are put through.

38:54To have to now do it again at a retrial.

38:57It's, it's cruel.

38:59First few years it was very difficult not having Juliana around.

39:06I even used to dial her number.

39:07It was ringing.

39:08It was ringing.

39:09That's just like my family members.

39:10And it was like, oh my God, I was like, what's the word?

39:11I'm not gonna say to you?

39:12One, two, three, four.

39:13That's great.

39:14I'm not gonna say.

39:15But it's not really how many people do you know?

39:16One, two, three, four.

39:18Both of the people who I think was, yeah.

39:19I'm not gonna say to you.

39:20I was going to say to you.

39:21But I'm not gonna say to you know what do you mean?

39:22And I'm not gonna say to you.

39:23I'm not gonna say to you.

39:24That's okay.

39:25You know.

39:26I'm gonna say you're gonna say, I'm gonna say to you.

39:27So, you're gonna say a lot of people.

39:28I'm gonna say I'm gonna say to you.

39:29number and it was ringing. That's just one of the ways we try to keep Juliana, her memory

39:46alive with all of us.

39:53You do hear that often with people who've lost loved ones that need to stay connected

39:58and I think you can't overstate the long-term impact of a crime like this. You would never

40:07get over knowing what had been done to your loved one in those circumstances.

40:23The sad reality is that the children of these victims have become victims themselves. They've

40:30been deprived of a mother and a father so people never recover from the magnitude of this type

40:36of loss.

40:40Cases like this have terrible consequences. The way people are impacted by them, police

40:48officers, even one police officer involved in this case, he left the force afterwards because

40:56it had such an impact on him.

41:06As part of his evidence, Detective Tim Lusty had to oversee photographs of the toolbox where

41:14he had to return and stand next to it for scale.

41:25Years later it still smells horribly. It's not something I will ever forget. It's hard to

41:35describe the smell.

41:47It's just something that gets into your mind. Decomposition, whether it is everybody's probably

41:58seen an animal or had an animal, dead bird or lizards or whatever else on the side of the road.

42:16So yes, it will stay with me forever. Yes, along with other things that I've had to deal with.

42:28You're never the same after and going through those trials. It always affects you no matter

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