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Morning Cup of Murder

A Father Who Did The Unthinkable - September 3 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

September 3rd: Robert Harvey Kills (2018) Parents are supposed to protect their children. So, when they fail to do so, it’s a crime that is impossible to understand. On September 3rd 2018 a family was killed in a case that had no clear motive but strong reactions against the man responsible. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-11/bedford-mass-murders-distraught-family-releases-statement/10230514, https://7news.com.au/news/court-justice/bedford-murders-anthony-robert-harvey-to-be-sentenced-for-killing-family-c-177909, https://7news.com.au/news/crime/dad-to-be-sentenced-for-wa-family-murders-c-354396, https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/court-justice/bedford-murders-family-killer-anthony-robert-harvey-scraps-appeal-against-life-sentence-ng-b881490850z, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/22/bedf-s22.html, https://www.buzzfeed.com/ginarushton/bedford-murder-perth-sister-harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.9

A cup of murder...

0:14.8

Parents are supposed to protect their children.

0:17.9

So when they fail to do so, it's a crime that is impossible to understand.

0:23.6

On September 3, 2018, a family was killed in a case that saw no clear motive, but strong

0:31.3

reactions against the man responsible. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

0:37.4

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:41.5

On September 3, 2018, Mara Lee Harvey, 41, and her children, three-year-old Charlotte Kate, and two-year-old twins, Alice Esther and Beatrix May, were brutally slain in their own home by a man

0:56.9

who was supposed to love them. With Mara's 73-year-old mother, Beverly Anne Quinn, falling victim

1:04.0

to that same man in that same house the following day when she unknowingly came to visit her family,

1:12.3

the bodies were discovered alongside one another inside of that Perth Australia home. Beverly and Mara were both struck in the

1:19.4

head with a metal pipe and repeatedly stabbed using a knife that the killer bought just days before,

1:26.5

a blade almost the size of a machete,

1:29.5

and the children were killed with a smaller knife, also brand new, while they slept peacefully

1:35.2

in their beds. The man responsible was 24-year-old Anthony Robert Harvey. Mara Harvey's husband,

1:43.4

who claimed he, after consuming wine, tried to finish

1:47.6

off his wife of three years as quickly as possible, and confessed to killing his children in their

1:53.4

sleep because, quote, they were just little girls. Charlotte was stabbed a total of 38 times, Mara a total of 12, and all of the victims were

2:06.3

covered with blankets, flowers, and handwritten notes. On the body of his wife, Anthony wrote,

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