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It was just after 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 13, 1996, when a team of eight detectives were called to a residence in the New South

Wales suburb of Alpian Park Rail. Detective Sergeant Danny Sharkey, who headed the crew,

quickly drove to the address in Shearwater Boulevard, accompanied by several colleagues. The house

was easy to spot, thanks to an ambulance parked outside.

As the detectives pulled up to the small one-story brick home,

they saw a tall, dark-haired teenager doubled up on the front lawn with an older man next to him.

The teenager was crying and asking repeatedly,

What's happened? Who's done this?

He was so distraught that the paramedics rushed him to hospital.

Detective Sharkey briefly spoke to the older man, a neighbour whose name was Steve Bailey.

Steve described how he'd been outside talking to a friend when the teen ran out of the home

screaming that something had happened to his mother and sister.

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