By the end of the day, O’Keefe would be in handcuffs again.

It’s not long after lunchtime, he’s got a pocket full of cash, and a burning desire to get back on the gear.

About 1.30pm the then 32-year-old is visiting his mother in Kirwan, and catching up with his then partner, Jade Angel Spark, 19.

O’Keefe and Ms Spark head off to a bottle shop to get drinks, buying a 10 pack of pre-mixed rums to share.

When Ms Spark gave evidence on day two of the trial, she told the jury she couldn’t remember how much they’d drunk.

At some point the pair make their way to Wulguru, 39 Kepler St was their destination, the home of Brittny Speechly-Faulks, where O’Keefe wanted to “get on it,” knowing full well his friend knew where to score ice.

Ms Sparks told the jury she left after fighting with O’Keefe about drugs.

After Ms Spark left, an unknown person delivered meth and O’Keefe and Ms Speechly-Faulks injected the drug.

With methamphetamine coursing through his veins O’Keefe snapped.

He took a knife and slit Ms Speechly-Faulks throat.

As she fell to the ground he stabbed her multiple times, leaving her on the kitchen floor, bleeding horrifically.

“He slit my throat and stabbed me in the back of the neck … and said 1, 2, 3, 4 you’re dead bitch,” Ms Speechly-Faulks told the court.

He would later tell police while cuffed to a hospital bed that he had cut her head off.

O’Keefe stripped naked, he was covered in blood, his rampage was just getting started.

He walked across the road, to a woman who was affectionately known at the grandmother of Wright St.

O’Keefe was heading to 90 Wright St, the home of Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Kippin a woman who radiated warmth.

He tore the screen from the window.

Crept inside.

The exact circumstances of what happened inside those walls that were usually a place of happiness and joy are unknown, but the result is still the same, Mrs Kippin suffered a fatal stab wound to the chest, at the hands of O’Keefe.

He punctured a major artery, leaving her for dead, to bleed out on the floor of her home.

O’Keefe isn’t finished.

He makes his way to 88 Wright St where he tries to get inside. Darryn Haines told the court the naked man was “huddled” on his front porch asking for help but that his demeanor changed when he refused to let him into his home.

In a frantic Triple-0 call made at 10.24pm, a panicked Mr Haines tells the operator: “he’s stark naked and saying he’s going to kill people.”

Jason Cox was just getting out of his car, a FIFO worker, he was returning home with his wife who had picked him up from the airport.

O’Keefe approached his car outside 86 Wright St, asking for help saying people were ‘trying to kill him’.

After announcing he was “going on a killing spree” O’Keefe then struck Mr Cox leaving him bleeding with lacerations to his face.

Mr Cox told the jury O’Keefe “looked to be” armed with a knife when he attacked.

At 83 Wright St O’Keefe armed himself with a water hydrant lid and used it to threaten John Costanzo and his dog Pepper.

Neighbours called to give evidence in the trial said they saw a naked and bloody man on the street smashing windows, kicking and headbutting cars before he ripped a paling from a fence at 68 Wright St.

The witnesses said they heard O’Keefe say he was on a “killing spree” and planned to “kill some people tonight”.

Daniel Short said a naked man “covered in blood” attacked him while armed with a pointed fence paling before running off down the street.

O’Keefe was aggressive, disoriented and under the influence of drugs when police arrested him on Lister St, about 11pm.

Police body cam captured the violent arrest. An officer who followed him on foot found him crouched on the bonnet of a white ute covered in blood.

It took multiple tasers and more than four officers to detain O’Keefe who had both his hands and legs cuffed.

The sleepy streets of Wulguru were awash with police lights, but residents who experienced the turmoil went to sleep unaware that the worst was yet to come.

Inspector Kelly Harvey was briefing journalists about O’Keefe’s crimes the night before on the morning of July 27, 2016.

A neighbour interrupted the televised press conference, yelling out “she’s dead.”

ashley.pillhofer@news.com.au