TWO people cowered inside the unit as Bronson ‘Lizard Man’ Ellery beat his ex Shelsea Schilling to death, only coming out once the screaming had stopped.
The accounts from the witnesses inside the Southport unit have been subject to multiple police and even CCC interviews, with details revealing Christopher Paul Lowden, 21 and Jasmine O’Neil witnessed an argument between heavily-tattooed former bikie enforcer Ellery and Ms Schilling, on November 9, 2016.
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It’s understood the pair left the living room the argument was unfolding in, before it turned physical.
When the noise stopped and the pair ventured back to the living room they would have been confronted with a horrific scene.
Ms Schilling had been beaten to death, she was laying face down in a pool of blood on the floor of the living room.
The pair didn’t call for help, they didn’t call the police, they just stood there.
At some point one of them reached and felt for a pulse on Shelsea. She was dead.
It’s understood Ellery’s best friend Michael Ryan Warburton, would turn up a short time later.
Warburton would hold Ellery for an hour, comforting him as Ms Schilling lay dead on the floor, before the Lizard Man told him, “I promised her I would go with her.”
Ellery went and got changed into his best suit, put on his favourite song, set up a full-length mirror in the loungeroom, laid down in front of it, draped Ms Schilling’s lifeless arm across his body and gave himself a hot shotof drugs, enough to kill him.
It’s unknown what Lowden and O’Neil were doing while Warburton comforted Ellery before he killed himself.
They then left, leaving the pair behind, without calling anyone. That was a Wednesday.
For days they said nothing.
Friends of the Lizard Man went to his unit on Friday, November 11 and found Ellery and Ms Schilling’s lifeless bodies.
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The last time Ms Schilling’s family heard their daughter’s voice was a call to the family home on Wednesday to say she would be coming over for dinner. She would never arrive.
A large scale police investigation was launched, with officers scouring the unit, interviewing witnesses and building a backstory about the former couple’s tumultuous history.
What they uncovered about Ellery’s dark past, his criminal history and his association with the Bandidos bikies made them do a deep dive into the possible motives of the killing.
It was first reported as possibly a double murder, a hit on a man who was desperately trying to set up the infamous European bikie gang Satudarah, but it quickly became apparent this was not a hit, but a horrific domestic violence murder.
It’s understood a list of names Ellery was trying to recruit to the violent outlaw motorcycle gang was found in his unit after the murder-suicide.
The gang has since been outlawed across Queensland after being marked as an identified organisation by the Queensland Government.
It became apparent that Ms Schilling was trying to escape her ex-partner.
She went as far as quitting her job, moving, changing phone numbers and cutting off contact with mutual friends to get away from the heavily-tattooed Lizard Man.
A domestic violence order (DVO) was in place to protect Ms Schilling, but it was breached a number of times before that fateful November day.
Five days after the bodies were discovered, Jasmine O’Neil, who hid during Ms Schilling’s brutal end, came forward and spoke with police.
Her lawyer at the time, Lisa Searing of Buckland Allen Criminal Lawyers, told the Gold Coast Bulletin O’Neil had agreed to speak with police because she wanted to give the family of Ms Schilling “closure.”
For a long time local detectives have been investigating where Ellery sourced the drugs that killed him. No charges have been laid.
It’s understood there has been a delay in the coroner’s investigation into the deaths due to the Dreamworld inquest.
Unlike other states, those present in the unit cannot be charged for doing nothing during the brutal domestic violence attack.
Queensland does not have a bystander responsibility law, meaning a person who fails to rescue someone in need cannot be charged.
It is has now been 18 long months of unanswered questions for the family of Ms Schilling, who need to know what happened in the hours before and after Shelsea’s death.
They need to know how Shelsea got to the Johnston St unit and what led up to her death.
They want to look Warburton, O’Neil and Lowden in the eye, hear what they have to say and ask how they sleep at night.
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