Robert Xie: Terrifying Triple-O call revealed

Kathy Lin begged her husband Robert Xie not to leave her as she made a terrified triple-0 call after finding her brother and his family bashed to death.

• Crime scene photos reveal Lin family bloodbath
• How ‘Stain 91’ condemned Robert Xie as the killer

Kathy Lin begged her husband Robert Xie not to leave her as she made a terrified triple-0 call after finding her brother and his family bashed to death.

The full call, which was played to the jury in Xie’s murder trial, was released today and it can heard for the first time.

Graphic crime scene photographs taken upstairs in the home of her brother Min Lin show some of the horrific images of the blood-splattered bedrooms which Kathy Lin discovered on the morning of July 18, 2009.

She had gone to the house with her husband to see where the family was after they failed to open their Epping newsagency that morning.

This picture of a blood-spattered powerpoint in the bedroom where Min and Lilly Lin were killed was released for the first time today.

The Lin family home in Boundary Road, North Epping, where they were slaughtered by Robert Xie.

The carpet after chemical treatment from bedroom 1of 55A Boundary Road.

Xie, 53, was convicted by a majority jury verdict in the Supreme Court last week of the murders of his brother-in-law Min Lin, 45, Lin’s wife Lilly Lin, 43, their sons Henry, 12, and Terry, nine, and Lilly’s sister Irene Yin, 39.

Among the crime scene photographs is one showing the blood spot that became crucial in the crown case - Stain 91. Found on the concrete floor of Xie’s garage, it contained the DNA of four of his victims.

After the horrific discovery of the bloody scene, Robert Xie told his wife he was going to collect her parents from Merrylands which is when the prosecution said he got rid of the murder weapon, the hammer with which he bashed the family to death and which was never found.

Stain 91. This was the stain which contained the DNA profiles of four of the five Lin murder victims - and was found in Robert Xie’s garage ten months after the killings.

Blood on the walls at Boundary Road.

Which were seen first by Kathy.

He drove off, leaving his wife alone before police and ambulance officers arrived despite not knowing if there was still an armed killer in the house or in the area and despite his wife’s treaties for him to stay with her.

“I am more scared than you,” Ms Lin, who did not take her husband’s name when they married, can be heard on the triple-O call telling her husband.

“I need someone to come quick because I think....I think someone killed my brother, sister, someone killed my brother’s family,” she told the operator.

Operator: “Are they on the ground?”

Ms Lin: “No no no they are in the bedrooms they’re all bedrooms.”

Operator: “Are they in the house? Is your brother in the house?”

Ms Lin: “I’m not sure because I just have quickly take a look...saw the body..decide to call you.

“I saw the...sister-in-law’s body and I saw the sister-in-law’s sister’s body and I saw the two cousins nephew um two my brother’s sons body down up there. I didn’t see my brother.”

The family grave site of Min Lin and wife Lilly

Murder victims Terry and Henry Lin aged nine and 12.

Fifth victim Irene.

Xie and wife Kathy.

Min Lin’s body was covered by a doona in the bed next to his wife but police and paramedics did not find it until that afternoon after Ms Lin called them. The initial fear was that he had killed his family and escaped.

Ms Lin told police in the call that they should look under the doona because she had a “feeling” her brother was under there. She denied she had been told to say that by her husband.

He knew where the body was because he was the murderer.

Submissions on his sentence will be heard in the NSW Supreme Court on February 10.