How lust led to second murder conviction
Already serving time for the murder of her former partner, the wicked ways of an exotic dancer known as the ‘Black Widow’ have been revealed.
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A former Melbourne stripper known as the ‘Black Widow’ after she ordered the contract killing of her fiance has been convicted of a second femme fatale murder.
Robyn Jane Lindholm, 46, was today found guilty of murdering George Teazis, 38, also known as George Templeton, in May 2005.
The Herald Sun can only now reveal the details of her wicked ways following the verdict.
A seven-week Supreme Court trial was heavily suppressed, with the jury not knowing Lindholm is already serving a 25-year jail term for the 2013 murder of Wayne Amey.
The exotic dancer, who had a stage name of “Colette”, arranged for her lover, Torsten “Toots” Trabert, and John Ryan to kill Mr Amey, 54, over a bitter dispute involving their Bittern farm.
In a freakishly similar scenario eight years earlier, it would be Mr Amey who police suspect helped Lindholm kill her then partner of seven years, Mr Teazis.
She had made out Mr Teazis had drove off in the night and disappeared. His body has never been found.
It wasn’t until June 2016 she was charged with his murder.
The jury heard Lindholm was having an affair with Mr Amey, after meeting him while Mr Teazis was on remand for 21 days on drugs and weapons offences in February 2003.
Lindholm drugged Mr Teazis with sleeping pills, served with his pepper steak dinner, as they entertained friends at their Reservoir home.
An excuse was made as to why Lindholm had to leave the house.
But the conniving cheater really wanted to create an alibi for herself that would also allow Mr Teazis to be home alone for when his attackers pounced.
“She invented the pretext in order to leave the premises and then make it appear that George had suddenly just disappeared,” Crown prosecutor Ray Gibson QC said.
While away from the house for up to an hour, Lindholm received two phone calls on a secret mobile phone Mr Amey had given her. After the second call she went home.
Lindholm’s motive to “bump off” Mr Teazis, Mr Gibson said, was so she could live happily ever after with Mr Amey.
“She referred to (Mr Teazis) as the plastic gangster who was going nowhere,” Mr Gibson told the jury.
“More importantly, he stood in the way of her being able to pursue her relationship with the fit, sexy, leather pants-wearing Amey.”
Soon after Mr Teazis’s disappearance, she started disposing of his property, and then moved in to a Hawthorn penthouse with gym owner Mr Amey.
The court heard as years passed, and she became unhappy in that relationship, she began affairs with other men, who gave evidence in the trial that she confessed to killing Mr Teazis.
A former lover told the court how Lindholm said she organised for Mr Teazis to be killed because he had been violent towards her and locked her in a cupboard for days.
Recalling the conversation, he said Lindholm told him the hitmen — one a Hells Angel by the name of “Ballbearing” — had dismembered his body and threw it into the water.
Lindholm, whose list of boyfriends included slain underworld gangster Alphonse Gangitano, also told him she’d taken a gold pendant from Mr Teazis as a trophy.
In another confession to another lover, the court heard Lindholm detailed how Mr Teazis’s body was tied to an anchor and dumped in Port Phillip Bay.
“She would sing a song about George being under the sea, swimming with the fish, swimming with the fish,” he told the jury.
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Defence barrister John Kelly SC had argued Lindholm did not murder or assist in the killing of Mr Teazis, suggesting instead someone from his dark past had come to the door that night.
“There’s thereafter an altercation, he’s spirited away,” Mr Kelly said, before asking the jury, “How could you exclude that as a scenario?”
Mr Teazis was known to police as a drugs and weapons dealer.
Mr Kelly tried to discredit the witnesses, pointing out how some had given varying versions of events as years had passed.
Each of the confessions, he said, were “patently absurd”.
“This case raises more questions than it answers,” Mr Kelly said. “But when you look at all the evidence you could never be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt.”
The jury did not agree.
Lindholm will be sentenced at a later date.