Worrying new claim about Queensland police killers after chilling videos emerge online

A worrying new claim has emerged about the trio responsible for the horrific Queensland police shooting, as Trains’ paranoid online rants come to light.

Experts believe the threat of conspiracy theory extremists and sovereign citizens will be taken more seriously after the murder of two police officers and a civilian in Queensland this week.

The online activity of deranged cop killers Gareth and Stacey Train has been highlighted the days after the shooting at Wieambilla.

Gareth has since been revealed to have frequented conspiracy websites with violent anti-police rhetoric.

He and his wife Stacey, who had previously been married to his brother and third cop killer Nathaniel, also had been active on YouTube, posting menacing videos.

One showed Gareth appearing to defend his brother Nathaniel, who was a missing person at the time.

Gareth and Stacey Train recorded and uploaded a video to YouTube on Monday night, after killing three people.

“You wish to make this public by using my little brother?” he said after reading a New South Wales missing person release.

The end of the video showed an image of an axe and a dagger.

It has also been revealed Gareth and Stacey had struck an online friendship with a US religious conspiracist they called “Don”.

Don, from Arizona, was addressed directly in a chilling video that was filmed after the three Trains murdered two police officers and their neighbour.

His YouTube account hosts sermon-like videos, preaching religion and personal sovereignty. Gareth and Stacey are often referred to.

The Trains directly addressed the paranoid American preacher in the chilling video recorded on the night of the deadly ambush.

Gareth and Stacey Train became friends with this paranoid American preacher.

“They came to kill us, and we killed them,” Gareth said with his wife at his side.

“If you don’t defend yourself against these devils and demons, you’re a coward.”

Stacey interjected: “We will see you when you get home”.

“We’ll see you at home Don,” Gareth said. “Love you,” Stacey added.

Don later said he wished he was in Queensland to help the Trains.

“These are a people that are not armed as we are in America. And here, my brave brother and sister, a son and daughter of the highest, have done exactly as they are supposed to do,” he said.

“If you’re already home – our heavenly home, hold a place for us, we’ll be joining you soon enough.”

But questions have been raised as to whether authorities had knowledge about the Train’s questionable online activity.

The Guardian reports Queensland and NSW Police were only made aware of the videos after the shooting.

Experts say the shooting will likely change the way authorities assess conspiracy theorists and the risk of violence.

A former long-serving national security official, who asked not to be named, told the publication that he was “utterly baffled” that other posts made by Gareth were not on the radar of police.

“I suspect they were not really looking at these sites – or if they were, they did not understand what they were seeing,” he said.

Deakin University terrorism expert Greg Barton told news.com.au that the Covid pandemic had been an “accelerant” for a string of dangerous conspiracies that had already existed, and that it had brought people with similar outlandish viewpoints together like never before.

Neighbour Alan Dare was shot by the Trains after inspecting the commotion next door.

“Most of the people who were drawn into anti-vax conspiracies were probably not from sovereign citizen groups, but the pandemic caused people who didn’t understand science, who were sceptical of the government, who didn’t like mandates and lockdowns and who were anxious about their employment to be linked with sovereign citizen types,” he said.

“It brought people together and accelerated things.”

Alarmingly, Prof Barton said Australia and the wider world was past the “tipping point”, with more than half of counter-terrorism measures now focused on battling far-right conspiracy ideologies.

He added that threats were likely to manifest as “lone acts” which could nevertheless be “of a very large scale of devastation”.

“We have bollards everywhere, and we take care with public gatherings, but we’re still vulnerable from a policing point of view,” he said.

Another said it was a precedent that would encourage change in policing.

The crime scene at Wieambilla, Queensland. Source: 9 News.

“(The shooting will) change how researchers and government agencies calculate the risk of violence that they pose, because we now have a clear example – a precedent – of this type of conspiratorial behaviour leading to violence,” Lydia Khalil, expert in extremism and a research fellow at the Lowy Institute and Deakin University, told the Guardian.

Fresh details have since emerged about the heroism of local cops during a shootout with a deranged family on a rural Queensland property earlier this week.

It has been revealed local police reportedly formed an “extraction team” to retrieve their mates, Constables Matthew Arnold, Rachel McCrow, and Keely Brough.

The Courier Mail reported 16 local officers – led by a sergeant from Dalby – drove into the line of fire to retrieve the fallen.

Constable Rachel McCrow was shot and killed at the Wieambilla property.

Another of the young QLD Police officers murdered in a shooting in Wieambilla is identified as Constable Matthew Arnold, 29. Picture: Facebook

They reportedly took the vehicle of slain neighbour Alan Dare to complete the rescue and recovery.

The Courier Mail reported that the bodies of Constables Arnold and McCrow were recovered before the elite Special Emergency Response Team arrived and eventually killed the Trains.

Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll described their actions as “bravery beyond belief”.

Constable Brough spent two hours eluding the Trains and was eventually guided towards an extraction point using text messages.

She escaped the Trains’ best efforts to track her down, even lighting fires and shooting into the bush in an attempt to flush her out.