NSW murder houses: From Rozelle to North Epping, find out where they are
While owning a suburban home is the Australian dream for many, you’d want to make sure you’re not buying into one of NSW’s most notorious murder houses. Find out what horrors occured in these abodes. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
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They might have unassuming facades, but these houses across Sydney have been marred by tragic murder cases.
From stabbings to tragic murder-suicides, the horrors that have unfolded behind the walls are seriously disturbing:
GOODSIR ST, ROZELLE
Giuseppe Di Cianni was jailed for 30 years after murdering his former business associates, Albert and Mario Frisoli in 2009.
Albert had been stabbed 27 times, and his brother Mario, 21 times.
Di Cianni and Albert had been in businesses together for several years before the killer believed he was being defrauded.
Civil and criminal cases had not bore any fruit for Di Cianni, and so he planned his attack. He waited in the four-bedroom home for several hours disguised in women’s clothing before setting upon the pair.
Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme told the court Mario Frisoli was killed “simply to facilitate to remove an impediment to the killing of Albert Frisoli.”
BOUNDARY RD, NORTH EPPING
The crime scene that greeted police at the Lin family’s house in 2009 was the stuff of nightmares.
Min “Norman” Lin, 45, his wife Yun Li “Lily” Lin 43, her sister Yun Bin “Irene” Lin, 39 and the Lins’ two sons Henry, 12, and Terry, 9, were found bludgeoned to death in their home.
The horrifying crime was carried out by just one person, Mr Lin’s brother-in law Robert Xie.
Xie’s was furious with his perceived “subordinate status”, the Crown claimed, and it was that anger which drove him to kill.
It was claimed he used a hammer-like object in his murderous rampage after quietly letting himself into the house with a key in the early hours of the morning. The victims were left bloodied, with spatters of red across the crisp white walls and red footprints through the home.
Xie maintained his innocence, but after three separate trials that ended without a verdict, he was finally found guilty and handed five consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.
SIR THOMAS MITCHELL DRIVE, DAVIDSON
It was here in 2016 that Fernando Manrique executed a murder-suicide, using a DIY death trap to kill he and his family in the dead of night.
As his wife Maria Lutz and their two children, Elisa, 12, and Martin, 11, slept, he went and switched on the contraption that would deliver a deadly dose of carbon monoxide throughout the brick house.
Not even the family dog, Tequila, was spared.
Police discovered the harrowing scene after Maria’s friends insisted they investigate.
First, they found Manrique in the hallway “grey in colour and firm to the touch”. Maria and Elisa were found dead in one bed, Martin in another.
A motive was never established, but an inquest into the deaths found the couple’s relationship was strained.
The couple was saddled with debt. Manrique had lost his $300,000 a year advertising job and took a new role and stake in a business that was struggling. Maria had given up her job as a lawyer to care for their two autistic children.
She also discovered her husband was sleeping with other women.
Manqrique moved out, but two weeks before the deaths, asked could he move back in while he found somewhere to live.
Maria told a friend he was a changed man. Little did she know, he was working on his deadly plan.
“For reasons we may never know, Fernando carefully planned this tragedy, the silent deaths in the night of his wife, two children and himself,” said Douglas Spencer, representing the family of Manrique.
COLLINS ST, NORTH RYDE
Greed motivated Sef Gonzales to kill his mother, Mary, father, Teddy, and 18-year-old sister Clodine at their double-storey home in 2001.
Gonzales — who was struggling at university and wanted to be the sole beneficiary of his family’s estate — entered Clodine’s bedroom with a baseball bad and two kitchen knives.
It was a brutal scene, with the teenager strangled, stabbed and repeatedly hit with the bat.
Gonzales then waited for his mother to return home, and showed her no mercy. Mary’s windpipe was completely transected, and was found with stab wounds to the face, chest, abdomen and neck.
And when Teddy stepped through the front door, Gonzales fell on his father stabbing his right lung and heart and partially severing his spinal cord.
He then spray painted “F--- off Asians KKK” on a wall in an attempt to trick police into thinking the deaths were the result of a hate crime.
He was eventually convicted and imprisoned for three life sentences, and the family home languished on the property market for three years.
It became the centre of a legal stoush after prospective buyers Ellen Lin and Derek Kwok found out about its grisly past, and were repaid their deposit.
Real estate company LJ Hooker was fined, and the NSW Government made it illegal to sell a property without disclosing murders.
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Originally published as NSW murder houses: From Rozelle to North Epping, find out where they are
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