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Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.

It deals with true crimes in real people. Some parts are graphic in nature and

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their families, and loved ones.

Please note, today's episode is the second of a two-part case.

We recommend you listen to our episode,

The Bain Family Murders, part one,

before listening to part two.

David Bain was found guilty of murdering the five members of his family early one June morning in 1994.

There was a mountain of evidence against him, but David maintained that he was innocent,

and that it was his father Robin who had killed everyone before turning the gun on himself.

One of the victims, David's sister Arawa, had mentioned to a friend that she was scared of her brother and that he had threatened to shoot his family.

In the weeks leading up to the shootings, his mother Margaret expressed concern about a strange behavior and hallucinations to a friend.

David himself had once mentioned to a friend that he can use his paper round as an alibi if he wanted to get away with committing a crime.

Incidentally, his family was killed while he was out delivering newspapers.

Loads of physical evidence pointed to David as being the sole perpetrator,

a lens from his eyeglasses, as well as his blood-soaked opera gloves

were in his brother Stephen's room.

David said that he had heard gurgling sounds coming from his dying sister Laniut, which the prosecution stated could only have been heard straight after shooting her, proving that it was David, not his father, who had pulled the trigger. The trigger of a rifle owned by David and kept in his own room.

And that after the shootings had David's fingerprints on it.

Despite all of the evidence against David he had many

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