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5: The Butcher of Wollongong (Mark Valera) | Australia

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As police walked through the diabolical crime scene at Albion Park, Australia, they found David O’Hearn's body. A pentagram, an inverted cross and the word ‘SATAN’ were smeared onto the walls in the victim’s own blood. This murder was to become one of the most heinous killings ever committed in Australia.
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0:00.0

You are listening to the evidence locker.

0:08.4

Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials. It deals with true crimes and real people. Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.

0:20.0

It was a quiet morning on Saturday, June 13th, 1998 at Lake Illawarra in Australia's seaside state of New South Wales.

0:30.0

The Kenahuka Road Corner Shop was closed when locals turned up to get the morning newspaper and some coffee.

0:36.0

This was very unusual. The Corner Shop's owner, 60-year-old David O'Hearn, was a creature of habit and the shop all was open punctually at 7 a.m.

0:46.9

A concerned friend alerted David's family who immediately went to his Albion Park home to check on him.

0:52.8

No one could ever have imagined the horrific scene that awaited them.

0:56.5

When they arrived, they found that the front door was unlocked.

1:00.0

His David sister, Chris, entered the townhouse where David lived alone, his badly mutilated body was laying on the living room floor, right by the front door.

1:09.0

She left the house screaming in horror and waited for police to arrive.

1:13.5

David had been dismembered, decapitated, and disemboweled.

1:18.0

Police found his intestines resting on a silver tray close to his body. His dismembered hand was cast aside and ended up on the sofa.

1:26.5

Pentagram, an inverted cross, and the word Satan were smeared onto the walls and the victim's

1:32.0

own blood.

1:34.5

As first responders walked through this diabolical scene, they found David O'Hearns decapitated

1:39.0

head staring back at them from the kitchen sink.

1:42.1

This murder was to become one of the most heinous

1:43.9

killings ever committed in Australia. Oh, oh, oh, oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

2:05.0

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

2:07.0

oh, oh, oh, oh,

2:08.0

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, After the discovery of shopkeeper David O'Hearn's body in June 1998, his family was stumped.

2:24.0

David was a beloved man, who always tried to help people in whatever way he could.

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