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23-year-old Jeff Gilham showed up on his neighbours’ doorstep in the early morning hours of August 28 1993, with a shocking claim. His older brother Christopher Gilham had just killed their parents, Stephen and Helen, and set their bodies on fire. In return, Jeff had stabbed Christopher to death.
The tragic news left residents of the Sydney suburb of Woronora in disbelief as they struggled to comprehend how this could happen to such a normal, happy family. But as the years went by, it emerged that all was not as it seemed.
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1:23.5 | It was nearing 4.30 on the cold, misty morning of Saturday, August 28, 1993, when married couple Ted and Jan Warner were jolted awake by a loud knock on their front door. |
1:38.0 | The warners lived on Prince Edward Park Road, a quiet and leafy residential street in the southern Sydney suburb of Wauronora. |
1:47.2 | Set on the waterfront of the Wauronora River and surrounded by bushland, it was highly unusual |
1:53.4 | to hear a disturbance at such an hour. Ted got up to open the door and was surprised to find his neighbour, 23-year-old Geoffrey Gillum, |
2:04.0 | standing there, dressed in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts and smelling of smoke. |
2:11.0 | Jeffrey lived next door to the Warners with his older brother, 25-year-old Christopher, |
2:16.3 | and their parents, Helen and Stephen. The Gillums |
2:20.9 | were a fixture of Prince Edward Park Road, having lived in the neighbourhood for over two decades. |
2:27.5 | They were well-liked, with locals viewing them as a loving, warm and sociable family, |
2:33.7 | always keen to lend a hand to those in need |
2:36.5 | or bring a plate of food to the neighbourhood barbecues. Ted had known Geoffrey Gillum his whole life |
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