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Robin and Margaret Bain and three of their children were killed on June 20, 1994 in their New Zealand home.

This was Familicide, a mass murder where one member of this family killed the others. Ever since the oldest son David

returned home from his paper delivery route and called the police that

morning, there's been debate over who was responsible.

David Bain was 22 years old at the time, a music student and aspiring opera singer living

with his family.

When he got home early that morning, he found all five of his family members dead.

His father Robin, his mother Margaret, his two sisters, Arraa and L'Aniette, and his brother Stephen.

At first glance it appeared that the father Robin was responsible and that this was a murder

suicide, but that would change.

Join us at the quiet end for the only one who deserved to stay, David Bain.

Familicide is very rare, but when it happens, the father is nearly always responsible.

Research has shown that these family annihilators are either angry or in a state of prolonged despair.

Robin Bain, a troubled man with untreated depression,

fit this profile.

But the lives and relationships of the Bain family

were very complicated and male-addressed.

David Bain had plenty of his own issues and evidence,

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