Red Riding Hood: The Lin Family | The Wolf Was Already Inside
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In July 2009, fifteen-year-old Brenda Lin left her home in Sydney, Australia, for a school trip to New Caledonia. When she returned, her entire immediate family was gone.
Her parents, Min and Lily Lin, her twelve-year-old brother Henry, her nine-year-old brother Terry, and her aunt Irene had all been murdered inside the family's quiet North Epping home.
There was no obvious forced entry. The electricity had been cut. Nothing significant appeared to have been stolen. And whoever moved through the darkened house seemed to know exactly where they were going.
At first, police looked everywhere for an explanation. An armed robbery connected to the family's business. Financial dealings in China. Organized crime. Even the possibility of professional killers. But as the investigation stretched from months into years, detectives began looking much closer to home.
What followed was an extraordinary investigation involving secret surveillance, bloody shoeprints, a tiny and fiercely contested DNA stain, an alleged improvised murder weapon, undercover officers, a jailhouse informant, and a family relationship that was far more complicated than investigators first understood.
Sources:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-07-20/sydney-murders-dead-dad-witnessed-armed-robbery/1360030
https://www.abc.net.au/lateline/archive/articles/2009/12/17/s2775222.htm
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