Police had collected enough circumstantial evidence to charge him with murder. “Please respect and understand my wish for privacy and take comfort in the fact that I’m about the enjoy life like I have never before,” one of the emails read.Įventually, his lies started to crumble all around him. In an attempt to keep his charade going, John used Anna’s ATM card at a bank in Chelsea and even emailed her mother in New Zealand, purporting to be her. His father holds a photograph of Gracie, totally unaware of John’s guilt. “Anyone that knows me knows I gave 100% for my daughter and my marriage,” he told local newspaper. John kept up his lie for three months he went on television and begged for information regarding the whereabouts of his wife and daughter and begged them to come home. “I have a boot load of hard waste,” he told the attendant. He placed their bodies in the trunk of his car and drove to a Rockleigh Stone tip. John then exhumed Anna’s body and proceeded to dismember her with a chainsaw. John wrapped Gracie’s body in tarpaulin and bound it in duct tape. This too didn’t kill the defenceless little girl so John violently pulled the spear from his daughter’s head and shot her for a fourth time. John rushed downstairs to retrieve more spears and shot her again. The terrified toddler began to scream and cry. The spear lodged in her skull but didn’t penetrate deep enough to kill her. On the evening of the 27th of March, John downed copious amounts of whisky before creeping into his disabled daughter’s bedroom, armed with the same spear gun he shot his wife with.Īs Gracie slept in her cot, John aimed at her head and pulled the trigger. When John returned home, he buried his wife in their garden. He returned to his wife’s body to remove the spears but they were lodged into her skull he went to the same sports store and purchased more, bringing Gracie along with him. John realised he needed to make Gracie disappear to solidify his lies. He created an elaborate lie that Anna had ran off with another man and said she would be back to pick up Gracie. The following morning, John took Gracie to nursery. He then went downstairs to sleep on the sofa. Not dying instantly like he had expected, he shot her once again before covering her bloody body with a blanket. He came back to the bedroom and shot his pregnant wife in the left temple. He went to the garage and retrieved the spear gun he had purchased months earlier. John, however, had something much more sinister in mind. On Tuesday night, Anna went to bed as usual.
The last interaction she had with another person other than her husband was the following day, when she called her private health care provider and enquired about adding their unborn baby to their health cover. The following morning, Anna took Gracie to nursery and made plans to meet up with a friend in a couple of days. Nobody noticed that anything was untoward with John he appeared to be the doting husband. On Monday the 21st of March, 2004, the family went to a family picnic to celebrate a nephew’s birthday.
He practised shooting in his back garden. He had never had an interest in fishing beforehand so why did he purchase it? Credit: He would later confess that Gracie was enough of a burden on him and that he didn’t want to have another child. John was infuriated, although he never showed it. In November of the same year, Anna fell pregnant. The same year, John went to a local sports store and purchased a high powered spear gun which should be used for fishing. The couple had been married for almost ten years in 2003 and Gracie was now 15-months-old. Due to pain, she often cried out and found it difficult to sleep. As a result, Gracie had to go through numerous surgeries and medications. Nevertheless, the couple went on to have a little girl, Gracie, who was born with hip dysplasia. John and Anna on their wedding day.Īnna knew early on that she had made a mistake: “She told me mother after the honeymoon ‘I think I’ve made a mistake.’ She just carried on with the mistake,” said her brother. They had both worked at Commonwealth Bank and were married within a year. John Myles Sharpe met his New Zealand born wife, Anna Sharpe, in his home town of Mornington, Australia.
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