Police discover ‘bashing weapon’
Searching ... forensic police look for evidence at the murdered family's home.
Searching ... forensic police look for evidence at the murdered family's home.
Les Kennedy
August 2, 2009
HOMICIDE detectives have discovered what they believe is a weapon used in the horrific murders of the Lin family at North Epping.
But police are keeping the implement under wraps. It is understood to have been found in North Epping Park, opposite the family’s Boundary Road home, several days after the killings were discovered by relatives on July 18.
Police would not say what the object is but dismissed reports the weapon used to pulverise the faces of the five family members as they slept in three separate rooms was similar to a golf club.
Boundary Road residents have also told officers they heard or saw two people arguing that Saturday morning beside a car near the driveway to the Lins’ home. And investigations have refocused on those who possibly had intimate knowledge of the house, in particular where individual members slept upstairs.
After bludgeoning newsagent Min Lin to death as he slept beside his wife, the killer or killers had a moment of reflection or sentiment and placed a sheet over his head. But the bodies of his wife, their two sons and his sister-in-law were left uncovered.
It was the covering of Mr Lin’s face that misled the first police who entered the home into initially believing it was a murder-suicide.
Drawn together under the strike-force code name Norburn, 18 detectives and 28 crime-scene officers met at the Sydney Police Centre on Tuesday to review evidence gathered so far from the house and property.