woman who faked her grazier partner’s suicide, sedating and gassing him to inherit his property, will be jailed until at least 2047.
The 42-year-old was found dead in his bed on his Pandora property in the northern tablelands town of Walcha on 2 August 2017, but Darcy told police, and still maintains, that he killed himself. “As time passed … emotional abuse and sneaky physical attacks escalated into a more focused and foolproof method to achieve the outcome she desired,” she said.“Her lies and methods were stupid, clumsy and ugly, but were sadly successful in achieving Mathew’s death. They were not, however, good enough to evade detection.
It also didn’t take long for her to start researching ways to kill him, via numerous Google searches on topics including redback spiders, fungi, suicide and “how to commit murder”, prosecutor Brett Hatfield said.
Good. However, I am confused as to which calculated, premeditated, and then denied, murders, don't warrant a life sentence.