Wales King Murders Melbourne

The youngest son of melbourne millionaires margaret wales king and paul king made a second brief appearance in a melbourne court yesterday charged with their murders.

Wales king murders melbourne. Perhaps most fascinating of all she examines the psychology of a killer whose chilling act rocked a family a class and a city to its very core. He is ordered to serve 24 years. Why was melbourne so fascinated by the wales king murders. The society murders is the name given to the 4 april 2002 familicide of husband and wife millionaire socialites margaret mary wales king 69 and husband paul aloysius king 75 in melbourne victoria australia by margaret s 34 year old son matthew wales news media throughout australia covered the crime and subsequent trial which later became the subject of a book and a television film.

And settled in melbourne. The society murders is the name given to the 4 april 2002 familicide of husband and wife millionaire socialites margaret mary wales king 69 and husband paul aloysius king 75 in melbourne victoria australia by wales king s 34 year old son matthew robert wales news media throughout australia covered the crime and subsequent trial which later became the subject of a book and a. With georgie parker nicholas eadie daniela farinacci asher keddie. Matthew wales is sentenced to 20 years in jail on each of two counts of murder with 10 years of the second count to be served concurrently a 30 year sentence.

Directed by brendan maher. Socialite paul king and his wife are reported missing with their luxury car which is later found with the corpses heads smashed. Matthew wales 34 was charged in an out of sessions remand hearing at the melbourne custody. The crime and subsequent trial received widespread media coverage throughout.

From the time the margaret wales king and her husband paul king went missing the rumour mill went into overdrive and every utterance of anyone even remotely connected with. For the longest time reporters went absolutely berserk almost stalking the family for pictures and quotations. Sidney chief inspector nazaretian in charge soon concentrates on her family three heirs of which one is a non snobbish outsider and their spouses one of which plays. The society murders is the name given to the 4 april 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites margaret mary wales king 69 and husband paul aloysius king 75 in melbourne victoria australia by their son matthew wales.