'Everywhere was red': Inside the Lin house of horrors
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Evidence used against the Lin family killer Robert Xie has been released for the first time, with blood smears helping to catch one of Australia’s worst mass murderers.
Last week Xie was found guilty of killing his brother in-law Min Lin, 45, Lin’s wife Lilly Lin, 43, their sons, Henry and Terry, 12 and nine, and Lilly’s sister Irene Yin, 39.
Video of Lian Bi "Robert" Xie speaking to police through a translator showed the 52-year-old played the role of a grieving relative, after his wife Kathy had arrived at the horror crime scene.
‘I can see everywhere was red,” the translator told police on Xie’s behalf.
“Once I saw her, I hold Kathy and I said ‘Kathy, don’t look at it’.”
The evidence showed a blood stain, numbered 91, was found in Xie’s garage and contained a mixture of DNA from four of his five victims.
Bloodied footprints found at the Lin family's North Epping home also matched a pair of shoes that Xie had owned.
There was also police surveillance footage from inside Xie’s home that showed him cutting up a cardboard shoebox and later flushing something down the toilet.
On the day of the murders, Xie disconnected the electricity at the Lin home and made his way upstairs in the dark, first killing his brother-in-law and his wife as they lay in their bed.
He then slipped into the next room and murdered Irene.
Then the former ear, nose and throat specialist went into his young nephew's shared room, where blood splatter evidence revealed a furious struggle took place as the schoolboys were repeatedly bludgeoned to death.
In a police interview eight months after the July 2009 attack, Xie was short and evasive in his answers, repeatedly telling detectives “I can’t remember”.
The evidence was just a snippet of what was presented to the jury over the six-month trial.
The terrified phone call made by Kathy after she found her family’s bodies has also been released.
Mrs Lin sounded hysterical and confused through her three calls to emergency services, as she tried to tell the operator her brother’s family has been murdered.
Xie maintains his innocence over the Lin Family killings after being found guilty.
He told the NSW Court "I did not murder the Lin Family".
Xie will next front court for sentencing on February 10.
