Watch as mummy murderer lies about killing her elderly neighbour

Mummy murderer Angelika Gavare almost pulled off the perfect crime, spinning lie after lie to police after she butchered her elderly neighbour.

But the then-35-year-old had banked on the dense bushland across the street hiding and then destroying her evidence.

It was a gamble that didn’t pay off, as the murderous mum was finally caught; weeks after telling South Australian police a web of lies.

While her two children slept, Gavare bludgeoned her elderly neighbour Vonne McGlynn to death, so she could steal the deeds to her home in December 2008.

In a bid to cover up the crime, Gavare hacksawed off the 83-year-old’s head, hands and feet, before using her toddler’s stroller to dump the dismembered body.

Tragically, Ms McGlynn’s head and hands have never been recovered.

“Ninety-five per cent of what she said was consistent,” police said.

“However, it’s those smaller details that were inconsistent because what you’ve got to do when you are making lies up, is remember the lies that you’ve told previously.”

Five days after murdering her elderly neighbour, Gavare took Ms McGlynn’s bank card and a power of attorney, allegedly signed by the elderly victim, to the bank and attempted to withdraw cash.

When quizzed by police, Gavare told officers her “close friend” Ms McGlynn had gone away on a holiday and allowed her access to $2,000 for renovations to her home.

“This is a lady who routinely went to the bank,” a police officer said to Gavare in a recorded interview.

“Is there any reason why she couldn’t get the money out for you before she went away?”

“I don’t know,” Gavare replied.

Officers knew the JP signature on the power of attorney was forged, and knew Gavare had a history of fraud but the murderous mother didn’t miss a step when questioned.

“It strikes me as quite odd that a lady that goes to the bank very regularly and knows how much money she's got, and is quite with it, would then just decide to hand over her credit card and say ‘Get out what you need’,” the officer said in the recorded interview.

“Savings card,” Gavare corrected him.

Despite their suspicions, police found no fingerprints or DNA at Ms McGlynn’s home.

“(Gavare) gave a very good performance in the video interviews,” an officer who had investigated the case said.

“I thought that she was playing the police and I think they did too. She was altogether too light-hearted.

“I don’t know that I could sit there, well I’m damn sure I couldn’t sit there and pretend to be as happy as Larry knowing what I would have known in her position.”

Police later seized Gavare’s computer and found a search history that included true crime, land titles, power of attorneys and forensics.

But without a body, SA Police had no proof that the young mum was a killer.

Officers thought they caught a break when they located a little Balinese table that was part of a set McGlynn owned inside Gavare's home.

And they found a damning letter in Gavare’s handwriting that said: “I deeply regret what I have done in the past last month”.

But the letter didn’t go as far to say she regretted killing Vonne McGlynn.

On February 23, 2009 the breakthrough SA Police so desperately needed came.

“The last real area that we come to search was the area directly in front of Gavare’s house,” the officer said.

“And really that was left to last because in all honesty, it was really unlikely that you would dispose of those remains directly in front of your house.”

Right through her trial, Gavare played the coy and innocent victim.

Ultimately until she was placed in a cell, jailed for life with a 32-year minimum sentence.