A lady whose fiance and daughter died in a shed fireplace Biggenden sensed one thing was unsuitable, days earlier than the police confirmed their demise.
Lisa-Marree Mooney – the sister of Todd Mooney who died alongside his daughter Kirra on December 20 – has advised 7NEWS that the aftermath of her brother and niece’s deaths seems like a nightmare she will’t get up from.
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“I’ve cried a lot I do not assume there are any extra tears,” she mentioned.
“I really feel like a sponge that is been all squeezed out.”
Lisa-Marree mentioned when the Queensland Police knowledgeable the household that the daddy and daughter had been lacking, Todd’s accomplice Rebecca Hansen knew one thing was unsuitable.
“It was that mom’s feeling,” she mentioned.
Whereas the household had been scheduled to have fun a double wedding ceremony on December 28, as an alternative, they had been knowledgeable that the police had been formally launching a homicide investigation.
The household was having lunch collectively when the police known as, telling them they wanted to see them as quickly as attainable.
After they had been advised the deaths had been being handled as suspicious, Lisa-Marree mentioned “Bec (Rebecca) dropped to the bottom”.
“She was speechless,” she mentioned.
“You assume gosh – I’ve simply misplaced my brother and my niece and now it is (allegedly) homicide.”
Maryborough woman Kristen Olsen, 24, has been charged with murder and arson over the incident.
The household is struggling to wrap their heads round how somebody, with whom they don’t have any ties, might allegedly commit an act like this.
“We do not know her from a bar of cleaning soap,” Lisa-Marree mentioned. “She’s simply any individual that none of us has ever laid eyes on.”
“(She wasn’t) a buyer, she did not reside in Biggenden when Todd and Bec first moved there.
“Bec mentioned she’s by no means seen her earlier than in her life. Bec’s a really sincere particular person, she’d keep in mind her face.”
The Mooney and Hansen households have rallied round Rebecca to help her on this tragic time, with a GoFundMe set as much as assist.
Lisa-Marree mentioned Rebecca is “nonetheless a Mooney” despite the fact that they did not get to make it official, and considers her a sister.
Lisa-Marree mentioned the household will keep in mind the daddy and daughter as beneficiant folks, saying Todd was “excellent in each means” and Kirra was a “little angel”.
“My brother would provide the shirt off his again if he thought you needed it,” she mentioned.
“He had an enormous coronary heart, he was only a very quiet, beneficiant particular person.”
She mentioned he labored exhausting at his job, with early hours as a baker. She spoke to him the morning of his demise and he’d come dwelling from work and was getting began on some work within the yard.
Kirra inherited her father’s beneficiant spirit and was all the time involved with how her associates had been doing, her aunt mentioned.
She cherished horses and had desires of turning into a barrel racer.
“Kirra was a bit of shining star,” she mentioned. “She was simply probably the most beneficiant, most stunning little child that you simply’d ever met.”
The household is hoping for justice, however they realize it will not absolutely cease the ache.
“Whoever did this, I hope they pay the worth,” mentioned Lisa-Marree. “As a result of taking a 10-year-old’s life? That is unforgivable.”
“Little Kirra, once I take into consideration her I simply wish to cry. And I do not wish to know what she went by as a result of that simply makes it 100 occasions worse. I hope justice prevails. It has to.
“It would not make you are feeling higher, it would not deliver them again. However at the very least that particular person will not be on the market harming different folks.”
Lisa-Marree mentioned the household will preserve transferring ahead, “one foot in entrance of the opposite.”
“I communicate to Bec 5, 10 occasions a day and I inform her that I really like her and that I am right here for her,” she mentioned.
“One foot in entrance of the opposite, that is all she’s received to do for the time being.”
