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Chilling moment killer smiles at police before confessing to shooting dead 35 people
Martin Bryant confessed to police that he killed 35 people in the infamous Port Arthur massacre. A new documentary has revealed the moment he admitted to the shocking crime
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Australia s worst mass-murderer s close and tumultuous relationship with a much older eccentric heiress he is now suspected of killing is explored in a new documentary investigation into the Port Arthur killer.
Martin Bryant was abnormally close to the wealthy heiress of the Tattersall s lotteries fortune, Helen Mary Elizabeth Harvey, before she and her two dogs died in a fatal car crash on October 20, 1992 at 59.
The lottery queen left her sprawling property and inheritance to Bryant, with his father Maurice to act as a trustee.
A never-before-seen photo of the fresh-faced killer with Ms Harvey has also been uncovered as well as chilling new details of their bizarre relationship and her suspicious death.
A new investigation into the background of Australia s worst-ever mass murderer, Martin Bryant, claims the gunman was responsible for the deaths of his father and closest friend - years before his murderous rampage through Port Arthur.
Helen Mary Elizabeth Harvey, 59, and her two dogs died in a fatal car crash on October 20, 1992 - four years before the Tasmanian massacre in 1996 which claimed the lives of 35 men, women and children and saw all semi-automatic weapons banned from sale in Australia.
Ms Harvey, who was an heiress to the Tattersall s lotteries fortune, left her sprawling property and inheritance to Bryant, with his father, Maurice, to act as a trustee.
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Subscriber only A woman who bequeathed her estate to mass murderer Martin Bryant feared one of these days the little bastard is going to kill me, a new documentary claims. Wealthy benefactor Helen Harvey is one of two people Bryant is suspected of killing years before he gunned down 35 men, women and children and injured dozens of others in the Port Arthur massacre. A new investigation into Bryant s past, marking the 25 years since the tragedy, uncovers evidence relating to the car accident that killed Ms Harvey - his closest friend - and links to the death of his father which was ruled a suicide.