People you meet along the way - EP17 - Bill Cavanagh PT2

William Cavanagh and Carmelita Lee are found dead in their home, both shot and tied up. Their bodies are discovered by Glen Kavanaugh after several days. A sawed-off .22 caliber rifle is identified as the murder weapon. Billy Kavanaugh, their son, offers a reward for information and vows revenge. After ten years, Lindsey Rose is identified as the killer, pleads guilty, and receives life sentences, while Cavanagh seeks justice for his father.

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The bodies of 57-year-old William Kaner and his girlfriend, 21-year-old Carmelita Lee. They undiscovered for several days that their Hoxton Park home before William's, youngest son, Glen Kavanaugh, called at the house. He found the pair trust up with telephone cords. Each died from four gunshot wounds to the head. The weapon, a classical organized crime, hitman's weapon of choice. A saw off 22 caliber rifle, older son Billy Kavanaugh in and at times frantic and threatening phone call from inside Parkley Prison offered a $30,000 reward for the killer's identity. Yeah, I, I'll never live until un until the personal person's responsible and I swear, and they'll get it in the most vicious way. They had no compassion at all for in the way they'd done it. Kavanaugh also threatened to go on a rampage if his father's death could not be avenged. But neither the reward nor his violent promises would ever be collected or answered. I intend to destroy anyone at all that was involved with it and them person will be destroyed viciously. I promise. I, I promised the world that The killer's identity would remain a secret for more than a decade until a rogue cop identified the killer in 1996 as 41-year-old Lindsey Rose, also known as Lehman, who boasted of several other murders. In June, 1998 in the New South Wales Supreme Court noted barrister and television presenter, Stuart Littlemore. Casey entered a guilty plea on Rosa's behalf to five previously unsolved murders in December. That year, Rosa received five life terms of imprisonment. His papers marked never to be released. But I love my father and I intend to, uh, to see the justice is done in the way that he'd want. We handle things ourselves. I'm Terry Galloway, and as always, there's more to come in the Billy Cabinet story and the killer who murdered his father.