GUILTY Australia - Mathew Dunbar, 42, suspicious death, Walcha, NSW, 2 Aug 2017 *Arrest*

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Explanation for ‘suspicious’ searches: court

Murder accused Natasha Darcy’s alleged internet searches could have other explanations, court told
Internet searches allegedly conducted by murder accused Natasha Darcy may look ‘suspicious’ but could have an innocent explanation, a court has heard.

Her defence barrister Janet Manuell SC told the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday that Ms Darcy had only been living at Mr Dunbar’s farm for a few months when the mushroom and spider searches occurred in February and March 2017.

“Were there lots of redback spiders around the property?” Ms Manuell said. “Why wouldn’t Ms Darcy and (her family) want to know more about what they were seeing?

“What’s to say she wasn’t out in the property one day (with her family), using it to search for mushrooms or fungi they couldn’t eat, and those searches were made for that reason?

“When’s mushroom season around Walcha? There’s no evidence of that.”

She told jurors that while things might at first look “suspicious”, they had to consider if there were other reasonable explanations.

 

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Murder accused Natasha Darcy 'searched for hundreds of ways to kill' farmer Matthew Dunbar

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  • 11 toxic plants that look like food
  • Spider venom kidney
  • Redback kidney
  • Poisonous fungi Australia
  • Where are death caps
  • Funnel web
  • Web catches
  • Mushroom poisoning

Murder accused 'searched for hundreds of way to kill farmer'

 

[they'll get you]

Heaven forbid if the cops ever look at what I’ve searched over the years.

I guess she might’ve been a member of Websleuths too.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Don't give her any ideas

I guess she might’ve been a member of Websleuths too.

 

[they'll get you]

Don't give her any ideas

Thought the same but it’s too late for her to try that.

What do you think she’ll get and how long?
IMO no ifs and buts.

I feel sorry for the children.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

She could try it in the appeal.

Thought the same but it’s too late for her to try that.

 

[wezman]

In response to John Dillinger's post in 2017 & his remark about the lack of media and reporting in female kills male cases. He is spot on. In Australia the news is so biased and bigoted. A couple of names for websleuths to research include Marie Crabtree and Jenny Hayes who are currently remanded for multiple murders. As is the law. This woman should never have been free to commit this crime given her history. In Australia that's common. In 2020 for some reason a judicial inquiry was undertaken over a mother convicted of killing her 4 children. Why this occurred is bizarre. A jury found her guilty years ago but she got another shot at freedom for no reason aside from a girlfriend thinking she was innocent. In fact a lot of women escape scrutiny and charges and they know it. It wasn't that long ago that they'd murder their spouses and then claim a defense of battered wife syndrome, where the man, now dead, had to suffer a dreadful slur upon being murdered with no way to defend it. I think that's now been abolished. Thankfully. What should also be noted is the time taken in getting this case to court. It's nearly 4 years which is extraordinary. This woman has tried to buck justice at every turn. Has tried to bribe witnesses, slurred the deceased as "gay", " depressed" etc...IMO she's a monster. I'm an interested observer and await her punishment.

 

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If your murder weapon was a blender and a glass tumbler, wouldn’t you put them in the dishwasher and get rid of the evidence?

That’s a question a NSW Supreme Court jury has been left to ponder as it prepares to decide if Natasha Beth Darcy murdered her partner Matthew Dunbar.

The 46-year-old denies giving the Northern Tablelands sheep grazier a drug-filled blended drink and then gassing him in bed before his death on August 2, 2017.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/natas...ntre-of-matthew-dunbar-murder-trial-c-2997215

 

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“The careful and deliberate planning for five months, but she doesn’t turn on the dishwasher?” Janet Manuell SC said in her closing address on Wednesday.

“If she had a guilty mind, don’t you think she’d turn on the dishwasher?

“(It’s) an easy way to get rid of ... this evidence.”

Natasha Darcy denies giving partner Matthew Dunbar a drug-filled blended drink and then gassing him. Credit: AAP
Manuell directed attention to photos taken of the kitchen after Dunbar’s body was found, showing a “gritty” pink residue down the side of the blender and dishes elsewhere unwashed.

“All she had to do was press the button to turn on the dishwasher - and it wasn’t done,” Manuell said.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/natas...ntre-of-matthew-dunbar-murder-trial-c-2997215

 

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“Is there a poison that can kill someone but be untraceable at autopsy,” was one precise topic searched, the jury was told.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/natas...ntre-of-matthew-dunbar-murder-trial-c-2997215

The Crown has also tendered evidence of Google searches from Darcy’s two phones, neither of which had passcodes.

 

[drsleuth]

Natasha Darcy ‘made things worse’ with repeated lies, her lawyer tells court

Natasha Darcy ‘made things worse’ with repeated lies, her lawyer tells court

“Some people fess up to the original lie, some people don’t, and they just make things worse and worse,” Ms Manuell said.

“We’d say to you that’s what’s happened here. Ms Darcy has made things worse and worse for herself with the repeated lies she’s told, particularly to police.”

 

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And we tell children that there is no such thing as monsters! Poor Mr Dunbar, it's hard to imagine how much he suffered with this cruel person, don't we all want to belong, to be loved?

 

[Troy McClure]

How was this women was still able to be out freely to plot her murderous plans on Mathew after attempting to murder her ex Colin Crossman??

Back in January 2009 Darcy had asked Mr Crossman how hard a person would have to be stuck in the area of the temple to cause damage , than @ 4am she hit him in the head with a hammer, blamed an intruder, than admitted what she had done , than 3 days later she served Crossman a meal of Tacos while he was watching the cricket , the last thing Crossman remembered before waking from a sedated sleep, was to his bedroom on fire!

At 4am Darcy had poured petrol on the bedroom floor wher Crossman was sleeping & set it alight before running from the house with her son....

A month earlier Darcy had applied for life insurance worth $700,000 to be paid to her upon the death of Mr Crossman.


Why Crossman still had anything to do with Darcy boggles my mind

Natasha Darcy ‘exploited’ Mathew Dunbar’s depression to make murder ‘look like suicide’, court told

Police didn’t want crossman as a witnesses when she attempted to murder him because he was going to defend her and then she would have got off scott free, hence why she only went to jail for arson. After she got out of jail, Natasha lived with crossman for a number of years and was seeing another man (Fred) who I suspect she tried to Pilsen at some point. Natasha ended up in jail again after stealing 10k from Fred.

As for Matt being suicidal, I have my doubts. He threatened once to kill himself, but he drove 30 mins to Lance Partridges house with his gun to tell him, is that a man who
Is serious about taking his life? Matthew had NO other history of self harm before or after that event.

 

[Troy McClure]

Thanks for the heads up, Dr S... I read yesterday, that she 'had a practice run' on him previously.. She was, if all this is true, a very untidy killer. Lots of goes at it, ...

Or maybe she liked the slow kill.. didnt she off her first husband over a period of time? ..

Do you have any articles about the first husband? Unless you are talking about Colin Crossman? I’ve heard rumors about one before Colin but can’t find anything

 

[Trooper]

Do you have any articles about the first husband? Unless you are talking about Colin Crossman? I’ve heard rumors about one before Colin but can’t find anything

Yes , I was careless, in calling him a husband, since he wasn't, in the legal sense, I was referring to Colin, who, for reasons that escape me is forgiving to a degree unheard of .

And welcome, Troy.

I have heard of a very early husband, but I have lost a bit of confidence, maybe he didn't quite make the mark as a husband, perhaps just a long term boyfriend, but there was one who escaped, the story goes. But she needed the legal standing to collect the money, unless she could jiggle a will... which may have been part of the scenario as well, I don't know.

 

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Yes , I was careless, in calling him a husband, since he wasn't, in the legal sense, I was referring to Colin, who, for reasons that escape me is forgiving to a degree unheard of .

And welcome, Troy.

I have heard of a very early husband, but I have lost a bit of confidence, maybe he didn't quite make the mark as a husband, perhaps just a long term boyfriend, but there was one who escaped, the story goes. But she needed the legal standing to collect the money, unless she could jiggle a will... which may have been part of the scenario as well, I don't know.

So Crossman is the kids father?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Is Darcy her maiden name.

 

[Troy McClure]

So Crossman is the kids father?

Crossman is not the biological father to any of the children, they all have different fathers.

 

[Troy McClure]

“The careful and deliberate planning for five months, but she doesn’t turn on the dishwasher?” Janet Manuell SC said in her closing address on Wednesday.

“If she had a guilty mind, don’t you think she’d turn on the dishwasher?

“(It’s) an easy way to get rid of ... this evidence.”

Natasha Darcy denies giving partner Matthew Dunbar a drug-filled blended drink and then gassing him. Credit: AAP
Manuell directed attention to photos taken of the kitchen after Dunbar’s body was found, showing a “gritty” pink residue down the side of the blender and dishes elsewhere unwashed.

“All she had to do was press the button to turn on the dishwasher - and it wasn’t done,” Manuell said.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/natas...ntre-of-matthew-dunbar-murder-trial-c-2997215

Don’t forget she left the pink hammer in the hallway cub board after she hit Colin Crossman on the head with it. She may have plotted and executed Matts murder but she really isn’t that bright, so I can understand her forgetting to was the blender

 

[TootsieFootsie]

And credit card fraud.

Police didn’t want crossman as a witnesses when she attempted to murder him because he was going to defend her and then she would have got off scott free, hence why she only went to jail for arson.