Found Deceased Australia - Stephanie Scott, 26, Leeton, NSW, 5 April 2015 - #1 *Arrests*

[BJsleuth]

The Sydney Morning Herald did mention the name MS (twin) as being the one assisting police. I don't know that I've seen any mention of any other brother on MSM. I know there was another male present at the family home with VS's mother - I thought that could have been friend or partner of hers. So horrible for them all.

There was an older brother living with them, LS

 

[Jmbr]

http://mobile.news.com.au/national/...orth-of-griffith/story-fnii5s3x-1227299375456

"Yesterday, Mr Lyons said he had seen a man walking along Griffith Rd towards Leeton on Monday morning.

He said the man, wearing a backpack and T-shirt, closely resembled an image of Mr Stanford’s identical twin brother, who lives in Adelaide."

Walking back from dumping her car?

 

[JustMyself]

http://mobile.news.com.au/national/...orth-of-griffith/story-fnii5s3x-1227299375456

"Yesterday, Mr Lyons said he had seen a man walking along Griffith Rd towards Leeton on Monday morning.

He said the man, wearing a backpack and T-shirt, closely resembled an image of Mr Stanford’s identical twin brother, who lives in Adelaide."

Walking back from dumping her car?

Thanks for this Jmbr.

I find it confusing - are they trying to insinuate the twin brother is involved? Or is it that they are identical so as they didnt have an image of VS they showed the brother's instead? Wish it was worded better.

 

[Angeline]

The same man, Mr Lyons, saw him dump the laptop, take off in his ute, and then saw him later walking towards town?

I don't think they are talking about the twin brother, just saying that it looked like him because police have been concealing the killer's face, not the twin. Well, the Daily Mail only put a little black rectangle over the twin's face and his FB was up.

 

[they'll get you]

It is understood the mother and the brother of accused killer Vincent Stanford, 24, had been helping police with their investigation and providing them valuable information.

Fairfax Media understands the national park, just north of Griffith, was a regular place the Stanford family would travel to for camping trips.


http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/body-of-leeton-teacher-stephanie-scott-found-police-20150410-1mitdn.html

I had a feeling VS family was helping when police were at the home and VS walked in.

 

[TheQuestion]

It is understood the mother and the brother of accused killer Vincent Stanford, 24, had been helping police with their investigation and providing them valuable information.

Fairfax Media understands the national park, just north of Griffith, was a regular place the Stanford family would travel to for camping trips.


http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/body-of-leeton-teacher-stephanie-scott-found-police-20150410-1mitdn.html

I had a feeling VS family was helping when police were at the home and VS walked in.

I agree. IMO I think LE got a lot of their information from VS' family, hence why they arrested him as soon as he arrived..

 

[they'll get you]

I can't believe what an idiot he was dumping stuff all over the place for witnesses to see him walking back kilometres to town. How many times?
He told his neighbours he'd need very busy, what? Proud of his handiwork?
I think we'll hear he had some history.
He needs a lead breakfast. THE FILTH.

 

[TheQuestion]

The way VS scattered evidence everywhere gets me thinking these were all afterthoughts after he did what he did.
I think he was opportunistic, and this wasn't planned at all.
But the biggest question, why did he do it?

 

[they'll get you]

Seriously, How good are our cops!.

 

[fruity]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/body-of-leeton-teacher-stephanie-scott-found-police-20150410-1mitdn.html

Looking at the photo of the laptop/iPad under the water ... I remembered that 2 years ago the department issued red Lenovo thinkpad laptops to some schools.

 

[Jmbr]

“When women are murdered in their own homes by their own partners or ex-partners, people say “Why didn’t she just leave?”

When women are thrown from balconies or stabbed to death with scissors in the street, people say “Why didn’t she realise he would do that?
When a woman is murdered walking home from a night out, people say “Why was she walking alone at night?”

When a woman is murdered in her own van, people say “Why was she working as a prostitute?”
When a woman is murdered running through a park in broad daylight, people say “Women shouldn’t be on their own in parks.”

Now that a woman has been murdered at her own workplace doing the normal, everyday task of getting her school class ready for another teacher, what will people say? That women can’t be at work in the middle of the day on their own? That women have to be chaperoned everywhere they go?

When we police women’s behaviour by telling them where they may go and what they are permitted to do, we are actually making them sub-human. A different species – one that has to be protected, controlled, dictated to, criticised, and then (often) vilified, even in death, for having the audacity to be murdered.

Not. Real. People.

Just women.”

I don't know what else to say... Last night my sister told me she will never go running alone again. How is it possible that us women are afraid to live our lives as we should be? Why is it that I felt I had to sleep at my sisters house because I was too afraid to stay alone at my own home while my partner is away?

This has to stop.

 

[Amee]

GRIEF stricken Bob Scott has taken comfort from listening as complete strangers in Leeton tell each other why they loved his daughter Stephanie.

In Woolworths yesterday he stood quietly to the side as a cashier and customer talked about the beloved 26-year-old high school teacher and their grief at her brutal murder.

He was with close friend Bob Hawke as they listened while waiting in line.

Mr Scott then went to pay for his $94.50 worth of groceries only to find a stranger had anonymously given $100 to management to pay for his shopping when they noticed him in the aisles.

:cry:


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...orth-of-griffith/story-fni0cx12-1227299375456
also in the link above it says who was at school with Stephanie

 

[Liadan]

'The way VS scattered evidence everywhere gets me thinking these were all afterthoughts after he did what he did.
I think he was opportunistic, and this wasn't planned at all.
But the biggest question, why did he do it?'

I agree TQ - VS was in a mad panic, he had no idea what do to, running all over the place, he probably think by not talking he is trying stupidly to prolong the possibility of the cops doubting he did it. Stupid Scum Definitely had priors in Holland - thank GOD his family are helping.

And I cannot believe how outstanding the police have been to find her - and the outstanding people in the town of Leeton should be very proud - they were the ones who helped net a depraved, and heinous fiend!

 

[SouthAussie]

At 1:19 in the video at this link, they have the man who saw the laptop explaining what he saw. I have listened a few times, and I think he says …

“I saw a white ute pull up on the road, Griffith Road, and a bloke walk up on the channel with .. I thought it was a laptop or iPad, take photos of the channel, then he run back down the channel without it in his hands.”

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/04/11/female-body-found-in-nsw-national-park.html


He speaks quite quickly. I can see why MSM are confused about whether he thought the bloke was going to take photos, or if the bloke actually did take photos.

 

[SouthAussie]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/body-of-leeton-teacher-stephanie-scott-found-police-20150410-1mitdn.html

Looking at the photo of the laptop/iPad under the water ... I remembered that 2 years ago the department issued red Lenovo thinkpad laptops to some schools.

I think you may be right, fruity ...

It looked similar to those issued to teachers in some parts of NSW, but police were not immediately able to say if it belonged to Ms Scott.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...orth-of-griffith/story-fni0cx12-1227299375456

 

[SouthAussie]

GRIEF stricken Bob Scott has taken comfort from listening as complete strangers in Leeton tell each other why they loved his daughter Stephanie.

In Woolworths yesterday he stood quietly to the side as a cashier and customer talked about the beloved 26-year-old high school teacher and their grief at her brutal murder.

He was with close friend Bob Hawke as they listened while waiting in line.

Mr Scott then went to pay for his $94.50 worth of groceries only to find a stranger had anonymously given $100 to management to pay for his shopping when they noticed him in the aisles.

:cry:


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...orth-of-griffith/story-fni0cx12-1227299375456
also in the link above it says who was at school with Stephanie

That is so touching .... gulp. :cry: People have such kind hearts.

Mr Hawke said the grieving father was so touched by the random act of kindness that he tried to find out who the woman was, but she did not leave a name.

 

[Trooper]

a busy boy, Vincent, as murderers often are... .. the energy!... here, there, back , forth. To the school, his house, the vineyard, the canal, the forest, back home, do the laundry, chat with the Missus Next Door, clean the car, round and round and round..

well done, NSW cops. Just too sad, too bloody awful.

 

[Jmbr]

GRIEF stricken Bob Scott has taken comfort from listening as complete strangers in Leeton tell each other why they loved his daughter Stephanie.

In Woolworths yesterday he stood quietly to the side as a cashier and customer talked about the beloved 26-year-old high school teacher and their grief at her brutal murder.

He was with close friend Bob Hawke as they listened while waiting in line.

Mr Scott then went to pay for his $94.50 worth of groceries only to find a stranger had anonymously given $100 to management to pay for his shopping when they noticed him in the aisles.

:cry:


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...orth-of-griffith/story-fni0cx12-1227299375456
also in the link above it says who was at school with Stephanie

Ah this made me cry.. There are good people in the world. I hope they take comfort knowing the whole of Australia is behind them and supporting them through this.

The first thing I thought when I woke up this morning was about how Aaron must be feeling waking up to what today is bringing him

 

[Walk A Mile]

I don't know what else to say... Last night my sister told me she will never go running alone again. How is it possible that us women are afraid to live our lives as we should be? Why is it that I felt I had to sleep at my sisters house because I was too afraid to stay alone at my own home while my partner is away?

This has to stop.

I'm sorry, but this is on you. Nothing has changed. These cases are big news and are shocking because they are so exceedingly rare. They didn't just start happening recently; they've always happened. You're not in more danger than you used to be; you have lived your entire life at this level of "threat". You need to make a choice for yourself: am I going to let fear control and dictate my actions for no good reason, or am I going to look at these unfortunate events in context and see they are so vanishingly rare that the odds against them happening to me are vast.

You probably hop in a car regularly without any fear or trepidation, even though your risk of death or serious injury massively increases. The odds of dying in a car accident vs being murdered in your home while your boyfriend is away are phenomenally higher. In fact, I think your odds of being murdered in your home by your boyfriend far exceed any risk you'd be taking by staying in the house yourself (nothing against your boyfriend. I'm sure he's a lovely, gentle soul who'd never hurt you, but statistically speaking you're more likely to be murdered by someone you know than a stranger, and more than one woman a week dies in a domestic violence incident - in the first 7 weeks of 2015, it was two a week but I don't know if that trend has continued).

Please don't let publicity for these horrible crimes make you think you need to be afraid. They are big news because they are so rare. If they happened every week, well... The media would ignore them they way they have ignored Kerry Michael, 44, bashed to death by her husband while hiking in Tasmania earlier this year. The only reason we know the name Alison Baden Clay is because her husband tried to cover his tracks by making out that it was a stranger abduction slash murder, and not just a boring old everyday domestic incident. No one cares about those because they happen every week, sometimes twice.

VS took Steph Scott's life. Let's make that the last thing he ever takes from a woman. Do NOT let him take your confidence. Women are not helpless creatures who need to be chaperoned at all times.

-- Walk A Mile, female, alone in the house for the next 48 hours and unafraid.

 

[metapraxis02]

The way VS scattered evidence everywhere gets me thinking these were all afterthoughts after he did what he did.
I think he was opportunistic, and this wasn't planned at all.
But the biggest question, why did he do it?

I don't think it was pre-planned as it was so sloppy, and the motivation would have almost certainly been sexual (although it could be that she caught him up to no good in the School). In some ways, "the why" doesn't really matter, so long as he gets convicted and locked away for a very long time.