The Gonzales Family Murder
Sef Gonzales began inquiring about his family wealth 3 days after his whole family was murdered.
[July 2001 | New South Wales, Australia]
On July 11, around 11:30 PM, the New South Wales emergency center received a panicked call from a teenage boy claiming his family had been shot. Sef had just returned from hanging out at a video game center with his friend, Sam Dacillo.
It was a gruesome scene. Downstairs, his parents lay lifelessly on the blood-stained floor with multiple stab wounds. Sef straddled the bodies of his parent, wailing for loss. A clear, despicable message sprayed across his family wall, “F*ck off Asians KKK.” Upstairs, his younger sister laid lifelessly with her head bashed.
Investigators initially assumed that the Gonzales family were victims of a hate crime. Sef went on TV, offering a reward of A$100,000 for the killer(s) to step up. Sef sang ‘One Sweet Day’ by Mariah Carey in his father’s eulogy. While the lyrics showed regret, missing him, and looking for a better tomorrow, an attendee found it odd as he calmly sang before his family’s mutilated bodies.
At this point, investigators knew that Sef’s account was suspicious. In his first statement, he claimed that he tried stopping the gushing blood from his sister’s…
