# 284: Masa Vukotic

An episode of [Morbidology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1463979546), 25 Nov 2024, 47 min.

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## Transcript

[0:34] Speaker 1: Well.
[0:34] Speaker 2: Devana police are doing everything they can to close in
[0:37] Speaker 2: on this killer. Investigators are now trawling through fresh CCTV.
[0:50] Speaker 3: Doncaster is a leafy suburb in Melbourne, Australia, known for
[0:53] Speaker 3: its expansive shopping center and sweeping views of the city skyline.
[0:58] Speaker 3: Once dominated by orchards, the area has transformed into a
[1:02] Speaker 3: bust link suburban hub with a mix of modern and
[1:05] Speaker 3: older homes, popular with families for its girls and parks.
[1:09] Speaker 3: One of its most serene spots is Kunon Creek Linear Park,
[1:13] Speaker 3: a longering corridor following the meandering creek. The park is
[1:18] Speaker 3: a haven for walkers, cyclists and nature enthusiasts, with its
[1:22] Speaker 3: tranquil trails, abundant bird life, and paths offering an escape
[1:26] Speaker 3: from the city's pace. However, one evening in March of
[1:30] Speaker 3: twenty and fifteen, just before the sun dipped below the horizon,
[1:35] Speaker 3: the peacefulness of the park was shattered. A woman who
[1:39] Speaker 3: lived nearby was startled by the sound of loud panic screams.
[1:58] Speaker 3: Massa Ukitch was born into a close knit Serbian family
[2:02] Speaker 3: with roots in Monte Negro. The family had left the
[2:06] Speaker 3: war torn corner of the world to build a safe
[2:09] Speaker 3: and peaceful life. They moved over to the quiet suburb
[2:13] Speaker 3: of Doncaster in Melbourne, Australia, where Massa lived with her
[2:16] Speaker 3: parents Slavilyob and Natasha, and siblings Peter and Naga. Her
[2:22] Speaker 3: family cherished their heritage and often traveled overseas together. Mesa
[2:27] Speaker 3: had visited most countries in Europe and could speak three languages.
[2:32] Speaker 3: At Canterbury Girls Secondary School, seventeen year old Mesa was
[2:35] Speaker 3: working towards her VCE, surrounded by a tight circle of friends.
[2:40] Speaker 3: Her tutor, Glenn Nicholson fondly said of her she had
[2:44] Speaker 3: a good heart, integrity, she thought about the big picture,
[2:48] Speaker 3: and she was always smiling. Her friends knew her as
[2:51] Speaker 3: a loving, sweet and intelligent girl with a zest for life.
[2:56] Speaker 3: One of these friends, Sarah, recalled she was intoxicatingly, bidingly
[3:01] Speaker 3: smart and exquisitely dressed. Lisa's passions were many. She adored
[3:07] Speaker 3: the color pink and was deeply into cosplay, especially drawn
[3:10] Speaker 3: to the Lowlida fashion style that emphasized her playful and
[3:14] Speaker 3: artistic spirit. She dressed in elaborate Japanese inspired outfits, often
[3:20] Speaker 3: accessorizing with her signature pink tones, embodying the persona she
[3:25] Speaker 3: cultivated online, known to her Tumbler followers as Princess Marcy
[3:30] Speaker 3: or Sparkleheim, Lisa embraced this whimsical side of herself with pride.
[3:36] Speaker 3: She had aspirations to become a lawyer and was a
[3:38] Speaker 3: staunch feminist. When she wasn't lost in her books or
[3:42] Speaker 3: planning her next cosplay, she loved spending time with her
[3:46] Speaker 3: beloved pet, rabbit Roger. On the seventeenth of March twenty fifteen,
[3:58] Speaker 3: Massa Vuketich went to school, where she attended classes and
[4:01] Speaker 3: caught up with her friends. After the final bell rang
[4:05] Speaker 3: that afternoon, she returned home, determined to focus on her studies.
[4:10] Speaker 3: As she settled in, Masa took a break to go
[4:13] Speaker 3: through social media, exchanging messages with her close knit group
[4:17] Speaker 3: of friends, before diving back into her books. She tended
[4:21] Speaker 3: to her pet, rabbit, Roger, ensuring his food and water
[4:24] Speaker 3: were fresh. The house was quiet that afternoon, with the
[4:29] Speaker 3: faint hum of appliances in the background. Naga, her younger sister,
[4:34] Speaker 3: was at soccer practice with their father, Slavlylyub, and her
[4:38] Speaker 3: mother Natasha was still at work at a pharmaceutical company.
[4:43] Speaker 3: Her brother Peter would be home shortly from school. Once
[4:46] Speaker 3: everyone gathered back home that evening, the usual dinner time
[4:49] Speaker 3: routine unfolded. As the clock neared six forty pm, Masa
[4:55] Speaker 3: excused herself from the table. She slipped on a pair
[4:59] Speaker 3: of comfortable shoe new placed her headphones in her ears,
[5:02] Speaker 3: and tucked her iPhone safely into her pocket. She stepped
[5:06] Speaker 3: out of the door for her usual after dinner walk,
[5:09] Speaker 3: a routine that she enjoyed most days. The day was
[5:12] Speaker 3: still bright, with roughly ninety minutes of daylight. Left Mesa
[5:17] Speaker 3: headed towards the Kunung Creek Linear Park Footbridge, a familiar
[5:22] Speaker 3: pathway that ran alongside the Eastern Freeway just five hundred
[5:26] Speaker 3: meters from the family's home. But shortly after she left,
[5:31] Speaker 3: a resident living near the park was startled by a
[5:34] Speaker 3: scream that pierced the air. It wasn't the playful shout
[5:38] Speaker 3: of children or the sound of somebody calling for attention.
[5:43] Speaker 3: It was a blood curdling scream, filled with raw terror.
[5:48] Speaker 3: It was unlike anything the resident had ever heard before. Alarmed,
[5:53] Speaker 3: she immediately picked up the phone and called police, fearing
[5:57] Speaker 3: that something horrific had happened. Police and paramedics rushed to
[6:04] Speaker 3: the scene. Sirens echoing through the quiet streets as they
[6:07] Speaker 3: raced towards the park. Guided by the eerie stillness that
[6:11] Speaker 3: followed the earlier screams, they quickly honed in on the source.
[6:17] Speaker 3: Lying motionless among broken branches and scattered leaves below a
[6:21] Speaker 3: forked gum tree, they found Mesa. Her pale figure blended
[6:26] Speaker 3: with the earthy tones around her, but the side of
[6:29] Speaker 3: her body, drenched in blood was unmistakable. Gently, the responders
[6:34] Speaker 3: pulled her from the scrub and placed her on the path,
[6:38] Speaker 3: but the grim reality of the situation said in almost
[6:41] Speaker 3: immediately there was nothing they could do. There were forty
[6:46] Speaker 3: nine stab wounds slashed across her head, neck, chest, and abdomen.
[6:51] Speaker 3: The fatal blows had been to her neck, causing her
[6:54] Speaker 3: to bleed to death. News of the tragic discovery in
[6:58] Speaker 3: the park spread fast as officer secured the crime scene.
[7:03] Speaker 3: It wasn't long before Mace's family learned that something was
[7:06] Speaker 3: terribly wrong. Her mother, Natasha, arrived at the park after
[7:12] Speaker 3: Maesa failed to return home from her evening walk. The
[7:16] Speaker 3: area was now swarming with police officers, but Masa was
[7:19] Speaker 3: nowhere to be found, and her phone calls went unanswered.
[7:24] Speaker 3: Natasha explained to the officers that her daughter had been
[7:27] Speaker 3: out for a walk in the area and she feared
[7:30] Speaker 3: that something bad had happened. A senior officer approached, asking
[7:35] Speaker 3: Natasha for a description of her daughter. Her words froze him.
[7:40] Speaker 3: The description matched the lifeless body they had found only
[7:43] Speaker 3: moments earlier. Mace's phone, lying beside her in the dirt,
[7:48] Speaker 3: had been ringing incessantly since they arrived. The sergeant asked
[7:53] Speaker 3: Natasha to call her daughter once more. As she dialed,
[7:58] Speaker 3: the ring of Mace's foot echoed from the footpath, confirming
[8:03] Speaker 3: her worst nightmare. The details of Mace's murder spread quickly
[8:10] Speaker 3: through the area, and that left people both horrified and terrified.
[8:15] Speaker 3: Detective Inspector Michael Hughes commented, this is part of her routine.
[8:21] Speaker 3: She's been walking daily. It's terrible a seventeen year old
[8:24] Speaker 3: can't go for a walk on a trail in a park.
[8:28] Speaker 3: The park was a popular one for people to go
[8:30] Speaker 3: walking and jogging, and it had always been safe, even
[8:34] Speaker 3: for those who were alone. The fact that it was
[8:38] Speaker 3: so out in the open, running alongside a busy road
[8:41] Speaker 3: made people feel safe. It was always busy and it
[8:46] Speaker 3: wasn't the kind of place one would expect a murder
[8:48] Speaker 3: to occur during broad daylight. One local, Greta Nziger, said,
[8:54] Speaker 3: just when you feel safe, when you feel that Doncaster
[8:57] Speaker 3: is a good suburb to be in, it's really disturbing.
[9:02] Speaker 3: Another local, Adriana Vlamus, commented, I'm pretty scared to be
[9:07] Speaker 3: home by myself. It could have been me. The police
[9:11] Speaker 3: asked people to remain vigilant because they weren't yet sure
[9:14] Speaker 3: of the details surrounding her murder. One possibility was that
[9:19] Speaker 3: Mesa was followed by somebody, while another was that it
[9:22] Speaker 3: was completely random. The next day, scores of people gathered
[9:28] Speaker 3: at the crime scene. Most of them were dressed in pink,
[9:32] Speaker 3: which was Mays's favorite color, and they lay down floors.
[9:37] Speaker 3: The investigation into Masa Vukititch murder began to take shape
[9:40] Speaker 3: as detectives followed the first crucial leads. Witnesses from the
[9:45] Speaker 3: park reported seeing a man running from the area clutching
[9:48] Speaker 3: a plastic bag, but this information in hand, detectives come
[9:52] Speaker 3: through CCTV footage hoping to identify the suspect. Before long,
[9:57] Speaker 3: they spotted a man matching the witnesses to descriptions a
[10:01] Speaker 3: slim figure in his twenties with short, dark hair, dressed
[10:05] Speaker 3: in dark clothing. He was seen running from the reserve
[10:09] Speaker 3: shortly after the terrifying screams echoed through the park. In
[10:13] Speaker 3: his hand there was a white plastic shopping bag, exactly
[10:17] Speaker 3: what had been described by onlookers. Surveillance footage captured the
[10:22] Speaker 3: man as he hurried past a local school before boarding
[10:25] Speaker 3: a boss on Doncaster Road just after seven p m.
[10:30] Speaker 3: He disembarked near the intersection of Hoddell and Johnson Streets
[10:33] Speaker 3: in Abbotsford, further eluding police. Although his face was obscured
[10:39] Speaker 3: in the footage, detectives believed his distinctive run an overall
[10:42] Speaker 3: appearance would be recognizable to those who knew him. With
[10:47] Speaker 3: this in mind, investigators publicly announced their belief that the
[10:51] Speaker 3: killer was likely a local man. Detective Inspector Hughes stated,
[10:57] Speaker 3: the smacks of someone who knew the area. You wouldn't
[11:00] Speaker 3: pick it at roundom Well.
[11:02] Speaker 2: Devana police are doing everything they can to close in
[11:04] Speaker 2: on this killer. Investigators are now trawling through fresh CCTV
[11:09] Speaker 2: in a bid to identify the man in question. Late
[11:13] Speaker 2: last night, they released that image of that clear image
[11:15] Speaker 2: of the man that they want to speak to. They
[11:17] Speaker 2: believe he could be responsible for the killing. He was
[11:20] Speaker 2: captured about twenty minutes after the killing of seventeen year
[11:23] Speaker 2: old Marsa Vuketich. She was getting onto a bus that
[11:26] Speaker 2: happened here in a park around six point fifty on
[11:29] Speaker 2: Tuesday night. Now, Massa had been going for her evening stroll.
[11:32] Speaker 2: She had her headphones in she was listening to music
[11:35] Speaker 2: when it appears that she's been set upon in her
[11:37] Speaker 2: apparent random killing. Now neighbors reported hearing a shrill scream
[11:42] Speaker 2: before seeing a man in a red shirt running from
[11:45] Speaker 2: the scene carrying a white bag. Now that description fits
[11:49] Speaker 2: the image of the man police saw getting on the
[11:52] Speaker 2: bus about twenty minutes after the killing.
[11:54] Speaker 3: On the morning of March nineteenth, Melbourne was unusually quiet
[11:58] Speaker 3: yep Beneath the cums surface detectives were still hard at
[12:01] Speaker 3: work investigating Mace's murder. The community was shaken, but the
[12:07] Speaker 3: sense of onnaies would only deepen as a string of
[12:10] Speaker 3: violent incidents unfolded throughout the city that morning. It began
[12:15] Speaker 3: when a twenty six year old man stepped into a
[12:17] Speaker 3: lift on his way to a pedestrian overpass just before
[12:21] Speaker 3: the doors closed, another man entered. The younger man instantly
[12:26] Speaker 3: recognized the stranger. He bore a striking resemblance to the
[12:31] Speaker 3: suspect seen on the CCTV footage following Mace's murder. As
[12:37] Speaker 3: the lift descended, tension filled the air. Then, in an instant,
[12:44] Speaker 3: the suspect made his move. He grabbed the man in
[12:47] Speaker 3: a headlock and began savagely punching him in the face,
[12:52] Speaker 3: Demanding the man's wallet. The attacker grew frustrated when he
[12:55] Speaker 3: realized the man didn't have one. In a frantic rush,
[13:00] Speaker 3: she grabbed the victim's phone and fled from the scene
[13:02] Speaker 3: on foot. Just a short distance away, the same man
[13:07] Speaker 3: attempted another crime in McCracken Straight. A seventy seven year
[13:11] Speaker 3: old man sat in his bend w unaware of the
[13:14] Speaker 3: looming danger, The suspect approached the car, intending to steal it. Fortunately,
[13:21] Speaker 3: the man managed to drive off quickly, escaping unharmed. But
[13:26] Speaker 3: the suspect's rampage wasn't over. Just around the corner, he
[13:31] Speaker 3: targeted his next victim, inside the Word bookstore on Harvester Road.
[13:36] Speaker 3: A woman stood behind the till the man entered the store.
[13:41] Speaker 3: Seemingly calm and struck up a conversation with her, but
[13:45] Speaker 3: without warning, he lunged at her, choking her and then
[13:49] Speaker 3: raping her. As she desperately struggled with him, her screams
[13:53] Speaker 3: for help echoed throughout the Christian bookstore. As she cried
[13:57] Speaker 3: for help, the suspect mocked her asked where's your Jesus now?
[14:03] Speaker 3: Hearing the commotion, to passerby rushed inside, startling the suspect
[14:07] Speaker 3: and forcing him to flee. As news of the crime
[14:11] Speaker 3: wave swept through the city, details began to emerge, painting
[14:15] Speaker 3: a vivid picture of the attacker. Victims and witnesses described
[14:20] Speaker 3: a man who matched the appearance of this suspect from
[14:22] Speaker 3: the CCTV footage after Mace's murder. The resemblance was undeniable,
[14:29] Speaker 3: and detectives grew increasingly certain that the man responsible for
[14:32] Speaker 3: the recent string of attacks was Mace's killer. They also
[14:37] Speaker 3: knew they needed to act quickly before more lives were
[14:40] Speaker 3: put at risk. While detectives come through leads and search
[14:45] Speaker 3: for the elusive suspect, a development occurred that would change
[14:48] Speaker 3: the course of the investigation. A man calmly walked into
[14:53] Speaker 3: the Sunshine Police department and handed himself over to the authorities.
[14:59] Speaker 3: Almost simultaneou Lee a fun came into the police station.
[15:03] Speaker 3: The caller claimed they could identify the man seen in
[15:06] Speaker 3: the CCTV footage from the night of Mace's murder. It
[15:10] Speaker 3: was a thirty one year old man named Sean Christian Price.
[15:13] Speaker 3: The caller said it was the very same man who
[15:17] Speaker 3: now stood before detectives in the police station, and they
[15:21] Speaker 3: knew exactly who he was. Price was already well known
[15:26] Speaker 3: to both police and mental health services due to his
[15:29] Speaker 3: troubled history. Born in nineteen eighty four, Price experienced a
[15:34] Speaker 3: tumultuous upbringing. After his apparent separation, he became a victim
[15:39] Speaker 3: of both physical and sexual abuse, which deeply impacted his development.
[15:45] Speaker 3: He told anybody who would listen that his father had
[15:48] Speaker 3: mistreated him, and would even repeat his childhood experience by
[15:52] Speaker 3: smashing himself in the face with a closed fist or
[15:55] Speaker 3: putting cigarettes out on his own flesh. Twelve years old,
[16:00] Speaker 3: Price had his first encounter with mental health services when
[16:04] Speaker 3: school staff grew increasingly concerned about his well being. His
[16:09] Speaker 3: behavior worsened as he approached his teenage years. By the
[16:13] Speaker 3: beginning of year eleven, he had dropped out of school.
[16:17] Speaker 3: Around this time, Price began using marijuana and amphetamines, further
[16:22] Speaker 3: derailing his already unstable life. Price's home life was still
[16:27] Speaker 3: equally as chaotic. He drifted between living with his mother
[16:31] Speaker 3: in New South Wales and his father in Melbourne, often
[16:34] Speaker 3: without a stable place to call home, resorting to couch
[16:37] Speaker 3: surfing with friends and acquaintances. His situation only deteriorated between
[16:43] Speaker 3: February of two thousand and two and June of two
[16:45] Speaker 3: thousand and three, during which he committed a series of
[16:48] Speaker 3: violent defenses, including rape and attempted rape. He turned himself
[16:53] Speaker 3: into police after attacking six women and a thirteen year
[16:56] Speaker 3: old girl during the daylight hours. It followed a pair
[17:01] Speaker 3: of thirteen year old girls before picking one of them
[17:03] Speaker 3: up and pushing her down on to the footpath and
[17:06] Speaker 3: assaulting her before a bystander intervened. During his crime spray,
[17:11] Speaker 3: he sexually assaulted a mother of two after following her home.
[17:16] Speaker 3: He forced her way into the door, punched her, and
[17:19] Speaker 3: threatened to kill her children. In most of the assaults,
[17:23] Speaker 3: he would ask his victims for directions and then follow
[17:25] Speaker 3: them home where he attacked them. He also admitted to
[17:29] Speaker 3: committing similar crimes in New South Wales, but he was
[17:32] Speaker 3: never charged it with them. In October two thousand four,
[17:36] Speaker 3: a judge in the County Court sentenced Price to a
[17:39] Speaker 3: hospital security order for a total term of eight years
[17:42] Speaker 3: and two months, with five years and five months to
[17:45] Speaker 3: be served. While serving his sentence, Price was admitted to
[17:50] Speaker 3: Tom Assembling Hospital, a secure psychiatric facility, on four different
[17:55] Speaker 3: occasions due to his deteriorating mental health. Some doctors thought
[18:00] Speaker 3: he was schizophrenic or suffering from psychosis. Others thought he
[18:05] Speaker 3: was a psychopath or narcissistic, then more thought that he
[18:09] Speaker 3: had borderline personality disorder. He was prescribed antipsychotic medication, which
[18:15] Speaker 3: dulled his impulses, but only slightly. An unnamed source commented
[18:22] Speaker 3: his mind was just always going on either thoughts of
[18:24] Speaker 3: self loathing or angry thoughts about what was done to him.
[18:29] Speaker 3: It was just this constant battle in his head about everything.
[18:33] Speaker 3: While Price was at Thomas Embling Hospital, Prime Minister Tony
[18:37] Speaker 3: Abbott visited and Price punched him twice in the face
[18:40] Speaker 3: without warning. One staff member said of him, he was
[18:45] Speaker 3: like a wrecking ball in there. He would throw into
[18:48] Speaker 3: violent outbursts and punch walls until his fists were bleeding.
[18:53] Speaker 3: It was never clear what might set Price off, so
[18:55] Speaker 3: the best tactic was not to engage with him and
[18:58] Speaker 3: to avoid all eye contact. One other inmate recalled how
[19:02] Speaker 3: they were playing football in the garden one minute, and
[19:05] Speaker 3: the next Price was kicking his head in. Another inmate
[19:09] Speaker 3: compared him to Gary David, the violent self mutilator, who
[19:13] Speaker 3: was only kept behind bars by one man laws designed
[19:16] Speaker 3: by the state government to keep him away from the public.
[19:20] Speaker 3: On another occasion, Price was involved in a rooftop standoff.
[19:25] Speaker 3: He only came down after his father arrived and spoke
[19:27] Speaker 3: with him. During his time at the hospital, he told
[19:31] Speaker 3: people that raping women was a natural high. Despite his
[19:35] Speaker 3: evident problems in lingering violence, Price was granted parole in
[19:39] Speaker 3: November of two thousand ten. His freedom was cut short
[19:44] Speaker 3: when he attacked a female forensic psychologist at Forensic Care.
[19:48] Speaker 3: Just seven months later, his parole was revoked and he
[19:52] Speaker 3: was sentenced to four months in prison. The holidays are
[19:59] Speaker 3: almost here, and I'm already looking forward to all the
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[22:16] Speaker 3: Despite his repeated offenses, Price was released again, and five
[22:20] Speaker 3: months later he was placed under a supervision order under
[22:23] Speaker 3: the Serious Sex Offenders Act of two thousand and nine.
[22:27] Speaker 3: One condition of this order was the Price reside a
[22:30] Speaker 3: Kerrella Place, a faculty designed for high risk sex offenders.
[22:36] Speaker 3: It was known locally as Village of the Damned, a
[22:39] Speaker 3: place where sex offenders were kept for the safety of others. However,
[22:44] Speaker 3: Price's violent behavior did not cease. In December of twenty twelve,
[22:50] Speaker 3: he was involved in the series of offenses at Kerrella Place,
[22:53] Speaker 3: including criminal damage and assault. He had caused more than
[22:58] Speaker 3: forty thousand dollars in damage to an administrative building. In cars,
[23:02] Speaker 3: he used rocks in a pole and wheelbarrow as battering
[23:05] Speaker 3: rams after he was told he couldn't use the gym.
[23:09] Speaker 3: He was sentenced to three years in prison. During his
[23:13] Speaker 3: stint in prison, he found himself in the isolation unit,
[23:16] Speaker 3: where he threatened to kill police and children if he
[23:19] Speaker 3: wasn't let out. Over the prison intercom, he said in
[23:28] Speaker 3: a police interview, said some people and.
[23:31] Speaker 1: Discussing stuff of letter to using laws of people's offices
[23:35] Speaker 1: and showing to her choosern was trying for attentionalized by
[23:38] Speaker 1: that continually every two seconds and saying cold the place
[23:43] Speaker 1: talent about the u chosren could the place talent. Unt
[23:46] Speaker 1: I don't know, I can remember all this, that none
[23:47] Speaker 1: of it was actually must go down.
[23:50] Speaker 3: He said that he was acting out just to try
[23:52] Speaker 3: and get attention because he was starved of food and water.
[23:56] Speaker 3: Price subsequently wrote a letter to the Age in which
[23:59] Speaker 3: he said that the treatment of prisoners in Victoria was
[24:02] Speaker 3: promoting the popularity of Islam. Just twelve days after this outburst,
[24:08] Speaker 3: Price was released back into the community. His supervision order
[24:14] Speaker 3: still had eight years to run, but his sentence was
[24:17] Speaker 3: reduced on appeal. The judge had found that his mental
[24:21] Speaker 3: health problems contributed to his offending. Instead of returning to
[24:26] Speaker 3: correll A Place, Corrections Victoria housed him in an apartment
[24:30] Speaker 3: block in Albion. As part of his release, He remained
[24:34] Speaker 3: subject to a supervision order and he was required to
[24:37] Speaker 3: report regularly to Corrections Victoria, but it was a very
[24:42] Speaker 3: relaxed supervision order, especially given the violent nature of his crimes.
[24:48] Speaker 3: He was a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode.
[25:00] Speaker 3: After Sean Price walked into the police station and surrendered himself,
[25:03] Speaker 3: officers quickly noticed his striking resemblance to the man seen
[25:07] Speaker 3: on CCTV. He was immediately taken into their interrogation room,
[25:12] Speaker 3: where detectives began their questioning. Without hesitation, Price acknowledged that
[25:18] Speaker 3: there was a good chance that he was responsible for
[25:20] Speaker 3: the murder of Mesa. His tone was chillingly casual, as
[25:26] Speaker 3: if he were discussing an everyday occurrence rather than a
[25:28] Speaker 3: horrific crime. Price then proceeded to make a full and
[25:33] Speaker 3: detailed confession. He revealed that for quite some time he
[25:38] Speaker 3: had been preoccupied with thoughts of killing someone. He said
[25:42] Speaker 3: that he hated society and had been getting the urge
[25:45] Speaker 3: to murder for quite a while now, he stated, hating
[25:51] Speaker 3: hearing I'm going to hurt the fucking dogs. He said
[25:55] Speaker 3: he had chosen a wealthy suburb, believing it would drive
[25:59] Speaker 3: home the message that he wanted to send. That evening,
[26:03] Speaker 3: Price entered the park with a butcher knife concealed in
[26:06] Speaker 3: a plastic bag. He lingered there, scanning the people passing by,
[26:12] Speaker 3: until he spotted Mesa approaching. Her innocent and carefree demeanor
[26:18] Speaker 3: seemed to provoke him. To the detectives, He described Mesa
[26:22] Speaker 3: as looking like a yuppie, a term he used with disdain.
[26:28] Speaker 3: What stood out in his mind was how she interacted
[26:31] Speaker 3: with her surroundings, he told them she started talking to
[26:36] Speaker 3: a bird like fucking snow white. This one just ended
[26:40] Speaker 3: up being the one I just had to kill her.
[26:44] Speaker 3: Price recounted how he grabbed Mesa and dragged her down
[26:47] Speaker 3: the path and away from sight. Despite her desperate pleas
[26:51] Speaker 3: for him not to hurt her, he ignored them and
[26:55] Speaker 3: stabbed her repeatedly, forty nine times in total. He said
[27:00] Speaker 3: he stabbed her so many times to make sure that
[27:02] Speaker 3: she was dead, before adding otherwise it was a fucking
[27:07] Speaker 3: waste of time. But the confession didn't end there. Price
[27:12] Speaker 3: went on to tell detectives about his plans for the
[27:15] Speaker 3: following day. He had traveled to see Home with the
[27:19] Speaker 3: intention to kill again. Armed with the same knife, he
[27:23] Speaker 3: wandered through the area seeking another victim. He bluntly said,
[27:28] Speaker 3: I was just going to keep doing it stabbing. I
[27:32] Speaker 3: thought beautiful, another one of their fucking princesses or good
[27:36] Speaker 3: person fucking suffers. Despite his twisted desires, the second murder
[27:42] Speaker 3: never materialized. He explained that his intended victim had given
[27:47] Speaker 3: him fifty dollars and this small random act of kindness
[27:51] Speaker 3: to reel his intentions, but even then he still had
[27:55] Speaker 3: a thirst for violence and destruction. Price said that after
[27:59] Speaker 3: seeing the news on Mace's murder, he decided he wanted
[28:02] Speaker 3: to sexually assault somebody. He stated, I thought, you know what, man,
[28:09] Speaker 3: I'm going to jail forever. I need to bust a nut.
[28:13] Speaker 3: I'm never getting out. I'm just going to take some
[28:15] Speaker 3: chick and seize her. He told the detectives that he
[28:20] Speaker 3: had raped the woman in the bookstore because he knew
[28:22] Speaker 3: he would eventually be caught for Mace's murder. The community
[28:33] Speaker 3: let out a collective sigh of relief after Price was arrested.
[28:39] Speaker 3: The media flooded the neighborhood where he lived, in a
[28:41] Speaker 3: small flat in Albion that was owned by Yarra Community Housing.
[28:46] Speaker 3: It was on the opposite side of the city to
[28:48] Speaker 3: where Masa was killed. Several of his neighbors spoke with
[28:53] Speaker 3: the reporters that had gathered, and they all described him
[28:56] Speaker 3: as a strange and frightening individual. Said that he was
[29:00] Speaker 3: a loner who refused to look people in their eyes.
[29:04] Speaker 3: One neighbor even said that when she saw the CCTV
[29:07] Speaker 3: footage of the suspect, she thought that it may have
[29:10] Speaker 3: been Price. However, she thought that it couldn't have been
[29:13] Speaker 3: hymn since it happened almost forty kilometers away. Detectives continued
[29:18] Speaker 3: looking into Price, focusing on his movements before and after
[29:22] Speaker 3: the murder of Mesa. They discovered that before handing himself
[29:27] Speaker 3: into police, he had spent a lot of time at
[29:29] Speaker 3: Brimbank Library. The only thing he did while there was
[29:34] Speaker 3: read the press coverage of the murder. The month before
[29:37] Speaker 3: the murder, he had been a familiar face at the
[29:40] Speaker 3: library as well. He had spent time researching serial killers
[29:44] Speaker 3: as well as policing, crime scene investigation and forensic investigation.
[29:51] Speaker 3: That wasn't all. He also posted three bizarre YouTube videos,
[29:55] Speaker 3: including one of a rap where he complained about people
[29:59] Speaker 3: digitally rep his ears. With December right around the corner,
[30:06] Speaker 3: it's time to start preparing for the holiday season. Between
[30:09] Speaker 3: decking out the halls with festive decorations and getting your
[30:12] Speaker 3: home ready for family gatherings, Smart Labels is here to
[30:15] Speaker 3: make this December you're most organized yet. With Smart Labels,
[30:19] Speaker 3: you can easily label your storage bins with qure code stickers,
[30:22] Speaker 3: catalog everything in your home using their app, add photos, descriptions,
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[31:09] Speaker 3: Sean Price faced his initial court hearing as the judge
[31:14] Speaker 3: read aloud his date of birth, Price, who evidently misheard,
[31:18] Speaker 3: believed the judge had said a much earlier year. He
[31:22] Speaker 3: let out a laugh and quipped sarcastically, are you judge?
[31:26] Speaker 3: I must look pretty good for my age. His casual
[31:31] Speaker 3: mocking attitude during the proceedings stood in a stark contrast
[31:34] Speaker 3: to the gruesome's crimes he was now charged with. Alongside
[31:39] Speaker 3: the murder charge, Price was also charged for a series
[31:41] Speaker 3: of violent acts committed during the aftermath of his rampage rape,
[31:46] Speaker 3: three assaults and two robberies. As he left the courtroom,
[31:50] Speaker 3: he flipped off the photographers. Just a week later, on
[31:54] Speaker 3: the twenty sixth of March, hundreds gathered at Springvale Botanical
[31:58] Speaker 3: Cemetery's Boyd Chapel for me funeral. Her brother Peter and
[32:03] Speaker 3: sister Naja led the procession carrying her white coffin to
[32:07] Speaker 3: the front of the chapel, where it was placed down.
[32:11] Speaker 3: Around one thousand mourners attended the service, and it took
[32:15] Speaker 3: over an ar for the crowd to pass by and
[32:17] Speaker 3: pay their respects, many of them kissing Mace's coffin. In
[32:22] Speaker 3: an emotional tribute, Nadge tearfully reflected on her older sister, staring,
[32:28] Speaker 3: Masa was beautiful on the inside, and she was also
[32:30] Speaker 3: beautiful on the outside. She said that she was honored
[32:34] Speaker 3: to be her little sister. Their father, Slaveljob, who struggled
[32:39] Speaker 3: with his grief, spoke of his efforts to be as
[32:42] Speaker 3: brave and courageous as Mesa had been, even though her
[32:45] Speaker 3: loss was nearly impossible to bear. He addressed his daughter directly, saying,
[32:52] Speaker 3: it's hard, it hurts, it's unbearable, but we will try
[32:56] Speaker 3: to be brave and courageous as you were. I promise
[32:59] Speaker 3: I'll come to you one day. Until then my heart
[33:03] Speaker 3: will bleed. Natasha Mace's mother clatched her husband's hands as
[33:07] Speaker 3: she spoke about her on wavering love for her daughter.
[33:11] Speaker 3: In a voice full of heartache, she said, I believe someday,
[33:16] Speaker 3: somewhere you'll wait for me with open arms, and you'll say,
[33:19] Speaker 3: come here, mum, just like you always have. Following the
[33:24] Speaker 3: deeply moving service, Mace's classmates formed a guard of honor
[33:28] Speaker 3: as her body was carried from the chapel, accompanying her
[33:31] Speaker 3: to her final resting place. In June, Shawn Price appeared
[33:40] Speaker 3: before the Melbourne Magistrates Court via video link, where it
[33:44] Speaker 3: was announced that he would undergo an assessment by a
[33:46] Speaker 3: forensic psychologist. The purpose of the evaluation was to determine
[33:52] Speaker 3: whether Price was mentally competent to enter a plea. On
[33:56] Speaker 3: the seventeenth of August, Price returned to court where he
[33:59] Speaker 3: unexpectedly plead guilty to the murder of Mesa. In addition
[34:03] Speaker 3: to the murder charge, he also pleaded guilty to one
[34:06] Speaker 3: kind of robbery, while the other robbery and assault charges
[34:09] Speaker 3: were withdrawn. However, he pleaded not guilty to the rape charge.
[34:15] Speaker 3: This was despite the fact that prosecutor Michelle Williams previously
[34:19] Speaker 3: stated that Price was expected to plead guilty on the
[34:22] Speaker 3: rape charge. It was also despite the fact that he
[34:26] Speaker 3: had confessed to it immediately after he was arrested. Defending
[34:31] Speaker 3: his decision in court, Price claimed, I don't want to
[34:34] Speaker 3: play to it because I didn't do it. They're playing games.
[34:38] Speaker 3: He launched into a tirade, hurling abuse at Masa's family
[34:42] Speaker 3: and accusing lawyers of dubinkim. He said that he had
[34:46] Speaker 3: become public Enemy number one. His outburst resulted in staff
[34:51] Speaker 3: ending the video link between him and the courtroom During
[34:54] Speaker 3: the hearing, Disturbing details of Price's movements on the day
[34:57] Speaker 3: that Mesa was killed were revealed. From as early as
[35:02] Speaker 3: five thirty a m. Price had been aimlessly riding public
[35:05] Speaker 3: transport around Melbourne. He traveled from his home in Albion
[35:09] Speaker 3: to Sunshine railway station and back to the city, then
[35:13] Speaker 3: continued to Glenfury and back to Sunshine. His erratic travel
[35:18] Speaker 3: continued as he made stops at Fotzgray, Southern Cross and
[35:21] Speaker 3: Parliament stations before eventually arriving in Collingswood, Victoria. Street. From there,
[35:28] Speaker 3: he boarded a bus headed for Doncaster, disembarking at the
[35:32] Speaker 3: parking ride. Approximately ten minutes after arriving in Doncaster, Price
[35:37] Speaker 3: crossed paths with Mesa, who was walking with her headphones on.
[35:43] Speaker 3: Without warning, he grabbed her, dragging her into the bushes
[35:46] Speaker 3: on the eastern side of the park. He showed her
[35:50] Speaker 3: a butcher knife, and as soon as she began to scream,
[35:53] Speaker 3: he began stabbing her repeatedly. At one point, he momentarily
[35:58] Speaker 3: stopped his attack when he noticed a min walking his
[36:00] Speaker 3: dog nearby, but once the man had passed, Price resumed
[36:04] Speaker 3: his bridal assault on Mesa. As she lay dying, he
[36:09] Speaker 3: fled on foot. He stopped to wash his hands in
[36:12] Speaker 3: the garden of a nearby home and change his bloodstained
[36:15] Speaker 3: T shirt. The following day he traveled to Yarraville station,
[36:19] Speaker 3: where he disposed of the nine and some clothing in
[36:22] Speaker 3: a bin in the toilet. Then, on the twenty seventh
[36:25] Speaker 3: of August, Price returned to court with a change of heart.
[36:29] Speaker 3: He pleaded guilty to the charge of rape as well
[36:32] Speaker 3: as the attempted theft of a BMW. The change in
[36:37] Speaker 3: play came as a surprise even to his own attorneys.
[36:49] Speaker 3: The murder of Mesa led to a debate about changes
[36:51] Speaker 3: in Victoria's legal system. Price had been free to kill
[36:55] Speaker 3: her despite his disturbing record of violence and concern that
[36:58] Speaker 3: he was a danger to the public for his previous convictions.
[37:02] Speaker 3: The court had opt held his appeal against the sentence
[37:05] Speaker 3: for the assaults and had reduced it to time served,
[37:08] Speaker 3: which saw Price be released. According to the judge, his
[37:12] Speaker 3: mental health had contributed to the crimes and therefore he
[37:16] Speaker 3: was okay to be released. Judge Lisa Hannan had said,
[37:21] Speaker 3: in my view, the material is capable of founding the
[37:24] Speaker 3: conclusion that your mental health deficiencies were casually connected to
[37:28] Speaker 3: your conduct on this occasion, that is the offending, and
[37:33] Speaker 3: in those circumstances, your moral culpability is reduced. She had
[37:38] Speaker 3: been told that Price suffered hypoxic brain damage at birth
[37:41] Speaker 3: and that the family had a history of mental illness
[37:44] Speaker 3: and physical abuse. If his original sentence stood, which was
[37:49] Speaker 3: three years, he would never have crossed paths with Mesa.
[37:54] Speaker 3: The rest of the crimes he had committed, most were
[37:56] Speaker 3: violent in nature, but he always received a lenience sinsetons.
[38:01] Speaker 3: As one corrections officer said, he's very dangerous, but it's
[38:05] Speaker 3: too late tell that to the girl's family. Furthermore, Price
[38:10] Speaker 3: should still have been under supervision at a facility for
[38:13] Speaker 3: serious sexual offenders. However, the Parole Board admitted that they
[38:18] Speaker 3: had issued a direction to place him back in the community,
[38:22] Speaker 3: so Price had been left to act with impunity when
[38:25] Speaker 3: he should have been behind bars, or at the very
[38:27] Speaker 3: least should have been under supervision. After he pleaded guilty
[38:32] Speaker 3: to the murder, Attorney General Martin Pecula said that parole
[38:35] Speaker 3: and other changes relating to violent criminals would be discussed.
[38:40] Speaker 3: He stated, clearly what happened to Mesa is an absolute tragedy.
[38:45] Speaker 3: It shouldn't have happened, and rest assured the government is
[38:48] Speaker 3: looking into all of the circumstances. In October, the Serious
[38:52] Speaker 3: Sex Offenders and Other Acts Amendment Bill two oh five
[38:56] Speaker 3: passed in the Legislative Council. Under the new law, sex
[39:01] Speaker 3: offenders who served jail time but are still considered high
[39:04] Speaker 3: risk will face more monitoring and could be forced to
[39:07] Speaker 3: undergo drug and alcohol testing. Jean Price returned to court
[39:12] Speaker 3: on the fourteenth of December. His defense attorney, Mandy Fox,
[39:17] Speaker 3: said that his early years were characterized by abuse. She
[39:21] Speaker 3: said he started abusing alcohol as a teenager and then
[39:24] Speaker 3: began having auditory hallucinations. She stated his early childhood was
[39:31] Speaker 3: all but destroyed by physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. The
[39:37] Speaker 3: defense attorney continued and said the Price suffered from schizophrenia
[39:40] Speaker 3: with a range of personality disorders, including psychosis. She said
[39:45] Speaker 3: that this reduced his moral culpability for the murder. She
[39:49] Speaker 3: revealed that Price once told psychologists that he needed to
[39:52] Speaker 3: kill a lot of people to highlight the injustices in
[39:55] Speaker 3: the prison system. She stated he said killing he would
[40:00] Speaker 3: let people know what no justice will look like and
[40:04] Speaker 3: the beginning of a revolution. After she spoke, Price announced
[40:08] Speaker 3: that he was firing her and asked Supreme Court Justice
[40:11] Speaker 3: Lects Lastly to ignore everything she had just said. In
[40:14] Speaker 3: his defense, he said to the court room, I'm guilty
[40:19] Speaker 3: of the crime, and I wish only to apologize. I
[40:22] Speaker 3: don't wish for any leniency to be shown. I don't
[40:25] Speaker 3: wish to make excuses for my actions. I witnessed only
[40:28] Speaker 3: a small dose of the huge devastation I've caused. Howevery
[40:33] Speaker 3: further said that the state was responsible for managing him,
[40:36] Speaker 3: but said that they failed. He said that in the
[40:39] Speaker 3: lead up to the murder, he had stopped taking his medication,
[40:43] Speaker 3: telling the court it hurts you dribble and you shuffle
[40:47] Speaker 3: its torture. Prosecutor Michelle Williams touched on his release, telling
[40:52] Speaker 3: the judge when he was released, he was assessed as
[40:55] Speaker 3: medium to high risk of offending. That's precisely what happened.
[41:00] Speaker 3: It was the first time that it was revealed that
[41:02] Speaker 3: Price was released despite being assessed as medium to high risk.
[41:07] Speaker 3: According to a psychologist's report, the most likely scenario was
[41:10] Speaker 3: that his mental health would deteriorate and he would stalk
[41:14] Speaker 3: and assault women. The day before Mace's murder, he had
[41:18] Speaker 3: attended a corrections meeting. The notes stated that he was
[41:22] Speaker 3: aggressive and his behavior was unusual, but nothing was done
[41:26] Speaker 3: and Price was allowed to leave. Victim impact statements were
[41:30] Speaker 3: then presented, including one from Mace's best friend, Madison Stone.
[41:37] Speaker 3: She detailed the impact the murder of her best friend
[41:39] Speaker 3: had on her, telling the court that she was taking
[41:42] Speaker 3: ante repressants as a wedded cope. Pryce's rape victim also
[41:47] Speaker 3: bravely addressed the court room. She said that she feared
[41:51] Speaker 3: for her life during the attack. In the aftermath, her
[41:55] Speaker 3: marriage had suffered and she suffered from post traumatic stress
[41:58] Speaker 3: disorder panic attack. Since she no longer worked. Everybody returned
[42:03] Speaker 3: to court the following day for more of the pre
[42:05] Speaker 3: sentencing caring. Price once more spoke to the court room
[42:10] Speaker 3: and said that while he deserved to be punished severely,
[42:13] Speaker 3: he shouldn't be locked up for life. He acknowledged his
[42:16] Speaker 3: own mental health issues, stating something's wrong with me up top.
[42:22] Speaker 3: He said that while he had refused his medication in
[42:24] Speaker 3: the past, he was now taking it to say if
[42:27] Speaker 3: it helped him reform. In February, Sean Price was called
[42:35] Speaker 3: back to court where he admitted to threatening to kill
[42:38] Speaker 3: a prison guard over the intercom. The prosecution used this
[42:42] Speaker 3: incident to strengthen their case for a life sentence for
[42:45] Speaker 3: Mace's murder, arguing that Price posed a continuing threat to society.
[42:51] Speaker 3: This admission ensured that the judge would classify him as
[42:54] Speaker 3: a serious violent defender, subjecting him to harsher penalties. The
[43:00] Speaker 3: following month, when Price was finally sentenced for Mace's murder,
[43:04] Speaker 3: Justice lex Last three didn't mince his words. Addressing the court,
[43:08] Speaker 3: he described the case as a catastrophic example of mismanagement.
[43:13] Speaker 3: He expressed his belief that somebody with such a violent
[43:16] Speaker 3: history had been allowed back into the community. He stated,
[43:21] Speaker 3: you should never have been left in a position where
[43:23] Speaker 3: you could so easily commit these offenses as you roamed
[43:26] Speaker 3: around the area of Melbourne, unrestrained and unaccountable. After his
[43:32] Speaker 3: damning remarks, the judge sentenced Price to life in prison
[43:35] Speaker 3: with the possibility of parole in two thousand and fifty four.
[43:40] Speaker 3: His scathing conclusion criticized the system that had allowed Price
[43:44] Speaker 3: to be released, starting the executive government has both failed
[43:49] Speaker 3: to treat you and failed to protect the community. In
[43:53] Speaker 3: the wake of the tragedy, significant reforms were introduced in
[43:56] Speaker 3: April of two thousand and sixteen, under what would become
[44:00] Speaker 3: known as Mace's Law, the Victorian government allocated eighty four
[44:05] Speaker 3: million dollars to overhaul how they monitored sex offenders after
[44:09] Speaker 3: their release from prison. A new Public Protection Agency was
[44:13] Speaker 3: created to track offenders more closely, and early intervention treatments
[44:18] Speaker 3: became a priority. Former Supreme Court Judge David Harper led
[44:23] Speaker 3: a comprehensive review proposing critical changes. One key recommendation was
[44:29] Speaker 3: to transfer responsibility for detention and supervision orders from the
[44:33] Speaker 3: Parole Board to a new unit, the Public Protection Panel.
[44:38] Speaker 3: This agency would provide services, monitor offenders, and share information
[44:42] Speaker 3: from the moment and offender entered custody. Other reforms included
[44:49] Speaker 3: early assessment and treatment of offenders to reduce their risk
[44:52] Speaker 3: of re offending, a new stipulation that supervision orders include
[44:57] Speaker 3: prohibitions against violent acts, streamlining of breach proceedings with minor
[45:03] Speaker 3: breaches handled in the magistrate's court and serious breaches prosecuted
[45:08] Speaker 3: by the county or Supreme Court. The construction of a
[45:12] Speaker 3: twenty bed secure facility to hoist high risk offenders. These
[45:17] Speaker 3: changes marked a significant shift in Victoria's approach to managing
[45:21] Speaker 3: dangerous offenders. The aim was to prevent future tragedies like
[45:26] Speaker 3: the one that claimed Mace's life while Bestie's That is
[45:52] Speaker 3: it for this episode of Morbidology. As always, thank you
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