Ross Smith was eating chicken in the bath when he was shot dead by Malcolm Baker. Filled with wicked rage, Baker was on a violent killing spree, murdering his ex-girlfriend Kerryann Gannon and her pregnant sister Lisa Gannon, their father Thomas Gannon, his own son David Baker, as well as Ross’ partner Leslie Read. Within 50 minutes, six lives had been stolen. Former detective Ted Bassingthwaighte unpacks the harrowing massacre that’s rarely seen on Australian soil.

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