DERRYN HINCH: Even though these mums have never met before...they're incredibly close, very much connected. Cindy, Anne and Michelle have been brought together by a shared experience. Together, they've lost six children - Jai, Tyler, Bailey, Letitia, Kyle and Kelly - all murdered by their fathers. MEGAN NORRIS: They wanted to get even, and the best way to do that was by harming the children, taking away the most important thing to them.
CINDY: One minute, I was this bubbly, outgoing mum that had three beautiful-natured boys - and, all of a sudden, that was just, it was gone. DERRYN: Today, Cindy is in the best place she's been in a long time - with second husband Stephen and her
Ball Of Foot Pain two little boys, Hezekiah and Isaiah. But never far from her thoughts is her old life - married to a man she thought she knew. Robert Farquharson swept Cindy Gambino off her feet. The couple tied the knot in August 2000, bought a house near Geelong and raised their three sons.
Jai was the oldest, then came Tyler, the youngest Bailey. Farquharson was good with them but he was a possessive husband and he and Cindy fought constantly. In 2004, he moved out. Farquharson still visited his boys but he didn't like it when Cindy made friends with a local concreter, Stephen Moules. STEPHEN: Turning up at my place at ungodly hours in the morning because Cindy's car was parked there just to see what we were doing.
DERRYN: Didn't you also tell him that, "I'm not trying to be a father to your children - you are their father"? STEPHEN: Yeah, I clearly said to him, "I will never try and be a father to your children. You're their father, you're their dad and now, more than ever, that's what you've got to be." Little did I know that things would end up the way they did. DERRYN: Father's Day, 2005. Farquharson had spent the afternoon with Jai, Tyler and Bailey. As he drove them back to Cindy's, he veered off the road and into a dam.
The car filled with water. He turned off the lights and the engine, opened his door and swam to safety, leaving his sons strapped and trapped in the back seat. The car went under. Farquharson flagged down a passing motorist. Instead of calling 000, he insisted on being taken to Cindy's house to break the news in person. It was all part of his cruel and deliberate plan. Farquharson obviously always planned to save himself. MEGAN NORRIS: He needed to be around, to observe that grief.
DERRYN: Megan Norris attended every day of Farquharson's murder trial. An author and journalist, she's become friends with Cindy, written a book on the case, and says Farquharson had an evil motive for seeing Cindy that night.
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