Kerry Dare and stepson Corey Richards at the funeral for Alan Dare (Image: AAP/Jason O'Brien)
Kerry Dare and stepson Corey Richards at the funeral for Alan Dare (Image: AAP/Jason O'Brien)

By the time most Australians heard about the shooting at Wieambilla on December 12, 2022, it was already over. What had already begun was the complicated task of piecing together exactly what had happened that day and why.

It took just six hours from the time four police officers arrived at a remote property owned by Gareth and Stacey Train to carry out a welfare check on Nathaniel Train — Gareth’s brother and Stacey’s former husband — to the conclusion of the police operation that left the trio dead.