Gruesome crimes that rocked WA: Body in bin victim Dinh Lam Nguyen the latest murder to shock WA

The shocking discovery of man’s remains in a wheelie bin in Glen Brook dam at John Forrest National Park is the latest gruesome chapter in WA’s bloody crime history. Dinh Lam Nguyen was revealed as the 51-year-old victim on Wednesday, after it was confirmed he was known to police and reported missing earlier this week. The West revealed Mr Nguyen’s sordid past, with the father-of-three also a convicted drug dealer who was sentenced to three years jail for meth and weapons offences in 2017. Police are yet to confirm his cause of death. VAMPIRE LESBIAN KILLERS STACEY MITCHELL It was the horrific crime that shocked WA, not just because of its brutality but for the senseless motive behind it. Lovers Jessica Ellen Stasinowsky and Valerie Page Parashumti, who were dubbed the Vampire Lesbian Killers for their obsession with the mythical fanged creatures, bludgeoned their 16-year-old housemate to death because they found her annoying. Stacey Mitchell had only been staying at the Lathlain house for three days when Parashumti, who was 19 at the time, battered her head with a cement block around 180 times in their kitchen on December 18, 2006. Stasinowsky, who was then 20, then took a dog chain and began strangling the 16-year-old while Parashumti kept striking her. The pair then kissed over the teenager before dumping her body in a wheelie bin in a back shed. During the hearing of the couple’s co-accused, David Haynes — who was jailed for helping to conceal Ms Mitchell’s body — the court was told Parashumti and Stasinowsky visited a Bunnings days after the murder with a “shopping list”. On that list was a chainsaw and spades, which they supposedly wanted to use to help dispose of her body. The pair were jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 24 years. THE GREAT SOUTHERN HOUSE OF HORRORS WILFRED WILLIAMS This murder was so gruesome, three officers who attended the crime scene later received the Commissioner’s Medal for Excellence for rescuing a number of children who were in the house on the night. During a meth-fuelled rage on August 4, 2019, Gregory John William Quartermaine butchered family friend, Wilfred Williams, at his mother’s Tambellup home during an orgy of violence that lasted up to 40 minutes. Quartermaine used a machete and knives to not only castrate his victim, who was heard screaming “What did I do? What did I do? What are you doing Greg?” as he dragged him down the hallway of the house, but to also remove the skin from his face. When police arrived, he emerged soaked in blood, while his 60-year-old victim lay dismembered and disembowelled in the kitchen. “I scalped that c...,” Quartermaine told police when they entered the home. “I cut his head off, and I will take yours.” One of the police officers who attended the crime scene also found chunks of human flesh during a search of Quartermaine’s pocket. In a chilling interview later that night, Quartermaine told detectives the devil made him do it. He will be sentenced on March 12. BODY-IN-THE-SUITCASE ANNABELLE CHEN It was the shocking discovery that quickly became a murder mystery. Two fisherman out trying their luck on the Swan River ended up catching more than they bargained for. As they made their way along the water they spotted a foot hanging out of a floating suitcase on July 4, 2016. But who was the body-in-the-suitcase remained a mystery for two months. Then in September police finally solved the mystery of who was in the suitcase — reclusive Mosman Park artist and mother, Annabelle Chen. Weeks later her ex-husband, Ah Ping Ban, and her only biological daughter, Tiffany Wan, were charged with her murder. Ban killed Ms Chen in her Meath Mews home then placed her body in a suitcase then wheeled into the Swan River using a trolley made of a child’s scooter, a chopping board and cable ties. In 2018, Ban was found guilty of her murder and jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years behind bars, while Wan was found guilty of helping to dispose of her mother’s body. She has since been freed on parole. ROTTNEST HEAD-IN-A-BAG STEPHEN COOKSON This was the day Perth’s underbelly emerged from the shadowy depths of the streets and floated to the surface of our much-loved holiday playground. An 11-year-old schoolgirl was out beach-combing with her family at Porpoise Bay on Rottnest Island in January, 2013, when she spotted a large object wash up on the shore. A closer inspection soon revealed a human ear inside a plastic bag. The ear and head belonged to underworld figure Stephen Cookson — a violent, notorious racing identity who was due to face court on serious drug charges before he was murdered. Cookson’s right hand man Aaron Carlino was later charged and found guilty of murdering him and was sentenced to at least 23 years behind bars. During his trial, it was revealed Carlino shot Cookson twice in the head with a rifle at point-blank range as he slept on the couch in their East Perth apartment. He then dismembered the body with an angle grinder and a knife in the bathroom, then buried the wrapped limbs in the backyard of a Golden Bay property. The remains were then dumped in the ocean. BODY-IN-BIN BEAU DAVIES The lengths drug dealers will go to in order to get what they are owed came to light in the horrific torture and murder of a young Kalgoorlie father in February 2014. Beau Davies’ body parts were stuffed into a wheelie bin after he was brutally beaten, killed then dismembered by two men over a significant drug debt. Steven Roberts and Stephen Gandy subjected the 24-year-old father-of-two to hours of torture by tying him up with cable ties then cutting off his finger, cutting his eyeballs before stabbing him repeatedly all over his body. They then chopped his body into eight pieces with an angle grinder before dumping it in a bin. During the pair’s trial, the court heard Davies had been selling drugs for Roberts, who had a thriving business selling methamphetamine in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, and owed him $20,000. Both Roberts and Gandy were jailed for life with a non-parole period of 23 years. Two other men, who were at the house when Davies was killed, Christian Gomis and Jayden Kett were acquitted of murder but convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter. They were given eight-year jail terms for their roles. HEAD-IN-THE-CAR WADE DUNN As far as brutal murders go, that of Wade Cameron Dunn was just that. Lured to an Alexander Heights house on May 19, 2015 under the pretence of being paid the $27,000 he was owed from fellow alleged drug dealers, the father-of-three was bashed with a metal pole before his head and hands were cut off and his remains dumped in the bush north of Bindoon. But what made the 40-year-old’s murder more horrific was the callous way his killers Gary David Jackson and Mark David Corbett treated his remains. Jackson kept his victim’s head in his car for days and only disposed of it after a friend complained of a smell. He also used a stolen chainsaw to dismember Dunn then dumped his body parts in different spots. To this day the rest of his remains have never been found. During the trial, the court heard after the pair tricked Dunn into coming over to Corbett’s Alexander Heights house they hit him with a metal pole. As Dunn tried to escape they held him down repeatedly bashing before being dragged him inside and hitting a final time. Jackson was jailed for at least 22 years for carrying out the attack while his cousin, Corbett, who pleaded guilty to the killing and was a key witness at the trial, was jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years in prison.

Gruesome crimes that rocked WA: Body in bin victim Dinh Lam Nguyen the latest murder to shock WA

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