After losing three kids in a murder-suicide, Karen Bell is starting anew.
As Karen Bell sings soothingly to her slumbering one-year-old son, Connor, she smiles at the little boy who has at last restored her to her rightful place – that of simply being a mother. “I think I was born to be a mum,” Karen beams. “To have that role given back to me makes me so happy. Connor has healed my life. He’s the reason I believe in miracles.”
As she celebrates Connor’s first birthday at their little hilltop cabin in south-east New South Wales, she’s bursting to share more happy news – she and partner Dean Gray are expecting another baby in late February.
For the past two years, we have known Karen as the tragic mother who had her three young children murdered by her hard-drinking and violent husband, Gary Poxon.
On June 27, 2008, after Karen had walked out on him following another brutal episode, Poxon killed Jack, 8, Maddie, 7, and Bon, 16 months, by running hoses from the exhaust into the cabin of his vehicle, filling it with carbon monoxide. Gary also died in the car.
Karen was left with an all-consuming grief, believing she could never love or trust a man again. Then along came house painter Dean Gray, the brother of her best friend.
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