Kate has opened up about her horrific ordeal on her blog What Kate Did Next.
It was 2003 and Kate was at her Lake Macquarie home while her husband of 10 years took her 14-year-old daughter Sam (pictured above) out, allegedly to the movies.
Instead, he drove Sam into the bush and raped her before driving their car into a rock at high speeds in a murder-suicide.
Throughout the evening, Kate grew more worried, repeatedly trying to call Sam and her husband. Eventually, around 11.30pm, Sam answered.
“I asked where she was and she said she could not tell me,” Kate wrote on her blog. “I asked her yes and no questions – I heard her say to her murderer ‘She doesn’t understand’.
“The phone dropped out at her end. I could still hear my daughter but she could not hear me. They were driving through mobile reception black spots. I hung up and rang again. My daughter answered!
“I kept trying to ask questions that might give me a clue. I asked if she was coming home and she said no. I didn’t say ‘I love you’ because I couldn’t say goodbye. And then the phone dropped out again. She could no longer hear me.
“I heard my beautiful daughter’s voice as she said, not screamed, just said ‘Please Dad. Please Dad. Please Dad’. Over and over again. Still calling him Dad. And then I hung up so I could call the police back to let them know Sam was answering the phone. When I tried to call her back there was no answer.”
Kate later found out that her daughter died seconds after she hung up.
Read more of Kate’s story on her blog What Kate Did Next.
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