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<\/p>\nA small rural community is breathing a sigh of relief after police discovered the body of a triple-murderer months after his shooting spree.<\/p>\n
Julian Ingram, 37, was accused of killing his pregnant former partner Sophie Quinn, her aunt Nerida Quinn and a third person at Lake Cargelligo in western NSW on January 22.<\/p>\n
The town went into high alert, with police warning locals to exercise extreme caution after the council worker was believed to have gone on the run.<\/p>\n
Almost five months after the crime, officers on Monday evening revealed they had found the body of a man believed to be Ingram alongside a firearm and his white, getaway vehicle, about 100km away from Lake Cargelligo.<\/p>\n
The news has been welcomed by the town of 1500 as mayor John Medcalf hopes it assuages residents’ fears.<\/p>\n
“People – especially the families involved – were just worried he might come back,” he told AAP.<\/p>\n
“It’s something you never expected to happen out in this part of the world.<\/p>\n
“We’re still going to have to live with it, but certainly this does help with a bit of closure.”<\/p>\n
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A screenshot from CCTV footage of Julian Ingram, taken hours before he allegedly killed three people. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
Quinn, 25, and her friend John Harris, 32, were killed when Ingram alleged fired bullets into a dark hatchback about 4.20pm.<\/p>\n
Soon after, her 50-year-old aunt was shot dead at a home that was a two-minute drive away.<\/p>\n
Kaleb Macqueen, 19, was also shot at the home but survived with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
For weeks, officers scoured the nearby bushland looking for signs of Ingram, eventually expanding their search to the remote outpost of Mount Hope, a former mining town about 90km northwest of Lake Cargelligo.<\/p>\n
As leads dried up, police offered a $250,000 award for information that could lead to his capture.<\/p>\n
Months passed without any significant breakthroughs, leaving the town’s leadership feeling somewhat helpless as locals and outsiders asked for updates.<\/p>\n
“Every time (police) would get a bit of a pointer, it was a dead end,” Mr Medcalf said.<\/p>\n
“All I could only do was support the community and make sure people were looking out for each other.”<\/p>\n
Though the body has not been formally identified as Ingram’s, the 37-year-old’s licence was found with it, and the accompanying vehicle’s licence plate matched the registration of the ute he used on the day of the shootings.<\/p>\n
There had been no positive sightings of Ingram since he left town on January 22.<\/p>\n
By the time the body was discovered, it was in a “very decomposed state”, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers will continue investigations into how the death occurred.<\/p>\n
But for now, the council would continue speaking with the community about further support, the mayor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small rural community is breathing a sigh of relief after police discovered the body of a triple-murderer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-423209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}