A mass murderer who shot dead six people and two unborn children in a killing spree on the New South Wales Central Coast more than three decades ago has died behind bars.
Malcolm George Baker, 76, died in palliative care Saturday while serving six life sentences for a shooting known as the Central Coast massacre, the Daily Telegraph reported.
He used a double-barreled shotgun to break the window of the Terrigal apartment of his ex-girlfriend Kerry Gannan and her sister Lisa on October 27, 1992.
A friend of the two women, Chris Gall, 22, who was visiting the home, was the first victim to be shot.
Baker then shot and killed his ex Kerry. She had called off the long-term relationship six weeks earlier.
Baker then found Lisa, eight months pregnant, sleeping on the couch and shot her in the face. Neither she nor her unborn child could be saved.
Malcolm George Baker, 76, died in palliative care on Saturday while serving six life sentences for a massacre of six people on the New South Wales central coast.
The woman’s father, Thomas Gannan, 43, was found dead in the street with a gunshot wound to the head.
Baker then drove to his son David Baker’s home in Bateau Bay, warmed him on the back of the neck and left his son for dead in the backyard.
From there, Baker drove to Wyong, intending to take revenge on Ross Smith, 35, whom he blamed for a failed business deal that cost Baker a house deposit.
After kicking down the door, he killed Smith in the bathroom before shooting pregnant Leslie Read, 25, who died shortly after in hospital.
Baker used a double-barreled shotgun to break the window of the Terrigal apartment of his ex-girlfriend Kerry Gannon (left) and her sister Lisa Gannan (right) in 1992.
The woman’s father, Thomas Gannan (pictured), was also shot dead by Malcolm George Baker.
Not done with his killing spree, Baker planned to go to Sydney and murder the rest of the people on his list.
Instead, he visited a friend, John Thompson, who convinced him to turn himself in at a police station.
That night, at 11pm, Baker went to Toukley police station, handed over his shotgun and told the police where they would find the trail of bodies.
He was charged with six counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
On the 25th anniversary of the massacre, the mother of the killer’s ex-girlfriend, Ann Gannan, spoke about her last meeting with him.
Malcolm George Baker was sentenced to six life sentences without parole
Baker, who was 43 at the time, attempted to run over Gannan before making a chilling threat against her and her family.
“Then he yelled something like, ‘I’m going to get all of you out,’ and then I really panicked.” she said news.com.au in 2017.
“I went back to Lisa and told her and we were all scared.”
He was right to fear the unemployed mechanic, who went on a murderous spree just a few weeks later.
‘He was the kind of person who had to be in control. You’d just get the feeling that something was wrong, and if you saw it, you’d know trouble was coming,” she said.
‘I already knew it, I had seen it in the girls. She had seen the girls get scared.
In August 1993, Baker was sentenced to life in prison for each of the six murders without parole he was serving when he died.
He was one of the first six inmates sent to the Goulburn Supermax prison’s High Risk Management Unit in 2001.
Leslie Read (pictured) was 25 and pregnant when Baker shot her to death with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. She died two hours later in hospital.
