For 27 years, evil cop killers Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train crisscrossed Queensland while working at different schools in the state, often overlapping and apparently living in a bizarre love triangle with each other until they died in a hail of bullets on Monday. on their fortified rural property
SEPTEMBER 1995
Teens Nathaniel and Stacey Train get married in a ceremony officiated by brother's Baptist Church pastor father Ronald Toowoomba
FEBRUARY 10, 1997
Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey and parents Ronald and Gwenyth and other family members buy a house at 21 John St Cambooya near Toowoomba in Queensland's Darling Downs for $89,000
1998/9
Stacey leaves Nathaniel for Gareth
1999
Father Ronald says he has stopped talking to Nathaniel
AUGUST 5, 2004
The Cambooya The house is resold to the brothers' parents, Gwenyth and Ronald, and three other family members for $15,000, which is akin to buying out Gareth and Stacey. There is no mention of Nathaniel as the seller, even though he was listed as the original buyer with the rest of the family. The sale is listed as “estranged relatives.”
2004
Nathaniel works at Bentley College Cairns in far north Queensland
2004
Gareth and Stacey are registered as living with Nathaniel at 54 Barnard Drive, Mt Sheridan, in the south Cairns. Neighbors don't remember them.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
The three of them buy a four-bedroom house on four acres of land at 34 River Road Millstream, 120km south of Cairns, for $107,000. Neighbors remember them as 'annoying, aggressive, paranoid people' who installed CCTV, floodlights and barbed wire at the property
JANUARY 13, 2009
The three of them sold the Millstream house for $235,000. All three give a fictitious address next to it Proston State School in Queensland's South Burnett region as their home
2009
Stacey is director at Proston State school. Gareth is the school's groundskeeper
2010
Stacey is director of Quinalow P-10 State School in the Darling Downs region
2011
Nathaniel is director at Innisfail East State School, south of Cairns in far north Queensland
2011-2012
Gareth and Stacy catch up Camooweal State School in north-west Queensland, close to the border with the Northern Territory. Locals are shocked by the couple's behavior. Gareth slaughtered pigs next to the school oval and hung their carcasses in full view of the children, while Stacey allegedly punished students who complained of bullying, according to the ABC. Gareth is also said to have attacked students who swore and dragged his wife by the hair to their home.
2012
Their children are students at a public school in north-west Queensland, which Daily Mail Australia has declined to name.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
Gareth and Stacey purchase 44 hectares of coal fracking land for $50,000 at 219 Cypress Road Kumbarilla in the South Burnett region of Queensland, close to the Western Downs
2014
Stacey is assistant principal at Happy Valley State School in Mount Isa in north-west Queensland. Her principal paid tribute to her in an end-of-year speech: 'It was inspiring to work with you…you have brought great expertise and vision to our school.'
2014-15
Gareth and Stacey are registered at 61 Abel Smith Parade Sunset, but probably at the State School Home at 2 Hinkler Crescent. Mount Isa. Gareth is a groundsman at Mt Isa State Special School on 22 July 2014
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
Gareth and Stacey purchase the remote rural estate at 251 Wains Road, Wieambilla in Queensland's Western Downs for $95,000 – which they would reinforce to ambush police, and where they would ultimately die in the ensuing gunfight
FEBRUARY 2016
Their son will be praised for the 'highest achievement by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student in Queensland' at a glittering awards ceremony for his outstanding work throughout his school career. He stayed in north-west Queensland and attended the local public school while his parents worked elsewhere in the state
2016
Gareth and Stacey work at Indigenous Pormpuraaw State School, at Cape York in Queensland, on the coast of the Gulf of Carpenteria.
MARCH 2016
Gareth Train leaves Education Queensland following complaints from locals about the couple's behaviour
2016
Nathaniel appointed director at Yorkey's button State school near Cairns. He is believed to be living at a nearby address in Keerawa Beach, possibly owned by the education department
JUNE 24, 2016
Stacey Train named acting director for remote control Mitchell State school in the Maranoa region, 600 km west of Brisbane. The school welcomes her as 'an experienced school leader in both deputy and principal roles within the DDSW, North West Qld & Far North Qld over the past 7 years. Our school community welcomes Stacey and entrusts the care of our school for the coming period to her very capable hands.”
2019
Stacey is Head of Curriculum and Teacher Assistant at Tara Shire State College, 170 km west of Toowoomba.
MARCH 2020
Nathaniel leaves Yorkeys Knob State School and moves into a Teacher Housing Authority home Disgusted and starts a job as executive director at Walgett State School NSW
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Gareth and Stacey sell up the land Kumbarilla for $62,000
AUGUST 2021
Nathaniel has a heart attack at his desk Disgusted State School, goes on sick leave, refuses mandatory Covid vaccination
SEPTEMBER 2021
Gareth keeps posting bizarre and paranoid messages online about conspiracy theories
DECEMBER 2021
Stacey Train leaves Education Queensland and refuses mandatory Covid vaccination
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Nathaniel is seen for the last time Dubbo
MARCH 2022
Nathaniel sends sixteen emails to the education chiefs in fourteen days about a fight at his school. He is fired after seven months of absence from work
MAY 2022
Nathaniel's cheating row is raised in NSW Parliament budget estimates by One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham
JULY 2022
Mr. Latham last hears from Nathaniel
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Nathaniel contacts his estranged partner for the last time
DECEMBER 4, 2022
NSW Police are alerted to Nathaniel's disappearance
DECEMBER 8, 2022
NSW Police are making a public appeal for help in finding Nathaniel
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Queensland Police make a routine visit to Gareth and Stacey Train's home Wieambilla to follow up on Nathaniel's disappearance
Officers Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26, are executed in the ambush by the Trains and innocent neighbor Alan Dare, 58, is killed in the crossfire
Gareth 47, Stacey, 45, and Nathaniel Train, 46, are all shot dead in a fatal shootout with the Queensland Police Special Emergency Response Team