For 27 years, evil cop killers Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train criss-crossed Queensland as they worked at various schools around the state, often overlapping and apparently living with each other in a bizarre love triangle until they died in a hail of bullets on Monday at their fortified rural property
SEPTEMBER 1995
Teenagers Nathaniel and Stacey Train are married in a ceremony conducted by the brother’s Baptist Church pastor father Ronald in Toowoomba
FEBRUARY 10, 1997
Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey and parents Ronald and Gwenyth plus other family members buy a home at 21 John St in Cambooya near Toowoomba in Queensland’s Darling Downs for $89,000
1998/9
Stacey leaves Nathaniel for Gareth
1999
Father Ronald says he stopped speaking to Nathaniel
AUGUST 5 2004
The Cambooya home is re-sold to the brothers’ parents Gwenyth and Ronald, and three other family members for $15,000, which appears to be buying out Gareth and Stacey. There is no mention of Nathaniel as a vendor even though he was listed as an original buyer with rest of family. The sale is listed as ‘estranged family members’.
2004
Nathaniel is working at Bentley College in Cairns in far north Queensland
2004
Gareth and Stacey are registered as living with Nathaniel at 54 Barnard Drive, Mt Sheridan, in south Cairns. Neighbours don’t recall them.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
The three of them buy a four-bedroom house on four hectares of land at 34 River Road, in Millstream, 120km south of Cairns, for $107,000. Neighbours remember them as ‘nasty, aggressive paranoid people’ who installed CCTV, floodlights and barbed wire at the property
JANUARY 13 2009
The three of them sold the Millstream home for $235,000. The three of them give a fictitious address next to Proston State School in Queensland’s South Burnett region as their home
2009
Stacey is principal at Proston State School. Gareth is the school groundsman
2010
Stacey is principal of Quinalow P-10 State School in the Darling Downs region
2011
Nathaniel is principal at Innisfail East State School, south of Cairns in far north Queensland
2011-2012
Gareth and Stacy work at Camooweal State School in Queensland’s north-west, close to the border with the Northern Territory. Locals are shocked by the couple’s behaviour. Gareth butchered pigs next to the school oval and hung their carcasses in full view of children while Stacey is said to have punished students who complained about bullying, according to the ABC. Gareth is also said to have assaulted students who swore and was seen dragging his wife by the hair into their home.
2012
Their children are students at a state school in north-west Queensland which Daily Mail Australia has chosen not to name.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
Gareth and Stacey buy 44hectares of coal fracking land for $50,000 at 219 Cypress Road in Kumbarilla in Queensland’s South Burnett region, close to the Western Downs
2014
Stacey is a deputy principal at Happy Valley State School in Mt Isa in north-west Queensland. Her principal pays tribute to her in an end of year address: ‘It has been inspiring to work with you…you have brought wonderful expertise and vision to our school.’
2014-15
Gareth and Stacey are registered as living at 61 Abel Smith Parade Sunset, but probably the State School Home at 2 Hinkler Crescent, Mt Isa. Gareth is groundsman at Mt Isa State Special School on July 22, 2014
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
Gareth and Stacey buy the remote rural property at 251 Wains Road, Wieambilla in Queensland’s Western Downs for $95,000 – which they would fortify to ambush police, and where they would ultimately die in the ensuing shootout
FEBRUARY 2016
Their son is lauded at a glittering awards ceremony for the ‘highest achievement by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Student in Queensland’ for his outstanding work throughout his school career. He has been staying north-west Queensland attending the local state school while his parents worked elsewhere in the state
2016
Gareth and Stacey work at Indigenous Pormpuraaw State School, on Queensland’s Cape York on the Gulf of Carpenteria coastline.
MARCH 2016
Gareth Train quits Education Queensland amid complaints from locals about the couple’s behaviour
2016
Nathaniel appointed principal at Yorkeys Knob State School near Cairns. He is believed to be living at a nearby address in Keerawa Beach, possibly education department-owned property
JUNE 24, 2016
Stacey Train appointed Acting Principal for remote Mitchell State School in Maranoa Region, 600km west of Brisbane. The school welcomes her as ‘an experienced school leader in both Deputy & Principal positions 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 in her highly capable hands for the term.’
2019
Stacey is head of curriculum and teachers aid at Tara Shire State College, 170km west of Toowoomba.
MARCH 2020
Nathaniel quits Yorkeys Knob State School, moves into a Teacher Housing Authority home in Walgett and starts job as executive Principal at Walgett State School NSW
FEBRUARY 5 2021
Gareth and Stacey sell the land at Kumbarilla for $62,000
AUGUST 2021
Nathaniel suffers heart attack at his desk at Walgett State School, goes on sick leave, refuses mandatory Covid vaccination
SEPTEMBER 2021
Gareth makes increasingly bizarre and paranoid posts online about conspiracy theories
DECEMBER 2021
Stacey Train quits Education Queensland, refuses mandatory Covid vaccination
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Nathaniel is seen for the last time in Dubbo
MARCH 2022
Nathaniel sends 16 emails in a fortnight to education chiefs about a cheating row at his school. He is sacked after being absent from work for seven months
MAY 2022
Nathaniel’s cheating row is raised in NSW Parliament budget estimates by One Nation’s 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 make a public appeal for help to find Nathaniel
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Queensland Police make a routine visit to Gareth and Stacey Train’s home in Wieambilla to follow up on Nathaniel’s disappearance
Constables Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26, are executed in the ambush by the Trains and innocent neighbour Alan Dare, 58, is killed in the crossfire
Gareth 47, Stacey, 45, and Nathaniel Train, 46, are all shot dead in a fatal firefight with Queensland Police Special Emergency Response Team
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