The Martin Bryant story -- Part 1 - washing dishes in a restaurant

Martin Bryant was born into a loving family and showed strange personality traits even during his infancy.
When he was a teenager, his behavior became more and more unstable.
Then there was a strange relationship with an older woman.
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His entry into the world is as easy and controllable as his life.
Martin John Bryant
Weight 6 pounds flat (2. 7kg) -
Born on May 7, 1967, at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Hobart, delivery lasted only two hours.
His father did not pace nervously outside the ward as many fathers of his time, nor did he wait in the bar, but stood by his wife in the delivery room.
This is not only a relief of childbirth, but also the ease of Carleen's entire pregnancy without morning sickness and swelling --
All babies, no liquid
She continued to work at the Chocolate Factory until a few weeks after delivery.
The birth notice on Mercury is not decorated: "For Karin and Morris. A bouncing boy.
Thanks to the doctors and staff.
\ "For Carleen, the first year or so as a mother passed relatively calmly.
She remembers that her little boy is happy and content, and even after the fact, she is not interested in a baby who refuses to embrace and any physical love.
This illustrates Karin's own enduring nature, and she also calmly accepts his refusal to breastfeed, explaining this to the appetite he seems to be unable to suppress.
However, when Martin was 16 months old, he was not only walking, but also running and climbing mountains --and escaping -
His mother began to find it difficult to cope.
If Karin and Martin are having emotional difficulties
Her memories make it clear
When he grew up as a toddler, she really started to struggle.
He would often disappear from his home, and his parents would find him in the weirdest places, once in the next door or even further, playing quietly on the swing on the other side of the railroad, the railway runs north from Hobart along the western front of derwinter.
Martin Bryant, who is not the first toddler to enjoy wandering, shows an adventurous spirit or a level of energy to try a saint.
But his mother's reaction was unusual: "I started to leave him on the balcony with a seat belt and a lot of toys to protect him.
We were complained about tying him up like a dog.
Of course, as his mother, I know he is happy and safe.
For Karin, it seems that Martin's energy is out of control.
However, no abnormality was found by his father, Maurice.
The pattern of disagreement and reaction to their son started very early and will color the couple's parenting style throughout his life.
For Karin, getting along with Martin is a daily reality and a matter of strategy, logistics and survival.
There will be little physical affection or time of day --to-
Cultivate a day in such a terrible situation.
Morris's father is different: hands-
Over time, a strong desire drives the boy to normalize.
Decades later, Karin will recall her disappointment and frustration with her son without pain, such as the day he swallowed the nail, without a hug, and his slow language development.
Other issues have arisen as well: his fine motor skills have been compromised when he runs, climbs, and roams around, and he doesn't seem to have matured.
When Martin was three years old, it was clear that there were serious problems.
Primary school entrance only highlights the damage to Kobe Bryant's development, triggering a cycle of rejection, isolation and loneliness. . .
A former classmate recalled: "He used to walk around with his face squinted, as if the sun was too bright . " Bryant's eccentric Mark is already heavy.
At the New Town Elementary School on Foster Street, he stands out as a lonely person, not because of his choice, but because he is different and will drive others away.
The effort to make friends is wrongly interpreted as irritating, such as his "stupid game", and when other children walk home after school, they climb up and jump at them.
Obviously, he does not belong here.
If he is pursued on the road, Martin will cry and scream as if he was hurt: "We always let him go because we feel sorry for him and people will remember.
When Kobe was a teenager, in the theater
The voltage of the primary school child is a highThe school retired. . .
Morris gave his son an air rifle on his 14 th birthday.
It was the worst decision he ever made, because it taught Martin about the power of a gun.
At the same time, behavior has changed significantly.
Martin hid in the bed of the creek next to the house, shot at the passing traffic, or rushed frantically into the bay at night.
There was a chilling story where he shot a parrot from a tree and then went to the dead bird and fired several bullets into its head.
He was also accused of untying the ship from his berth.
At this point in time, his classmate Greg ended their friendship after Martin put the gun on his head.
On Friday, May 6, 1983, Bryant left school the day before his 16 th birthday. . .
Morris and Karin took Martin to the doctor in February 1984, ostensibly to assess his pension, a decision that proved this.
Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax, a respected psychiatrist, has helped establish a community mental health awareness service and research department in tazhou.
Karin recalled: "It didn't take long to see Martin having a problem.
Martin was unable to concentrate on what Dr. Dax said and interrupted him to talk about the age of the House and the fireplace in the room.
After several consultations, Dr. Dax said Martin would not be able to get employed because he would disrupt and annoy people to the extent that he was always in trouble.
He will have to receive a disability pension.
Cunningham dakes, who died in 2008, made a deeper assessment and warning.
Description of his surviving case: \ "can't read or write.
Do some gardening and watch TV. . .
Only the efforts of his parents can prevent further deterioration of the situation.
May be mentally divided, and parents face a bleak future with him.
"With Morris's continued concern and vigilance, Bryant spent the next three years.
Then, in early 1987, he met 54-year-
Old heir Helen Mary Elizabeth Harvey's grandfather, David Hasti Harvey, is the general manager of George Adams, creator of Tattersall's gambling empire. . .
According to all reports, Helen Harvey did work in the office of Tasman railway for several years, but after her father's premature death, she was 28 years old, give up spending the rest of her life with her mother, in the first
30 Clare Street, New TownBy the mid-
Helen, in her 1980 s, and her elderly mother are actually hermit on the square white wall of Wibruna, a faint Art Deco structure that sits above the street as ifto-
Be a neighbor, but always hide behind a garden that is almost as overlooked as the two women in it.
In the small shop of New Town Road, the owners thought Helen was a strange but basically harmless person;
A burly figure, missing a few teeth, gives off a smell of body odor, plus aging clothes eager to wash and breathe the air.
She likes to chat with them and often talks about her Hollywood "friends", Errol Flynn and Locke Hudson, and she insists on getting in touch with them.
According to Carleen, it was Martin who found Helen one day in early 1987, when he was wandering around the nearby streets, like his habit, and on a lonely afternoon, he
Now he is almost 20 years old, but he already has the routine of mowing lawns and vegetables, but is always looking for new customers.
He noticed the overgrown ground through the iron fence and decided to knock on the door.
The woman who answered agreed that he would do some work for her and established friendship almost on the spot.
Maybe they have an intuition about each other, an echo that struggles with the outside world's misconceptions.
Soon, Helen provided Martin with regular gardening and odd jobs, such as feeding about 40 cats living in the garage.
14 dogs live in the house.
They ran around the room downstairs, while Helen and her mother seemed happy to be living on the upper floor of the two bedroom house opposite.
These two inappropriate people have made an uneasy relationship.
Martin found someone who did not see the contradiction that left the others; a good-
The young man, who seems to laugh easily, reveals his disability, socializing, and intelligence with a single mouth.
Later, Professor Paul Mullen, a forensic psychologist, asked Bryant about his relationship with Helen Harvey: "He said Miss Harvey was his only real friend.
They got along very well from the beginning, he said.
It's not sexual.
However, the tragic consequences of their relationship began very early.
As Friendship moves from the employer
Helen's mother, Hilza, is a friend's employee, and then a constant companion, who is more and more alone in a dirty hell.
At some stage she was moved to the kitchen downstairs, where the old woman was forced to sleep in a chair, stand upright, twist and twist, trying to get relief from most of the last two years of her life of undiagnosed and untreated hip fractures.
On June 1990, after being reported to the health authorities, the medical staff came to the hospital and found that both Hilza and Helen needed emergency hospital treatment and they were infected with leg ulcers and lived in dirty corners of the kitchen, not only are there roaming animals around, but unwashed plates, pans and bowls with high mold climbed out of the oven. SEVENTY-nine-year-
Old hilza Harvey, who was extremely fearful of her neglect, sat in a chair with a broken hip and slowly withered in the kitchen.
Despite their shock, the ambulance crew did not make any judgment on the situation.
The deterioration of Hilza is fast.
After living in the hospital for a few weeks, she was transferred to a nursing home and died at the end of July.
When Helen recovered in the hospital, the RSPCA took most of the animals. A clean-
Orders were also placed on the House, and Morris Bryant took a long time
The service was on vacation and tried to coordinate the work with his son.
The floors, walls and surfaces of almost every room took three months to scrape away the dirt.
When Helen's entire wardrobe was thrown away, a dozen skips were filled with garbage.
As if her previous life had been deleted and had her start a new life in an original setting --
Fellow Martin Bryant
The strange couple wandered around the store for a few days, looking for new ways to spend money, and adding more and more collections at home.
After a leisurely lunch at a local restaurant, their adventures tend to be in the afternoon.
The car dealer especially liked the interesting couple.
The registration records will show "Tatts Lady" and, as many shopkeepers have mentioned Helen, have also collected and hoarded cars and purchased 50 in her lifetime;
Some people spend the 1970 season, but most of them are in the odd but happy years of Martin Bryant.
Some vehicles were reserved for several months, others for several weeks, and occasionally for a few days.
However, despite this friendship, Kobe Bryant is changing and his mood is becoming more and more unstable.
Behavior that could have previously been attributed to his incompetent social skills and intellectual flaws is deteriorating: stupid pranks start giving way to direct threats and getting faster and fasterto-flare temper.
It is not his parents or Helen who will ring the alarm and insist that he be given a new assessment.
In fact, without the requirements of the social security system, Martin Bryant may not have been re-evaluated at all --
Even so, this chilling assessment is attached to his file and forgotten: "The father protects him from any occasion that may upset him, because he is constantly threatening violence. . .
Martin told me he wanted to shoot around.
It is not safe to leave Martin out of parental control.
\ "Forever for Morris
The patient father, this is the confirmation of his darkest fears.
The low-key British knew that Martin was getting worse when he grew up.
He played a restrained role;
He has become the one his wife used to tie the child to the balcony and control his belt.
On November 1991, Morris became more and more afraid and frustrated by submitting a will to the Public Trustee's office.
The document is concise and unemotional, admitting that his son would find it difficult to manage life if his father died.
Morris left the family of the new town to Karin, and if Karin died, separated the two children.
Martin will need additional resources, so he left him the proceeds of the pension fund held by the Commonwealth life insurance policy number
10311246, worth more than $250,000.
Morris must have told Helen Harvey about his will, because three weeks later she named Maurice Bryant as a trustee.
She left her wealth to "my friend, Martin Bryant, for his absolute use and benefit ".
This sentence is repeated four times in the paragraphs of her legacy of her worldly objects, livestock, animals and birds, Clare St tower, a farm in copping and her income.
Increasingly unstable maladaptive Martin Bryant is waiting to become a millionaire.
So far Harvey and Bryant have moved to a shabby 29ha property in Copping, a village in the middle of Hobart and Port Arthur.
What they call Taurusville's property lightens their frustration as they are no longer allowed to raise animals in the house on Clare Street.
The first animals were bought within weeks of moving in.
Neighbors are increasingly worried about watching Kobe, avoiding him at all costs, and rejecting the occasional quirky offer of friendship.
He is an unpredictable, unstable person, from a reckless primary school student to a moody bad child. or worse -in seconds.
Some people remember wild animals.
The eye boy seemed happy to fire air rifles to tourists as they stopped at a booth on the highway to buy apples.
Bryant's dress has also changed from his favorite white work clothes and red cardigan to the neat and boasting of the Squire with cravat.
For some of his neighbors, he likes to roam the property in the middle of the night, which causes obvious fear as he has almost never seen it before, but the dog barks frantically and feels the intruder, and then they hear the shots-
The air rifle Kobe carried with him.
The family may have changed, but the pace of life has not changed.
Helen and Bryant still got up late, slouching around, shopping and eating, and often parked their cars in local villages full of animals.
The strange sight of a dog, cat, or even a small pony crammed into a car in the back seat began to disturb the locals.
There are a lot of rumors about the couple, because they are used to scattering cash in the House, under the books, hidden in large rolls of banknotes, and placed in strange places such as ice --
Cream container.
What strange visitors see in the House only adds to the mystery of the couple, although in fact most of the things left in the place are due to carelessness rather than strategy.
Martin became a dangerous, potentially fatal passenger in a driving car.
Helen can't predict it at all-year-
Old, haven't learned to drive yet, he will never try to get a license for fear of failure, he will reach out to touch her and screw the steering wheel.
That's why she crawled along gentle but narrow country roads, and she never traveled above 60kmh.
Twice she ran down the road while trying to beat him back, one on the dam and the other in the sewer.
Martin is not a desire to die, but a sudden, childlike impulse, an impulse that he can neither control nor restrain.
To make matters worse, he is not in a position to understand the fatal consequences of his actions.
In October 20, 1992, he and Helen packed three dogs into Mazda 121 and headed north for shopping in a larger town along the highway.
It was after five o'clock P. M. when they returned to the farm.
There is still more than an hour from the sunset, but as the sun drops towards the top of the mountain behind Hobart, the light is weakening.
When they entered a straight uphill section more than a kilometer west of coping town, something happened.
Some people think Martin might succumb to another impulse, reaching out to grab the steering wheel and forcing the car to the wrong side.
Bryant himself told police that Helen was distracted by the dog fighting in the back seat. his last memory was to look back at the dog and Helen. they turned through two white lines and went straight to the road of the oncoming Ford sedan.
When the police arrived at the scene, they found Helen dead behind the steering wheel, and her neck was struck and broken.
One dog died in the back seat and the other on the edge.
The third person survived and will be found in taurusville in a few days.
Martin Bryant is sitting in a passenger seat with a serious neck injury and almost no life.
The light shows the spine of two fractures.
A few days later, Morris Bryant's notice of bereavement in the Mercury newspaper was sour because of its simplicity: "Starting from a quiet family" to an undiscovered end, nothing is worth winning except laughter and the love of friends.
"Martin came home to see his long and painful recovery.
He lost Helen, the partner of his best friend and mother, and her loss had a profound impact.
Despite his father's heart, Martin began to step back, desperately looking for new relationships to replace the old ones.
This time, he turned his attention to younger children and began pestering nine-year-old children to participate in their games.
A neighbor recalled: "The children are very alert to him . "
"They instinctively understand that he is a person who can stay away.
He's just a little scary.
"A few weeks after Helen's death, Morris was very upset, and he visited Dr. Bernard Mather, a family GP, complaining about a feeling of constant anxiety and infringing grief and depression.
This is his second time in six months to ask for help, which is unusual in a person who is usually so stoic.
Dr. Mather prescribed protiadin, a third-ring anti-depression drug.
In his rapidly growing inner despair, Morris knew that it was impossible for Martin to manage the wealth he inherited without some help, and feared that if he was not around to stop him, he would squander it.
Morris decided that, under the Mental Health Act, the court order was the only way to control Martin's finances and allow them to manage independently.
In this way, his son will receive an allowance that he can spend as much as he wants, but the money will be paid out in a controlled manner to make sure it lasts for a lifetime.
This is not the only arrangement organized by Morris.
Secretly, he placed his joint bank account with his wife in Karin's name alone and handed her the household utility bill.
A few days later, on Friday, August 13, 1993, Morris Bryant drove to the copping weekend.
Carleen did not question the time her husband wanted to spend alone, but he became anxious when he called around 7. That night.
He sounded particularly quiet and silent: "Over the years, when any of us went on a trip to Da Nang, we always called to say that we had arrived safely.
On Friday night Morris called and said little but "I love you.
I was surprised at the time because he didn't say that when he called, so I thought he had a few drinks.
"That night, Morris called Queensland's daughter Lindy again to tell her that he loved her.
He did not call his son.
The next morning, a man came to the front door of the copping farm to respond to an advertisement for a carriage.
No one answered, but it was a note written by Morris that was nailed to the door: "Call the police. \" By mid-
In the morning, the police arrived at the hotel and invited 20 students and local rural fire volunteers to help clean up the hillside.
It took two days to find the body.
Morris Bryant lies face-down in the water of nearly 3 metres in the dam behind the house.
Martin's diving belt overwhelmed his body with a bandage on his neck and torso.
There's an
The anxiety drug in his pocket, Serepax.
18 of the 30 mg tablets are missing.
Martin Bryant's defeat is drawing to a close.
Both Helen and his father left.
He has no rudder now, no goals, and no gentle moral code for his father.
As his former teacher, Stella Samson, later told the media: "my personal point is that his father has put him under control, and when he died, he no longer has the influence of that restriction.
"He will be wearing gray linen suits and lizard shoes, a rak-inspired Panama hat and appear for afternoon tea at a cafe in the suburbs.
He will tell the sympathetic ladies behind the counter when shopping.
He took a briefcase because he had a job that earned $400 a week.
There is also an unforgettable blue suit, where he goes to the North Hobart restaurant in Bell trousers and a pleated shirt, where he is a regular visitor.
Chris Jackman, the owner, recalled: "It's terrible.
Everyone is laughing at him, even customers.
I suddenly felt very sorry for him.
I realize this guy has no real friends.
He is like a child and wants to impress everyone.
He gave me the impression that he was a very eager young man, like a Labrador puppy.
Always have something to say and always want to impress.
"In December 1993, with plenty of money, he decided to venture out of Hobart's small world to see what he would find elsewhere.
He received his first regular allowance from Tattersall's vault and bought himself a ticket, first to Melbourne and then to Singapore.
Three days before he came home, he managed to leave.
However, in April 1994, he went further, shortly after he sold the Keping farm.
This time, he traveled to Melbourne on a flight to Bangkok and continued to London, Sweden and Los Angeles before flying back to Melbourne on May 7.
In the two years to the end of 1995, Bryant visited Europe, the United States and South Korea six times.
Three times in East Asia, New Zealand and Japan.
During the same period, it took three pages of time for his country to travel to Queensland and South Australia, but most often to Melbourne, where he liked the zoo.
But did travel fill the gap?
No, he will tell the professor.
Mullen: "Mr. Bryant said that the best part of his international trip is a long-distance plane trip.
It is revealed that the attraction of a long-distance plane trip is that he can speak to the people next to him, who may be tied to their seats and have no choice but at least to look friendly.
Mr. Bryant became very active in describing some of the interactions he thought were more successful with other travelers.
The statement obtained by the police from the passenger who found himself sitting next to Mr. Bryant confirmed the statement.
"Martin Bryant is not just a young man born with personality disorder, intellectual impairment, and autism.
His genetic load is the burden of life he carries with him.
What happened to him, a loyal and vigilant father, managed him effectively --
The mentor and eccentric friend of a heiress
It is also important that a buffer is created around him, which, for a long time in his life, protects him from reality.
More importantly, they act as restraints that hinder or at least spread and provide a way out for his most obsessed tendencies.
As soon as Helen and his father left, Bryant was troubled by his increasing frustration, anger, resentment of rejection and social misconceptions.
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Martin Bryant: The homicides, produced by Robert wenwright and Paula Totaro, was published in April 28 by ferfax Books, RRP $35.