Sef Gonzales was born in 1980 in Baguio, Benguet, Philippines, to Teddy Gonzales, a lawyer, and his wife Loiva Claridades, who had married in 1977.
17 Facts About Sef Gonzales
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The Sef Gonzales family appeared to be close-knit: the parents were devout Catholics who had high hopes and strict expectations for their children.
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Sef Gonzales argued with his mother over a girlfriend of whom she disapproved, and his family threatened to disinherit him.
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Sef Gonzales noted her nephew's and sister's cars in the driveway, but the house was dark and unusually quiet.
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Teddy then arrived home at about 6:50pm After he entered the house, Sef Gonzales attacked him with one of the kitchen knives and inflicted multiple stab wounds to his neck, chest, back and abdomen.
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Sef Gonzales then drove to a friend's house, arriving there about 8:00pm The two then went to the Sydney central business district, where they ate at Planet Hollywood and visited a nearby video game arcade.
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Sef Gonzales called emergency services at 11:48pm to say he had discovered the bodies.
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Sef Gonzales had frantically run to his neighbours' house and told them that his parents had been shot.
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Sef Gonzales then moved to an apartment in Chatswood and put a deposit on a A$173,000 Lexus, telling the dealership he would be using his inheritance to pay for the vehicle.
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Sef Gonzales told relatives that he had a brain tumour and asked his godmother in the Philippines for A$190,000 for the alleged surgery, but she did not give him any money.
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Sef Gonzales was charged with three counts of murder and one count of threatening product contamination.
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Sef Gonzales was refused bail and held on remand in Silverwater Correctional Centre.
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The court heard of numerous lies told to his friends, family and police regarding his whereabouts at the time of the murders, suggesting that Sef Gonzales was a pathological liar.
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On 20 May 2004, Sef Gonzales was found guilty of all four charges.
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Sef Gonzales was sentenced on 17 September 2004 to three concurrent life sentences without parole for the murders.
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In March 2021, Sef Gonzales failed in his third attempt to get a special inquiry into his convictions for the murders.
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Sef Gonzales was fined A$21,000 by the NSW Office of Fair Trading.