Queensland’s toolbox murders: How an ‘innocent’ text led to one of the state’s most ‘sadistic’ crimes

It was described as one of Queensland’s most “despicable” double murders and an act of “unspeakable evil of the worst kind”.

WARNING: This story contains graphic details

Two people were tied up, tortured for hours, then locked inside a 2-metre metal toolbox, before being plunged into the depths of a murky Logan dam, south of Brisbane  — where they would remain for 18 days.

The pair screamed and begged for their lives until they finally died in a “cold watery grave”.

This week, after five years, two full trials, and several other lengthy court proceedings, everyone who played a role in the murders of Iuliana Triscaru and Cory Breton, learned their punishment. 

One man’s paranoia ‘drove the whole thing’ 

In 2016, desperate relatives of…