Helen Harvey

…The first to go had been his older female companion, the eccentric gambling heir Helen Harvey. She'd been killed in a car accident after Martin, as a prank, had allegedly jerked the steering wheel of the car Helen had been driving into oncoming traffic. As a prank.…

…Once Martin and Helen moved on to their new land, they soon acquired three donkeys, nine ponies, three dogs, and an untold number of cats, in addition to 30 canaries and quite a few budgies. What's a budgie? It's a boudregar. It's like a canary. It's a small bird.…

…Now Helen, of course, had begun rebuilding her menagerie of strays as soon as she got out of the hospital. And the smell and the noise were causing the neighbors to once again complain. So to avoid another visit from the RSPCA, Helen bought a farm outside of the Tasmanian town of Copping, not too far from Port Arthur.…