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Investigators recovered private Facebook messages she'd sent to a circle of online friends.

And the childhood she had presented as quietly middle-class, she had described very differently in those messages, saying, quote, unquote, she had written.

And quote, it was like being brought up in a Russian orphanage where they don't touch babies, unquote.

And she described her father as a man who, quote, wanted to be warm and loving to us, but mom wouldn't let him because it would spoil us so he did as he was told.

And she would shout at him if he did the wrong thing, so he became very meek and compliant.

And my sister and I would hide in our room most of the time so we couldn't do anything wrong, unquote.

And a neighbor who had known Heather Scudder for years described her differently, saying, quote, a lovely woman as was her husband, unquote.

So there's those two portraits, the public one and the private one.

They didn't match.

And old details took on a new weight.

Because remember, Erin's parents hadn't attended her wedding to Simon in 2007.

And when asked at the time, she had said they were on a train in Russia.

There was no other explanation other than that.

So we can safely assume she was not remotely close with her parents.

And then there was also a documented history of deception that almost no one close to her had heard about.

Because in 2002, during her brief career as an air traffic controller at Air Services Australia, management had grown suspicious of her hours and they had reviewed security cameras in the employee car park.

And she had actually been clocking full shifts on paper while routinely walking out early,

which is horrifying to think about because she's an air traffic controller in charge of hundreds of lives.

And when confronted, she just flat out denied it.

And then management ran her through the timestamps from the footage one by one, and she couldn't really say anything otherwise.