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The murder of Audrey Griffin Her killer’s disturbing past revealed  - videohaat.com

Coming up next it never made sense to me at all why Audrey Griffin didn't stand a

chance he's a vicious animal something was very off that night he was so aggressive the wife of the man who

murdered the 19-year-old he was on his way to kill you reveals his life of violence they should have put him in

jail after breaching his second AVO that's next on 60 Minutes

look at any photo of Audrey Griffin and you see a beautiful smart young woman

the 19-year-old Navy recruit had plenty of friends and plenty of life ahead of

her until the unthinkable 6 weeks ago she was murdered

as she walked to a friend's home after a night out audrey didn't know her

attacker she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time the killer

Adrien Torrren was a violent man who opportunistically decided to cause

maximum harm tonight Torren's wife Michelle gives a chilling insight into

this evil man and reveals why this crime should never have happened in the first

place

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[Music] it's an unbearable thought being at the

place your child was brutally [Music]

murdered but for Audrey Griffin's mom and dad Kathleen and Trevor a dirty

creek bed on the side of a busy road is where they feel close to their daughter

i see a beautiful young girl grow up into a kind outgoing caring young

lady as a father it made me so proud i

truly truly love that girl what is it that that torments you the

most right now all she went through in the murder keeps me awake at night and

so that's for me right now is just knowing what she was going

through what were her last thoughts knowing she fought him

it's a terrible thought of your child in the hands of that man scary

fighting for a life imagine fighting for your

[Music] life it's been 6 weeks since Audrey's

body was found at Erin Creek on the New South Wales central coast police declared it was a case of

misadventure but from the start the 19-year-old's parents instinctively knew

their daughter's death was no accident shockingly they say it was

their own investigating that pushed detectives to catch her killer Adrien

Torrren tonight we can reveal the violent criminals horrid

history and the terrible twist of fate that put Audrey in his path as he hunted

in the dead of night his wife Michelle i've been living in fear for

the past year looking over my shoulder on the night of Audrey's death he called

me 12 times and left voice messages and all of them threatening to kill me

the most tragic part of this awful story is that Audrey should never have

died why was such a dangerous man walking the

streets why did two grieving parents have to fight so hard for the

truth and how was Adrien Torrren able to get away with the murder for a month

while he continued terrorizing his wife he should have been locked up none

of us should be in this position audrey should not be a statistic

Audreys night out

[Music] it was Saturday night the 22nd of

March audrey was having a great night out farewelling her mates before

starting a career in the Navy when she left the Gossford Hotel in the

early hours of Sunday morning she planned to get an Uber but instead

started walking back to her friend's [Music]

place audrey had no idea Adrien Torrren was following her the serial offender

had spent the night harassing his wife Michelle with threatening voicemails and

even though an AVO was in place to protect Michelle from him it seems Torrance was on his way to her house

nearby and in his words what were his threats he would love to rip my head off

and he was going to come and kill me yeah it was pretty scary he was on

his way to kill you i think so do you believe him that he's on his way to you

while I was listening to it I do believe it and the fear was in me i I would never know if he was just

like uh trying to intimidate me or call my bluff or whatever did you think with his tone and the way he was that

something was off that night something was very off that night he was so aggressive yeah very

hostile just in his voice despite her fear Michelle says her

husband had threatened her so many times before she'd lost faith in the police to

respond quickly so she didn't call them that night if only she had officers might

have been able to intercept Torren before he killed Audrey

knowing what you know now do you wish you did call police

i Well I guess I do i should have how hard is that to to digest and to It is

awful like this morning I got up and I saw the sunrise and I thought that that

is something that Audrey will never have

like the luxury of just the simple things in life

audrey's mom Kathleen was in Sydney when she woke up on Sunday morning and

checked the location of Audrey's phone as she always did she quickly realized

Audrey had never made it to her friend's place and I saw the

location and automatically obviously it alarmed me because I knew exactly where that location was why were you alarmed

cuz it was at Arana Creek everyone was worried audrey's friend

reported her missing to police and while her parents were on their way here to

start searching terrible clues were being discovered i received a phone call from my

girlfriend's husband that had decided to go down there on

foot and said he'd found her bag it was a worrying development but it

was about to get much worse well as as I pulled up the police pulled

up at the same time just in front of me i got out of the car we see Audrey's stuff we walk down probably 20 m and we

could spot a body in the water so I spotted that i knew it was Audrey straight away cuz I could tell look I I

Audrey as

well yeah it's not something anyone would really want to should go through

[Music] the next impossible task was going to

view their precious daughter's body and say goodbye when you go to the morg that day

what had police told you misadventure she had drowning drowning

drowning she had scratches down to one side of her arm she had a big massive

welt on her arm as well a bruising and down to one side so they

um said that she may have just fallen why didn't you accept that Kathleen

because I know my daughter she's an ocean swimmer she's a strong She was up

at 5:00 every morning going to the gym it just never made sense to me at all

it wasn't just a parent's instinct kathleen and Trevor believe it was

blatantly obvious there was something sinister about Audrey's death

kathleen spotted it straight away her nails were full of mud everyone

jam-packed didn't you straight away you spotted it and that's not something that you go to see when you want to say

goodbye to your child but I just knew from day on that and she just didn't

look at peace she and and and I kind of said to Trevor

"How did you feel when you saw Audrey did you feel that she was at peace?" And he said "No I didn't." Her face looked

stressed didn't it really really i mean from the beginning there was something

wrong [Music]

no parent should have to fight as hard as Audrey's mom and dad did to find the

truth 3 days after she died it wasn't detectives but one of Kathleen's friends

who found Audrey's phone at the creek they'd been telling us that they'd been

going down there every day but nobody nobody went down there at low tide

they only checked the waters at high tide so it was sitting there in the mud between a tree where her belongings were

audrey's parents also couldn't believe police never made a public appeal for

information in the days following her death i go to the police station on the

Thursday to say "Why isn't anything in the media why isn't anything in the paper

why why isn't anyone on the central coast aware of what's

happened and then the following day they released that Audrey you know a young

girl's been found at Arina Creek but it wasn't until I went in there saying why

4 days later how desperate do you become i decide that I'm going to go door

knocking so I go to the other side of the river i go to the brewery down the road

i went to the BP the BP didn't even know about it the house across the road that

I went to and I knocked on their doors they said that no one had been

The killer

there while Kathleen was begging police to do more Audrey's killer Adrien

Torrance was on the loose he spent three more weeks harassing his

wife Michelle who didn't know that while she'd survived that night Torrance had

killed Audrey instead he continues to harass you on

nine different occasions he rang me up a few times and said "See what you've

created youing mole i'm going to get you." So there were a few voice messages

like that coming up Adrien Torren's lengthy

criminal history and the missed opportunity to send this serial offender

to prison just months before he killed Audrey how can the justice system keep

letting a man go like this after offense after offense after offense

when 19-year-old Audrey Griffin was murdered by Adrien Torrren 6 weeks ago

it shocked and outraged the

country but there was one person who wasn't surprised the killer's wife

Michelle i've been living in fear for the past year looking over my shoulder i

never know when he's going to actually do what he says he's going to do when he threatens uh he can be very

unpredictable you look so happy yeah it was a happy day but it wasn't always so scary when

Michelle married Torren in 2022 she thought she was in safe hands

what was he like back then very funny charming

charismatic loving uh we were always together 24

hours 7 days a week michelle says it didn't take long though

for Torrance to turn violent and temperamental a man she didn't recognize

i could see a change and it would just flip it would just change automatically like I could never predict it when it

was going to happen but yeah his face would change his demeanor would change all of all in a second and yeah it was

pretty scary she says their relationship became unbearable just before Easter

last year and the couple split up that was the night that he kicked the wall

next to me and threw something at me and blocked my way he was in a big

rage and I was trying to console him and I just couldn't console him it was

beyond anger michelle went to police and an apprehended violence order was put in

place to protect her but just a few weeks later Torrren

breached it by leaving his wife a barrage of vile voicemail messages

he called me 34 times left 24 threatening voice messages some of those

messages I am on my way down you're aing mole i am going to end your reign yeah

another one he said your time is over Michelle i told you what does he mean by that he

probably wanted to kill me and when you would hear that that rage in his voice it would made make me so sick and

nervous that awful feeling only got more

frightening for Michelle while she waited for police to catch up with Torrance it took them 5 months to track

him down and I was ringing every day you know asking if they'd found him

yet to issue the AVO and what are they saying to you every time you call that they couldn't find

him and yeah after a while I just got sick of being nervous and sick every time I

rang so I stopped eventually what was your fear while in that he

could be anywhere at any time i wouldn't know where he was you

know he could be lurking around my place i honestly don't know if he was capable of killing or if he would you know if he

was just saying it to intimidate me michelle didn't realize she had even

more reason to be scared of her husband she was yet to discover the true extent

of his lengthy criminal past there were drink driving and drug

offenses back in 2019 Torrren assaulted his then partner who had an AVO out

against him he stomped on her chest and broke her arm while threatening to kill

her with a knife then in 2020 Torrren was jailed

for a slew of crimes including theft fraud assault

intimidation and twice breaching an AVO protecting the same partner over the

years he also broke multiple community corrections orders

he was a man that I didn't know that he didn't he didn't tell me that i knew that there were assaults

with um you know pub fights and things like that but I never knew that there was domestic violence towards women in

January this year Adrien Torren was convicted of harassing Michelle and

breaching the AVO that was meant to keep her safe the judge sentenced him to a

community corrections order instead of sending him to prison after he completed

a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program but clearly this man didn't

learn his lesson because 3 months later he killed Audrey Griffin

the judge had a choice when sentencing Adrien to put him into jail or to let

him back out yeah do you have a message for that judge

yeah you shouldn't have let him back out you know just someone's life has been taken

because he was walking the streets and there's a mom that's grieving out there

that's lost her daughter how can the justice system keep letting a man go

The parents

like this after offense after offense after offense it's outrageous it's outrageous

that he can walk the streets after doing so many offenses over the years why was

he out why was he allowed out the government are too weak and the and the

justices it's it's it's as if they're breeding monsters

audrey's mom and dad Kathleen and Trevor can't understand how anyone let alone a

judge could have thought Adrien Torrance deserved freedom

i'm not talking just on behalf of my daughter i'm talking on behalf of the community why did they

feel that he should be allowed to walk the streets

what adds to these parents' pain is that police at first mistakenly declared

Audrey's death was misadventure they say the homicide squad

should have taken over the case much sooner especially after learning the

killer was spotted back at the crime scene 5 days after Audrey's body was

found a girlfriend of mine is driving to work at 5:00 in the morning heading towards

Sydney at the entrance road and sees a man at 5:00 a.m in the morning with a

red singlet and white shorts and a white stick poking

around she then calls the police and reports what she's seen at the same spot

of the creek where Audrey's body was found correct that description is a perfect match for

what Torrren was wearing on the night Audrey was killed but it took police

more than 3 weeks to piece it all together the breakthrough came on the

17th of April audrey's mom says she'd been begging investigators to show her

every piece of CCTV that captured her daughter that night it was when

detectives were trolling through footage they'd collected weeks earlier that they made a sickening realization a man had

been following Audrey on her way home police released this image and

asked the public to come forward with information the next day Torren's wife Michelle did

just that revealing he'd been threatening to kill her on the same

night Audrey was murdered yeah I was scared i just kept

on double locking the doors and just checking all the time i kept the dogs inside

um as my alert my alarm every time I came home from work I got this sick

feeling of icicles in my stomach that he might be lurking around in my

house or in the backyard with Torren firmly in their

sights detectives tapped his phone and it didn't take long for them to get the

proof they needed the killer rang a friend and

confessed police nabbed him on the 21st of April and called Kathleen and Trevor straight

to the station that moment where police tell you that they've arrested a man over

your daughter's death it was like she's died again it opened up all the wounds

so I said "Has he said that he's done anything to

Audrey?" and they said "We haven't been able to speak to him yet cuz he's

sleeping but we have enough evidence with the DNA from underneath

Audrey's nails and that there's other people come forward

since we've got enough to be able to arrest him." He's followed her from Gossford where

he's going to his exartner's house turned up in Gossford to create havoc

and M's just spotted maybe Audrey walking home and chose this different

target torren would only spend 3 days behind bars before he took his own life

and took away some crucial answers for Audrey's already defeated parents

do you find it hard to accept that you will never know the why absolutely

that don't mean he's an animal he's an animal this man it was It was It was always going to happen sooner

or later yeah but it shouldn't have it's definitely It shouldn't have happened if there is a hell I hope he

rots in it

but for Michelle it's not that simple

was it relief or sadness or everything in between everything in between

what did you feel more of honestly I don't know as the days went by I started

feeling a bit more safer but yeah the conflicting emotions were very you know conflicting that day

i never knew that the man I loved was a monster and could do

something like that yeah hi Dimy how are you

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb

how and why this terrible tragedy could happen is a question that needs to be

answered no that's okay thanks for thanks for giving us your time after the break the New South Wales Police

Commissioner could this been uh better more perfect yes but did we catch a

killer yes it was a proud day for the New South

Wales Police Commissioner last Friday when more than 300 new cops were

welcomed into the force but not everything about Karen

Webb's job is a cause for celebration she knows when things go

wrong the buck stops with her and when it comes to the investigation into the

murder of 19-year-old Audrey Griffin the top cop has serious questions to

answer i think it's important to um you know be transparent about um our role

our investigation because the community deserves to know i also want to take the opportunity to say as as a mother and as

a woman that my heart breaks for that family and I can't imagine what they're going through um so it's important that

they hear from me about the work that has been done um to catch a killer was

it a mistake for your officers to come out so early and so publicly and say

that Audrey died of misadventure well that's based on the medical u pathology advice the um postmortem didn't suggest

any foul play there's no evidence that she was strangled there's no evidence that she was sexually assaulted and

there's no evidence of trauma so they really didn't have a lot to to go on other than um a postmortem that said

misadventure but they were wrong weren't they in what way that she was murdered

that's right but they had an instinct as cops do that something wasn't right that

it wasn't as simple as misadventure and they kept at it if there was such concern and suspicions why wasn't the

homicide squad brought in immediately well certainly the local detectives have consulted with the homicide squad and

they've been on on you know available for consultancy ever since do you not think they should have been brought in

sooner on the ground i certainly have a um an office full of detectives at

Brisbane Water we've interviewed over 60 witnesses so 22 sources of CCTV could

this been uh better more perfect yes but did we catch a killer yes when did

Adrien Torrance become a suspect the day that we identified him on the CCTV we

didn't know who he was that was circulated uh for identification your officers were going through that

security footage because because Audrey's mom had pleaded with them to see it for herself make a compile so she

could retrace her daughter's last steps so could it have been a case that if Audrey's mom hadn't pushed the police

your officers may not have gone back and seen it so carefully and actually realized that Audrey had been followed

that night well they can they were going back through the CCTV so you know that

the mom obviously wanted us to do as much as we can i completely understand that torren's wife um called in the next

day and identified him for police how critical was Michelle's report to having

her husband arrested someone that knew him so well and could identify him rather than I think it might be and you

know that's that's gold for detectives on the night of Audrey's death Michelle was getting death threats from Adrien

Torren she says she didn't call police immediately because she'd lost faith

that they would come quick enough well I'm sorry to hear that is it hard to hear though Commissioner that

Perhaps this death could have been avoided if Michelle had the faith in

police well can I say if this we wouldn't be in this position i wouldn't

be having this conversation with you audrey wouldn't be dead if he had have been held in custody he should have been

locked up a community corrections order um for someone who has a violent history

is is no answer and that exposed Audrey and others to risk

how do we fix the problem well I think soft sentences you know have to

be looked at and obviously they're decisions for the government but can I say as the police commissioner

um I'm certainly frustrated because a get out of jail free card is not the

answer for people like Torrance it's one of many reasons Audrey's

parents feel so let down if we've failed that family in any way then I apologize

you say "If we failed this family do you think there were short force or not?"

It's still an active investigation and you're really not going to know the full picture until the whole picture is together so will there be a review and

investigation into what's happened here of course the homicide are already conducting review and there will be

ongoing reviews none of us should be in this position audrey should not be a

statistic we haven't give up given up on Audrey uh and we won't we should as

women be able to walk home safely we should absolutely we should the commissioner has promised to

meet Audrey's mom and dad Kathleen and Trevor it'll be a tough conversation about an

issue they want everyone to take seriously

let's hopefully her death has made some change in in the system it shouldn't

have taken your daughter's death really no it shouldn't but this animal shouldn't have been on the streets either

so we shall see it's not going to stop you

you do it for her it's definitely not going to stop here and I'm hoping I get the strength to

keep

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