GUILTY Australia - Dr. Michael Chye, 36, & Rita Caleo, 39, murdered, Sydney, 1989 & 1990 *Arrests*

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Well done NSW police!!

NSW Police Force

Detectives investigating the death of a Sydney mother more than 20 years ago will today (Tuesday 14 October 2014) charge a man with murder.

Mrs Rita Caleo, a 39-year-old mother of two young children, was stabbed to death in her Double Bay home in the early hours of Friday 10 August 1990.

Mrs Caleo’s murder followed the shooting death of her brother, Dr Michael Chye, 10 months earlier on 16 October 1989. Mr Chye was shot dead while sitting in his car which was parked inside the garage of his Woollahra home.

Despite extensive investigations into both murders during the 1990s, no one was charged in relation to either incident.

The NSW Police Force’s Unsolved Homicide Team took carriage of the investigations under Strike Force Nichola in 2008 and earlier this year, on Friday 15 August 2014, detectives arrested a man at Sydney International Airport after he arrived on a flight from Kuala Lumpur. The man, a 42-year-old Australian citizen who had been living in Thailand, was subsequently charged with:
• Solicit to commit murder;
• Accessory before the fact to murder; and,
• Accessory after the fact to murder.

The Unsolved Homicide Team’s investigation into the murders of Mrs Caleo and Dr Chye has continued and today the 42-year-old man will be charged with murder when he appears at Central Local Court.

The investigation by Strike Force Nichola remains ongoing.

https://www.facebook.com/nswpoliceforce?hc_location=timeline
 
Rita Caleo stabbing murder: Man charged over 1990 killing in Double Bay

October 14, 2014 11:05AM


THE man arrested at Sydney International Airport in August over the 24-year-old stabbing murder of a Double Bay mother will today be charged with murder by homicide detectives.

The man, a 42-year-old Australian citizen who lived in Thailand, was arrested by detectives from the Homicide Squad’s Unsolved Homicide Team after he arrived in Sydney on a flight from Kuala Lumpur on August 15.

He was originally charged with various offences in relation to the murder of Rita Caleo, a 39-year-old mother-of-two, who was stabbed to death in her Double Bay home in the early hours of August 10, 1990.

Mrs Caleo, a prominent businesswoman, was stabbed in the stomach in the ensuite of her bedroom while her baby daughter and four-year-old son were sleeping in the next bedroom

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ng-in-double-bay/story-fni0cx12-1227089857801
 
Surely this case gives hope to many people who are still waiting to see justice done.
 
Husband charged over cold case deaths of Rita Caleo and her brother Michael Chye

"A Sydney businessman has been charged with ordering the murder of his wife and her brother in Sydney's eastern suburbs more than two decades ago.

Mark Caleo, 52, was arrested at his home in Ramsgate in Sydney's south early on Wednesday. He was taken to Kogarah police station where he was charged with two counts each of murder and solicit to murder "

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/husband-c...her-brother-michael-chye-20150204-135ffz.html
 
From November:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/alleged-wife-killer-mark-caleo-granted-1-million-bail-20151125-gl7yxr.html

Mr Caleo, who is accused of masterminding the stabbing death of his wife Rita Caleo and the shooting death of her brother Michael Chye 25 years ago, was on Wednesday granted bail, with relatives agreeing to put up $1 million surety...

An inquest into Dr Chye's death in 1991 found that he, Mrs Caleo and her husband had been been involved in a dispute over a $3.6 million waterfront property in Blakehurst, in Sydney's south...

The court heard there was evidence the alleged hitman in Mrs Caleo's death, Alani Afu, told someone that he'd "killed a Chinese chick" and that the "job was given to him by the husband"... Mr Afu was arrested in Tonga in September and is due to face court there early next year.

Next court date for both Caleos is February 9.
 
https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/35324150/caleo-to-face-trial-for-wifes-murder/#page1

Caleo, 54, pleaded not guilty at a Supreme Court arraignment on Friday to murdering the siblings...

Afu, 50, who appeared via video link, also pleaded not guilty to killing Mrs Caleo.

Justice Peter Johnson fixed a trial date of February 5, next year, but lawyers for the pair indicated they would apply for the charges to be severed, so there would be separate trials for each alleged murder.
 
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/5215249/nsw-double-murder-trial-begins-30-years-on/?cs=7

FEBRUARY 7 2018 - 3:31PM

NSW double-murder trial begins

A Sydney man ordered a hit on his former wife and her brother nearly three decades ago because he felt he was being ripped off financially, a NSW court has heard.

Mark Caleo allegedly hired hit man Alani Afu to kill his former wife, Rita Caleo, in her Double Bay townhouse in August 1990 after she had written him out of her will over concerns of an affair.

Caleo has also been charged with soliciting the murder of Dr Michael Chye who was shot 10 months earlier as he drove into the garage of his Woollahra home in October 1989.

Caleo and Afu, who is charged with stabbing Ms Caleo 23 times, faced the NSW Supreme Court for the first day of their expected eight-week trial on Wednesday.

In her opening address, crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC said Dr Chye had threatened to sue Caleo for millions owing over a bitter property dispute.

"In each of the relationships there were financial circumstances that were likely to prove disadvantageous to the accused," she said.

"The accused arranged both of these murders."
 
APRIL 6 2018 - 3:34AM

Former Sydney restaurateur Mark Caleo has been found guilty of soliciting his wife's murder nearly 30 years ago.

A NSW Supreme Court jury on Thursday also found former Kings Cross bouncer Alan Afu, 51, guilty of murdering Rita Caleo, who was stabbed 23 times at the family's Double Bay townhouse in August 1990.

But Mark Caleo, now 55, was found not guilty of soliciting the murder of her brother, Dr Michael Chye, 39, who was shot in the head as he drove into his Woollahra home in October 1989.

The Crown's main witness - Caleo's former employee, Anthony Stambolis - testified that his boss told him to offer $10,000 to find someone to kill his wife and to make it look like a robbery gone wrong.

Mr Stambolis spoke of getting a man he referred to as "the Tongan" to carry out the hit before driving with him to the Double Bay home.

Holding back tears during his evidence, Mr Stambolis said the Tongan got back in his car and said "I stabbed the s***" before telling him to "*advertiser censored***** drive".

The men will face a sentence hearing on a later date.

https://www.areanews.com.au/story/5326667/men-found-guilty-over-1990-sydney-murder/
 
‘In the NSW Supreme Court this afternoon, Mark Caleo, now 55, was sentenced to 12 years jail with a non-parole period of nine years. He was convicted in April of soliciting the murder of his wife, who was stabbed 23 times, at the family’s Double Bay townhouse in August 1990.

In handing down Caleo’s sentence, Justice Robert Allan Hulme said the defendant was the mastermind of “a cold blooded plan to kill his wife”, which he ordered after she cut him out of her will.

Former Kings Cross bouncer Alani Afu, 51 — who carried out Mrs Caleo’s murder for at least $10,000 — also appeared in court today and was sentenced to 20 years jail with a non-parole period of 15 years.’

‘Earlier this year, Caleo was acquitted of soliciting the murder of his wife’s brother, Dr Michael Chye, 39, who was shot in the head as he drove into his Woollahra home in October 1989. Dr Chye’s killer has never been charged.’

Rita Caleo murder: Husband Mark sentenced over wife’s death
 
OMG just discovered that this convicted murderer MC was my former neighbour :eek:

There should be a register for suspects for serious crimes.... Really! I would've lived very differently had I known.
 

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