I turn my back for a moment, and look what happens.. you folks have been sleuthing like there is no tomorrow, and how utterly sickening it all is, yet so predictable, so unsurprising, so blatantly persistant have these people been, that only a murder stopped them and that not immediately... an amateur timeline..
August 2014. TheThorburns, mum and dad , are accredited as foster carers..... no one has stated as yet that the sons went thru any training, or psychiatric assessment, or even a light check around the area if any nonsense could be detected. Meanwhile , running thru this whole event the daycare run by Mum Julene is operating , with Josh , the older son as assistant.
August 2014 to January 2015. . .. Was there a placement of a foster child in this period? . I don't know. Family Services say they are so short of carers... there are plenty of kids in need of foster care, so may be there was, or maybe FS of QLD was waiting until the Thorburns moved up some list..
January 2015. 12 yr old Tia is placed with the Thorburns, Mum, Dad, Josh, 21, an injured former child care assistant, and his younger brother, Trent, 18 , a bi - sexual ( according to Rick ) dancer with mechanical trade tendencies.
October, .. Tia goes missing, from the Thorburn home and her body is found some time later on the river bank, her bag and school uniform have never been found, Rick says he drove her to school that morning. A police search is set up, statements are made, Rick and Julene and Trent and Josh are busy with their dancing and child care income stream, and flogging frankfurters around the area, helpfully giving the police advice, now and then. No foster child is placed with them .
In November 2015.. Rick advertises that he is offering placements at his home for international students over the Xmas break.. ( the international student trade is a lucrative one, and certainly an income stream to be admired ) Whether he got any answers to these advertorials, I don't know, ,it isn't impossible that he did...
April. 2016 a 56 yr old man, whose wife runs a day care centre in Logan, same place as Julene and Rick is investigated due to claims of rape of 2 sisters, 4yrs , photographing them, and also an unsubstantiated claim of the day care running wife abusing a young boy at the day care centre..
April 2016.. the Thorburns day care operation is closed down by Family services, after the Qld police notify them of criminal activity by the operators, the Thorburns...
September 2016.. Rick is arrested for the murder of Tia. Josh is arrested for perjury and perverting the course of justice, ditto Julene, and the bi- sexual dancing son, Trent is arrested for the same thing, perjury, perverting justice's course, with an added charge of incest. Rick is taken to the watchhouse and carefully doses himself with an unknown substance and is currently under 24/7 observation awaiting further questioning. Trent has been refused bail.
lots of gaps if someone could fill them in.