Read the chilling six-word text doomsday conspiracy theorist sent his ‘daughter’ in the middle of a bloody firefight with elite specialist police – as she opens up about cop-killer trio’s bizarre love triangle
- Madelyn Train has spoken out for first time
- She is the daughter of the Wieambilla ambush perpetrators
- She was sent a text in the middle of the six-hour long siege
A paranoid conspiracy theorist who had just gunned down two young police officers sent his ‘daughter’ one final deranged text while holed up in his remote shack surrounded by elite specialist cops.
Madelyn Train received the message from Gareth Train on December 12, unaware that he was in the depths of a six-hour long siege at Wieambilla, in country Queensland, which began with bloody gunfire and would end the same way.
An unhinged Gareth wrote that ‘Vanessa sent people to kill us’, referring to the estranged second wife of his brother Nathaniel.
Vanessa had made the missing persons report that brought police to the remote property on a routine welfare check.
Nathaniel and his first wife Stacey were alongside Gareth in the siege.
The trio were involved in a bizarre love triangle with Stacey having divorced Nathaniel and going on to marry Gareth.
Gareth and Stacey (pictured) married after she divorced Nathaniel with Madelyn saying she grew up considering him as her father
Gareth sent an unhinged text message to Madelyn during the siege
A distraught Madelyn, now in her 20s, broke her silence on Sunday night in a television interview, revealing that she was agedjust three when her biological parents divorced – and that she had always considered Gareth her father.
In defending the strange relationship between her parents and uncle, she said that she ‘grew up in a really healthy, happy family environment (and) the only reason it was unusual is literally people’s interpretation of it.’
Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train gunned down police constables Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26, as the officers exited their patrol car and walked up the driveway to the property.
Two other constables barely managed to escape the barrage of bullets, while neighbour Alan Dare, 58, was shot in the back as he ventured closer to investigate the gunshots and a grass fire.
Madelyn Train denied claims that the trio were meth users despite widespread reports from locals and said she did not believe alcohol or drugs were a factor.
‘I’d say they were influenced by fear, by whatever was happening and them not understanding,’ she told 9News.
Maddy said her mother ‘hated guns’ (pictured as a child with her younger brother and Stacey)
Days before the deadly ambush, Stacey Train admitted she had lost contact with her children (Maddy pictured)
‘Gary would often think he was in a military scenario because he wanted to join the military, he’d read lots of military books,’ she said.
Madelyn declared the trio were the ‘gentlest’ people she knew.
‘I mourn six people. I mourn my family, I mourn the police officers, and I mourn the neighbour,’ she said.
‘I have developed acute traumatic stress disorder from it.
‘Because grieving three of your family members is hard enough but then finding out what they did and then seeing everyone’s reaction to what they did.
‘They (Nathaniel and Gareth) were both shot dead. And then mum was trying to get out the back.
‘They said she was armed but mum didn’t like guns so I don’t know what she was armed with, but the police said it was a gun and I trust the police.’
The Trains had spent years fortifying the wooden home into a makeshift bunker to try to fend off an assault by police, which they had long anticipated.
They even set up elaborate defences, lived off the grid and installed solar panels and satellite dishes, as well as rainwater and septic tanks.
The trio were eventually shot dead in the late night showdown with officers from Queensland Police’s Special Emergency Response Team – a crack team of specially trained cops kitted out with tactical gear and high-powered weapons.
Madelyn said Gareth has always believed in conspiracy theories but his delusions went up a notch during the Covid pandemic.
‘It’s like he was doing this weird project on Covid and the end of the world,’ she said.
He began feverishly posting his skewed views on conspiracy websites and forums.
Gareth on several occasions claimed online that the 1996 Port Arthur massacre was a military operation and that Princess Diana was killed as a ‘blood sacrifice’.
Madelyn Train (pictured) the devastated daughter and step-daughter of Wieambilla cop ambush perpetrators Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train
Former school groundsman Gareth Train (left) lived at the Wieambilla home with his former school principal wife Stacey Train. She had previously been married to Gareth’s brother Nathaniel, also a former school principal (pictured above with Stacey on their wedding day)
She said her mother grew more isolated when she lost her job at Tara State College for refusing to get a Covid vaccine.
She said Nathaniel suffered a heart attack which affected his short term memory and caused him to get increasingly erratic.
Madelyn added that despite being linked to the tragedy, she would not change her name.
‘My name is not a secret, I have never done anything wrong,’ she said.
Stacey and Gareth Train posted a chilling YouTube video three hours before they were killed in the Wieambilla shootout
