Sunday 29 May 2022 05:40 PM Renee McBryde: Daughter of murderer opens up about how she discovered her ... trends now
The daughter of a notorious murderer has revealed how she discovered the true identity of her father after he let it slip that he was in jail during a secret phone call.
Renee McBryde is the daughter of double-murderer Michael Caldwell, who at 19 killed two gay men - Constantine Giannaris, the Greek Consul General to Australia, and Peter Parkes, a schoolteacher - in cold blood in 1981.
Ms McBryde had been completely unaware of her father's crimes and spent most her childhood believing his absence was because he was living away from home at a Cottees Cordial factory.
During one of her weekly phone calls to her father when she was just six, he finally let slip that he was a killer.
'He said 'I can't see you not because I'm working at a farm/factory, but because I'm in jail,' she told Mamamia.
'I thought he was doing 'important' things and that he worked so far away,' 'I did wonder 'why don't I have a dad around like everyone else' and 'where is he'.'
Renee stumbled upon a series of newspaper headlines about her father in her local library when she was nine - helping her piece together his shocking past
Renee McBryde was born to double-murderer Michael Caldwell, but she was completely unaware to her father's crimes until he told her on the phone when she was six
Her mother had met Caldwell, who had been working as a sex worker in Sydney's Kings Cross at the time, when she was 15 and living on the streets.
She fell pregnant shortly after the pair met.
Months after she told Caldwell she was pregnant he was arrested for killing the two men.
He'd robbed them before stabbing them to death. The crimes shocked Australia and earned him a life sentence behind bars.
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