Ray Martin makes a rare return to 60 Minutes on Sunday night with a story on the sole survivor of a family of five murdered at a home in Sydney in July.
“Brenda’s Story” hinges around the sole survivor, 15 year old Brenda Lin, who is descibed as “an astonishingly calm, composed, and mature young woman.” She was overseas on a school study trip when her family were found bludgeoned to death at their Epping home. Police have described the Lin family killings as “targeted” and are concerned for the safety of the teenager.
Martin recently filed a story for the ABC’s 7:30 Report.
Also on Sunday night Charles Woolley has a piece on the upcoming Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobsen film Charlie and Boots. Hogan, a former Channel Nine comedian, is under fire today for not flying home from LA to visit his mother for her 100th birthday, but is due soon for the premiere of his film.
60 Minutes airs 7:30pm Sunday on Nine.
Brenda’s Story
It really is beyond belief. One night last month in a quiet and respectable Sydney neighbourhood, five members of the Lin family were murdered. How could it happen? They were just a normal family. Fairly typical suburban shopkeepers, friendly, well-liked and they didn’t seem to have an enemy in the world. Yet someone, for some reason, wanted them all dead. And the police, their friends, their neighbours – all of us – are still asking, why? More than anyone, that question must haunt the sole survivor of the Lin family tragedy, 15-year-old Brenda. As you’ll see though, she’s an astonishingly calm, composed, and mature young woman.
Reporter: Ray Martin
Producers: Stephen Rice, Paul Steindl
Land of the Icebergs
As adventures go, it doesn’t get any better than this. A week-long trek to the top of the world, into the icy frontier of Alaska. An epic landscape that defies description. And that’s just the beginning. We went to the very heart of Alaska’s glacier country, where the giant icebergs begin. And we can tell you, it’s no place for the faint-hearted. For Michael Usher, ice used to be a very foreign concept indeed. Not any more. Michael’s, walked across it, climbed it, paddled through it and simply marvelled at its majestic beauty. He’s also learned a thing or two about how much it all means to us and the planet.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Hugh Nailon
Two of a Kind
Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson are a generation apart, but we suspect they share the same comedy genes. Their beginnings weren’t all that flash. Hoges started out as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Shane got his big break emptying portaloos. But they’ve both cleaned up at the box office, as the quintessential Australian characters, Croc Dundee and Kenny. So we suppose it was inevitable that one day they’d get together. They’ve done it in a little film with a big heart, called Charlie and Boots. And while Hoges and Kenny are the stars, there was plenty of room in the script for extras, even an old wrinkly like Charles Wooley.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Hugh Nailon
ray martin gee how come he is not interviewing that some mothers do have them twerp for the umpteenth time ,run out of the mutual i love me company
I won’t be watching.
@BigKev says: “this story has to be told”
I disagree. We have been conditioned into believing such things from tabloid journalism, when really it’s an invasion of privacy during the recovery of an unthinkable tragedy.
I have a lot of sympathy for her plight, but just leave her be; we don’t need to involve ourselves in her situation in any way; she shouldn’t be on display for our entertainment.
Nice to see a serious piece on Sixty Minutes.
Problem is “I still will not watch – too many “celeb” stories, too many cross promotion stories…
Until Nine life their game a lot, I will just ignore.
This is no transparent story….. this story has to be told…… i have never been so horrified about an incident, and it needs to be told. Im glad its being dealt with by ray, who always brings a sense on compassion to his stories. This is not a channel nine issue, for 15 minutes leave ‘network’ politics at the door, and sit back and learn from this event, and embrace this brave girl
That would explain why Ray was in the second row at the funeral, right behind Brenda. There was a photo in one of the papers.
@GuanoLad: wow, so sympathetic for that poor girl’s situation.
I can’t believe how soon the girl has had the courage to be interviewed, I just feel so sorry for what happened to her family, it’s the worst thing that could happen to anyone- your entire immediate family gone.
Brenda’s story will be uncomfortable viewing for many people. As a Chinese myself, I have been following the case as it has been widely covered in the Chinese-language papers here. Nearly a month after it happened, I still could not believe why some people would not only kill a normal family, but mutilated them by bludgeoning their faces so they were not instantly recognisable. I worry for Brenda, who will have to live in hiding for an indefinite period, unable to study properly or work. These killers must be caught before they strike again.
As much as I like Ray, and his work….. he’s happy to bag the state of Australian current affairs and the Nine Network, but still do the odd story for them when the money is right?…. He’s a hypocrite.
Having said that, i’ll be watching……. (does that make me a hypocrite???)
Another transparent attempt to make audiences cry.