Murdered pair were crammed into a coffin-shaped box ALIVE before being shot in the head and dumped in a dam
- The bodies of Cory Breton and Iuliana Triscaru were found in a metal box
- The mother-of-three and her brother-in law went missing in late January
- Police say they were gagged and stuffed in the box before being shot
- Their bodies were found in a makeshift coffin in a dam south of Brisbane
- Five men and one woman have been charged with two counts of murder
- Police investigate links between the murders and an alleged drug dispute
Two people who were shot in the head and dumped in a dam over an alleged drug dispute were alive when they were stuffed into a macabre makeshift coffin and driven to their deaths.
Cory Breton, 28, and his sister-in-law Iuliana Triscaru, 31, were bound at the wrists and ankles before they were taken from their Kingston unit in Logan, south of Brisbane, and crammed into a steel tool box on January 24, the Courier Mail reported.
According to police, the two-metre box was then put in a dark green 1999 Toyota Hilux and taken to a dam near Kingston Park Raceway, which gave the pair around ten minutes to lay and ponder their fate before they were shot in the head, crammed back into the box and dumped in the water.
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Iuliana Triscaru, 31, was last seen at a Marsden address on January 24. Six people have been charged with her murder.
Cory Breton, 28, went missing on January 21 from the Logan area
Police had been scouring the area for two-and-a-half weeks before they found the box containing the remains of Ms Triscaru and Mr Breton just after 8am on Thursday
Police had been scouring the area for two-and-a-half weeks before they found the box containing the remains of Ms Triscaru and Mr Breton just after 8am on Thursday behind a Coates Hire equipment-leasing shop on Mudgee Street.
Six people have been charged with their murder, including a mother of seven.
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Detective Superintendent Dave Hutchinson, Southeast regional crime coordinator, said police are investigating links between the murders and an alleged drug dispute.
Two men were arrested after police intercepted a vehicle on the Gateway Motorway, southeast of Brisbane, just before 5pm on Wednesday.
Police used a crane to load the metal box, which is believed to hold the bodies of Mr Breton and Ms Triscaru, onto a truck at the crime scene
Police fear the bodies of the Logan duo were stuffed inside the box after they were allegedly shot in the head
Two men were arrested after police intercepted a vehicle on the Gateway Motorway, southeast of Brisbane, on Wednesday
Three people were detained initially, but only two were charged with murder.
Police also allegedly found a quantity of methylamphetamine when they searched the vehicle.
Detectives have reportedly seized another car that they suspect was used to remove evidence.
The six accused appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday afternoon, where they were all charged with murder and remanded in custody.
According to the Courier Mail, mother-of-seven Ngatokoona Maretti, 36, was charged on two counts of murder.
Tuhirangi-Thomas Tahiata, 24, Webbstar Latu, 31, Davy Malu Junior Taiao, 21, Stou Daniels, 21, and Trent Michael Thrupp, 22, also appeared in court.
Police fear the bodies of the Logan duo were stuffed inside the box after they were allegedly shot in the head
Police allege that the metal box was transported by a dark green 1999 Toyota Hilux on the night of January 24
Mr Hutchinson said investigators were still looking for a motive, but suspected the murder was drug related.
He said police were keen to speak to two more men, a 32-year-old from Crestmead and a 25-year-old from Kingston, who they believe have knowledge of the alleged crime.
'If those people, and they will know who they are ... we would encourage them to come and see us now,' Mr Hutchinson said.
Miranda, the wife and mother of Mr Breton's daughter, told the Sunday Mail that they had planned to move away from Logan to get away from the 'scene' and have a fresh start.
'We were going to just move a bit closer into the Brisbane area somewhere so we could get away from it all, away from the Logan area.'
She said family had been hit hard by the news of Mr Breton's grisly demise.
Police said they found the metal box, which was about two metres long, just after 8am on Thursday
Police conducted a forensic examination of the crime scene in the Logan suburb of Kingston on Thursday
For the past two days police have focussed their search on a vacant block off Mudgee Street in Kingston
Police divers searched a dam on the block, while officers and police dogs scoured nearby bushland
'His dad is really emotional, everyone is really upset — his mum and dad are pretty much inconsolable at this stage. His sister is in the same boat,' she said.
Police are also searching for two yellow ratchet straps that they believe were disposed of on Third Avenue in Marsden on January 25.
'We will allege the ratchet straps were used to secure the box to the utility,' Mr Hutchinson said.
Mr Breton, a father-of-one, went missing on January 21 from the Logan area, while Ms Triscaru, a mother-of-three, was last seen at a Marsden address on January 24.
Police set up two crime scenes in the Logan suburb of Kingston on Wednesday.
One was centred around the house of 23-year-old Lelan Harrington, who disappeared with Ms Triscaru and Mr Breton, but was later found.
A second concentrated on an area off Mudgee Street in Kingston and saw police divers search a dam on a vacant block, while officers and police dogs scoured nearby bushland.
Pictured is the dark green 1999 Toyota Hilux that police believe was used in the murder
Police told media on Thursday that they believed the metal box was strapped onto the Hilux
The metal box was found in a dam behind a Coates Hire on Mudgee St in Logan
Police resumed their search at a location off Mudgee Street in Kingston this morning
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