In the close-knit community of Mount Macedon, they still talk about the mystery of the violent and puzzling death of pilot-turned-killer Greg Lynn’s neighbours in the street where he once lived. Less than a kilometre from Lynn’s former home, two neighbours and their three dogs were found shot dead in their burnt-out house. That happened 10 years before campers Carol Clay and Russell Hill died in the remote Wonnangatta Valley.
Lynn was last month convicted by a Supreme Court jury of the 2020 murder of Clay but acquitted over the death of her lover, Hill. Lynn claimed the campers had died accidentally and he burnt the crime scene to destroy evidence. Mount Macedon locals and those who knew the Lynns, but wish to remain anonymous following his conviction, have questions about another case, which the coroner concluded was a murder-suicide.
In that 2010 case, which happened years after Lynn had sold his nearby property, Annie Viergever, 61, the stepsister of Seekers performer Athol Guy, and her husband, Japp, 64, were found dead in the bedroom of their Zig Zag Road home “Currawong”. She had been shot in the head in her nighty while in her bed. He was found under fire debris sitting on a chaise lounge in the bedroom with a fatal gunshot wound.
Authorities survey the scene of the fatal house fire at Mount Macedon. Credit: Jason South His left hand was around the barrel, with police reporting to the coroner: “The injuries to his head and face were consistent with a self-inf.
