Teenage girl cried with her family and mourned grandfather's shock death for months - before police discovered SHE murdered him and stole his money in a twisted plot inspired by a TV show A teenager who stabbed her grandfather before watching him bleed to death in his kitchen cried with grieving family members despite being behind the murder, the killer's mother has revealed.
Brittney Jade Dwyer, then 19, from Redbank Plains, Queensland, stabbed her grandfather before watching him bleed to death in his kitchen.
Brittney Jade Dwyer, then 19, from Redbank Plains, Queensland, stabbed 81-year-old Robert Whitwell in the neck and chest at his Adelaide home in August 2016.
But speaking to 7 News Spotlight Tonya, whose daughter was behind the horrific attack, recounted: 'She would hug us, she would cry with us, but she chain smoked, I can see why now.'.
The murder was part of a plan to steal the life savings, and was inspired by the macabre television show American Horror Story.
