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trailers and was ready to move when, just before midnight on the Friday of the Labour Day long weekend, it was set alight and completely destroyed. Despite fire investigators being called in and extensive inquiries, nobody was ever found responsible.
    By January 2009 Scott and Kylee’s new house on the farm was nearing completion. On Friday, 30 January, builder Brian Jackson had completed the last of the lining and everything was ready for the plasterers to come in on Monday. But that night, the house was badly vandalised, with windows broken, doors smashed with an axe, pipes and plumbing fittings torn out and holes punched in walls. Outside, ‘Fuken Bitch Slappr’ and ‘fuckn Hore’ had been scrawled on the walls in brown paint.
    When Scott and Kylee drove up to the house the next morning to check on progress and discovered the damage, they were devastated. Kylee could only go part way down the smashed-up hall before having to leave. ‘I was shocked. I couldn’t understand any of it. You just felt so violated.’ Knowing the obscene graffiti didn’t relate to her didn’t make the attack any less frightening. For some time she wasn’t sure if she could remain in Manawatu, but eventually Scott convinced her they should stay.
    While the arson had been unsettling, the vandalism was much more serious and worried everyone in the area. Scott was furious, telling friends he wasn’t going to take shit from anybody and buying a short pump-action shotgun he hid behind the seat in his ute while the house was being finished.
    Concerned about a possible link with the arson, police installed a covert video camera in the nearby old woolshed, hidden under blankets and pointed towards the driveway. It was left there for two months but no intruders were captured on it, and by April 2009 Scott and Kylee had shifted into their new house.
    Police were aware of these attacks from the beginning of their investigation, and naturally suspected they could be linked to Scott’s murder as part of a deliberate and targeted attack on the couple. The day after his death, this theory was given extra weight when two rural delivery drivers reported threatening notes that had been placed in Scott and Kylee’s letterbox at 259 Aorangi Road around the time of the arson and vandalism. The first reportedly said, ‘Stay away from him Kylee, you whore,’ and then, ‘You cheating whore, what comes around goes around.’ The third note was supposedly found in the letterbox just after the vandalism, stating, ‘Now you know how it feels to lose something you love.’
    Though the notes were never found nor had they ever been seen or mentioned by anyone else and Kylee had no knowledge of them, police believed the drivers’ reports. Despite the superficial appearance that everything in Kylee and Scott’s life was happy and they had no enemies, a picture was beginning to form of a concerted and callous attack on them by somebody.
    But who?
    Inserted into this theory was the fact that three of Scott and Kylee’s labrador puppies had gone missing at the time of the murder. Scott had fed the seven remaining puppies (Jo Moss had been given one on the Tuesday) in the old cowshed the night before he was shot. But when Ewen Macdonald went to feed the dogs on Friday, 9 July, he discovered there were only four puppies remaining, along with their mother, Katie.
    Scott had given Katie to Kylee before they were engaged and this was her first litter. In the weeks before Scott’s death, they had printed flyers and put them up in several Feilding and Palmerston North shops, advertising the pups for $700 each.
    The fact that the wavy-patterned shoe imprints found around Scott’s body had also been discovered outside the old cowshed made it likely that whoever killed Scott had also taken the puppies. Looking from Aorangi Road, the old cowshed was to the right of the driveway, about 100 metres from the gates and about the same distance from Scott and Kylee’s house. One