A COP KILLER who served 16 years jail for the murder of a Sydney police officer is living in Wagga with his former Junee prison psychologist wife and their infant boy.
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Convicted murderer Murray Hearne, now 37, was the focus of a Channel Seven investigation on Wednesday night exploring his brutal murder of Constable Peter Forsyth.
It has now been revealed Hearne works locally as a cabinet maker and is on parole.
The then-18-year-old fatally stabbed Peter Forsyth and seriously wounded fellow officer Jason Semple after approaching the off-duty policemen and offering them drugs.
Constable Forsyth, a father-of-two, and rookie Mr Semple were unarmed when they left drinks at an Ultimo hotel in inner-Sydney.
They detained him and tried to check Hearne's ID, when the 18-year-old pulled out a knife.
He fatally stabbed Constable Forsyth twice in the heart, and his colleague Jason Semple twice in the stomach.
While the murderer is enjoying his new life as a dad, the widow of the slain policeman has told of her anger towards her late husband’s killer.
“You don’t think this is going to happen in your life. You can’t plan for this,” Constable Forsyth’s widow, Jackie Reimer said.
"It hurts in my chest. It’s a real pain. It’s not just a feeling."
She shared details of the harrowing moment she came face to face with Hearne.
"He was hyperventilating and shaking and sweating,” she said.
“He was really very nervous.
"I looked at him at the person that he was now all these years later. He was not some tough kid anymore.
"He told me where he threw the knife, in a garbage bin.”
In June 1999, Hearne was sentenced to 27 years’ jail for killing Constable Forsyth and seriously wounding Jason Semple.
However, he was released from prison eleven years early.
In his time at Junee Correctional Centre, Hearne met a young psychologist, Bobbie Bergmeier.
Four years before he was released, the convicted killer and the psychology intern began a relationship.
In 2014, the year of Hearne’s release, Bergmeier was disbarred as a psychologist.
In a rare interview with Channel Seven’s Murder Uncovered crew, officer Jason Semple has told of what the policemen went through that night, before Constable Forsyth’s murder.
"I rarely speak openly about things, but it’s important to share my story," he said.
"I don’t want people to forget my mate and colleague, Peter Forsyth, and what we went through that night and what he did for me.
"It’s also for the thin blue line that we’re a part of.
“So much has happened since then, but I’ll never forget his sacrifice.”
