AceHistoryDesk – One of the alleged killers of Canberra woman Irma Palasics was identified by police using DNA found on a milk bottle at the scene of the crime, court documents have revealed.
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Mrs Palasics and her husband, Gregor Palasics, were tied up and beaten by two intruders when their McKellar home was ransacked in 1999. Mrs Palasics died from her injuries and $30,000 in cash was stolen.
Today 68-year-old Steve Fabriczy, who was arrested last year, was committed to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court for Mrs Palasics’s murder. He previously pleaded not guilty to murder, and today pleaded not guilty to five other charges including aggravated burglary with intent to assault and unlawfully confine a person.
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Violent home invasion
Mr and Mrs Palasics, at the time both aged 73, were watching television in their lounge room on the night of Saturday, November 6, 1999.
Police documents said the two intruders disabled an external security light, removed a flyscreen and entered through a partially open bathroom window. Mr Palasics said two men wearing balaclavas ran at him and his wife, one carried a cylindrical object 30-50 centimetres long and immediately hit him four or five times in the head. Mr Palasics fell to the floor and later described how the offender sat on his chest, pinned his hands and said: “Where is the money? Where is the money?” “ I’m sorry, I haven’t got any money,” Mr Palasics told police he replied. “ Alright, you have to tell me. You’ve got the right way and the hard way. You can tell us,” the offender allegedly replied.
According to court documents, one of the offenders then pulled a telephone out of its wall socket and used the cable to bind Mr Palasics’s wrists together.
He said they then bound his ankles with nylon cable ties and wrapped duct tape around his mouth. During this time Mr Palasics said he could hear his wife yelling and screaming from elsewhere in the house. He told police he lost consciousness for a period of time, but said he saw one of the offenders open the fridge and drink something from it. About an hour after the intruders left, Mr Palasics was able to wiggle his hands free, crawl to the kitchen and cut his binds with a kitchen knife. He immediately looked for Mrs Palasics, and found her lying face down in the hallway with “blood everywhere”. Mr Palasics said she had grey tape wrapped tightly around her face, and when he could not find her pulse he realised she was dead. Mr Palasics’s family said he remained traumatised and grief-stricken until his death in 2004.
Milk container DNA leads to arrest
Police examination of the home identified a DNA profile taken from a 3-litre milk container in the fridge.
Decades later the DNA was matched to a profile in a Victoria Police database, which led to the arrest of Mr Fabriczy in September 2023. He was interviewed by police and expressed remorse for Mrs Palasics’s death, but denied being involved in her assault and said he could not remember what happened. “ I have nothing to do with assaulting or murder. No. No. I swear by God,” he said. “ I’m deeply sorry, whatever happened. But I had nothing to do with her murder. “ I didn’t know she died. I was shocked. “ I didn’t know what really happened to her. I never touch her, ever.” Joseph Vekony, who is also charged with Mrs Palasics’s murder, had his matter adjourned in the ACT Magistrates Court today.
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