photo credit to news.com.au via M Clement Hall, blogger, blogger.com

From a memorial for Dean.

Dean

On October 17, 2007, some children playing near a pond in a park in Mandurama Reserve at Ambarvale, New South Wales, Australia found a suitcase that contained the body of a child.
Rachel Pfitzner had three children in all and each of her children had a different biological father. Dean was in the middle between his older half sister, who was eight and younger half brother who was six at the time of his death.
Only four months prior to his death, Rachel Pfitzner had moved into a new home, a public housing estate in Pindarus Place, Rosemeadow, with her children, including Dean. Calls to The NSW Department of Community Services were made concerning the welfare of Dean and that prompted a court order to be made and custody of Dean was transferred to his grandmother. Dean had been living with his paternal grandparents in Tamworth, up until June when he had gone for a visit with is mother. Rachel had never brought home from that visit. When police went to talk to her about the court order, Rachel said that Dean was already in the custody of the DOCS. That was, of course, a lie.

Between 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on October 11, 2007, Rachel had shaken Dean and thrown him to the floor. She believed she had killed him so she wrapped his body in plastic, stuff him inside of a suitcase and dumped his body into the pond where his body was discovered by the children six days later. Four days later, Rachel, who was on parole, was arrested and charged with murder. Rachel's father said that he had only been able to see his grandson three times since he had been born. It had been about six weeks since he had last seen him he said:

"I never got the chance to cuddle him once, nor to hear him call me poppy"