Broadmeadows deaths: Four found dead in Melbourne home

A lead investigator has spoken outside a north Melbourne home after four people, including a teenager, were found dead.

It can now be revealed that police are investigating suggestions the deaths were a mass drug overdose and that three of the dead were “known to police”.

Police were called to a house in Bicknell Court, in Broadmeadows, at around 2am and found the bodies of two women, a man and a 17-year-old boy inside.

Neighbour Cory, who is also the uncle of the teenage boy, first spotted his nephew’s body on the floor before smashing a window to get into the house.

According to a Today reporter at the scene, Cory’s nephew and brother-in-law were visiting him, but were at the neighbour’s home when he returned home from an outing.

“I’ve come home to find him gone,” he told Sunrise.

“He was a kid, 17 years old.”

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Cory said he believed the deaths were drug-related.

“I think (it might have been) a drug overdose, but I’m not too sure,” he told Today.

The relative said the discovery “tortured” him.

“I’ve come home to find family members in a house, deceased,” he said.

“I found them and it’s tortured me.”

Cory also revealed the tragic news that his teenage nephew, whom he described as a “brilliant boy”, is a new father of an 18-month-old child.

Speaking to media shortly after 9.30am, Detective Inspector Dean Thomas was quizzed on the possibility of a mass drug overdose, as suspected by Cory.

He confirmed homicide detectives were called to the scene, but reaffirmed the point that the incident is not being treated as suspicious.

He also revealed the ages of all of the deceased.

Insp Thomas said the three males found were aged 37, 32 and 17 while the sole female was 42.

Three of them, including the teenager, “known to police” he also stated.

Only one of the dead was a resident and three were visiting the address, and all were last seen alive at 2am.

When asked about the possibility of a drug overdose as has been suggested, he said “that is a possibility … it’s unusual to find four people deceased at the one property.”

“(There were) items that may be drug paraphernalia.

“It may be from a drug overdose – it may not.”

Insp Thomas added violence was not believed to be involved.

“There’s nothing at this stage to suggest there’s been any acts of violence,” he said

The scene was “very, very confronting and very traumatic” for those who first discovered the bodies, Insp Thomas said.

When asked about the possibility that fentanyl could be involved in the deaths, he responded that it was “certainly something we’re mindful of – I cannot say define one way of another if that’s involved.”

Items taken from the property along with, post mortems, are hoped to determine what had caused the deaths but Insp Thomas said that may take “days or months”.

The neighbours, a man and a woman, were also found dead, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Later on in the morning, distraught loved ones were seen outside the property, where the teenager’s grief-stricken mother reportedly broke down in tears.