Charlise Mutten's alleged killer cries as she describes shooting

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“I arrived at the back of the hangar. That's when I heard Charlise shout, “Mom, no.” Then “bang”, there was a second shot, then I saw Kallista.

He said he approached the fence and “that's when I saw Charlise on the ground.”

Stein started crying and dabbed his eyes with a tissue.

He said Kallista Mutten “had a gun in his hands.”

“I said, 'What did you do?' She turned around, looked at me and started yelling, “You did this.”

“I said, 'I didn't do anything to you.' She started yelling again, “you did this.” She then shouted at me to take a tarpaulin.

“She then raised the gun as if she was going to shoot. I raised both hands and said, “OK, OK.”

He said he found a blue tarp and after about 10 minutes returned to the area near the chicken coop, but “there was no Charlise, there was no Kallista, they were both gone.”

Stein said he threw the tarp inside the shed and went into his bedroom in the main house, was shaking, broke down in tears for 10 to 15 minutes, he had smoked a joint and fallen asleep on a chair.

He said he didn't see Kallista Mutten until the next morning, Jan. 13, when he claims she stole his car.

Stein said he called the police and “at that point I was going to turn her in for what she did…for killing Charlise.”

When asked why he didn't “abandon” her that day, Stein replied, “I honestly don't know.”

Stein said he left the Blue Mountains on the afternoon of January 13, stopping at Bunnings to buy supplies, including sand, to renovate his caravan.

He claimed Kallista Mutten called him while he was away, telling him she wanted ice cream again and telling him, “Charlise was with me,” which he thought was her “ice cream word.” “. He said he went to fix the tarpaulin on the back of his SUV later that night and found Charlise's body in the barrel.

“I threw up,” he said.

Stein said he panicked and started driving toward no particular location. He said his mental health was deteriorating and the voices in his head were “getting louder”, so he stopped near the Colo River, removed the barrel from the ute, filled it with sand and “pushed him off the side of the road.”

The court heard schizophrenia medication was found in Charlise's blood. Asked if he gave the girl her medication, Stein, who said he was diagnosed at age 21, said “never.”

Stein told the court he had a good relationship with Charlise, who “always wanted” to hold his hand and be with him, and his mother became “jealous sometimes”.

During his first interview with police on January 14, hours after Kallista Mutten reported her daughter missing, Stein told officers that Charlise was sick the morning of January 12, so he left her with a police officer. -auctioneer came to the Blue Mountains property. .

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In her second interview later that day, Stein said Kallista Mutten “made up this story about this damn woman” and talked about “doing a runner” with her daughter.

“I’m the one who’s going to get screwed for something that I really wasn’t involved in and didn’t do,” he told police.

On Monday, Stein again claimed that Kallista Mutten “brought up the whole story” from the auctioneer to explain her daughter's disappearance.

“I told him no one would believe it,” he said, adding that he still accepts it.

Kallista Mutten denies killing her daughter and broke down in tears when the allegations were put to her last week. She said Stein also told her that his former criminal associates may have kidnapped Charlise and would kill her if Mutten went to the police.

Stein said Monday that Kallista Mutten also made up the “story” about the associates, and that it was a lie.

Charlise, who lived with her grandparents in Tweed Heads, would visit Stein and his mother during school holidays.

The trial continues before Judge Helen Wilson.