Baby Kobi's father mentioned Whispering Wall in phone conversation months before murder-suicide

An inquest has heard a father who killed his baby daughter at the Whispering Wall spoke about taking her to the site months before the murder-suicide. Kobi's mother said she was going to take her daughter on a drive to the Barossa Valley, Shepherdson asked whether Kobi has been to the Whispering Wall. 'Please don't do this' Documents obtained by the ABC from the Coroners Court show that Shepherdson called Kobi's mother in the lead-up to the murder-suicide telling her "this is the way it has to be". "I then called him back and that's when Henry told me he and Kobi would not be home when got home," she said in a statement to police on May 19, 2021. Kobi's mother said Shepherdson had called her several times that afternoon and in the one before the last could "hear Kobi in the background".