As Kaliopi Roumeliotis drove home to Northcote after a shift working as a scientist at Austin Hospital, her Apple Watch recorded her pulse at about 60 beats a minute.
Arriving home and driving into her garage about 7.15pm, the device recorded that the 51-year-old took two steps – and then her heart rate peaked at 162 beats a minute. Soon after, her heart stopped.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard that her husband, Joe Lo Bianco, 53, was lying in wait in the garage on November 30, 2022. The anti-vaxxer then bludgeoned his scientist wife to death with a 7.5-kilogram metal car ramp.
“The attack caused her to drop her bag and belongings onto the garage floor. The assault then generated a large amount of blood splatter to the car and wall,” Crown prosecutor Nanette Rogers, SC, …