On the night of the murders, the police officers were staking out the Silky Emperor Restaurant near the corner of Cochranes and Warrigal Roads, Moorabbin, at approximately midnight when they were gunned down at close range.

[2] Silk and Miller, operating an unmarked patrol car (callsign Moorabbin 404), were assigned to stake out one of the potential targets: the Korean BBQ “Silky Emperor”.

[2] At 12:08am on 16 August, Silk and Miller spotted a dark-coloured Hyundai Excel X3 hatchback pulling in and out of the car park, prompting them to follow the vehicle.

[citation needed] After extensive investigations, which took the team to the Hyundai factory in South Korea to obtain vital prosecution evidence, police narrowed down the exact make and model of the vehicle involved in the shootings from the glass samples.

[2] Ballistics also revealed the bullets matched those recovered from the scenes of the armed robberies that Silk and Miller were investigating as part of Operation Hamada.

On 24 September 2001, Debs, a father of five from Narre Warren, Victoria, and Jason Joseph Roberts, boyfriend of Debs' daughter, an apprentice builder, of Cranbourne, Victoria, faced charges relating to the murders of Silk and Miller as well as 13 other charges of armed robbery relating to offences alleged to have occurred between March and July 1998.

[7] In 2015, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) started investigating improper practices during Lorimer Taskforce, but it was closed due to lack of evidence.

[8] In November 2017, IBAC reopened Operation Gloucester after new evidence was obtained via media reports supporting the original allegations of misconduct.

[13] On 11 July 2022, the Supreme Court jury delivered its verdict after five days of deliberation, finding Roberts not guilty of two charges of murder, with Justice Stephen Kaye granting bail.

[14] Roberts spent a total of 22 years in prison and is due back in court to hear the sentence for 10 charges of armed robbery he has admitted to.

[16] Assistant Commissioner of Crime at the time, Simon Overland, said of the book, In May 2007, Debs was convicted of a third murder of a teenager named Kristy Mary Harty in Beaconsfield Upper, Victoria, around June 1997.