"Hi, I killed my family - who wants to buy my story"

SHOOT: A possible motive for Bain murdering his family is that he had a girlfriend and had ambitions to be an actor/international singing sensation. His dysfunctional family may have seen to him a milestone around these ambitions. Ironically, if this is true, Bain achieved everything he was aiming for. Adulation, attention, fame - possibly books and movies. Plenty to smile about. And Joe Karam, his supporter, stands to be handsomely rewarded for being such a loyal 'friend'. Some echoes of the Aileen Wuornos story here.

clipped from www.nzherald.co.nz David Bain could sell his story for up to $50,000 say experts - but his long-time campaigner Joe Karam is in a Hollywood state of mind. A light-hearted Karam - setting aside the controversies of the so-called evidence the Bain jury didn't hear and the stress of the 13-week retrial - jokingly suggests Nicolas Cage could play David in a movie while Danny DeVito could play himself. "You can easily do something with the hair and maybe bend his ears out a bit, dampen down the colour of his skin." Former women's magazine editor Wendyl Nissen said the Bain story could fetch up to $50,000, perhaps on a three-story basis across two years. She said there was no money with television but he might get $60,000 for a book deal. "But then you still have to hire a ghostwriter on top of that. I mean you have to do the numbers; how many would it sell? Both Woman's Weekly acting editor Fiona Fraser and Woman's Day editor Sarah Henry said they had had early discussions with Karam.