For the people of Tara, what happened just down the road casts a long shadow.

It is hard to escape what happened at Wieambilla almost three years ago.

Three people were murdered during what was meant to be a routine missing persons check.

Instead, Queensland police officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold and Wieambilla resident Alan Dare lost their lives in an ambush.

Mr Dare's widow, Kerry Dare, said she was never leaving Wieambilla, despite her husband being killed minutes from her front door.

"It's peaceful, it's beautiful," she said.

"It's where I decided to build my retirement and to holiday with my children and then we got stuck here during COVID and fell in love with the place.

"And then he [Alan] got murdered. Where else would I be? He built my dream. Why would I go away?"

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