Until his death he maintained his four children were killed by his ex-wife Kathleen Folbigg, despite her being exonerated last year.
Mr Folbigg suffered a heart attack last Friday and died at Maitland Hospital yesterday. It is understood he was also suffering from cancer.Ms Folbigg had been convicted of killing their children Patrick, Sarah and Laura and of the manslaughter of their firstborn, Caleb, between 1989 and 1999, when they were aged between 19 days and 19 months.
Prosecutors in the 2003 trial argued Ms Folbigg smothered her children during periods of frustration and asserted that some of her diary entries were admissions of guilt.Kathleen Folbigg along with supporter Tracy Chapman at the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal after her acquittal. Despite this acquittal, Mr Folbigg died believing his children were killed by his ex-wife.
"Craig is a shattered man, and his views have not changed about what occurred with his four children," his lawyer Danny Eid said in June last year. "There were only two people on this earth who knew what it felt like to lose Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura," it read.
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