George (Teazis ) Templeton

Teazis, or Templeton as he was known, disappeared on May 3, 2005.

He was an accused drug dealer, a "plastic gangster" with heavy connections.

Old associates of Templeton agree with family members that his dark past probably caught up with him.

"What do you expect? He was a standover man," a retired gang member says told The Sunday Age.

"He used to rip off drug dealers.

"That sort of shit comes back at you sooner or later."

Fiancé and partner of more than six years, Robyn Lindholm is a long-time stripper who works under the name of Colette.

Lindholm was once a girlfriend of Alphonse Gangitano and had been seeing him up until the time he was killed.

Templeton, when he was known as Teazis, was named at the 2001 inquest into the murder of exotic dancer Shari Davison, who disappeared in 1995.

Her body has never been found.

Coincidentally, Davison worked for strippers agency Simply Irresistible in Kew, run by Kristine Mitchell - who filed the missing person's report on Davison, and has Robyn Lindholm under exclusive contract.

Simply Irresistible was owned at that time by a reported associate of Gangitano.

The Coroner's Court was told that Teazis was a leader of a gang of Greeks in Richmond that included the prime suspect in the murder, Nick Kitsoukilias (who also vanished around the time of the inquest).

Davison had been renting a house with Kitsoukilias, at the time of her disappearance.
Witness Heidi Zankovic, in her police statement tendered to the inquest, said she thought the gang was "really weird".

"They were like plastic gangsters," Ms Zankovic said.

She said that, three weeks before Davison went missing, a friend, Bill Manolis, took her to a carpet warehouse in Collingwood owned by Teazis.

Ms Zankovic said Teazis was waiting inside and told her to sit down for a talk related to drugs before he "brought out a heavy-looking gun and held it to my head".

She said Teazis ordered her to either move back to her father's place or return to Bendigo.

"I believe the gun was real and it terrified me. I certainly don't know if it was related (to Davison's murder) but shows that the gang could get their hands on weaponry if they wanted."

Manolis, in his police statement, said George Teazis and another man once approached him to sell amphetamines for them but he refused.

Templeton was jailed for five months in February 2003 after pleading guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to possessing amphetamines, possessing a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition without a licence, manufacturing unauthorised explosives, cultivating cannabis, and two counts of breaching an intervention order.

Charges of trafficking amphetamines and possessing prohibited fireworks were later withdrawn by police.

Templeton went missing from his Reservoir home.

Police regard the disappearance of Templeton, 38 - also known as George Teazis - as "suspicious".

Lindholm said Templeton left home between midnight and 1.30am while she was out with a girlfriend.

Ms Lindholm received a text message from Templeton about 2.40am.

The text message suggested he had a problem and might need to be picked up, but did not say where he was.

In August 2005 it was reported that a personnel trainer linked Robyn Lindholm was being investigated as a person of interest by homicide squad detectives.

The trainer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is alleged to have threatened to kill Teazis.

The Sunday Age has been told Teazis' fiancee, Robyn Lindholm, had allegedly complained to the trainer that her relationship with Teazis had become violent — notably, that Teazis was prone to tying her up and putting a gun to her head.

According to industry insiders, Ms Lindholm had an affair with the trainer, a relationship that is apparently enjoying renewal.

The trainer is said to have told a number of people he would kill Teazis for allegedly abusing Ms Lindholm.

He is also said to have paid off a $1200 debt Ms Lindholm owed to a local biker gang.