It was Easter Sunday when teacher and bride-to-be Stephanie Scott decided to drive to work and to prepare some lessons at school in Leeton in the state's Riverina region.
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The excited 26-year-old was readying herself to marry the love of her life the following Saturday.
She was at Leeton High School on April 5, 2015, to make sure a relief teacher would have all the resources needed while she was on her honeymoon.
But the bubbly drama and English teacher would never return home.
An email Ms Scott sent at 12.59pm from her school computer to the bus company hired for the wedding was her last known contact.
For days her fiance, Aaron Leeson-Woolley, and her family painfully begged the public for answers, completely stunned and at a complete loss as to Ms Scott's disappearance.
But as police would later discover, someone else was at the school that Easter Sunday - even though he was not rostered on to work.
School cleaner Vincent Stanford, 24, sought out Ms Scott, before sexually assaulting and murdering her.
In the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney on Wednesday, Stanford pleaded guilty to murder.
His guilty plea comes six weeks after his twin brother Marcus Stanford pleaded guilty at Griffith Local Court to being an accessory after the fact to murder.
Police arrested and charged Stanford days after Ms Scott's disappearance and after discovering he had taken photos of her burnt remains.
Ms Scott's blood was also found in his car.
He had dumped her red Mazda in a field just outside Leeton before driving her body to Cocoparra National Park, just north of Griffith where he went on regular camping trips.
Police divers found Ms Scott's school-issued lap top, dumped in a canal.
It is understood police used a triangulation based off Stanford's phone to narrow down a search area for Ms Scott's body.
Stanford's mother, Anika, and other brother, Luke, helped police with their investigation.
Ms Scott's body was found the night before she was due to be married at Eugowra in front of 100 close family and friends.
Instead of wearing a tux and watching his partner of five years walk down the aisle on Saturday, April 12, Mr Leeson-Woolley wore Ms Scott's favourite colour yellow and cried in the middle of a Riverina park with hundreds of people who knew and loved his fiancée.
Her father, Bob, told the crowd of hundreds gathered in Mountford Park that he wanted his daughter to be remembered for the great girl she was - and not in the tragic way she was taken away.
"Stephanie was a bubbly, bright, witty, intelligent fun-loving girl who has obviously impacted on many people here to today and our wishes for the future are that that will continue in your minds, you remember her as the girl she was and I'm sure wherever she is now that she would wish that to be the case and maintain that as you remember her, as that great little girl she was."
