Victim finds joy

The mother of three children murdered by their father, who then took his own life, has given birth to a baby boy.

Karen Bell's former partner Gary Poxon killed the children - Jack, 8, Maddie, 7, and 16-month-old Bon - at their remote property on the NSW Far South Coast in June 2008.

Now in a new relationship, Karen is a mother again, with the birth of Connor Jack Gray on September 25.

His father, Dean Gray, also the brother of Karen's best friend, is described as "a big-hearted bloke of few words", in the latest edition of Woman's Day.