[chris]

n 1992 two British women disappeared in Australia, New South Wales, while hitch hiking. Their bodies were found in April, and two more bodies in October the following year.

After public fears of a serial killer, police conducted a search of the forest area. They found three more bodies, all hitch-hikers. The victims were killed by gunshots or stab wounds, and some of the bodies had been decapitated.

The pattern did not fit the normal psychological profile of a serial killer, because he killed victims of different genders and claimed more than one victim at a time.

The police added twenty-nine-year-old Diane Pennachio to the list, her body had been found earlier in 1991, she had been stabbed to death.

In February 1994, a british hitch-hiker came forward to give police crucial information. In 1990 the man had been hitch-hiking in New South Wales. He was offered a ride by a man who stopped the car and then pulled out a gun. The hitch-hiker escaped by fleeing and flagging down another vechile. The hitch-hiker had got a good description of the man and the plates of the attacker's car.

The description of the man was identified by mugshots as forty-nine-year-old Ivan Milat. The police carried out a surveillance operation and on 22 May 1994, Milat was arrested. In Milat's house was belongings of the victims and weapons used to kill them. Ivan Milat was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

[Kinky_John]

https://7news.com.au/news/crime/back...ancer-c-162341

Backpacker killer Ivan Milat, one of Australia's worst serial murderers, has died of cancer at 74.

Milat died in Long Bay Prison Hospital overnight just months after it was revealed he had been diagnosed with terminal oesophagus and stomach cancer.

Good riddance to the fucker, I watched a program about his nephew who killed his friend cause he wanted to be like him

[Oswald2001]

'Millet' strikes me as an appropriate name for a 'cereal' killer.






Kinda like 'Charles Cheerios', but not quite so obvious.

[cardsharksam]

I hope it was a slow painfull
death

[Toby]

The Aussies can be pretty brutal.

[mcpronoun]

Originally Posted by Kinky_John ↗

Good riddance to the fucker, I watched a program about his nephew who killed his friend cause he wanted to be like him

*Fixt

Ivan Milat dead: Australia's most notorious serial Killer dies of cancer
7NEWS
Saturday, 26 October 2019 5:17 pm



Ivan Milat dead

He's one of Australia's most notorious murderers, convicted in 1996 for killing seven backpackers whose bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest.

Backpacker killer Ivan Milat, one of Australia's worst serial murderers, has died of cancer at 74.

Milat died in Long Bay Prison Hospital overnight just months after it was revealed he had been diagnosed with terminal esophagus and stomach cancer.

"Ivan Milat, 74, died at Long Bay Hospital 1 about 4.07am on Sunday, 27 October 2019," a Corrective Services NSW spokesperson told 7NEWS.com.au

"All deaths in custody are subject to a coronial inquest, including deaths resulting from natural causes".

What did Ivan Milat do?

In one of Australia's most notorious criminal cases, Milat was convicted in 1996 of the murder of seven backpackers whose bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest in NSW in the years after they had disappeared between December 1989 and April 1992.

His victims had been shot, stabbed, beaten, or in one case, decapitated. Six of the seven were probably sexually assaulted.

They were Britons Caroline Clarke, 21, and Joanne Walters, 22; Victorian couple Deborah Everist and James Gibson, both 19; and German nationals Simone Schmidl and Gabor Neugebauer, both 21, and Anja Habschied, 20.

All had been looking for a ride south from the Hume Highway, around Liverpool in Sydney's west.

Milat was arrested in May 1994 at his home in Eagle Vale on Sydney’s southwest fringe, police finding a wealth of forensic evidence linking him to the murders.

How many people did Ivan Milat kill?

After a four-month trial, he was convicted of seven counts of murder and handed seven life sentences.

There's long been speculation there were further victims.

But Milat maintained to his death his innocence over the seven killings, and also never confessed to any other murders, despite numerous police efforts.

In mid May this year, the aged and frail prisoner was taken to Prince of Wales Hospital for tests after a deterioration in his health.

His transfer under heavy guard, from the maximum-security Supermax prison at Goulburn, to the public hospital in the Sydney suburb of Randwick, prompted an outcry.


It was the first time the public had seen images of the killer since his jailing 23 years ago.

He was pictured, white haired and in a wheelchair.

After spending several days at the Prince of Wales, Milat was taken to Long Bay Jail, where he was expected to live out his days.

In the months starting from early August, he then made several trips between Long Bay and the Prince of Wales while he underwent chemotherapy.

Previously in a wheelchair, by late September his condition had improved to the point where he was able to shuffle in and out of the hospital, aided by police.

[Weiland]

God, I remember this being all over the news, leading up to his death. Then when he died, it was still all over the news. They sensationalised it so much that it got very dull. I do admit, however, he was a very interesting serial killer.

[Acodo]

Lol! Serial killer taken by the most prolific serial disease. How fitting!

[JesusLovesYou]

He was a sick bastard I remember when he was in jail he tried to eat razor blades or something and starve himself until the police let him out but they never let him out he was really strong aswell.

[JesusLovesYou]

And there was two brothers right one brother went to jail for murder and years later the brother asked his brother why did you kill that guy and he said I never killed him I thought you did turned out it could have been Ivan milats first kill not the brothers I seen it on tv lol