Current Peter Dupas serial killer - Vic

[Kurve]

While Peter Dupas is serving life terms with no minimum for the murders of Nicole Patterson, Mersina Halvagis and Margaret Maher, he is the main suspect in several others and continues to be pursued.

Dupas has a long history of attacking women, the first was his neighbour who was a new mum. After offering to help her peel potatoes, he turned on her with the knife.

Chronology

• 6 July 1953 Peter Norris Dupas born.
• 3 October 1968 at age fifteen he stabbed his female neighbour and received eighteen months' probation.
• 25 July 1974 sentenced to 5 to 9 years' imprisonment for rape aged 21.
• 1979 approximately two months after his release from prison, Dupas again molested women in four separate attacks over a ten-day period.
• 28 February 1980 Dupas received a five-year minimum prison sentence for three charges of assault with intent to rape, malicious wounding, assault with intent to rob, and indecent assault.
• 1985 February released from prison.
• 28 June 1985 Dupas was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment for rape that was committed four days after his release from prison
• Less than two years after his release from prison, Dupas was arrested on charges of false imprisonment over an incident at Lake Eppalock in January 1994.
• 18 August 1994 after entering a guilty plea to one count of false imprisonment, Dupas was sentenced to three years and nine months' imprisonment, with a minimum period of two years and nine months.
• September 1996 Dupas released from prison.
• 4 October 1997 The murdered body of Margaret Josephine Maher was discovered.
• 1 November 1997 Mersina Halvagis murdered. Body discovered the next day.
• 31 December 1997 Kathleen Downes murdered. Dupas charged with murder in February 2018
• 19 April 1999 The murdered body of Nicole Amanda Patterson was discovered.
• 22 April 1999 Police arrested Dupas.
• 22 August 2000 Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Nicole Patterson with no minimum period.
• 16 August 2004 Dupas was convicted of the murder of Maher and sentenced to a second term of life imprisonment.
• 11 September 2006 Police charged Dupas with the murder of Mersina Halvagis.
• 9 August 2007 Dupas was convicted of the murder of Mersina Halvagis.
• 27 August 2007 Dupas sentenced to serve life imprisonment for the murder of Mersina Halvagis.
• 17 September 2009 Dupas's appeal upheld against conviction for the murder of Mersina Halvagis, verdict set aside.
• 25 October 2010 second trial for the murder of Mersina Halvagis begins.
• 19 November 2010 Dupas is convicted for a second time of the Halvagis murder.
• 26 November 2010 sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Mersina Halvagis, with no minimum term. This means that Dupas will not be eligible for parole, due to no minimum term being fixed, and will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Other suspected murders:

Helen McMahon
McMahon was a 47-year-old woman found beaten to death on a Ryebeach on 13 February 1985. She was sunbathing topless on the beach when she was attacked. Her body was discovered naked and covered by her beach towel. The location of the murder was nearby to the location where Dupas had earlier raped a 21-year-old woman at a beach in Blairgowrie, for which he was convicted and served a term of imprisonment. It was originally thought Dupas was in prison at the time of McMahon's murder and was not released until two weeks later; however, investigators learned that Dupas was on pre-release leave from prison and living in the Rye area when McMahon was killed. Police believe McMahon may have been Dupas' first murder victim, although her murder officially remains unsolved.

Renita Brunton
Dupas is a suspect in the murder of 31-year-old Brunton in the kitchen of her second-hand clothing store at a mall in Sunbury, Victoria on 5 November 1993. Investigators found that Brunton had been stabbed 106 times.

Kathleen Downes
Dupas is a suspect in the murder of 95-year-old Downes at the Brunswick Lodge nursing home in Brunscick. Downes was stabbed to death at 6:30 a.m. on 31 December 1997, a month after Halvagis' murder. Police investigations revealed Dupas had telephoned the nursing home some time before the murder. Dupas was charged with Downes' murder in February 2018.

In 2019, Channel 7's Beyond the Darklands episode on Peter Dupas was prevented from screening due to a court injunction.

 

[Hojuman]

Now here is a true psychopath.

Never-to-be-released

 

[Kurve]

Now here is a true psychopath.

Never-to-be-released

There was another incident, iirc only days/short weeks before Renita Brunton was killed. He ran out from behind some bushes where he'd been lying in wait and tried to pull a girl off her horse.

 

[Hojuman]

There was another incident, iirc only days/short weeks before Renita Brunton was killed. He ran out from behind some bushes where he'd been lying in wait and tried to pull a girl off her horse.

Led to believe some hardened crims give him a wide berth in prison.

 

[Kurve]

He got smarter as he went along and tried to set up alibis beforehand.

Peter Dupas, The Mutilating Monster, is an Australian serial killer currently serving 3 life sentences without the possibility of parole. But police believe he may have at least 6 victims

True Blue Crime - Peter Dupas

Peter Dupas, The Mutilating Monster, is an Australian serial killer currently serving 3 life sentences without the possibility of parole. But police believe he may have at least 6 victims. Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the background of this sickening individual, tell the stories of his...

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[The Dawes]

One of the main things that jump out at me with this guy is how lenient the sentences he received in the 1970's & 80's were for extremely violent and brutal crimes and then would often be released early.
People these days bang on about lenient sentencing, but it's actually much harsher now than it was in that era.
The other of course, is that there must be additional crimes he's committed that he's yet to be charged with particularly in the 1997-99 period.

just an overall nasty piece of work with no redeeming features.

 

[Bazzas Lovechild]

VicPol believes Kathleen Downes is definitely a victim. If you visit the academy in Glen Waverley they have a big wall of serious crimes that have been solved in the main building. She is listed definitively as a Dupas victim. I was surprised given that as far as I’m aware charges were never laid against him for that one.

 

[Kurve]

Some focus on Andrew Fraser's (criminal lawyer) conviction for drugs / no priors and the system sending him to jail with 38 of the most violent, hardcore criminals in Victoria. One of them was Dupas.

Includes an interview with Fraser.

Peter Dupas: Stalking a serial killer

<p>Peter Norris Dupas is the worst type of serial killer - a man who stalked women for decades and, police suspect, randomly killed six strangers. Convicted of the murders of Nicole Patterson and Margaret Maher he was the prime suspect in the murder of Mersina Halvagis, stabbed to death in 1997...

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[Anja_Nees]

Well to be fair, it’s not like there were any signs he was a danger to women before he started killing them.