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A serial killer in our midst. Seems flippant to call it our own serial killings as though we embrace it, but to have something like this going on in modern day Australia (1990s), was the stuff of US Movie folklore.
Ivan Milat terrorised the highways around the Belanglo State Forest in NSW, killing 7 backpackers, 5 of which were international visitors.
I read the book 'Highway to Nowhere' about these murders and it is frightening in the way it portrays the Milat family and it seems almost certain that one of his brothers was also involved but never stood trial.
Hardly the perfect crime though. To steal items from the victims and give them away as gifts to family or keep them for yourself, is pretty damn stupid.
Anybody else have recollections of what it was like hearing about another find in the Belanglo Forest back then?
Ivan Milat terrorised the highways around the Belanglo State Forest in NSW, killing 7 backpackers, 5 of which were international visitors.
I read the book 'Highway to Nowhere' about these murders and it is frightening in the way it portrays the Milat family and it seems almost certain that one of his brothers was also involved but never stood trial.
Hardly the perfect crime though. To steal items from the victims and give them away as gifts to family or keep them for yourself, is pretty damn stupid.
Anybody else have recollections of what it was like hearing about another find in the Belanglo Forest back then?