Ivan Milat was an Australian serial kil*ler.
Ivan Milat was an Australian serial kil*ler. In April 1971, Milat was arrested for abducting two 18-year-old hitchhikers, one of who he ra*ped. While awaiting trial, he faked his suicide before fleeing to New Zealand for a year. He was re-arrested in 1974 but the charges against him were dropped after some legal battle; his lawyer was a renowned Australian Solicitor, John Marsden. In 1975, he took up a job as a truck driver, and this gave him the opportunity to earn the nickname “Backpacker Murderer”. Between 1989 and 1992, Milat captured, raped ; and murde*red several backpackers. He would offer to give them a ride before incapacitating them. Several bones and bodies of his victims were found in different parts of the Belanglo State Forest in Australia. The police initially thought the crime was committed by a group of killers as some of the victims were in pairs before the attack. A call from the UK helped solve the crime. On N...