AUSTRALIAS WORST SERIAL KILLERS

Article BY SKYE ANDREWS

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Martin BRYANT

A spree killer is a person who kills a number of people at one particular time and location in a frenzied, random and apparently an unpremeditated way such as Martin BRYANT did on the 28th and 29th April 1996.

35 people were killed with another 23 wounded in south eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Ronald Jary, 71 (shot through the neck)
Peter Nash, 32 (shot in the head)
Pauline Masters, 49 (shot in the head)
Royce Thompson, 59 (shot in the back)
Winifred Aplin, 58 (shot in the side)
Janette Quin, 50 (shot twice in the back)
Elva Gaylard, 48 (shot in the arm and chest)
Nanette Mikac, 36 (shot in the temple)
Madeline Mikac, 3 (shot twice in the shoulder and chest)
Alannah Mikac, 6 (shot once in the neck)
Robert Salzmann, 58 (shot at point-blank range)
Russell Pollard, 72 (shot in the chest)
Mary Rose Nixon, 60
Helene Salzmann, 50
Zoe Hall, 28
Glenn Pears, 35 (abducted and held captive; was later shot and killed at the Seascape Cottage
David Martin, 72 (gagged and stabbed, then shot)
Noelene Martin, 69 (incapacitated with blunt-force trauma, then shot) Moh Yee Ng, 48 (shot in the upper neck)
Sou Leng Chung, 32 (shot in the head)
Kate Scott, 21 (shot in the back of the head)
Anthony Nightingale, 48 (shot through the upper neck and spine)
Kevin Sharp, 68 (shot twice in the head and arm)
Walter Bennett, 66 (hit with the same bullet as Raymond Sharp; shot through the upper neck)
Raymond Sharp, 67 (hit with the same bullet as Walter Bennett; shot in the head)
Andrew Mills, 49 (shot in the head)
Tony Kistan, 51 (shot in the head)
Sarah Loughton, 15 (shot in the head)
Mervyn Howard, 55 (shot in the head)
Mary Howard, 57 (shot twice in the neck and head)
Nicole Burgess, 17 (shot in the head)
Elizabeth Howard, 26 (shot through the arm and chest)
Dennis Lever, 53 (shot in the head)
Gwen Neander, 67 (shot in the head as she attempted to escape)
Jason Winter, 29 (shot twice in the hand, neck, chest and head)


It was particularly busy that day in the Broad Arrow Cafe as people waited for the next ferry. The events happened extremely quickly. Bryant took aim from his hip and pointed his rifle at Moh Yee (William) Ng and Sou Leng Chung, who were visiting from Malaysia, He shot them at close range, killing both instantly. Bryant then fired a shot at Mick Sargent, grazing his scalp and knocking him to the floor. He fired a fourth shot, a fatal one that hit Sargent's girlfriend, 21-year-old Kate Elizabeth Scott, in the back of the head.

Next Anthony Nightingale was fatally shot through the neck and spine.

Bryant fired one shot that hit Kevin Vincent Sharp, 68, killing him. The second hit Walter Bennett, passed through his body and struck Raymond John Sharp, 67, Kevin Sharp's brother, killing both. The three had their backs towards Bryant, and were unaware what was happening. Gerald Broome, Gaye Fidler and her husband John, were all struck by bullet fragments, but survived.

Bryant then turned towards Tony and Sarah Kistan and Andrew Mills. Andrew Mills was shot in the head. Tony Kistan was also shot from about two metres away.

Bryant moved just a few metres and began shooting at the table where Graham Colyer, Carolyn Loughton and her daughter Sarah were seated. Colyer was injured in the jaw, nearly choking to death on his own blood. Bryant shot Carolyn Loughton in the back, and Sarah was fatally shot in the head.

Bryant pivoted around and shot Mervyn Howard, the bullet passed through him, through a window of the cafe, and hit a table on the outside balcony. Bryant quickly followed up with a shot to the neck of Mervyn Howard's wife, Elizabeth. Bryant then leaned over a vacant baby stroller and pointed the gun at her head and shot her a second time. Both of the Howards' injuries were fatal.

Bryant was near the exit, preventing others from attempting to run past him and escape. As Bryant moved along, Robert Elliott stood up, perhaps hoping to distract him. He was shot in the arm and head, left slumping against the fireplace but alive.

All of these events, from the first bullet that killed Ng, took approximately 15 seconds, during which 12 people were killed and 10 more were wounded.

Bryant moved toward the gift shop area, giving many people time to hide under tables and behind shop displays. He fatally shot the two local women who worked in the gift shop, 17-year-old Nicole Burgess in the head, and 26-year-old Elizabeth Howard in the arm and chest.

Dennis Lever was shot in the head and died. Peter Nash lay down on top of his wife to hide her from Bryant. Bryant moved into the gift shop area where people, trapped with nowhere to go, were crouched down in the corners. Gwen Neander, trying to escape through the door, was shot in the head and killed.

Bryant saw movement in the café and moved near the front door. He shot at a table and hit Peter Crosswell, who was hiding under it, in the buttock. Jason Winter, was then shot, the bullet hitting his hand, neck and chest. A second shot to the head proved fatal to Winter. Fragments from those shots struck American tourist Dennis Olson, who had been hiding with his wife Mary and Winter. Dennis Olson suffered shrapnel injuries to his hand, scalp, eye and chest, but survived.

It is not clear what happened next, although at some point, Bryant reloaded his weapon. Bryant walked back to the cafe and then returned to the gift shop, this time looking down to another corner of the shop where he found several people hiding in the corner, trapped. He walked up to them and shot Ronald Jary through the neck, then Peter Nash and Pauline Masters, killing all three. He did not see Carolyn Nash, who was lying under her husband. Bryant aimed his gun at an unidentified Asian man, but the rifle's magazine was empty. Bryant then quickly moved to the gift shop counter, where he reloaded his rifle, leaving an empty magazine on the service counter, and left the building.

Twenty-nine rounds had been fired in the cafe and gift shop areas in approximately 90–120 seconds Up to this time, Bryant had killed 20 people and injured 12.

Ashley John Law, a site employee, was moving people away from the café into the information centre when Bryant fired at him from 50–100 metres away. The bullets missed Law and hit some trees nearby.

Bryant then moved towards the coaches. One of the coach drivers, Royce Thompson, was shot in the back as he was moving along the passengers' side of a coach. He fell to the ground and was able to crawl, then roll under the bus to safety, but he later died of his wounds. Bryant then moved to the front of this bus and walked across to the next coach. People had quickly moved from this coach towards the back end, in an attempt to seek cover. As Bryant walked around it, he saw people scrambling to hide and shot at them. Brigid Cook was shot in the right thigh, causing the bone to fragment, the bullet lodging there. A coach driver, Ian McElwee, was hit by fragments of Miss Cook's bone. Both were able to escape and survived.

Bryant then quickly moved around another coach and fired at another group of people. Winifred Aplin, running to get to cover behind another coach, was fatally shot in the side. Another bullet grazed Yvonne Lockley's cheek, but she was able to enter one of the coaches to hide, and survived.

Bryant doubled back to where Janet and Neville Quin, who owned a wildlife park on the east coast of Tasmania, were beginning to move toward Mason Cove and away from the buses. Bryant shot Janet Quin in the back, where she fell, unable to move.

Bryant then went to his vehicle, which was just past the coaches, and changed weapons.

Bryant moved back to the buses where Janet Quin lay injured from the earlier shot. Bryant shot her in the back, then left; she later died from her wounds. Bryant then went onto one of the coaches and fired a shot at Elva Gaylard who was hiding, hitting her in the arm and chest and killing her.

Bryant entered the coach and pointed the gun at Neville Quin's face, saying, "No one gets away from me". Mr Quin ducked when he realised Bryant was about to pull the trigger. The bullet missed his head but hit his neck, momentarily paralysing him. After Bryant left, Quin managed to find his wife, although she later died in his arms. Neville Quin was eventually taken away by helicopter and survived.

During this time, Bryant had killed 24 people and injured 18.

Bryant then got back into his car and left the car park. Bryant drove along Jetty Road towards the toll booth where a number of people were running away. Bryant passed by at least two people. Ahead of him were Nanette Mikac (née Moulton) and her two young children, Madeline, 3, and Alannah, 6. Nanette was carrying Madeline, and Alannah was running slightly ahead. By this point, they had run approximately 600 metres from the car park. Bryant opened his door and slowed down. Mikac moved towards the car, apparently thinking he was offering them help in escaping. Several more people witnessed this from further down the road. Someone then recognised him as the gunman and yelled out "It's him!". Bryant stepped out of the car, put his hand on Nanette Mikac's shoulder and told her to get on her knees. She did so, saying, "Please don't hurt my babies".

Bryant shot her in the temple, killing her, before firing a shot at Madeline, which hit her in the shoulder then shot her fatally through the chest. Bryant shot twice at Alannah, as she ran behind the tree, missing. He then walked up, pressed the barrel of the gun into her neck and fired, killing her instantly. Bryant fired one or two more rounds at some people hiding in a bush, but he missed.

Bryant drove up to the toll booth, where there were several vehicles, and blocked a BMW. The car was owned by Mary Rose Nixon. Inside were driver Russell James Pollard and passengers Helene and Robert Graham Salzmann. An argument with Robert Salzmann ensued, and Bryant shot Salzmann at point-blank range, killing him. Pollard emerged from the BMW and went towards Bryant, who shot him in the chest, killing him. More cars then arrived, but seeing this, the drivers were quickly able to reverse back up the road. Bryant then moved to the BMW and pulled Nixon and Helene Salzmann from the car and shot them dead, dragging their bodies onto the road. Bryant transferred ammunition, handcuffs, a rifle and a fuel container to the BMW.

Another car then came towards the toll booth and Bryant shot at it. The driver, Graham Sutherland, was hit with glass. A second bullet hit the driver's door. The car quickly reversed back up the road and left. Bryant then got into the BMW, leaving behind a number of items in his Volvo, including his shotgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Up to this time, Bryant had killed 31 and injured 19.

Graham Sutherland, who had just been shot at in his car, reversed back up the road and drove to the service station close by, where he tried to inform people what was happening. Bryant drove up to the service station and cut off a white Toyota Corolla that was attempting to exit onto the highway. Glenn Pears was driving, with girlfriend Zoe Hall in the passenger seat. Bryant quickly exited the car with his rifle in hand and tried to pull Hall from the car. Pears got out of the car and approached Bryant. Bryant pointed the gun at Pears and pushed him backwards, eventually directing him into the now open boot of the BMW, locking Pears inside.

Bryant then moved back to the passenger side of the Corolla as Hall attempted to climb over to the driver's seat. Bryant raised his rifle and fired three shots, killing her. Many people around the service station saw this and ran to hide in nearby bushland. The service station attendant told everyone to lie down and he locked the main doors. He grabbed his rifle, but by the time he could retrieve some ammunition and load his gun, Bryant was back in his car and gone. A police officer arrived several minutes later and then set out in pursuit of Bryant.

Zoe Hall was Bryant's 32nd victim.

As Bryant drove down to Seascape, he shot at a red Ford coming the other way, smashing its front windscreen. Upon arriving at Seascape, he got out of his car. A 4WD vehicle then approached Seascape along the road. Those in the vehicle saw Bryant with his gun, but believed him to be rabbit hunting and actually slowed down as they passed him. Bryant fired into the car; the first bullet hit the bonnet and broke the throttle cable. He fired at least twice more into the car as it passed, breaking the windows. One bullet hit the driver, Linda White, in the arm. The car was going downhill so it was able to roll down the road out of sight around a corner. White swapped seats with her boyfriend, Michael Wanders, who attempted to drive the car, but was unable to, because of the broken throttle cable.

Another vehicle then drove down the road, carrying four people. It was not until they were almost adjacent to Bryant that they realised he was carrying a gun. Bryant shot at the car, smashing the windscreen. Douglas Horner was wounded by pieces of the windscreen. The car proceeded ahead where White and Wanders tried to get in, but Horner did not realise the situation and drove on. When they saw that White had been shot, they came back and picked them up. Both parties then continued down to a local establishment called the Fox and Hound, where they called police.

Yet another car drove past and Bryant shot at it, hitting the passenger, Susan Williams, in the hand. The driver, Simon Williams, was struck by shrapnel. The driver of another approaching vehicle saw this and reversed back up the road. Bryant also fired at this car, hitting it but not injuring anyone. Bryant then got back into the BMW and drove down the Seascape driveway to the house.

Sometime after he stopped, Bryant removed Pears from the boot and handcuffed him to a stair rail within the house, he also set the BMW on fire with fuel.

Up to this time, Bryant had killed 35 and injured 23.

Bryant was captured the following morning, when he presumably started a fire in the guest house. Bryant taunted police to "come and get him", but the police, believing the hostage was already dead, decided that the fire would eventually bring him out. A large amount of ammunition had also ignited and was exploding sporadically as the house burned. He eventually ran out of the house with his clothes on fire and tore off his burning clothes. He was arrested by the police, and taken to hospital for treatment.

It was found that Glenn Pears had been shot dead during or before the standoff and had died before the fire. The remains of the Martins were also found. It was also determined they had been shot, and in the case of Noelene Martin, she suffered blunt-force trauma. They both died before the fire and witness accounts, as presented to the Supreme Court of Tasmania, of the gunfire place the time of death of David and Noelene Martin as being approximately noon on 28 April. One weapon was found burnt in the house, and the other on the roof of the adjacent building where police believed they had seen Bryant the night before. Both weapons had suffered from massive chamber blast pressure, possibly from the heat of the house fire.

 

William McDonald – The Mutilator

He stabbed his victims dozens of times in the back, chest, neck and face
He also left a unique signature on his victims, each had his penis and testicles sliced off.

Amos Hurst (Victim 1)

The murders began in Brisbane in 1961. MacDonald befriended a 55-year-old man named Amos Hurst outside a Railway Station. After a long drinking session at one of the local pubs, they went back to Hurst's apartment where they consumed more alcohol. When Hurst became intoxicated William began to strangle him. Blood poured from his mouth and on to MacDonald's hands. MacDonald then punched Hurst in the face, killing him.

Alfred Reginald Greenfield (Victim 2)

On 4 June 1961, police were summoned to the Sydney Domain Baths, a man's nude corpse had been found, savagely stabbed over 30 times, and with the genitalia completely severed from his body.

Alfred Reginald Greenfield had been sitting on a park bench in Green Park, just across the road from HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Vincent's_Hospital,_Sydney"St Vincent's Hospital in HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlinghurst,_New_South_Wales"Darlinghurst. MacDonald offered Greenfield a drink and lured him to the nearby Domain Baths on the pretext of providing more alcohol. MacDonald waited until Greenfield fell asleep, then removed his knife from its sheath and stabbed Greenfield approximately thirty times. The ferocity of the first blow severed the HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arteries"arteries in Greenfield's neck. MacDonald then pulled down Greenfield's trousers and underwear, severed his genitals and threw them into Sydney Harbour.

William Cobbin (Victim 3)

Similarly to the second victim, William Cobbin was stabbed repeatedly and mutilated. His body was found in a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_toilet"public toilet at HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_Park,_New_South_Wales"Moore Park.

On this night MacDonald was walking down South Dowling Street where he met 55-year-old William Cobbin. MacDonald lured his victim to Moore Park and drank beer with him in a public toilet. Just before the attack, MacDonald put on his plastic raincoat. Cobbin was sitting on the toilet seat when MacDonald, using an HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppercut"uppercut motion, struck Cobbin in the neck with a knife, severing his jugular, Blood splattered all over MacDonald's arms, face and his plastic raincoat. Cobbin tried to defend himself by raising his arms. MacDonald continued to stab his victim multiple times, covering the toilet cubicle with blood. MacDonald then severed the victim's genitals, placed them into a plastic bag along with his knife, and departed the scene. On the way home MacDonald washed the blood off his hands and face.

Frank Gladstone McLean (Victim 4)

On 31 March 1962, in suburban Darlinghurst, the mortally wounded Frank McLean was found by a man walking with his wife and child. He was the victim of an unfinished assault committed by MacDonald. The man found McLean still breathing but bleeding heavily and went to get police.

On this day MacDonald bought a knife from a sports store in Sydney. That night MacDonald left the Oxford Hotel in Darlinghurst and followed McLean down Bourke Street past the local police station. MacDonald initiated conversation with McLean and suggested they have a drinking session around the corner in Bourke Lane. As they entered Bourke Lane, MacDonald plunged his knife into McLean's throat. McLean tried to fight off the attack but he was too intoxicated to do so. He was then stabbed again in the face and punched—forcing him off balance. The assault was interrupted by a young family approaching. MacDonald hid himself on hearing the voices and the sound of a baby's cry. Once the man and his family had left to summon police, MacDonald returned to the barely-alive McLean, pulled him further into the lane and stabbed him again. A total of six stab wounds were inflicted. He then pulled down McLean's trousers, sliced off his genitals and put them into a plastic bag which he took home and disposed of the next day.

Patrick James Hackett (Victim 5)

On the night of Saturday 6 June 1962, MacDonald went to a wine saloon in Pitt Street Sydney, where he met 42-year-old James Hackett, a thief and derelict who had just recently been released from prison. They went back to MacDonald's new residence where they continued to drink alcohol. After a short period, Hackett fell asleep on the floor. MacDonald then got out a boning knife. He stabbed Hackett in the neck, the blow passing straight through. After the first blow, Hackett woke up and tried to shield himself, pushing the knife back into MacDonald's other hand and cutting it severely. MacDonald then unleashed a renewed attack, eventually striking the knife into Hackett's heart, killing him instantly. He continued to stab his victim until he had to stop for breath. Hackett's blood was splattered all over the walls and floor.

The knife having become blunted, MacDonald was unable to sever his victim's genitals and fell asleep. when he awoke the following morning he found himself lying next to the victim's body covered in sticky, drying blood. The pools of blood had soaked through the floorboards and almost on to the counter in his shop downstairs. He cleaned himself and went to a hospital to have the wound in his hand stitched. He told the doctor that he had cut himself in his shop. After cleaning up the blood, MacDonald dragged Hackett's corpse underneath his shop. Believing the police would soon come looking for his victim, he fled to Brisbane.

Three weeks later, neighbours noticed a putrid smell coming from the shop and called the health department, which in turn called the police. On 20 November 1962 police discovered the rotting corpse, which was too badly decomposed to be identified. An autopsy determined that the body was of someone in their forties, which tallied with records of the missing shop owner, Alan Edward Brennan (MacDonald's alias). In late July, the police had still made no connection between the case and the three previous Mutilator killings, and had profiled the killer as operating in Sydney's inner eastern suburbs, which were many miles distant from Concord.

After investigations, the victim was incorrectly identified as Alan Edward Brennan and a notice published in a newspaper obituary column. This was read by his former workmates at the local post office, who attended a small memorial service conducted by a local funeral director. At this time, MacDonald was living in Brisbane and then moved to New Zealand believing that the police would still be looking for him. Returning to Sydney, McDonald bumped into a former work mate John McCarthy who had believed he was dead, shocked at being recogized McDonald soon fled to Melborne.

McCarthy went straight to the police. At first they did not believe him. They accused him of having had too much to drink and he was told to go home and sleep it off. They even said that he was crazy. He went back again the next day and tried to explain what had happened, but they still didn't believe him. This persuaded McCarthy to go to the newspaper where he spoke to crime reporter Joe Morris. McCarthy explained how he bumped into the "supposed to be dead" MacDonald, aka Alan Brennan. The reporter saw the account as credible and filed a story under the headline 'Case of the walking corpse'. Publication forced the police to exhume the corpse. The fingerprints identified the body as belonging to James Hackett and not William MacDonald. Closer examination found that the body had several stab wounds and mutilation of the penis and testicles, potentially linking the crime to the notorious Mutilator.

Eric Edgar Cooke – Night Caller

Jillian Macpherson Brewer, 22

Brian Weir, 29

John Sturkey, 19

George Walmsley, 54

Shirley Martha McLeod, 18

Constance Lucy Madrill, 24

Patricia Vinico Berkman, 33

Rosemary Anderson, 17

As his crimes were opportunistic and used varying methods, and his victims shared no obvious common traits, predicting where he would strike and catching him was difficult.

Cooke's killing spree involved a series of seemingly unrelated hit-and-runs, stabbings, stranglings, and shootings. Victims were shot with several different rifles, stabbed with knives and scissors, and hit with an axe. Several were killed after waking up as Cooke was robbing their homes, two were shot while sleeping without their homes being disturbed, and one was shot dead after answering a knock on the door. After stabbing one victim, Cooke got lemonade from the refrigerator and sat on the veranda drinking it. One victim was strangled to death with the cord from a bedside lamp, after which Cooke raped the corpse, dragged it to a neighbor's lawn, then sexually penetrated it with an empty whiskey bottle, which he left cradled in the bodies arms.

During the 1960s, people in Australia frequently left cars unlocked and/or with the keys in the ignition, which enabled Cooke to steal a car almost every night. He sometimes returned stolen vehicles without the owners becoming aware of the theft, including several cars that were involved in hit-and-runs. Cooke's first hit-and-run was on Nel Schneider, 29, a mother of four who came to Australia from Amsterdam in September 1955. After being thrown from her bike, Schneider was left with a fractured skull and permanent brain damage.

The police investigation included fingerprinting more than 30,000 males over the age of 12, as well as locating and test-firing more than 60,000 HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Long_Rifle".22 rifles. After a rifle was found hidden in a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldton_Wax"Geraldton Wax bush on Rookwood Avenue, HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_Western_Australia"Mount Pleasant, in August 1963, HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistics"ballistic tests proved the gun to have been used in the murder of Shirley McLeod. Police returned to the location and tied a similar rifle, rendered inoperable, to the bush with fishing line and constructed a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_hide"hide in which they waited in case someone returned for it. Cooke was apprehended when he returned to collect the weapon seventeen days later.

Cooke confessed to several crimes, including eight murders and fourteen attempted murders. In his confessions, Cooke demonstrated an exceptionally good memory for the details of his crimes irrespective of how long ago he had committed the offences. For example, he confessed to more than 250 burglaries and was able to detail exactly what he took, including the number and denominations of the coins he had stolen from each location.

 

Barbara-Anne WYRZYKOWSKI

Classification: Mass Murderer (Parricide)
Date of Murders: 3 July 1999
Date of Birth: 1974
Number of Victims: 5
Location: Perth
Method of Murder: Carbon monoxide poisoning
Victims: Mark, 8
Sarah, 5
Luke, 5
Jessie, 4
Jayde, 1

WYRZYKOWSKI was 25 years old when she drove into the forest with her five children and gassed herself and the children

Malcolm George BAKER
aka The Central Coast Killer

Classification: Spree killer
Date of Murders: 27 October 1992
Date of Birth: 1947
Number of Victims: 6
Location: Sydney
Method of Murder: Shooting
Victims: Kerry Gannan, 23 (former girlfriend)
Thomas, 43 (Kerry's father)
Lisa, 18 (Kerry's pregnant sister)
David, 27 (Malcolm's son)
Ross Smith, 35
Leslie Read, 25

BAKER was sentenced to life imprisonment. The shooting rampage when through 3 towns before he walked into a police station, surrendered and handed over his gun.

 

Douglas John Edwin CRABBE: The Mack Truck Murderer

Classification: Mass Murderer
Date of Murders: 18 August 1983
Date of Birth: 1948
Number of Victims: 5
Location: Yulara, Northern Territory
Method of Murder: Truck
Victims: Helen Fuller, 22
David Seng, 24
Leslie McKay-Ramsey, 35
Adrian Durin, 21
Patricia Slinn, 45

CRABBE was sentenced to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment. He was denied service at a bar he had been drinking at so CRABBE rammed his 25 tonne Mack truck through the hotel wall.

 

Roger Kingsley DEAN

Classification: Mass Murderer
Date of Murders: 18 November 2011
Date of Birth: 1976
Number of Victims: 11
Location: Sydney
Method of Murder: Fire
Victims: Dorothy Wu, 85
Alma Smith, 73
Reginald Green, 87
Lola Bennett, 86
Ella Wood, 97
Urbana Alipio, 79
Caesar Galea, 82
Doris Becke, 96
Verna Webeck, 83
Dorothy Sterling, 80
Neeltje Valkay, 90

DEAN was sentenced to life imprisoment without parole. He set fire to beds in two rooms where he was a night nursing manager to conceal the fact he was stealing tablets prescribed to residents. Five residence died in the fire and six died later in hospital due to their injuries.

 

Kathleen Megan FOLBIGG

Classification: Murderer
Date of Murders: 1989-1999
Date of Birth: 14 June 1967
Number of Victims: 4
Location: New South Wales
Method of Murder: Smothering
Victims: Patrick Allen, 8 months old
Sarah Kathleen, 10 months old
Laura Elizabeth, 19 months old
Caleb Gibson, 19 days old

FOLBIGG was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. She killed her four children over a ten year period because by her own admission from her diary, they annoyed her when they cried and cut into her time to go to the gym and go out dancing.
FOLBIGG first smothered Caleb but his death was attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) two years later she smothered Patrick and then Sarah. Bruises were noticed by the coroner on Sarah's neck but as the mind set was that women did not kill their children they did not see it as murder. Then Laura died and it wasnt until FOLBIGG'S husband found her diary that detailed the killings.
She maintains her innocents claiming the four children died of natural causes

Ivan Robert Marko MILAT: The Backpack Killer

Classification: Serial Killer
Date of Murders: 1989-1992
Date of Birth: 27 December 1944
Number of Victims: 7+
Location: New South Wales
Method of Murder: Stabbing with knife/Shooting
Victims: James Gibson, 19
Deborah Everist, 19
Simone Schmidl, 21
Gabor Neugebauer, 21
Anja Habschied, 20
Caroline Clarke, 21
Joanne Walters, 22

MILAT was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 yearsFirst and second cases

On 19 September 1992, a group out orienteering discovered a decaying corpse while orienteering in the Belanglo State Forest. The following day, police constables Roger Gough and Suzanne Roberts discovered a second body 30 metres from the first. Early media reports suggested that the bodies were of missing British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters, who had disappeared from the inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross in April 1992.
Walters had been stabbed 35 times, and Clarke had been shot 10 times in the head. Despite a thorough search of the forest over the following five days, no further evidence or bodies were found by police.
Third and fourth discoveries and body identification

In October 1993, a local man, Bruce Pryor, discovered a human skull and thigh bone in a particularly remote section of the forest. He returned with police to the scene and two more bodies were quickly discovered and identified as Deborah Everist and James Gibson. The presence of Gibson's body in Belanglo was a puzzle to investigators as his backpack and camera had previously been discovered by the side of the road at Galston Gorge, in the northern Sydney suburbs almost 100 kilometres to the north.
Fifth, sixth and seventh discoveries

On 1 November 1993, a skull was found in a clearing in the forest. The skull was later identified as that of Simone Schmidl from Regensburg, Germany. She was last seen hitchhiking on 20 January 1991. Clothing found at the scene was not Schmidl's, but matched that of another missing backpacker, Anja Habschied. Schmidl was found to have died from numerous stab wounds to the upper torso.
The bodies of Habschied and her boyfriend Gabor Neugebauer were found on 3 November 1993 in shallow graves 50 metres apart. Habschied was decapitated and despite an extensive search, her head could not be found. Neugebauer had been shot in the head 9 times.