Ivan Milat was one of Australia's most prolific serial killers, murdering backpackers travelling the country. Subscribe to Our Life: [ Ссылка ]

On July 27 1996 Australian Ivan Milat was sentenced to life for the murders of seven backpackers, including two young British hitchhikers, Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke. Victims were brutalised, often raped and then shot or stabbed before being dumped in the remote New South Wales bush. Known as the 'backpacker murders' this case was to take Superintendent Clive Small and his team three years to solve. The prosecution's star witness was a young British tourist, Paul Onions. Onions had accepted a lift from Milat but escaped when the killer pulled a gun on him.

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