Officially, Milat is rearrested in late 1974 when he returns after his mother is taken to hospital suffering from a heart attack. Later that year, the police discover that Ivan has fled to New Zealand, where he somehow made a living.

Milat leaves his shoes at the Gap, a renowned Sydney suicide spot. Facing both rape charges and two counts of armed robbery, he fakes his own death. With the help of men from inside a petrol station cafe, the girls manage to escape and Milat takes off. He rapes one of the girls who manages to convince him they stop for cans of drink. You won’t scream, when I cut your throats will you?” He binds the girls and tells them, “I am going to kill you. On Good Friday in April 1971, Ivan Milat picks up two young female hitchhikers near Liverpool train station. Some time before the mid-1970s, Ivan Milat began a job driving trucks carting tyres to Goulburn, Yass, Canberra, Perth via Adelaide, Melbourne, Yass and Brisbane. Ivan’s been doing something bad, years ago.” The task force led by Assistant Commissioner Clive Small would lead Milat to trial on the backpacker murders, without any murder charges added to the original seven.īut Milat was in the frame for several of these missing or murder cases, and he would be asked and deny his involvement.Īt one point, Ivan’s younger brother Richard Milat would speculate there would be “heaps more bodies” out there to be found.Īnother of Milat’s brothers later said, “Ivan is. He was a “shooting nut” who also loved knives.Īt the kill site of the seven young people he murdered in Belanglo, Milat left the bodies covered in leaves and branches.īeer bottles and cigarettes were found near some of the bodies. Deborah Balkan vanished from a western Sydney hotel in 1980 with her friend, never to be seen again.

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