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been murdered. The police were notified and a month later MacDonald was arrested while working under the name of David Allen. When interviewed, he confessed his identity and confessed to the murders, giving his motive as having being raped by homosexuals in his teenage years and having formed a hatred of them since then.
William MacDonald confessed to all the murders. He was charged with four counts of murder and he pleaded not guilty on the grounds of insanity. His trial, held in September 1963, was one of the most sensational the country had ever seen. When he gave evidence, the public hung onto every word of horror that he spoke. At one point, when he was describing how he cut off one of the victim’s testicles and penis, a woman juror fainted. The jury found him guilty of four counts of murder.
There was one final twist to the tale. Despite MacDonald’s insanity plea, the jury found him to have been sane at the time of the murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but was later transferred to a home for the criminally insane. He spent the next 16 years in that institution. In 1980, he was deemed sane enough to be sent back to a mainstream prison, where he volunteered to be isolated from the other prisoners. He is Australia’s second-longest serving prisoner. In 2000, he declined a parole date hearing. He was quoted as saying, ‘I am institutionalised now and I have no desire to go and live outside, I would not last five minutes. I have everything I could want in here.’ He is, however, taken on the occasional day trip out.
IVAN MILAT, AKA THE BACKPACKER MURDERER
Between 1989 and 1992, on the Australian highway stretchingfrom Sydney to Melbourne, seven hitchhikers mysteriously disappeared. Two were Australian teenagers and five were European tourists in their early twenties, of whom two were British. The latter two’s disappearances would lead to the discovery of Ivan Milat’s murderous activities and his subsequent apprehension.
On 19 September 1992, a walker in the Belanglo State Forest just outside Sydney came across the remains of a grave containing two bodies, which were later identified as two missing British women, Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke. Both had been savagely stabbed and shot and had probably been tied up prior to their deaths.
In October 1993, two further bodies were discovered. These were the young Australian couple, James Gibson and Deborah Everist. They were found buried in undergrowth in a forested area. Both had been brutally murdered. Further searches in that location revealed the body of one of the missing German backpackers, Simone Schmidl. A further search in the same location revealed the bodies of two more missing European backpackers, 21-year-old Gabor Kurt Neugebauer and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Anja Susanne Habschied. Both had vanished two years previously. Police revealed that both victims had been killed by multiple stab wounds. Habschied had been decapitated and her head used for target practice with a rifle. At this location, the police found spent cartridge cases, which were later connected to a weapon that they found. The investigation team deduced that the killer, or killers, spent more time with each victim as the crimes progressed. This fact indicated that, apart from being cruel and sadistic, the perpetrators were also cool, calculating and confident individuals.
Around the time of the disappearances, a young British backpacker by the name of Paul Onions was involved in an encounter with a passing motorist who picked him up while he was hitchhiking north. Onions stated that he had been picked up by an Australian male, who introduced himself as Bill and then pulled a gun on him. However, Onions managed to escape fromthe car and flag down another motorist, telling that motorist of the incident. The young backpacker was taken to a local police station where he gave his account. However, due to the fact that he had been unable to obtain the registration number
William MacDonald confessed to all the murders. He was charged with four counts of murder and he pleaded not guilty on the grounds of insanity. His trial, held in September 1963, was one of the most sensational the country had ever seen. When he gave evidence, the public hung onto every word of horror that he spoke. At one point, when he was describing how he cut off one of the victim’s testicles and penis, a woman juror fainted. The jury found him guilty of four counts of murder.
There was one final twist to the tale. Despite MacDonald’s insanity plea, the jury found him to have been sane at the time of the murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but was later transferred to a home for the criminally insane. He spent the next 16 years in that institution. In 1980, he was deemed sane enough to be sent back to a mainstream prison, where he volunteered to be isolated from the other prisoners. He is Australia’s second-longest serving prisoner. In 2000, he declined a parole date hearing. He was quoted as saying, ‘I am institutionalised now and I have no desire to go and live outside, I would not last five minutes. I have everything I could want in here.’ He is, however, taken on the occasional day trip out.
IVAN MILAT, AKA THE BACKPACKER MURDERER
Between 1989 and 1992, on the Australian highway stretchingfrom Sydney to Melbourne, seven hitchhikers mysteriously disappeared. Two were Australian teenagers and five were European tourists in their early twenties, of whom two were British. The latter two’s disappearances would lead to the discovery of Ivan Milat’s murderous activities and his subsequent apprehension.
On 19 September 1992, a walker in the Belanglo State Forest just outside Sydney came across the remains of a grave containing two bodies, which were later identified as two missing British women, Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke. Both had been savagely stabbed and shot and had probably been tied up prior to their deaths.
In October 1993, two further bodies were discovered. These were the young Australian couple, James Gibson and Deborah Everist. They were found buried in undergrowth in a forested area. Both had been brutally murdered. Further searches in that location revealed the body of one of the missing German backpackers, Simone Schmidl. A further search in the same location revealed the bodies of two more missing European backpackers, 21-year-old Gabor Kurt Neugebauer and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Anja Susanne Habschied. Both had vanished two years previously. Police revealed that both victims had been killed by multiple stab wounds. Habschied had been decapitated and her head used for target practice with a rifle. At this location, the police found spent cartridge cases, which were later connected to a weapon that they found. The investigation team deduced that the killer, or killers, spent more time with each victim as the crimes progressed. This fact indicated that, apart from being cruel and sadistic, the perpetrators were also cool, calculating and confident individuals.
Around the time of the disappearances, a young British backpacker by the name of Paul Onions was involved in an encounter with a passing motorist who picked him up while he was hitchhiking north. Onions stated that he had been picked up by an Australian male, who introduced himself as Bill and then pulled a gun on him. However, Onions managed to escape fromthe car and flag down another motorist, telling that motorist of the incident. The young backpacker was taken to a local police station where he gave his account. However, due to the fact that he had been unable to obtain the registration number
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