Has Australia had many serial killers?

Question

Has Australia had many serial killers?

Answer 1

Yes we have had quite a few in the past, but it doesnt happen so much anymore.

Our crime rate compared to countries such as America is a lot lower. This is partly becasuse we are not allowed to own guns here.

Answer 2

That's a killer question

Answer 3

Oh yes there have been both serial and spree killers.

Ivan Milat is probably the most famous Australian serial killer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Milat

And Martin Bryant is the most most famous spree killer.  He's currently serving 35 life sentences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Brya...

Julian Knight is another spree killer. He was proably the most famous one prior to Martin Bryant.   I have the dubious pleasure of living just around the corner of his old family home and walk past the scene of several of the killings every day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Knig...

Then there's the Birnies.  There's a documentary on TV about them right now...

Answer 4

David (1951 – October 2, 2005) and Catherine Birnie (born 1951) were an Australian husband and wife pair of serial killers from Perth, Australia. They murdered four women ranging in age from 16 to 35 in their home in the 1980s, and attempted to murder a fifth. These crimes were referred to in the press as the Moorhouse murders, after the Birnie's address at 3 Moorhouse Street in Willagee on the outskirts of Perth.[1]

David Birnie hanged himself on October 2, 2005. Catherine's first opportunity for parole in 2007 was unsuccessful and her case will be reviewed again in 2010. However, West Australian Attorney General Jim McGinty has said that her release is unlikely while he remains in office.[2]

John Justin Bunting (b. September 4, 1966 [1], Inala, Queensland) is an Australian serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia, currently serving life imprisonment for his role in the murder of eleven victims of the Snowtown murders. Snowtown murders, or the Bodies in Barrels murders, refers to a series of gruesome murders perpetrated in South Australia during the 1990s. The crime spree was uncovered when the remains of eight victims were found in barrels of acid located in a rented former bank building in Snowtown, South Australia, on May 20, 1999. The town of Snowtown (population 520) is in the Mid North of South Australia, 145 km north of Adelaide. Though Snowtown is frequently linked with the crimes, the bodies had been held in a series of locations around Adelaide for some time, and were moved to Snowtown in early 1999, very late in the crime spree that had spanned several years. Only one victim was killed in Snowtown; none of the victims or the perpetrators were from that town.

John Wayne Glover (November 26, 1932 - September 9, 2005) was an Australian convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore. Over a fourteen month period over 1989/90, Glover killed six elderly women for which he became dubbed "The Granny Killer".[1]The Truro murders was the name given to the findings of the remains of seven young women in bushland near the town of Truro, South Australia in 1976 - 1977.

On April 25, 1978, William Thomas (a former VFL footballer) found what he thought was the bone from the leg of a cow whilst mushrooming in bushland near Truro. Upon closer inspection he noted the bone had a shoe attached and inside the shoe was human skin and painted toenails. Clothes, blood, and more bones were found nearby. The dead woman was later identified to be Veronica Knight, an 18 year old girl who had vanished from an Adelaide street.

Later, other bushwalkers discovered the skeletal remains of 16 year old Sylvia Pittman, about 1 km from where Veronica's remains had been located.

Serial killing was a new phenomenon in Australia at the time, and police faced a difficult task of piecing together evidence. There was the strong suggestion of a link between the two dead women found in the Truro bushland, and other young women reported missing in the area.

Kathleen Megan Folbigg (née Donovan) (b. 14 June, 1967) is an Australian serial killer, convicted of murdering her three infant children. Edward Joseph Leonski (December 12, 1917 – November 9, 1942) was an American serial killer who committed his crimes in Australia. Leonski is known as the Brownout Strangler, given Melbourne's wartime status of keeping low lighting (not as stringent as a wartime blackout).

Mark Jefferies was a bushranger, serial killer and cannibal in the early 19th century in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia) 1826.

Caroline Grills, born Caroline Mickelson (1890 - October 1960) was an Australian serial killer.

Grills became a suspect in 1947 after three family members (87-year-old stepmother Mrs. Christine Mickelson; Mrs. Angelina Thomas, a relative of Mrs. Grills' husband; and Mr. Grills' brother-in-law John Lundberg) and a close family friend (Mrs. Mary Anne Mickelson) died.

Ivan Robert Marko Milat (born December 27, 1944 in Guildford, New South Wales) is an Australian serial killer, convicted of the murder of seven local and international hitchhikers during the 1980s and 1990s. His crimes became known in Australia as the Backpacker murders. Milat is currently serving seven life sentences in Goulburn Supermax Correctional Prison in New South Wales. To this day, he still proclaims his innocence to all of the charges against him.

The Claremont serial murders is the case of the unsolved murders of two young Australian women and the unresolved disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997 in Claremont, a wealthy western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

All three women disappeared in similar circumstances after attending night spots in Claremont, leading police to suspect that an unidentified serial killer was the offender.

The case began with the disappearance of Sarah Spiers, 18, on January 26,1996, after leaving a nightclub in the centre of Claremont. Her disappearance was described by her friends and family as being out of character and attracted massive publicity. Spiers had apparently called a taxi from a phone booth but was not present when the responding vehicle arrived. Her fate remains uncertain.

Some months later, Jane Rimmer, 23, disappeared from the same part of Claremont. Her body was found in bushland in the far southern suburbs of Perth in August, 1996.

On March 14 1997, Ciara Glennon, a 27-year-old lawyer, disappeared from the Claremont area. Her body was found on April 3, near a track in scrub in a northern suburb of Perth. [1] After this murder police confirmed that they were searching for a serial killer.

Each of the women had attended either a pub called The Continental (since renamed The Red Rock and now known as The Claremont Hotel) and/or the nightclub Club Bayview.

It has also been suggested by Liam Bartlett, a journalist, that Sarah Spiers was not the first victim[2]. He wrote that police have told the father of a fourth missing woman, 22-year-old Julie Cutler, that his daughter was probably a victim of the Claremont killer.

Eric Edgar Cooke (February 25, 1931–October 26, 1964) was a Western Australian serial killer and burglar. From 1958 to 1963, he attacked 20 people in the city of Perth, Western Australia, killing eight.  Paul Charles Denyer (b. April 14, 1972) is an Australian serial killer, currently serving life imprisonment in HM Prison Barwon . William MacDonald (the Mutilator) was classed as Australia's first true serial murderer. William MacDonald was born in Liverpool, England, in 1924. Between June 1961 and April 1963, William 'The Mutilator' MacDonald terrorized Sydney with a string of gruesome murders.

Peter Norris Dupas (b. July 6, 1953) is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence.[1] His criminal signature is to remove the b*****s of his female victims.[2]

James Spyridon Vlassakis (b. December 24, 1979 [1]) is an Australian serial killer, currently serving life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 26 years for his role in the Snowtown murders.Leonard John Fraser (June 27, 1951 – January 1, 2007) was an Australian convicted serial killer.

Fraser was born in Ingham, Queensland. He was jailed for the abduction and murder of nine-year-old

Carl Anthony Williams (b. October 13, 1970) is an Australian convicted hitman[1], drug trafficker and drug manufacturer from Melbourne, Victoria. Williams is currently serving a life prison sentence with a non-parole period of 35 years for the murders of four victims of the Melbourne gangland killings. The Port Arthur massacre of 28 April 1996 was a killing spree which claimed the lives of 35 people and wounded 37 others mainly at the historic Port Arthur prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.[1] He is now interned in the Wilfred Lopes Centre[2] near Risdon Prison. Resulting in the deaths of 35 people, the Port Arthur massacre remains Australia's deadliest incident of a mass killing spree and is among one of the deadliest such incidents worldwide in recent times.

THese are a few here is the web site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_...

Australia is a small country and so we don't have a lot but it pays to be careful as our crime stats are just as high as any where else! Hope this helps

Answer 5

for a small country there have been quite a few... google..... australian true crime stories

Answer 6

we have had a few,, back packer killer!!! no where as many as america though