Their decomposed remains were discovered in the remote Belanglo State Forest, kilometers 85 miles from Sydney, between and There has long been speculation that there were many other victims who were never found. Read More. The brutality and infamy of Milat's killings inspired the successful Australian horror film "Wolf Creek. Milat was ultimately identified by year-old British backpacker Paul Onions, who escaped a car when a gun was pulled on him near Belanglo State Forest.
All three tourists fall asleep. When Liz wakes up, she is bound and gagged and her friends are missing. Mick Taylor turns out not to be so friendly, after all. It was suggested partly by the gruesome details of the backpacker murders committed by Ivan Milat in the s, but these murders were committed in a state forest near Sydney. He does it cheerfully and with a great sense of humour.
The finder took it home but did not report it for another month when there was publicity over the discovery in the same area of James' empty backpack. His name on the outside flap had been cut off, but the name inside was intact. A German national, Simone "Simi" Schmidl, left Sydney on 20 January , planning to hitchhike to Melbourne to meet her mother, Erwine Schmidl, who was flying from Germany to join her for a camping holiday.
She was last seen alive on a Sydney railway station, where she was catching a train out of the city. When her mother arrived in Melbourne from Germany two days later, her daughter was not at the airport to meet her as planned. She stayed in Australia for six weeks hoping Simone would show up, but Simi had disappeared off the face of the earth.
Police remain mystified by reports that the couple were seen a few days after they left Sydney in a caravan park in Darwin, where they were said to have missed their flight to Indonesia.
A discarded airline ticket was later found near their bodies when they were eventually found. British women, Caroline Clarke from Northumberland, England and Joanne Walters from South Wales arrived in Australia separately, but became friends and began to travel together.
They wrote to their families back in the U. In April , they left Sydney and planned to earn some money in Victoria picking fruit. They hitch-hiked first to Bulli Pass, on the Pacific Ocean coast south of Sydney, where they were last seen asking directions to the Hume Highway. From there they were never seen alive again. On 19 September , two runners taking part in an orienteering event discovered a decaying corpse in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales, Australia.
The following day, police found a second body and the bodies were soon confirmed to be of Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters. They were left near a network of fire trails which cross the forest, including such sites as "Executioner's Drop" and "Miner's Despair". Joanne had been stabbed multiple times and wounds to her spine would have paralysed her.
Caroline had been shot several times in the head and the police believed she had been used as target practice. Despite a thorough search of the forest at the time no further evidence or bodies was found by police. A year later, in October , Bruce Pryor, discovered a human skull and femur in a particularly remote section of the forest. Two bodies were quickly discovered by police and forensic investigators and identified as Deborah Everist and James Gibson.
Gibson's skeleton showed stab wounds and his upper spine had been severed causing paralysis. Deborah Everist had been savagely beaten, with her skull being fractured in two places, her jaw was broken and there were knife marks on her forehead. Gibson's backpack and the camera had previously been discovered by the side of the road at Galston Gorge, in the northern Sydney suburbs over kilometers 75 mi to the north.
On November 1, , a skull was found in a clearing in the forest by police Sergeant Jeff Trichter. The skull was later identified as that of Simone Schmidl from Regensburg, Germany. Clothing found at the scene was not Simone's but matched that of another missing backpacker, Anja Habschied.
The bodies of Habschied and her boyfriend Gabor Neugebauer were found on November 3rd, in shallow graves 50 meters ft apart. Anja had been decapitated, but, despite an extensive search, her head was never found.
Neugebauer had been shot in the head. All the bodies had been deliberately posed face-down with their hands behind their backs, covered by sticks and ferns. There were the remains of bush fires encircled by stones near the bodies, suggesting the killer had camped there and shell casings of the same caliber were also identified at each site.
Beers bottles and cigarette butts were also scattered around as well as duck tape, ties used for hands and nooses to lead the victims. Since all the backpackers except Simi were traveling in pairs, and two of the pairs included men and one was an ex-soldier how did the killer manage to overpower them? Were there several killers at work?
Did he or they drug the victims first? After developing a profile of the killer, the police narrowed the list of suspects to a shortlist of , to an even shorter list of 32, which included the killer. On January 25th, , Paul took a train to the Hume Highway to try to get to Victoria to earn some money picking fruit, and whilst hiking along the road he came across a roadside transport cafe. As he was leaving the car park, a mustached, smiling Australian walked over to him. Do you need a lift, mate?
He told Paul his name was Bill and he seemed a genuine and friendly man He was quite cagey about his job and all he would tell me was that he spent a lot of time on the road Paul felt slightly suspicious so he followed him out of the car using the excuse that he needed to stretch his legs.
After a couple of minutes, they both got back in the car but seconds later Bill got out again and started rummaging under the seat. Bill pulled out a black revolver and pointed the gun straight at Onions. Then he reached under the seat again and pulled out a bag of rope.
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