(August 5, 2012 at 4:47 pm)Annik Wrote: I don't count Ed Gein. He only killed two people, you know. He was mostly a grave-robber.
Had never heard of him.
We have our share of murderers and serial killers. My state, South Australia,is the bizzare murder capital the nation.
Probably the most notorious serial murders in Australia in the last 30 years are probably 'The Snowtown Bodies in the Barrels' and Ivan Milat,the backpack murderer.
Quote:The Snowtown murders, more commonly known in Australia as the Bodies in Barrels murders, were the murders of 11 people in South Australia, Australia between August 1992 and May 1999 (a twelfth charge relating to the death of Suzanne Allen was dropped due to lack of evidence). The crimes were uncovered when the remains of eight victims were found in barrels of acid located in a rented former bank building in Snowtown on 20 May 1999. The town of Snowtown is 145 kilometres (90 mi) north of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Though Snowtown is frequently linked with the crimes, the bodies had been held in a series of locations in South Australia at different times and were only moved to Snowtown in early 1999 after the accused became aware that police were investigating them regarding several missing person cases, very late in a crime spree that had spanned almost seven years. Only one victim was killed in Snowtown; none of the victims or the perpetrators were from that town.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowtown_murders
Quote:The Backpacker Murders is a name given to serial killings that occurred in New South Wales, Australia during the 1990s. The bodies of seven missing young people aged 19 to 22 were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south west of the New South Wales town of Berrima. Five of the victims were international backpackers visiting Australia (three German, two British), and two were Australian travellers from Melbourne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Milat_..._killer%29
Arguably my state's most notorious serial killers, known as "The Family" have never been caught.
Quote:The Family was the name given to a close-knit group of Adelaide murderers involved in the kidnapping, drugging, sexual abuse and, at times, torture of young men and teenaged boys in Adelaide, Australia and surrounding areas throughout the 1970s and into the mid 1980s. The existence of the group came to the attention of the public following the murder of five teenagers between 1979 and 1983.[1][2] The high profile occupations of some of the suspects led to claims of an alleged high society conspiracy.[3] The term stems from an interview a police detective gave on 60 Minutes,[4] claiming the police were taking some action "...to break up the happy family."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Murders
