Australia's Most Notorious Serial Killer - The Ivan Milat story

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Who is Ivan Milat and why is he notorious?

Narrator 0:00

So this guy, his name's Ivan, and Ivan is an absolute psychopath. Let me explain. Now, Ivan is from Australia and he's not a good dude. He's got a criminal record. He's kind of always been in and out of trouble. And I guess at some point in his adult life, he decides, hey, I'm going to unalive some people. Sounds like fun. So one day when he's 26 years old, he's driving along outside of town and he picks up these two hitchhikers, two women, and he's trying to chat them up. And I guess these women are polite, but they don't really find him all that charming. And this pisses Ivan off. So he pulls the car over and he pulls out a knife and he threatens them with it. And then he essays at least one of them.

Narrator 0:46

And then he pulls over at a gas station and somehow these two women get away from him and they go and they report him to the police. So then, bam, police, they go and arrest him. But unfortunately, he somehow ends up getting acquitted of this crime. And so 17 years pass, and he's 45 now, and Ivan decides to strike again. And one day, he's driving along, and he sees a young couple walking along the road. They're both 19, and they're hitchhiking to some kind of hippie festival. So Ivan pulls up, and he's like, good night, mate, or whatever Australians say, and he offers them a ride. So they get in and they're all chatting, I guess. And as they chat, he drives them through Belangelo State Forest, which is a forest in this area. But then he decides to pull over and he forces the couple to walk through the trees. Now, we don't know how he forced them, probably by knife point, because once they're deep in the forest, boom, he stabs the boyfriend a bunch of times.

Narrator 1:46

Then he stabs the girlfriend and then he beats her until she's unalived. Then three weeks later, he's driving along and he spots another backpacker. This guy, his name's Onions. So Ivan pulls over and he offers him a ride and Onions is like, that would be brilliant, bruv. Cause you know, he's English. So he gets in and as they're driving through Belanglo State Forest, they're chatting and Onions starts getting a really bad feeling about Ivan. Cause Ivan's asking him way too many questions. And that is when boom, Ivan pulls the car over and he pulls out a pew pew. And Onions is like, oh bloody hell, and he jumps out of the car and he runs away. So Ivan, he gets out of the car and he runs after him and blam, blam, he fires his pew-pew, but he keeps missing, lucky for Onions. And ultimately, Onions is able to run far enough away and he flags down a passing car and he is able to escape. And later, Onions is at the police station and he reports Ivan. But for whatever reason, police don't do anything.

Narrator 2:49

I don't know if they don't have enough information to investigate or what, but nothing happens to Ivan. So this psychopath just keeps going. And about a year later, he strikes again. He's driving along the road and he picks up yet another hitchhiker, a German woman. And he drives her to Belanglo State Forest and he ends up unaliving her with a knife. Eleven months after that, he picks up a German couple who are hitchhiking across Australia. And he drives them to the forest and there he shoots the guy six times and he decapitates the woman. Four months later, he picks up a pair of English women, hitchhikers. And again, he drives them to the forest and he stabs one of them a bunch of times and he shoots the other one.

Narrator 3:36

Now, of course, over the years, all these missing hitchhikers and backpackers, they've been reported missing by their families. But so far, none of their bodies have been found. Like, where do you even begin to look for the body of a missing hitchhiker? They're traveling across the country. Like, they could be anywhere. Well, in this case, they actually do find them. Because a few months later, after Ivan had unalived the two English women, two runners are in the Belangelo State Forest. And they're participating in some orienteering event. It's like an event where they're supposed to navigate through the forest. And while they're there, suddenly, boom, they come across some human remains. Remains belonging to one of the English women.