Ivan Milat Who is Ivan Milat Ivan Robert

Ivan Milat

Who is Ivan Milat ? Ivan Robert Marko Milat (1944 -12 -27) 27 December 1944 (age 70) Guildford, New South Wales Australia Other names The Backpacker Killer The Backpacker Murderer Criminal penalty 7 consecutive life sentences plus 18 years without parole Killings Victims 7+ Span of killings 1989– 1993 Country Australia State(s) New South Wales Date apprehended 22 May 1994

Young life • Ivan Robert Marko Milat was born in Australia on December 27, 1944, one of 14 children in an extended Yugoslavian immigrant family. Family life was rural and insular, and the Milats kept to themselves, making reliable information about Ivan Milat's upbringing difficult to obtain. Interviews with his brother, Boris, after Milat's trial, indicate that he exhibited psychopathic tendencies early on, though other family members dispute this. Milat was described as a good-looking, muscular boy, who had a fascination for hunting and guns, and took great care of his appearance. His parents were hard working and strict. With 14 children to manage, discipline was difficult, and Milat and his brothers had a reputation for lawlessness in their neighborhood. The family endured

Victims • Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters • Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied • Deborah Everist and James Gibson

Investigation • The Backpacker murders were a spate of serial killings that occurred in New South Wales Australia during the 1990 s. 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 (t hree German, two British), and two were Australian travellers from Melbourne.

Arrests • Milat quickly became a suspect. Police learned he had served prison time and in 1971 had been charged with the abduction of two women and the rape of one of them, although the charges were later dropped. It was also learned that both he and his brother Richard worked together on road gangs along the highway between Sydney and Melbourne, that he owned a property in the vicinity of Belanglo, and had sold a Nissan Patrol fourwheel drive vehicle shortly after the discovery of the bodies of Clarke and Walters. Acquaintances also told police about Milat's obsession with weapons.

His sentence • Serving seven life sentences at Supermax • Milet, serving a life sentence at NSW's Goulburn supermax jail, in January used a prison-issued plastic knife to cut off his little finger below the knuckle on his left hand