The Murder Of Ivan Robert Marko Milat: Backpack Serial Killer

Summary of the Crime

Ivan Robert Marko Milat, otherwise known as the backpack murderer this was because his serial killings of backpackers. Milat was a serial killer from Australia the series of events spanned from 1989 which made him 45 years of age, until 1992. Milat was found guilty for the murders of seven individuals, robbery of Paul Onions, and false imprisonment. His plan of murdering the victims differed from shooting, stabbing, strangling, and beating his victims. A relative of Milat’s had spoken and reveled his plans to kill teenager David Auchterlonie a day before he allegedly murdered him. The motive behind his killings were for control was for control and pleasure as there was evidence of gags and restraints, which showed he had

The events that sparked Ivan Milat to kill stemmed from an assortment of things such as his childhood but the marriage of Milat’s former partner and his brother Borris had infuriated Milat which triggered Milat’s violence. A few weeks later he saw two girls hitchhiking. This was the main event that had directly proceeded Ivan Milat to become a serial killer. Similarities in crime scenes included a small fireplace built near the bodies, this had made the police certain that they were dealing with the same killer. He also only murdered backpackers and disposed them in the same manner and same place they were all covered with branches and leaves and were all found in the Belanglo State Forest. The differences in the crime scenes was the way of murdering each victim was always different if he was murdering two people at once he would switch it up and use a different method of murdering. He also would kill both women and men. The main pattern throughout all of Milat’s crimes was that he only targeted hitchhikers. The question still remain unanswered whether or not Milat had an accomplice, the investigators believe that family members could have contributed to the murders but there was no evidence suggesting they were

Milat’s use of words were not persuading for someone that’s trying to plead not guilty and was answering them suspiciously for example when asked about a green surgical glove that was found by police in the car he answered “I wore no … I never seen the glove before” the judge replied with “you wore no what?” Milat’s respone was “well, I never wore that glove. I never seen It before”. This lead to him being convicted and jailed for seven consecutive lives for each victim that he murdered and 18 years without parole. The murders he got charged for were Neugebauer, Habschied, Deborah Everist, James Gibson, Simone Schmidl, Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke and the abduction of Paul Onions. If I was in the position to choose his sentencing I would have sentenced him to death row but with that out of the question, I would sentence Milat to life as he would likely reoffend if he had the chance as he did not show any remorse and found it pleasurable, and he did not see any wrong in what he was doing so he would most likely kill again if he had the chance he also should be in prison for life as he killed the life of seven innocent people and possibly more for no