Ivan milat essays

Ivan milat essays Seven backpackers had disappeared while traveling south along the Hume highway, Between December 1989 and April 1992. Bodies were discovered In Belangalo state forest between September 1992 and November 1993. After extensive police searches of the area, five more bodies were discovered. The bodies were later found to be that of Deborah Everest and James Gibson of Victoria, Simone Schmindl from Germany, Anja Habschied and Gabor Neugebauer also from Germany, and Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke from the United Kingdom. The victims were all young, between 19 and 22 years of age. Forensic evidence showed that each victim was attacked savagely and with a great deal of force, much more than was necessary to cause death. Two of the victims had been shot multiple times in the head. Three had stab wounds which would have caused severe paralysis, two of them had there spinal cord severed. One had been decapitated. Two had been strangled and all but one appeared two have been sexually abused, either before or after death. One Backpacker had managed to escape and report the incident to the Police. Paul Onions, a British backpacker. On 25th January 1990 Onions was hitchhiking along the Hume highway when he was picked up and later attacked by Milat but fortunately escaped. After the discovery of the bodies police made contact with onions who returned to Australia in 1994 and 1996 as a key witness in Milats trial. Police slowly found evidence linking Ivan Milat with the murders. They found that three of the Milat brothers owned a small property on the "Wombeyan Caves" road, twenty five miles from Belangalo. In addition, one vehicle found was a silver "Nissan Patrol" four-wheel-drive that had been owned by Ivan Milat, similar to the one described by Onion. Paul Onions then positively identified Ivan Milat in a police photo line up. On this, authorization was given to search the homes of Ivan Milat and his mother and Brothers Richard, Walter an ...