Ivan Milat

Ivan Milat
Milat in 1971
Born
Ivan Robert Marko Milat

(1944-12-27)27 December 1944
Died27 October 2019(2019-10-27) (aged 74)
Other namesThe Backpacker Killer
The Backpacker Murderer
EmployerRoads & Traffic Authority
Known forBackpacker murders
Conviction(s)Murder (7 counts)
Attempted murder
False imprisonment
Robbery
Criminal penalty7 life sentences without parole (murder)
6 years' imprisonment (attempted murder)
6 years' imprisonment (false imprisonment)
6 years' imprisonment (robbery)
Details
Victims7+
Span of crimes
1989–1992
CountryAustralia
State(s)New South Wales
Weapons.22-calibre Ruger 10/22
Bowie knife
Date apprehended
22 May 1994
Imprisoned atLong Bay Correctional Centre (2019)
Goulburn Correctional Centre (1997–2019)
Maitland Gaol (1996–1997)

Ivan Robert Marko Milat (27 December 1944 – 27 October 2019[1]), commonly referred to in media as the Backpacker Murderer, was an Australian serial killer who abducted, assaulted, robbed and murdered two men and five women in New South Wales between 1989 and 1992. His modus operandi was to approach backpackers along the Hume Highway under the guise of providing them transport to areas of southern New South Wales, then take his victims into the Belanglo State Forest where he would incapacitate and murder them. Milat is also suspected of having committed many other similar offences around Australia.

  1. ^ Brown, Malcolm; Feneley, Rick (24 November 2010). "Life never a picnic for the dirt-poor, troubled Milat clan". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.