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Bones Found In Serial Killer's Dumping Ground
<!-- SHARE --> <script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- end SHARE --> 12:48pm UK, Monday August 30, 2010
Ian Woods, Australia correspondent
Police in Australia are trying to identify bones found in an area where Ivan Milat,
one of the country's most notorious serial killers, used to bury his victims.
The area where the bones were found: Could it be another victim of Milat?
The skeletal remains, which included a skull, are believed to be human but forensic scientists are performing tests to determine their origin. The discovery was made by a group of trail bike riders in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales. Milat killed, mutilated and buried seven victims during a killing spree in the mid 1990s.
He preyed on backpackers, and two of those he killed were young British hitchhikers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters. He was eventually caught and convicted because of evidence from another British backpacker, Paul Onions, who managed to escape from him. There has been speculation there may have been other victims besides the bodies which had already been found.
Milat is in prison for life for killing seven backpackers
But Acting Superintendent Evan Quarmby would not comment on whether the latest discovery would lead to Milat being interviewed in prison. "We are not drawing any conclusions with any missing persons or past investigations," he said, but said the bones had been there "for a little while", in an area which had not previously been searched.
"At this stage they appear to be human remains." Milat is serving life in a maximum security prison, but has been involved in a series of bizarre incidents over the years, including cutting off his little finger and putting it in an envelope addressed to a judge who had refused an inquiry into his conviction. He also swallowed razor blades and part of a toilet.
