Ivan Milat

Ivan Robert Marko Milat (born December 27, 1944 in Guildford, New South Wales) is an Australian serial killer, convicted of the murder of seven local and international hitchhikers during the 1980s and 1990s. His crimes became known in Australia as the Backpacker murders. Milat is currently serving seven life sentences in Goulburn Supermax Correctional Prison in New South Wales. To this day, he still proclaims his innocence to all of the charges against him. Milat's father was born in Croatia and his mother was Australian of English origins. Milat's sister-in-law, Lisa Milat, ran for the Australian Senate in the 2007 Australian federal election. In September 1992 two orienteers came across the bodies of British tourists Joanne Walters...