Australia's Serial Killers - The Definitive History Of Serial Multicide In Australia

346 Pages·2016·1.79 MB·English

by  Paul B. Kidd

Paul B. Kidd is a Sydney-based author, Radio 2UE broadcaster, freelance
60 Minutes researching producer and photo-journalist who specialises in
Australian true crime, fishing, humour and adventure. His articles,
interviews and photographs have appeared in most Australian major
outdoors and men's publications and in numerous magazines and websites
worldwide.
Paul B. Kidd is a recognised authority on Australian serial killers and
other criminals who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, never to be
released. The author of 14 books on Australian true crime and fishing, he
lives in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
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Never to be Released: Volume 3
Never to be Released: Volume 4
The Knick Knack Man: Inside the Mind of Australia's Most Deranged
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Shallow Graves – The Concealments of Killers
Til Death Us Do Part: Australian Marriages that Ended in Murder
Australian Crime File
Australian Crime File Volume 2
Celluoid Serial Killers: The History of Serial Killers in the Movies
The Mutilator and Australia's Other Signature Serial Killers
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Australia's
SERIAL
KILLERS
PAUL B. KIDD
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First published 2000 in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
This revised edition published in 2011 by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
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Kidd, Paul B. (Paul Benjamin), 1945–.
Australias Serial Killers – the definitive history of serial multicide in Australia.
ISBN 978 1 7426 1144 0.
1. Serial murders – Australia – History. 2. Serial murders
– Australia – Case studies. 3. Serial murderers –
Australia – Case studies. I. Title.
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In loving memory of the victims of serial murder in Australia, from their
families, friends and loved ones.
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Contents
by Professor Paul Wilson
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 The Cannibal Convict
Alexander Pearce Tasmania, 1822–23
CHAPTER 2 The Berrima Axe Murderer
John Lynch – New South Wales, 1840–41
CHAPTER 3 The ‘Rough on Rats’ Murderess
Martha Needle – Melbourne, 1885–94
CHAPTER 4 The Baby Farmers
John and Sarah Makin – Sydney, 1892
Frances Knorr – Melbourne, 1893
Alice Mitchell – Perth, 1900–06
CHAPTER 5 The Windsor Murderer
Frederick Bailey Deeming – England and Melbourne, 1891–92
CHAPTER 6 The Murderous Mistress
Martha Rendell – Perth, 1907–09
CHAPTER 7 The Schoolgirl Strangler
Arnold Karl Sodeman – Melbourne, 1930–35
CHAPTER 8 The Swaggie Killer
Albert Andrew Moss – New South Wales, 1938–39
CHAPTER 9 The Brownout Strangler
Edward Joseph Leonski – Melbourne, 1942
CHAPTER 10 The Thallium Killers
Caroline ‘Aunt Thally’ Grills – Sydney, 1947–53
Yvonne Gladys Fletcher – Sydney, 1948–52
CHAPTER 11 The Romanian Maniac
John Balaban – Paris and Adelaide, 1946–53
CHAPTER 12 The Night Caller
Eric Edgar Cooke – Perth, 1959–63
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CHAPTER 13 The Mutilator
William MacDonald – Sydney, 1960–62
CHAPTER 14 The Carbon Copy Killer
Barry Gordon Hadlow – Queensland, 1962–90
CHAPTER 15 The ‘Kill Seven’ Serial Murders
Archibald Beattie McCafferty – Sydney, 1973
CHAPTER 16 The Lonely Hearts Killer
Rodney Francis Cameron – Victoria and New South Wales, 1974–90
CHAPTER 17 The Truro Serial Murders
Christopher Robin Worrell and James William Miller – Adelaide, 1976–77
CHAPTER 18 The Angel of Death
Helen Patricia Moore – Sydney, 1979–80
CHAPTER 19 The Pederast Predator
Michael George Laurance – Griffith, New South Wales, 1984–86
CHAPTER 20 The Moorhouse Street Murders
Catherine and David Birnie – Perth, 1986
CHAPTER 21 The Kimberley Killer
Josef Schwab – Northern Territory and Western Australia, 1987
CHAPTER 22 The Granny Killer
John Wayne Glover – Sydney, 1989–91
CHAPTER 23 The Backpacker Murders
Ivan Robert Marko Milat – New South Wales, 1989–92
CHAPTER 24 The Frankston Serial Killer
Paul Charles Denyer – Frankston, Victoria, 1993
CHAPTER 25 Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains
Mark Mala Valera – Wollongong, New South Wales, 1998–2000
CHAPTER 26 The Wagga Serial Killer
Matthew James Harris – Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, 1998
CHAPTER 27 Lennie the Loon
Leonard John Fraser – Rockhampton, Queensland, 1998–99
CHAPTER 28 ‘How Did You Come to Be as You Are?’
Peter Norris Dupas – Melbourne, 1997–99
CHAPTER 29 Snowtown: The ‘Bodies in the Barrels’ Serial Murders
John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner and James Spyridon Vlassakis – Adelaide, 1992–99
CHAPTER 30 Mummy Dearest
Kathleen Megan Folbigg – Newcastle, New South Wales, 1989–99
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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