
Update: Ivan Milat, widely known as one of Australia’s worst serial killers, has died in prison, aged 74. Milat was diagnosed with terminal oesophageal cancer in May 2019, and was briefly treated at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, before being returned to Long Bay Correctional Centre. He died in the medical wing of the prison on October 27.
Serial killer Ivan Milat killed seven young backpackers between 1989 and 1993. In 1996, he was sentenced to life in prison without the prospect of release.
He is now 74, and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Milat is dying from oesophagus and stomach cancer and in his last weeks left on this earth, he is being urged to do one thing.
Confess.
But not just to the seven murders he was convicted for but never admitted to, he is also being urged to confess, if guilty, to the dozens of cases that he has been linked to over the years that bear similarities to his murders.
Here is the trailer to Catching Milat. Post continues after video.
For the families of Caroline Clarke, 21, Joanne Walters, 22, James Gibson, 19, Deborah Everest, 19, Simone Schmidl, 21, Gabor Neugebauer, 21, and Anja Habschield, 20, their loved ones killer will most probably die without ever admitting to their brutal rape, torture and murder.

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Back in the early noughties, I did some work at a Real Estate agency, and the accountant there told me a story. She and her boyfriend at the time were out for dinner in the Inner West of Sydney one night and were caught out in a storm. A stranger pulled over and offered them a lift. They politely declined. He seemed a little annoyed, but drove off. He did a lap of the block and offered again, somewhat insistently. They declined again. He got quite irate, but eventually drove off, while swearing at them profusely.
Some time later, they were at home watching the news on the day Milat was arrested. They saw him, looked at each other and immediately knew they had dodged a bullet that night.