Serial killer Ivan Milat’s nephew practising ‘witchcraft and wizardry’ from inside jail
The nephew of serial killer Ivan Milat has reportedly been scaring his other cellmates with his bizarre jail antics.
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The locked-up nephew of notorious Australian serial killer Ivan Milat reportedly has his cellmates worried after engaging in a string of bizarre jail activities.
Matthew Milat is currently serving 43 years at Lithgow Correctional Centre, west of the NSW Blue Mountains, for the grisly murder of his school friend back in 2010.
The 32-year-old is now passing his time behind bars by studying “witchcraft and wizardry” and even believes he can cast spells, a former inmate has claimed.
His behaviour has been so bizarre that his concerned cellmates have even been forced to call prison guards during the night for help.
Nathan Paddison, who claims to have been locked up with Matthew Milat, said in a recent YouTube video that Milat’s cellmate woke up one morning to find him “lying in a circle surrounded by papers covered in strange symbols”, prompting the cellmate to call prison officers for help.
“He is into witchcraft and wizardry,” Paddison, who makes videos about his time in prison, claimed.
“I don’t know how, but at Lithgow prison library – which holds maximum security inmates – he has found a book on how to do witchcraft, and spells, wizardry.
“His cellmate woke up in the morning to see Matthew lying in a circle that he had made. The witchcraft book is sitting there, and there are symbols drawn on papers lying around.”
Matthew Milat and Cohen Klein lured their childhood friend, David Auchterlonie, to the Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales in 2010 – which is eerily the same place Ivan Milat buried seven of his murder victims in the nineties.
The pair murdered him using a double-bladed axe on his 17th birthday and recorded a video of their sickening crime.
During the trial, Milat was said to have “gloated” about the killing the next day and repeatedly brought up his serial killer uncle into conversations.
“You know me, you know my family,” he allegedly said.
“You know the last name Milat, I did what they do.”
He was sentenced to 43 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 30 years. Klein was jailed for up to 32 years with a minimum sentence of 22 years.
Paddison claims that Milat has been struggling with his long sentence and turned to “satanic worship” as well as harbouring an obsession with the 1996 teen witch movie, The Craft.
“In the movie they look in the mirror and when they look long enough the reflection moves and talks back to them,” he said.
“He was there for hours, just staring into that mirror waiting for it to move.
“His cellmate called for help and Mathew was taken to hospital.
“Later the rumour was he took 300 muscle relaxants which he saved up and he told people he was trying to ‘get into the zone’”.
While Paddison admits he never saw Milat’s alleged “shrine”, it was apparently the talk of the entire jail for weeks.
“The Screws, they talk, the boys asked ‘what’s in there’ and the Screws said they found all sorts of witchcraft symbols,” he said.
Paddison, who has spent 13 years in jail for different offences from fraud to violent crime, said other inmates in the jail are very wary of Milat, claiming he will “do anything for anyone if asked”.
“There was a guy in there, a white power member who had a birthday and (Milat) makes him a watch with a swastika on it,” he said.
“He was trying to get in with him. He is always trying to brown nose people.
“He is very very nice, overly friendly, overly nice.
“He was a very weird dude. He lives with it now because it was his friend and he looked up to what his uncle had done.
“Strange as. Approachable, super nice, but definitely weird.”
News.com.au reached out to Corrective Services NSW for comment, who replied that there was “no evidence to verify these claims” and that it would be inappropriate to comment on individual cases.
Sickening crime
There are few figures in our country’s dark past that have the ability to make stomachs turn and hairs stand on end quite like serial killer Ivan Milat.
The gruesome murders of seven young hitchhiking backpackers, found in the Belanglo State Forest between 1989 to 1992, was one of the most brutal string of slayings this country has ever known.
Milat was arrested on May 22, 1994, and was found guilty of the murders of five women and two men two years later on July 27, 1996.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
He spent most of his sentence in high-risk management at Goulburn’s maximum security prison and was known for suffering from depression, partaking in self-harming and the occasional armed riot.
In 2001 he swallowed razor blades, paper staples, a tiny metal chain and the flushing mechanism from the toilet in his cell.
In 2009, he hacked his pinky off with a plastic knife, with plans to send it to the High Court of Australia to push for an appeal.
Milat lost 25kg in 2011 when he went on a hunger strike for nine days in an unsuccessful attempt to get a PlayStation.
In October 2018, he began having issues with his upper gastrointestinal tract. He suffered severe pain, struggled to eat and swallow and began to rapidly shed weight.
Milat was diagnosed with oesophageal and stomach cancer and died in the hospital wing of the Long Bay Correctional Centre in October 2019. He was 74 years old.
Secrets in the forest
Most who have heard Ivan Milat’s name think that we know everything there is to know about the notorious serial killer.
But could he have been harbouring some dark secrets that he took to the grave?
Over the years, many have speculated that the murderer’s kill count is far higher than the seven we know about, with some believing that there could have been anywhere from six to 20 more victims.
Former NSW police officer Meni Caroutas, who hosts the highly successful podcast series The Missing, believes it will only be a matter of time before we uncover more of Milat’s victims.
“I believe Milat had been killing people for decades. He started a long time before he was caught, and he would have continued if he hadn’t been arrested,” Caroutas told news.com.au.
“He was charged and found guilty of seven murders. I think you could certainly assume that you could at least double that number.
“All I will say, is how long is a piece of string? Nothing would surprise me with him.
“There are certain cases of murder where police have said it involved some hallmarks of a Milat killing, but it just lacks the evidence.”
Even on his deathbed, Ivan Milat never confessed to any other murders.
Caroutas noted that the discovery of other victims would “mean everything” to the families of those who have been missing for decades.
“We know that he was an evil and gutless coward until the end, because he had the opportunity to confess and admit to other crimes, to give families some peace of mind, but he refused to.
“I suspect, and I hope for the sake of the families, that other unknown victims will be found. It would mean everything to them.
“Even though they likely know in their hearts that their loved one is deceased, they still hold a sliver of hope that they are alive.
“You can’t blame them for having that, regardless of what the circumstances are. If you don’t have hope, then you have nothing to live for.”
Born evil
While some may blame Milat’s rough upbringing, many believe that he was likely just born evil and suffered from mental health disorders that made inflicting pain easy and even pleasurable.
“I don’t know too much about his upbringing, but I think there were 12 or 13 kids,” Caroutas said.
“They lived in pretty terrible conditions growing up. There were also rumours that there was incest in the family, but these have not been proven.
“I think there are cases of people who are just born bad. Their wiring is not where it should be.
“Milat was evil and he evolved into a narcissist and psychopath who derived great pleasure from hurting and killing people.”
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