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Detectives secretly question dying serial killer Ivan Milat in Long Bay Jail

Dying serial killer Ivan Milat has been secretly questioned by homicide detectives. He was moved from Long Bay Jail hospital into the main jail to be interviewed but 30 minutes later he was back in his bed.

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Dying serial killer Ivan Milat has been secretly questioned by homicide detectives.

He was moved from Long Bay Jail hospital into the main jail to be interviewed but 30 minutes later he was back in his bed.

Convicted over the murders of seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992, Milat, 74, has also been linked to the disappearance of up to a dozen young men and women from the state’s highways in areas he was working with a road gang.

Ivan Milat leaves Prince of Wales hospital on Tuesday to return to Long Bay Jail. Picture: Diimex
Ivan Milat leaves Prince of Wales hospital on Tuesday to return to Long Bay Jail. Picture: Diimex

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The former truck driver, who has terminal cancer of the oesophagus, was moved from Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital on Tuesday to Long Bay Jail hospital.

He was questioned by police at lunchtime yesterday at Long Bay.

It is not known what he told detectives but the families of his victims have been hoping for a deathbed confession.

They hope he will reveal who his evil accomplice was in the deaths of the backpackers who were raped, stabbed, and shot. One was beheaded.

The families of the missing teenagers had also been hoping Milat would reveal the fate of their loved ones.

Ivan Milat and his seven victims. Picture: Rick Rycroft
Ivan Milat and his seven victims. Picture: Rick Rycroft
Were these women victims of Ivan Milat in the 1970's?

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