Paroled serial killer Reginald Arthurell reveals new look

Paroled serial killer Reginald Arthurell has revealed a new look and name, as allegations emerge that he has threatened to remove his monitoring bracelet.

Detectives are investigating a claim that cross-dressing serial killer Regina Kaye — formerly known as Reginald Kenneth Arthurell — threatened the family of one of his victims, which could send him back to jail for breaching parole.

A woman, a member of Sydney’s transgender community, has spoken to police with the claims about one-time cowboy and outback drifter Arthurell, 74, who began identifying as a woman before being released on parole in November after serving 24 years for the murder of her fiancee Venet Mulhall.

The woman, 47, who met Arthurell through a transgender friendship group, yesterday said the killer had expressed thoughts that showed she had “not ­reformed”.

The new look of serial killer Reginald Arthurell. Picture: 2GB

In a black wig, a feminine blouse and a splash of red lipstick, Arthurell is ­depicted on a new Facebook page which includes a scene of Maroubra Beach, close to the Community Offender Support Program halfway house at Long Bay Jail where Arthurell lived until ­recently.

She now lives in the western suburbs where she dropped out of the friendship group because it meets in pubs and her parole terms ban her from attending pubs.

The woman, who runs the group, got in touch with Ms Mulhall’s brother Paul Quinn, whose book about Arthurell, In The Hands of Evil, was handed to the State Parole Authority last year in a bid to stop them releasing the serial killer.

She warned Mr Quinn that the powerfully-built Arthurell had threatened to remove her monitoring bracelet when her sentence ends on May 24 as the State Government is in a race against time to persuade the NSW Supreme Court to impose a five-year Extended Supervision Order.

Reginald Arthurell in Ms Mulhall’s dress after killing her.

“This is not the first time I have heard allegations of threats against us,” Mr Quinn said yesterday.

He said the family was very concerned because Arthurell had been on parole for the manslaughter of his stepfather and the “cold-blooded” killing of a 19-year-old naval rating in the Northern Territory when he bashed Ms Mulhall to death with a piece of wood at her home in the NSW town of Coonabarabran in 1995. At the time he took a photograph of himself wearing one of her frocks.

Arthurell has never been handed a life sentence while police believe he may have killed other people, including Catherine Page, 82, in 1971.

Mr Quinn said that the woman had been concerned the parole authorities had “put a monster in the midst of their transgender group” who had told them lies including that she had been in the army and flew helicopters.

Neither is true.

“My aim is to try to change government policy on placing these high-risk serial offenders in the community,” Mr Quinn said.

Upon release from prison, Arthurell said he wanted to have a sex change as soon as possible. From May 24, ­Arthurell will have to notify parole authorities if she wishes to change her appearance as part of 47 conditions ­imposed by an Interim Supervision Order.