Ivan Milat
Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer
The investigative reporter pulls back the curtain on crime, the media and policing in her compelling first novel, Pheasants Nest.
- Kerrie O'Brien
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From the Archives, 1994: Court tells Who to recall copies
Concerns that front-cover photographs of accused backpacker murderer Ivan Milat could jeopardise his trial led to an edition of Who Weekly being withdrawn from sale.
- Jennie Curtin
Final wish denied: Ivan Milat pays for his own cremation
Australia's worst serial killer had written to the NSW government demanding the state pay for his funeral.
- Hannah Higgins
- Opinion
- Crime
Milat was evil, but he couldn't kill trust, hope and adventure
Around the time that I was hitching south, Australia’s worst serial killer Ivan Milat was stalking young travellers on the same roads that carried me.
- Paul Bateman
Ivan Milat's family furious after Corrective Services backflips on paying for funeral
NSW Corrective Services has refused to foot the bill for serial killer Ivan Milat's cremation, prompting his brother to demand his body be dropped back at the jail for "them to sort".
- Cydonee Mardon
'A pauper's burial': Ivan Milat's final wishes revealed in letter
Ivan Milat wants NSW Corrective Services to pay for his funeral and has urged his brother Bill, who has been left his entire estate, not to contribute one cent.
- Cydonee Mardon
- Exclusive
- Crime
'I still can't help you': Police tried eight times to get Ivan Milat deathbed confession
Right until his last breath backpacker killer Ivan Robert Marko Milat protested his innocence. “You could put a blow torch to my ears or eyes or whatever and… I still can’t help you,” Milat told detectives.
- Simon Bouda
'A great fella': Ivan Milat's brothers maintain he is innocent
Two brothers of serial killer Ivan Milat maintain he is innocent of murdering the seven backpackers he was serving life sentences for at the time of his death.
- Emma Partridge
Ivan Milat leaves final wishes to family in letter
The family learned of his death when contacted by a local newspaper. His death was even listed on Wikipedia before the family had received any official word.
- Cydonee Mardon
From 1.5 million pieces of information one name stood out
Realising help from the public was going to be crucial a toll-free hotline was set up. In the first 24 hours, 5119 calls came in. Ivan Milat's name was among them.
- Neil Mercer
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