Ivan Milat government documents to be released following extraordinary claim

Documents detailing Ivan Milat’s entire history will be released, following extraordinary claims the serial killer could have been responsible for one of Australia’s most infamous unsolved murders.

Government documents detailing Ivan Milat’s entire history will be released to the public, following extraordinary claims the serial killer could have been responsible for one of Australia’s most infamous unsolved murders.

In an explosive parliamentary address, NSW Upper House MP Jeremy Buckingham called for the release of documents concerning Ivan Milat’s history, as well as linking the serial killer to the unsolved 1965 Wanda Beach murders.

Mr Buckingham claims an image of Milat taken in 1963, when Milat was 19, bears an uncanny resemblance to a police sketch of the Wanda murder suspect.

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“It is my belief that when you look at the Wanda Beach murders identikit and the images of Milat at the same time, that is the same person,” Mr Buckingham said.

An identikit picture of a possible suspect in the Wanda murder case. This man was seen in the area on or about the day of the murder in 1965. Picture: Supplied

A picture of Ivan Milat in 1963. Picture: Supplied

“Especially when you consider the modus operandi in those murders, there was an abduction, sexual assault, stabbing in the back and slashing of the neck, which is the same MO in the Belangalo murders, but police didn’t put this together,” Mr Buckingham said.

“Any reasonable person would look at that identikit [and photo] and say ‘that is the same person’.”

“If that’s not Ivan Milat, then I am not here,” he said.

Teenagers Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock were found stabbed and bashed to death in the sand dunes at Wanda Beach, in Sydney’s south, in January 1965.

Ivan Milat. Picture: Supplied.

A youthful Ivan Milat.

Despite a number of investigations over the years no one has ever been arrested for the murders of the two 15-year-olds from Ryde.

Ivan Milat would have been 19 at the time of the murder.

Mr Buckingham has called for the release of all documents related to Milat to be released to the public and for a Royal Commission to be held into the murderer’s history.

“Since I raised publicly the alarming number of unsolved homicides and disappearances in NSW in the 70s and 80s I have been overwhelmed with information from the public raising their concerns about the extent of Ivan Milat’s crimes,” he said.

“It’s clear to me and to any reasonable person that Ivan didn’t just commit the Belangalo murders, there are scores of murders he is implicated in.

“It is a view that I share with an increasing number of people — that the picture of Ivan Milat as a reclusive, lone-wolf serial killer is incorrect or at best incomplete,” he said.

Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt (both 15) who were both found dead in the sandhills of Wanda Beach near Cronulla, southern Sydney in 1965.

The motion was supported by The Greens, Labor and the Opposition, with Environment Minister Penny Sharpe describing Milat as a “scumbag and serial killer”.

“The Government will not oppose this call for papers under Standing Order 55. Let me be clear: Ivan Milat was a scumbag and a serial killer, and he clearly harmed many people,” she said.

“I know that many people are concerned that there were crimes that went unpunished and crimes that were misunderstood, and families and victims for whom there has been no justice.

“There is a significant pursuit of what could have happened and should have happened in relation to that. The Government understands that.

“Just so members understand the breadth of what is being asked for, though, I place on record that while we are not opposing the motion, there are records being asked for that go back to the 1960s from both corrections and police. Government is going to seriously struggle to meet that within a 28‑day time frame,” she said.

In Parliament, the MP went on to claim the Milat was a part of an organised crime and human trafficking ring.

“It is my strong view that Milat was a participant in organised crime and human trafficking, feeding men, women and children into pedophile and sadistic, murderous sex rings,” he said.

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