Crime Investigation Australia Vol 1,2,3 (DVD, 2007, 3-Disc) Region 4

Crime Investigation Australia Vol 1,2,3 (DVD, 2007, 3-Disc) Region 4.

Volume 1

Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders

The backpacker murder case in the Belanglo State

Forest, south west of Sydney, has entered Australian

criminal folklore. The brutal murders of seven young

people, most of them overseas tourists hitchhiking

around Australia, attracted international media

attention. The remains of their bodies were uncovered

in 1992. The arrest and conviction of Ivan Milat would

see him become Australia's worst individual serial

killer. It is believed that Milat was involved in several

other killings and there is strong evidence that he

didn't act alone.

The Kimberley Killer - Joseph Schwab

For the first time the complete story of one of Australia's

most horrific serial murderers is finally revealed. Over

twenty years ago a crazed gunman begins a journey

which will take him thousands of kilometres across

the vast Australian outback. The killer's journey will

result in the murders of five tourists, spark one of the

biggest manhunts in Australian history and end in a

bloody last stand shootout with police at a remote

outpost deep in the rugged Kimberley ranges of

Australia's north. Before it is over, thousands of

residents living in communities scattered across the

country's top end will be terrorised.

Volume 2

The Anita Cobby Murder

In February 1986, Anita Cobby, a former entrant in

the Miss Australia quest, is walking home in Sydney's

outer-western suburbs when a sedan pulls up and

drags her into the vehicle. She is taken to a lonely

spot where five young men take turns to bash and

rape her. Finally her throat is cut, almost severing her

head, and her body is left in a paddock. The five men

are later caught and convicted of these despicable

crimes and sent to jail for life, their papers marked:

"never to be released". But something positive will

come out of this deeply disturbing story, as Anita's

grieving parents begin a support group for the families

of murder victims, offering comfort and mutual help

for more than 1000 loved ones of homicide victims.

The Moorhouse Horrors

We investigate the story of David and Catherine Birnie,

Australia's most sadistic husband and wife killing team

who together, tortured, raped and murdered four

women in 1986.

The Call Girl Killing

We also look into the murder of call girl Roslyn Watson

which had remained unsolved for more than 15 years

and would have stayed that way if it wasn't for the

tenacious efforts of a bright young Western Australian

Police Detective.

Volume 3

witnesses involved.

AUSTRALIA'S MOST SHOCKING MURDERS

Snowtown - the Bodies in the Barrels

In 1999, eight bodies are found in six barrels filled with

acid in a former bank vault in rural Snowtown, 50

kilometres north of Adelaide. The investigation was to

lead police to discover another four victims, in and around

Adelaide. Four men were charged with murder and other

offences. Eventually it was proven that 11 were murdered

and another woman severely dismembered. The horrific

murders that occurred over a 7 year period involve torture

and even cannibalism.

The Greenough Family Massacre

The small hamlet of Greenough, some 400 kilometres

north of Perth, will forever be associated with one the

most horrific murders in Australian criminal history. In

1993, Karen Mackenzie and her three small children were

violently murdered at their isolated house. When the

Greenough killer was finally tracked down, charged and

convicted, much of the evidence was too horrific to be

made public.

The Killer Punch/ The Will of Death

Allan Hall was murdered where he lived on the NSW

Central Coast with Christine Hicks, the estranged wife of

boxing mentor and horse trainer Cec Waters. Waters'

eldest son, Dean, was charged with Hall's murder but it

was later revealed that Dean had succumbed to his

father's shocking demands.

Sometime on the evening of October 19, 1990, the

flamboyantly gay Sydney socialite Ludwig Gertsch was

strangled with an elastic strap in the bedroom of his lover,

Mr Vincent Esposito - his killer has never been brought

to justice.

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