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Alvin taylor serial killer11/12/2022 ![]() ![]() Backpacker murders Ī sign at the entrance to the Belanglo State Forest Milat took on a job as a truck driver in 1975, and by the time of his arrest he had worked on and off for the Roads & Traffic Authority for twenty years. He was rearrested in 1974, but the robbery and kidnap cases against him failed at trial with the help of the Milat's family lawyer, John Marsden. ![]() While awaiting trial, he was involved in a string of robberies with some of his brothers before faking his suicide and fleeing to New Zealand for a year. In April 1971, Milat was charged with the abduction of two 18-year-old hitchhikers, one of whom he raped. In September 1967, aged 22, he was sentenced to three years for theft. In 1964 he was sentenced to 18 months for a break and enter, and a month after release he was arrested for driving a stolen car and sentenced to two years' hard labour. īy age 17 Milat was in a juvenile detention centre for theft, and at age 19 he was involved in a shop break-in. Many of the ten Milat boys were well known to local police, and Milat displayed antisocial behaviour at a young age, leading to a stint in a residential school at age 13. Milat was the fifth of their 14 children, and the growing family first lived in the Bossley Park suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, before relocating to Liverpool. Ivan Milat was the son of a Croatian emigrant and labourer, Stjepan Marko "Steven" Milat (1902–1983), and an Australian, Margaret Elizabeth Piddleston (1920–2001), who married when she was 16. ![]()
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