Crimes That Shook Australia

During the 1990s John Bunting along with accomplices Robert Wagner James Vlassakis and Mark Haydon tortured and murdered 12 people in Adelaide South Australia Some victims were dismembered and their bodies stored in barrels of acid in a disused bank vault in a small town to the north The case shocked Australia In 2003 ringleader Bunting was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment

What should have been a fun outing soon turned viciously deadly In 1997 two teenage girls Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins were abducted raped and murdered by two men Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay Beckett while camping with a group of friends Driving the girls to remote locations throughout rural New South Wales and Victoria the men assaulted the two and eventually stabbed them to death

In December 1987 Frank Vitkovic entered the Queen St HQ of Auspost the Australian postal service in Melbourne and opened fire killing eight people Investigations soon led police to Vitkovics diary which revealed his deepseated anger feelings of isolation and resentment toward society as well as his desire for infamy and notoriety through the massacre including how he intended to do it

In November 2010 David Auchterlonie was brutally murdered by Matthew Milat and Cohen Klein in the Belanglo State Forest Milat wanted to follow in the footsteps of his greatuncle the infamous serial killer Ivan Milat Influenced by his relatives legacy known for the Backpacker murders in the 1990s Matthew harbored a morbid fascination with Ivans actions and sought to emulate his notoriety

In 1997 law student Anu Singh held two dinner parties to say goodbye to her friends after she had allegedly divulged to them that she and her boyfriend were to die in a suicide pact However days later Anu reported that only her boyfriend had died Her story of a failed suicide pact was met with skepticism by authorities The case sparked debate about issues such as mental health and consent

Morgan Huxley was murdered in his own apartment in the Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay in September 2013. His killer was a complete stranger - a kitchen worker called Daniel Kelsall who followed him home.

Raymond Edmunds is a notorious rapist and murderer who was active in Victoria Australia for more than two decades As the hunt for the killer begins detectives race to stop him before he hurts anyone else If not for fingerprints left at all of the crime scenes police may never have caught him Follow the neckbreaking speed of the investigation to arrest a murderer before he strikes again

Patricia Byers was dubbed the Black Widow for her pattern of marrying and subsequently outliving her spouses She was married six times and four of her husbands died under suspicious circumstances She relieved them all of their assets before setting out to kill to cover her crimes Greed was the prime motive for these murders and only diligent detective work led to her eventual imprisonment

A chain of events begins with the ambush and murder of police officers Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre Both Tynan and Eyre were shot multiple times at close range and died at the scene Evidence strongly pointed to a group of bank robbers who police believed organized the hit as retaliation Four men were charged and two were eventually convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment

In September 2012 Melbourne woman Jill Meagher was abducted and murdered by a convicted sexual predator Adrian Bayley He raped and killed her burying her body in a shallow grave about 30 miles northwest of Melbourne Tragically Bayley breached the terms of his parole and should have been locked up when he killed Jill Bayley was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment