Australia's Serial Killers

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Dedication Contents FOREWORD by Professor Paul Wilson INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 The Cannibal Convict Alexander Pearce – Tasmania, 1822–23 CHAPTER 2 The Berrima Axe Murderer John Lynch – New South Wales, 1840–41 CHAPTER 3 The ‘Rough on Rats’ Murderess Martha Needle – Melbourne, 1885–94 CHAPTER 4 The Baby Farmers John and Sarah Makin – Sydney, 1892, Frances Knorr – Melbourne, 1893, Alice Mitchell – Perth, 1900–06 CHAPTER 5 The Windsor Murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming – England and Melbourne, 1891–92 CHAPTER 6 The Murderous Mistress Martha Rendell – Perth, 1907–09 CHAPTER 7 The Schoolgirl Strangler Arnold Karl Sodeman – Melbourne, 1930–35 CHAPTER 8 The Swaggie Killer Albert Andrew Moss – New South Wales, 1938–39 CHAPTER 9 The Brownout Strangler Edward Joseph Leonski – Melbourne, 1942 CHAPTER 10  The Thallium Killers Caroline ‘Aunt Thally’ Grills – Sydney, 1947–53, Yvonne Gladys Fletcher – Sydney, 1948–52 CHAPTER 11  The Romanian Maniac John Balaban – Paris and Adelaide, 1946–53 CHAPTER 12  The Night Caller Eric Edgar Cooke – Perth, 1959–63 CHAPTER 13  The Mutilator William MacDonald – Sydney, 1960–62 CHAPTER 14  The Carbon Copy Killer Barry Gordon Hadlow – Queensland, 1962–90 CHAPTER 15  The ‘Kill Seven’ Serial Murders Archibald Beattie McCafferty – Sydney, 1973 CHAPTER 16  The Lonely Hearts Killer Rodney Francis Cameron – Victoria and New South Wales, 1974–90 CHAPTER 17  The Truro Serial Murders Christopher Robin Worrell and James William Miller – Adelaide, 1976–77 CHAPTER 18  The Angel of Death Helen Patricia Moore – Sydney, 1979–80 CHAPTER 19  The Pederast Predator Michael George Laurance – Griffith, New South Wales, 1984–86 CHAPTER 20  The Moorhouse Street Murders Catherine and David Birnie – Perth, 1986 CHAPTER 21  The Kimberley Killer Josef Schwab – Northern Territory and Western Australia, 1987 CHAPTER 22  The Granny Killer John Wayne Glover – Sydney, 1989–91 CHAPTER 23  The Backpacker Murders Ivan Robert Marko Milat – New South Wales, 1989–92 CHAPTER 24  The Frankston Serial Killer Paul Charles Denyer – Frankston, Victoria, 1993 CHAPTER 25  Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains Mark Mala Valera – Wollongong, New South Wales, 1998–2000 CHAPTER 26  The Wagga Serial Killer Matthew James Harris – Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, 1998 CHAPTER 27  Lennie the Loon Leonard John Fraser – Rockhampton, Queensland, 1998–99 CHAPTER 28  'How Did You Come to Be as You Are?' Peter Norris Dupas – Melbourne, 1997–99 CHAPTER 29  Snowtown: The ‘Bodies in the Barrels’ Serial Murders John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner and James Spyridon Vlassakis – Adelaide, 1992–99 CHAPTER 30  Mummy Dearest Kathleen Megan Folbigg – Newcastle, New South Wales, 1989–99 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY