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Concerns that front-cover photographs of accused backpacker murderer Ivan Milat could jeopardise his trial led to an edition of Who Weekly being withdrawn from sale.
Australia's worst serial killer had written to the NSW government demanding the state pay for his funeral.
Around the time that I was hitching south,Australia’s worst serial killer Ivan Milat was stalking young travellers on the same roads that carried me.
NSW Corrective Services has refused to foot the bill for serial killer Ivan Milat's cremation,prompting his brother to demand his body be dropped back at the jail for"them to sort".
Ivan Milat wants NSW Corrective Services to pay for his funeral and has urged his brother Bill,who has been left his entire estate,not to contribute one cent.
Right until his last breath backpacker killer Ivan Robert Marko Milat protested his innocence. “You could put a blow torch to my ears or eyes or whatever and… I still can’t help you,” Milat told detectives.
Two brothers of serial killer Ivan Milat maintain he is innocent of murdering the seven backpackers he was serving life sentences for at the time of his death.
The family learned of his death when contacted by a local newspaper. His death was even listed on Wikipedia before the family had received any official word.
Realising help from the public was going to be crucial a toll-free hotline was set up. In the first 24 hours,5119 calls came in. Ivan Milat's name was among them.
Ivan Milat's death in jail has brought some relief to victims'families and investigators but not real closure.