Woman_39_s_Day_Australia_-_January_04_2021

Real life

The world’s w orst

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CRIME SPECIAL
These men andwomen committedthe most heinous of crimes – cold-heartedly taking life after life

Britishmediadubbedhimthe

“beastofthebush”afterhe

killedEnglishbackpackers

CarolineClarkeandJoanne

Walters.Theyoungtourists

werefoundintheNSW

BelangloStateForest– the

burialgroundofnotorious

AustraliankillerIvanMilat.

Between 1989 and1992,

theroadworkerpreyedon

youngpeoplehitchhiking

betweenSydneyand

Melbourneandburiedthem

Peopledescribedheras

“jolly”,andspectacle-

wearinggrandmother

CarolineGrillsappearedto

bea warmandwelcoming

character.Shewas

renownedforgivingher

relativeshome-bakedcakes

andcupsoftea– butthe

Sydney-bornpensioner

lacedit withratpoison.

In1953,Grills,63,was

chargedwithfourmurders

and one attempted murder.

Shewascaughtwhena

familymemberspotted

herslippingsomething

suspiciousintoa cupoftea.

Shewassentencedto

death,buthersentencewas

laterchangedtolifeinjail.

Grills died in prison in 1960.

LuisGaravitomaybethe

world’sworstserialkiller.

BorninColombia,the

63-year-oldmurdered 189

boys– mostofthemaged

betweensixand 16 and

frompoorfamilies.

Garavitoposedasa

monk,priestorfarmerto

gainthetrustofhisyoung

victimswhoheabducted,

torturedandkilled.

Hiscrimeswere

uncoveredin 1997 afterthe

bodiesof 36 boyswere

foundburiedin a makeshift

graveina cityatthebottom

oftheAndesMountains.But

it wasanothertwoyears

beforeGaravitowas caught

andconfessed.

Hewasjailedfor 835

yearsandis imprisoned

in a secret location.

MyraHindleyterrorised

childreninnorthern

Englandinthe1960s.

WithboyfriendIanBrady,

Hindleyrapedandkilled

fivechildrenandburied

themonSaddleworthMoor.

Bradywasfoundguiltyof

threeofthemurdersand

Hindleywasfoundguilty

oftwochildkillings.

WinnieJohnson,the

motherof12-year-old

KeithBennettwhowas

takenwhilewalkingto

hisgrandmother’shouse,

pleadedwithHindley

torevealwhere her son

wasburied.

“Iamonbendedknee

beggingyoutoendthis

torture and finally put my

mindatrest,”shewrote

toHindley.

Dubbed“themostevil

womaninBritain”,Hindley

remainedsilentanddiedof

respiratoryfailurein 2002

attheageof60. Brady, 79,

died in 2017.

MOORS MURDERS

44 WD

Milatandhis

great-nephew

(right)were

bothjailed

forseparate

murders.

Hindleyand

Bradyreceived

life sentences.

Words: Brigid Auchettl.

TEA &

CAKES

KILLER

BACKPACKER

MURDERER

CHILD

KILLER