Australia’s worst killers: 10 of our most evil murderers destined to spend life behind bars
THERE are currently 58 prisoners in NSW jails classified as never to be released due to the horrific nature of their crimes.
From
a woman who murdered and skinned her husband to a sadistic killer who
drowned a nine year old school girl, these are 10 of our worst killers
rotting in our jails.
Ivan Milat, 70
The first two of his victims were found in September 1992. Forensic analysis would determine they were British backpakcers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters who had disappeared from Sydney’s Kings Cross earlier that year.
A year later the remains of Victorian couple Deborah Everist and James Gibson were found by a local, while a police search turned up the remains of Simone Schmidl, Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied of Germany early in November.
Milat was arrested in May 1994 after a huge investigation and police found a cache of weapons in his Eagle Vale home including parts of a .22 rifle similar to the one used on some of his victims.
During his trial Milat tried to pin the murders on others, including his brother Richard, but he was eventually found guilty after a lengthy trial.
Police believe Milat could be responsible for many more murders of backpackers who have disappeared off the street of NSW.
Andrew Garforth, 52
Ebony’s mum would usually meet her at the bus stop each day but was caught up on the day of her disappearance. She had asked Ebony’s brother to wait for her but his bus was running late and when the little girl arrived and nobody was there, she began to walk home.
On that walk she came across what appeared to be a broken down car on the side of the road.
When she started to pass the car, Garforth struck.
Hundreds of police and volunteers would spend the next few days searching for Ebony, including Garforth.
But attention soon turned to the sadistic searcher and he readily, and without remorse, admitted to the young girl’s murder and recounted to police in graphic details how he had abused and murdered her.
When he was found guilty of the shocking crime, his file was marked ‘never to be released’.
Garforth returned to the headlines last year after he won the right to have his prisoner classification downgraded.
That would give the killer more freedom in jail and allow him to take part in employment opportunities and rehabilitation.
But a huge outcry from the public saw Corrective Services Minister David Elliott step in and reverse the decision.
Arthur “Neddy” Smith, 71
Smith has been accused of being involved in numerous murders and was a heroin dealer and standover man.
He was jailed for life in 1989 over the deaths of brothel owner Harvey Jones and tow-truck driver Ronnie Flavell.
He was also implicated in the murder of Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, who had spoken out about the relationship between him and Rogerson.
He was recorded in prison confessing to the drowning murder but later denied involvement and was acquitted of the crime.
Daryl Suckling, 79
Kevin Crump and Allan Baker, both 66
Morse was abducted from her family’s Collarenebri property after her husband and children had left, before being driven near the Queensland border where the pair bound her, raped her repeatedly and tortured her in two separate spots before one of the men shot her in the head and rolled her body into the Weir River.
Details of the torture inflicted on Mrs Morse was suppressed during the trial due to the graphic nature of the evidence
Crump and Baker had earlier murdered Lamb at Narrabri on November 4, 1973, shooting him four times to the head.
Bronson Blessington, 41, and Matthew Elliot, 43
Michael Murdoch, 49, and John Travers, 49
John Cribb, 64
Roger Dean, 40
Sef Gonzales, 35
Katherine Knight, 60
Walter Marsh, 54
