{"id":116348,"date":"2019-10-27T00:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T22:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/27\/ivan-milats-chilling-serial-backpacker-murders-still-haunt-australia\/"},"modified":"2019-10-27T00:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T22:54:06","slug":"ivan-milats-chilling-serial-backpacker-murders-still-haunt-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=116348","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Milat&#039;s chilling serial backpacker murders still haunt Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road worker savagely killed seven backpackers in the Belanglo state forest in the early 1990s. His death leaves several other disappearances unsolved \u2022 Ivan Milat, Australia\u2019s most notorious serial killer, dies aged 74When British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters were found brutally murdered in the Belanglo state forest in September 1992, the Sun ran the headline: \u201cBeast of the bush: Brit girls victims of Oz serial killer.\u201d The newspaper speculated that the killer \u201ccould be a fiend responsible for the disappearance of 20 people in the area over 20 years\u201d.Ivan Milat, who has died of cancer aged 74, was convicted in 1996 of the murder of seven people, aged 19 to 22, who disappeared while hitchhiking south of Sydney. But his death means his suspected involvement in several other disappearances may never be resolved. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/oct\/27\/ivan-milat-chilling-serial-murders-haunt-australia-after-death\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Milat&#039;s chilling serial backpacker murders still haunt Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road worker savagely killed seven backpackers in the Belanglo state forest in the early 1990s. His death leaves several other disappearances unsolved \u2022 Ivan Milat, Australia\u2019s most notorious serial killer, dies aged 74When British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters were found brutally murdered in the Belanglo state forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}