Australian serial killers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Chapters: Peter Dupas, John Wayne Glover, Bega schoolgirl murders, Snowtown murders, William MacDonald, John Bunting, Truro murders, David and Catherine Birnie, Backpacker Murders, Arnold Sodeman, Eric Edgar Cooke, John and Sarah Makin, Carl Williams, Christopher Wilder, Kathleen Folbigg, Neddy Smith, Keith Faure, Claremont serial murders, Martha Rendell, Allan Baker and Kevin Crump, Leonard Fraser, Matthew James Harris, Paul Denyer, Gregory Brazel, Bowraville Murders, Malachi Martin, Eddie Leonski, James Vlassakis, Mark Jefferies, Martha Needle, Caroline Grills, Robert Wagner. Excerpt: Peter Norris Dupas (born 6 July 1953) is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three consecutive life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence. His criminal signature is to remove the breasts of his female victims. As of 2007, Dupas has been convicted of three murders and is a prime suspect in at least three other murders committed in the vicinity of the Melbourne area during the 1980s and 1990s. Dupas was the youngest of three children, born into what has been described as "a fairly normal family". Born in Sydney, New South Wales, his family moved to Melbourne while he was still a toddler. With both siblings considerably older, his elderly parents treated him much like an only child. Dupas left high school upon completing Form 5, and later obtained his Higher School Certificate while in custody. On 3 October 1968, at the age of 15, Dupas, still attending high school at Waverley High School in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverley, visited his next-door neighbour, requesting to borrow a knife for the purpose of peeling vegetables. Dupas was apprehended after he stabbed the woman in the face, neck, and hand as she attempted to fight off his attack. He later told police he could not help himself and did not know why he began to attack the woman. He was placed on 18 months probation and admitted to the Larundel Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation; he was released after two weeks and treated as an outpatient. In October 1969, a mortuary located at the Austin Hospital was broken into. The bodies of two elderly women were mutilated using a pathologist's knife. One body contained a strange wound inflicted with a knife to the area of the thigh. Police believe Dupas was involved in the break-in as the wounds inflicted matched that of a later murder victim, Nicole Patterson. Senior Detective Ian