It’s A Small World (Afterall?)
I watched Wolf Creek yesterday, and became increasingly interested in notorious NSW serial killer Ivan Milat and have been researching him and other Australian murderers for the last hour or so to discover some pretty interesting facts about how close all of these murders actually occurred to me. All of this probably isn’t good while trying to plan a road-trip across the country to Western Australia at the end of the year (where the real Wolfe Creek actually exists).
- Sef Gonzales, who lived in North Ryde (one suburb away from my uncle’s place and about 15 minutes drive from our place) murdered his father, mother and sister in their home in 2001. The sister, Clodine, 18 at the time, was not usually in Sydney, as she attended school in Melbourne - the same school and grade as two of my cousins.
- John Wayne Glover, a.k.a the North Shore Granny Killer, lived in Mosman (about 15 minutes drive from our place in the other direction) murdered at least six elderly women over a fourteen month period, including many additional bashings and sexual assaults. One of these sexual assaults occured at a nursing home which I did my community service at for eight days in high school, and one of these bashings occurred in one of the streets in my suburb (I’m yet to find out which one).
Both of these men (Glover committed suicide in 2005) as well as Milat and many other infamous Australian murderers (such as Mark Valera) were sentenced to multiple life sentences in gaol at the Goulburn Supermax Correctional Prison, located five minutes from a motel we’ve stayed in numerous times when going to Wakefield.
As a result of my recent mini-obsession with Australia murders (possible created by the recent documentary on the Snowtown Murders), I now know that if I sever your spine before shooting you in the head and putting your body into a barrel full of acid - I may get great satisfaction - often without the need for semen. Yahtzee!