Outback murders in Australia were arguably made infamous by road worker, Ivan Milat, who killed seven young backpackers he picked up on highways south of Sydney in the 1990s, including two young British women. Both were found to have been sexually abused. Police also found the bodies of Mackay sisters Judith, 7, and five-year-old Susan along the highway. Robin was shot twice in the head and her skeletal remains were found west of Charters Towers in July 1972.Īnita was listed as missing but police believe she was killed with her friend. Hitchhikers Robin Hoinville-Bartram, 18, and Anita Cunningham, 19, also disappeared along the Flinders Highway several decades ago. In October 1978, Karen Edwards, Gordon Twaddle and Timothy Thompson were found shot in the head near Mt Isa, about 250km west of Julia Creek. The body of Catherine Graham, 18, was found raped and slain on the highway in 2007.
Highway of death: At least 12 people vanished without a trace from the Flinders Highway, an 800km stretch of road that links Queensland to the Northern Territory
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“There are old pits full of bones all over that ridge line.” “You’d never find a body or DNA,” he told the Times. Stewart Christensen, who now owns the abattoir, said someone could have easily been killed, chopped up and fed to the pigs without anyone noticing. Queensland Police reopened the 32-year investigation last week after Albury’s confession, which led detectives to the abattoir where he used to work in outback Hughenden, 1400km north-west of Brisbane. He was the last to go missing on that stretch of road. Jones vanished without a trace on the night of Novemwhile walking along the Flinders Highway – last seen in Anthill Creek, known as Townsville’s killing fields, about 26km out of town. A number of murdered women were classified as having died of natural causes or drug overdoses, despite the fact Little had strangled them.Gone without a trace: Former abattoir worker Andy Albury has confessed to 14 unsolved deaths along the Flinders Highway, including hitchhiker Tony Jones (pictured)Ī former abattoir worker dubbed Australia’s Hannibal Lecter has been named as the prime suspect for as many as 14 unsolved murders, with at least 11 of them young people who disappeared along an 800km outback highway.Īndy Albury, already serving a life sentence for the 1983 murder of an Aboriginal woman in Darwin, has allegedly confessed in prison to a killing spree along Queensland’s desolate Flinders Highway during 19.Īt least 11 people disappeared from that stretch of road during that time period – including hitchhiker Tony Jones, whose family last week said they believed an outback ‘thrill killer’ was responsible for his death. Because many of his victims were Black women and drug users, their deaths received scant attention from police. Texas Department of Public Safety/Handoutĭespite being arrested and charged multiple times throughout his life for violent crimes, including murder, Little consistently escaped punishment and returned to the streets to kill again. Samuel Little drew this rendering of a woman he believed he killed in 1991 or 1992. He said he drove up a dirt road and parked, strangling the woman and leaving her naked body "next to some trees." He also drew the woman from memory, seen here: After that, he drove down Florence Avenue to Central and then "way out into the county." He described the place where he stopped as a "bald head hill" near a few homes and trees. Little said he picked up the woman in his Ford F-250 van and drove with her to several places, including 71st and Broadway, Griffith Park, Vermont Street, 74th and Broadway and a Popeye’s fast food restaurant. He claimed she was a drug addict from San Francisco the woman was Black, approximately 5-foot-4, 120 pounds and between 20 and 22 years of age. Little told investigators that he met her in 1991 or 1992 near the Frontier Hotel and 3rd Street in Los Angeles. One of those unidentified victims is potentially a San Francisco woman.
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