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  Backpacker murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bodies of seven missing young people were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres south west of the town of Berrima, New South Wales.
On 1 November 1993 a skull was found by police sergeant Jeff Trichter in a clearing in the forest that was later identified as that of Simone Schmidl from Munich, Germany.
Police learned he had served prison time and in 1971 had been charged with the abduction of two women and the rape of one of them, although the charges were later dropped.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Backpacker_murders   (1357 words)

  
 The Bush Telegraph: November - January 2003: The weekend life of forests
Head into most State forests during the week and you will hear more or less what you expect to hear in the bush - a few bird calls and the sighing of the wind in the trees.
The forest was host to the second round of the Exide Batteries Series, and with drainage mounds all part of the challenge, the competitors were as much in the air as they were on the ground.
State Forests took particular care to ensure that native wildlife, including the malleefowl that nest in the forest, were not affected by the rally.
www.forest.nsw.gov.au /bush/nov02/stories/24.asp   (600 words)

  
 Ivan Milat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In October 1993, two more bodies were discovered along the same stretch of the remote Belanglo State Forest.
A 20-year-old woman stated to police that while backpacking in January 1990 in New South Wales she was offered a lift, which she had accepted.
While in the vehicle the driver had behaved strangely, and she got out of the vehicle and ran into the Belangalo State Forest.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivan_Milat   (1050 words)

  
 Ivan Milat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On September 19, 1992 a bush walker, hiking through the Belanglo State forest stumbled across the remains of a young woman in a shallow grave; it was obvious that she had suffered multiple stab wounds in a frenzied attack.
Like the others, she was found in a shallow grave in Belanglo State Forest, covered with stick and leaf debris.
She was found in a shallow grave in Belanglo State Forest only partly covered with debris.
www.thecrimeweb.com /ivan_milat1.htm   (2298 words)

  
 www.smh.com.au - Ivan Milat a prime suspect again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
IVAN MILAT is expected to be named today as a prime suspect in the disappearance 26 years ago of two Sydney nurses - the third time since his 1996 conviction for the murders of seven backpackers that he has featured as a "person of interest" at a coroner's inquest.
Detectives interviewed Milat a year ago inside the Supermax prison, where he is serving a life sentence for the abduction, stabbing and shooting murders of five women and two men in the Belanglo State Forest in the Southern Highlands between 1998 and 1992.
After Milat's conviction for the Belanglo Forest murders and the abduction and attempted murder of an eighth backpacker, Paul Onions, police revealed that he was also the prime suspect for the unsolved murder of Peter David Letcher.
www.smh.com.au /text/articles/2006/05/21/1148150125984.html   (777 words)

  
 Call.me.Laure.O
My children had stated on occasions their father had killed people both by shooting them and by stabbing them over and over, in the presence of many other people, probably in some kind of occult sacrificial ritual.
Ivan Milat was jailed in 1996 for murdering seven backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest south of Sydney.
Useful samples of the DNA of the other Belanglo Murders suspect are held by his ex partner in the form of old type postage stamps on letters he wrote to her, one being a letter from prison denying that he sexually assaulted two children aged four and five years.
www.gaiaguys.net /Call.me.Laure.O.htm   (14166 words)

  
 HellHorror.com Forum - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus (Final)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In October 1993, two more bodies were discovered along the same stretch of the remote Belanglo Forest.
A 20 year old woman, stated to police that while she had been backpacking in January 1990, in New South Wales, she was offered a lift, which she had accepted.
While in the vehicle the driver had behaved strangely and because of this she had got out of the vehicle and ran into the Belanglo Forest.
www.hellhorror.com /forum/threads-255.html   (721 words)

  
 Belanglo State Forest Murders - 12/10/1993 - QWN
Tests revealed that Walters had suffered stab wounds to the body, while Clarke had suffered a number of gunshot wounds to the head and a stab wound to the body.
I assure the House and the community that the police have responded to this horrific discovery with the urgency, commitment and resources that a case such as this deserves.
I advise that this morning, in recognition of the serious nature of these crimes and the complexity of the investigation, the Acting State Commander approved the formation of a statewide task force to investigate the four murders.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/a60a6a8d2db7ace1ca256e6a0024cf47/ca256d11000bd3aa4a25645d0013864a!OpenDocument   (582 words)

  
 Midsummer Mellee Results
The temperature dropped from about 35C at turnoff to Belanglo State Forest to 23C at event site just 8km away.
Nice to smell the pine forest and freshly wet gumleaves.
There were 4 courses for red/orange all approx the same length, zig-zagging though 3 compartments of pine forest and crossing to the eucalypt bush edges.
www.garingal.nsw.orienteering.asn.au /results_2003/Melee.htm   (113 words)

  
 News update
In his first public comments since being charged with the seven backpacker murders in the Belanglo State Forest, Ivan Milat has denied having any part in the killings and has claimed that at least some of the evidence was planted.
Opposition to the Federal and State Governments' new gun laws is growing, particularly inside the Federal Coalition, leading to speculation that the laws may be watered down to accommodate dissenting views.
The rejection of the Commonwealth's proposals is being seen as a significant defeat for the Treasurer, Mr Costello.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10449/19960630/member12/JUNE96.HTM   (1507 words)

  
 The Real Wolf Creek. The Truth Behind the real murders.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Though the producers of Wolf Creek say the movie is "based on true events", they also have stated that it is not about any one single event.
The presence of Gibson's body in Belanglo was a puzzle to investigators as his backpack and camera had previously been discovered by the side of the road at Galston Gorge, in the northern Sydney suburbs almost 100 kilometres to the north.
This included a description of two women being driven bound and gagged into the forest in two separate vehicles by a group of men.
www.wolf-creek-movie.com   (2358 words)

  
 Archived topic: "Inaccuracies From WikiOp" - The Wikipedia Review
What I wrote was a ridiculous lie - it was the very biased "official story" that is totally nonsensical - yet incredibly in the 6 months since then nobody has thought to fix it up).
The Backpacker murders is a term coined to represent bodies that were found in Belanglo State Forest in NSW in 1992-1995.
The only similarity between them was that they were all found in Belanglo State Forest.
wikipediareview.com /index.php?showtopic=30   (1679 words)

  
 Event 03SG
Rollie Burford was keen to get back to Belanglo, a place he knows well from earlier days orienteering there, and set a rogaine.
While the small area of pine forest is not so interesting, there is plenty of really nice bushland around Belanglo, and the course was designed to take full advantage of it.
The name Belanglo is imprinted on the minds of many as the scene of a series of horrific murders in the early 90s.
www.nswrogaining.org /AboutEvents/Events/03SG/03SG.htm   (719 words)

  
 Serial Killer Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He chose backpackers as his targets as they traveled alone, would not be missed for a very long time and were often eager for a free lift off a friendly driver.
The first of his known victims were a young couple from the state of Victoria named James Gibson and Deborah Everist, who were last heard of on 30th December 1989.
Their skeletons were located a short distance apart in the Belangalo State Forest (2 hours South-West of Sydney) in September the same year.
www.skcentral.com /print.php?type=A&item_id=305   (907 words)

  
 News update
The Federal Government has admitted that the poor state of Federal finances will probably mean that there will be more than the expected 2,500 jobs shed from the public service.
The man charged with the seven backpacker murders in the Belanglo State Forest, Ivan Milat, has been described by prosecutors as someone who probably killed for pleasure.
At the same time the State Government has been told that children who spent many years as State wards suffered sexual abuse on a wide scale at the hands of public servants.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10449/19960630/member12/APR96.HTM   (2653 words)

  
 Abdullah, Noorman
The purpose of my research is the exploration and development of the concept of 'the State as parent' as a unifying paradigm for both the aggressive overhaul, and the evolution, of protective, and other, services for children.
Belanglo seems synonymous with murder, with television footage of forensic teams uncovering the human remains of British, German and Australian hitchhiking backpackers.
Belanglo forest being among the most accessible pine plantations from Sydney, it has in particular developed into somewhat of a mecca for the Polish community.
arts.anu.edu.au /sss/nigl/Abstracts/Abstractsall.htm   (16376 words)

  
 Milat Cuff-Linked to nurses missing since 1980 : Melbourne Indymedia
When convicted in 1996 for the killings of the backpacker murders near the Belanglo State Forest Milat, said he was set-up for the murders.
Milat is serving life for the murders of seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992, whose bodies were found in the Southern Highlands Belanglo State Forest.
Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere.
melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2003/12/58621_comment.php   (1364 words)

  
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A favourite venue for fun riding and interesting course formats and also a ride on the way to the foot-O NSW Night Champs and Relays in Goulburn.
Map: Belanglo State Forest (MTBO Map) 1:25,000 Location: From Sydney, turn right (west) off the Hume Highway 6km south of the Berrima turnoff.
From The Belanglo Hut, follow the signs to the Assembly Area.
www.ozmtbo.com /Belanglo_Rd2_Entry_Form.doc   (250 words)

  
 A-Z Index: Forests | NSW Department of Primary Industries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Belanglo State Forest (see State Forests of the Southern Highlands)
Hampton State Forest (see Central West state forests)
Pennsylvania State Forest (see Central West state forests)
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au /forests/a-z   (725 words)

  
 Dixon, Schroeder, and Winjum Global Forest Practices Databas
The datafile on the attached disk is the Global Forest Practices Database that was assembled in 1991 at the EPA Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis, OR, USA.
Boonkird, S.A., Fernandes, E.C.M. and Nair, P.K.R. Forest villages: an agroforestry approach to rehabilitating forest land degraded by shifting cultivation in Thailand, pp.
Sedjo, R.A. and Solomon, A.M. Climate and forests.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov /seg/cdroms/EcosystemsB/datasets/dsw/dsw.htm   (9868 words)

  
 Ah, the tears of crocodiles - Opinion - smh.com.au
Curiously, the Uglies are thin on the ground in State Parliament.
Their best known hanger-on is Chris Hartcher, the plodding MP for Gosford, never to be forgotten for lavishing $623,000 of taxpayers' money on a new office for himself when he was John Fahey's environment minister in 1993.
It is the grimly ascetic David Clarke, lawyer, devout convert to Catholicism and an ardent supporter of the secretive Opus Dei sect sometimes thought of as the church in jackboots.
www.smh.com.au /news/opinion/ah-the-tears-of-crocodiles/2005/09/02/1125302739180.html   (1207 words)

  
 Australian Story - Into the Forest - Part 1
When the second lot of bodies were found in the forest in October of '93, we had an emerging picture of an offender who apparently spent more and more time at the scenes.
When I first heard the descriptions of the suspect of the Belanglo murders I sort of just shook me head and thought, that's not right.
He told a story of an attempted abduction in the Belanglo Forest area and identified Ivan.
www.abc.net.au /austory/content/2004/s1232342.htm   (3272 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Serial killer's appeal is refused
Their bodies were found buried in shallow graves in a remote forest.
Milat, 60, was sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for each of the seven counts of murder.
Their bodies were found in makeshift graves in the remote Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/wales/4415216.stm   (232 words)

  
 Australian Story :: Into the Forest - Part 1
Read about Australian Story, the team behind it and the many awards it has won over the years.
His victims were seven backpackers whose bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest outside Sydney.
He was jailed for life and is presently held in Goulburn Jail, but speculation about his crimes continues.
www.abc.net.au /austory/content/2004/s1232032.htm   (171 words)

  
 International House Members Association
International House has a log cabin in Belanglo State Forest (2 hours drives southwest of Sydney) for residents to use and enjoy.
Many residents take the opportunity of visiting the cabin during the Alumni Association's annual gathering.
We always see at least a few every time we visited, but you have to be fast, as they hop away quickly.
www.usyd.edu.au /su/int-house/ihma/annualevents/stargazing.html   (167 words)

  
 Travelogue Entries
He must had been in a bad mood, cause he repeatedly stated "that i should go to the front of the line", but it was not my intention to start cue jumping.
The destination at the western end of the Danube bend, the birthplace of Stephen I, founder of the Hungarian State, was the small township of Esztergom.
The royal residence from the 10th-13th centuries, moved to Buda after the mongol invasion in 1241, ravaged by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, the township as it stands today was largely rebuilt in the ensuing centuries and is of utmost historical importance to Hungary nowadays.
www.travelpod.com /cgi-bin/view_printer.pl?tweb_UID=grinspinner&tweb_tripID=phase1&tweb_guest_password=   (21115 words)

  
 Milat's brother claims police still treating him as murder suspect - National - www.smh.com.au
In an exclusive interview, Mr Milat claimed it was possible for one man to have done the murders.
In 1996, the murder trial of Ivan Milat heard he would have had difficulty controlling two backpackers he picked up on the highway before taking them into Belanglo State Forest to kill them.
On July 27, 1996, Ivan Milat was convicted of killing seven young backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/22/1085176039666.html?from=storylhs   (628 words)

  
 Graves in the Forest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All seven holiday-goers were found between 1991 - 1993 in the Belanglo State Forest, Southern Highlands, just below Sydney.
The band tied round her head in the photo was found still on her head when she was found in her shallow grave at Belanglo State Forest.
Seven bright young lives, taken in their brightest days pays testimony to the growing terror we find in our world today.
www.geocities.com /milatmurders/gravesintheforest.html   (637 words)

  
 UTS: Centre for Forensic Science - CSI - SEATS STILL AVAILABLE
In a 3 hour presentation Sergeant Gerard Dutton will discuss the meticulous nature of his work in investigating crime and preparing evidence for court.
He will lead us through the work he did in two of Australia’s most horrific crimes: "The Belanglo Forest "Backpacker" Murders" and "The Port Arthur Shooting".
Eventually, seven bodies were discovered secreted in the Belanglo State Forest.
www.forensics.edu.au /print.php?sid=64   (281 words)

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