Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer

Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer

The investigative reporter pulls back the curtain on crime,the media and policing in her compelling first novel,Pheasants Nest.

  • byKerrie O'Brien

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From the Archives,1994:Court tells Who to recall copies

From the Archives,1994:Court tells Who to recall copies

Concerns that front-cover photographs of accused backpacker murderer Ivan Milat could jeopardise his trial led to an edition of Who Weekly being withdrawn from sale.

  • byJennie Curtin
Final wish denied:Ivan Milat pays for his own cremation

Final wish denied:Ivan Milat pays for his own cremation

Australia's worst serial killer had written to the NSW government demanding the state pay for his funeral.

  • byHannah Higgins
Milat was evil,but he couldn't kill trust,hope and adventure
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Milat was evil,but he couldn't kill trust,hope and adventure

Around the time that I was hitching south,Australia’s worst serial killer Ivan Milat was stalking young travellers on the same roads that carried me.

  • byPaul Bateman
Ivan Milat's family furious after Corrective Services backflips on paying for funeral

Ivan Milat's family furious after Corrective Services backflips on paying for funeral

NSW Corrective Services has refused to foot the bill for serial killer Ivan Milat's cremation,prompting his brother to demand his body be dropped back at the jail for"them to sort".

  • byCydonee Mardon
'A pauper's burial':Ivan Milat's final wishes revealed in letter

'A pauper's burial':Ivan Milat's final wishes revealed in letter

Ivan Milat wants NSW Corrective Services to pay for his funeral and has urged his brother Bill,who has been left his entire estate,not to contribute one cent.

  • byCydonee Mardon
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'I still can't help you':Police tried eight times to get Ivan Milat deathbed confession
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'I still can't help you':Police tried eight times to get Ivan Milat deathbed confession

Right until his last breath backpacker killer Ivan Robert Marko Milat protested his innocence. “You could put a blow torch to my ears or eyes or whatever and… I still can’t help you,” Milat told detectives.

  • bySimon Bouda
'A great fella':Ivan Milat's brothers maintain he is innocent

'A great fella':Ivan Milat's brothers maintain he is innocent

Two brothers of serial killer Ivan Milat maintain he is innocent of murdering the seven backpackers he was serving life sentences for at the time of his death.

  • byEmma Partridge
Ivan Milat leaves final wishes to family in letter

Ivan Milat leaves final wishes to family in letter

The family learned of his death when contacted by a local newspaper. His death was even listed on Wikipedia before the family had received any official word.

  • byCydonee Mardon
From 1.5 million pieces of information one name stood out

From 1.5 million pieces of information one name stood out

Realising help from the public was going to be crucial a toll-free hotline was set up. In the first 24 hours,5119 calls came in. Ivan Milat's name was among them.

  • byNeil Mercer
'Rot in hell':Mixed emotions as Ivan Milat takes truth to his grave

'Rot in hell':Mixed emotions as Ivan Milat takes truth to his grave

Ivan Milat's death in jail has brought some relief to victims'families and investigators but not real closure.

  • byJenny Noyes