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Ivan Milat  

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  • In 1996, road worker Ivan Robert Marko Milat was convicted of murdering seven tourists between 1989 and 1992 in the Australian State of New South Wales. Known as the “Backpacker Murders,” the torture and execution-style killing of the young hitchhikers is still considered Australia's largest homicide investigation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime; Ivan Milat]

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