What is Backpacker murders?
Between 1990 and 1996, a total of seven people were killed in [[Australia]]. Since all of the people were backpackers, the events are known as '''backpacker murders''' today. All of their bodies were found in [[Belangalo State Forest]], which is close to [[Sydney]]. [[Ivan Milat]] killed all of these people. == What happened == 7 people were found in Belangalo State Forest. Five of these people were visiting Australia - three [[Germans]] and two [[British people]]. The other two were visiting [[Sydney]] from other parts of Australia. Some of these people were by themselves. Some of these people were with a friend. The 7 people were all different from each other. === Television report === On the [[TV]] they said that [[tourist]]s were killed, but not everyone who died was a tourist. === The crimescene === The 7 people were found all over Belangalo State Forest, which is a big area. One of them had their head chopped off. Someone had sex with some of them. Some of them had their clothes taken off. Some of them had bits of their bodies cut off and put somewhere else. Some of the bodies were by themselves. ==== Deaths ==== Some of the people had been killed with a [[knife]]. Some had been killed with a [[gun]]. Some seemed to have been [[strangulation|strangled]]. The 7 people who died had nothing in common. People who tried to find out who did it said that there may have been more than one person who killed them. They said that they may have been a part of a [[gang]]. == Catching Ivan Milat == Ivan Milat (born 1944 died 2019) was an Australian man from [[New South Wales]] who lived near Belangalo State Forest. So police arrested Milat and searched his house. They found out that: *Milat had a gun similar to the weapon used to murder the victims and items that belonged to the victims. *One man in [[England]] said that he was nearly killed by Milat. *Police then said that Ivan Milat must have tried to kill that man. They also said that Ivan Milat may have killed all of the other people. Milat