Year 10 Legal Studies: Ivan Milat

May 24, 1994: IVAN Milat, 49, arrested by police investigating the murder of seven backpackers, including two British woman, appeared in court in Australia yesterday charged with the attempted abduction of an English tourist.

August 4, 1996: POLICE are re-examining the files of at least 15 people who disappeared while hitch-hiking in NSW, fearing they may have been victims of serial killer Ivan Milat. The missing people are all young - believed to have been murdered - and disappeared between 1979 and 1991.

February 27, 1998: THE final chapter in one of the most sensational and gruesome cases in Australian criminal history came to a close yesterday when mass murderer Ivan Milat failed in his appeal to the NSW Court of Criminal Apeal.

IVAN Milat has nothing to lose. His life is one of no freedom, few privileges and a host of minor indignities.

IVAN Robert Marko Milat, 56, gained notoriety as Australia's backpacker killer when he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 for the murders of seven travellers.

In the wake of another gruesome discovery in the Belanglo State Forest, this award-winning program is the Milat family's inside story of the chilling crimes that shocked the nation. "I would say to (Ivan) the time is now to square up. If there is anyone else out there that you've done this to - and I believe there is - write down a statement and hand it in to whoever needs to hear it." - Boris Milat, brother. In 1996, Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven backpackers and dumping their bodies in the inhospitable Belanglo State Forest, 70kms south of Sydney. Investigators have always maintained their belief that Milat is responsible for additional murders, but to date, material evidence to warrant further charges has been lacking. On Sunday, a group of motorbike riders found a skull and other bones during a trail ride through the forest. Speculation is now mounting that these remains could belong to another Milat victim. While investigators won't be drawn on links between Sunday's discovery and the Milat murders, police continue to search the forest. In 2005, several of Milat's siblings spoke exclusively to Australian Story and revealed the family of fourteen is fiercely divided about the circumstances of their brother's crimes.

Milat, 70, has been writing up to twice a week to eldest nephew Alistair Shipsey from his “cement cave”, writing about the cold, arthritis, marriage proposals and reading The Da Vinci Code.

As detectives begged Ivan Milat to finally give his victims some form of closure, the notorious serial killer decided to toy with them instead. As Australia’s most notorious killer lived out his final days, detectives made last-ditch attempts to get Ivan Milat to confess to his murders.

Serial killer Ivan Milat has been transferred from the medical wing of Long Bay Jail to Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital after his health took a turn for the worse.

Ivan Milat, Australia’s most notorious serial killer, and man who received far better health care and treatment than refugee children (and adults) on offshore detention has died aged 74.