Investigative Research Task: Has Justice Been Served?: 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.