Bradley John Murdoch

life backpack murderers.

One guy called Ivan Miller and another guy called Bradley John Murdoch, which happened in the, I think the first guy was doing sort of similar things to some of the atrocities we see in this film in the 80s and 90s, another one in 2001, not long before they made this film.

And I think there was a bit of criticism or there's certainly a lot of criticism about this film online about it taking too long before anything happens.

And I really actually disagree with that because I think what it does in that first, I don't think anything sort of bad happens for about maybe 45 minutes.

I know nothing.

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The footage did not solve the mystery, but it gave the public a new glimpse of the final attempts to obtain an answer.

And could she recall all of that appropriately? Did police handle the investigation appropriately? I don't think police actually handled the investigation very well, especially in hindsight, especially in the way that they got testimony off her.

I think that there's a lot of problems with the police investigation.

Would it be fair to say police wanted Bradley Murdoch behind bars? Yes.

Yes, absolutely they did.

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uh but the writer director george uh greg mclean wrote the film largely inspired by australian serial killers bradley john murdoch who really wasn't a serial killer he only killed you know had one murder uh and then ivan millet i believe i'm pronouncing correctly m-i-l-a-t So he was known in the media as the backpack murderer and was convicted of the abduction, assault, robbery, and murder of two men and five women in New South Wales between 89 and 92.

Ivan would approach backpackers under the guise of providing them a ride, then taking the victims to a state force where he would incapacitate them.

Incapacitate them? Thank you.

He was well-known in Australia at the time as the host of a gardening show.

But he was also a recognized actor.

And the director of public prosecutions in the Northern Territory asked the film distributor to delay screening the film until after the trial of Bradley John Murdoch, accused of murdering British backpackers.

Murdoch's trial commenced on October 17th of 2005, so that's why it got the bump to Christmas.

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I wanted to ask you if you'd consider looking at the Ivan Milat and Bradley Murdoch cases in Australia."

Ah, yes, I've heard of those.

Okay.

Or you can always catch up.

You have been the occasional guest talking about some controversial stuff, including is Bradley Murdoch innocent? So I hope maybe some of our listeners here at Monsters Who Murder can go and have a look at McKnight tonight.

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