Ivan Milat
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Sep 17, 2026
Larissa HuntingtonHOST
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Larissa HuntingtonHOST
Barrow Creek in the Northern Territory up around where Peter Falconio's murder happened, and the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales, which is the site of Ivan Milat's crimes.
Larissa HuntingtonHOST
So it's quite the list.
Larissa HuntingtonHOST
But back to Snowtown, there's one particular place that people go to see, and that's the old bank building.
Nicole MorrisGUEST
Um, so we think, uh, that she did make it to Hornsby, and there was a very credible sighting of her at Hornsby chatting to some road workers at that time, and, um, the term road workers will ring alarm bells for people, because we know now that there was a very infamous road worker at the time who may have overheard that conversation and maybe followed her up the Pacific Highway.
Nicole MorrisGUEST
Um, and I am, of course, talking about Ivan Milat.
Gemma BathHOST
Yeah.
Nicole MorrisGUEST
We know that she made references to Texas, so a blonde Texan hitchhiker at that time would attract attention, so she was chatted to by these road workers and then she headed north, probably, um, by hitchhiking.
Nicole MorrisGUEST
... um, blonde hitchhikers of that age from Texas would there have been in that exact area at that time? So I think that those are pretty credible sightings.
Nicole MorrisGUEST
But police were sort of, it- it- it's in the days well, well before the internet and well before mobile phones, and, uh, so they were sort of relying on sightings, um, and, and chasing them up weeks later after she was long gone.
Nicole MorrisGUEST
So, and, and of course at that time, we had never heard of Ivan Milat, so they didn't know who they were looking for.
Nicole MorrisGUEST
They didn't know what had happened to her.
NatHOST
... a one.
NatHOST
Ivan Milat maybe is the closest thing to a zero.
NatHOST
Yeah.
MikeyHOST
Oh, zero.
Trent DaltonGUEST
And I think all the good journos... do, you know, they really do, they can't help it, you know, like, and I think when Sarah Ferguson does something brilliant, she's putting her heart and soul in that, like, you know the journos who do it, and it can be really powerful, you know, but then you go too far, you know, big story I thought about in the writing of this book, I I was doing a story on guilt by association and the concept of that and how people can get thrown into stories, sometimes unwillingly.
Trent DaltonGUEST
And I tracked down, I had heard that Ivan Milat's brother, Alex Milat, the late Alex Milat, was living on the Sunshine Coast, like, you know, an hour and a half's drive from Brisbane.
Trent DaltonGUEST
And I tracked him down, got on the phone, and I told him all about this story.
Trent DaltonGUEST
I said, I just want to come chat to you about...
Trent DaltonGUEST
And that is a deliciously troubling kind of dilemma.
Trent DaltonGUEST
I remember walking up Alex's steps and I'm knocking on the door and this shirtless man, covered in tattoos, opens the door and goes, sit down.
Trent DaltonGUEST
He's got a walk into his living room, he's got his television on and above his television there's only one photograph of one framed photograph and it's a framed photograph of Ivan Milat sitting on top of the thing we sit down at a table and and we start talking he gets on the topic of of murder and uh he he says to me he's sorry Sidney he says to me um We were raised to see it as the equivalent of killing a human is just the same as killing a snake.
Trent DaltonGUEST
And I called him out on that.
Brent ReadPANELIST
Isn't it that forest where the Bangalow?
Charlie WhiteHOST
Uh, where like Ivan Milat was and stuff?
Brent ReadPANELIST
Yeah.
Charlie WhiteHOST
I don't think so.
Charlie WhiteHOST
I think it was something different maybe.
Charlie WhiteHOST
I can't remember.
David RiccioPANELIST
I think, no, Ivan Milat was Belangelow.
Brent ReadPANELIST
Oh, Belangelow.
Brent ReadPANELIST
that forest where the Bangalow...
Charlie WhiteHOST
Where like Ivan Milat was and stuff.
Charlie WhiteHOST
I don't think so.
Charlie WhiteHOST
I think it was something different maybe.
Guy SebastianGUEST
Well, no, I was going to
NathHOST
say because you're doing your regional tour at the moment, you know who was regional? A big fan, Ivan Milat.
NathHOST
Oh, yeah.
NathHOST
He was in a lot of those areas, guys.
NathHOST
Doesn't it freak you out? Like if you're driving at night after a gig, does it freak you out?
Guy SebastianGUEST
You know when it did freak me out, the Ivan Milat thing, my best friend and I, we did a walk for my charity.
Guy SebastianGUEST
We walked 500 kilometres and we walked through the forest and stuff through like, the southern hollands or whatever all through there and that all that's all we could think of were just me and him are just walking like 12 13 hours a day and then just thinking i was totally about to get ivan malatted hey
Emma ChowHOST
let's end it on a lighter note because i know you got archie up on stage to sing was it i have nothing that he sang on stage with you
Xanthe WestonHOST
Now, if you're new to this series, we recommend scrolling back to episode one in this playlist because each episode we take you inside the landmark parliamentary inquiry that's reexamining some of New South Wales' most haunting cold cases.
Tim Watson-MunroHOST
There's a very real possibility some of these cases are linked, and some lead back to Australia's most notorious serial killer, Ivan Milat.
Xanthe WestonHOST
And in this episode, we're taking you inside the third hearing, where the lead crown prosecutor who put Milat away back in 1996 answered some critical questions and, three decades on, says that he believes Ivan Milat did not kill alone.
Mark TedeschiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's probable that in some of those cases there was someone else with Ivan Milat.
Mark TedeschiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[dramatic music]
Tim Watson-MunroHOST
Plus, the head of the New South Wales Homicide Squad answers crucial questions about cases that have never been linked to Milat but still could be.
Jeremy BuckinghamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There might be a brief of evidence, you know, the police believe there was a evidence to convict Ivan Milat, then that may be the case.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Yes.
Carly SmithGUEST
But we can go back as far as 1977 when a 21-year-old woman named Narelle Cox, uh, was last seen getting into a truck, accepting a lift from a truck driver near Brunswick Heads.
Carly SmithGUEST
Until fairly recently, a lot of people had suspected that Ivan Milat might have been behind that.
Carly SmithGUEST
Um, but police have ruled him out of that particular disappearance.
Carly SmithGUEST
And then from then, there's plenty more.
Carly SmithGUEST
And then recently, there was Theo Hayes, a Belgian backpacker whose disappearance has been pretty widely talked about.
Carly SmithGUEST
Um, and indeed, Ken Gamble, who I believe is also a friend of this podcast and a good friend of mine, he was involved in the search for his remains.
Carly SmithGUEST
So with all of this going on, some of these are in quite recent history and, um, Ivan Milat was put in jail in, I think, 1996, off the top of my head, um, so obviously he can't have been responsible for these really mysterious disappearances in the New South Wales northern region.
Wayne FlowerHOST
Now, Carly, with this search, I mean, y- you, you went out to Tasmania for the search for the Belgian tourist, um, Celine Cremer, and of course you mentioned before Ken Gamble, who was the, the great private investigator who we did have previously on, on The Trial Australia.
Elena GabrielleHOST
I'm like, she probably thought dad was going to...
Elena GabrielleHOST
Ivan Milat.
Elena GabrielleHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Elena GabrielleHOST
My dad looks like Ivan the Light, right? It's crazy.
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