Backpacker murderer Ivan Milat dead at 74

Australias most notorious serial killer, Ivan Milat, has died under suspicion of committing many more murders than the seven he was convicted for.

Massenmörder Ivan Milat Source: AAP

Milat was in 1996 convicted over the murders of backpackers Caroline Clarke, Joanne Walters, Deborah Everist, James Gibson, Gabor Neugebauer, Anja Habschied and Simone Schmidl. 

Wolfgang Mueller spoke with Simone's distraught mother when she was visiting Australia in search of her missing daughter who was then only 21 years old.

Simone Schmidl: Das 21 Jahre alte Mädchen wurde von Ivan Milat brutal ermordet. Source: AAP