Catching Milat

[icyfroth]

Catching Milat

Catching Milat is a period drama on the Backpacker Murders coming soon to Channel Seven.

Over two compelling episodes, Catching Milat will tell the true story of how the NSW Police Taskforce Air, and in particular Detective Paul Gordon, tracked down and caught Ivan Milat – the man responsible for the infamous Backpacker Murders.

Set against a backdrop of a public alarm, high level government pressure and an international press demanding a result, Catching Milat will be a pacy, physiological thriller – a real life whodunit with very real heroes and villains.

http://www.shineaustralia.com.au/catching-milat/

The fascination with this case is endless.

Who'll be watching?

[lyndal1838]

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@azureline** wrote:

Ivan is in SuperMax in Goulburn and if you knew half of what he gets up to it would make your hair curl.

If he decides he wants a day out he demands to see his lawyer.  The request must be granted as soon as practical and it takes at least 3 vehicles and 4 officers to take him to Sydney.  It really is a joke the way he can manipulate the system.

Lyndal, how do you know he gets outings? I wouldn't think that was possible.

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Az, he engineers these outings by demanding to see his lawyers, or claiming to be ill or some other reason that cannot be denied by the authorities.

He is an evil little man who knows and uses the system.

A trip to Sydney for a Supermax inmate for whatever reason involves a bullitproof car with driver and 1 or 2 armed escorts and 2 escort cars with drivers and armed officers.

Supermax inmates never travel in the prison vans that come to Sydney every day for the court appearances of prisoners.

The reason I know all this is because my SIL has been a warder in Supermax since it opened.  He had a transfer for a few years and is now back there.  Some of the stories we have heard about the likes of the Skaf brothers and Milat are truly hair-raising.

There are some really evil people in this world

[cq_tech]

Anybody who is really interested in the full facts of the Milat family history and how and why they all turned out the way they did should read "The Sins Of The Brother" written by Les Kennedy and Mark Whittaker in 1998, which gives a fascinating insight into what a brutal ba$tard Stijfan Milat (Ivan's father) was.

It in no way excuses Ivan's behaviour but it certainly explains a hell of a lot. It's such an incredibly compelling book that I've read it twice already, and will probably read it again before the TV program airs. Get a later reprint if you can because the case hadn't fully concluded when it was first written and quite a lot has been added since.

[lyndal1838]

I was told about that book when it first came out CQ.

At the time I was not really interested but I might have a look now.

I was just having a look at what Wiki has to say about Supermax and the list of inmates is truly scary.  My SIL was most "impressed" by the record of Michael Kanaan when he was first convicted.  How could anyone get 3 life sentences for 3 murders plus 50 years and some odd months for other crimes.....the mind boggles.