Edward "Ned" Kelly, (1854/1855–1880), famous armour wearing Victorian bushranger[60] also murdered three Troopers (policemen) named Lonigan, Scanlon and Kennedy, as well as former friend turned police informer Aaron Sherritt.
Katherine Knight, murdered John Charles Thomas Price on 29 February 2000. The first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[63]
Keli Lane, convicted of the 1996 murder of her newborn daughter Tegan on 13 December 2010.[64]
Martin Leach: bound, gagged and stabbed Charmaine Ariet and bound, gagged, stabbed, raped and slit the throat of her cousin Janice Carnegie before burying their bodies in a gully at Berry Springs.
Robert Arthur Selby Lowe, convicted in 1994 of the sexual assault and murder of six-year-old Sheree Beasley at Rosebud on 29 July 1991. Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[65]
Bandali Debs: convicted of murdering two police officers and two prostitutes in the 1990s[82]
Paul Denyer, Melbourne based serial killer during the early 1990s dubbed the 'Frankston Serial Killer'.[83]
Peter Dupas, Melbourne based serial killer who killed several times upon release from prison. Peter's case is well known in law, as he had attempted to appeal that due to the previous convictions, that for his third charge, due to pre-trial publicity and the notion that it would be impossible to have a fair trial. His appeal was subsequently dismissed, as it was ruled that it could be overcome by the judge giving the jury adequate direction.[84]
Paul Steven Haigh, Convicted of the murders of six people in the late 1970s and another in 1991. Currently serving six life sentences without the possibility of parole.[88]
Matthew James Harris: strangled a friend's brother, a female friend and a male neighbour to death over five weeks in 1998 in Wagga Wagga
Eddie Leonski, American serial killer known as the Brownout Strangler[90]
William MacDonald: also known as "the Mutilator"; killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963[91]
Ivan Milat, Backpacker murders. Milat was convicted of killing seven tourists in the late 1980s and early 1990s. There is a possibility he killed many more, although he has never confessed.[92]
Dennis Ferguson, paedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland[102] found dead in December 2012[103]
Andrew Garforth, convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of Ebony Simpson[104]
Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault involving underage girls[105]
Robert Hughes, actor convicted of ten child sex offences committed against five young girls between 1985 and 1990, sentenced to 10 years 9 months with a non-parole period of six years [106][107]
Brian Keith Jones aka "Mr Baldy", serial paedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole[108]
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