Has Australia had many serial killers?
David (1951 – October 2, 2005) and Catherine Birnie (born 1951) were an Australian husband and wife pair of serial killers from Perth, Australia. They murdered four women ranging in age from 16 to 35 in their home in the 1980s, and attempted to murder a fifth. These crimes were referred to in the press as the Moorhouse murders, after the Birnie’s address at 3 Moorhouse Street in Willagee on the outskirts of Perth.[1] David Birnie hanged himself on October 2, 2005. Catherine’s first opportunity for parole in 2007 was unsuccessful and her case will be reviewed again in 2010. However, West Australian Attorney General Jim McGinty has said that her release is unlikely while he remains in office.[2] John Justin Bunting (b. September 4, 1966 [1], Inala, Queensland) is an Australian serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia, currently serving life imprisonment for his role in the murder of eleven victims of the Snowtown murders. Snowtown murders, or the Bodies in Barrels murders, refers to
