Ivan Milat: Sister-in-law reveals year-long affair
Ivan Milat’s former sister-in-law has revealed she had a year-long affair with the convicted serial killer while she was married to his brother Wally.
Speaking to 60 Minutes on Sunday, Maureen Murray said she found the backpacker murderer to be “charming and attentive”.
“That’s a part of my life I’m not really proud of but I had been [intimate with Ivan]. At certain points… just things happen,” she said.
But she said she believed Milat was responsible for the deaths of seven backpackers whose bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest between 1989 and 1992.
“I believe he did it. He’s not innocent,” she said.
“To me, he died 20 odd years ago, when he was arrested for this. I have no feelings whatsoever. He’s just a person that's died.”
“I’d rather remember the person I knew – a nice person.”
Ivan Milat died on Sunday at the age of 74 in Sydney’s Long Bay Prison Hospital. He was diagnosed with terminal stomach and oesophageal cancer in May.
NSW Corrections Minister Anthony Roberts said he was glad that Milat was dead.
“He can rot in hell,” Roberts said.
“He showed no remorse.
“He was sentenced to remain in jail for life, that sentence was carried out and he died in jail.”
In 1996, Milat was handed down seven life sentences for the murders of seven hitchhikers and the abduction of British backpacker Paul Onions.
Milat, who was also linked to the disappearance of three women in the Newcastle region in the late 1970s, never admitted to any of the crimes.