The Evil Within - A Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals The Chilling True Stories of The World's Most Notorious Killers Read Online Free PDF Page B

Christopher Worrell, he was killed in a road crash. Also in the car at the same time was a female, Deborah Skuse, who was also killed. James Miller escaped with a fractured shoulder. It would seem that she had been another intended victim.
    At the funeral, Miller struck up a conversation with Worrell’s girlfriend. During this conversation, he told her that Worrell had been killing young girls. It was not until almost two years later, when some of the victims’ bodies were discovered, that she broke her silence, telling the authorities about the conversation she hadhad with Miller. As a result, Miller was arrested and later charged with being involved with the murders of the seven women. However, he did assist in the recovery of the bodies of some of the victims.
    At his trial in February 1980, Miller pleaded not guilty to seven counts of murder. His defence was that, although present, he had taken no part in the actual murders and therefore there was no joint enterprise. The jury did not agree with this defence, and on 12 March 1980, Miller was found guilty of six counts of murder. He was found not guilty of the murder of the first victim, Veronica Knight. The jury agreed that he had not known that Worrell intended to murder the girl. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
    In 1999, James Miller applied to have a non-parole period set in the hope that one day he might be released. On 8 February 2000, Chief Justice John Doyle of the South Australian Supreme Court granted Miller a non-parole period of 35 years from the date of his arrest.
    On 21 October 2008, at the age of 68, Miller died of liver failure, a complication of hepatitis C. He also suffered from prostate cancer and lung cancer. At the time of his death he was one of the longest-serving prisoners in the state.
PETER DUPAS
    By the time Peter Dupas (b. 1953) committed his first murder, he had a long history of violence towards women and many convictions for rape and connected sex crimes. Dupas is probably best described as the perfect sex predator. He was a man to whom ordinary people warmed, showing nothing on the outside of the evil that lurked within him. At the age of 15, he stabbed a neighbour with a knife. For this, he was given psychiatric treatment, and for many years afterwards continued to receive such treatment. However, in all this time, the authorities were never able to pinpoint any specific mental disorders.
    It seemed that prison and attempts at rehabilitation had noeffect on Peter Dupas and a little more than two months after his release on 4 September 1979, after serving five years and eight months for raping a woman, he attacked four women over a 10-day period, leaving them traumatised for the rest of their lives. This time, he was equipped with what would become his signature. The first of these four attacks was the rape of a female in a public toilet. His next three intended victims managed to escape. However, one, an elderly woman, was stabbed in the chest as she tried to fight him off. His attempt at rape thwarted, he made off.
    The police subsequently arrested Dupas and he made full and frank admissions to all the offences when interviewed. He told the police he was glad he had been caught. As for his motive, he cited an irresistible urge to attack women in this way. For these crimes, he received only a six-year prison sentence despite his previous convictions for similar offences.
    He was released on 27 February 1985, after serving five years and three months, and it took only four days for him to reoffend, raping a 21-year-old female as she lay sunbathing at a local beach. Two men, to whom the victim had run following the rape, apprehended him nearby. While in custody for this offence, he was interviewed about a murder that had occurred 16 days earlier while he was on home leave from prison. Another lone female sunbather and mother of four, Helen McMahon, had been beaten to death in the sand dunes at Rye Back beach, only 2½ miles away from