Peter Norris Dupas

"An evil, cold, baby-faced liar who would possibly cause the death of one of his victims if he wasn't straightened out."

Peter Norris Dupas is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence. His criminal signature is to remove the breasts of his female victims.

At the age of 15,while wearing his school uniform Dupas, still attending high school at Waverley High School in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley, visited his next door neighbour requesting to borrow a knife for the purpose of peeling vegetables. As the woman commented on what a good boy he was for helping his mother with the cooking, he lunged at her with the knife and stabbed her in the stomach without saying a word. Dupas was apprehended after he stabbed the woman in the face, neck and hand as she attempted to fight off his attack. He later told police he could not help himself and did not know why he began to attack the woman.

"He knocked me down onto the floor and fell on top of me," the woman told the police. "He kept on stabbing me with the knife and I kept trying to ward him off. I felt the knife cut into my hands, mainly my right hand, my face and my neck.

In October 1969, a mortuary located at the Austin Hospital was broken into. The bodies of two
elderly women were mutilated using a pathologist's knife. One body contained a strange wound
inflicted with a knife to the area of the thigh.

In 1979, approximately two months after his release from prison, Dupas again molested women in four separate attacks over a 10 day period. On February 28, 1980, Dupas received a five year minimum prison sentence for three charges of assault with intent to rape, malicious wounding, assault with intent to rob, and indecent assault.

Dupas raped his first victim in a Frankston public toilet block. His next three victims escaped, but one, an elderly woman, was stabbed in the chest as she offered as much resistance as she could muster in an attempt to escape. His attempt at rape foiled, Dupas bolted. The woman told police that as she started getting to her feet after her assailant had run away, she realized that blood was pouring from the left side of her chest. She had been stabbed.

Murder of Nicole Patterson

Nicole Amanda Patterson was a 28 year old psychotherapist and youth counsellor employed with the Ardoch Youth Foundation, an organisation formed to assist young drug users. Patterson had
placed several classified ads in a local newspaper, the Northcote Leader in an effort to expand her client base.Two neighbours reported hearing the screams of a young woman coming from Patterson's house between 9.00a.m. and 9.30a.m. on the day of her murder. Attempts by Patterson's boyfriend to contact her in the afternoon failed, raising suspicions.

On April 19, 1999 the body of Nicole Amanda Patterson was discovered by a friend in the front
room of her Harper Street, Northcote residence. Patterson's friend had visited to attend for a dinner engagement. Upon hearing music from a radio and discovering the front door unlocked,
she entered the house and found the body of Patterson severely mutilated. Patterson died from 27 stab wounds to her chest and back. Her body was discovered naked from the waist down, with her skirt found in a nearby bedroom and her underwear around her ankles. Small pieces of yellow PVC tape were attached to her body and both of her breasts had been removed using a sharp knife. Her handbag and drivers licence were stolen during the attack The murder weapon and Patterson's breasts have never been recovered.

Murder of Margaret Maher

Margaret Josephine Maher, 40, was a prostitute working in the Melbourne area who was last seen alive at the Safeway supermarket at 12.20a.m. in Broadmeadows on October 4, 1997.
Her body was discovered under a cardboard box containing computer parts at by Ronald Frank McDonald, who made the discovery while he was collecting aluminium cans beside Cliffords Road, Somerton with his wife, Eva and their children. A black woollen glove was found near Maher's body which police later confirmed contained DNA matching that of Dupas.

A post-mortem examination revealed Maher had suffered a stab wound to her left wrist, bruising to her neck, blunt force trauma to the area of her right eyebrow and lacerations to
her right arm. Maher's left breast had been removed and placed into her mouth. At the time of Maher's murder, Dupas had been out of prison for just over a year after serving time for rape offences and was no longer under the supervision of the government corrections agency, Corrections Victoria.

Murder of Mersina Halvagis

Mersina Halvagis was a 25-year-old Melbourne woman murdered in an attack on November 4, 1997, while visiting her grandmother's grave in the Greek Orthodox section of Fawkner Cemetery in Fawkner, a northern suburb of Melbourne.The alarm was raised by Halvagis' boyfriend when she failed to meet with him later that day as the couple had planned. Halvagis' body was discovered at 4.35 a.m. on November 5, 1997, by Halvagis' fiancée in an empty plot, three graves from where her grandmother was buried. Police believe Halvagis was attacked from behind while kneeling to attend to a flower arrangement, and that she died from massive injuries, including 87 stab wounds about her knees, neck, with most wounds concentrated around her breasts. Her upper clothing had been pulled over her head towards her chest.

Murder of Helen McMahon

Helen McMahon was a 47-year-old woman found bashed to death on a Rye beach in February 13, 1985. McMahon was sunbathing topless on the beach when attacked. Her body was discovered naked, covered by her beach towel. The location of the murder of McMahon was nearby to the location where Dupas had earlier raped a 21-year-old woman at a beach in Blairgowrie, for which he was convicted and served a term of imprisonment. Police believe McMahon may have been Dupas' first murder victim, although her murder officially remains unsolved.

Murder of Renita Brunton

Dupas is a suspect in the murder of 31-year old Renita Brunton at Sunbury, Victoria in 1993

Murder of Kathleen Downes

Dupas is a suspect in the murder of 95-year-old Kathleen Downes at the Brunswick Lodge nursing home in Brunswick. Downes was stabbed to death at 6:30a.m. on December 31, 1997, a month after Halvagis' murder. Police investigations revealed Dupas had telephoned the nursing home some time before the murder. No charges have been laid regarding Downes' murder.

On August 2007 Peter Dupas was sentenced to serve life imprisonment.

killer of 100 children

Javed Iqbal

Killer of 100 children

"I am Javed Iqbal, killer of 100 children... I hate this world, I am not ashamed of my action and I am ready to die. I have no regrets. I killed 100 children."

+Javed Iqbal sodomized and killed 100 boys in Pakistan. All of the boys were street urchins which he drugged, molested, strangled and then dissolved in vats of acid, keeping their shoes and clothes as trophies. About halfway through, began a photodocumentation of his efforts, which he sent to police when the goal of 100 was attained. As nobody in Islamabad notices when a street urchin goes missing, Iqbal claims he could have achieved 500 had he the desire.

+According to Javed’s original statement, he was brutally beaten and left for dead by a pair of young street kids he had taken into his home. Javed said he suffered such a severe head injury that his memory was affected. He underwent several operations, he said, and during the process lost both his house and his car. His mother, so broken-hearted at the condition her son had sunk to, simply died, he told police. He turned to police for help, he said, but they refused. Instead, he argued, the police turned on him, accusing him – falsely, he insisted – of sodomy.

+With no one else to turn to he looked to four young friends – identified only as Nadeem, Shabir, Sajid and Ishaq Billa, to care for him, he told authorities. It was then, according to the statement he gave authorities, that Javed decided to enlist them in a gruesome plot to avenge his mother’s death.

+The price for her suffering and his was the deaths of 100 children. They could easily be found in the market square that surrounds the minaret.

+One of his victim was Ijaz, a beautiful boy in a tattered white shirt with a Kara, an iron ring, around his ankle.

+Iqbal plied Ijal with a powerful sedative and as it started to kick in, he gently queried the boy, trying to learn as much about the boy’s family and his life as he possibly could. Though most serial killers objectify their victims, dehumanize them and reduce them to archetypes or caricatures, Javed was different. He meticulously documented the lives of his victims, jotting down each significant detail, authorities say. Perhaps, some have speculated, this was a way of winning the boy’s confidence, a way of taking a child who no one cared about, a child who had, through a lifetime of deprivation and abuse, developed a hard shell, and making him feel special.

+He was as meticulous in the disposal of the bodies as he was with his notes on his victims, authorities later said. He was patient. Hair and bone take longer to dissolve then flesh, and he would wait until the remains were thoroughly liquefied before disposing of them. At first, he dumped the liquid in a nearby sewer, but when neighbors began to complain of the stench, he began depositing it in the Ravi River, he told police.

+His diaries provided a detailed account of the killings of Ijaz and the others, authorities said. Once his chosen victim was too weak and groggy to resist, Javed would rape him. Then, as he moaned unconscious on the floor Javed would fetch an iron chain, wrap it around the child’s neck and slowly strangle him. He would then hack the boy’s remains to pieces and dissolve the remains in a vat of cheap hydrochloric acid

+Of all the boys who vanished inside Javed’s home, only the partially dissolved remains of two – Ijaz and another boy -- were ever found. Javed had kept them in a drum of acid left conspicuously in the open at the house, left there intentionally, the killer would later say, to prove that his tale of murder and mayhem was true.

+“I had sexually assaulted 100 children before killing them,” read the first placard. “All the details of the murders are contained in the diary and the 32-page notebook that have been placed in the room and had also been sent to the authorities. This is my confessional statement.”

+The passive Pakistani authorities finally arrested Javed Iqbal, a chemical engineer of 42 years old. He became in the worst serial killer of the 53 Pakistani years of independence. Iqbal was arrested when after of other exhibitionist act he went to the offices of the local newspaper The News in Lahore and conffesed the crimes.

+It was unimaginable that such a crime could have occurred, authorities told reporters. How was it possible that so many children could have died so horribly without anyone even suspecting? In fact, of the 100 children who had vanished in the five months since Javed’s killing spree had begun, only 25 had been reported missing. Such is life in Pakistan, commentators later opined. Children vanish here and no one trusts the police to help. As the mother of one young victim told Time Magazine in a December 27, 1999 interview, “it never even occurred to me to go to the police for help.”

+The judge sentenced Javed to be strangled to death with the same chain he used to kill the children. The judge further ordered that his body “will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid,” the same concoction of hydrochloric and sulfuric acids the killer used to dispose of their bodies of his young victims.

+The morning of the October 8, 2001, Javed Iqbal and his accomplice of 17 years old, Sajid Ahmad were found dead in their cell in the Kot Lakhpat prison. They committed suicide, apparently by hang with their sheets but many people said that they were murdered by the police.

+The autopsies revealed that they had been beaten but the autorities said that they committed suicide.

Little Girl Murderer

Tsutomu Miyazaki

+Little Girl Murderer+




"I felt all alone... whenever I saw a little girl playing on her own, it was almost like seeing myself." - Tsutomu Miyazaki

+Miyazaki's premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists. Due to his deformity, he was ostracized when he attended Itsukaichi Elementary School, and consequently kept to himself. Although he has an IQ of 135 and was originally a star student, his grades at Meidai Nakano High School dropped dramatically. Instead of studying English and becoming a teacher as he originally intended, he attended a local junior college, studying to become a photo-technician.

+The deformation haunted him from early on. When he was five years old, a classmate teased him about his "funny hands." In family photos after that, Miyazaki never showed his hands, and his eyes were often closed.

+On August 22, 1988, four-year-old Mari Konno left her home in the Iruma Village apartment complex in Saitama to play at her friend's house. At 6:23 pm, after she failed to return, architect Shigeo Konno, struggling to quell his panic, called the police to report that his daughter was missing. About the same time as Konno's phone call, in a dark forest 50 km away, Mari was being slowly strangled to death.

+A few weeks after the abduction, a letter was sent to the Konno's and Asahi Shimbun, an Osaka newspaper. It contained a photograph of Mari and a confession.

"I put the cardboard box with Mari's remains in it in front of her home. "I did everything. From the start of the Mari incident to the finish. I saw the police press conference where they said the remains were not Mari's. On camera, her mother said the report gave her new hope that Mari might still be alive. I knew then that I had to write this confession so Mari's mother would not continue to hope in vain. I say again: the remains are Mari's." - Yuko Imada

+The Konnos returned home from the funeral to find another letter from "Yuko Imada." This one, labeled simply "Confession," chronicled the changes Miyazaki had observed in Mari's dead body:

"Before I knew it, the child's corpse had gone rigid. I wanted to cross her hands over her breast but they wouldn't budge. . . . Pretty soon, the body gets red spots all over it . . . . Big red spots. Like the Hinomaru flag. Or like you'd covered her whole body with red hanko seals. . . . After a while, the body is covered with stretch marks. It was so rigid before, but now it feels like its full of water. And it smells. How it smells. Like nothing you've ever smelled in this whole wide world."

+Oct. 3, 1988, he spotted Masami Yoshizawa, a seven-year-old first-grader, walking along the roadside. He coaxed her into his car, drove to the hills above Komine Pass--the scene of his first murder--and strangled her to death. Then he stripped her--quickly, before rigor mortis set in--and sexually abused the corpse.

+Third victim Erika Namba was returning from a friend's house when Miyazaki lured her into his sedan. He told Erika to undress in the back seat, then began to photograph her, the strobe flashing in the dark. Erika began sobbing and Miyazaki grabbed her by the throat and straddled her, holding her kicking body down with his weight as he strangled her. By 7 pm, his third victim was dead.

+In a nearby park, he found five-year-old Ayako Nomoto playing alone. Casually removing the lens cap from his camera, Miyazaki approached Ayako and asked her to pose for pictures. He then took several shots until Ayako got used to him. "Let's take some shots inside the car," he coaxed, leading her to his Langley.

+Ayako bounced in the back seat. As he handed her a stick of gum, the young girl commented on his deformed hands. Enraged, Miyazaki pulled on a pair of vinyl gloves. "Here's what happens to kids who say things like that," he growled, seizing her by the throat. "She kicked and kicked, but went limp in four or five minutes," he later confessed. He took the body home, carried the tiny corpse inside, where he stripped off the clothes and wiped it with a towel. He laid it on the low table, spread the legs and taped the vagina apart. He then took photographs and videos while he masturbated.

+Two days later, the odor of the decomposing corpse became unbearable. Miyazaki knew he had to dispose of the body. With a knife and a saw, he hacked off the cadaver's head, hands, and feet to hamper identification. Then he hid the torso near the public toilet at Hanno's Miyazawa-ko cemetery at midnight, four days after the murder. He roasted Ayako's hands in his back yard, ate some of her flesh, and tossed what remained, including the skull, into the woods of Mitakeyama.

+July 23, 1989, Miyazaki, while attempting to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school-aged girl in a park near her home, was attacked by the girl's father. Miyazaki fled on foot, but returned to the park to retrieve his car, whereupon he was promptly arrested. A police search of his two-room bungalow turned up a collection of 5763 videotapes, some containing pornographic anime and slasher films. Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims.

+When the police finally apprehended Miyazaki, they entered his home to find 6,000 videotapes of kiddy porn, splatter flicks, and cartoons. Among the grisly collection were videos and photos of his victims. It was evident that, for Miyazaki, his killing spree was little more than an extension of a lonely fantasy world. "It was like a game to him--a one-man play," said Akira Ishii, a law professor at Aoyama Gakuin University and psychotherapist who followed the case closely.

+Shortly thereafter, Miyazaki was sentenced to death by hanging.

He has remained on death row for many years.

On January 17, 2006, the Supreme Court of Justice upheld the original death sentence. The date of his execution has not been decided yet.

Barbie and Ken

Paul Bernardo + Karla Homolka

+barbie and ken+

beginnings+

+Bernard's father, Kenneth, was a successful businessman until he was charged with child molestation in 1975; he later began abusing his own daughter. Bernardo's mother, Marilyn, sank into clinical depression over her husband's abuse and gained a great deal of weight. When Bernardo was a teenager, his mother told him that he was the product of her affair with a former lover, and that she and his father had covered it up by putting the family name on his birth certificate.

paths+

+Karla Homolka met Paul Bernardo in 1987 and began a torrid romance. She was 17, Paul, 23. To friends they seemed the perfect couple, although Paul was secretly raping women in Scarborough. Karla was a seemingly simple, middle-class girl who found herself attracted to a sexual sadist. She let him do whatever he desired and by some published reports, his demands became increasingly brutal. Nevertheless, she supposedly invited more.

+They became sexually obsessed with each other almost immediately. Unlike the other girls he knew, she encouraged his sadistic sexual behavior. "Karla, handcuffed, on her knees and begging for him, was scratching an itch. Paul asked her what she would think if he was a rapist. She would think it was cool. Their love deepened. He started raping women in earnest." (Stephen Williams)

+Karla was obsessed with Paul's happiness. Her greatest fear was that she would not be able to hold onto this wild and thrilling man who was to become her husband. When he would become bored or distracted, she would either do something to excite him or find another person for him to get excited about.

madness+

+Karla offered Paul her 15-year-old sister, Tammy, as a Christmas gift. She'd drugged the girl with a tranquilizer from the vet's office where she worked so Paul could rape her while she was presumably passed out from alcohol consumption. Instead, Tammy died, and it was ruled accidental. The two got away with it, and then took videos of themselves with Karla wearing Tammy's clothing and pretending to be her virginal sister.

+Kristen French, 15, nabbed after school by the killer couple on April 16, 1992. The two took turns sexually molesting and raping the innocent girl at their home while, of course, capturing the assault on tape. French was subjected painful humiliations repeatedly before she was finally strangled by Bernardo and is trusty cord more than two days after her abduction. Her body was discarded and discovered in an illegal trash dump near Burlington.

+Paul brought home two girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. Both were held captive, terrorized, abused, raped, and finally killed. Paul took videotapes of most of these acts. It later turned out that Karla had lured Kristen French to the car to kidnap, because, as she later put it, Paul liked young girls and she wanted to keep him happy. She had also assisted in dismembering and getting rid of Mahaffy's body.

revelations+

+Bernardo is alleged to have committed multiple sexual assaults in and around Scarborough, Ontario. The perpetrator of these crimes was commonly known as the "Scarborough rapist". Bernardo wrote his lawyer a letter in which he confessed to at least 10 more sexual assaults.

+Paul also beat Karla at times, so she finally left in 1993. When the police began asking questions, Karla quickly made a deal. She offered details about what Paul had done to the two girls in exchange for two ten-year terms for manslaughter, to be served concurrently. Two more years were added after videotapes were uncovered and authorities realized her role in her sister's death.

+In return for a plea bargain (12 years in prison for manslaughter), Homolka testified against Bernardo in his murder trial. This plea bargain received much public criticism from Canadians.