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Ivan Milat's Possible First Victim Subject of Inquiry
Families say missing evidence and hidden files have hampered investigations into cold cases that may link several disappearances to Ivan Milat.
- On Thursday, a NSW parliamentary inquiry began examining unsolved murders and missing persons cases between 1965 and 2010 in Bowral, focusing on potential links to serial killer Ivan Milat.
- Families of Keren Rowland, Kay Docherty, and Cheryl Grimmer testified that police could have stopped Milat decades earlier if they had connected his early predatory behavior to their loved ones' disappearances.
- Witness Steven Clark detailed a 1970s hitchhiking encounter with a man he identified as Milat, while former detective Jeff Dakers criticized the force for "bureaucracy, complacency and just lack of interest" in cold cases.
- Retired detective Hugh Hughes described the denial of archival information as "institutional corruption," while Unsolved Homicide Unit Det Supt Doueihi noted 36 officers managing 700 cases face a "really slow burn."
- Committee members visited Belanglo State Forest on Wednesday, where Milat murdered seven people, as the inquiry investigates whether systemic biases or poor leadership impeded justice over five decades.
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Leaning Left7Leaning Right2Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution64% Left
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- 64% of the sources lean Left
64% Left
L 64%
C 18%
R 18%
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