Australian children murdered

Thinking Outside the Cell Defined Terms Baker's Dozen Problems Articles & Reports - Bibliography Filicide

Annexure D - Young women murdered. The majority were also raped.

(Chronicling the most recent murders to the more historic since the mid-1980s)

Melbourne father, Osman Shaptafaj, 57, has been jailed for life for killing his newly-wedded daughter and son-in-law at their home. Shaptafaj shot dead his newly married daughter and son-in-law has been sentenced to life behind bars with a non-parole period of 35 years when he was sentenced in Melbourne's Supreme Court on 22 Feb 2022 for murdering his daughter, Lindita Musai, and her husband, Veton, newlyweds on the morning of Dec 31, 2019 as they approached the Yarraville home where they had been living in. The court previously heard Shaptafaj felt "disrespected" because he had not been invited to the couple's wedding or asked for his "permission" regarding their marriage. Lindita was 25 and Veton was 29. FILICIDE
On the morning of 13 June 2018, aspiring Melbourne comedian, Eurydice Dixon, 22, was found dead on a soccer field at Melbourne's Princes Park. She had been walking home from a performance at Highlander Bar the night before when she was attacked and murdered by 19 year-old Broadmeadows Victoria man, Jaymes Todd, who handed himself into police after CCTV footage of him was released. Todd pleaded guilty to her rape and murder on 8 Nov 2018.
On 22 Dec 2016, Bradley Robert Edwards (48) was arrested at his Kewdale WA house in relation to the deaths of both Jane Rimmer 23 and Ciara Glennon 27. The next day, Edwards was charged with both murders. He has also been charged in relation to two other alleged attacks: a house break and enter and unlawful detention of an 18-year-old woman in Huntingdale WA on 15 Feb 1988, and the unlawful detention and two counts of aggravated sexual penetration without consent of a 17-year-old girl in Claremont on 12 Feb 1995. On 22 Feb 2018, Edwards was also charged with the wilful murder of the third victim, Sara Spears 18. In all, Edwards was charged with eight offences: The trial began on 25 Nov 18.On 21 Oct 2019, Edwards pleaded guilty to charges 1-5 that included the murder of three young women.
On 16 Jan 2016, 21-year-old Arab-Israeli student, Aiia Maasarwe, was returning home from a social night out with friends in the Victorian CBD. Codey Herrmann, 21, attacked Ms. Maasarwe as she was walking home from a tram in Bundoora just after midnight. In June 2016 Codey Herrmann pleaded guilty to Aiia Maasarwe's rape and murder.
On 29 July 1992, two students advertised in the Herald Sun newspaper for a tenant to share their home in Burwood. Kerryn Henstridge, 22, Anne Smerdon, 22, and Peter Dempsey, 27, the brother-in-law of one of the women, attended the address of a property rental advertisement and were forced into separate rooms and hogtied using cable ties before Ashley Coulston, born 1956, shot them execution style in the back of the head with a sawn-off .22 rifle fitted with a home-made silencer made from an oil filter.
Ivan Robert Milat was an Australian serial killer who was convicted (in 1996) of the murder of seven backpackers. Milat, commonly known as the Backpacker Murderer, assaulted, imprisoned, robbed and viciously murdered two men and five women in NSW between 1989 and 1993. Deborah Everest was aged 19. His modus operandi was to approach hitchhikers along the Hume Highway under the guise of providing them transport to areas of southern NSW, then take his victims into the Belanglo State Forest where he would incapacitate and savagely murder them.
In June 1990, Adrian Bayley raped a 16-year-old girlfriend of his sister when his wife was five months pregnant with his first child. Two months later he attempted to rape a 17-year-old girl and threatened to kill her as she walked home from a bus stop. In Dec 1990 he abducted a 16-year-old hitchhiker and took her to a remote area before trying to rape her. He was arrested in 1991 and pleaded guilty in June to those offences and was jailed for a minimum of three years. In 1995 Bayley separated from his wife and began a new relationship and had another two children. In 2002 he was jailed for 11 years with a non-parole period of eight years for attacking and raping five prostitutes in St Kilda between Sept 2000 and March 2001. Bayley was convicted and sentenced to three months in prison, but then appealed against the sentence. Because he was appealing, he was released from custody until the appeal could be heard. Whilst on bail, Bayley, 41, was working as a labourer digging holes for piping when he raped and killed Jill Meagher, 29, in a Brunswick laneway off Sydney Road, Melb. on 22 Sept 22 2012. Ms Meagher, who was originally from Drogheda, County Louth, moved to Australia from Ireland in 2009 with her husband, Thomas. Ms Meagher worked for ABC radio, but went missing during a night out with colleagues. Her body was discovered six days later buried on the outskirts of the city. On 18 June 2013, Bayley, who had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum jail term of 35 years. Bayley then faced three separate rape trials in the County Court beginning in July 2014. On July 13, 2014 he was found guilty after another first trial of three counts of rape, two counts of assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of making threats to kill between Oct 31 and Dec 1, 2000 at Elwood. He had attacked and raped a then 18-year-old sex worker. He was found guilty on March 12, 2015 after his second trial of one count of rape and one count of false imprisonment after attacking a then 25-year-old sex worker. He had driven the victim from St Kilda to a narrow laneway at Elwood before raping her. Bayley was found guilty on 26 March 2015 after this third trial of one count of rape, two counts of indecent assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of assault after being accused of attacking a Dutch backpacker on July 15, 2012. In summary, Bayle assaulted, raped and murdered 29 years old Jill Meagher and assaulted and raped a lot of other women.
On 8 Sept 1988, a month before her twenty-first birthday, Janine Kerrie Balding was abducted from a Sutherland railway station car park by a group of homeless persons consisting of four males and one female. Janine Balding was driven in her vehicle to the side of the F4 Freeway at Minchinbury in Sydney's west, and during that time was raped at knifepoint by Blessington, Jamieson and Elliott. On arrival at Minchinbury, she was again raped. She was then dragged from her vehicle, gagged with a scarf, hog-tied, then lifted over a fence and carried into a paddock by Blessington, Jamieson and Elliott. She was then held down and drowned in a dam on the property. All three young males were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 25 years.
On 2 Feb 1986, 26-year-old Australian woman, Anita Cobby, from Blacktown NSW was kidnapped while walking home from Blacktown railway station just before 10pm and subsequently gang raped assaulted and murdered. Two days after being reported missing, Cobby's body was discovered on a farm in Prospect. Investigations led to the arrest of five men who were later convicted (on 16 June 1987) of her abduction, rape and murder and each sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole, on 16 June 1987. At the time of the killing, Cobby sustained multiple knife wounds and lacerations from barbed wire; her death was a result of a slit throat. The murder received widespread media coverage, condemnation and attention.

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