Backpacker Murders - Copycat Murder By Milat Relative

Copycat Murder By Milat Relative

In 2012, Ivan Milat's great nephew Matthew Milat and Cohen Klein (both aged 19 at the time of their sentencing) were sentenced to 43 years and 32 years in prison respectively, for murdering David Auchterlonie with an axe in the Belanglo State Forest. Matthew Milat struck Auchterlonie with the axe as Klein recorded the attack with a mobile phone. This was the same forest where Ivan Milat had buried his victims.

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