Last minutes of freedom: It was 20 years ago that police surrounded the Sydney house of serial killer Ivan Milat and arrested him for the abduction of British traveller, Paul Onions, later charging him with the murders of seven young backpackers after they had searched his home and found hundreds of items linking him to the deaths
Then Detective Superintendent Small led the seven month investigation into the murders which culminated in Milat's arrest on the morning of May 22, 1994. Mr Small said lengths of sash cord found in a pillow case belonging to Ivan Milat's mother, Margaret, were likely the same sash cord used as a 'leash device' in the murder of German former soldier, Gabor Neugebauer, 21, who was gagged and shot six times and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Anja Habschied, who was decapitated and her spinal cord severed. The book also contains details of the insulating tape, sash cords and cable ties including improvised leashes Milat used to bind and subdue the backpackers. The attention of detectives soon turned to Ivan Milat (above) who had been arrested for the kidnap and rape of young young women hitchhikers and and have a large collections of knives and firearms Gun mad: After the bodies of seven young backpackers were found in the Belanglo State Forest, police investigating the serial killings were told about a family of brothers in southwestern Sydney were 'mad' about firearms.
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