Olympic Results. In October of 1993, the skeletal remains of Gibson and Everist were found by a man who had been fossicking with a metal detector in the rugged terrain of the Belanglo State Forest. This post originally appeared on VICE Australia. In December of 1989 19-year-olds James Gibson and Deborah Everist from Frankston, Victoria, vanished while travelling to attend ConFest, a festival which was being held near Albury. It quickly became apparent that the murders were all linked and there was an active serial killer stalking New South Wales (The Kingston Whig-Standard, 24 October, 1994 Man Goes on Trial in Backpacker Killing Case). Using DNA matching to examine how many of Australias 500 sets of unknown bones match with the 2,000 missing Australians would likely be successful for at least some cases. And then there was this. During Solid Fuel Fire Bans gas appliances are permitted, except on days when total fire bans are declared. He has a knife. Ms Jahnkes body was not wearing underpants and her dress had been pulled up, suggesting sexual assault. I'd just found a small shrine to murdered kids and then I'd felt awful. Milat gave evidence, saying he had picked up about 15 hitchhikers but not in the Hunter. Mr Letcher is flat broke. The bodies of seven missing young people aged 19 to 22 were discovered partially buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-west of the New South Wales town of Berrima. I try to have as little to do with Belanglo as possible really, for my own mental wellbeing. "You can speculate about why, but I think it would be purely speculation. It was also theorised that all of the victims had been picked up while hitchhiking and then driven to Belanglo State Forest against their will (The Age, 6 November, 1993 Bones Chipped in Attacks, Say Police). Then she planned to head back to Sydney for New Years Eve. NSW and South Australian police have linked the girl found in a suitcase in South Australia with the bones of a woman found in Belanglo State Forest. As Clive Small was to observe, this was the danger time for Ivan Milat: when he was alone the emotional circumstances which triggered his killing were in play. But most of them were Australians aged between their late teens and late twenties. University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Police didnt believe that the killer was financially motivated because none of their travellers cheques had been cashed and none of their credit card were ever used (The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November, 1993 Building a Profile of A Killer). Task Force Air, led by Assistant Commissioner Clive Small, began examining the unsolved cases. I killed somebody last night.". [CDATA[// >