Backpack Serial Killer Murders — True Crime

The serial backpack murders that put a country on edge and left piles of bodies scattered throughout a state forest.

Backpack Serial Murder Victims (top left to right) Deborah Everist, Anja Habschied, Simone Schmidl, (bottom left to right) Joanne Walters, Gabor Neugebauer, Caroline Clarke, James Gibson | via Reuters

The Victims

1st and 2nd Discoveries

In September 1992, runners in the Belanglo State Forest found a decomposing body. The next day police found a second corpse about a hundred feet away.