On the 29th May a 29-year-old woman is set to appear at the Maroochydore Magistrates Court charged with stabbing a 62-year-old man in Buderim, who later died. Easter Monday 2021 – police are investigating a fatal car crash on David Lowe Way – a possible murder-suicide, after finding suicide notes. March 11th 2021 a father suffered a severe brain injury from an alleged one-punch assault at a child’s birthday party in Landsborough, an injury that killed him.

Underneath the friendly Australian culture there has been a dark shadow of serial killers. While criminologists stress the rate is actually low statistically for the population, there were still 13 convicted serial killers and 52 victims between 1989 and 2006 alone. When we think of violent crime and serial killers, we usually look to America, but Australia warrants its own place on the list of some of the world’s most heinous people. With the limelight currently on the Claremont serial killer case,