IVAN MILAT DETECTIVE ‘THERE ARE MORE VICTIMS OUT THERE’

A former police detective believes the serial killer could have claimed 80 lives

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Already considered to be one of our most notorious serial killers, Ivan Milat's chilling crimes still horrify Australians three decades later. But the seven murders Milat was convicted for in 1996 barely scratch the surface of his crimes, according to former Detective Sergeant Neville Scullion.

“There’s anything up to possibly 80 people that he killed,” Neville shares with Woman’s Day.

“The first body was found in 1992, he’s arrested in 1994, but he didn’t just start killing in '92... he was rampant over a 20-year period.”

Along with another former NSW Police detective, Paul Gordon, who died last November, Neville firmly believes Milat's killing spree began in February 1971 when Keren Rowland, 20, was murdered near Canberra.

Neville joined NSW Police in 1977, and first became involved with the Milat case in April 1992 when British backpackers Joanne Walters, 22, and Caroline Clarke, 21, were reported missing by Joanne's parents Ray and Jill.

He recently opened up about the case for the first time on the true crime podcast The Missing Australia: Milat Untold.