June 1, 1924 - William MacDonald
MacDonald operated in Australia's eastern cities during the early 1960s, targeting marginalized men — often homeless — in a series of attacks that shared a consistent and extreme pattern of violence. The murders stretched across Queensland and New South Wales before his capture in Melbourne, where he had been living under an assumed identity. His case drew significant attention from Australian law enforcement and press, and he remains one of the more studied figures in the country's criminal history for the duration of his evasion and the nature of his crimes.
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William MacDonald (17 June 1924 – 12 May 2015) was an English serial killer responsible for the murders of five people in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales between 1961 and 1962.
A British citizen, MacDonald immigrated to Australia in 1955. Between 1961 and 1962, MacDonald terrorised Sydney, committing a string of gruesome murders before being apprehended while working as a porter at Melbourne's Spencer Street railway station on 13 May 1963. His modus operandi was to select his male victims at random (mostly derelicts), lure them into a dark place, violently punch and stab them with a long bladed knife dozens of times about the head and neck, and finally sever their genitals. Due to his gruesome style of murdering victims, he was given the nickname The Mutilator by the media.
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