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S01:E05 - Peter Norris Dupas

Crimes That Shook Australia

Season 1 Episode 5 - Peter Norris Dupas

2014 · 47 min
TV-MA
Peter Norris Dupas is one of Australia’s most prolific serial killers. His vicious attacks on women started at the age of 15, and eventually resulted in the brutal murder and mutilation of three innocent women. On March 19, 1999, Nicky Patterson was repeatedly stabbed at her home in Northcote, Melbourne. Dupas was eventually linked to her murder through DNA evidence and given life imprisonment. Officers then reopened a murder case from 1997. The brutal killing of Margaret Maher, dumped on a roadside in Campbellfield, Victoria, initially remained unsolved until police officers investigated the case once more, and spotted a similar mutilation method used on Nicky Patterson—the removal of the breasts. This along with Dupas DNA at the scene saw him handed a second life sentence for her murder. Following on from that trial, Victoria Police reopened another case from 1997. The brutal attack on a young woman visiting her grandmother’s grave. Mersina Halvagis was stabbed multiple times and left to die in Fawkner cemetery. Dupas would eventually be found guilty of this murder through the help of an ex-inmate and former solicitor, Andrew Fraser. His sensational information claiming Dupas had made confessions about murdering Mersina helped the case go to court and a guilty verdict. Fraser is now in line for some of the $1 million reward the Government put forward for information.
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