Ivan Milat Cuts Off Finger to Mail to Judge

One of Australia’s most notorious killers, Ivan Milat is once again in the headlines, this time for cutting off one of his fingers:

SEVERING his finger in a bid for attention was a “ridiculous” act, serial killer Ivan Milat admits in letters to his family.

However,
the backpacker murderer doesn’t regret the self-mutilation and thinks
it was worth it, the letters published by a magazine show.

Milat,
serving a life sentence at NSW’s Goulburn supermax jail, in January
used a prison-issued plastic knife to cut off his little finger below
the knuckle on his left hand, The Daily Telegraph reports.

He placed the digit in a envelope addressed to NSW Supreme Court Justice
Peter McClellan, the man who twice denied Milat’s application for an
inquiry into his conviction of brutally killing seven hitchhikers
between 1989 and 1993.  [The Daily Telegraph]

If you haven’t heard of Ivan Milat before he is famous for the killing of seven backpackers between 1989-1994.  Not only did he murder these people but he brutally tortured them as well.  He is suspected of killing more people and many people believe he had help carrying out these killings. 

TruTV has a really good profile on Milat who could quite possibly be Australia’s most brutal serial killer.