Ivan Milat

Ivan Milat may refer to:

Ivan Milat-Luketa

Ivan Milat-Luketa (January 7, 1922 – August 3, 2009) was a Croatian painter and sculptor. He is a painter of the modern era in Croatian art history.

Life

Ivan Milat-Luketa was born on January 7, 1922 in Blato, Croatia. In 1925, soon after his father had died, he moved to Dubrovnik where he finished primary and grammar schools. In 1945, he attended the Academy of Art in Zagreb and studied sculpture and painting. He graduated in the class of Oton Postružnik. He got a number of awards and prizes for his artistic work

Works

Milat has portrayed his Croatian homeland in many of his exquisite landscapes which recorded a vanishing time. Numerous drawings, canvases and aquarelles provide a history of Pula, Dubrovnik, Županja, Kutina and Desinić.

His impressionistic eye has synthesized and preserved the best of the tradition of the Zagreb's Academy of Art. He is made famous by his portraits and still-life paintings. He is the sculptor of an extraordinary bronze monument situated in the cemetery of the city of Kutina, a liric effigy of two young pioneers.

Backpacker murders

The backpacker murders were a spate of serial killings that took place in New South Wales, Australia, during the 1990s, committed by Ivan Milat. He was born on 27 December 1944 at Guildford, New South Wales, Australia, as son of Croatian emigrant Stjepan Marko (Steven) Milat (1902–1981) and his Australian wife Margaret Milat (1920–2001). The bodies of seven missing young people aged 19 to 22 were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south west of the New South Wales town of Berrima. Five of the victims were foreign backpackers visiting Australia (three German, two British), and two were Australian travellers from Melbourne.

Ivan Milat was convicted of the murders and is serving seven consecutive life sentences as well as 18 years without parole.

Details

First and second cases

On 19 September 1992, two runners discovered a decaying corpse while orienteering in the Belanglo State Forest. The following day, police constables Roger Gough and Suzanne Roberts discovered a second body 30 metres (98 ft) from the first. Early media reports suggested that the bodies were of missing British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters, who had disappeared from the inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross in April 1992. However, a German couple, Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied, had also disappeared from the Kings Cross area some time after Christmas 1991, and Simone Schmidl, also from Germany, had been reported missing for more than a year. It was also possible that the bodies were of a young Victorian couple, Deborah Everist and James Gibson, who had been missing since leaving Frankston in 1989.