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词条 Mr Cruel
释义

  1. Crimes

     Suspected 

  2. Investigation

  3. Earlier crimes

  4. References

  5. External links

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| name = Mr Cruel
| image=Sketch by Nicola Lynas of attacker made by Victoria Police.jpg
| image_size=150px
| caption =Tailored balaclava worn in Nicola Lynas attack sketch by Victoria Police.[1]
| other_names =
| criminal_charge = Home invasion, abduction, rape, and murder
| years active = 1987–1990 (3 attacks)
| known for = Planning
Absence of forensic evidence
Protecting identity
| reward_amount = $1,200,000
| capture_status = Not captured
| wanted_since = 1987
| victims = 3 confirmed hostage victims
1 suspected abduction and murder
| time = 1991
| weapon = Firearm and knife
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"Mr Cruel" is an Australian paedophilic serial rapist who attacked three girls in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and is the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of a fourth girl, Karmein Chan. A subsequent newspaper headline referred to the perpetrator as "Mr Cruel," a name adopted by the rest of the media.[2]

The perpetrator has never been identified and his three confirmed attacks and suspected murder remain unsolved cold cases. There is a reward of $200,000 for the two abductions. In April 2016, 25 years after the 1991 abduction and murder of Chan, Victoria Police increased the reward for information that leads to Mr Cruel's arrest and conviction from $100,000 to $1,000,000.[3]

Police describe Mr Cruel as highly intelligent. He meticulously planned each attack, conducting surveillance on the victim and family, ensured he left no forensic traces, protected his identity by covering his face at all times, and left red herrings to divert family and/or police attention.[4] He was soft-spoken, and his behaviour was unhurried, as he took a break during an attack in a victim's house to eat a meal.[5] He threatened to kill his victims with a large hunting knife or a handgun.

Crimes

  • On 22 August 1987 in Lower Plenty, a man broke into a family home at 4 a.m. armed with a knife and a gun. He tied the hands and feet of both parents and locked them in a wardrobe. The son was tied to a bed and the 11-year-old daughter was attacked. He cut the phone lines.[6]
  • On 27 December 1988 in Ringwood, he broke into the back door of a house at 5.30 a.m., armed with a knife and a small handgun.[4] He bound and gagged the parents, and demanded money. He grabbed their 10-year-old daughter, Sharon Wills, put tape over her eyes, a ball gag in her mouth and abducted her. She was released eighteen hours later on the grounds of Bayswater High School.[6]
  • On 3 July 1990 in Canterbury, he broke into a house at 11.30 p.m. and tied and gagged 13-year-old Nicola Lynas. He placed tape over her eyes, disabled the phones and searched for money. He then drove her to another house and molested her for fifty hours before releasing her at a power sub-station in the suburb of Kew.[6]

Suspected

  • On 13 April 1991 in Templestowe, armed with a knife, he abducted 13-year-old Karmein Chan (who went to the same school as Lynas).[7] Her body, with three gunshot wounds to the head, was found a year later. It has been reported that a few detectives had doubts whether Mr Cruel committed the murder.[8] Detective Chris O'Connor answered a journalist question in 2013 whether Mr Cruel was responsible "... we just don't know if it was Mr Cruel who murdered Karmein ... we just can't be sure because there isn't enough evidence to make a value judgement about whether it was or wasn't him in the Karmein case."[9]

Investigation

Mr Cruel is believed to have videotaped or perhaps taken still photographs of his attacks. Detectives believe that if he is still alive, he will have kept the tapes and/or photos and will still collect, and possibly swap, child pornography. They say he almost certainly continues to collect pornography through the internet and may communicate with children using chat lines.[11] He plans his crimes – for example, in one case he abducted a girl and told her he would release her in exactly 50 hours, and he did.[12] He bathed his victims carefully, with one victim describing the act as "like a mother washing a baby".[11] In one case, he took a second set of clothes from the girl's home to dress her before she was freed. In another, he dumped the girl dressed in garbage bags so police could not test her original clothes. The modus operandi was the same in the home invasions/abductions in the three attacks and victim statements provided confirmation to police it was the same offender.[9]

Two of his victims were able to provide police with details of the house where they were kept. Both were shackled to a bed with a rough neck brace. One told detectives she heard planes landing, leading police to believe the house was on one of the flight paths to Melbourne Airport.[12] Police checked houses in Keilor East, Niddrie, Airport West, Keilor Park and Essendon North.

On 14 December 2010 Victoria Police announced that a new taskforce had been established about eight months earlier following substantial new intelligence.[13] The new taskforce has been reviewing both the Spectrum Taskforce investigation and some new leads that have come in the last year or so.[14]

Police have searched 30,000 homes and interviewed 27,000 suspects over the attacks, at a cost of $4 million.[15] There is an A$300,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Mr Cruel.[16] Police have admitted that some evidence retrieved from the crime scenes at the time has gone missing. One missing item is the tape used to bind one of the victims, which could have provided DNA samples of Mr Cruel using new forensic technologies.[17]

In April 2016, in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of Karmein's murder, Victoria Police released a 1994 dossier (nicknamed the "Sierra files") to the Herald Sun newspaper containing intimate details of the case that had previously not been released to the public.[18] The dossier, which had been prepared with the assistance of the FBI, contained information about seven possible suspects, including details concerning the prime suspect.[19] The newspaper stated that they had obtained the names of these suspects and also attempted to contact them for information, to varying degrees of success. Victoria Police subsequently increased the reward for information to $1 million.[20] By April 2018, comparisons were also being drawn by police to California's Golden State Killer.[21]

Earlier crimes

The police have never released specific details of suspected attacks.{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}} However, there have been varying reports by the media of suspected earlier attacks prior to 1987.[22][23][24][25][26][4] In a 2001 interview, a decade after the attacks, Detective Stephen Fontana answered a journalist's question on earlier attacks "that there just wasn't enough known about him and he didn't want to speculate".[8]

References

1. ^{{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|title=Mr Cruel: Unsolved child abduction and murder case|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/crime-and-justice/mr-cruel-unsolved-child-abduction-and-murder-case/news-story/be127217126c9327002c9702a48dd2e3|accessdate=13 March 2017|work=The Courier Mail|date=4 May 2016}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=Police hunt for Mr. "Cruel"|work=The Sun|date=19 November 1987}}
3. ^{{Cite news|last=Koubaridis|first=Andrew |url=https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/child-abducting-murderer-mr-cruel-could-still-be-alive/news-story/b317a3e9f6971deacc3e60b56801707a|title=Child abducting murderer Mr Cruel could still ‘be alive’|newspaper=News.com.au|date=13 April 2016|access-date=22 July 2018}}
4. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=http://casefilepodcast.com/case-41-mr-cruel/|title=Case 41: Mr Cruel - Casefile: True Crime Podcast|date=8 January 2017|work=Casefile: True Crime Podcast|access-date=28 February 2018|language=en-US}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/mr-cruel-suspected-of-at-least-a-dozen-attacks-on-children/news-story/a9025019f12955de575702a7bd96c282|title=Mr Cruel stalked his victims|access-date=20 December 2016}}
6. ^1 2 {{cite news|last1=O'Donnell|first1=Philippa|title=New suspect in decades old Mr Cruel investigation|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/12/14/3093126.htm|accessdate=29 October 2017|publisher=ABC Radio Melbourne|date=14 December 2010}}
7. ^{{cite news |last1=Daley |first1=Paul |last2=Catalano |first2=Antony |title=A man in dark shatters a happy family |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22072015/the_age/ |accessdate=22 July 2018 |work=The Sunday Age |date=21 April 1991 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{free access}}
8. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|title=A cruel time on manhunt|work=Herald Sun|date=2 April 2001}}
9. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|title=Retiring veteran detective Chris O'Connor says the unsolved Mr Cruel case still haunts him|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/retiring-veteran-detective-chris-oconnor-says-the-unsolved-mr-cruel-case-still-haunts-him/story-fni0ffnk-1226755057220|accessdate=12 April 2016|work=Herald Sun|date=7 November 2013}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|title=Monster's trail of fear|work=Herald Sun|date=4 August 2003}}
11. ^1 {{cite news| url =http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/mr-cruel-filmed-his-victims-say-police/2006/04/07/1143916721667.html|title ='Mr Cruel' filmed his victims, say police|first = John|last = Silvester| work=The Age | date =8 April 2006| accessdate = 17 January 2008 }}
12. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Silvester|first1=John|title=The hunt for Mr Cruel|url=http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/the-hunt-for-mr-cruel-20101214-18wtw.html|accessdate=29 October 2017|work=The Age|date=15 December 2010}}
13. ^{{cite news|title=Police reopen Mr Cruel investigation|url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s3093170.htm|accessdate=29 October 2017|work=PM|date=14 December 2010}}
14. ^{{cite news|url =http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/new-push-in-hunt-for-child-killer-mr-cruel-20101214-18vna.html|title =New clues in police hunt for 'Mr Cruel'|agency = AAP|author1 = Greg Roberts|author2 = Edwina Scott|work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date =14 December 2010| accessdate = 14 December 2010 }}
15. ^{{cite web|title=Karmein Chan|url=https://www.vicpolicenews.com.au/rewards/3405-karmein-chan.html|publisher=Victoria Police|accessdate=29 October 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409062638/https://www.vicpolicenews.com.au/rewards/3405-karmein-chan.html|archivedate=9 April 2013}}
16. ^{{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|last2=Hunt|first2=Elissa|title='Unlikely Mr Cruel took Bung,' say police 20 years after child predator's last known attack|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/mr-cruel-link-missing-with-bung/news-story/aea1fc90c3243e310e2bca7c40828f1f?sv=582c2e6287fc9e162317e20c7978c13d|accessdate=29 October 2017|work=Herald Sun|date=10 April 2012}}
17. ^{{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|title=Mr Cruel was a meticulous, intelligent predator, say police|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/mr-cruel-was-a-meticulous-intelligent-predator-say-police-investigators/news-story/a88da79742d534a0f10cd255bfd41f65?sv=e0e715bef777d1feeca6e89d504537d2|accessdate=29 October 2017|work=Herald Sun|date=10 April 2012}}
18. ^{{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|title=Victoria Police and FBI dossier on shocking Mr Cruel child attacks|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/victoria-police-and-fbi-dossier-on-shocking-mr-cruel-child-attacks/news-story/4aa009a7026f137965adf7ac43b0cedc|accessdate=29 October 2017|work=Herald Sun|date=8 April 2016}}
19. ^{{cite news|last=Moore|first=Keith|title=Victoria Police unable to eliminate seven Mr Cruel suspects |url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/victoria-police-unable-to-eliminate-seven-mr-cruel-suspects/news-story/3fda868094c4204d87dc3dcfba744534|accessdate=9 April 2016|newspaper=Herald-Sun|date=9 April 2016}}
20. ^{{cite web|title=Delayed $1m Mr Cruel reward regretted|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/04/09/delayed-1m-mr-cruel-reward-regretted|website=Special Broadcasting Service|publisher=9 April 2016|accessdate=9 April 2016}}
21. ^{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Rohan|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/sacramentobased-serial-killer-shared-bizarre-traits-with-australian-killer-mr-cruel/news-story/76233f42e8116fa60c77394a9d756a9c|title=Sacramento-based serial killer shared bizarre traits with Australian killer Mr Cruel|work=News.com.au|date=25 April 2018|access-date=25 April 2018}}
22. ^{{cite news|last1=Moor|first1=Keith|title=Mr Cruel suspected of at least a dozen attacks on children|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/mr-cruel-suspected-of-at-least-a-dozen-attacks-on-children/story-fnat7jnn-1226323143197|accessdate=12 April 2016|work=Herald Sun|date=11 April 2012}}
23. ^{{cite news|title=The killing of Karmein|work=The Age|date=1 April 2001}}
24. ^{{cite news |last1=Daley |first1=Paul |last2=Wilson |first2=Caroline |title=Child porn network linked to Mr Cruel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22071852/the_age/ |accessdate=22 July 2018 |work=The Sunday Age |date=17 May 1992 |pages=1, 3 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{free access}}
25. ^{{cite news|title=Unmasking Mr Cruel|work=Herald Sun|date=6 February 1993}}
26. ^{{cite news|title=Mr Cruel Alert|work=Herald Sun|date=30 August 1991}}

External links

  • Casefile True Crime Podcast - Case 41: Mr Cruel - 7 January 2017

12 : Australian rapists|Murder in Melbourne|History of Victoria (Australia)|Australian murderers of children|1980s in Australia|1990s in Australia|Australian kidnappers|Criminals from Melbourne|Possibly living people|Unidentified rapists|Year of birth missing|1980s in Melbourne
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