James Miller - The Truro Murders

Over a seven-week period in the (Australian) summer of 1976-77 the bodies of seven young women (15 - 26 years) were discovered near Adelaide. Miller and his accomplice, Christopher Worrell (a rapist just released), who was subsequently killed in a car crash, picked up the victims, most of whom were hitch-hikers, raped and murdered them.

Miller was found guilty of six of the seven crimes. It appears that all had been strangled, often using a nylon cord, though there was a suspicion that the last of the victims had been buried alive.