Tracking the stark behavioural shift into serial homicide following major personal and domestic disruptions in the early 1970s.
Right before Mr Cruel's emergence, Melbourne was terrorised by a similarly experienced and also unknown kidnapper. The two offenders overlapped in space, but never quite in time, and therefore never met in the same dark alley. What if they were one and the same?
While Mr Cruel's well-known attacks targeted girls between the ages of 10 and 14, the other cases police linked him to include adult women and even a teenage boy. This wide range of victim ages is an extremely unusual feature, and it is a trait shared by the Tynong North serial killer.
How the "Anon" signature connected two connected two serial offenders
How a Shared Signature Implicates Mr Cruel as Victoria's Worst Serial Killer
