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cartridges are consistent with Winchester ‘Winner’, ‘H’ head stamp. 2. Thirty-eight packets of Winchester ‘Winner’ cartridges were found by police in the alcove under Walter’s house.
3. Cartridges, consistent with Winchester ‘Winner’ brand, were found in bedrooms 3 and 4 of Ivan’s house.
4. One Winchester cartridge was found by David Gill in the silver Nissan Patrol that he owned and that had been previously owned by Ivan.
5. One cartridge case with Winchester ‘Subsonic’, ‘W’ head stamp and five packets of Winchester ‘Subsonic’ cartridges, batch number ‘AED1FE32’, found in alcove under Walter’s house.
Twenty-six of 30 Eley .22 calibre cartridge cases; one Eley .22 calibre cartridge case; eleven Eley .22 calibre cartridge cases; and four Eley .22 calibre cartridge cases located 165 metres from Neugebauer. 1. Detective Superintendent Prior identified two Eley cartridge cases as having been fired through the Anschutz rifle located in the alcove at Walter’s house.
Six bullet fragments in two trees 165 metres from Neugebauer. 1. Four of the six fragments were consistent with having been discharged from a Ruger 10/22.
2. A Ruger and parts were found at Ivan’s house.
3. The other two fragments were consistent with having been discharged from an Anschutz rifle.
4. An Anschutz rifle was located in the alcove at Walter’s house.
Ruger trigger assembly, bolt assembly, spring and guide, 50-shot Ram-Line magazine with two pieces of cloth in white plastic bag and Ruger ten-shot rotary magazine located in wall cavity of Ivan’s house. Ruger receiver serial number 120-15357 located in Hytest boot in hallway cupboard of Ivan’s house. Ruger barrel band broken into two located in the ‘Sarnia’ box in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house. Ruger black gun butt end (plate) located on shelf in garage at Ivan’s house. 1. All parts are suitable for use in a .22 calibre Ruger model 10/22 rifle.
2. The trigger mechanism (item 1) and receiver (item 3) have camouflage paint indistinguishable from paint on paintball mask and magazine engraved ‘I M’ and ‘TEXAS’ with other model paints found in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house.
3. Ivan said he used model paints to paint the mask. 4. The receiver is part of a Ruger model 10/22 rifle sold to the Horsley Park Gun Shop with two other firearms in early 1988.
5. The Ruger model 10/22 does not appear in the records of the gun shop. When sold to the gun shop the rifle had no camouflage paint on it.
6. Records of the Horsley Park Gun Shop indicate that a Winchester ‘Defender’ pump-action shotgun, serial number L2015051, found in the alcove at Walter’s house was purchased from the shop on 12 December 1987 by someone using the shooter’s licence of Norman Chong. A receipt for the transaction was found in the drawer of the dressing table in bedroom 4 at Ivan’s house.
7. Walter Milat said Ivan had access to the Chong licence and that he had a Winchester shotgun.
8. Ivan said he purchased a Winchester shotgun using the Chong licence.
9. Records of the gun shop indicate that a Baikal .22 calibre rifle (not located) was purchased from that shop on 5 January 1988 by someone using the Chong licence.
10. The gun shop records indicate that a Ruger Mini-14 .223 calibre self-loading rifle, serial number 180-81020, found in the alcove at Walter’s house was purchased on 27 May 1988 by someone using the Chong licence.
11. Walter Milat said Ivan had access to the Chong licence and that he had a Ruger Mini-14 rifle.
12. Ivan said he purchased a Ruger Mini-14 rifle using the Chong licence.
Book, Ruger 10/22 Instruction Manual, located inside Bituminous Surfacing book on dressing table in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house. 1. ‘4 4 92’ written on front cover. Karen Milat said this was Ivan’s handwriting.
2. The ‘unused’ Ruger model 10/22 rifle, serial number 234-11733, found in the alcove at Walter’s house was purchased on 4 April 1992 in the name of Pittaway from the Horsley Park Gun Shop.
3. Walter Milat said he purchased the rifle from the gun shop using the Pittaway licence, which had been left at their mother’s address, using money provided by Ivan.
4. Walter Milat said that some time later he took the rifle to Ivan’s house and left it there for the accused.
5. Ivan disputed Walter’s version of events and knowledge of the weapon.
6. Ivan admitted that the instruction manual was his.
Book, Desert Publications, Select Fire 10/22, located on shelf in family room of Ivan’s house. 1. Relates to a Ruger model 10/22 rifle and its internal workings and includes conversion of the rifle to fully automatic.
2. The book has Ivan’s fingerprints on it.
3. Ivan admitted that the book was his.
One pair of worn size 7 Hytest boots with plastic located in cupboard in hallway of Ivan’s house, and one pair of new size 7 Hytest boots in shoebox located in wardrobe in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house. 1. The shoes are of a type issued to Ivan by the RTA and Readymix.
2. The Ruger receiver was wrapped in plastic in one of the boots.
3. Ivan admitted that the boots in the hall cupboard were his.
Anschutz .22 calibre rifle, number 1053118 (minus bolt) located in the alcove at Walter Milat’s house. Anschutz .22 calibre rifle bolt located wrapped in red checked material inside the yellow haversack marked ‘IVAN’ in a Sanyo box in the same alcove as the rifle. 1. The barrel on the Anschutz rifle had been threaded to fit a silencer.
2. The rifle was wrapped in the same blanket as a Winchester 30/30 repeating rifle, serial number 4111732.
3. Ivan is seen holding a Winchester 30/30 rifle in photographs dated ‘16.1.94’ taken at his house.
4. The red checked material has the same pattern as the material on the bed in bedroom 4 in Ivan’s house.
5. Karen Milat identified the red checked material as part of a shirt she bought Ivan.
6. The yellow haversack also had one empty packet of Hushfire .22 calibre cartridges, batch number ‘52392’. The same batch number on packets of Hushfire bullets found in High Sierra A day pack, in pockets of green jacket with name ‘Preston’ found in the accused’s Holden Jackaroo number QBY-388 and in ten other packets found in the alcove at Walter’s house.
7. Ivan said that he purchased the Anschutz rifle from a workmate at Boral in late 1989 or early 1990.
Threaded barrel cap located in console of Ivan’s red Holden Jackaroo number QBY-388. 1. Suitable for use on the Anschutz .22 calibre rifle found in alcove of Walter’s house.
Four boxes of Eley subsonic .22 calibre cartridges located inside ‘Sarnia’ IA box in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house, and twelve packets of Eley .22 calibre cartridges located in a cardboard box in the alcove at Walter’s house. 1. The cartridges at both houses have batch number ‘J23CGA’, manufactured on 23 March 1979.
2. The batch number on the Eley cartridge found in the forest 165 metres from Neugebauer was either ‘J23CGA’ or ‘J26CGA’ and manufactured in 1979.
Brick (with six packets) of Winchester ‘Winner’ .22 calibre cartridges located in apple box, and three bricks (ten packets each) and two packets of Winchester ‘Winner’ .22 calibre cartridges, all located in alcove at Walter’s house. 1. All packets had batch number ‘ACD1CF2’, manufactured on 2 June 1988, the same batch number as on the Winchester ‘Winner’ box located 165 metres from Neugebauer.
One Winchester .22 cartridge case with Ruger impression located in plastic bag with .45 and .32 calibre ammunition, inside cardboard box on bed in bedroom 4 at Ivan’s house. 1. The cartridge case is consistent with having been fired by a Ruger 10/22 that had fitted the Ruger bolt assembly found in the wall cavity at Ivan’s house.
Brick (with five packets) of Winchester ‘Subsonic’ .22 calibre cartridges located in cardboard fruit box in alcove at Walter’s house. 1. The five boxes of Winchester ‘Subsonic’ cartridges have batch number ‘AED1FE32’, manufactured on 23 May 1991.
2. The cartridges are consistent with the single Winchester cartridge case with ‘W’ head stamp f
ound in forest 165 metres from Neugebauer.
Thirty-eight .22 calibre cartridges including Winchester cartridges with ‘H’ head stamps located loose in a tin in the wardrobe of bedroom 3 at Ivan’s house. Fifty Winchester .22 calibre cartridges with ‘H’ head stamps, loose in black plastic tray located with model paints and brushes in cardboard box under window of bedroom 4 in Ivan’s house. 1. The Winchester cartridges in both groups are consistent with the Winchester cartridges found at the Clarke crime scene in the forest.
Four Winchester .22 calibre cartridge cases found at the Wombeyan Caves Road property owned by Walter and Richard Milat. 1. The cartridge cases were consistent with having been fired from a rifle to which the Ruger bolt assembly located in the wall cavity at Ivan’s house had been fitted.
Three Winchester and one PMC .22 calibre cartridge cases located at shooting mound on property previously owned by Alex Milat at Buxton. 1. All four cartridges had been discharged from a rifle to which the Ruger bolt assembly found in the wall cavity at Ivan’s house had been fitted.
Envelope containing two Indonesian 1000 rupiah, two Indonesian 500 rupiah, two Indonesian 100 rupiah and other banknotes located in bedside table of bedroom 3 at Ivan’s house. 1. Ivan had not been out of Australia in the relevant period.
2. Habschied and Neugebauer arrived in Darwin after flying from Indonesia on 20 November 1991.
Roll of black electrical tape located on bedside table in bedroom 3 of Ivan’s house. Roll of black electrical tape located in blue bag in bedroom 3 at Ivan’s house, and roll of black electrical tape located on floor of garage at Ivan’s house. 1. Similar to electrical tape located in the forest and elsewhere in Ivan’s house.
Four black ‘G’ series cable ties, found with eight other cable ties located on shelving in garage at Ivan’s house. 1. Ties compared with the cable tie in the ‘leash device’ found at the Habschied and Neugebauer crime scene.
2. Andrew Foster said the four ‘G’ series cable ties are the same as the cable tie marked ‘G3’ in ‘leash device’.
3. Foster said the cable ties were manufactured by Giantlok in Taiwan and imported by his company, Solterco. They are heavy-duty ties, not for domestic use, and his company has supplied this type of cable tie to the RTA.
Five lengths of sash cord in green striped pillowcase and single length of sash cord located on a shelf in the garage at Ivan’s house. 1. Cords compared with sash cord in ‘leash device’ at Habschied and Neugebauer crime scene.
2. Karen Milat identified the sash cords as the type used by Ivan to tie minibike onto trailer.
3. Karen Milat identified the pillowcase as belonging to Ivan’s mother.
4. Ivan said that he used this type of sash cord.
Bowie knife with camouflage-handle in brown leather pouch found inside ‘Triple M’ bag in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house. 1. Ivan carried a knife in his car.
2. Victims Everist, Gibson, Schmidl, Habschied, Clarke and Walters had stab wounds and/or clothing cut.
3. Drawing by witness Johanna Breitkopf of knife in Ivan’s car.
4. Witness Anthony Sara identified the knife found as the one carried by Ivan.
5. Craig Gandy, work associate of Ivan, said Ivan had a knife very similar to the one found.
6. Ivan said that he carried the knife in his work bag.
Length of blue and yellow rope found in boot of green Datsun Bluebird number RJF-631, owned by Richard Milat of Hill Top. 1. Telecom rope, similar to that found in vicinity of Neugebauer, but printing on tape inside rope different colour.
E. W. Groening bag containing a quantity of rags located in garage at Ivan’s house. 1. Rags similar to items found in forest including: Neugebauer’s gag, singlet and Ebbtide sloppy joe.
2. Type of bag and industrial recycled ‘jumbo’ rags supplied to the Central Asphalt Depot.
3. Ivan said that he got the bag of ‘jumbo’ rags from work.
Owner’s manual for silver Nissan Patrol number OPO-172 (now number SPW-930) received from David Gill, owner of vehicle after Milat. 1. Contains two handwritten pages of service history of vehicle. Karen Milat identifies the handwriting as Ivan’s.
2. One entry reads ‘L H Door [left-hand door] Repaired 10/1/92 73200 K’.
3. Ivan left his Nissan Patrol vehicle with his neighbour, Mr El-Hallak, to repair the damage caused by a bullet having been discharged inside it just over a week after Anja Habschied and Gabor Neugebauer disappeared.
4. Ivan said that he discharged his rifle in his car at Wombeyan Caves about 29 December 1991.
5. Barry Winning of State Lotteries said that a registration card in Ivan’s name was used at a Mittagong newsagency on 29 December 1991.
Caroline Jane Clarke and Joanne Lesley Walters: Disappeared 18 April 1992
Items located and claims against Ivan Comments
Three sections of brown cloth, part of Gloweave shirt, wrapped around Walters’ face and mouth. One piece knotted. 1. All pieces from one shirt, size 41.
2. One piece (shoulder section) compared in size and shape with piece of shirt material found with Ruger parts in the wall cavity of Ivan’s house.
3. Also compared with a piece of shirt material found wrapped around a rifle bolt in the padlocked grey locker at the Guildford house of Ivan’s mother, Margaret.
4. Professor Pailthorpe said the cloth in the grey locker was approximately the same width as the piece from the Walters’ gag, but slightly longer.
5. Ivan said he may have bought Gloweave shirts, which range in size from 38 to 45.
Seven spent bullets removed from Clarke’s head and head area and three metal bullet fragments sifted from soil under Clarke. 1. Markings on the bullets suggest the use of a silencer.
2. Homemade silencer found in garage at Ivan’s place.
3. This silencer was tested by Sergeant Gerard Dutton, but blew out baffles inside silencer (could have fitted a modified Ruger model 10/22 rifle barrel).
4. Noel Wild, a workmate of Ivan, said he saw Ivan with a silencer fitted on a .22 calibre rifle.
5. Witnesses Johanna Breitkopf and Walter Milat said that Ivan discussed silencers.
6. Rifles other than the Ruger, owned by Ivan, had threaded barrels to suit silencers.
Ten fired Winchester .22 calibre cartridge cases found within 5 metres of Clarke. 1. All cartridge cases could be reasonably expected to have been ejected from a rifle after it had been used to shoot Clarke.
2. All cartridge cases had been discharged from a Ruger 10/22 to which the Ruger bolt assembly found in the wall cavity at Ivan’s house had been attached.
Ruger trigger assembly, bolt assembly, spring and guide, 50-shot Ram-Line magazine with two pieces of shirt in white plastic bag and Ruger ten-shot rotary magazine located in wall cavity in Ivan’s house. Ruger receiver serial number 120-15357 located in Hytest boot found in hall cupboard in Ivan’s house. Ruger barrel band broken in two located inside Sarnia box in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house, and Ruger black gun butt end (plate) located on shelf in garage at Ivan’s house. 1. All items are suitable for use in a .22 calibre Ruger model 10/22 rifle.
2. Trigger mechanism and receiver have camouflage paint essentially indistinguishable from paint on paintball mask and magazine engraved ‘I M’ and ‘TEXAS’ and one paint with other model paints found in bedroom 4.
3. Ivan said he used model paints to paint the mask.
4. The receiver is part of a Ruger model 10/22 rifle sold in early 1988 to the Horsley Park Gun Shop with two other firearms. The Ruger does not appear in the records of the gun shop. The rifle had no camouflage paint on it when sold by Komarek.
5. Records of the Horsley Park Gun Shop indicate that a Winchester ‘Defender’ pump-action shotgun, serial number L2015051, found in the alcove at Walter’s house was purchased from the shop on 12 December 1987 by someone using the shooter’s licence of Norman Chong. A receipt for the transaction was found in the drawer of the dressing table in bedroom 4 at Ivan’s house.
6. Walter Mila
t said Ivan had access to the Chong licence and that he had a Winchester shotgun.
7. Ivan said he purchased a Winchester shotgun using the Chong licence.
8. Records of the gun shop indicate that a Baikal .22 calibre rifle (not located) was purchased from that shop on 5 January 1988 by someone using the Chong licence.
9. The gun shop records indicate that a Ruger ‘Mini-14’ .223 calibre self-loading rifle, serial number 180-81020, found in the alcove at Walter’s house was purchased on 27 May 1988 by a person using the Chong licence.
10. Walter Milat said Ivan had access to the Chong licence and that he had a Ruger ‘Mini-14’ rifle.
11. Ivan said that he purchased a Ruger ‘Mini-14’ rifle using the Chong licence.
Book, Ruger 10/22 Instruction Manual, located inside Bituminous Surfacing book on dressing table in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house. 1. ‘4 4 92’ written on front cover of manual. Karen Milat said this was Ivan’s handwriting.
2. The ‘unused’ Ruger model 10/22 rifle, serial number 234-11733, found in the alcove at Walter’s house was purchased on 4 April 1992 in the name of Pittaway from the Horsley Park Gun Shop.
3. Walter Milat says he purchased the rifle from the gun shop using the Pittaway licence, which had been left at their mother’s address, and using money provided by Ivan.
4. Walter Milat said that some time later he took the rifle to Ivan’s house and left it there for the accused.
5. Ivan disputed Walter’s version of events and knowledge of the weapon.
6. Ivan admitted that the instruction manual was his.
Book, Select Fire 10/22, Desert Publications, located on shelf of family room at Ivan’s house. 1. Relates to a Ruger model 10/22 rifle and its internal workings and includes conversion of the rifle to fully automatic.
2. The book has Ivan’s fingerprints on it.
3. Ivan said the book was his.
Size 7 worn Hytest boots with plastic located in hallway cupboard of Ivan’s house, and size 7 unused Hytest boots in shoebox located in wardrobe in bedroom 4 of Ivan’s house. 1. The shoes are of a type issued to Ivan by the RTA and Readymix.