Ivan Robert Marko Milat, commonly referred to in media as the Backpacker Murderer, was an Australian-Croatian serial killer who was convicted for the abduction, assault, robbery and murder of two men and five women in New South Wales between 1989 and 1992. His modus operandi was to approach backpackers along the Hume Highway under the guise of providing them transport to areas of southern New South Wales, then take his victims into the Belanglo State Forest where he would incapacitate and murder them. Milat is also suspected of having committed many other similar offences around Australia, some dating as far back as 1962.