Dimensions
136 x 210 x 18mm
Inside the Mind of Australia's Most Feared Serial Killer.
During the early 60s Sydney was terrorised by a serial killer, later dubbed "the Mutilator". William "the Mutilator" MacDonald is now in Cessnock Correctional Centre - his 37th year in prison. For the past 10 years Sydney journalist, Paul Kidd, has researched the facts of this man's life, and now he's prepared to reveal intricate details of how MacDonald came to be ranked among other famous killers such as Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler.
Between 1960 and 1963 in Brisbane and Sydney, William MacDonald murdered five men. His "calling card" was to cut off their penises and testicles with the skill of a Macquarie Street surgeon.
The circumstances that led to MacDonald's capture are as bizarre as the murders. The last of the victims was actually buried under MacDonald's name and, if it wasn't for a chance sighting of MacDonald by one of his old workmates who had attended his "funeral" six months earlier, the Mutilator murders would have continued.
Shortly after, MacDonald was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment with his papers marked "likely to offend again". MacDonald spent the next 16 years in the Morisset Mental Institution for the Criminally Insane.
Certified sane in 1979, he has spent the past 21 years in Cessnock Correctional Centre where he has become institutionalised and resolved to the fact that he will die behind bars.
