‘I don’t care’: Ivan Milat’s heartless last words before his death
In the days leading up to his death, Ivan Milat watched interviews with the families of his victims, and the notorious serial killer had only one message for them.
“I don’t care... that’s it,” Milat told detectives, as revealed on Monday night’s A Current Affair.
Convicted of the gruesome murders of seven backpackers, Milat showed no remorse and maintained his innocence as detectives probed him for information, hoping for a deathbed confession.
“You could put a blow torch to my ears or eyes or whatever and... I still can’t help ya,” Milat said.
Police believe Milat is responsible for more than the seven murders he has been found guilty of, including three people whose bodies were found in three other forests between 1971 and 1991.
‘I don’t feel sorry for them’
When interviews with his victim’s families were played for Milat he said “what do you want me to watch this for?”
“I don’t feel sorry for them…why should I feel sorry for them?” he added.
Detectives interviewed Milat eight times in Long Bay jail and also in Prince of Wales Hospital in the weeks leading to his death, each time hoping he would give information leading to where victim’s missing remains are.
Many times Milat refused to engage with police. In one interview where he was recorded on camera, he pretended to be asleep.
It was only when two female detectives spoke to Milat, only recording audio, that he began to open up, and told them he didn’t like the male detective who had interviewed him.
“Did he think I’m so crook that I’m going to say something? When even if I said something, I can’t support it,” Milat said during one recording.
No deathbed confession
When questioned about the seven backpackers whose bodies were found in makeshift graves in the Belanglo State Forest in the 1990s, Milat compared the murders to the deaths of his mother and sister.
“Happens all the time,” he said.
He recalled details from his case and insisted there was not enough evidence to convict him.
“There’s no evidence, no police evidence or whatever…no one can tie me in with the murder weapon, you know, with the murders,” he said.
Milat spoke about his 2009 attempt to mail his severed finger to the country’s top court.
“In the end I just got so angry, or I don’t know what, I’m by myself and I just chopped off my finger,” he said.
According to A Current Affair, another interview was scheduled but Milat died a day before the interview could take place.
"The man's pure evil and he just showed no remorse," Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Walpole told the Nine Network.
Final Goodbyes
In a one page letter penned days before his death to his brother Bill and sister-in-law Carol, Milat insisted the NSW government should pay for his funeral.
"Corrective Services NSW to fund it all - a pauper's burial or whatever is suitable," the letter read.
Milat signed off the letter with his name and a small illustration of a figure with a halo above the word "innocent".
Lynise Milat, said the family were in deep mourning for her father.
"I am really depressed over the whole thing. Everything about Ivan made me depressed," Ms Milat told the Daily Telegraph.
"The whole world might be happy that he's gone but I'm not. I've lost my dad. I haven't been able to go out for years because of him, everyone knows who I am but now I finally can," she said.
Milat’s brother, Boris Milat, described the convicted murderer as evil "right to the last bone" and told 60 Minutes “his love came from killing people.”
As detectives were leaving the convicted murderer’s hospital room for the last time ACA reported police gave him the option to call them any time he felt like talking.
“Don’t hold your breath waiting for me to call” Milat said defiantly.
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