David Birnie

David Birnie (* 1951; † October 7, 2005 ) was an Australian serial killer who between October 6 and November 4, 1986 with the help of his wife Catherine in Willagee , a suburb of Perth , four young women and a girl in old age between 15 and 35 years of age. The press treated the crimes as "Moorhouse murders".

Life

Birnie had several younger siblings. The parents, both alcoholics , divorced when he was ten years old. Since neither parent wanted custody , he became a ward of the state. In the early 1960s he lost a job as a temporary jockey after approaching a customer wearing only tights over his head. As an adolescent, he served several shorter sentences for various crimes . As an adult, he was considered addicted to sex and pornography .

He had been married once before he was married to Catherine.

Birnie pleaded guilty to four murders as well as kidnapping and rape of the escaped fifth victim. He justified this by saying that this was the least he could do. After only half an hour of deliberation by the jury , he was sentenced to life imprisonment and finally hanged himself in his cell in Casuarina Prison .

literature

• Murakami, Peter and Julia: Lexicon of Serial Killers 450 case studies of a pathological type of killing. 7th edition, Ullstein Taschenbuch, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-35935-3 .