The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 19

SATURDAY 13 APRIL 1996 THE ACE A 19 MOT! i. 15,000 people, searched more than 30,000 houses and spent thousands of hours checking and cross-checking alibis of SUSpeCt8. I Investigations extended around Australia, into prisons, and to the US and Britain; no effort was spared to find the man believed to be responsible for up to 10 attacks on women and children since 1985. a petition by police that Victorian doctors consider breaching patient confidentiality if they suspected a patient could help catch Mr Cruel. Along the way, the taskforce uncovered evidence' that enabled them to lay charges against 73 people for rape, incest and possession of child pornography.

But nowhere was Mr Cruel. He remains free today. Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Scotland Yard were among those consulted by the Spectrum Taskforce. The case, particularly the murder by Mr Cruel of Karmein Chan, 13, galvanised the community. Police officers put in more than 20,000 hours of unpaid overtime.

The Medical Board of Victoria and the AMA supported For more than three years, the serial sex offender and child killer, Mr Cruel, struck terror into the hearts of Melbourne families. His attacks on children sparked one of the biggest and most costly investigations in the State's history. Thousands of files were opened, extensive lists of suspects compiled by more than 40 police officers who interviewed General Manager NATIONAL LOGISTICS BUSINESS UNIT PART OF AN AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC COMPANY Our client, a multi-divisional transportlogistics Group, has created a new Business Unit to mange the entire transportlogistics requirements of a major industrial business with numerous sites Australia wide. We are seeking an experienced, innovative Business Manger with exposure to multi-modal transport serviceslogistics and IT systems, possibly gained within the transport or manufacturingindustrial services industries. You will be responsible for profitably achieving substantially improved customer service, long term cost -effectiveness, world's best practice in transport serviceslogistics and the establishment of a continuous improvement environment.

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For further details, in complete confidence, contact Richard Payne on (03) 9205 9550, or forward your resume to Payne Henderson Associates Pty Ltd. 1 Princess Street. Kew, Vic. 3101. iZK PryHw Cian and her two surviving daughters, Karly, 14, and Karen, 12, still mourn the loss of Karmein, whose body was dumped on this site.

Five years ago today Karmein Chan, 13, was abducted from her home and murdered by a man dubbed Mr Cruel. The crime chilled a city and traumatised police; it was Eke looking for a ghost MARTIN DALY reports. contrasting images of a tortured Phyl (HE pain lingers but Phyllis PAYNE HENDERSON Chan can now talk or forgiveness. Her daughter Karmein, 13, was abducted five jyeafs ag ago today and, a year later, 'found dumped on a waste strip in victions and die Christianity she embraced at the Bulleen Baptist Church more than three years ago. But Mrs Chan, like many in Melbourne, is still troubled by the terrible legacy of Mr Cruel.

She knows, says Pastor McFarlane, that the killer may well strike again. She wonders, like many others, if the one man was responsible for all the attacks attributed to Mr Cruel. "But there is no feeling that the police could have done more to catch this man. No negativity. She would be greatly relieved to know that the crime has been solved.

It is a burden but is is not something that overwhelms her," says Pastor McFarlane. Mrs Chan, a former Buddhist, has talked broadly with Pastor McFarlane about Mr Cruel in terms of forgiveness, remarking that humanity can be forgiven, in the Christian sense, for its crimes. She wants him caught and put away but she wonders what makes him commit such crimes. "She has not allowed hate to engulf her," says Pastor McFarlane. "She has been incredible the way that she had got on with life The thing that keeps her going is (the belief) that when her time comes, she will be reunited with Karmein: that helps her cope But Karmein's death is still there for her and will continue to be there, much more so because it is an unsolved crime," says Pastor McFarlane.

daughters. She always knows where they are and with whom they spend time. Pastor McFarlane says Mrs Chan has learnt to deal with problems that confront few women. Her role as a mother means she must consider how to help two girls who, aged nine and seven at the time, were bound and gagged and locked in a cupboard by the masked man who abducted at knifepoint the sister they loved. Mrs Chan has had to deal with their security a thought almost uppermost in her mind without overdoing it.

She is described by Pator McFarlane as an "extraordinary woman a tiny squirt, a little soul but a woman of great strength" who must live with the fact that Karmein was brutally murdered and that the man who committed the crime is still free. Mrs Chan visits Karmein's grave regularly, keeps it tidy and changes the flowers when they wither. She remarks sometimes that death for her would have been easier than the suffering she now endures because of the loss of Karmein, but she knows also of the dangers to her family of turning Karmein's grave into a shrine or of grieving so much and openly that her surviving daughters suffer. "She has been incredible the way that she has got on with her life," says Pastor McFarlane, who attributes Mrs Chan's strength to her religious con lis Chan pleading in vain for the safe 'J return of her daughter when, at the time, she was probably already dead. Mrs Chan, meanwhile, has been to hell and back.

Her heart jumps every time she hears a report of a missing child or an abduction. Sometimes she writes to the parents to tell them that she, too, can feel their pain. But she refuses to move from the Temple -ft stowe area. She believes she should be in the area to help in any police invesigations that might solve the aduction of Karmein from the family home on 13 April 1991. Mrs Chan declined to talk to The Age but Pastor Bill McFarlane, with her permission, spoke of her life over the past five years as she struggled to cope with the death of her daughter, the break-up of her marriage, indebtedness, the loss of her home and businesses and a savage mugging last year.

The Chan family's socio-economic status has gone from one extreme to the other. The two Mercedes-Benz cars owned by the family are gone. Mrs Chan has moved from the million-dollar home she owned to rented accommodation. Money is scarce and she works long hours. She bought an alsatlan dog for security after the murder.

The dog died. The Chan name has become synonymous not only with murder CThomastown with three bullets in her jihedd, sparking one of the most in-Ueiite murder hunts in the state's his- 1 the killer, known as "Mr Jiasj been linked by police to about 10 fetttcks on women and children since '1985. He terrorised Melbourne with abductions of Nicola Lynas, 13, Canterbury on 3 luly 1990 and Shiron Wills, 10, from Ringwood on U3 December 1988. And the murder of Karmein Chan. His actions spread such terror in iht community that women telephoned a Melbourne psychiatrist, 'Tim Watson-Munro, to ask how to Recognise a potential child abductor.

JThe man remains free and is not known, publicly at least, to have attacked since he murdered Karmein, tout psychiatrists say he will strike Win. In a way, the Chan family has become part of Melbourne's psyche, remembered partly through photographs of a smiling Karmein published at the time of her abduction. There were also photos of Kar--ntein and her sisters, posing happily jti identical bathrobes in their bedroom, and there were the sharply Commercial Manager SYSTEMSINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BASED ROLE NATIONAL SERVICE INDUSTRY Our client is a Division of a sizeable Australian Group, currently undergoing planned growth and expansion. A recent acquisition has accentuated the need for an upgraded CommercialAdministration Manager role to achieve standard systems across all Branches, which dovetail with Group systems. We are seeking a Manager with a knowledge of PC-based systems in particular and a background of systems development and administration in a competitive industry.

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3101. Karmein Chan but with a crime that continues to chill Melbourne. To friends and fellow congregation members at Bul-leen Baptist Church, however, she is also recognised as a woman of extraordinary courage and dignity. One feature of Mrs Chan's life is her determination that her daughters, Karly, 14, and Karen, 12, will not suffer unnecessarily. Mrs Chan goes on living.

She places a premium on the education of her ri Fantasies fed the urge to kill: psychologists nui PAYNE HENDERSON or dead. "There Is a big question mark over Mr Cruel in that there have been no further offences that we know of since Karmein Chan," says Mr Watson-Munro. "I find it intriguing that he has' not surfaced again, because people with this kind of problem have a very strongjgmipulslon to satisfy thelrjMeds." Mr Watson-Munro compares Mr Cruel with a drug addict who must continue to Increase the drug dose to get the same He says Mr Cruel has shown the same tendency by Increasing the amount of time he had held his victims captive, decreasing the Interlude between attacks, and then committing the ultimate crime, the murder of Karmein Chan. Dr Milton (who compiled the police profile In 1989 of lohn Wayne Glover, known as the Sydney "Granny Mr loblln and Mr Wat- sofi-Munro agree It is unlikely that a person such as Mr Cruel would be able to stop committing crimes of his own accord. -Mr Cruel has been described by; police as Caucasian, aged 30 to 173 to 180cm (5ft Bin to 5ft 11 In), possibly with fair to sandy-colored hair and eyebrows, of medium build, with a small pot belly.

He has used three unusual expressions when talking to his victims "Bozo" and "worry wart" but Mr Watson-Munro says he Is such a clever criminal that he may have used these expressions to deliberately confuse Investigators. The police at various stages com-. piled a list of suspects they believed could be Mr Cruel and also focused on a number of people In jail. But The Age has learnt that police at one stage believed triple murderer Ashley Mervyn Coulston, might have been Mr Cruel. Coulston was convicted of murdering Anne Smer-don, 22, Kerryn Henstridge, 22, and Peter Dempsey, 27, In their Bur-wood home In July 1992.

One source said police Investigated Coulston as "red hot" suspect. Forensic psychologists, Mr Tim Watson-Munro and Mr Ian loblln, of Melbourne, and Dr Ron Milton, of Sydney, fear that Mr Cruel If he Is the serial sex attacker and killer police believe he Is Is very likely to attack again, unless he is captured LEADING forensic psychologists warn that the child killer and serial sex offender known as Mr Cruel will almost certainly strike Tagalri. He Is wanted for the murder Karmein Chan, 13, and for attacks on about 10 woman and girls. He remains free, despite one of the biggest manhunts by Victorian police, but Is not known to have attacked since the Chan case five years ago today. Experts Interviewed by The Age rtaid he may not have attacked since the Chan murder because: might be In Jail on another 'matter.

t.0 He could have travelled overseas. His crimes might not have been i detected or might not have been attributed to him. He could be feeding off fantasies of the sex crimes and murder he Is already known to have committed. The police team set up to track Mr Cruel comprised about 40 officers and was disbanded In January 1994, after three years. The Investigation cost $3.7 million.

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