Peter Dupas’s first crime against women was committed at age 15 when he attacked a next-door neighbour with a knife, and he went on to become one of the worst serial rapists and killers in Australian history.
In July 1974, at age 21, Dupas broke into a married woman’s home and threatened her and her baby with a knife before tying her up and raping her. The sentencing judge described it as ‘one of the worst rapes that could be imagined’ and he was sentenced to nine years imprisonment, with a minimum of five years.
Two months after his release in 1979 he molested women in four attacks over a 10 day period. In 1980 he received another five year minimum sentence for three charges of assault with intent to rape, malicious wounding, indecent assault and assault with intent to rob.
Released again in 1985, it was only another month before he committed another offence. This time he raped a 21-year-old woman on Blairgowrie beach at gunpoint.
He served seven years of a 12 year sentence and less than two years later was arrested again for false imprisonment having held a woman at knifepoint in a toilet block near Lake Eppalock.
He was released from prison in 1996. Three years later, the body of Nicole Patterson, a 28 year old psychotherapist and youth counsellor was found severely mutilated in her home, with both her breasts cut off.
Peter Dupas was found guilty of the crime and Judge Frank Vincent said the chances of rehabilitation were ‘so close to hopeless that they can be effectively discounted’. CI online article 24th April 2014
DU PONT, JOHN ELEUTHERE: Team Foxcatcher 2016
We have to discuss that a man was shot, was killed on your property yesterday. Team Foxcatcher, rozzer, 2016
Team Foxcatcher was the brainchild of John Du Pont approximately thirty years ago … and paid them [wrestlers] a salary to be on his team. ibid. commentary
He was so needy. ibid. wrestler
Fuck the world. Kill them all! ibid. John
He said that black was the colour of death. ibid. wrestler
There were a growing number of incidents. ibid. rozzer
Charged with killing Dave Schultz. ibid. news
DUPONT de LIGONNÉS, XAVIER: Unsolved Mysteries TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
I saw the [French] house all closed up. I’ve always seen that house with the shutters open. It was a shock. I knew something terrible had happened. They seemed like a normal family. Totally normal. But no-one really knows what goes on behind closed doors. Unsolved Mysteries s1e3: House of Terror, woman, Netflix 2020
Bodies were discovered under the terrace of the house … They stumble on to the bodies, a massacre … Each victim was killed by two bullets to the head. ibid. dude
Zero blood, five victims, a total mystery. ibid. woman
He [Xavier, husband] was about to be found out as someone unsuccessful … There had actually been money problems for about ten years … The police search for Xavier, the prime suspect. ibid.
For weeks there are search parties looking for him … No body was ever found. They were certain he had committed suicide. ibid.
There isn’t the slightest clue as to where Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes could be. ibid. dude
The bodies of a mother and her four children and their two dogs are discovered under the terrace of their stately home … Each of them is shot with two bullets. But someone is missing from the gruesome burial plot: where is the man of the house? True Crime Recaps: Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes: Dead or Alive? Youtube 17.23, 2022
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Sand Lake, Michigan, May 11, 2015: Two bodies are discovered in a remote house after a shooting. Neighbours and police are baffled, until one of the victims returns from the dead. And a psychic provides a vital clue. Even after these bizarre developments it will take the intervention of Bud, an African grey parrot, to help solve the mystery. Meet, Marry, Murder s2e21, Netflix 2022
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A ferocious attack – she [Tyresa Mack] was partially clad, her clothing was torn, and a telephone cord was wrapped around her neck. Crime Stories: Killer Cabbie – Paul Durousseau
One winter’s day in Jacksonville when the killer would strike again. ibid.
Two witnesses who recalled seeing a cab in front of Shawanda’s building that night. ibid.
Both young women had been reported missing by their families. ibid.
A man accused of killing seven women and convicted of one murder was sent to Florida’s death row on Thursday.
Paul Durousseau was convicted in June of the rape and slaying of 24-year-old Tyresa Mack in 1999. The same jury voted 10-2 to recommend the death penalty.
Durousseau’s attorneys argued that his life should be spared because he suffers from brain damage and other mental illnesses that impaired his behavior. But prosecutors said Durousseau was well aware of what he did when he killed the woman and deserved the death penalty.
On Thursday, Judge Jack Schemer formally sentenced Durousseau to death by lethal injection.
‘This was a consciously hideous crime,’ Schemer said from the bench. ‘Durousseau is manipulative, devious and crafty.’ News 4Jax online article 14th October 2011
DURST, ROBERT: The Jinx TV - The Independent online - Robert Durst: An ID Murder Mystery TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 - Very Scary People TV -
Dispatch called me at my house. It was after hours. They told me that a young kid had found what they thought was a torso. No head, no arms, no legs, just a torso. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst I: A Body in the Bay, rozzer, HBO 2015
We were able to identify the victim as Morris Black. ibid.
Really? This guy did that? Didn’t fit. ibid.
$250,000 [bail]? No problem. It’ll be there in the morning. ibid.
He belongs to one of the richest families in New York City. ibid.
Suspected in his wife’s disappearance in New York. ibid.
He decided to run. ibid.
He’s not crazy. He’s diabolical. ibid.
… Found two loaded guns, some marijuana, $38,000 in cash, and an ID for one Morris Black. ibid.
… Charged with murdering and dismembering his Galveston neighbour. ibid.