Name: Catching Milat
Released: 2015-05-17T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Richard Cawthorne, Geoff Morrell, Malcolm Kennard

Catching Milat

TV Show · Crime · Drama

The true story of how the NSW Police Taskforce Air, and in particular Detective Paul Gordon, tracked down and caught Ivan Milat – the man responsible for the infamous Backpacker Murders in Australia's Belanglo State Forest from 1990 onwards. Set against a backdrop of a public alarm, high level government pressure and an international press demanding a result, Catching Milat is a pacy, psychological thriller.

2015 · 1h 25m

Starring Richard Cawthorne, Geoff Morrell, Malcolm Kennard

Director Peter Andrikidis

EPISODE 1

Catching Milat

The discovery of the bodies of missing backpackers in the forest South West of Sydney sparks Australia's biggest ever manhunt. A police Task Force is set up headed by the new face of Australian policing -Superintendent Clive Small.

43m
EPISODE 2

Part 2

The task force arrests Ivan Milat in a highly orchestrated and very public raid. Milat is behind bars. But only two days after the arrest, he man who cracked the case and who arrested Milat, is sacked by Small.

44m