The Kimberly Killer

For two weeks in 1987, a German tourist with an arsenal of weapons terrorised the Australian Outback.

The Pentecost River Crossing, Western Australia. A popular tourist and fishing spot is close to the location of three of the Kimberly Killer’s murders — Photo: Wikipedia

The Kimberly and Top End regions of the Australian Outback are ancient and beautiful places. Harsh, lonely and unforgiving, they are also two of the last truly wild places on the continent — areas where it is still easy to get lost in thousands of kilometres of vast emptiness.

Despite their remoteness, the regions are exceptionally popular with tourists, explorers, and those just looking to find themselves in a place about as far away as you can get from the hustle and bustle of the modern world.

In June 1987, the peace and tranquillity of this sacred land was shattered by a crazed gunman who decided that the Kimberly and Top End regions of Australia would be a good place to start hunting and killing human prey.

Map of the Top End and Kimberly Regions of Australia — Image: The Kimberly Collection

The Northern Territory Murders

In June 1987, Western Australian retirees Marcus Bullen, a former deputy Mayor of the City of Fremantle, and his wife, Winifred, were on a driving holiday in the Northern Territory’s Top End with their adult son…