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Mr. Cruel - Australias Most Terrifying Serial Home Invader · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Mister Krule is the alias attributed to an unidentified Australian
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  serial child rapist who perpetrated attacks on three girls in
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  the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria during the
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  late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties. He is also
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  the primary suspect in the nineteen ninety one abduction and
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  murder of a fourth victim, Carmine Chan. The name mister
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  Kruel originated from a headline in the Melbourne newspaper The Sun.
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  To date, mister Krule has not been apprehended, and the
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  three confirmed assaults, along with the suspected murder, remain unresolved
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  cold cases. A reward of two hundred thousand Australian dollars
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  has b yo zero. Authorities characterize mister Krule as exceptionally intelligent.
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  He meticulously orchestrated each attack, conducted thorough surveillance of the
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  victim and their families, ensured the absence of forensic evidence,
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  concealed his identity by always covering his face, and employed
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  red herrings to mislead family members and law enforcement. He
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  exhibited a calm demeanor, taking his time during the assaults.
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  In one instance, he paused in a victim's home to
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  consume a meal. He threatened to harm his victims or
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  their family members using a knife or handgun. On twenty
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  second August nineteen eighty seven in Lower Plenty, a man
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  donned in a balaklava invaded a family residence at four
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  a m. Armed with a knife and handgun. He restrained
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  both parents by binding their hands and feet and locked
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  them in a wardrobe. He then secured the sun to
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  a bed and sexually assaulted the eleven year old daughter,
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  having previously severed the phone lines. On December twenty seventh,
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  nineteen eighty eight, in Ringwood, he entered a family home
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  through the back door around five twenty am, again wearing
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  a balaklava and armed with a handgun. He bound and
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  gagged the parents while demanding money. Subsequently, he seized their
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  ten year old daughter, covering her eyes with tape and
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  placing a ballgag in her mouth before abducting her. She
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  was released eighteen hours later on the grounds of Bayswater
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  High School. On July third, nineteen ninety, in Canterbury, he
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  broke into a family home at eleven thirty pm, armed
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  with a knife and a gun. And wearing a balaclava.
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  He tied and gagged a thirteen year old girl, placed
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  tape over her eyes, disabled the phones, and searched for money.
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  He then drove her to another house and molested her
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  for fifty hours before releasing her at a power substate
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  in the suburb of q On April thirteenth, in Templestow,
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  a man wearing a balaklava broke into a family home
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  at about eight forty pm. Armed with a knife. He
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  abducted thirteen year old Carmine Chan, who went to the
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  same school as the Canterbury victim. Chan's decomposed body with
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  three gunshot wounds to the head, was found a year later.
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  It has been reported that some detectives had doubts about
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  whether this crime was committed by mister Krule. Detective Chris
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  O'Connor answered a journalist question in twoenty thirteen about whether
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  mister Krule was responsible, saying, we just don't know if
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  it was mister Krul who murdered Carmine. We just can't
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  be sure because there isn't enough evidence to make a
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  value judgment about whether it was or wasn't him. In
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  the Carmine case, mister Krule is believed to have videotaped
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  or perhaps taken still photographs of his attacks. Detectives believe
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  that if he is still alive, he will have kept
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  the tapes and or photos and will still collect and
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  possibly swap child pornography. They say he almost certainly continues
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  to collect pornography through the Internet and may communicate with
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  children using chat lines. Mister Krule meticulously planned his crimes.
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  For example, in one case, he abducted a girl and
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  told her he would release her in exactly fifty hours,
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  which he did. He bathed his victims carefully, with one
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  victim describing the act as like a mother washing a baby.
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  In two cases, he took a second set of clothes
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  from the girl's homes to dress them before they were freed.
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  The modus operandi was the same in each of the
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  three attacks, and victim statements provided confirmation to police that
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  it was the same offend. II of mister Krule's victims
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  were able to provide police with details of the house
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  where they had been kept. Both had been leashed to
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  a bed. The same two victims told detectives that they
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  had heard planes landing, leading police to believe the house
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  was on one of the flight paths to Melbourne Airport.
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  Police established the Spectrum Task Force in May nineteen ninety one,
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  dedicated to catching mister Kruele. The task Force searched thirty
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  thousand homes and interviewed twenty seven thousand suspects over the
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  attacks at a cost of three point eight million Australian dollars.
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  There was a three hundred thousand Australian dollar reward offered
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  by the police for information that led to the conviction
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  of mister Kruele. A reward poster for the abductions was
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  distributed in nineteen ninety one to all Victorian homes and
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  in certain areas in South Australia and New South Wales,
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  huge posters were placed in public places. The task Force
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  was disbanded in January nineteen ninety four. The Task Force
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  investigated earlier sexual crimes from nineteen eighty five to nineteen
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  eighty seven with similar modus operandi, but could not locate
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  some witness statements and crime scene exhibits, including tape and
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  rope used to tie victims. The head of the Spectrum
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  Task Force, David Sprague, said