Mr Cruel 2 The Lower Plenty Attack

An in-depth discussion of the first of the canonical attacks in the Mr Cruel series - the Lower Plenty Attack. This episode analyses the majority of what has been written or said about this case in the media and highlights many of the contradictions of these representations. Twiiter: @melbinmarvels Instagram: melbinmarvels Facebook: Melbourne Marvels Sources Burchall, Greg Police warn that armed rapist might strike again, The Age, 29 August 1987. Thom, Greg, Family tied up as girl, 12, raped, The Sun News Pictorial 29 August 1987. McDonnell, Sally, Task force to hunt rapist, Diamond Valley News, 1 September 1987. Police appeal, The Age, 4 September 1987. Tobin, Bruce, Rapist threatened a second family: police, The Sun News Pictorial, 4 September 1987. Phone threat clue to rapist, Diamond Valley News, 8 September 1987. Tennison, Jim Police hunt for Mr ‘Cruel’, The Sun News Pictorial, 19 November 1987. Hartnett, Nadine, Taskforce to hunt rapist, Essendon Gazette, 25 November 1987. Girl, 11, raped, The Age, 15 December 1987. Willox, Innes, Police ask public for help in tracking rapist linked to 20 attacks, The Age, 10 May 1988. Willox, Innes, Police seek a new ‘Mr Stinky’ rapist, The Age, 12 May 1988. Walsh, Brian, Mevissen, Andrew & Viscovich, Mary, Alert on Mr Cruel, The Sun News Pictorial, 6 July 1990. Conroy, Paul, MacDonald, Jacqui & Schwab, Peter, Letter imprint clue on missing girl, The Age, 6 July 1990. Talbot, Louise & Johnson, Phillip, Dangerous fantasy the key to kidnap, say police, The Herald, 6 July 1990. Kidnap victim fears, The Herald Sun, 15 April 1991. Tobin, Bruce & Macdonald, Jacqui, Police put together profile of victim, The Age, 16 Apr 1991. Catalano, Antony, Brutal abductor breeds fear with cruelty, The Age, 4 May 1991. Anderson, Paul, Dirty Dozen: Shocking Australian True-Crime Stories, 2003. Campbell, Sarah, Police Life, October 2007. Writer, Larry, The Australian Book of True Crime, 2008. O’Donnell, Phillippa, New suspect in decades old Mr Cruel investigation, 14 December 2010. McLaren, Colin, Infiltration, 2011. Moor, Keith Mr Cruel suspected of at least a dozen attacks on children, The Herald Sun, 12 April 2012. Moor, Keith Victoira Police and FBI Dossier on shocking Mr Cruel child attacks, The Herald Sun, 8 April .2016 (paywalled). Watson-Munro, Tim, Dancing with Demons, 2017. McConnell, Carla, Do you remember Mr Cruel??, 2017. Mallett, Xanthe, Cold Case Investigations, 2019. P.S. Here is a video explainer of how to use the map I created for this case.