Serial Killer - William MacDonald "The Sydney Mutilator"

"Sorry for the sound quality of this podcast" This Podcast examines the question, the rape of one young man in 1943, assisted him in becoming Australia’s first known serial killer and took the lives of 5 innocent men. Legal defences; Criminally Insane, Diminished responsibility Sexual offices Act 1967 and amendment (Homosexuality) The Victims: Amos Hugh Hurst, Alfred Greenfield, Ernest William Cobbin, Frank Gladstone Mclean and Patrick James Hackett.William MacDonald's Childhood in Liverpool to the murders and mutilations of five innocent victims. The first known serial killer recorded in Australia in 1963. Was he born mad or made mad? The crimes were committed in Sydney, Australia, time span June 1961-April 1963. William Macdonald is classed as Australia’s first known Serial Killer. AKA: The Sydney Mutilator. William Macdonald, born as Allan Ginsburg on the 17th June 1924 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK William first emigrated to Canada in 1949- 1955 ( No history of crimes found within his six years in Canada) then moved on to Australia in 1955, where he changed his name a few times until he became William Macdonald. I examine Williams’s mental health from Childhood, where he was diagnosed as a teen with schizophrenia and what relation this had to his offences.I also touch on mental asylum plus mental health treatments in England UK in 1947, the therapies include Insulin, Metrazol and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and Hydrotherapy.I then looked at his time in the British Army from 1943 - 1947, where William was raped by a Corporal in an air-raid shelter and what part the Rape had in relation to his offences. I move onto the full case history, with full descriptions of the murders and mutilations of the victims plus the investigation, the trial, sentencing and Long Bay Prison. William Macdonald was the Oldest and longest-serving Australian prisoner, served 52 years behind bars. I analyse why he committed these crimes and the statements from William Macdonald himself as to why. "I stabbed and castrated because I thought when the Corporal attacked me, he took my life away. So I thought I’d destroy his sex the same way" He also stated, "There is something in me and it's inbuilt; it is something I can't change". Was it, The Corporal is back? Fact or Paranoia, it seemed that no matter where he went people would talk about him behind his back. The Corporal who raped him, and made him the source of amusement was never far from his mind and that is clear from the way these men were killed. No sexual act, just pour mutilation of the sexual organs.