
As a child he slit the throats of his sister’s toy bears and grew up obsessed with blood and gore movies such as The Stepfather, Fear and Halloween, which he watched over and over. He was a pudgy, dysfunctional misfit, an oafish character and self-confessed misogynist who was always going to be a monster.
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Their theory was tragically proved correct when another young woman was murdered a short time later.Īnd when he was eventually caught, the serial killer turned out to be a local, Paul Charles Denyer, a 6-foot, very overweight, 21-year-old man who answered to the nickname of John Candy, after the (now deceased) funnyman of such movies as Uncle Buck, The Blues Brothers and Cool Runnings.īut Paul Denyer, the John Candy look-a-like serial killer was no funny man. The killer chose his victims at random and murdered for no apparent reason. After the first two murders and an assault in which the victim escaped, it became clear to police that there was a serial killer on the loose. None of the victims knew each other and there was nothing to connect them in any way except that they all lived in the Frankston district. Another 41-year-old woman was violently assaulted and considered herself lucky to escape with her life. Over a seven week period in the summer of 1993, three young women, ages 17, 18 and 22, were violently stabbed and slashed to death - one in broad daylight, in and around Frankston, about a 40-minute drive from Melbourne on Port Phillip Bay in south eastern Victoria. The Frankston Serial Killer: Paul Charles Denyer POLICE: Those particular girls or women in general? POLICE: Can you explain why we have women victims? During a police interview, Denyer's motivation for his crimes was revealed when he replied to questions stating he hated women in general. Whilst imprisoned, Denyer has requested to be allowed to purchase and wear ladies cosmetics, a request which was denied.ĭenyer also filed freedom of information requests to learn of the Victorian government's policy on gender reassignment surgery for prisoners and has sought evaluation to determine his suitablity for such surgery, which was also rejected by medical specialists.ĭenyer was 21 at the time of his crimes. At school, he once assaulted a fellow student whilst the victim was chewing a pen, causing the pen to become lodged in the victims throat. He once cut the family's kitten and hung it from a tree. When Denyer was a child his mother recalls him rolling from a table and hurting his head. The Frankston Serial Killer was featured in the pilot episode of the Seven Network show Forensic Investigators. 1972) is an Australian serial killer, currently serving life imprisonment in HM Prison Barwon for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17 in Frankston, Victoria in 1993.ĭenyer is known as the Frankston Serial Killer due to his crimes occurring within the Frankston area. Status: Sentenced to life in prison on December 20, 1993 Method of murder: Stabbing with knife / Strangulation


Victims profile: Elizabeth Stevens, 18 / Debbie Fream, 22 / Natalie Russell, 17

AKA "The Frankston Serial Killer" Classification: Serial killerĬharacteristics: Transsexual - He hated women in general
