Mr Cruel

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> *"You will be taken to a hospital and they will test you. You will be examined by a police surgeon. They’ll be looking for evidence to link me to you and they won’t find anything."*
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> ~Mr Cruel to Nicola Lynas
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> ### Full Name
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> Unknown
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> ### Alias
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> Mr Cruel
> The Australian Boogeyman
> The Balaclava Killer
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> ### Origin
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> Australia
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> ### Occupation
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> Unknown
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> ### Powers / Skills
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> Planning
> Manipulation
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> ### Hobby
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> No information
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> ### Goals
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> Kidnap and rape as many girls as possible and evade justice. (succeeded)
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> ### Crimes
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> Child murder (suspected)
> Serial child rape
> Serial kidnapping
> Home invasions
> Pedophilia
> Possession of underage pornography (possibly)
> Evading justice
> Fearmongering
> Theft
> Grand theft auto
> Deprivation of liberty
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> ### Type of Villain
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> Enigmatic Pedophile
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**Mr Cruel** is the moniker for an unidentified child abducter and rapist from Australia that kidnapped and raped 3 girls in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria between 1987 and 1990 and the prime suspect of the abduction and murder of Karmein Chan. He is also suspected in 8 more attacks. The police believed that he may videotaped his actions.

## Lower Plenty Attack

His first known attack was on August 22, 1987. Mr Cruel opened the living room window with a knife and entered the house of an unidentified family, in the Lower Plenty region at 4 a.m. He was wearing a brown tweed jacket over a blue waterproof zip-up jacket and had a small black gun, a 20-centimeter kitchen knife, red and white nylon cords, red, green and blue electrical tape and 1 elastoplastic surgical tape with him.

He broke into the parents' bedroom, woke them up with his gun and knife, tied both parents' hands, feet, and mouths, and locked them in a closet. He made the parents believe that he had entered the house for robbery and tied their 6 year-old son to the bed. He then entered the room of the family's 7 year-old daughter, asked her a few questions and raped her intermittently. During his break, he took the girl to the kitchen and ate lamb and biscuits and drank milk and orange juice with her. He took her to the living room, raped her, and then he washed her and brushed her teeth.

Before leaving the house, he cut the telephone wires in the house, the girl to close her eyes and after counting to a hundred, she could untie her family from the ropes. He took a shirt, a pair of trousers, a coat, a bag, a razor, 250 dollars in cash, a diamond ring and a record set with him and left the house.

## Abduction of Sharon Wills

His second known attack was on December 27, 1988 in Ringwood, he broke into the back door of the house of the Wills family at 5.30 a.m., he was wearing dark blue overalls and a black balaclava and armed with a knife and a small handgun. He woke up John Wills, the father of the family, by holding a knife to his throat and a gun to his head, and his wife screamed, telling her children to get out. He then laid them face down, tied them with a copper wire, and blindfolded them with a surgical wire.

He took $35 from John's wallet and cut the telephone wires in the house with a pair of pliers. The family's daughter, Sharon, pretended to be asleep, went in and out of her room, then re-entered, took some underwear and clothes from the girl's closet, and kidnapped Sharon. He put her in the backseat of his car, covered her mouth and eyes, and said he would return her to her family in the morning. According to Sharon, the car was clean and sounded old, and she said there was a toolbox and a pair of gloves in the car. After a while, he got out of the car, replaced Sharon's eye patches and put a sack over her head.

Then he took her to a house, brushed her teeth, washed her, took her to the bedroom and raped her after taping her mouth and eyes. After giving her a glass of milk and a sandwich, he tied her to the bed and went out. Sharon examined the house a little through the small gap in her eyepatch and said she kept hearing planes. When he came home, she washed her again, gave her a lemonade and a sandwich, brushed her teeth and washed her again. He dressed her in a shirt he bought from her family's house, put her in a garbage bag with a hole in it to allow her to breathe, and put her in the car. When he had trouble with his car, he said stolen cars don't always work. The police could not reach any conclusion during the stolen car interrogation because he left a fake evidence again.

He untied her and left her in front of a high school, telling her never to look back as he left. One night later, a woman found Sharon and returned her to her family. Before the incident, neighbors said that a man was filming the Willses' house, and when his neighbors noticed him, he turned off the camera and got into the car.

## Abduction of Nicola Lynas

His third attack was on July 3, 1990 in Canterbury. That day the Lynas couple, who went to a farewell ceremony, left 13-year-old Nicola Lynas and her 15-year-old sister Fiona alone at home. The girls had ordered pizza home and after eating they went to sleep around 11 o'clock. 20 minutes later, a man wearing a dark green balaclava and gloves broke open the parents' window with a knife and entered.

He entered the room where the girls were sleeping and woke Nicole by holding a knife and a gun. He said he wanted money, as in previous attacks, and found a check for $4,000, but he left it and tied her sister. He took Nicola to the kitchen, where he took her mother's credit card and driver's license from a purse, then cut the telephone wires and took the family's car keys. He took Nicola to her room, dressed her in her school uniform and took some clothes, underwear, socks and slippers from her closet. He then asked the two sisters about their father's job and said he would bring Nicola back in the morning for $25,000.

He put Nicola in the backseat of the car, as in the previous attack, and threatened her not to look at him. They got out of the car and waited for another car on a street. They got into the car that arrived, and this car was the same as the one in the statement of the child in the second attack. After the 32-minute drive, he took her to a house, washed her and brushed her teeth, then tied her to a bed. According to Nicola, she heard nine planes during the exploit. The next day he dressed her in her tennis skirt, washed her again, brushed her teeth again, and called her "Missy" while he abused her. Only her family was calling her like this, and knowing that the girls were alone that day increased the possibility that Mr Cruel might have known her family before. He told Nicola she would be home on Friday morning, tied her to a bed and pretended to talk to someone, which was one of his ways to leave false evidence because Nicola said she never heard back from the person that he was talking to.

Then he came to her with a newspaper in his hand, in which there were news about himself, and asked her, "Do you think you are worth 25.000 dollars? Will your family give that money?" After washing Nicola again and brushing her teeth, he blindfolded her and walked with her for five minutes. They got into a car and then they got out of the car and started walking again, as he said, Nicola was at home on Friday morning.

## Murder of Karmein Chan (suspected)

His possible final attack was on April 13, 1991, the day after the team investigating the abduction of Sharon Wills and Nicola Lynas was scaled back due to lack of progress. That night, 13-year-old Karmein Chan and her siblings were spending time together and a man in a green-gray tracksuit and ski mask was writing "revenge asian drug dealer" on the family car. When Karmein and her sibling entered the kitchen, the man opened the window with a knife and entered.

He grabbed her younger siblings by their hair, locked them in a closet, and blocked them with a bed. According to the data obtained from the police dogs, he dragged Karmein by her hair, first to the kitchen, then to the garden, then to the tennis court, then to the fence, and took her to his car 300 meters away. Her body, with three bullet wounds to the head, was found a year later.

## Quotes

> "*My liberty, my freedom, is more important than your life.*"
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> ~Mr Cruel in a suspected attack
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> *“Be quiet and don’t move or I’ll hurt someone.”*
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> ~Mr Cruel during the Lower Plenty attack
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> “*Get into the wardrobe and sit down. Get into the closet and kneel down*.”
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> ~Mr Cruel during the Lower Plenty attack
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> “*All I want is money, food and clothes. How much money is in the house ?*”
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> ~Mr Cruel during the Lower Plenty attack
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> “*You’re not going to be a hero are you ?*”
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> ~Mr Cruel to John Wills
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> “*You’re going to have a shower. You have to wash yourself really good*.”
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> ~Mr Cruel to Sharon Wills
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> “*See this here, this is a really sharp knife*.”
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> ~Mr Cruel to Lynas sisters
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> “*This is a real gun. It shoots real bullets*.”
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> ~Mr Cruel to Lynas sisters
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> “*Keep your eyes shut if you want to stay alive*.”
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> ~Mr Cruel to Nicola Lynas
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> “*You two little ones get in the cupboard.*”
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> ~Mr Cruel to Karly and Karen Chan
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## Gallery

Mr Cruel's bedroomMr Cruels's bathroomMr Cruel's car