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If a convicted

serial

killer

were ever released from prison, it's a perplexing question that most people would say no to, but it's still one that Victorian authorities have to address and it's all because Paul Nenier is a man horrible, evil beyond measure, in 1993 he randomly murdered three. young women when they caught him, he happily admitted to his

crime

s by taking Glee in the act of killing, but now, 30 years later, he is eligible for parole. Dennis has already applied for his release once and was rejected, but there is nothing stopping him from trying again unless the law is changed.

The streets of Frankston were under siege. I've heard some people describe it as almost a lockdown, except it was like a lockdown for women. The entire city was terrified under the cover of darkness. This

suburb

of Seaside Melbourne was being stalked by a

serial

killer

. They happen every day but serial murders are a phenomenon over a period of seven short weeks, three young women were chosen at random and murdered mercilessly and that is one of the reasons he killed them. He has been fantasizing about killing women since he was 14 years old. The killer was Paul Denia, an unemployed Frankston local who would reveal himself to the police as the incarnation of Pure Evil.

Grabbing it could push it like this. Yes, it is a new direction. Plus, Dania's disturbing confessions were a brutal glimpse into the mind of a serial killer. a blood diet being here on my hands on my soles blood everywhere but perhaps even more confronting than the horror of his

crime

s was the nonchalant way in which he described them without the slightest hint of emotion, he boasted of threatening his victims with an improvised weapon and cut their necks with homemade knives can you tell me rarely your tattoo on that lot of your sword what did it do to send it to establish the feeling in my soul what kind of feeling can you personally make this Quran did we have this feeling?

I would have wanted this he just wanted to kill me it is inconceivable to the families of Denia victims that 30 years later the man who terrorized Frankston could have any chance of freedom but the fact is that Paul Daniel is now eligible for parole the outrage has galvanized the fight to keep him behind bars led by Victorian MP David Limrick that's what brings us to talk about this we don't want any chance of him hurting another girl do you think he'll get that chance I think he's ever been given it I don't I know Freedom um, I don't know, no one can say for sure and that's the problem, he's afraid, the possibility of this monster attacking again, what he was diagnosed with, what happened back then, what led him to to kill, those elements are still present today, forensic psychologist.

Carla Ferrari has analyzed the letters Dania has written from the confines of her cell to help assess the mentality of this murderer after three decades in prison. Is it an explanation for the savage murders she committed? He sees absolutely no evidence of remorse or reform. You have been diagnosed with no treatment, even with intensive treatment the benefits would probably be modest at best. Do you see any benefits in what you have read? The massacre of Paul Denier began on Friday, June 11, 1993. That night, 18 years old. Old Elizabeth Stevens would become his first victim to disappear after getting off a bus to make the short walk home.

How did she get this place? That was the challenge for us. Veteran detective Charlie Bezina led the investigation into his murder. What did Paul Daniel do? we know what happened to Elizabeth that night he sees without knowing who she was she sees Elizabeth get off the bus it was a horrible night it was raining then he comes up behind her he holds a makeshift gun he made out of a small barrel and a piece of wood gives it to her holds him and tells her: "Don't scream or I'll kill you," she doesn't scream and she didn't scream in the darkness and the rain driven by the impulse to kill, the denier forces the 18-year-old girl to walk. to a nearby park and until his death I began to suffocate him with my hands and, uh, when she touched him after a while working in standard football many times in Australia, really Dania's continuous stabbing towards Elizabeth long after his death was a telltale clue to his sadistic post mortem nature once he was dead is when he inflicted a series of stab wounds on the upper body and then inflicted marks on the torso like a bit of tic-tac-toe, tic-tac-toe and crosses as well That tic-tac-toe on his torso, was this a game he just saw her as a piece of meat and that's what's so chilling about this killer as with his other victims there was no evidence of sexual assault.

Denya's death drive was fueled by an inexplicable hatred of women. You can explain why we were Hayden's victims, so later. his Killdebeth Dania, murdered, drags her here and what leaves her in this water, she's lying there and you spend some time looking at it trying to recreate the scene in your own mind as an investigator, at this point you're investigating a single murder, yeah , initially. This is a single murder and we treat it as such. Nothing indicates anything more sinister than how horrible the scene was. Homicide detectives were just another routine investigation as they discovered they couldn't have been more wrong. being on the hunt for a serial killer those words serial killer is terrifying it gives you chills here we had one among us in our neighborhood Darren Russell knows firsthand the savagery that Paul Denia inflicted on those he murdered and is convinced who should never be allowed out of prison a 30 year old doctor at the time he identified the body of one of the denier's three victims was unimaginably that of his own 17 year old sister Natalie you haven't talked about this before publicly do you feel the need to do it now is it important that we continue to talk about this that we keep it in the public mind he was an extremely callous and dangerous person and I don't use this word lightly, evil person, we have no reason to believe that that has changed, I have him behind us with the best opportunity for him and about we will start the head garden, yeah and um, I said, say hello to our place.

He could get us along in the winter of 1993. Paul Denier was just starting out, he had a taste for blood and a compulsion to kill four weeks after his first murder, he tried to grab a woman walking home from work, she managed to escape otherwise He would have fought so hard if he hadn't run away, what would have happened to him? Well, she would have done it. has passed away, there's no problem in the world, that's it, homicide detective Charlie Bazina says Paul Denier intended to kill someone that night because the urge was so strong that I need to kill and today is the day that I'm going to kill another woman and he did it abroad.

If there was any doubt that his next murder would show how cold and evil he really is, new mother Debbie Frame had left her 12-day-old baby at home with a friend while she went shopping by driving to The Milk Bar. 650 meters from her house, at that moment Dania sees her opportunity and takes advantage of it. Debbie had dug here for a carton of milk the minute she was in the store. The denier who had seen her crossing the street snuck into the back of her unlocked car as the young mother jumped out to make the short trip home, she had no idea the monster was so close, the monster just lay there cheating, singing in the back and waited for her to start the car so no one could hear. a scream or anything that threatens her with her homemade weapon.

Daniel forces her to drive past her house and onto the back roads outside Frankston. Not only did he face the torture of her own potential death, but he was so close to her. At home she was so close to her little son whom she must have been thinking she would never see again. I mean the torment that led to her death, it meant nothing to him, it's like looking into the eyes of a shark, there's nothing there, it's empty. and this is what this person is, can you see this? She just put her hand on the ground to feel it and when she did, I pulled it very quickly.

We had her neck. Debbie's mutilated body was found by a four farmer. Days later the police and the people of Frankston realized the scary thing: we knew we had a serial killer in our midst and that really put pressure on us because serial killers just don't stop Russell could never have imagined that his sister Natalie, 17 years old. She would be Daniel's next and last victim. What are your happiest memories of your little sister? Probably her mischievous kind of smile and sense of humor. She was a kind, kind soul with a good heart on Friday, July 30, 1993, three weeks after Debbie was murdered. frame Natalie took the trail she used as her usual shortcut home.

She is a 17 year old girl who went to school and never came home and this is the first one Denia planned and it is in the middle of the afternoon as she told and showed the police. Daniel thought he had calculated everything: he had pre-cut holes in the fence to keep his victim away from prying eyes, only to return later, park himself at the beginning of the track and wait for a female, any female, to walk into his trap. but what Dania didn't know is that she had seen him. A postal worker saw a car with an individual sitting in the driver's seat, which was suspicious enough that he then went to a house and inadvertently made a call to the police.

The police are now on their way. Denia watches Natalie Russell take to the track as she heads home. He follows her and quickly catches up to her and puts her despicable plan into action, so she hides here and so Matt gets separated and that happens and he's watching. Caesar passed. and he gets out of her and comes walking behind her, did he see it? When you turn around, while this she saw me and I was trapped about 10 meters behind her until I reached the second Ikea Hall and right where I reached that hole, I walked behind her, it's like my left hand went around it, yeah, salute the knife to its throne.

I won't go into details, but the Wild was so significant that she must have been in a frenzy and then she gets out and walks back to the track. to his car, but his hands are covered in blood and then, walking back, he tells us that he sees two police officers in his car. What did you do, as cool as can be. I put my blood soaked hands in my pocket and walked past the cop until they were gone, gone I came back and drove home chilling things within hours of reporting Natalie missing Her family's worst fears came

true

last night at 10:30 Searchers found the body of a young woman in Bushland, just next to a cycle path a short distance from At her home, police.

I remember a couple of detectives came to take me aside and let me know that they had found who they thought was Natalie and she passed away and then my job was to inform the rest of the family of the discovery of Denia's car at the scene of the murder. de Natalie finally handed over a suspect to the police and again I warn you that you are not informed to society unless you want to and whatever has started maybe you nervous detectives swooped on Daniel's house and dragged him away to interrogate the serial killer. She had obviously been caught, Natalie's death marked the end of ten years of hunting.

How do you feel? I was the only small source of light. It was because of Natalie's death that Daniel was caught. She did something good. I'm sorry. Alright. Because? This aspect bothers you. It's upsetting because there's the evil he did and there's the good Natalie was able to do from an evil act. Her death meant that no one else needed to die, no other family needed to suffer, but 30 years later Frankston is again divided by the fear that Paul Denier could walk free and kill again. He enjoyed the murders. He said that he himself would ever disappear when faced with those violent fantasies. 21 years.

I was born on April 14, 1972. We'll see. Just 32 hours after he killed 17-year-old Natalie Russell, Paul Denier was being questioned by detectives. They were convinced they had caught the serial killer who terrorized the Frankston community for seven weeks. When we saw her at her apartment this afternoon, I noticed a number of cuts on your fingers, can you just put your hands down? He still has blood under his nails. Yes, it would have to be that way because he was completely soaked in it by killing Natalie. It's quite confronting to see that, given that we know what. It happened here, you know, touching the hands of a murderer who killed three women.

Homicide Detective Charlie Bazina still can't believe what happened during a more than two-hour break from questioning and away from the police camera. Denya suddenly confesses and out of nowhere, I think his words were: I made the three of them, three of those three women you've been asking me about. I will kill them. They told you to have a lot and what you were responsible for. the murders of the three women is that correct and when we found out that Elation was out of this world you remember itoh okay you know having been at the crime scenes what these women would have gone through and then now having the person admit it and having work done basically at that stage then it would be up to the courts to convict him.

I think we went to the pub at seven in the morning, had a beer, just a steak, we're mentally exhausted. and physically given the seriousness of his crimes, it seems incredible that Paul Denia now has a chance at freedom. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to life in prison with no minimum, a sentence that was overturned on a technicality that allowed him to apply for parole. after 30 years and that's what Denya did this year, as soon as he was eligible they rejected him, but under current laws, in theory, he can run again and again as a criminal he has come face to face with and have researched how it qualifies.

Paul Denia I wrote him in one of the highest categories of a murderer that I have dealt with without remorse or mercy, which is why it is very important that the government specifically legislate to keep this murderer in jail. So-called one-person laws were made to ban the parole of mass shooter Julian Knight and Russell Street terrorist Craig Minogue, but to the disappointment of their victims' families, they were scrapped. Doing the same with Paul Denia, opposition MP David Limrick was Natalie Russell's boyfriend at the time of her murder, all these years later he is determined to keep her killer behind bars, so it looks like the fight will continue from your side, at least yes, until we have something. a kind of reassurance that you know we are satisfied that he cannot harm another woman, so we have to continue that fight like all prisoners.

Paul Denyer is banned from writing to the families of his victims, but earlier this year he cruelly took advantage of a legal loophole to send a letter to the MP. Prisoners can write to lawyers and members of parliament, so I received a letter in which Dania pleaded for his freedom I am not a danger to society insisting that he has been rehabilitated I will never return to the Frankston area Lang Warren and By making the ridiculous suggestion that David might want to champion his cause, he had the idea that I could become his advocate, which which is pretty worrying in itself, that anyone could think that, and somehow it made me believe that you know he really is just as dangerous now it just shows that you know that lack of empathy and humanity uh it's still there some part of you believes that could be reformed I don't think so no, this is where it begins The letter is one of many that forensic psychologist Carla Ferrari has evaluated, she believes it reveals a lot about Denia's rehabilitation prospects, there was no real evidence of change and normally one I would expect to see someone explaining, you know, I've had all this time to reflect, I've spent 30 years, you know, digging into myself, what was going on at that time for me, there was none of that, I'm not an expert, of course, but from what you say, it sounds dangerous, I still say it's just in 2003, 10 years after his sentence, the one without remorse.

The murderer of women declared that he wanted to be one. A series of letters written from prison detail how Denya identified as a transgender woman named Paula. She explains that it was something she had repressed for so long and then goes on to say that you know how to commit these. The crimes were trying to destroy those feelings that she had, which doesn't really make sense because they never came up in the psychological evaluation in the psychiatric evaluation in the police interview, but even if she had suppressed them for all those years she never mentioned it.

To anyone, is that an explanation for the Savage murders that she committed? It is not known at all if the denier really felt trapped in the wrong body, no one will know for sure, but it is clear that one of his goals was to be transferred to a women's prison, it was a strategy that ultimately failed, so In 2014 Paula became Paul again; Well, he signed the letter to David because Paula doesn't exist. Darren Russell, older brother of Denia's latest victim, Natalie finds it disconcerting that a doctor who happens to be a leading transgender health expert has changed again and that's not a common thing for a transgender person, it's very unusual, so again He said he hated women and that's one of the reasons he killed them.

He had been fantasizing about killing women since he was 14 years old. years old he had been actively harassing women for a few years he is a man who hated women and was now becoming a woman. He couldn't understand that, seeing his sister's murder, this is a place that Darren has understandably chosen to avoid, but today to mark the 30th anniversary of her death, his return to Nat's track, the road that was named after him in In honor of her sister, she would have turned 47 years old. This year and you know, she may have had her own family, so it's a fact that I will never have that for all the families of Paul Denier's victims, her loss can never be replaced.

The most important thing on his mind now is that this serial killer will be denied the ability to re-inflict the pain they suffered, so yes, he has been diagnosed with sadistic personality disorder. so he has shown himself today, he delights in other people's suffering, hurts other people, torments other people and tortures other people, that's how much fun he had, we have no reason to believe that has changed, so that Denia is still a risk in your mind. I think history tells us that these individuals are generally not redeemed and only when they are no longer physically capable of harm should we consider releasing them from custody.

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