‘Worst serial killer’ could be on the loose with 67 women missing or murdered | World News [Video]

The ‘worst serial killer in Australia’s history’ may be on the loose in a region where 67 murders and disappearances of women remain unsolved.

Cases date back to 1977, when 21-year-old Narelle Cox vanished while hitchhiking from Grafton, New South Wales, to Noosa in neighbouring Queensland.

She was last seen by a truck driver who dropped her in Brunswick Heads, around 18km north of Byron Bay, famed for its turquoise sea and sand that’s almost white.

Between then and 2009, numerous women have disappeared along the state’s northern coast, between Newcastle and Byron Bay.

Suspicion is growing that the same person may be behind at least some of them.

‘The worst serial killer in the nation’s history has gotten away with it’, said Jeremy Buckingham, a Green member of the state’s legislative council, last week.

‘Ivan Milatwas convicted of seven murders. There is someone on the north coast that has murdered as many …