Focusing on Queensland’s desolate 800-kilometre Flinders Highway, Outback Murder Highway is an immersive investigation into one of Australia’s most notorious murder hotspots. This stretch of road holds a deadly reputation, having been the scene of some of Australia’s worst crimes, many still unsolved. Between 1970 and 2017, eleven people vanished or were brutally murdered along this treacherous route… And our team thinks there could be more victims.
The series features an FBI-trained criminal profiler, a prominent former homicide detective, and a criminologist turned archaeologist. Each episode reinvestigates these cases, unearthing new angles in the cold case crimes, as the experts brave the vast, isolated expanses of the highway, where hundreds of kilometres can separate travellers from safety.
New theories emerge, with startling evidence suggesting some of Australia’s worst serial killers, including the notorious Ivan Milat, used the Flinders Highway as their early hunting ground. The families of the victims continue to search for answers about their loved ones, and the highway’s dark secrets reveal a sorry history of death and disappearances that continue to the present day.
Outback Murder Highway is produced by Ronde Media for the 9Network.