Flinders Highway HORROR

DOES A SERIAL KILLER PROWL QUEENSLAND'S REMOTE STRETCH OF ROAD?

- April Rose

A 775-kilometre highway snaking across Queensland could have been the hunting ground for an unfettered Australian serial killer for decades.

Over the past 50 years, the Flinders Highway has played host to nearly a dozen murders and disappearances, and the unknown perpetrator could still be out there.

The road has been aptly nicknamed the ‘Highway of Death’ and some experts believe the crimes were the handiwork of one bloodthirsty serial killer.

New leads in the disappearance of Perth hitchhiker Tony Jones, who vanished on this stretch of highway in 1982, have intensified theories that a prolific lone killer was once at large.

Jones’ case was the subject of Channel Nine’s Under Investigation series, which investigated why the remote highway was the perfect setting for horrific crimes.

“If somebody, even if they hadn’t planned to do what they did, there’s the sort of person who would see an opportunity and take it,” former Queensland detective Jim Slade explained on the show. “And this place adds to his feelings of safety because there’s no witnesses, he feels safe operating there.”

Former FBI criminal profiler Mike King is also among a panel of criminal experts who believe Flinders Highway was the playground of a deranged serial killer.