Those opposed to her release say her innocuous demeanour behind bars is misleading, with the Birnie case investigating detective Paul Ferguson calling her an “evil parasite”.ĭetectives at one of the gravesites of the Birnies’ four known murder victims. Perhaps not the oldest female prisoner, but one of the most manipulative, Catherine Birnie likes to pass herself off as a harmless prison librarian patiently waiting for her parole date.īut Birnie is no reformed little old lady criminal in Bandyup prison greys.Īpart from being WA’s longest-serving prisoner, she has the dubious notoriety of being Australia’s worst female serial killer.Īlthough quadruple baby killer Kathleen Folbigg also killed four, they were her own infants and she was convicted of just three counts of murder and one of manslaughter.īirnie is serving four terms of life imprisonment for the kidnap, rape and murder with her de facto David Birnie of four women in the notorious Moorhouse serial killings.Īlthough life can mean just 20 years in WA, Birnie has been in prison for 35 years since her spree of evil crimes in Perth’s suburbs in 1986. Inside Bandyup maximum security prison for women, the most infamous female inmate in Western Australian history has celebrated her 70th birthday.
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