Bradley John Murdoch, who killed British backpacker Peter Falconio, has died in prison. We may now never know what happened to the victim's body.

NOTORIOUS ‘Outback killer’ John Bradley Murdoch has died at the age of 67. The disturbed former drug smuggler shot dead British backpacker Peter Falconio, 28, nearly 24 years ago

Police with long memories keep an interest in the health of the guilty, hoping that their last breaths may include a confession. Murdoch is on a long list of those who didn’t.

Convicted murderer Bradley John Murdoch has taken his biggest secret to the grave, his death confounding investigators hoping to finally lay his missing victim to rest.

Bradley John Murdoch murdered university graduate Peter Falconio, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, when Mr Falconio and girlfriend Joanne Lees were visiting Australia

Bradley John Murdoch was found guilty in 2005 of the shooting murder of Peter Falconio and sentenced to 28 years, or life, without parole.

Murdoch was sentenced to a minimum non-parole period of 28 years in 2005 for the 2001 murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio. In 2025, Murdoch passed away from cancer while serving his life sentence and without ever revealing where Peter Falconio's remains are.

Bradley John Murdoch - known as the "Outback Killer" - murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, who vanished in arid Central Australia in the summer of 2001

Beverley Allan remembered the day in 2001 when “Big Brad” Murdoch returned to Broome after one of his many drug-smuggling trips from South Australia. “He wasn’t very happy; he was very strung out, very stressed,” she said. “He’d had to come back a different route.”