James Ryan O'Neill

Male, Person

1947 –

20

Who is James Ryan O'Neill?

James Ryan O'Neill is an Australian convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, currently serving a life sentence in Tasmania for a murder he committed in February 1975.

Allegations have been made that O'Neill also murdered a number of other children in several Australian states from the mid-1960s whilst he was still a teenager through to the murder that he was imprisoned for in 1975. He is currently Tasmania's longest serving prisoner for a single offence.

He was the subject of a documentary The Fishermen which was broadcast on ABC TV in October 2006.

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Born
1947
Melbourne
Education
  • Scotch College, Melbourne

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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