Frederick William Everest

Frederick William Everest (3 December 1910 – 24 January 1977) was an Australian murderer who killed two American servicemen in Brisbane during World War II.

In 1945, aged 34 years old, Everest shot and killed two US military officers, Lt. Allen C. Middleton and Chief Petty Officer John Daniel McCollum, who were among the many American forces stationed in Brisbane at the time.

[1] He fatally injured McCollum at Denman Street, Alderley on 24 January with a sawn-off shotgun.

The police heard reports that shots had been fired in a house at Farrington Street, Alderley.

He told the detectives he had opened the back door of a house he was renting in answer to a knock and had been shot.