After police searches, the remains of seven women and girls were discovered in total: five at Truro, one at Wingfield, and one at Port Gawler.

On 20 April 1978, William "Bill" Thomas and his brother found what they thought was the bone from the leg of a cow whilst mushrooming in bushland beside Swamp Road near the South Australian town of Truro located about 70 km northeast of Adelaide.

The remains were later identified as those of Veronica Knight, an 18-year-old woman who had vanished from an Adelaide street two days before Christmas of 1976.

[1] There was the strong suggestion of a link between the two dead women found in the Truro bushland and five other young women and teenage girls reported missing in Adelaide at the time, and South Australian police faced the difficult task of piecing together evidence.

Eleven days later a huge search party discovered two more skeletons in a paddock on the opposite side of Swamp Road.

[citation needed] Worrell and a lady he abducted, Deborah Skuse, were killed in a car crash on 19 February 1977, thus ending the murders.

Amelia said that she had not come forward earlier because she had no proof the admission was true and that there was not much point in going to the police as Worrell was dead.

Miller was driven under guard to Truro, Port Gawler and the Wingfield dump where he pointed out their locations.

In 1984, James Miller published an autobiography (ghost-written by Dick Wordley), entitled Don't Call me Killer.

One year to the day after their death, Miller placed a few paragraphs in the "In Memoriam" notices in the Adelaide Advertiser which read: "Worrell, Christopher Robin.

Memories of a very close friend who died 12 months ago this week, Your friendship and thoughtfulness and kindness, Chris, will always be remembered by me, mate.

What comes after death I can Hope, as I pray we meet again" All the murder victims had been strangled, although there was a strong suspicion that the last of them, Lamb, had been alive when buried.

Unusually, he was convicted of murder despite allegedly having never touched a victim; he was sentenced to the maximum six consecutive terms of life imprisonment.

This created subsequent legal difficulties over the definition of a joint criminal enterprise, but these have largely been resolved on the basis that this was a special—and particularly horrifying—case.