The wheelie bin killers, who are serving strict security life imprisonment sentences, had been split up following an uproar over their close placement inside Bandyup. Stasinowsky and her lover, Valerie Parashumti, bludgeoned and strangled a vulnerable 16-year-old girl in the inner Perth suburb of Lathlain, the same suburb where Catherine Birnie spent her troubled childhood.Ĭatherine Birnie was allegedly found in possession of a knife after acting as a go-between for Stasinowsky and Parashumti, putting her hope for parole on hold.
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.
#Motherless + willing victim serial
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.