Frank Vitkovic

 VICTIMS: 8

Frank Vitkovic was a pretty normal looking guy as he entered the Australia Post building in Melbourne, Australia. Well he was if you count wearing a fatigue jacket and carrying a high-powered rifle as being normal.

So anyway Frank stormed his way up five flights of stairs and then burst into the offices of a local credit union. He didn't start shooting straight away though. First he spoke with a man at the front of the offices. then out of nowhere, apparently, he raised the rifle and went off. he blew the fuck out of anything that moved. the office workers went diving in all directions, hiding behind anything they could find, but this didn't stop Vitkovic from picking more than a few off.

Vitkovic ordered everyone to lie flat on the ground. He then left this floor and walked through the rest of the building firing indiscriminately at anyone. At one point he waited for some lift doors to open, and as they did he let loose. Four of the lifts five occupants were dead in seconds.

Vitkovic stroll thought the building was ended on the 10th floor where he was confronted by two 'hero's' who tackled him, and succeeded in getting the rifle away from him. This was a bit of a bummer for Vitkovic because it ruined his planned finalè for the day. So since he could to the traditional "Mass murderer blow your brains out" thing, he did the next best thing. He charged at a window, with only one intention when he was again tackled by a security guard. It was one of the most amusing sights in murder history as Vitkovic was dangling out the window with only one of his intended victims keeping him alive by hanging on to his legs. Vitkovic could be heard screaming to be let go. "He obviously wanted to die" pointed out one bright witness. Eventually Vitkovic was able to kick free of his nemesis/rescuer and was still cursing the world as he plummeted 130 feet to the road below.

In the space of a few minute Frank Vitkovic had managed to kill 8 people, which topped Julian Knights 7 victims of three months earlier. The streets of Melbourne have never seen such fun.

"He shot down four of my friends right in front of me."
A female survivor tells her story.

Luckily for us Frank Vitkovic kept diaries throughout the years.
And now I will let you read some of his Diary Entries

"you are an alien amongst your own."

"it's hard for a self conscious guy like me to talk to girls with confidence."

"I just like violent films. I don't know why. They make me feel better, all the violence gets me pumped up. the sound of the gun going "POW!" It's the only fun i know."

Just before his 16th birthday
"I know one thing for certain I am hated very much by many people, but they don't know anything of my hatred which is twice as much as theirs . . . everyone will pay for their sins."

"People think I'm worth nothing . . . I'll treat them as nothing."

"As Rambo said in First Blood, once you accept a problem it's no longer there."

"A bullet in the right place seems to do the trick."

December 5, 1987
"I'm geared up . . . I'm a steam train coming through and everyone better get out of the way."

"Death scares me, but no so much as other people."

"When i go out people don't seem real. I don't feel part of it. I never have really. My life is such a failure."

"The world is against me."

1981
"The world is full of vicious cruel people."

"There should not be people like that in this world."

"I will punish these evil vicious cruel scum people."

December 6, 1987
"I can see the paths been laid out for me."

"I see those people in the city and I admire them, and yet I hate them cos they've been the ones who've lumped shit on me all these years. . . they have all the things I want but will never have."

". . . those greedy businessmen and women in the city. . . They are all pigs. And pigs always end up in the slaughterhouse."
 

MY OPINION

Vitkovic was pretty huge news here in Australia at the time. I think nearly every one who remembers this case would recall the pictures of Vitkovic's corpse laying in the middle of the road. Well it's my major memory of the case anyway. I don't really rate him as highly as Knight, but since he got one more, and it was only 12 weeks after Knights personal war I suppose he does deserve recognition.