Over the years, people with information or a personal connection to the case have commented on several articles and blogs across the web detailing their thoughts and experiences.
They are compiled below for reference without any suggestion about their accuracy or veracity:
Comments are separated into the following categories:
- Comments by people with suspicions that someone they know may be Mr Cruel
- Comments by people with a personal connection to Mr Cruel’s victims
- Comments by people who personally witnessed events relevant to the Mr Cruel investigation
- Comments by people with a personal connection to a Mr Cruel suspect
- Comments by people with a personal connection to the Mr Cruel investigation
- Theories and rumours about Mr Cruel
Suspicions
Archive of online comments by people with suspicions that someone they personally know may be Mr Cruel
NB comments are compiled here for reference – without any suggestion about their accuracy or veracity.
Suspicions about an ex-partner
Suspicions about private school bus driver by former PLC student
Suspicions about a deputy principal
Suspicions about man investigated by police
Suspicions about former teacher and PLC parent investigated by police
Suspicions about acquaintance investigated by police
Suspicions about deceased step-father
Suspicions about industrial chemist
Suspicions about husband of former PLC teacher connected to Eloise Worledge’s family
Suspicion about step-father and step-brother
Friends and family of Mr Cruel’s victims
Archive of online comments by people with a personal connection to Mr Cruel’s victims
NB comments are compiled here for reference – without any suggestion about their accuracy or veracity.
Comment by Sharon Wills’ cousin and friend of Nicola
Classmate and neighbour of unnamed 11-year-old victim reveals details of Mr Cruel’s possible prowling activities
Friend of Lower Plenty victim’s neighbour shares more details of Mr Cruel’s possible prowling activities
Family friend of the Lynas shares their theory on reddit
Neighbour of Karmein Chan shares their memories
Schoolmate of Nicola and Karmein shares her memories of the investigation and a theory about the school bus
Classmate of Karmein Chan shares memories about her character, visits from police to PLC, Karmein’s funeral and riding bus with Karmein’s sisters
Classmate from Karmein Chan’s dance school shares her experience and theory
Friend of a potential victim recalls possible foiled attack by Mr Cruel
Facebook user recalls possible foiled abduction in Wantirna
Facebook user shares experience of possible foiled abduction
Witnesses
Archive of online comments by people who personally witnessed events relevant to the Mr Cruel investigation.
NB comments are compiled here for reference – without any suggestion about their accuracy or veracity.
An eyewitness testimony of a man firing a gun on the night of Karmein Chan’s abduction
Customer describes scene at Chan’s restaurant on both night of abduction and night Karmein’s body was found – and shares two separate theories about Mr Cruel crimes and workplace
User claims to have been with Karmein at the time of her abduction
User claims her grandparents witnessed Sharon Wills being dumped from a ‘van’ at Bayswater Highscool
Facebook user whose neighbour found Karmein Chan’s remains
Associates of Mr Cruel suspects
Archive of online comments by people with a personal connection to a Mr Cruel suspect
NB comments are compiled here for reference – without any suggestion about their accuracy or veracity.
Commenter claiming to be former pupil of prime suspect Brian Elkner… and an anonymous commenter named ‘Brian’
Former prison guard discusses Mr Cruel suspects imprisoned at Pentridge… and is fact-checked by an anonymous sleuth
People involved with Mr Cruel investigation
Archive of online comments by people with a personal connection to the Mr Cruel investigation
NB comments are compiled here for reference – without any suggestion about their accuracy or veracity.
Relative of David Sprague shares details about prime suspect Brian Elkner
Linesmen reveal SEC sites targeted by police in their investigation
A workman at Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg tells of his experience being suspected and questioned by the police for the Mr Cruel crimes
Comment by a person whose family home was searched in Airport West
Comment by former PLC teacher
Comments by former teacher at Sharon Wills’ primary school about being questioned by police in 1991 and 2016
Man whose workplace in Glenroy was searched by police
Woman whose house was searched
Mr Cruel theories and rumours
Archive of online comments sharing theories and rumours about Mr Cruel.
NB comments are compiled here for reference – without any suggestion about their accuracy or veracity.
Neighbour of detective shares theory that Mr Cruel was murdered in jail
Survivors speculate whether their attacker may have been Mr Cruel
Theory that Mr Cruel is a doctor
Theory that Mr Cruel was military
Theory that Mr Cruel was arrested for other crimes
Theory that Mr Cruel was a dentist
Theory that Mr Cruel was a policeman
Rumour Mr Cruel was killed in a car accident
Who is Mr Cruel? 