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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The OZ waiter we had mentioned the real story was based on a guy from Alice Springs.
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He's sort of right.
The incident involving Bradley Murdoch and British backpackers Joanne Lees and Peter Falconio, occurred about 300km north of the Alice near a place on the north hwy called Barrow Creek. That's about as close to the Alice that the relationship to anything 'real' portrait by the movie gets.
They say that John Jarrett based his character on both Bradley Murdoch (crazed killer) and Ivan Malat (the helpful local). Ivan Malat is another of our serial killers who actually specialised in making backpackers disappear, as apposed to Murdoch who is simply an opportunist.
I believe the script had closer ties to Ivan Malat.