Anybody who grew up in Melbourne in the 80's and 90's will have heard this guys name.

Mr Cruel.

And he's still roaming the streets of Melbourne, today.

Now that I'm an adult*, I can fully understand the terror that my mum and dad must have gone through. The details of his attacks are nothing short of terrifying. He is the prime suspect for at least 12 sickening attacks and one murder since the 1980s but police don't have a strong enough case to charge him.

Mr Cruel is believed to have last struck in 1991, when he kidnapped and killed 13-year-old Templestowe schoolgirl Karmein Chan. Karmein lived 15 minutes away from me. Her parents lived on Lower Templestowe Road. I'll never forget her name, or the way the
whole thing scared the bejesus out of me, and every kid at my primary school. Mr Cruel became the monster under the bed.

I dont have many nightmares, but I think many many people would sleep a lot better if this monster was behind bars.