The actor, who plays the serial killer Ivan Milat (Malcolm Kennard) has revealed he had been hitchhiking along the Hume Highway in the late 1980s and early 90s when Milat murdered seven backpackers and is suspected of killing more.
Milat's victims are Deborah Everest, Anja Habschied, Simone Schmidl, James Gibson, Caroline Clarke, Gabor Neugebauer and Joanne Walters. It is believed he was responsible for more murders.
Ivan Milat died in prison from terminal cancer at aged 74 in 2019.
Five of Milat's victims were foreigners. Two were Australian.
In 2010, Milat's grand-nephew Matthew Milat tortured and murdered his friend in Belanglo, and boasted: "You know me, you know my family. You know the last name Milat. I did what they do."