Eric Edgar Cooke terrorised the city of Perth for years before he was caught and executed
Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke became the last person to be executed in Western Australia when he was hanged in Fremantle Prison on October 26, 1964.
Over five years, Cooke murdered at least eight people in opportunistic attacks, with no obvious common traits between the victims.
For years, it was not believed the murders were linked, and innocent men were wrongfully convicted of two of the deaths.
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