Worrell was born in 1954 in Adelaide. He had a conviction for rape and had served a prison term, where he met James Miller.
Between December 1976 and February 1977 the two of them picked up seven young women in Adelaide: Veronica Knight, eighteen; Tania Kenny, fifteen; Juliet Mykyta, sixteen; Sylvia Pittman, sixteen; Vickie Howell, twenty-six; Connie Iordanides, sixteen; and Deborah Lamb, twenty. Worrell raped and strangled each of them. Miller drove, waited, and helped bury the bodies in bushland near Truro, north-east of the city. He and Miller are known in South Australia as the Truro murderers.
On February 19, 1977 Worrell was killed in a car crash near Port Gawler along with a woman friend, Deborah Skuse. Miller, in the same car, survived. That was weeks after the last murder and more than a year before the bodies were found: remains were discovered near Truro in April 1978 by a woman picking wildflowers, and the rest were located over the following months.
Worrell was therefore never charged with anything. Everything known about what he did comes from Miller's account, given from 1979 onwards, and from the physical evidence at the burial sites. Miller was convicted of six of the seven murders on a joint-enterprise basis and died in prison in 2008, always maintaining he had killed nobody.
This entry exists because the killings were his. It should be read with the qualification that the only witness to them was the man who was tried for them, and who had every reason to describe his own part as small.