See this knife? Where's your mom and dad?

These are the words of a strange real-life monster, known mainly as Mr. Cruel.

He is a still unidentified serial child rapist who attacked at least three girls in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia in the late 80s and early 90s.

Mr. Cruel is also the prime suspect in the 1991 abduction and murder of a young girl

named Carmen Chan. The son, a Melbourne newspaper, was the first to use the Mr. Cruel moniker, after

police described the serial home invasion rapist, as quote, super cool and super cruel. And cool as in cold-blooded, to be clear.

Not as in awesome.

That would be just a wee bit scandalous if the police were like,

so it looks like we've got ourselves a serial child rapist on our hands.

And I got to say, most of the guys on the force really admire him.

He seems super cool.

Great guy. Hope we don't catch him.

Sadly, though, they haven't caught him. Decades after his crimes, the three confirmed attacks and the murder of Carmen Chan remain unsolved. What happened? Did Mr. Cruel die move to another country? Did he have some sort of moral crisis and just stopped doing what he was

doing? Is that even possible? Investigators have described Mr. Cruel as a highly intelligent

perpetrator who methodically planned each attack and even conducted pre-attack surveillance on his

victims and their families. He ensured he left behind no forensic evidence, and he kept his face

covered at all times. He even left red herrings to distract and confuse the families and the

police's attention and investigations. He was originally called Mr. Cool because of how he

operated, always maintaining a calm demeanor while holding families at gunpoint and abducting and assaulting young girls.

Glad they swapped out that moniker for the reason I've already joked about.

Mr. Kool is not a cool name for this kind of predator.

He is not the Fonz. He's not Steve McQueen or James Dean. He's a monster.

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