Pain not over for families of Milat's victims

For the loved ones of Ivan Milat's victims, his death brings them little respite from years of pain and loss.

Ian and Jacqui Clarke's daughter Caroline was one of the backpacker murderer's victims.

She and her friend Joanne Walters had travelled to Australia from England.

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They were last seen in King's Cross, Sydney, in 1992.

"I think her last call was to tell us that she and Joanne were leaving Sydney, and they were going to do a trek around Australia," Mrs Clarke told A Current Affair Crime Editor Simon Bouda.

Caroline was shot multiple times, while Joanne had been stabbed to death.

Their remains were the first of Milat's victims to be found.

"(Milat) is just an evil man who deserves everything he gets in the afterlife, if there be one," Mr Clarke said.

"I'm much more interested in remembering Caroline. For me, he ceased to exist a long time ago."

The Clarkes had Caroline's body interred in their local churchyard.

"Time is a healer, but the ripples are always there," Mr Clarke said.

Tim Everist was in his early 20s when his younger sister Deborah vanished.

She had been travelling with her boyfriend, James Gibson.

"We didn't know as a family she was going to be hitch-hiking around a lot of the time," Mr Everist said.

The family were left in limbo, not knowing what had happened to her.

Deborah and James vanished in December 1989, but their remains were not found until October 1993.

Deborah had been savagely beaten and stabbed.

Mr Everist still remembers facing Milat from a witness box during the killer's trial.

"A sick individual, just disgusting," Mr Everist said.

"He only looked me in the eye once. I just eyeballed him and he looked up at me, and looked down again."