David John Birnie (16 February 1951 – 7 October 2005) and Catherine Margaret Birnie (née Harrison; born 23 May 1951) were an Australian couple from Perth who murdered four women at their home in 1986, also attempting to murder a fifth.

Kate Moir was 17 years old when she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped by a couple who would become known as Australia’s worst serial killer duo: Catherine and David Birnie. Moir accepted a lift home from the couple on November 9, 1986 after a night out with friends.

May 2, 2016 · KATE Moir is not haunted by the memory of being abducted by Australia’s worst serial killer couple. Instead, she is haunted by the thought that one of them could soon be free to walk the streets. Ms Moir escaped the home of David and Catherine Birnie in 1986.

Feb 5, 2017 · Kate Moir was just 17, had endured three rapes, hours of terror, frantically calculating her odds of living through being in the clutches of Australia’s worst serial killers, David and Catherine Birnie.

On November 9, Kate Moir, 17, was hitchhiking along the Stirling Highway after a Sunday night out with friends. She was “very drunk” and accepted a lift from a harmless-looking couple.

Jul 13, 2016 · Kate, 47, was an outgoing 17-year-old model when the Birnies dragged her into their car on the way home from a night out with friends. It was November 1986, and the couple had already abducted, imprisoned, sexually assaulted and killed four other young women in the space of just one month.

Feb 6, 2017 · Kate Moir was just 17 when she was kidnapped on Nov. 9, 1986 in Perth, Australia. According to Australia’s News.com.au , Moir’s abductors, David and Catherine Birnie, had already raped and murdered four other young women over the previous four weeks when Moir, after a night of drinking, accepted a ride home from the couple, who she first ...

Jun 6, 2022 · On November 12th, Catherine and David were each charged with four counts of murder, two counts of aggravated sexual assault (for Kate Moir), and one count of deprivation of liberty. It was two months after Catherine’s arrest that she reached out to her children by letter dated January 4, 1987.

Feb 4, 2017 · IN an interview room inside a small suburban Perth police station, a nervous young policewoman comes face-to-face with a terrified teenager. The young girl claims she has escaped the clutches of monsters who abducted her at knifepoint and kept her prisoner in a house where she was tormented and raped.

Feb 5, 2017 · Ms Moir’s courageous escape and the policewoman’s persistent demands that her superiors to take the teen’s story seriously led police to crack one of Australia’s most notorious serial killing cases.