Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read said his second kill occurred in 1975 while he was inside Pentridge Prison. The victim, serial paedophile and child killer Reginald Edward Isaacs, who had tormented young boys across Victoria since 1950.
Isaacs was thought to have committed suicide six months into his long jail term.
But in Sunday's interview, Chopper Read bragged that he'd " jumped on his bunk … jumped on his head. From his bunk onto his head", in an effort to kill Issacs.
After failing to kill Issacs in this manner Chopper then described wrapping Issacs own bunk sheet around his neck, hoisting him up over the prison bars, then pulling on his legs until dead.
Chopper then expressed his feeling that he'd been performed a service to the community by killing Issacs.
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The brother of a child murderer "Chopper" Read claimed to have killed in jail has called for a former family property to be searched again for the remains of a teenager who went missing in 1973.
Police attempted to search the bush property near Meredith in early 2003 while preparing an inquest into the death of John Landos, who disappeared from a Lorne camping ground on January 8, 1973.
But the only living relative of killer Reginald Edward Isaacs believes a particular "rocky patch" of bush should be probed with hi-tech equipment.
Isaacs' brother (who wishes not to be publicly identified) told the Sunday Herald Sun he knew his older brother dug holes on the bush block in 1973 or 1974, purportedly looking for gravel to sell for road-making.
Homicide detectives believe that the serial sex-offender and former British soldier remains the prime suspect for John Landos's disappearance.
Isaacs died in what now appear to be suspicious circumstances in Pentridge Prison in April, 1975, after being convicted of the murder of 9-year-old Greg Cowie in September 1974.
He led shocked detectives to the boy's battered and defiled body in the Wombat State Forest two days after abducted him from Haddon, near Ballarat in September, 1974.
Isaacs - reputedly one of the last prisoners in Victoria to be formally sentenced to death - was found in his cell with towelling knotted around his neck seven months later. His death was officially ruled suicide.
But days before Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read died of cancer last month, the notorious standover man told Channel Nine's 60 Minutes he and fellow prisoner "Mad Charlie" Hegyalji had killed Isaacs and made it look self-inflicted.
The week before the Read interview went to air, the now-retired policeman who arrested Isaacs over the murder of Greg Cowie in 1974 told the Sunday Herald Sun it was unlikely Isaacs had suicided.
"It's hard to hang yourself from a doorknob in a cell - unless you've got a couple of mates helping you," said former Meredith policeman Jack Powles, who believes Isaacs would eventually have confessed to him about John Landos's disappearance.
"Suicides" that were actually murders were common knowledge in the prison system in the 1970s, according to a former senior prison officer.
In one case, a coroner accepted that a prisoner had tied a towel around his neck to his bed then rolled sideways until it choked him. But it was said in prison that four other inmates had forcibly spun the man until he died, the former officer said.
Read often hinted that cell-doors were "accidentally" left unlocked so that he could bash other prisoners during the so-called "Overcoat War" in Pentridge.
Read told the story that he and other prisoners had made a pact that the first to see Isaacs would kill him. Details of Isaacs' horrific crime - which involved holding the young boy for some 12 hours - had leaked back into the prison system, making him a target.
Against Read's story is the fact that Isaacs had attempted suicide several times before, including the night in late 1974 he was taken from jail and questioned by the homicide squad about John Landos. He admitted driving on the Lorne-Deans Marsh Road in 1973 but denied abducting the boy.
The search for John Landos consumed his family for 30 years. They did not know Isaacs was a suspect until the homicide cold case unit contacted them in 2003 to say the case was finally going to inquest.
- By Andrew Rule, Herald Sun News, November 17, 2013
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read confessed to killing Reginald Isaacs in his final interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOO8sp0b4g.
November 17, 2013 true crime article in the Herald Sun
Isaacs was thought to have committed suicide six months into his long jail term.
But in Sunday's interview, Chopper Read bragged that he'd " jumped on his bunk … jumped on his head. From his bunk onto his head", in an effort to kill Issacs.
After failing to kill Issacs in this manner Chopper then described wrapping Issacs own bunk sheet around his neck, hoisting him up over the prison bars, then pulling on his legs until dead.
Chopper then expressed his feeling that he'd been performed a service to the community by killing Issacs.
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The brother of a child murderer "Chopper" Read claimed to have killed in jail has called for a former family property to be searched again for the remains of a teenager who went missing in 1973.
Police attempted to search the bush property near Meredith in early 2003 while preparing an inquest into the death of John Landos, who disappeared from a Lorne camping ground on January 8, 1973.
But the only living relative of killer Reginald Edward Isaacs believes a particular "rocky patch" of bush should be probed with hi-tech equipment.
Isaacs' brother (who wishes not to be publicly identified) told the Sunday Herald Sun he knew his older brother dug holes on the bush block in 1973 or 1974, purportedly looking for gravel to sell for road-making.
Homicide detectives believe that the serial sex-offender and former British soldier remains the prime suspect for John Landos's disappearance.
Isaacs died in what now appear to be suspicious circumstances in Pentridge Prison in April, 1975, after being convicted of the murder of 9-year-old Greg Cowie in September 1974.
He led shocked detectives to the boy's battered and defiled body in the Wombat State Forest two days after abducted him from Haddon, near Ballarat in September, 1974.
Isaacs - reputedly one of the last prisoners in Victoria to be formally sentenced to death - was found in his cell with towelling knotted around his neck seven months later. His death was officially ruled suicide.
But days before Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read died of cancer last month, the notorious standover man told Channel Nine's 60 Minutes he and fellow prisoner "Mad Charlie" Hegyalji had killed Isaacs and made it look self-inflicted.
The week before the Read interview went to air, the now-retired policeman who arrested Isaacs over the murder of Greg Cowie in 1974 told the Sunday Herald Sun it was unlikely Isaacs had suicided.
"It's hard to hang yourself from a doorknob in a cell - unless you've got a couple of mates helping you," said former Meredith policeman Jack Powles, who believes Isaacs would eventually have confessed to him about John Landos's disappearance.
"Suicides" that were actually murders were common knowledge in the prison system in the 1970s, according to a former senior prison officer.
In one case, a coroner accepted that a prisoner had tied a towel around his neck to his bed then rolled sideways until it choked him. But it was said in prison that four other inmates had forcibly spun the man until he died, the former officer said.
Read often hinted that cell-doors were "accidentally" left unlocked so that he could bash other prisoners during the so-called "Overcoat War" in Pentridge.
Read told the story that he and other prisoners had made a pact that the first to see Isaacs would kill him. Details of Isaacs' horrific crime - which involved holding the young boy for some 12 hours - had leaked back into the prison system, making him a target.
Against Read's story is the fact that Isaacs had attempted suicide several times before, including the night in late 1974 he was taken from jail and questioned by the homicide squad about John Landos. He admitted driving on the Lorne-Deans Marsh Road in 1973 but denied abducting the boy.
The search for John Landos consumed his family for 30 years. They did not know Isaacs was a suspect until the homicide cold case unit contacted them in 2003 to say the case was finally going to inquest.
- By Andrew Rule, Herald Sun News, November 17, 2013
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read confessed to killing Reginald Isaacs in his final interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOO8sp0b4g.
November 17, 2013 true crime article in the Herald Sun
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read said his second kill occurred in 1975 while he was inside Pentridge Prison. The victim, serial paedophile and child killer Reginald Edward Isaacs, who had tormented young boys across Victoria since 1950.
Isaacs was thought to have committed suicide six months into his long jail term.
But in Sunday's interview, Chopper Read bragged that he'd " jumped on his bunk … jumped on his head. From his bunk onto his head", in an effort to kill Issacs.
After failing to kill Issacs in this manner Chopper then described wrapping Issacs own bunk sheet around his neck, hoisting him up over the prison bars, then pulling on his legs until dead.
Chopper then expressed his feeling that he'd been performed a service to the community by killing Issacs.
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The brother of a child murderer "Chopper" Read claimed to have killed in jail has called for a former family property to be searched again for the remains of a teenager who went missing in 1973.
Police attempted to search the bush property near Meredith in early 2003 while preparing an inquest into the death of John Landos, who disappeared from a Lorne camping ground on January 8, 1973.
But the only living relative of killer Reginald Edward Isaacs believes a particular "rocky patch" of bush should be probed with hi-tech equipment.
Isaacs' brother (who wishes not to be publicly identified) told the Sunday Herald Sun he knew his older brother dug holes on the bush block in 1973 or 1974, purportedly looking for gravel to sell for road-making.
Homicide detectives believe that the serial sex-offender and former British soldier remains the prime suspect for John Landos's disappearance.
Isaacs died in what now appear to be suspicious circumstances in Pentridge Prison in April, 1975, after being convicted of the murder of 9-year-old Greg Cowie in September 1974.
He led shocked detectives to the boy's battered and defiled body in the Wombat State Forest two days after abducted him from Haddon, near Ballarat in September, 1974.
Isaacs - reputedly one of the last prisoners in Victoria to be formally sentenced to death - was found in his cell with towelling knotted around his neck seven months later. His death was officially ruled suicide.
But days before Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read died of cancer last month, the notorious standover man told Channel Nine's 60 Minutes he and fellow prisoner "Mad Charlie" Hegyalji had killed Isaacs and made it look self-inflicted.
The week before the Read interview went to air, the now-retired policeman who arrested Isaacs over the murder of Greg Cowie in 1974 told the Sunday Herald Sun it was unlikely Isaacs had suicided.
"It's hard to hang yourself from a doorknob in a cell - unless you've got a couple of mates helping you," said former Meredith policeman Jack Powles, who believes Isaacs would eventually have confessed to him about John Landos's disappearance.
"Suicides" that were actually murders were common knowledge in the prison system in the 1970s, according to a former senior prison officer.
In one case, a coroner accepted that a prisoner had tied a towel around his neck to his bed then rolled sideways until it choked him. But it was said in prison that four other inmates had forcibly spun the man until he died, the former officer said.
Read often hinted that cell-doors were "accidentally" left unlocked so that he could bash other prisoners during the so-called "Overcoat War" in Pentridge.
Read told the story that he and other prisoners had made a pact that the first to see Isaacs would kill him. Details of Isaacs' horrific crime - which involved holding the young boy for some 12 hours - had leaked back into the prison system, making him a target.
Against Read's story is the fact that Isaacs had attempted suicide several times before, including the night in late 1974 he was taken from jail and questioned by the homicide squad about John Landos. He admitted driving on the Lorne-Deans Marsh Road in 1973 but denied abducting the boy.
The search for John Landos consumed his family for 30 years. They did not know Isaacs was a suspect until the homicide cold case unit contacted them in 2003 to say the case was finally going to inquest.
- By Andrew Rule, Herald Sun News, November 17, 2013
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read confessed to killing Reginald Isaacs in his final interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOO8sp0b4g.
November 17, 2013 true crime article in the Herald Sun
Isaacs was thought to have committed suicide six months into his long jail term.
But in Sunday's interview, Chopper Read bragged that he'd " jumped on his bunk … jumped on his head. From his bunk onto his head", in an effort to kill Issacs.
After failing to kill Issacs in this manner Chopper then described wrapping Issacs own bunk sheet around his neck, hoisting him up over the prison bars, then pulling on his legs until dead.
Chopper then expressed his feeling that he'd been performed a service to the community by killing Issacs.
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The brother of a child murderer "Chopper" Read claimed to have killed in jail has called for a former family property to be searched again for the remains of a teenager who went missing in 1973.
Police attempted to search the bush property near Meredith in early 2003 while preparing an inquest into the death of John Landos, who disappeared from a Lorne camping ground on January 8, 1973.
But the only living relative of killer Reginald Edward Isaacs believes a particular "rocky patch" of bush should be probed with hi-tech equipment.
Isaacs' brother (who wishes not to be publicly identified) told the Sunday Herald Sun he knew his older brother dug holes on the bush block in 1973 or 1974, purportedly looking for gravel to sell for road-making.
Homicide detectives believe that the serial sex-offender and former British soldier remains the prime suspect for John Landos's disappearance.
Isaacs died in what now appear to be suspicious circumstances in Pentridge Prison in April, 1975, after being convicted of the murder of 9-year-old Greg Cowie in September 1974.
He led shocked detectives to the boy's battered and defiled body in the Wombat State Forest two days after abducted him from Haddon, near Ballarat in September, 1974.
Isaacs - reputedly one of the last prisoners in Victoria to be formally sentenced to death - was found in his cell with towelling knotted around his neck seven months later. His death was officially ruled suicide.
But days before Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read died of cancer last month, the notorious standover man told Channel Nine's 60 Minutes he and fellow prisoner "Mad Charlie" Hegyalji had killed Isaacs and made it look self-inflicted.
The week before the Read interview went to air, the now-retired policeman who arrested Isaacs over the murder of Greg Cowie in 1974 told the Sunday Herald Sun it was unlikely Isaacs had suicided.
"It's hard to hang yourself from a doorknob in a cell - unless you've got a couple of mates helping you," said former Meredith policeman Jack Powles, who believes Isaacs would eventually have confessed to him about John Landos's disappearance.
"Suicides" that were actually murders were common knowledge in the prison system in the 1970s, according to a former senior prison officer.
In one case, a coroner accepted that a prisoner had tied a towel around his neck to his bed then rolled sideways until it choked him. But it was said in prison that four other inmates had forcibly spun the man until he died, the former officer said.
Read often hinted that cell-doors were "accidentally" left unlocked so that he could bash other prisoners during the so-called "Overcoat War" in Pentridge.
Read told the story that he and other prisoners had made a pact that the first to see Isaacs would kill him. Details of Isaacs' horrific crime - which involved holding the young boy for some 12 hours - had leaked back into the prison system, making him a target.
Against Read's story is the fact that Isaacs had attempted suicide several times before, including the night in late 1974 he was taken from jail and questioned by the homicide squad about John Landos. He admitted driving on the Lorne-Deans Marsh Road in 1973 but denied abducting the boy.
The search for John Landos consumed his family for 30 years. They did not know Isaacs was a suspect until the homicide cold case unit contacted them in 2003 to say the case was finally going to inquest.
- By Andrew Rule, Herald Sun News, November 17, 2013
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read confessed to killing Reginald Isaacs in his final interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOO8sp0b4g.
November 17, 2013 true crime article in the Herald Sun
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