The Queen Street Massacre - The Crime That Changed Melbourne | Crimes That Shook Australia

December 8, 1987: A tragic event unfolded at an office block in Melbourne, Australia, resulting in a massacre that shocked the nation.
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Crimes That Shook Australia - From Season 3 Episode 3 " The Queen Street Massacre": On the 8th of December 1987 Frank Vitkovic entered the Queen St HQ of Auspost at 191 Queen Street, Melbourne and opened fire with a military grade rifle firing 40 rounds and killing eight people.
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[@CrimeandJusticeOfficial]

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[@philharnett2884]

I was in that building delivering food to the basement restaurant 1 hour before this event. I couldn't believe what had happened as I continued my food run, listening to the radio in my van, telling me what I had just missed being that close to. I thank God I was out of there.

[@carriebizz]

Damn. I was around 10 years old then and I only vaguely remember seeing this on the news. My mum worked in Spencer Street at the time which isn't that far away

[@nicolasrose3064]

Cops :"Get back in the Elevator and go back up to the eleventh floor, there's an active shooter in the Building...." "But we're on the ground floor, the front door out of here is right there..." Cops :"Get back in the Elevator and go back up....!" It' is truly bizarre how people, Police included, will not question the lunacy of the personality in a uniform, there's just this immediate assumption that the uniform represents infallibility, absolute authority, and total control.....

[@karendooks6244]

Why direct those people who were in the lift to go back up. ????

[@Abbadabs]

I know right!!!!!!???? 😱

[@chris-ub8in]

dumb cops

[@asyd2905]

The heroes who risked their lives by grappling with Frank were not given enough credits in this documentary.

[@sheriashley7692]

I was just in high school when this happened. It shocked our city and was about a year or so before Hoddle street massacre. Melbourne lost its innocence with Queen st & then Hoddle st- the city charged after these horrific events. May all the victims RIP.

[@belleepoque2544]

What happened on Hoddle St?

[@musicalneptunian]

@@belleepoque2544former soldier Julian Knight went into "battle mode" with high powered weapons and shot at anyone on Hoddle St. He thought in his mind he was still on the battlefield.

[@Shadowplay989]

Hoddle Street happened first same year 1987 a few months apart. I was living on Hoddle Street when it happened, horrendous to see from your window.

[@MarkSmith-hb8mg]

Hoddle St was 9/8/87. Queen St happened 4 months later on 8/12/87.

[@Shadowplay989]

@@MarkSmith-hb8mg exactly it even says in this video Hoddle street was first

[@begbieyabass]

A few years back myself and my partner booked 3 nights at the new apartments. We were in room on the 11th floor, it was weird a strange feeling and left after the first night.

[@pioneercynthia1]

Thanks for the upload!

[@jenniferedwards1752]

I'm not sure the police could have screwed this up any worse. Telling people to go back up into the carnage?!? Standing outside just watching? Good Lord!

[@whoisthispianist194]

Does the society that bullied and mocked this man take any responsibility for what happened? Should we all be mindful of how our words can hurt others?

[@joebloggs619]

It is sad that victims died, that the troubled killer also died, in a sense, he, too was a victim. A victim of the sort of society that pushes people like him over the brink. And Aussies typically blame Police in such scenarios, but they did their best. The real, invisible perpetrators, the truly guilty ones are all those 'nice' innocent looking respectable types who subtly put down anybody they can, to make themselves feel somehow superior. Melbourne is full of them, especially working in offices. It's not just their 'words'. It's also the way they walk, the way they look, their body language, expressions. They are all calculated to put down certain others they see as rivals for social status etc, in order to make themselves feel and appear so m ehow superior. You see this c everywhere in Melbourne and now that half of Melbourne has moved to country Victoria, to escape Melbourne ugliness, crime etc, this Melbourne mentality is now also ruining the country areas, where it never was a problem because the very rich country folk and the very poor lived and worked together in peace, typically helping and caring for each other. But not now that country society has been changed, for the worse, by mass movement of Melbourne city types to the bush. Which is why so many country folk are now moving to remote Outback areas with no conveniences or nice scenety, comforts etc that attract city types seeking to relocate. Or they are permanently fleeing Australia, not just old migrants, but also many Anglo Australians, whom they forged deep friendships with and now try to help leave Australia to find a better society to be in than the ugly modern multicultural Australia. They all loved Australia, the land, but not its current society. They do not want to leave but the society in Australia has now become a o ugly they feel there is no other alternative but to get out because they are powerless to stop this worsening tr end. They shop around for countries that still have a goid society with values, ethics that match theirs eg good Christian, atheists, whatever, but must have these ethics. They are even prepared to put up with a reduced standard of living, foegoing the economic benefits of living in modern ugly greed driven multicultural, politically correct, crime infested Australia. Just to be able to coexist in peace and contribute to some other better society, elsewhere, learn their language snd customs, fitbin there, hard as this may be. They all report it was worth getting out and have no regrets about leaving, though they all miss the old Australia they once knew, grew up in and love, including the old European migrants, like thos killer's family, who seem like decent human beings. I'd say th a t, had they not migrated to Australia, this tragedy would have never happened. They'd still have an other we ise good son, not a crazed mass killer. And all his victims would still be here, going to work everyday. So, I blame the g e feral society for a this tragedy, not just the killer who was an obvious victim of such an ugly Australia, especially Melbourne urban society that drives people to do such extreme acts of violence. I don't condone his conduct, merely try to understand what leads people to reach such a point that they snap mentally and do such violent acts. Everybody snaps at some point, if enough pressure is applied. But some who have suffered much hardship, insults, social put downs etc, despite trying so hard to be good, like this killer did, will snap sooner than others. So, I play safe and avoid taking risks putting down others less fortunate than me, just to make myself feel superior. But Aussies do this all the time. Many aren't even aware of the c effect they have on others they subtly insult,put down etc. Until it suddenly explodes in their faces, like this tragic incident.

[@sarahj5761]

Why would the police send them back in the building! Smh

[@Crunt2167]

What were the police doing? They stood out the front directing pedestrians whilst the shooter walked around killing people they didn't enter the building until the Frank was dead on the footpath. I know it was 1987 and they didn't have SWAT teams but think they handled it badly. 😎👍

[@grahamnewton3637]

Back them days, times were less stressful and police weren't encountering so many nutjobs and psychos like they do today.

[@CourtneyTunbridge79]

While normally I would agree it has to be acknowledged that you just can't storm a building when you DON'T even know what's actually happening and they didn't. It is so easy to sit back behind a pc and pick apart the "should, coulda, woulda" argument.

[@grahamwatts8836]

The police did have SWAT team ie SOG.

[@geosid1696]

@@grahamwatts8836 yea 15 minutes away I hear in video above for the SWAT

[@effkay3691]

They had very little information. This is not Hollywood.

[@TNT-km2eg]

For seventeen minutes he's systematically murdering people , while police observes (with confusion !) ?!? How long do they need to destroy a doughnut , I wonder ?

[@annegiorgio5602]

Where were you brave keyboard warrior

[@Dickie5330]

@@annegiorgio5602 Probably eating their donuts

[@chris-ub8in]

scared fat cops

[@motorised1]

the police only had .38 revolvers they werent going to have a chance against a gun man with a good sized carbine rifle.

[@juliestannard5538]

There’s a great documentary called 77 minutes - exactly how long it took cops to take down the McDonald’s massacre shooter. It’s not as simple as you think. Back in the eighties there wasn’t the preparedness to deal with these incidents both In the US and Australia.

[@gaifawcett9760]

Dear sweet, brave Glen. You were my 1st S.P.C. As a 18 year old at Collins Street East p.o. Fun times. God bless you and yours.

[@gavinkitchen1472]

It's unspeakable & attricious that 8 people were murdered, but it is lucky that a lot more weren't killed.

[@donnacrozier2003]

The police were surrounding the building! Nobody going in??????? Reminds me of the school in the U.S. where the police waited outside for a very long time and did nothing! I believe it was a cowardly act because police are hired to serve and protect their community. "A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but once"! WOW, this was 36 years ago! Never heard of it. R.l.P. to the eight killed! The story was so well done, it almost seemed like it just happened.

[@paullough4946]

"...a kind of aggravated depression..." Yeah, that's Shame driven. Shame as Discretion, Shame as Disgrace. Only grieving one's losses can reset the cycle.

[@beklerken1]

I remember the day vividly. Just days before it all happened, I had resigned from the security firm (MSS ) that was contracted at the building where i was posted on the night shift. Im now retired and live on Queen St just a few blocks away from the old AP building where the unfortunate event took place.. Wouldnt it be nice to see our peace officers again to see them in their lovely blue uniforms upholding and protecting us as we see them here on the footage of the time, instead of seeing them in packs armed to the teeth with BP vests, assault rifles,tasers, side arms, pepper sprays,battens, rubber bullet guns etc. now called Vic Pol.. May the victims rest in peace .

[@lilybeth729]

Wow not even one police officer went into the building 🙈

[@joebloggs619]

To just blindly rush into such an unknown, developing scene, trying to be heroic would be very foolish. They needed to be cautious.

[@crystalwilson3466]

There's no way I'd have gotten back into that elevator. I would've told them go yourself. The ordinary people that stopped the killer weren't recognized enough in this documentary.

[@davidagiel8130]

Why TF would you go back up the lift? I’d tell the cop to F off

[@arrow-lo7jf]

When they opened that fridge! Somebody brought a Fosters beer to work ?

[@annedalton289]

To drink on way home maybe !!!!

[@lindaholtzhausen1539]

A lot of people dead, and the police hiding outside the building! What a disgrace! Again the poor county...... Australia!

[@henkdevries251]

39.30, so the parents were intending to obstruct the investigation of the police by calling their lawyer and prevent the police of trying to find evidence of a person who has caused a massacre?

[@joebloggs619]

I doubt it. I think they were doing what any honest but concerned parent, confused about what was going on would do. Especially European migrants like them, who knew, from their homelands' history that when cops come banging on your door, it was t7picalky because they were out to get you, often for your political beliefs or belonging to a hated ethnic group. They would have been fearful of police coming to harm them and/or thrir child. They just wouldn't understand what was going on or why. Rather than trying to cover up, prevent them getting evidence.

[@annedalton289]

Wife said he was speaking like a robot !!! He still does 😮🤷‍♀️

[@Ray21455]

He had a troubled childhood "He peed himself in class and was uncircumcised." How is this even relevant?

[@lindaholtzhausen1539]

Frank was talking about Australia! I am sure the rest of the world would treat him different!!

[@HBL500]

33:47 this woman must be a shark if she can smell fear 🤣

[@judewishedhimselfout]

I felt it was a thoughtless thing to say publicly. I’m sure her husband didn’t appreciate that.

[@annegiorgio5602]

It’s called adrenaline

[@annedalton289]

Prob pood himself and that mixed with adrenaline prob stinks 😮

[@TheNightCap]

My uncle JJ (John Dyrac) was shot during this.

[@GhyuRtyu]

My friend killed that day 😢

[@loskop100]

Another psychologist that never had any contact with the perpetrator offering his opinion as fact...yawn

[@265hemi7]

They think they're experts on all things in life, yet won't accept criticism or scrutiny of their own activities or profession .

[@dannydoorod]

I think Glen just speaks monotone nornally 😂

[@annedalton289]

That’s what I thought

[@michelesnoopy]

The Australian guys are circumcized? I feel for them..

[@hrvojeprebisalic9302]

I think, its nonsense

[@GhyuRtyu]

Most Australians are circumcized

[@PeterH-be1xe]

In those days it was common, these days the majority of men under 45 are intact, and for young guys under 30 it's rare to be cut.

[@michelesnoopy]

@@PeterH-be1xe may be comprehensible in very hot countries... but the men who are cut are less sensible..

[@erichoberg3502]

There was a rubber band and hair tie shortage in Australia.

[@longstreet0163]

M1 carbines are semi-automatic. It was the M2 carbine that had a fully auto option. I guess that guy didn't know the difference.

[@veridian79]

Australia weren't allowed full autos and because of a few situations like this , we're now not allowed semi autos. We have a gun amnesty every year or so, where people can surrender weapons and they are destroyed.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

He didn’t do it because of his knee, he did it because the meanness of other people drove him to it.I am not defending his actions, but it tells me that the unkindness we do can and does have such ramifications. You never know the mental state of someone you tease or humiliate.

[@Whosetheworst]

iHe certainly gave the term 'going postal' a whole new meaning...🤔

[@Thagoat84]

I'm sorry for what my uncle did, I was only 4yo when he did this

[@DaleHardiman]

Not your fault.

[@MrP19883]

I was in Queen st at the time and heard shots all over the place. Ducked under a car and I looked across and I thought I saw Kernahan ducking under a car too

[@geosid1696]

You mean Kerny from Carlscum??

[@lindaholtzhausen1539]

......... i can't understand how people from others, countries emigrate to a place like Australia!

[@annedalton289]

Why ???? It looks gorgeous!!!! Lot safer than USA 🤦‍♀️

[@DingoDunksy]

I remember going to the crime scene later that night and found a back tooth in the gutter. Ish!

[@Thegoods88]

How did he have so much time to shoot people an police were just watching, they didnt go in as quick

[@chrisbassett8996]

i am men talking about this and allowing the emotion of such a horrific experience

[@lindaholtzhausen1539]

Not one ambulance was outside! While the sleeping police were hiding outside the buildings !

[@annedalton289]

All happened in 17 mins !!!!

[@chrisbassett8996]

I think the police act on the information they have. which unfortunately is often wrong.

[@bubbercakes528]

A teacher who doesn’t allow a student to go to the bathroom is cruel. Why did the parents try to hide the diary? Their son was dead; they couldn’t lock him up now!

[@joebloggs619]

When I was growing up in Aussie government schools, teachers 'toilet trained' kids to go to the toilet before class or during recess breaks and not be asking to go during class, causing learning distraction to the entire class.Unless it was an urgent emergency need to go, in which case a letter would be sent parents of the child, to inform them their child obvioysly must have sone medical complaint requiring attention and to keep them home until it cleared up, to avoid it infecting other children. But now, rude kids and their overprotective, self righteous parents think it's OK for their kid to ask to go to the toilet several times during a lesson, to attract class attention and disruption any attempts at learning/teaching. Such a kid is either sick or needs 'toilet training', by parents, not teachers, as such 'toilet discipline' starts early in a child's life, if they get proper parenting, by their mothers. Perhaps it is their mothers, who also need 'toilet training', too?

[@joebloggs619]

European, like some decent Aussue parents of young adult sons know they get up to certain male sexual type mischief that can tarnish their reputation as fine, upright young men and ruin their chances of success in life, finding a good wife etc. Especially such private, personal information became public eg cops getting his diary and reading it etc. That would probably b ly most likely be their reason. They just wouldn't have grasped the shocking seriousness of what had transpired and why cops wanted the diary, hence their resistance, motivated by confusion. In their countries of origin, they simply would not grasp the Anglo notion of 'information privacy/security' because, there, you do something wrong and word gets around and the entire village believes the gossip abd declares you guilty abd takes it upon th e selves to punish you for it, often in very publicly cruel, humiliating ways, to teach any other would be perpetrators a lesson ie 'Don't even think about it!'. I heard of a village k age tgat shaved a female prostitute' head, stripped her naked, then dragged her screaming in pain over hard cobblestones parading her in shame. This parade was led by the honourable respectable mothers, wives, daughters of the village, the men playing a low key role l e, for fear of being identified as her sex 'clients', by their angry wives, mothers etc. They had a similar 'justice' for immoral men, typically involving gangs of males, led by the most senior grandfather, beating up and humiliating the aberrant male failing to shape up as 'a proper family man'.

[@veridian79]

It happened to me when I was seven, I was denied to go to the toilet and pi**ed my pants, but I didn't end up killing anyone over it. My older brother took me home to get changed.

[@davidagiel8130]

That’s some real dumb cops

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Was the second amendment the biggest mistake in american history????..

[@stevenrunyon170]

shut up troll. If you live in America go move

[@victoriapopaz5303]

One word “SIN” is the root cause , the heart above all else is sick and desperately wicke*. Kjv [Jeremiah 17:9] Kjv [Matthew 15:19] 😢🙏🏼

[@annedalton289]

O reading that fairy tale too ??? 🤦‍♀️I’m reading Harry Potter 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@Andyclish-Salamandingo]

1st comment

[@4oyageryramaira269]

and what an excellent comment it is too... lol..