Notorious double murderer and rapist Raymond Edmunds, known as 'Mr Stinky', has indicated he will plead guilty to several more historical charges of rape and assault.
Edmunds is serving life sentences for the 1966 murders of Shepparton teenagers Abina Madill, 16, and Gary Heywood, 18, and the rape of Ms Madill.
The killer — now in his 70s — was recently charged with more than 30 historical offences alleged to have occurred in the 1970s and 1980s.
In the Melbourne Magistrates' Court today a number of those charges were dropped, but Edmunds indicated via video link he would plead guilty to the remaining 10 charges involving nine separate victims.
The charges include rape, indecent assault, bodily harm and one count of unlawful imprisonment.
The alleged assaults took place from 1971 to 1984 in the Melbourne suburbs of Clayton, Edithvale, Wheelers Hill, Greensborough and Donvale.
The charges were brought by Victoria Police's Cold Case Sexual Crime Squad.
Edmunds already serving life for 'terrifying' murders
The disappearance of Gary Heywood and Abina Madill in 1966 led to an extensive police manhunt, and their decomposed bodies were later found in the bush — Heywood with a bullet wound in his head, and Madill naked from the waist down.
The only clues at the time were unidentified prints on Heywood's car, and the investigation stalled.
More than 10 years later, those prints were matched up with prints left at the houses of a number of rape victims in Melbourne.
Finally, Edmunds was charged in 1985 and brought to trial in 1986.
His crimes were labelled "horrific" and "terrifying" by the sentencing judge, who gave him life in prison.
He was dubbed 'Mr Stinky' by a journalist covering the trial due to his body odour, which reportedly smelled like milk, manure and chemicals from his work on dairy farms.
Edmunds is scheduled to appear in the County Court of Victoria in September.
