Archie McCafferty

{{Short description|Australian serial killer}}

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Archie McCafferty is a Scottish-born Australian serial killer. He was described as the Australian Charles Manson.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/serial-killer-archie-mccafferty-works-1230053|title=Serial murderer Mad Dog McCafferty helps out in partner's upmarket Edinburgh dress shop|first=Jack|last=Mathieson|date=August 7, 2012|website=Daily Record}} Archie McCafferty was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia when he was 10.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11956669.mad-dog-living-in-seaside-resort/|title='Mad Dog' living in seaside resort|website=HeraldScotland}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=heMXEAAAQBAJ&dq=archie+mccafferty+charles+manson&pg=PA98|title=Murder Down Under: Notorious Australian Serial Killers|first=Anthony|last=Ferguson|date=January 29, 2021|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9781476641515 |via=Google Books}}{{cite book |first=Harold |last=Schechter |authorlink=Harold Schechter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=da_fY9EfydsC&dq=archie+mccafferty+mad+dog&pg=PA112 | isbn=9780345472007 | title=The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers | date=2003 | publisher=Random House Publishing |location=New York City }}

In 1973, while living in Australia, McCafferty murdered 3 people, claiming his dead baby son told him to murder people.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8n8EAwAAQBAJ&dq=archie+mccafferty+mad+dog&pg=PT27 | isbn=9781782127048 | title=The History of Australian True Crime | date=5 July 2013 | publisher=Arcturus }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnQyEAAAQBAJ&dq=archie+mccafferty+mad+dog&pg=PT11 | isbn=9781952225338 | title=The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume Three, M–S | date=24 November 2020 | publisher=WildBlue Press }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-MXEAAAQBAJ&dq=archie+mccafferty+mad+dog&pg=PA112 | isbn=9781476682846 | title=Murder Down Under: Notorious Australian Serial Killers | date=3 February 2021 | publisher=McFarland }} In 1974, he was imprisoned in Tamworth Correctional Centre{{Cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-14/tamworth-story/3709150|title=35 violent deaths linked to 'school for killers'|newspaper=ABC News |date=December 13, 2011|via=www.abc.net.au}} and while in prison he murdered an inmate.

In 1997 McCafferty was deported to Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/killer-mad-dog-mccafferty-avoids-jail-resetting-stolen-car-2468494|title=Killer 'Mad Dog' McCafferty avoids jail for resetting stolen car | The Scotsman|date=10 November 2008 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/australia-to-deport-mass-killer-to-uk-1274480.html|title=Australia to deport mass killer to UK|date=March 23, 1997|website=The Independent}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/triple-killer-beats-checks-to-enter-nz/R32PA6PWIEVWKDFZT4P53KZHZE/|title=Triple killer beats checks to enter NZ|website=NZ Herald}}