John Jarratt, the actor who has portrayed outback serial killer Mick Taylor in two Wolf Creek movies and a TV series, says real-life killer Bradley James Murdoch was “a belligerent arsehole” who may have refused to reveal the location of Peter Falconio’s body as a final insult. “It could be his last little ‘up yours’ to cash out without telling anyone where the body is,” says Jarratt, 73, of the convicted murder who has died in custody, aged 67. “He was a really nasty, horrible human being from all accounts.” But the actor, who portrayed Taylor in two Wolf Creek movies in 2005 and 2013, and in two seasons of a spin-off TV series in 2016-17 for streaming platform Stan*, also conceded it was possible that Murdoch simply didn’t know the exact location of Falconio’s remains. “Maybe he just went off track somewhere and dug a bit of a hole and threw him in and he didn’t know where the hell it was,” Jarratt speculated. “I mean, it would have all been a bit frantic.”