While the Mullighan inquiry was underway, the mystery of Shaine Moores death was solved. Richard also The Family Murders Unresolved They actually thought they were engaged in some sort of leisure sport that actually had a degree of community approval.. Everyone would see. Lewis tried to make contact with another witness to the same goings-on at Veale Gardens, Walter Handley. He didnt come home. The following evening, the TV news reported the vicious bashing in Veale Gardens. The good Samaritans dropped Coonie off, but were sufficiently worried to visit later the same day. The nerves down the side of his face were frozen. von Einem was found guilty of the murder and was automatically sentenced to life at Yatala Labour Prison. But if we take the victims of gay-bashing murders as a random sample of beat users and perhaps they are except for a bias towards an older, slower cohort they represent a cross-section of society, according to criminologist Professor Stephen Tomsen, who studied 74 gay murders in NSW in the 1980s and 90s. The purchaser of von Einem's Ford Falcon detailed the condition of the car, and the relative who hosted the birthday party on 10 July stated that von Einem and his mother had arrived there at 5:30pm and left at 10:30pm. Lesbian and Gay Community Action spokesman Kenton Penley told the media the area was notorious for gay bashings. Sensationally, the three police officers suspected of involvement refused to give evidence on the grounds it might incriminate them. It would appear that robbery was part of the picture because his bag and wallet were missing, but the fact that his assailant had wanted to take him home would indicate that he was targeted as a gay man. If you were brought before the courts, your name would be splashed across the front pages, says Reeves. I dont think he knew. Richard Dallas Kelvin (1 December 1967 c. 10 July 1983), was the son of Rob Kelvin, a long-time television news presenter for Adelaide station NWS 9. Von Einem also allowed police to take hair and blood samples, as well as carpets and other materials for testing. They were hospitality workers. In Dantes Inferno, he has the homosexuals endlessly walking Youre walking around looking; looking for the signs, the signal, for the pick-up you go to a beat and walk and look and cruise and walk and get back in the car. Lindsay said he could have a bed upstairs. So the vice squad knew nothing. This page was last edited on 1 April 2023, at 21:47. Despite the blood, he was chatty. I dont remember a lot of it, but I went into the bushes with some guy. Not even that. Shaine Moore was lying under his doona, bulked up with pillows, with a red line around his throat where hed been strangled with a shoelace. Which might not seem surprising to the lay person, given that his defence was that he was not provoked into murder because he said he didnt commit murder. Which brings us to the curious case of Robert Woodland. Some 23 years after Rex Robinson found Jim Blaxland brutally bashed beside his red Mercedes in Veale Gardens, I knock on his door and explain my purpose. There were three major factors of von Einem's initial questioning that lead police to become increasingly suspicious that they had found their prime suspect: As von Einem went on holiday in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom during August and September 1983, the case against him began to mount up. Five known victims of kidnapping, sexual abuse and murder showed up in those years, and police became convinced that the perpetrator was actually a group of several men, although only one has ever been identified and taken to justice. Hairs from von Einem were found on and inside Kelvin's clothing and of 925 fibre samples found on Kelvin's clothing, 250 came from von Einem's home environment, with just seven from Kelvin's home. Williams had not only been a great source of knowledge about official corruption relating to the perpetuation of paedophilia hed begun his own anti-child-abuse campaign but hed been a great friend to Utting, too. Kelvin was murdered by von Einem on or around 10 July 1983 in Adelaide, South Australia after having been abducted, held captive, sexually abused, drugged and tortured for five weeks. Mildwaters version of what happened next (contested by Lindsay) is that Lindsay came into her room and told her to clean up the mess. There was a furious drumming of knife blows to Negres chest. The documentary series takes a turn to look at Real Crime and reveals the truth behind the controversial deaths of people whose untimely deaths were surrounded by scandal and intense media attention. He pulled out an axe and hit him in the head with it, twice, before slitting his throat. They also found traces of a sedative in his blood. Case Search Medical Examiner-Coroner Woodlands dark-blue Commodore was parked in the Veale Gardens car park at the Adelaide Pavilion restaurant, while the 36-year-old's corpse was found 700 metres away at the far end of the beat, and off to the left in long grass. [11], On 28 March 2008, the ABC reported that the child pornography found in von Einem's cell had been determined not to have been written by him and that fingerprints did not match. The prosecution tried to continue with the charge for the murder of Barnes; however, with the problems associated of getting enough evidence admitted into court from associates about von Einem picking up hitchhikers, the final charge was withdrawn on 1 February 1991. The police have said they made comprehensive and extensive inquiries. When police knocked on von Einem's door and enquired about whether they could ask him a few questions, his immediate reaction was to say that he wouldn't answer anything without speaking to his lawyer first. Autopsy Report Police also questioned other people whom von Einem had associated with, but they volunteered little information. Kelvin's clothed body was found by a geologist on 24 July 1983. Her colleague, Barry Standfield, thought hed shake things up by sending the letter to the media with all names included. After being abused by my stepparents, I ran away and lived on the streets of Adelaide and I fell into the wrong crowd and did not know any better. The murders focused attention on the sort of things that went bump and grind in the night, and threw up rumours about a cadre of paedophiles in high places. With Mandrax being regulated by the Central Board of Health in 1978 stocks for it in Australia had declined somewhat by 1983 and police began sifting through prescriptions for that drug in particular. The gay men victim and witnesses were all questioned at length about what it was they were doing in Veale Gardens and about such germane matters as where they would have had sex had they met the right man. In 1983, I was placed in a foster home by my parents. Three months later, however, Woodlands death would become a whole lot more. At trial, he argued it wasnt him that stabbed Negre, it was Hutchings. He also stated that Von Eimen worked with otherassociates. He was last seen on June 17, 1979, hitchhiking, and witnesses claimed he got in a car that had at least three people inside. About 1.30am, they all left together, going back to Lindsays place where they cracked open another round of pre-mixed bourbon cans. Von Einem got life and remains in prison. I just wanted to be liked and accepted. He drove out again, but as he turned right and right again along South Terrace, he saw a second Valiant, with doors painted a different colour to the body, parked about 100 metres from the beat. Von Einem then tortured, drugged, raped and held Kelvin captive for five weeks, before murdering him and dumping his body alongside an airstrip near Kersbrook in the Adelaide Hills area (to the north-east of the city and close to where relatives of von Einem lived). Hed recently split from his wife and had custody of the three kids. January 3, 2014. Indeed Shannon recalled a time in the late-80s when he was hanging around Veale Gardens: By six oclock in the morning youd start to get what we called the morning shift and all of these guys would come through who had told their wives, Im just ducking out to get the paper and milk.. Three suspects were on the run and so police were trying to generate leads through the media to hunt them down, but there was never any mention of the gay angle. On 29 January 2006, the Sunday Mail reported that von Einem was currently being investigated for allegedly raping an inmate several times at Yatala Labour Prison. NSW now has a task force, Operation Parrabell, reviewing 88 deaths including 30 unsolved cases from the 1970s to the early 2000s as potential gay-hate murders, most of which werent treated as such at the time. Gay bashings and murders continue. But his movements would remain unclear. The attackers ran off. She declined. Four months after Pitchers attack, Mark Coonie, 34, left Adelaides most prominent gay nightspot, the Mars Bar, saying he was headed for Veale Gardens. It can also be available for the police to check if it helps with their investigation. Theres an insecure and rather clumsy anxiety about masculinity among many young men in our society and I think a simple way to achieve some sort of masculine status and some sort of peer-group respect for themselves is to actually carry out gay bashings., The attacks were marked by their frenzied nature and while murder was usually not the intention, there was usually a reckless indifference to the outcome, Tomsen says, noting that the attackers were often surprised when police took the cases seriously. Robinson checks the rearview mirror to make sure he isnt being followed. It would become central to an exquisitely Adelaide-style front-page drama, featuring allegations of paedophilia in high places, a string of deaths, claims of a cover-up, a political resignation and, of course, the Parklands that ring of darkness that besieges the city each night. Tall and thin, he was intensely shy, private and unable to swim. The 43-year olds boyfriend and estranged husband went back and forth over who was to blame for Kellys death, which was initially reported to be the result of an He claimed that he and Von Eimen used to pick male hitchhikers, drugged them and sexually abused them overnight, although he denied taking part in any murders. [At beats] you get people like me and people who are not out. Given these facts, on 25 May 1984, Magistrate Nick Manos ordered von Einem to stand trial for the murder of Richard Kelvin. The defence stated in their summary that the prosecution had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that von Einem was guilty of murder and also were not able to establish the exact cause of Kelvin's death, so therefore the jury must give von Einem the benefit of the doubt. I was lonely and horny and thought this time I would know better, but again that voice rang out in the night, Bashers! I got away but I did see one guy lying on the grass, getting kicked over and over by these guys. But this didnt sit well with the gay community, which saw itself in the centre of a violence storm, says Purcell. I felt myself being hit with a hard object more than a fist. All 52 cards featured the faces of unsolved-murder victims. Mate its unreal, he said with casual bravado. With all the fibres being accounted for with his new story, von Einem concluded his statement by saying that Kelvin had stayed for two hours before von Einem dropped him off in the Adelaide CBD near the Royal Adelaide Hospital and gave Kelvin $20 to pay for a taxi home.[5]. Of the 92 offenders he studied, 43 were teenagers and 23 were in their early 20s. Kevin Williamson, not long out of the army, had a few beers at the Torrens Drill Hall on the parade grounds below Government House, before heading to his car about 10.45pm on May 10, 1972. One of those wanted for the crime was a 16-year-old girl. It was a talking point, a laughing point, all those things rolled into one., So when they asked John why he hadnt come out to them earlier, hed said, Well everybody carried on so much about Bobby, I couldnt do that to Mum and Dad. And thats one example of how a gay murder becomes not a gay murder. Rutkin recalls: I knew him well enough to speak openly and to say, Look I dont know whether you know this, but this will turn out to be a gay-hate crime because Ken was there and he was doing the beat., He was a bit shocked by that. In a little ray of light shining through the darkness, though, recent retesting of exhibits has enabled South Australian police to create a DNA profile of a suspect. "Mr B" also provided further information about other associates of von Einem, but claimed he took no part whatsoever in any murders. He had no reason to kill Mr Negre. "Autopsy: The Last Hours of" Karen Carpenter (TV Episode 2014) His skeletal remains were found 10 months later in Middle Beach, by a farmer who was doing a prescribed burn in his land. The team kept quietly plugging away. This came across as a strange thing for an innocent person to say. He winces and rubs his now loose-skinned face as he recalls the job that would define him. The group was dubbedThe Family by the media after one of the detectives involved in the case mentioned in TV that they wouldbreak up the happy family of criminals. A witness, a security guard living in Margaret Street, had heard cries for help, car doors slamming, and a car with a noisy exhaust speeding away. More red lights, more screeching as they chased him until he got to his sisters place and ran inside. What did you say cunt? Lindsay replied. The autopsy revealed that Kelvin had most likely died from massive blood loss from an anal injury, probably caused by the insertion of a blunt object with a tapered neck, such as a beer bottle, and that he had suffered bruising and injuries from blows to his head, to the left side of his back and also to his right buttock as well as a fractured front tooth which occurred either just before or just after death. And well never know how much of a thing. Despite a wide-ranging search by police, extensive media coverage that included a full page missing person poster in The Advertiser on 28 June (that unfortunately had contained a false lead given by the public to police), a $5,000 reward offered by the State Government two days after his disappearance (quickly raised to $15,000 a week later) and numerous tips and possible sightings provided by the public in the weeks after, Kelvin's whereabouts were unknown until his clothed body was found seven weeks later by a geologist searching for moss rocks with his family on 24 July 1983 alongside a dirt airstrip near One Tree Hill in the Adelaide Hills area (to the north-east of the city and close to where relatives of von Einem lived). Even the police never said this one was a robbery gone wrong. Disturbing Details Found In Karen Carpenter's Autopsy Report An autopsy usually includes the examination of internal organs. However, it turned out to be impossible to corroborate these allegations. To detect them and deal with them you had to sort of operate partially covertly, which sort of put you in the realms of being a queer yourself. So after he makes sure the Valiant isnt following him, Robinson drives off to buy fuel. Deep down, I felt sorry for these guys and hated being a part of this. *Warning: graphic content and mentions of sexual abuse ahead. [6], On 4 February 2007, the ABC reported that von Einem had been charged over commercial dealings during his incarceration, including selling hand-painted greeting cards. I wondered why and where these poofters would gather in order to let themselves be bashed by little guys. Then he draws on a literary allusion that perfectly describes the way so many people had acted in the stories I am researching. I dont care if everybody knows., Because the dude was gay? the house-mate persists. On June 5, 1983, he was abducted a short distance from his house after The prosecution's case also relied on evidence given by former associates testifying to von Einem picking up boys hitchhiking and sexually abusing them, as well as "Mr B"'s sensational evidence being in the company of Barnes and von Einem at the time just before Barnes's murder. For the prosecution, it was a matter of proving von Einem's guilt (along with that of unknown persons) by presenting the strong scientific evidence that had been gathered during the investigation, and disproving von Einem's story of being in contact with Kelvin on the night of 5 June 1983. Kelvin was 15 years old at the time of his death. Further down the river, 27-year-old Roger James was walking home from dinner with a friend. She wanted him to come home because it was getting late. During their search they found a prescription for Mandrax issued to a B. von Einem, a name familiar to police as he was questioned previously over the deaths of three young men and an alleged sexual assault of another. She had the radio on. The Family murders cowed the gay community in South Australia. It has moved to where the Valiant had previously been parked. Justice Duggan did rule that "Mr B"'s evidence could be heard, but that the defence would be allowed to question the evidence as it was being given. She did not kill anybody. Police had the right to go in and look. Police forces across the country have made huge advances in the way they deal with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities. Shannon used his earnings to move around the country and found himself working Veale Gardens where, in about 1985, he claims to have been picked up by a well-known South Australian politician, though not one of the two implicated in Woodlands allegations. The risks might be huge, but so is the allure. They took Pitchers mobile phone and Zito phoned his own mum. Only one man, however, was convicted for just one of the murders. Milton Keynes: Fatal police shooting 'necessary', watchdog finds So just imagine the besieged atmosphere of an office where you were hearing stories like this every day implicating powerful people. Once they won that battle, they switched to campaigning for a royal commission into child abuse. Veale Gardens sits at the southern end of the ring, while further north, near the top end of town and the River Torrens, is the Number One Beat which, in 1972, had been Adelaides hottest gay pick-up spot since before anyone could remember. Fraser got manslaughter and was out a few years later on parole. Neighbors reported hearing several voices shouting around the time Richard disappeared. Utting says they told police what they knew but were guarded in what documents they handed over. James has suggested elsewhere that this fear that the police were trying to discredit him by having him identify an innocent officer made him clam up. Once I started looking more closely at Adelaide, it became clear that the epicentre of these murky activities was a pocket of the citys South Parklands called Veale Gardens. Finally, there was Richard Kelvin (15, last picture), the son of a famous local news presenter. They grabbed him. Richard Kelvin, 15, (above with his father, former Channel 9 Adelaide newsreader Rob Kelvin) was abducted and murdered in 1983. She said that she had been told Richard Kelvin had been held in a unit and that Denis had cut Kelvins hair during that time. He sliced his throat, made sure he saw everything. I think collectively it put a fair bit of pressure on police, recalls Purcell. He endured numerous operations. They had to tell her before she read it in the paper. Stars. So the investigation into Duncans death came up with nothing. He told them he was gay and that hed been bashed by a man hed met who wanted to take him home. The very next night, however, Robert Woodland went to Veale Gardens where he was seen by an acquaintance about 1am, on Sunday December 5. There was a lot I didnt understand. An accountant by profession, he was convicted in 1984 for the murder of 15-year-old Adelaide teenager Richard Kelvin, the son of local television and radio personality Rob Kelvin. On December 3, 2004, former Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan was appointed to head a commission of inquiry into the abuse of children in state care. I cant help wondering if many would have preferred the dunking to the opprobrium of coming across OShea and his fellow conscientious officers; being charged, named in the paper. Soon after Handleys death, Utting received a phone call from another of her contacts, the former local chapter president of the Gypsy Jokers, Steve Williams. And then whether or not a homosexual advance was sufficient to explain the subsequent extreme violence meted out. The fact is, though, that Lewis and his team already had a deep distrust of the polices ability to handle the allegations, given what theyd been told by their informants about police cover-ups. Forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd uses Captain Nemo (James Mason). Even some of the out-and-proud gay community looked down on what those men did in the darkness. I formed the impression that the gay community in Adelaide, afraid of being lumped together with these sadistic paedophiles in the public imagination, had been making itself into as small a target as possible ever since. They didnt trust the police. Robinson pulls up alongside and winds down his window. von Einem is serving life imprisonment. This made police suspect that Kelvin was dumped by a single person, most likely after nightfall in order to avoid detection. Weve killed him.. Hes dead, thank Christ. WebThe autopsy revealed that Kelvin had most certainly died from massive blood loss from an anal injury, likely caused by the insertion of a blunt object, such as a beer bottle, and he suffered So why, the day after the murder, did they tell the media that it was? Finally, there was Richard Kelvin (15, last picture), the son of a famous local news presenter. Family Murders: Friend of murder victim Richard Kelvin's emotional He often dropped in on Helen for a coffee. When questioned about the Kelvin murder, rather than profusely denying any involvement, von Einem simply said that he would not do such a thing because it would be "unethical". Lindsays de facto Mel Glover, the mother of his son, wasnt impressed. He jammed his foot hard onto the brake as they pushed him into the city intersection. Most nights he wont pick up. The ambulance was called. Lindsay went back before a jury. Little evidence was presented for the murder of Langley, as prosecutors felt if they could prove that von Einem had murdered Barnes, then it would naturally follow that he had murdered Langley, as well. Youre gunna drown one., It seemed to OShea that the practice of tossing homosexuals in the river went back a long way. His arms are folded and a cigarette dangles from his lips. Ill give it to you. His body had been washed prior to being re-dressed and was found placed in the fetal position, with his legs bent towards his chest and his head forwards and his arms wrapped around his legs. Lindsay appealed the decision on the basis that provocation colloquially known as the gay panic defence was not put properly to the jury. Episode 1 Rex, the beat, and the bashing, This investigation was the basis of SBS True Stories Podcast Season Three. And I said I understood and that Id be pleased if he would talk to some of the people who were my staff volunteers.. His body was found a week later, and the details that came out in the autopsy were beyond disturbing. WebKelvin was held captive for approximately five weeks and a post-mortem examination revealed that he had died of massive blood loss from an anal injury, likely caused by the But then, a partial victory. They took the stand and carried it through cross-examination. Another beat regular, Brad Shannon, who jokingly styled himself as probably Australias premier authority on beat culture, sadly estimated 90 per cent of beat users were married men. We talk for a while about the Duncan murder and how one of the acquitted officers ended up owning a pub where people would go wanting to see the bloke who threw Duncan in the river. WebRichard Dallas Kelvin Age: 15 Date of abduction: June 5, 1983 Date of death: July 10, 1983 Date of body dump: July 10 or 11, 1983 Date body found: July 24 1983 Location of body: In The case against him was so weak, though, that he was found not guilty in his 1980 trial. Karen Carpenter: Directed by Ros Edwards. Riemer described the injuries of both victims as severe, catastrophic, and "immediately fatal." Bit of all right. Teaching the poofters how to swim.. The justices of the High Court of Australia, however, disagreed. Von Einem had prescriptions for them and had already been questioned over the similar deaths of three other young men. She knew she was doing it, the relative said, drunk, on the live stream. His hair was long, straight and black. Negre, 37, was the type of bloke who could walk into a pub not knowing anybody and walk out with a dozen new best friends. He too denied knowing it was a beat. The Attorney-General of South Australia immediately appealed the leniency of the non-parole period, and on 29 March 1985 the Court of Criminal Appeal in South Australia increased the non-parole period to 36 years, a record at the time in that state. The prosecution decided after Justice Duggan's findings two days earlier to have von Einem tried separately for the murders of Barnes and Langley. Several witnesses living near to the Kelvins' home heard cries for help, car doors slamming and a car with a noisy exhaust speeding away. Its a meeting place for men who want to meet other men. From there she saw Lindsay and Hutchings either side of Negres prostrate body. You might have hooked up with somebody in a fumbling and hardly ideal way, I dont know, maybe two in ten times. The other victim, Roger James, was brought into police headquarters on crutches. The prosecution later charged him with the murders of Alan and Mark, but eventually dropped the case when crucial evidence was ruled inadmissible by the judge. Pins in his leg. Von Einem admitted that the drugs were his and said that he used them to help him sleep. Days later, Masterson confessed to Houston police that hed killed Honeycutt by strangling him in a sleeper hold. This was, in part, due to a series of murders which would go a long way to cementing Adelaides reputation for particularly sick sadism. Bevan Spencer von Einem (born 29 May 1946)[1] is a convicted child murderer and suspected serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia. However, police raids on various locations around Adelaide linked to von Einem yielded few clues. The first time he went to a beat, at what is now the Himeji Japanese Garden, he was a 23-year-old with a girlfriend, still in denial about his sexuality. He was murdered by Bevan Spencer von Einem in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1983 after having been kidnapped and tortured for five weeks. I never saw any stat dec by him. After several attacks, I left the group and went and lived on the streets in another part of town. Everybody thought I was gay but nobody had enough guts to say anything. Kelvin was murdered by von Einem on or around 10 July 1983 in Adelaide, South Australia after having been abducted, held captive, sexually abused, drugged and tortured for five weeks. Perhaps they thought his missing wallet was sufficient to explain away the vicious injuries to his head at a place where gay men were routinely bashed. He came out of the car and then it just got out of hand and, er, this fellow fell down and we panicked and took off.. At approximately 6:15pm on 5 June 1983, von Einem (likely along with other unknown persons) abducted Kelvin near the intersection of Margaret Street & Peppertree Lane, North Adelaide, just 60 metres from Kelvin's home around the corner in Ward Street. Interested Parties may contact Coroners & Medical Examiners for questions about: Finding Dallas death records; Locating death certificates; Order autopsy reports The toilets? But Doig gave up his wallet and his PIN without resistance. His lawyer believed a handwriting analysis would clear von Einem. Negres phone was answered by his new friend Michael Lindsay who told her to come on over. Soon after the news report went to air, two young men, Robert Verco and Jason Londema, walked into Adelaide police station with their parents and handed themselves in. One of them was Peter Millhouse, who died in a retirement home in 2015. The 26-year-old might not have worked a day in his life but he owned it all thanks to a $2.2 million payout hed received from having been hit by a car when he was 20 months old. He spits bile at me through the hard mesh screen about the way the judge let the families in the gallery yell out faggot and poofter when he and other witnesses took the stand. Then he reveals himself: I read recently the writer Randolph Stow said, Gossip made me a homosexual before I was one. And I was a bit the same My sexuality is widely assumed but thats as far as it goes in Adelaide. Lisa Robin Kelly Autopsy Results Reveal Heavy Drug Use Von Einem took James to hospital where the alarm was raised. It was closed. This answered the question of how fibres from von Einem's carpet got onto Kelvin's clothes. Together they smashed Pitchers face to a pulp and that expression is meant literally breaking his jaw, his eye socket, his cheek. The trial against von Einem for the murder of Kelvin opened at the Supreme Court Building of South Australia on 15 October 1984 before Mr. Justice White.

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