Both her stomach and bowel were swollen. Youve had too much to say already. In other words, We dont want you to tell us the story., Detective Chief Superintendent Bob McGowan from Scotland Yard wrote in his report only tabled in parliament in 2002 after successive governments had refused to release it that Michael Kenneth Clayton, Francis John Cawley and Brian Edwin Hudson took part, possibly with others, in throwing Duncan, James and [Witness A] into the water but despite intensive inquiries, no further witness has been found who can assist in providing further evidence against them there was no real intention of causing anyones death this was merely a high-spirited frolic which went wrong.. The other, Roger James, suffered a broken leg and after crawling to the road was rescued by von Einem, who was driving past. Ten days later, Coonies brother checked and found him still in his bed, dead. I'm always open to questions, comments, suggestions or requests. 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. Youd be driving along South Terrace and somebody would just sort of give you the eye in the car as they were driving alongside of you and youd pull over into a side street (Or) youd see some guy staggering home drunk and youd offer him a ride and stuff would happen.. She had the radio on. Twenty-year-old Peter Stephens had Doig on the ground with his hands behind his head. Despite pleading his innocence, 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. Since then, several suspects of being part ofThe Family have been investigated by the police, but not enough evidence has been gathered against them. About 1.30am, they all left together, going back to Lindsays place where they cracked open another round of pre-mixed bourbon cans. 1915. He cruises back, senses fully alive. Various police officers who worked on the case testified to their investigation of von Einem since they had first questioned him about the murder, as well as their visit to von Einem's home, where a police officer claimed that von Einem's bedroom appeared to have been cleaned "extensively". Of course she panicked. When the police arrived at the house shortly after they took one look at a photo of him and said, Yeah, thats John.. Penley said the most common assaults were well-planned, with gangs jumping out of cars and dragging their victims off to be kicked, bashed and left bleeding in the darkness. He also addressed the issue of the noisy exhaust on the car heard during the abduction of Kelvin, by stating that the exhaust on his Ford Falcon (which von Einem had sold on 16 July 1983, purportedly to raise money for his overseas trip) was less than two years old and in good condition. How big a purse do you carry? No, no, no, please dont say these things over the phone at the moment, Steve, for Gods sake, youre trying to get arrested before I even attempt to try to protect myself. But after the pink-shorted Premiers reign ended in 1979, problems resumed, according to Purcell. And, recalls his sister Helen, there was something else. Kelvin had just seen off a friend at a nearby bus stop on the corner of O'Connell and Marian Streets, North Adelaide and was returning home for dinner. He had arrived from a teaching post in England only six weeks earlier. The High Court ordered a retrial. I didnt want people laughing and talking., When the police came around the day after his death, they seemed to be on the case, says Helen. Bashers are common at beats, but theyve never got Robinson. But what those figures dont reveal are the broken ribs and ruptured spleens that were nurtured and unheeded by a society that was looking the other way. She did not kill anybody. Detective Linda Mildren interviewed Londema next. We thought, Fuckin hell this is gunna be messy. And it was., OShea says a superintendent called them all in. No mates in sight. So I think I asked one of them to speak or to turn around or something, and then he said to the police officer, Is that all sir? and I thought, Hang on. 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. It was like pulling up bloody weeds. Pearce rolled a scoob when, according to Pearce, Ruks started all this poofter shit and grabbed his crotch, causing him to snap. In inner-city parks, a Gday and a groin rub might be all the sign thats needed to head behind a bush. A judge ruled there was no case to answer, but the director of public prosecutions reinstituted the charges. When we finished I stood up and the fellow was laying there and I thought, Wow! Even though Lindsay did not use the gay panic defence, the judge was still required to tell the jury that if they didnt believe Lindsays version of events and if they thought he really did do the stabbing, they could still find that he was provoked into it by the homosexual advance. WebThe autopsy is designed to determine the cause of death, properly document findings, and collect evidence. He loved holidaying with the family, taking his speedboat down to their shack on the Murray. He told them he was gay and that hed been bashed by a man hed met who wanted to take him home. Part of the thrill of it all is straight boys experimenting, says our Adelaide identity. Stars. Is this some sort of trap? Meanwhile, the Mullighan inquiry into the sexual abuse of children in state care found that it was very common for state wards to run away and head to the beat at Veale Gardens to make money, much as Brad Shannon had done. EXCLUSIVE: There is heartbreaking plea almost 40 years in the making from the best mate of Richard Kelvin, the teenage boy murdered by Bevan Spencer von Einem in 1983.It was a horrific crime forever etched in the minds of South Australians and there is a fresh push to unmask key suspects in the notorious Family Murders. No, but like I said, its just its just not on what he did. Blaxland sat on the back corner of his car, about three metres from the youth on the two-tone Valiant. An autopsy usually includes the examination of internal organs. So we took this up with Klunder the minister and said, You know, we warned you this was going to happen.. Only one man, however, was convicted for just one of the murders. It was known from the beginning that vice squad officers were the chief suspects in the murder, according to OShea. For every death, there were dozens of assaults that went unreported. von Einem was found guilty of the murder and was automatically sentenced to life at Yatala Labour Prison. 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. Von Einem admitted that the drugs were his and said that he used them to help him sleep. A parishioner found his body the next morning. There must be more in the car., Well take what we want anyhow, the guy replied. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The fact he was talking about it tells you it was out there. Von Einem first came to attention on the night of 10 May 1972 when two gay men were thrown into the River Torrens by a group of men believed to be police officers. There, he was bashed, hit in the head with an axe and had his throat cut. 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. Dr. Ellen Riemer, a forensic pathologist with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, autopsied both victims on June 10, 2021, three days after they were shot and killed at their family home in Colleton County, Moselle. It took a couple of days to even identify the victim. He admitted going home and putting his bloodied jeans and his Metallica T-shirt in cold water to soak before washing them the next day. Shame, South Australia, Shame.. Saint didnt make it. It was alleged that Ninnes attempted to rob Handley and shot him in the head at point-blank range with a .22 calibre gun during a scuffle. The man, known as "Mr. B", was located and informed police in great detail how he and von Einem picked up young male hitchhikers, gave them alcoholic drinks laced with hypnotic drugs, and took them to von Einem's previous home in the Adelaide suburb of Campbelltown, where the young men were abused overnight and sent home the next day. This time the charge was murder and he got a minimum of 22 years. He was sitting on his car playing with his dick, having a tug, and they reckoned they were just there to go to the toilet, he says. 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. Duncans boss, the head of law at Adelaide University, Professor Horst Lucke, started writing letters to The Advertiser agitating for further inquiries. South Australia and Queensland remain the only states where the gay panic defence can still be used. He greets me jovially but his charity-fundraiser demeanour hardens when I explain why Im there. As we got into the late-80s and early 90s, says Purcell, there were definitely bashers in cars going around to the beats, again, and the police seemed to be more interested in chasing homosexuals than the bashers in cars. This was the period when Jim Blaxland was attacked next to his Mercedes in Veale Gardens. The gay communitys embrace of Saint and his death left his siblings in something of a quandary. Although hed been a policeman for many years, I dont think he understood that Ken was going there to pick up men for sex, because at the time remember Ken was married.. One of the men, Dr. George Duncan, a British lecturer in law who had arrived in Australia only seven weeks before, was drowned. He wanted to party on for the exact same reason. The red Mercedes. They found that not enough emphasis had been put on the fact that the ordinary person is not a single being. Hed left a big party to go to Veale Gardens. You have to keep your wits about you. Your next meal comes from the next money youre going to earn. They had to tell her before she read it in the paper. The ambulance was called. Despite the blood, he was chatty. In February 1988, the State Coroner at the time in South Australia, Kevin Ahern, ordered an inquest into the deaths of these four young men, and on 24 March 1988, the State Coroner in his findings stated that manner and circumstances in which the four were murdered were very similar to that in the case of Kelvin, particularly the murders of Barnes and Langley. The evidence presented was that they went to the park just to rob someone. Kelvin had just seen off a friend at a nearby bus stop on the corner of O'Connell and Marian Streets, North Adelaide after they had earlier that afternoon played football in a nearby park and was expected to return home immediately for dinner. Theyll watch the married men come in and have a laugh at the desperation of it all, have a dig at their own sluttiness, slipping into the darkness when the cops come rolling through to harass them. When it comes to touching other people up especially from a stranger. Once the physical examination, toxicology, microbiology and chemistry results are completed the report becomes a public record in most states. In February 2005, the police knocked on his door, went into his house, had a look around but couldnt find him. By the time it was passed, it was considerably watered down, but over the next few years South Australia became the first state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality. A study in Melbourne showed that seven out of 10 LGBTQI people still dont report assaults and harassment. WIthin five weeks of the discovery of Moores body, Lewiss failure to hand over the documents and a video tape (which hed never claimed to possess) to police led to him being forced to resign as Speaker. Jim Blaxland spent eight weeks in hospital after the attack. The driver has got out and is now leaning on the boot, his blond mullet illuminated in the Toranas headlights. It became widely believed that a close-knit group of prominent Adelaideans The Family was behind it. The reward for any information leading to an arrest for the murders was increased to $250,000, and this was later increased to $500,000 in September 1989 and then to $1,000,000 in March 2008. They no longer say robbery was necessarily the motive. And its needed. He was captured a few days later, 100 kilometres away in Tailem Bend. Kenton Penley, spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Community Action, said gay bashings were on the rise and that according to information gathered by the community, at least two homosexuals were hospitalised each week after serious attacks. On numerous occasions while researching this story, I was told stories of men attempting to report such crimes but being jeered out of the station once the officer heard where theyd been, what theyd been doing. Report Completed: No: Type of Exam: 2307891: Denton: Anthony, Bertha, Bell: 7/11/1937: 85: 4/29/2023: Black: F: Police Department: Police Svc #: Deceased Address: 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 would not answer anything without speaking to his lawyer first. His story was consistent with his friends about the beer and the bongs and the random nature of their stopping. 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. At the time, a witness gave the police a name they would hear again: Bevan Spencer von Eimen. *Warning: graphic content and mentions of sexual abuse ahead. And because at the time of the death I was insane, I cannot be held legally responsible for my actions, and I cant be found guilty of murder.. He was in a gay park in Toowoomba., Can I tell you who it is? And the murders and bashings werent confined to NSW. 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. You have no place to live. It was also announced that von Einem had been excused from attending his court hearings so that he could avoid an "unpleasant" three-hour drive with other inmates.[12][13]. Earlier surveys had the number at nine out of 10. Verco, 21, and Londema, 20, remained consistent in their story throughout the committal and trial for grievous bodily harm with intent. 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. Shannon said it was a habit he got into on the Wall. Lindsay kicked him and stomped on his head. 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. The group kept drinking out at the pergola. Those 88 deaths are the worst of the tragedies. He denied having any other drugs in his possession, but police also seized a bottle of Noctec, concealed on a ledge behind his wardrobe. She growled something at him and said she wanted this bloke out of there, but Lindsay wasnt going to kick him out. WebLast updated: January 23, 2020 The Florida Supreme Court has declared that it will apply its decisions in Hurst v.State and Asay v.Statewhich held that non-unanimous jury recommendations of death violate the Florida state constitution and the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitutionto new death penalty cases and to older cases in which the direct The victims came flooding through the Speakers door with their stories of abuse. Barnes' fatal injuries mirrored those of Kelvin's closely. Activist Ian Purcell stood in front of a banner proclaiming Gay Bashing isnt self-de-fence, as he addressed the crowd: Who would have believed that South Australia which proudly led the world in gay law reform in the 1970s would, in 1992, see a jury set free two men who brutally bashed a gay man with a three-foot metal bar? Asked if his friend Londema had punched the victim, Verco replied that he didnt know. A time where people were forced to find their freedom under the cover of darkness, and in doing so risked violence, victim-blaming and institutional prejudice. They never went back. We had a few to drink so I wasnt, er, wasnt too clear. He described how he and Londema had started smoking cones in the morning, then drank Strongbow cider through the afternoon. Analysis of Kelvin's bloodstream revealed traces of four hypnotic drugs, including Mandrax and Noctec. He doesnt want to overstate the perils. So the backlash began. A week or two later, after much cajoling, Utting convinced Williams to come in and meet a police officer she trusted with a view to handing over some of his information about how paedophiles were getting away with it through the legal system. And my successes in all those years were generally in areas around the beats. So when he heard about the murder at a well-known beat, he got straight on to a police inspector who hed had previous dealings with. [10] On 13 August 2007, the Seven Network followed this with a story that the man standing next to the Einem lookalike in their archived film matched the police sketch of the suspect seen with the Beaumonts at the beach on the day of their disappearance. Dr. Millhouses refusal to cooperate with police and circumstantial evidence found at his home (like trash bags and rope that matched the one found with the body) led him to be arrested and charged with Neils murder. If he made one, it was gobbled up by the legal system and buried under suppression orders. 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. But at this point they thought Alans murderer was someone close to him, so they focused on eliminating his acquaintances first. They spent the next three years in court. Analysis of Kelvin's bloodstream revealed traces of alcohol and five hypnotic drugs, Mandrax, Noctec, Amytal, Valium and Rohypnol. WebThe Dallas County Medical Examiner & Coroner creates death records that can be used in criminal investigations, to resolve insurance claims, or to monitor Dallas public health. Now they just need a name to match it to. It was a big buzz around the place. During their search they found a prescription for Mandrax issued to a 'B. I was surprised at what she said and suspected that she knew more than she was saying. Someone is hiding there. 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. This death had an even greater impact on the team, says researcher Wendy Utting. The following evening, the TV news reported the vicious bashing in Veale Gardens. Lewis pauses again: Its well documented and not only in the case of Robert Woodland, but in many other such instances, theyre bashed to shutem up, and if that doesnt shutem up, then bash em a bit harder and they wont ever be able to stand up, let alone walk up, and talk up, again.. Lindsay and Hutchings dumped the body in a nearby dry creek where it was found a week later. So I was privy to the high-fliers and big rollers who used to come through The Wall and pay us boys for sex.. Fraser got manslaughter and was out a few years later on parole. He said, You better get going. And even then, I dont think any of us were in there saying this is definitely connected. 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 Kelvin Igweani, 24, was shot twice at a house in Milton Keynes in June 2021 after an attempt to taser him failed. But his movements would remain unclear. They were hospitality workers. Police also searched his home in the northern Adelaide suburb of Paradise, and seized a bottle of Mandrax. He wanted to sleep with Lindsay. Shannon did a trade in selling milk and newspapers out of his van to these blokes so theyd have something to take to their wives. Watch 7NEWS nightly at 6pm and weekdays at 11:30am and 4pm on Channel 7 and 7plus.#7NEWS There were three major factors in von Einem's initial questioning that led police to become increasingly suspicious that they had found their prime suspect: As von Einem went on holiday to the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom during August and September 1983, the case against him began to mount up. Mate its unreal, he said with casual bravado. Local gay community leader Bill Rutkin knew Doig through common friends who could attest to his popularity in their circles. 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. On August 28 of that same year, a body cut in pieces was found inside garbage bags thrown in the Port River. The jury came down on Verco and Londemas side. The defence then called various witnesses in an attempt to corroborate von Einem's story. Thats exactly what Im here to talk about, I say, and Robinson opens the door and agrees to have a chat. A very broad range of occupations.. Mark Langley (18, fourth picture) got into a fight with a friend after a party and decided to walk home alone, never to be seen again. And certainly the gay community saw it as a hate crime. His hatred of the bosses grew as he rose, very slowly, to be a detective in the CIB before he quit in 1981. She called a cab and left. And so Robinson, with his cropped hair and short moustache, cruises back past the Mercedes. Forensic pathologists were called to testify about the injuries to Kelvin's head and anus, and the likely cause of his death, and pharmacists gave evidence of the excessive amount of different hypnotic drugs which von Einem had been prescribed (5872 tablets and capsules of six different brands of drugs between 15 December 1978 and 10 August 1983), and showed that von Einem had often had prescriptions for drugs issued from three different chemists on the same day or during the same weeks. By this time, I had my act sorted out, got a job and an apartment. HIs cause of death was the same as Alan and Neils and his blood also had traces of a sedative. Two and a half months after Williamss murder, she and Standfield were charged with criminal libel, an extraordinary move that had only ever happened once before in the state. But there was only so much they could take. His head was bloodied, his clothes dishevelled. Other forensic scientists were called to testify about the hair and fibre samples collected that were linked to von Einem himself and his home. A forensic pathologist (currently Dr. Michael Hunter) analyzes the official autopsy reports of various celebrities to determine their cause of death. Take the murder of Ken Doig. Eventually, after two years on the street, I got my act together and joined the army but after three months I was discharged for having a bad back, and I went back to Adelaide. Well, exactly. Richard Cabot studied 3,000 autopsy reports and reported that more than 50 percent of diagnoses were incorrect. France in 1791.). [At beats] you get people like me and people who are not out. Faced with irrefutable evidence from prosecutors that Kelvin had been in his company, von Einem suddenly changed his story to answer that evidence and admitted that he had been in contact with Kelvin on the night of 5 June 1983. von Einem said that he was driving along O'Connell Street in North Adelaide looking for a parking spot in order to buy some fish and chips for dinner. 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 Handley left a message on Lewiss mobile asking if Lewis could get him a handgun for protection. Autopsies are conducted by a coroner, medical examiner or forensic pathologist in the state of Texas. The worst was in June 1984. The gay community organised a candlelight vigil in the park next to the Japanese gardens. They were tradesmen. When she was in hospital having her seventh child, he babysat her kids at night and went out and bought a station wagon just so he could ferry them to hospital for visiting. But this didnt sit well with the gay community, which saw itself in the centre of a violence storm, says Purcell. The team kept quietly plugging away. She knew Williams had a lot of dangerous enemies, any one of whom could have taken him out, totally unrelated to her business. David John Saint was an ordinary guy. Photographs of von Einem at the party were also tendered to the court. Forensic investigators were able to match the many fibres found on Kelvin's clothing to those taken from von Einem's home, along with hairs found which matched those belonging to him. This made police suspect that Kelvin was dumped by a single person, most likely after nightfall in order to avoid detection. "Mr B" also gave startling allegations of von Einem being involved in the unexplained Beaumont children disappearance in 1966, as well as the disappearance of two girls at the Adelaide Oval in 1973. I dont care if everybody knows., Because the dude was gay? the house-mate persists. An inquest was called. The Saint family didnt hear from police again until recently when a detective from the new cold-case unit rang her brother asking to use Johns image on a deck of playing cards that was to be distributed to prisons. Richard also The Warren Commission in 1964 had hoped that its well-written, 450-plus-page report would put questions about the assassination to rest. WebAutopsy: The Last Hours of: With Michael Hunter, Eric Meyers, Linda Papadopoulos, Iain Glen. Im telling you to go. And he stood up: Cause Im bigger than you.. The next pick-up is always just a glance away. The coppers will be here shortly. And I said, But Im not doing nothing wrong. And he said. He closed his unsworn statement by again claiming his innocence. A forensic pathologist (currently Dr. Michael Hunter) analyzes the official autopsy reports of various celebrities to determine their cause of death. He was murdered by Bevan Spencer von Einem in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1983 after having been kidnapped and tortured for five weeks. One time, four people followed his Torana out of here. Then they started bringing one person in at a time. 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. 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. But no one that got thrown in ever surfaced for a complaint because they were homosexual.. They also stated that his admission that he had picked up Kelvin showed that he was in contact with him on 5 June; that the fibres and hairs proved that von Einem was with him at the time of just before and/or at the time of death; and that the drugs proved von Einem was with Kelvin in between those times. With all the fibres being accounted for with his albi, von Einem concluded his statement by saying that Kelvin stayed for two hours before von Einem dropped him off in the Adelaide CBD near the Royal Adelaide Hospital and gave Kelvin $20 to catch a taxi home. The light went green and he sped off to Holden Hill police station. The disappearance of Steve Williams remains a mystery, as does the bashing death of Robert Woodland in Veale Gardens. The river bank was a popular beat where gay men would meet covertly, as homosexual acts were illegal in South Australia at that time. Paul Murdaugh and his mother, Maggie, were each shot several times before dying last week in their South Carolina home, according to autopsy results released Monday. Little effort was put into concealing Kelvin's body; he was found wearing the same Channel 9 shirt, blue jeans and white Adidas sneakers which he wore on the day of his abduction, together with the dog collar fitted around his neck. Furthermore, the quantity of fibres on Kelvin's clothes was far too large to suggest that Kelvin was in his company for only two hours. On 11 May 1990, Magistrate Gurry ordered von Einem to stand trial for the two murders of Barnes and Langley. Lindsay showed her around his house. It was around 11pm on March 31, 2011, that Andrew Negres girlfriend left a southern AdelaIde pub in a huff. Finally, there was Richard Kelvin (15, last picture), the son of a famous local news presenter. He was in G Block of Yatala Prison for decades but was transferred to Port Augusta Prison in the north of the state in 2007. This clue led police back to Bevan Spencer von Eimen, who had been prescribed such drug. There was no inquest. von Einem is serving life imprisonment. So why, the day after the murder, did they tell the media that it was? I thought if I was going to look for laser lights, I could do it there as well as anywhere else.. 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.
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