For every death, there were dozens of assaults that went unreported. The man, known as "Mr. B", was located and informed police in great detail how he and von Einem had picked up young male hitchhikers, had given them alcoholic drinks laced with hypnotic drugs, and had taken them to von Einem's previous home in the Adelaide suburb of Campbelltown, where the young men had been abused overnight and released the next day. That crew had left the pub about 10pm. Uniformed constable Rebecca Kuss arrived and saw a man sitting in the door well of the red Mercedes with his feet on the road. Just another detail, another repercussion, another agony, rippling down the years. The autopsy revealed the same injuries the previous victims had and the gut-wrenching fact that he had been kept alive, being tortured and sexually assaulted, for around 5 weeks. A segment of his skull floated loose in his cranium. Von Einem admitted that the drugs were his and said that he used them to help him sleep. 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 Police forces across the country have made huge advances in the way they deal with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities. He saw Robinsons white Torana, and noted the Mercedes parked close to a lime-green Valiant. I dont have any doubt that that was the reason for him being murdered, he says. The first known victim was Alan Barnes (17, third picture). Documentary series. There was no struggle, nothing. They grabbed him. The evidence presented was that they went to the park just to rob someone. But its also a matter of convenience, he says. Von Einem still denied ever coming into contact with Kelvin. Um, we were parked in the South Parklands, um, I got out to go to the toilet, a car pulled up in front of my car and the the fellow come over towards me and, er, started talking to me asking asking me if I go there often and well if I and said, Oh do you like older men?, Verco claimed that Blaxland had tried to touch him, gently, on the testicles. Negres phone was answered by his new friend Michael Lindsay who told her to come on over. Negre struck up a conversation with the strangers and hit it off right away. Take the murder of Ken Doig. McGowan did suggest that Williamson changing his story might tend to substantiate charges being preferred, and I submit this report for directions. As a result theres a lot of concern about what Ofsted wants to see, Richard says. It completely contradicted his initial statement of his whereabouts on 5 June 1983, when he said he had been in bed with the flu. The Warren Commission in 1964 had hoped that its well-written, 450-plus-page report would put questions about the assassination to rest. Police also searched for a man who previously claimed to police during the investigation of the unsolved murder of Alan Barnes in 1979 that von Einem was involved in his death and also that he was a former associate of von Einem. The day he was due to meet with this officer those couple of days is when he disappeared, Utting recalls. Got a lot of buggeries, he says, like a salesman saying hed closed plenty of deals. Not even that. 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. The coppers will be here shortly. And I said, But Im not doing nothing wrong. And he said. The Texas Public Information Act deems autopsies public information. 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. I was surprised at what she said and suspected that she knew more than she was saying. Suddenly there was a person behind me and they sort of said, Do you give it or take it? he told the ABCs Simon Royal in 2005. 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]. 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. Out of Sight: The untold story of Adelaides gay-hate murders Richard Cabot studied 3,000 autopsy reports and reported that more than 50 percent of diagnoses were incorrect. With Iain Glen, Lucy Drive, Antti Hakala, Enrico Lange. Homosexuals got together with each other and had great parties, says historian Tim Reeves. In February 2005, the police knocked on his door, went into his house, had a look around but couldnt find him. von Einem', a name familiar to police as he had been questioned previously over the deaths of three young men and the alleged sexual assault of another. The shooting of a man by police as he held a toddler hostage after beating his neighbour to death was "necessary given the circumstances", the police watchdog has found. 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. This was, in part, due to a series of murders which would go a long way to cementing Adelaides reputation for particularly sick sadism. Being gay had got him an honourable discharge from the army which hed wanted. So we took this up with Klunder the minister and said, You know, we warned you this was going to happen.. Significantly, Kelvin had a dog collar in his possession which was likely to have attracted von Einem's attention. 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. Thats robbery. And I guess that goes to the polices understanding of the level of homophobia in the town.. More people suspected in the abduction and murder of Richard Kelvin 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. Right at the same time, a group of men was coming towards him along the path until, just as they drew level, one of them was thrown in the river. Terrified, Mildwaters took refuge in a nearby bedroom. 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. 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. The victim was in a coma with a fractured skull, a broken cheek bone, a broken eye socket. I dont remember a lot of it, but I went into the bushes with some guy. Detective Jennifer ODonohue interviewed Verco first. Four days after Richard Kelvin's body was discovered, von Einem was questioned by the police about the murder. He at first denied ever meeting Richard, saying that on the day he disappeared he was home with the flu. James has only ever given one public interview about the night that was going to change everything for him and for all gay men in the state. The light went green and he sped off to Holden Hill police station. 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. 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. Most nights he wont pick up. Everybody thought I was gay but nobody had enough guts to say anything. But he claims his attempts were hamstrung by police seeming to somehow know of their planned meetings in advance and being there waiting. But Doig gave up his wallet and his PIN without resistance. He was last seen on June 17, 1979, hitchhiking, and witnesses claimed he got in a car that had at least three people inside. If you consider that the accused, Mr Lindsay, was so provoked, then you must consider whether the conduct is capable of causing an ordinary person to lose self-control.. It was before lunch that I was told about it, recalls Lewis, and it made me sick and Im not often made sick because hed been afraid of that happening to him., I ask Lewis if he was alleging that Woodland had been killed to shut him up. Under South Australian law, a third of the non-parole period could be taken off for good behaviour in prison. On 29 October 2006, The Australian reported that von Einem had been selling hand-painted greeting cards to prison officers for $20 each. And now there was a lot of talk about a body that had been pulled out of the river. Soon after his presumed time of death, someone attempted to use his ATM card to withdraw money near the Mars Bar in Gouger Street. The earliest von Einem could be released on parole was therefore on 31 October 2007 (after allowing for the fact that a third of the non-parole period could be taken off for good behaviour in prison). Plus, the quantity of fibres on Kelvin's clothes was far too large to suggest that Kelvin was in his company for only 2 hours. (Queensland and the Northern Territory have taken this mantle in more recent surveys.). Duncans boss, the head of law at Adelaide University, Professor Horst Lucke, started writing letters to The Advertiser agitating for further inquiries. Samuels was taken to Piedmont Hospital, police said. 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 Police also questioned other people who von Einem associated with, however they volunteered little information. An inquest was called. The prosecution opened their case with the jury being taken to the various sites around Adelaide that were important in the trial, and over the first week they called various witnesses to the stand. Lindsay declined. His account of events didnt entirely gel with Robinsons but it was close enough. Hell go call the cops.. Brad Shannons allegation to the Mullighan inquiry about having had sex with a well-known politician while underage was passed on to South Australian police along with another allegation hed made about being raped by two police officers and a man known as Mother Goose, but nothing came of it. And its needed. His arms are folded and a cigarette dangles from his lips. Despite pleading his innocence, Three men left a pub in Maryborough about 9pm on July 3, 2008 to smoke pot in the grounds of nearby St Marys. If he made one, it was gobbled up by the legal system and buried under suppression orders. Bashers are common at beats, but theyve never got Robinson. From there she saw Lindsay and Hutchings either side of Negres prostrate body. The person behind James suddenly pushed him in the back so that he collided with the approaching group. It was only after three months that I could leave my apartment After six months I returned to the beats. With yellow hair and numerous facial piercings, he was hard to miss. The case against him was so weak, though, that he was found not guilty in his 1980 trial. You know hes going to go home to his girlfriend., Verco claimed at first not to remember any of this the next morning. Ruks died from internal bleeding of the abdomen. The justices of the High Court of Australia, however, disagreed. Copyright 2014. In Victoria, sodomy carried the death penalty until 1949. Then he draws on a literary allusion that perfectly describes the way so many people had acted in the stories I am researching. Von Einem's defence team (now consisting of barrister David Peek with assistance from Helena Jasinski) appealed the conviction to the Court of Criminal Appeal in South Australia and requested that a new trial be set. 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. For the defence, it was a case of trying to make von Einem's story hold up in court, and raising doubts about his ability to keep Kelvin captive for five weeks and committing the murder. The family closed ranks. Captain Nemo (James Mason). After that I never returned.. It was a small murder in the media sense, rating a few short stories over following days and in the normal scheme of things would have received minimal attention even if a killer had been caught. In 1983, I was placed in a foster home by my parents. Also testifying for the defence was the bushwalker, who while walking his dogs through the airstrip had discovered Kelvin's body on 24 July. Lewis tried to make contact with another witness to the same goings-on at Veale Gardens, Walter Handley. Its been argued that the screw got turned particularly tightly on South Australias homosexuals after the Woomera rocket range was built in 1949. [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. Ten or 15 minutes later, though, he returns. It is most likely another sad, lonely death in the dark, but maybe, if you allow your mind to run a bit, you can see it entwined in a deep-black criminal conspiracy touching on those stories that many believe about who really run South Australia. This made police suspect that Kelvin was dumped by a single person, most likely after nightfall in order to avoid detection. And I despise those c**ts on the jury and the judge. They actually thought they were engaged in some sort of leisure sport that actually had a degree of community approval.. This would change the conviction from murder to manslaughter. Before he shuts the door in my face, he tells me he is going in for surgery next week on the leg that Verco and Londema had broken all those years ago. I dont think he knew. This was about 300 metres from his family home. She decided to call him to find out where hed got to. After passing, Tom looked back and saw the guy had a long object in his hand. Once again, Roger James could not identify his attackers. Von Einem got life and remains in prison. He often dropped in on Helen for a coffee. von Einem pleaded not guilty to both murders, and his defence counsel (now consisting of barrister Mark Griffin with assistance from Marie Shaw) immediately claimed that it would be an abuse of justice for their client if he was ordered to stand trial given the mass coverage of the murders in the media in the past year. 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. Professor Tomsen found the victims of gay murders were considerably older than the average victim of violent crime, while the perpetrators tended to be younger than the standard killer. 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. Neighbors reported hearing several voices shouting around the time Richard disappeared. But after the pink-shorted Premiers reign ended in 1979, problems resumed, according to Purcell. When asked about drugs, von Einem did admit he had Mandrax. Saint was the nine of spades. The other, Roger James, suffered a broken leg and after crawling to the road was rescued by von Einem, who was driving past. Lewis says he probably has a copy in storage but he wasnt able to go looking for me. Further down the river, 27-year-old Roger James was walking home from dinner with a friend. It was May 2005, exactly three months after Shaine Moores body had been found. He has always maintained he was not cruising the beat that night. Lindsay asked his friend, Luke Hutchings, to hold Negre down so he could go through his pockets. Police had the right to go in and look. He denied that they went there to bash gay men. She moved house a couple of times. Second, is it a reasonable possibility that what the deceased did or said might cause an ordinary person, in the position of the accused, to lose his or her 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. He denied having any other drugs in his possession, but police also seized a bottle of Noctec, concealed on a ledge behind his wardrobe. Read more about this topic: Bevan Spencer Von Einem, Criminal History, A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910), We are taking the Nautilus down for the last time.Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. The message from this decision is that gay people are no longer protected by the law, Penley said. 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. He didnt know where he was or how he came to be there. I, like, detest that kind of thing A struggle broke out and he said he called out to his friend Jason. Sadly it was generally unsuccessful. Im telling you to go. And he stood up: Cause Im bigger than you.. Someone is hiding there. They beat the charges a second time and were acquitted, but the evidence became so obscured under the weight of suppression orders that it has become difficult to talk about. Woodlands body was found on the Wednesday. He was never seen alive again. Despite the intricate details of von Einem's alibi and his version of events, his story had two huge problems. HIs cause of death was the same as Alan and Neils and his blood also had traces of a sedative. They said a body had been found. Which brings us to the curious case of Robert Woodland. Loves the thrill of it all. Subscribe to 7NEWS Australia for the latest news video https://7news.link/YTSubscribeConnect with Seven News onlineVisit https://7news.com.au7NEWS Podcast http://smarturl.it/7NewsDailyFacebook https://www.facebook.com/7NewsAustraliaTwitter https://twitter.com/7NewsAustraliaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/7newsaustralia/ 7NEWS combines the trusted and powerful news brands including Sunrise, The Morning Show, The Latest, and 7NEWS.com.au, delivering unique, engaging and continuous coverage on the issues that matter most to Australians. He denied having any other drugs in his possession, but police also seized a bottle of Noctec, concealed on a ledge behind his wardrobe. Why would they obscure the fact this was almost certainly a hate crime? Tom, who described himself as bisexual, told police he wasnt there to hook up, but had gone to see if there was anything on connected with the Festival of Arts. Blaxland sat on the back corner of his car, about three metres from the youth on the two-tone Valiant. 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. His skeletal remains were found 10 months later in Middle Beach, by a farmer who was doing a prescribed burn in his land. So the investigation into Duncans death came up with nothing. There has been no justice for Duncan, but within seven weeks of his death, the first bill in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality had been introduced into the South Australian parliament, by a conservative politician. More red lights, more screeching as they chased him until he got to his sisters place and ran inside. von Einem was found guilty of the murder and was automatically sentenced to life at Yatala Labour Prison. He was captured a few days later, 100 kilometres away in Tailem Bend. Plans to change the law in Queensland are back on the drawing board. [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. Within a week, police had declared robbery as the motive. Faced with irrefutable evidence from prosecutors that Kelvin was in his company, von Einem suddenly changed his alibi to answer that evidence and claimed that he was in contact with Richard Kelvin on the night of 5 June 1983. Its a meeting place for men who want to meet other men. People living close to the Kelvins then testified that they had heard noises and commotion corresponding to the abduction taking place on the night of 5 June at around 6pm. He then made money in Perth beats and travelled to Sydney via Adelaide. His hair was long, straight and black. He ordered von Einem to stand trial; however, he expressed concerns with most of the prosecution's evidence. After 7.5 hours of deliberation, the jury returned to give their verdict. I was a bit wary because when I first went up there to identify them they told me [the suspects] were police officers, Williamson recalls. 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: 1915. 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. 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. I was a cleaner and a supervisor. And then he just slipped away the river swallowed him. One of the attackers stripped to his underwear and dived in as if to rescue the other man, but he had disappeared. This has been a story of justice denied, and there is still a long way to go. But it didnt take long to figure out that it wasnt about that. The youth asked: Do you come here often?, Then, out of the blue, someone grabbed Blaxland from behind. Thats exactly what Im here to talk about, I say, and Robinson opens the door and agrees to have a chat. He wanted to sleep with Lindsay. On 11 August 2007, The Australian reported that detectives were calling for information to establish the identity of a young man seen in the Seven Network's news archive, showing police searching a storm water drain in the days after the Beaumont Children's disappearance. OShea didnt report seeing them in the city which would have contradicted their version of events. I remembered it was an automatic and it was a six-cylinder and I remembered the first three letters of the number plate.. in the events that would follow. 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. They had to take into account that an offer of money for sex made by a Caucasian man to an Aboriginal man in his own home and in the presence of his wife and family had a pungency that such an advance would not have to the rest of us. Williamson got a good enough look at the bloke to decide that he was, indeed, larger. Two days later, Lewis got up in parliament to say that Handley had been another of his witnesses. SBS acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country and their connections and continuous care for the skies, lands and waterways throughout Australia. The judge in his summation told the jury it came down to who they believed. 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.. This page was last edited on 1 April 2023, at 21:47. But the jury found him guilty of murder and the judge sentenced him to life with a 23-year non-parole period. Im going to gaol for the rest of my life, arent I, sister girl?. The nerves down the side of his face were frozen. It is more attractive to them. Police previously did see this harp in his room when they seized the drugs. While the Mullighan inquiry was underway, the mystery of Shaine Moores death was solved. 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. Are you all right?. Autopsies are conducted by a coroner, medical examiner or forensic pathologist in the state of Texas. He initially claimed that he had no knowledge of what happened to Kelvin and said that on the night of abduction he was in bed with the flu. You might have hooked up with somebody in a fumbling and hardly ideal way, I dont know, maybe two in ten times. He came down very, very early in the piece on the Thursday morning to advise us that it was a terrible thing that had happened and that [senior officers] Lehmann and Turner were doing the inquiry and quite clearly they were investigating vice squad officers and there were instructions that we were to know nothing about it, absolutely nothing.. Mr. Justice White then gave his summation of the trial, and in the early afternoon of 5 November 1984, the jury retired to consider their verdict. An autopsy showed that Kelvin had died from blood loss caused by massive anal injuries. John hadnt come out to his siblings until he was in his 30s. 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. The guy moans and rolls over, revealing a face covered in blood. Not playing with your dick or anything, but loitering around the toilet block in, to me, an uncomfortable sort of way., As a strapping young blond man, he found it easy to attract advances, and that was enough to find something in the statutes to charge his suitors with. 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. Ten days later, Coonies brother checked and found him still in his bed, dead.
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