14th Murderer: Bevan Spencer von Einem – Victim: Adelaide teenager, Richard Kelvin
Bevan Spencer von Einem (born 29 May 1946) is a convicted child murderer and suspected serial killer from Adelaide. An accountant by profession, he was convicted on 5 Nov 1984 for the murder on or about 10 July 1983 of 15-year-old Adelaide teenager, Richard Kelvin, the son of local television and radio personality Rob Kelvin. Richard Kelvin, aged 15, was held captive, drugged, tortured, and repeatedly raped for five weeks until he died.
von Einem is currently serving life imprisonment. He was in G Block of Yatala Prison for decades, but was transferred to the highest security wing at Port Augusta Prison in the north of SA in 2007.
von Einem, now 73, is unlikely ever to be released from jail. He has already served 36 years. Based on the average annual cost of Maximum Security Incarceration in 2020, should he live another four years, his jail incarceration will have cost the SA taxpayer $7 million circa ($175,000 p.a. X 40 years).
Bevan Spencer von Einem
Richard Kelvin was held captive, drugged, tortured, and repeatedly raped for
five weeks until he died
Von Einem was the leading suspect in the unsolved murders of four other young men between 1979 and 1982, and police continued to pursue leads on those cases in the years after his murder conviction
Questions re 14th Murderer: Bevan Spencer von Einem
Should the SA state government amend its criminal codes so that where the level of proof is Beyond Any Doubt of Guilt that the death penalty may be sentenced for malicious unprovoked murder because Justice for the Innocent Victim should be a consideration amongst the Purposes of Sentencing?
Should other states and territories similarly amend their criminal codes?
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