{"id":306580,"date":"2025-11-24T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306580\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:54:09","slug":"child-murderer-bevan-spencer-von-einem-has-short-time-to-live-abc-understands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306580\/","title":{"rendered":"Child murderer Bevan Spencer von Einem has short time to live, ABC understands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Convicted child murderer Bevan Spencer von Einem has been transferred to Yatala Labour Prison where he only has a short time to live, the ABC understands.<\/p>\n

Von Einem was transferred from Port Augusta Prison, where he has been held since 2007<\/a> to the labour prison in Adelaide on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old was convicted of the sexually-motivated murder of 15-year-old Richard Kelvin \u2014 the son of former Adelaide Nine News presenter Rob Kelvin \u2014 in 1984.<\/p>\n

The teenager was last seen near his North Adelaide home in June 1983 after walking a friend to a nearby bus stop.<\/p>\n

Police believe he was held at an unknown location for about five weeks before his body was found near an airstrip at Mount Crawford, in the Adelaide Hills on July 24, 1983.<\/p>\n

Von Einem was arrested in November 1983.<\/p>\n

\"Man<\/p>\n

Von Einem has been held in Port Augusta Prison since 2007. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

He became eligible to seek release on parole in 2007 after serving 24 years<\/a>, but has remained behind bars.<\/p>\n

South Australia’s then premier, Mike Rann, said von Einem would never leave prison alive.<\/p>\n

According to a 2020 Crime Stoppers report, investigators “are convinced that more than one person was involved in Richard’s murder”.<\/p>\n

“Police believe this murder is associated with other high-profile murders commonly referred to in the media as the ‘Family Murders’,” the Crime Stoppers report said.<\/p>\n

Death bed confession ‘unlikely’<\/p>\n

The ‘Family Murders’ refers to a group of unsolved murders of young men and teenagers in Adelaide in the 1970s and 1980s, including Alan Barnes, Peter Stogneff, Neil Muir and Mark Langley.<\/p>\n

Criminologist Associate Professor Xanth\u00e9 Mallett told ABC Radio Adelaide on Tuesday morning it was unlikely Von Einem would confess to any other crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He’s going to take, I imagine, his secrets to the grave,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Somebody like von Einem, who would kidnap, torture and hold somebody hostage for five weeks before murdering them, as he was convicted of having done, then that person probably doesn’t have a conscience.”<\/p>\n

In 2009, the convicted murderer was sentenced to an extra three months for having child abuse material in his cell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, the court heard police found three handwritten stories in his prison cell about sex between young boys and men, but that he did not write them and that he had kept them in a sealed envelope under his bed as insurance against the prisoner who wrote them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Convicted child murderer Bevan Spencer von Einem has been transferred to Yatala Labour Prison where he only has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,174599,59561,2582,50643,174600,2968,44,5220,174602,174598,174601],"class_list":["post-306580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bevan","tag-convicted","tag-family","tag-illness","tag-infirmary","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-richard-kelvin","tag-von-einem","tag-yatala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}