"Autopsy: The Last Hours of" Karen Carpenter (TV Episode 2014) Out of Sight: The untold story of Adelaides gay-hate murders Autopsy Reports When (the politician) came along, I remembered, I rthat he had a white VK Commodore. Hell go call the cops.. They found that not enough emphasis had been put on the fact that the ordinary person is not a single being. Interview with a monster: The City of Corpses murders They asked what was wrong because they could see he was bleeding from the back of his head. 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. Morning briefing: Why teachers and campaigners want Ofsted to The witnesses included colleagues and friends who testified to him being unwell and at home during the first week of Kelvin's captivity. He said there were people who didnt want him to be able to talk about what, he wanted to tell me. 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.. The prosecution was led again by Brian Martin QC, who was assisted this time by Tom Birchall, and their case against von Einem relied on evidence of the Kelvin murder, with the details of the crime being so strikingly similar to the murders of Barnes and Langley. Family Murders: Friend of murder victim Richard Kelvin's emotional They never went back. Negre struck up a conversation with the strangers and hit it off right away. First, is it a reasonable possibility that what the deceased did or said caused Mr Lindsay to temporarily lose his self-control and to kill Mr Negre whilst he was not in control of himself? And, recalls his sister Helen, there was something else. Then slowly towards the Valiant, pulling in behind. He denied having any other drugs in his possession, but police also seized a bottle of Noctec, concealed on a ledge behind his wardrobe. Autopsy 101 Together they smashed Pitchers face to a pulp and that expression is meant literally breaking his jaw, his eye socket, his cheek. In 1985, he decided to go public with what he knew about the vice squad culture and the events of that night. His lawyer believed a handwriting analysis would clear von Einem. He was in a gay park in Toowoomba., Can I tell you who it is? As recently as 2015, two men were convicted of the vigilante-style murder of Warren Batchelor, 48, in a Perth toilet block, aiming to rid the area of gay men. What did the guy do that she killed? her housemate asked. In an instant, Lindsay was punching Negre in the head. The verdict prompted legal academic Alan Berman to start a petition to change the laws in Queensland. Hed recently split from his wife and had custody of the three kids. Mick OShea arrived at the vice squad the next morning unaware that his career had already been thrust onto a new trajectory. There was a youngish man sitting on the bonnet of the vehicle, he would later say. Jim Blaxland, 53, (not his real name), a fundraising manager for a prominent charity, finished the Crossquiz in The Advertiser before he got into his British red Mercedes around midnight to go and house-sit for a friend. He denied having any other drugs in his possession, but police also seized a bottle of Noctec, concealed on a ledge behind his wardrobe. They denied having heard anything about the 1991 murder of another gay man, David Saint, in the South Parklands. Why would somebody murder a bloke like that, or any person like that, thats harmless?. Disturbing Details Found In Karen Carpenter's Autopsy Report The family closed ranks. Just another detail, another repercussion, another agony, rippling down the years. He was murdered by Bevan Spencer von Einem in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1983 after having been kidnapped and tortured for five weeks. Karen Carpenter's autopsy (via autopsy files) revealed that at the time of her death, she weighed 108 pounds. 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. They quickly organised banners and rallied outside the attorney-generals office. 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. 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: Soon after Todds email, another one lands in my inbox: Heard of your research and can maybe help, anonymously. What makes it interesting is the name at the bottom that of a prominent Adelaidean. It was a great success and it was the memory of that triumph that kept drawing him back. 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. [8], On 27 July 2007 it was announced that von Einem had been transferred from the maximum security B-Division of Yatala Labour Prison to Port Augusta Prison.[9]. And thats where it would normally have ended. 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. An ingrained culture whose legacy re-mains in a fear of reporting crimes and in the gay-panic defence, whereby, in two states, you can still kill a bloke and have it downgraded to manslaughter by saying, He came on to me.. 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. Mick OShea recalls being there at the time trying to get a pinch. Even if they are police officers theyre not exempt from the law are they? He admitted that he did in fact recognise two of the attackers and picked out two vice squad officers. She declined. Those 88 deaths are the worst of the tragedies. 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. After several attacks, I left the group and went and lived on the streets in another part of town. 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. We took our complaints to Minister [John] Klunder and said, This has got to stop or sooner or later somebodys going to get murdered.. It was a lifechanging event. The whole group saw it, and they heard Lindsay tell him to stop. His blood showed a combination of several drugs and sedatives. The case against him was so weak, though, that he was found not guilty in his 1980 trial. This made police suspect that he had something to hide. A parishioner found his body the next morning. *Warning: graphic content and mentions of sexual abuse ahead. He was next seen at 1.30am by two women who approached him a block away from the Mars Bar, heading away from Veale Gardens near Adelaides Chinatown. 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. How the system let those little turds off. Based on this reckoning, von Einem could conceivably have been eligible for parole in late 1999. I wanted to find out what the scene was like in Adelaide so I put out a call via the citys gay newspaper, Blaze, looking for people to tell me about their experiences. 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 This is how the judge explained the defences modern manifestion to the jury in the Lindsay case: In considering provocation, there are two questions which you must ask. Karen Carpenter: Directed by Ros Edwards. 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. Four months after Pitchers attack, Mark Coonie, 34, left Adelaides most prominent gay nightspot, the Mars Bar, saying he was headed for Veale Gardens. He initially claimed that he had not seen Kelvin and had no knowledge of his whereabouts and stated that on the night of abduction he had been in bed with the flu and was off work for the next week. He also claimed that he was sick with the flu for the next week after that and did not return to work until 14 June. This made police suspect that von Einem had something to hide. We know about that. Its much harder to actually try and understand how levels of bias and hatred towards a minority group of victims come to be part of these scenarios as well., He adds, In Sydney and NSW weve had this history of gay-hate killings where people have been viciously attacked, brutally killed, and also theyve been victims of robbery. I hit beats at the sweet spot where it coincided with the legalisation of homosexuality in South Australia, and shortly after also in NSW. In 1983, I was placed in a foster home by my parents. Kelvin also had a dog collar around his neck, which may have attracted von Einem's attention. To answer evidence about how fibres from von Einem's bed had come to be on Kelvin's clothes, von Einem stated that the two of them had sat on his bed and played with the large gold harp which he kept in his bedroom. Autopsy History | The Complete History of the Autopsy 9 days later, his mutilated body appeared in the Adelaide Foothills. 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. Lisa Robin Kelly Autopsy Results Reveal Heavy Drug Use Rubber burned. It was only 16 months after Dad died.. Of course, the relationship between the police and the community at the time was such that I cant imagine anybody wanting to go into the van and have a chat with the police, says Purcell. And while the straight cops like OShea were dragging gay men into the legal system, throwing them in prison cells, the bent cops were coming at them from a different angle. 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. The defence opted for von Einem to give an unsworn statement from the dock, rather than give sworn evidence from the witness box. Is this some sort of trap? 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. And then one day while opening her front door, Utting was attacked. Two days later, Lewis got up in parliament to say that Handley had been another of his witnesses. Worth another look, that one. 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 von Einem. That was the actual wording of the charge in those days, was it? I ask. What have we done? Hed moved back in with his mum for a couple of months while his next place was under construction. 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. It was thought this could be the name of a gay-bashing gang. At 10.30pm of April 16, 1991, he stumbled across South Terrace and collapsed into bushes where he was found, covered in blood, by a passer-by. The team kept quietly plugging away. His skeletal remains were found 10 months later in Middle Beach, by a farmer who was doing a prescribed burn in his land. 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). The driver has got out and is now leaning on the boot, his blond mullet illuminated in the Toranas headlights. Bevan Spencer Von Einem - Tortured 15-year-old boy to death Different beats have their own rhythms and cultures. Verco, 21, and Londema, 20, remained consistent in their story throughout the committal and trial for grievous bodily harm with intent. Next thing, Negre was straddling Lindsays lap, moving his hips backwards and forwards, having a laugh. 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. In the water, James looked about and saw the top of the head of the other man who had been thrown in. When they [the police] came to us and questioned us, Utting says, we believed they were there to ask us what we knew about these people that had been murdered. He could have killed me but didnt. He was again found guilty of murder on March 30 this year and is appealing the conviction. This was, in part, due to a series of murders which would go a long way to cementing Adelaides reputation for particularly sick sadism. She saw Lindsay with a knife in his hand, now wearing gloves. But then a head pops up in the back seat. The fact he was talking about it tells you it was out there. More people suspected in the abduction and murder of Richard Kelvin But this didnt sit well with the gay community, which saw itself in the centre of a violence storm, says Purcell. Autopsies are conducted by a coroner, medical examiner or forensic pathologist in the state of Texas. The very next night, however, Robert Woodland went to Veale Gardens where he was seen by an acquaintance about 1am, on Sunday December 5. He pulled up at a traffic light and heard their jeers of faggot and poofter. Police also searched his home in the northern Adelaide suburb of Paradise, and seized a bottle of Mandrax. Justice Duggan ruled that the evidence relating to the Kelvin murder, and from the various associates of von Einem and hitchhikers, was inadmissible. He felt his name was forever besmirched by having been in the vice squad at the time, by having his picture in the paper leaving the inquest. She was heard yelling and swearing at Negre, wondering why hed endanger their relationship to hang out with people he didnt even know. His arms are folded and a cigarette dangles from his lips. I dont remember a lot of it, but I went into the bushes with some guy. 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. When it comes to touching other people up especially from a stranger. 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. Autopsies are surgical procedures that confirm the cause and manner of death. Then they started bringing one person in at a time. 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. And its needed. He said Hutchings did it. Didnt talk to the media. I was taken to hospital and the police came and saw me and questioned me but when they heard where I was, they verbally abused me, calling me a fucking poofter and a pervert and I got what I deserved. France in 1791.). Interested Parties may contact Coroners & Medical Examiners for questions about: Finding Dallas death records; Locating death certificates; Order autopsy reports He kept looking at me with a smiling face, Blaxland would recall. In an extraordinary twist, a close relative appeared on Big Brother a few years later and told her fellow house-mates what the girl had done. 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. As part of the investigation into Robert Woodlands murder, police went looking for another one of the guys whod made the same allegations of paedophilia to Lewis, Shaine Moore. Adds Purcell: There were vigilantes from the gay community who would collect number plates and hand them in to the police. There was a feeling, however, that the information was never acted upon. I remember the kids saying they did it because they were gay and easy prey. 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. In my family I was brought up that you finished school, got married, had kids, bought a house and got a good job, but this was not me. That never goes away.. Milton Keynes: Fatal police shooting 'necessary', watchdog finds The coroner, often in consultation with a forensic pathologist, will decide if an autopsy is needed. Perhaps they thought saying that would save the family some anguish. 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. Frustrated by the deadlock, Utting wrote a letter to the inquiry head, Ted Mullighan, outlining the allegations that had been made about the prominent citizens. There was a place young guys could go for a bed and a feed that was run by priests, but once the lights went out they used to come and drag you out of bed and you were raped by several of the priests there. 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Lindsay asked his friend, Luke Hutchings, to hold Negre down so he could go through his pockets. The agitation continued, so two Scotland Yard detectives were called in for an independent inquiry. 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. They were tradesmen. I never saw any stat dec by him. The first known victim was Alan Barnes (17, third picture). 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. To answer evidence about how fibres from von Einem's bed came to be on Kelvin's clothes, von Einem stated that the two of them sat on his bed and played with the large harp which he kept in his bedroom. The Court of Criminal of Appeal rejected the appeal, saying that the trial was conducted fairly and justly throughout; they did concede that Mr. Justice White should have included the evidence relating to the birthday party. He puts his high beam on and sees a shape on the road next to it. This came across as a strange thing for an innocent person to say. This answered the question of how fibres from von Einem's carpet got onto Kelvin's clothes. The autopsy revealed that Neil had died from the same cause as Alan. And so Robinson, with his cropped hair and short moustache, cruises back past the Mercedes. WebAn autopsy report is a written document that determines the cause of death of the victim. I seen them scuffling and throw something in the water, he tells me. Finally, there was Richard Kelvin (15, last picture), the son of a famous local news presenter. And so I decided to focus on the city of churches and bodies in barrels a socially progressive city with a reputation for twisted darkness where even while they were leading the way in gay law reform, men were being viciously bashed behind the bushes. I was made to feel like an outcast. For his part, Shannon blames one particular former police officer for his claims not proceeding further, and says male prostitutes who witnessed or suffered crimes were too readily dismissed as unreliable witnesses. Von Eimen hinted at some point that he was scared of giving names to police. 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. The group kept drinking out at the pergola. Photographs of von Einem at the party were also tendered to the court. He saw the light show then went to leave, but as he drove down the narrow track out of Veale Gardens, the dizziness returned so he pulled over. However, the police then found the bottle of Noctec and von Einem immediately became nervous and told police that he "rarely used those drugs". Von Einem got life and remains in prison. They used to talk about it in the vice squad every bloody day of the week, says OShea. Bevan Spencer Von Einem - Criminal History - Murder of Richard But the institutions dealt with the case appropriately and the killers went down for long stretches. Everybody thought I was gay but nobody had enough guts to say anything. The Family Murders - MEDIA A guy in his 20s in the drivers seat. Autopsy Homosexuality was never discussed and I could not understand why I found guys attractive. The woman called 911. 1915. It is the least that so many of the victims in the above stories could have hoped for. Tall and thin, he was intensely shy, private and unable to swim. The jury came down on Verco and Londemas side. 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.
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