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He called a local doctor and told him what he'd done. When the police arrived that morning - one of them was legendary SA detective Allen Arthur, on one of his first major cases - he was sitting in the kitchen, with an empty Bacardi bottle beside him. Detective Arthur noted the murders were "a conscious decision each time to reload and kill his family".
In , The Advertiser reported he was living in Adelaide under a new name and identity. SA police sniper Detective Senior Constable John Ramsden cut short one of Adelaide's most dramatic events, when Victorian man Michael O'Connor walked into the gun shop and loaded two shotguns with his own bullets.
Officers fired tear gas into the shop to force O'Connor out, and when he walked outside he waved the two shotguns at a police officer. Det Sr Const Ramsden, watching O'Connor through his Armalite rifle at the first-floor window of a furniture shop m away, received the order to fire. It was a simple tyre blowout that ultimately stopped the Truro serial-killing spree - the ensuing car crash killed the rapist and psychopath Christopher Worrell, his ex Deborah Skuse and seriously injured the man besotted with him, James Miller.
Worrell and Miller - the elder by 17 years - met in prison. Both were serving terms for rape - Miller for raping a year-old boy and Worrell for a year-old woman. Some reports put Miller in love with and dependent on Worrell, who was charismatic, more heterosexual and prone to black moods. Miller called him "Jekyll and Hyde". Once they were out of prison they cruised Adelaide for girls for Worrell to have sex with. These pick-ups became more violent, and turned to rape.
Then, during just seven weeks of the summer of , Worrell and Miller picked up and killed seven young women aged , dumping five at Truro. The killings stopped after the car crash, but the first body wasn't found until April - Veronica Knight.
About a year later Sylvia Pittman's remains were found. Three more bodies were found during a search of the Truro area. Miller was arrested because of a cryptic comment to a female friend about Worrell's "black moods" at his funeral.
Police received word of the comment and eventually arrested Miller when he went to collect his dole payment. Miller claimed he was merely the chauffeur - he would drive them somewhere, go for a walk and when he came back Worrell would have raped and strangled the girls. He admitted to then helping dump their bodies, usually at Truro. Detective Lawrie says the murderer had admitted he and Worrell had formed a pact that, this time, there would be no survivors to identify them.
In March he was sentenced to life in jail after being convicted of six of the seven murders he was charged with. He died of liver failure, related to Hepatitis C, in October , several years short of being eligible for parole. The man convicted of the shooting death of highly regarded Adelaide lawyer Derrance Stevenson, 44, has always maintained his innocence. Mr Stevenson's body was found dumped in his freezer, in a foetal position and wrapped in two green garbage bags.
He had been shot in the back of the head with a. His partner David Szach, 19, was jailed for the murder for 18 years and was released on parole 14 years later. He still maintains he did not commit the crime. Mr Stevenson was linked to the Family murders - reports in said he regularly met with a secret group and tried to leave just before his death.
The report said a friend of Stevenson at the time had procured boys for the dead lawyer - one had been Szach. It was revealed Stevenson had been a member of a group that procured youths for sex. He had attempted to break from the gang, which also used and distributed drugs, and was then murdered. In December Szach, who was 16 when he began his relationship with Stevenson, said he had no idea whether Stevenson was part of The Family and intimated that only during his time in jail was it suggested to him that "there was more to Derrance than I realised".
A year later, the Sunday Mail reported that Stevenson had been murdered because he refused to take part in "snuff films" within The Family. Stevenson also acted as lawyer for the unnamed witness at the inquest into Dr George Duncan, who drowned after he was thrown into the Torrens in In , the distinctive home where Stevenson and Szach had lived - and where Stevenson's body was found - was demolished.
He was the tough-talking magistrate, known for harsh sentences and speaking out against Supreme Court appeals on his sentences. He was convicted for sexually abusing four young boys, aged from seven to 13, between and Liddy faced trial in , pleading his innocence.
A jury found him guilty of nine of the charges, and one of trying to bribe one of his victims. He was jailed alongside many of the same prisoners he had once sentenced.
That prompted him to successfully seek solitary confinement - for 10 years he saw only his lawyers , spending up to 23 hours a day inside his cell. An anonymous, two-page letter to The Advertiser in triggered the chain of events that led to Liddy's arrest and eventual incarceration. It was from the father of 'M', and directed police to the Brighton club, from whom police received a list of names of nippers. The jury found this was an inducement to withhold evidence.
D initially denied Liddy had done anything wrong. But on June 30, , he contacted police and changed his story. At trial, it was revealed Liddy had gained the trust of parents, even writing to them on paper with court letterheads. He bought a big-screen TV for his court chambers, mini motorbikes and fireworks.
Liddy refused to face his victims for their impact statement, was jailed for 25 years in with a non-parole period of 18 years, and unsuccessfully appealed his conviction. He has since been diagnosed with sensory deprivation syndrome and a dementia syndrome of depression after years in solitary confinement. But the story of Peter Liddy continued to twist and turn, even into one of the state's highest political offices. Mr Lewis denied having the collection of guns. He had earlier written to then police minister Robert Brokenshire asking for permits for the guns.
Last April, a court ruled that he could have back some of his collection of rare coins and firearms upon his release. One of South Australia's most notorious criminals, child and sex killer Bevan von Einem murdered the son of Channel 9 newsreader Rob Kelvin in Von Einem picked up Richard, who was 15 at the time, from North Adelaide - and the teen was found five weeks later.
An autopsy revealed he had died from massive blood loss and had been drugged and horrifically sexually abused. Von Einem admitted he had picked Richard up - after first denying it - but pleaded not guilty to murder. He was eventually jailed for life with a non-parole period of 36 years.
Key to the case's evidence was matching fibres from von Einem's house found on Richard's clothes. In he was charged over two other deaths - Alan Barnes and Mark Langley, two of the teenagers murdered by the mysterious group of Adelaide men known as The Family, believed to be responsible for vicious sex killings of at least five male teenagers. The charges were later dropped after crucial evidence was ruled inadmissable.
But the story of von Einem has continued - he maintained his innocence, giving Advertiser journalist Dick Wordley an interview in in which he named names, nicknames and jobs of people he believed were involved in The Family killings but said he feared for his safety in jail were he to turn informant. In , it emerged prison guards were buying his handpainted greeting cards and, later that year, that he had received preferential treatment in prison.
That same year, a prison guard named Mary spoke of the bizarre friendship she had sparked up with the inmate.
In , he was charged with possessing handmade child pornography - two years later he was sentenced to three months in jail. That same year, The Australian reported that police were reviewing archive TV footage appearing to place von Einem at the scene of an early search for the missing Beaumont children, who disappeared from Glenelg beach in The murderer was also linked to the Beaumonts in , when a witness told a court von Einem had told him he'd killed the children - but the claim was discredited.
Von Einem is now eligible for parole, but no application has been made. Former Premier Mike Rann vowed to change legislation if necessary to prevent him from ever leaving Port Augusta Prison. Last year, on the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon from Adelaide Oval, a new connection to von Einem was revealed - a man known as "Frank" who accompanied Joanne and Kirste on the day they were abducted from Adelaide Oval later sold his Campbelltown home to von Einem's mother in the s.
Australia's worst serial murders were a complex web of death, torture, sex and pain. Intrinsically linked to a disused bank in Snowtown, in Adelaide's north, neither the killers nor the victims were from the town.
Just one victim, David Johnson, was killed there. On Thursday, May 20, , police discovered eight bodies in six plastic drums hidden in the bank vault. Police discovered two more bodies in the backyard of a house at Salisbury North on May 23 and Two more bodies were found at separate locations in the city's north.
Led by John Bunting , the killers - and many of the victims - were from the Salisbury North area. Eight of the victims' remains were dumped in barrels filled with hydrochloric acid and stored in the bank. Bunting would call this taking them to the "clinic" and described killing people as "Smurfing" - a reference to them turning blue. Many of the victims were known - and in some cases related - to the murderers.
They were often chosen because of Bunting's perceived belief they were paedophiles, or gay, or were simply obese or drug users. In several cases they were suffering from mental illness.
Bunting kept a "wall of spiders" in his home, with names and addresses of people he believed to be paedophiles. James Spyridon Vlassakis was besotted with Bunting, the trial heard.
His mother had begun a relationship with Bunting and he began to murder with Bunting after he learned his mother, Elizabeth Harvey, had helped kill one of the victims, Ray Davies.
In total 12 people were killed, over a period of seven years - including extreme torture and even cannibalism, with some of the victims' pensions then stolen. Bunting and Robert Wagner were found guilty of all 11 of those murders.
James Vlassakis pleaded guilty to four counts of murder, including his half-brother and stepbrother, and testified against his fellow killers.
Wagner and Bunting were acquitted over the death of Suzanne Allen, In a movie based on the life of John Bunting was released to critical acclaim. James Spyridon Vlassakis - life sentence, 26 years non-parole.
Accomplice Mark Ray Haydon - jailed for 18 years non-parole. He was trying to impress his stockbroking father, but in , former Olympic rower Hamish McLachlan - a son of the Adelaide business elite - ended up jailed for nine years for his role in a share fraud scandal that preyed largely on the elderly. The fall of McLachlan - a privileged, educated, gifted athlete from Adelaide's eastern suburbs who represented Australia at the Seoul Olympics - came about because he hated to lose. In sentencing, Judge Bishop said that from until , McLachlan transferred losing options from his account - and those of the Adelaide Rowing Club and other associates - into the accounts of his unsuspecting, "vulnerable" clients.
He was permanently banned as a stockbroker or investment adviser in An appeal in was dismissed. On October 14, , South Australia's chief psychiatrist was gunned down as she stepped out of an elevator on the eighth floor in the Citi Centre building on Hindmarsh Square.
Police arrested Jean Eric Gassy, a deregistered Sydney psychiatrist, who was eventually found guilty twice of her murder - first in and then in , after the High Court granted him a retrial. In , he again appealed to the High Court - which this time ruled against him. Home About us Crime statistics. To complement this release, please also refer to the following table: 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals August 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals July 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals June 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals May 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals April 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals March 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals February 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals January 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals December 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals November 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals October 12 months rolling crime statistics state totals September Note: Due to a systems change some offence sub-categories show significant variance from the prior rolling 12 months.
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