Bevan Spencer von Einem
1945–2025
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- criminal
Bevan Spencer von Einem (29 May 1946 – 5 December 2025) was an Australian convicted child murderer and suspected serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia.
Incarceration history
- Yatala Labour PrisonDates unknown
- Port Augusta PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Bevan Spencer von Einem (29 May 1946 – 5 December 2025) was an Australian convicted child murderer and suspected serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia. An accountant by profession, he was convicted in 1984 for the murder of 15-year-old Adelaide teenager Richard Kelvin, the son of local television and radio personality Rob Kelvin. Von Einem served life imprisonment. He was in G Block of Yatala Prison for decades, but was transferred to Port Augusta Prison in the north of the state in 2007. Von Einem was a suspect in several other murders, but he was never charged in those cases. He died of natural causes in prison at the age of 79.