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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

  1. Yatala Labour Prison
    Dates unknown
  2. Port Augusta Prison
    Dates 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.