Unsolved The Family Murders - MEDIA

Kurve · Oct 3, 2021

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WHO'S WHO

VICTIMS
AB - Alan Barnes 16yo
NM - Neil Muir 25yo
PS - Peter Stogneff 14yo
ML - Mark Langley 18yo
RK- Richard Kelvin 15yo

* DS - Derrance Stevenson high risk lifestyle pornographer and criminal lawyer shot to death

DECEASED
DSD - Denis St Denis hairdresser
RBD - Richard Dutton Brown the magistrate
PF - Pru Firman
SN - Sarah Novak
BG - Brian Gant
NB - Noel Brook also known as Di Di
TP - Trevor Peters of the diaries
PM - Dr. Peter Leslie Millhouse acquitted for the murder of Neil Muir

LIVING until further notice
BVE - Bevan von Einem also known as 'Bevbang' to inner circle and 'Vonnie' in the prison system
Mr R - The businessman name suppressed
SGW - Dr Stephen George Woodards
Mr. B - Teenage prostitute and informant name suppressed
JL - Jacquie the nurse mentioned in the ebook 'Dissected' as a good friend of and who rented a unit with Mr B close to BVEs unit . Suspected to be used as a lure and in the car when Richard Kelvin was abducted.
LT - Lewis Turtur also known as 'Louie'
A - The older teenage boy Peter Stogneff's parents feel may have had something to do with their son's abduction
RR - Raymond Rozankowski who was a friend of BVE and lived in the same street as A

DK - Darko Kastellan assistant to Gambardella
GG - Gino Gambardella chiropractor fled to Italy

*DS - David Szach convicted for the murder of criminal lawyer Derrence Stevenson

Kurve · Dec 26, 2021

Lost diary gives South Australia police new lead into Alan Barnes murder by The Family
EXCLUSIVE: Police are investigating new information linking convicted killer Bevan Spencer von Einem to the murder of Alan Barnes.

Nigel Hunt

February 8, 2014 - 10:30PM

POLICE are investigating new information linking convicted killer Bevan Spencer von Einem to the abduction and murder of teenager Alan Barnes.

The evidence is contained in a detailed diary kept by a man who was a close associate of several key players in the so-called Family murders.

The diary entries, provided to Major Crime Investigation detectives this week by The Advertiser, reveal sensational evidence that indicates von Einem took photographs of Alan Barnes, 17, after sexually abusing him and that von Einem and another suspect in the five murders rented a unit in the eastern suburbs where they took hitchhikers they had picked up and drugged to sexually abuse them.

The diary entries, containing the correct names of the three so far uncharged suspects and their associates, corroborate evidence Major Crime detectives already have linking von Einem to the Barnes murder and provide more evidence of the activities of the group in picking up young male hitchhikers, drugging them and then sexually abusing them.

Significantly, the diary entries provide several new lines of inquiry for detectives and are likely to lead to several suspects and close associates being re-interviewed.

Gay doctor Stephen Woodards dispensed mandrax tablets to Bevan von Einem. Bevan regularly visited his home or surgery near St Peters Cathedral, North Adelaide. He supplied Bevan with large plastic jars of 200 or more tablets. The doctor got them through Asia.
Sarah Novak had a lot of sex with Bevan and drugged hitchhikers. She (he) went as a female decoy in order to get Mandrax from Bevan. Sarah Novak knows a lot more than she says. I know that for a fact. Bevan had prostitutes, drag queens and others to get pills on prescription for him. He paid well for them. Sarah had a lot to do with it. Shatze (Gary Zubers) too! Dr Koulakis was inundated with clients with threatening behaviour to get Mandrax and Rohypnol and eventually ceased practice.

In the late 1970s and early 80s Bevan relied heavily on cooperation from a close group of mandarax addicted drag queens – “Molvina” aka Brian Gant who met Bevan when they worked at Pipeline Supplies, “Noel Brook” a half cast aboriginal and alcoholic, “Shatze” Gary Zubers, Sarah Novak “Stephen Stanton”, Megan Collier (Dom ?), Pru Firman, and “Lana” (Lewis Turtur).
They often worked separately or in pairs to acts as lures to coax young male hitchhikers into Bevan’s car. In the late 1970s they rented an old cottage off Grote or Gouger St where the drugged young men were taken for sex. (I think that Pru said Lewis, Brian and Noel rented the cottage and lived there together. Gary Zubers and maybe Sarah Novak rented a flat at Marden where boys were taken for sex when they acted as lures for Bevan. Pru said that they all had sex with the drugged out young men, since they all had penises back then – even those that dressed as women only (Pru, Megan, Sarah). Sarah Novak would do anything for Mandrax. She had a huge Mandrax addiction and Serapax habit and was constantly drugged every day. She along with Pru and Megan also used heroin regularly. Pru said they were often so drugged that they did not clearly remember what happened. Bevan always ushered others out of the room whilst he had his turn with the hitchhikers and became very angry if anyone attempted to get “in on the act”.

Pru Firman (who died in 2010) was sharing a rented house in Alberton in the late ’70s or early ’80s with another transvestite or sex change named Kerry xxxxxxxxx and Lewis Turtur. Pru said that Bevan von Einem frequently took drugged young men there to have sex with them. She said that Lewis Turtur (the suspect) would always have a back room ready for him and Bevan ready to abuse sexually the boys that Bevan brought there. She said that Lewis Turtur would always have the bed made and candles ready. She said that Mr R was there to meet Bevan ‘frequently’. When I questioned frequently, she said ‘yes, all the time’.” He was there lots and lots of times. He took the drugged boys after Bevan and Lewis Turtur had finished with them. Sometimes Lewis Turtur went with him.” After von Einem’s arrest over the Kelvin murder Lewis Turtur, Pru Firman and Kerry W moved to Sydney to live. All 3 of them had been actively involved with Bevan by dressing in drag and luring the young hitchhikers into Bevan’s car in exchange for mandrax and sepapax, Pru said. Sarah was also sexually involved with Bevan and drugged hitchhikers. She (he) went as a female decoy in order to get mandrax from Bevan. “Sarah knows a lot more than she says. I know that for a fact”, Pru said.
In the early 1980s at the time of the murders Denis and Bevan rented a unit in the inner eastern suburbs, maybe Norwood, Kent Town or Dulwich. Denis drove me past it once, it was on the Eastern side of the street, a heavily tree lined street, and was the front left hand side unit of maybe 4 units, built of brick.

Chris Wall told me years later that Mr R also rented a unit or flat at around the same time; maybe they all shared the rent?
Both Denis and Bevan lived with the mothers and needed a place to take the young men to for sex or “TRADE”, especially “rough trade” as Denis had told me on the day that he drove me past the unit. Denis said that they kept it secret from their families that they rented the unit.
When I visited xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx who was then living with xxxxxxxx xxx in Wollongong in 1987, a few years after the trial of von Einem, we discussed it briefly. I was surprised that she seemed to know something about the case. She had been a well known and easily recognised party goer and pub/disco character in Adelaide during the late 70s, always dressed in only black, along with dyed black long hair, black finger nail polish – all black and beautiful.
She said that she had been told Richard Kelvin had been held in a unit and that Denis had cut Kelvin’s hair during that time. She knew that several people had visited the unit whilst Kelvin was there. I was surprised at what she said and suspected that she knew more than she was saying.
In early June 1979 I was at Denis St Denis’ salon “Mr Denis” at Knightsbridge Rd Hazelwood Park to have my hair cut and streaked by Denis. It was after the salon had closed for the day, probably around 6:30 or 7pm. Denis cut my hair and applied the bleach and wrapped the bleached section of hair into alfoil pieces. During this procedure Bevan Spencer von Einem arrived at the salon to have his hair cut and dyed. He was in a very happy mood and looking knowingly at Denis, smiling broadly and excited about something they both seemed to share. Denis hurriedly finished the job on my hair and left me to sit before the mirror to wait for the bleach to work. In the meantime both Denis and Bevan had moved behind a curtain separating the salon from a small storeroom and toilet area adjacent to the main entry of the house from the carport and part of the area that Denis lived in, separated by a door to the rear of the house where Denis’ mother Dot lived. I could hear Bevan and Denis giggling and laughing and “oooh how evil, oooh it’s evil”. Denis said this several times and I became curious as to first what it was they both found so interesting and entertaining and, feeling that I was being left out, got out of the chair to investigate.

I found them huddled over a waist-high table directly behind the curtain. There was a group of photographs, polaroids, laid out on the table, maybe 4, 5 or 6 of them, with Bevan holding more photographs in his hand.

They both began to collect the photos quickly but not before I saw them. The photographs were of a young attractive blond-haired man lying on his side on the front seat of a car with his legs bent towards the steering wheel…
I was shocked at seeing the photos and they both hurriedly gathered them up, with Bevan putting them all into his back pocket of his trousers. When I asked who the young man was, Bevan said ‘oh, just some hitchhiker’.

Just after Bevan was arrested for the murder of Richard Kelvin, Denis’ sister xxxx xxxxxx visited me at my home. I told her that I had seen the photos at Denis’ salon and that I thought they were of Alan Barnes. She was suspicious of Denis and said I should confront him about the photographs. I also told xxxx about the photos and she urged me to contact the police, however I never did, not wanting to get involved in any of it.
A few weeks before Denis died he telephoned me from Calvary hospital where we sat together in the garden at the hospital and once again I asked him about the photographs. He told me that over the years that he spent at Adelaide’s ‘beats’ and toilets, Bevan had shown him dozens of such photographs of nude young men, more often than not with objects, including bottles, inserted well into their anuses.
“However, he said, smiling at me, he didn’t remember there being any photos at the salon ever and ‘if you know what’s good for you, neither should you!’ He died four days later.

Conversation with Pru Firman on 30th March 2008
Her name before her sex change was Gregory Acton. She died on the 10/10/2008. Pru telephoned me asking if I had seen the Sunday Mail, March 30th, with an article on the Family Murders. I said that I had not. She said that she was very worried and nervous that she was about to be re-interviewed as a suspect in the murders. She wanted to talk and shortly afterwards came to visit me at my home, 2 doors from her home. She told me that Lewis “Lana” is a target in the police investigation and that police dealing with the case recently flew to Sydney for fresh interviews with Lewis and to take a sample of his DNA. She says she had telephoned Megan Collier, another sex change friend of both to get Lewis’s telephone number so that she could talk to Lewis. She said that Lewis was terrified after all the evil that he had done with Bevan years ago. Bevan frequently took drugged hitchhikers to the house that Pru and Lewis shared at Alberton in the early 1980s. She said Lewis told her the police said they intended to re-interview a woman who Bevan used to lure hitchhikers and who had testified in 1983. She was re-interviewed in 1989 when Bevan was charged with the murders of Alan Barnes and Mark Langley. She told me that Lewis was the brother of Olympian cyclist Mike Turtur who runs the tour down under cycling championship.
Denis was to stay in Melbourne the week that Richard Kelvin disappeared, he told his mother Dot. I telephoned Graeme ? who used to work at Myer at Adelaide in the early 1970s and then moved to Melbourne. He told me that Denis did not show up.

13/10/2008 – telephone call from xxxx xxxxxxxx (best friends with DSD for many years). He said that his friend xxxxx xxxxxx had been interviewed by the police for 3.5 hours regarding the Family Murders. He was asked about their friend Doctor Steve Woodards. xxxx said that Woodards had bought flats in Fremantle during the America’s Cup yacht race there and had then sold them and moved to Europe and disappeared.
However, xxxx said he had a good idea of his whereabouts now. He also said the police asked questions about their old friend xxx xxxxxxxxxxx. xxxx said several pages of names were shown to xxxxxx for recognition. He was anxious that the police may contact him as well. xxxx is a millionaire and well known by the gay community as the elaborately dressed drag queen xxxx in the 1970a and 80s. Denis dined at his house every Sunday night for years with xxxxxx xxxxxxxx .

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Kurve · Jan 10, 2022

South Australia - Family Murders Homepage

Kurve · Jan 11, 2022

There's some very interesting footage in this documentary including from the old 60 Minutes episode which has been removed from the internet.

Kurve · Feb 12, 2022

Colin Manock was involved in all 'family murders' related autopsies including the shooting murder of Derrence Stevenson.

The compelling story of South Australia’s disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal scandals in which he became implicated.
For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia’s forensic pathology services, and played a vital role within the state’s criminal justice system: in cases of unexpected or unexplained death, it was his job to determine when a person took their final breath and whether they had died naturally or as a result of something more sinister. Throughout his long career, he performed more than 10,000 autopsies and gave expert scientific evidence in court that helped secure approximately 400 criminal convictions.
But, remarkably, Manock, a self-described ‘witness of fact’, did not have the necessary training for such a senior, specialist role, and he made serious errors in several major cases — with tragic consequences, including the apparently wrongful imprisonment of innocent people. The full extent of his wrongdoing and the exact number of cases impacted by it remains a mystery more than twenty-five years after he retired, due to the continuing refusal of those in power to heed calls to launch a formal inquiry into his career.
In this book, Rooke examines several of Manock’s most controversial cases, and speaks with many of his former colleagues, people directly impacted by his flawed work, and legal experts. At its heart, A Witness of Fact is about how an entire legal system has failed badly, how unsafe verdicts have been swept under the carpet — and how forensic evidence that is admitted in courts of law in Australia and across the world is dubious more often than we would like to think.

Kurve · Jun 13, 2022

Networked Knowledge - Media Report

This version of the report has been prepared by: Dr Robert N Moles
Underlining where it occurs is for editorial emphasis]

On 2 April 2008 Nigel Hunt reported Family Murders – DNA testing

Exclusive: He said, Key suspects in Adelaide's notorious 'The Family' murders are being DNA tested as part of a new inquiry into the sex killings. The Sunday Mail understands Major Crime Investigation Section detectives started taking DNA samples from the suspects this week. Recent changes to DNA laws give police the power to take samples from suspects in major indictable offences. The testing is part of a major review of the Family case file and the first move to apprehend others believed to be involved. It is believed the new inquiry is targeting up to a dozen people – three key offenders and the remainder associates of those three and Bevan Spencer von Einem.

The review, led by Major Crime officer-in-charge Detective Superintendent John Venditto, is understood to involve 12 Major Crime detectives, including six members of the cold case review team. Det Supt Venditto was responsible for the investigation of historical sex offences referred to SAPOL by the Mullighan inquiry between April 2006 and last November. Von Einem, 61, is the only Family member to face justice – he is serving a life sentence with a 24-year non-parole period for the murder of Richard Kelvin, 15, in 1983. Four other murders – those of Mark Langley, 18, Alan Barnes, 17, Neil Muir, 25, and Peter Stogneff, 14, – have also been linked to the Family.

In 1989, von Einem was also charged with murdering Barnes and Langley, but the charges were later withdrawn when crucial similar fact evidence was ruled inadmissible. That evidence included testimony by numerous men that von Einem and others had picked them up, drugged and sexually abused them. Their testimony was backed by several associates of von Einem, who gave corroborating evidence – and implicated others. Confirming the new inquiries into the five murders yesterday, Det. Supt Venditto said police did not recognise the term "The Family". "This is not a legitimate group of people, as that label suggests," he said. "They should not be given any title that infers legitimacy. These people have no such bond, only an association that with time probably no longer exists."

Major Crime Operations Inspector Doug Barr yesterday said detectives were "keeping an open mind" and treating the five cases as individual murder investigations, rather than one inquiry. "There are similarities between some of the crimes, but there are also dissimilarities," he said. Insp Barr said police were hopeful of receiving assistance from those with knowledge of the murders and the wider community as the new inquiry, which was launched late last year, unfolded. "Community attitudes have changed towards historical sex offences," he said. "There have been a significant number of historical cases that have been successfully prosecuted because both victims and witnesses have come forward now. "The public are reminded there is a $500,000 reward available for anyone who provides information leading to a conviction in these matters". Insp. Barr stressed anyone who provided information would be assured of confidentiality and any fears for their safety addressed.

The DNA testing is being done because recent changes to the Forensic Procedures Act allow police to take samples from suspects in major indictable offences. The DNA samples will be compared to forensic evidence obtained in four of the five murder cases. The Sunday Mail understands one of the major targets is an eastern-suburbs businessman in his 60s. The man, whose identity is suppressed, was von Einem's closest associate when the murders occurred between 1979 and 1983. He is the most senior member of the Family – besides von Einem – and has never faced any charges over the murders. At the time of the murders, he was living with a man who is also a person of interest in the new police investigation.

Many of those being targeted now were interviewed by detectives during the Kelvin inquiry in 1983 and others were scrutinised in the late 1980s prior to the Barnes and Langley murder charges being laid. It is known the businessman was first interviewed by Major Crime detectives during the Kelvin murder inquiry in 1983. He told detectives then he was not involved in the murders, but he did frequent gay beats and picked hitchikers up. His lawyer in that interview is now a senior legal figure. During the Kelvin inquiry, detectives also raided the businessman's home and office. At his office, on a busy arterial road, they discovered an upstairs room that contained only a mattress on the floor. It was seized for forensic testing.

In 1989, a key witness – one of von Einem's former close associates – provided detectives with a statement alleging the businessman met von Einem after Alan Barnes had been picked up and drugged. The witness said after von Einem and he had picked Barnes up, von Einem stopped and rang the businessman from a telephone box on Main North Rd. They then drove to the "Number One" gay beat at Jolly's Boathouse, opposite the Torrens Parade Ground. Once there – with an unconscious Barnes in the vehicle – they met the businessman and von Einem chatted with him for a short time. The witness claims von Einem had then asked him if he wanted "to watch him do some surgery on this guy".

The witness, who died in Sydney several years ago, said he did not go with the pair because he did not like the businessman.

AdelaideNow cannot publish comment on this story for legal reasons.

Kurve · Apr 24, 2023

Kurve · Jul 8, 2023

From 'Dissected' by Roles and McInerney

Timeline

25 Aug (Sat)
• Michael B sees band-aid on Neil’s leg at the methadone clinic during the day. At night he goes to a few pubs with BVE and Sarah Novak.

26 Aug (Sun)
• Seen at a pub in Ridleyton with Millhouse. They left together between 5 and 7pm

26 Aug (Sun)
• Millhouse later claims his car ran out of petrol on this date.

27 Aug (Mon)
• Many witness saw him in Hindley St. Neil was seen with Millhouse between 2.30pm and 3pm. This is the last time anyone admits to seeing him.

28 Aug (Tues)
• Body found approx 2.30pm. 14 feet from the wharf
• Two acquaintences of Dr Millhouse, Stephen and Alan visit Millhouse asking for drugs (they have borrowed a man named Ramadani’s car) . Millhouse writes half a cheque when police arrive. Stephen and Alan get taken to police station for question. Stephen does not tell police that Millhouse confessed to him. He later contacts police and makes a statement.
• A police officer in attendance says he saw Millhouse’s car
• Ramadani goes and picks up his car and also notices Millhouse’s car

Alleged Motive

– Millhouse was sick of Neil begging for drugs. He openly resented him in front of Neil’s drug using friends.
– Millhouse had come to the attention of the police for writing fake scripts and risked being de-registered. Neil was a liability.

The band-aid

A band-aid was found inside the package that contained Neil Muir’s dissected body. Roles and McInerney use a variety of language such as “consistent” and “matched”. These two terms forensically mean two different things. “Consistent” means that “those fibres came from a rug similar to the one in Millhouse’s house, but we can’t definitely say it came from that specific rug”. “Matched” means “those fibres have been proven to come from that specific rug in Millhouse’s house”. The wording used by Roles and McInerney is open to interpretation. We don’t know if the fibres were “similar”, “came from the same model/make of rug but can’t prove it was actually Millhouse’s rug”, or “the fibres came from Millhouse’s rug and can’t have come from anyone else who owned the same model rug”. We also don’t know how common the rug was. Was it a common rug bought from an outlet like IKEA, or was it imported from the mountains in Bali?
According to Roles and McInerney, there were also brown and white human head hairs found on that band-aid. Bevan von Einem had white hair and was definitely known to Muir and most likely known to Millhouse.

Clothesline

Neil Muir’s dissected and mutilated body was held together with a piece of clothesline. Multiple witnesses claim that around the time of the murder Millhouse’s clothesline had a loose piece of cord hanging off it. That piece of cord went missing at some stage around when the murders happened.
Roles and McInerney use language such as “consistent” and “the same or very similar”. They don’t use the word “match”. The term “very similar” is telling. It means “we can’t even determine if this is the same make of clothesline”.

Plastic bin bags

Neil was packaged in bin bags “the same or similar” to ones Millhouse had at his house. Bin bags are common in nearly every household. There was no evidence these bags came from Millhouse’s house.
Going by what Roles and McInerney have said, the prosecution didn’t even bother determining if they came from the same manufacturer.
Roles and McInerney claim that “bin bags would go missing by the night’s end”. They couldn’t possibly know this. All this does is show their lack of objectivity and intention to paint a picture that suits their theory.

Confession (not really)

A day after Muir’s murder two heroin addicts named Stephen and Alan, who are known to Millhouse arrive at his back door asking for drugs. Millhouse initially thinks they’re prowlers and calls police. Police come and arrest Stephen and Alan. There is no mention of a confession during the arrest.
Sometime later, Stephen contacts police and alleges Millhouse told him at his back door that he murdered Muir.
When the trial came Stephen denied even being there. Alan said he was there but didn’t hear any confession.

The false statement

When Millhouse was first interviewed by police regarding Muir’s murder, he denied knowing him. This was clearly a lie.

Millhouse’s car

Millhouse claimed that his car ran out of petrol on Barnard St (on the other side of North Adelaide) before the murder so couldn’t have murdered Muir because he had no transport to dump the body. Multiple witnesses say his car was outside his house on the night after the murder as well as not being present in Barnard St until after the murder.

Blood

Neil Muir died as a result of blood loss by an object being forcefully inserted into his anus and splitting the lining
Dr Britten-Jones and state pathologist Ross James both agreed that blood would have spurted between two and five feet from Muir’s anus causing immediate death, if not soon after
A small amount of blood had been found in Millhouse’s bathroom and nearby laundry

Cleaning

Both the bathroom and laundry had been extensively cleaned using chlorine which in turn made blood samples unable to be matched
Millhouse’s cleaner came by to do her weekly clean on the day after Muir’s murder but the key wasn’t in the usual spot so she left without cleaning. When she came the next week she noticed Millhouse’s house was very clean
Investigators showed that the drains were unusually dry, even in the bottom of the u-bends. They speculated the drains may have been sucked dry.

Pine needles

Roles and McInerney disclosed that pine needles were found inside the package of Muir’s body

Murder window

Everyone agrees Muir was murdered on the 27th. Last seen with Millhouse at 3pm on the 27th. Murdered same night.
Roles and McInerney use tidal charts to ascertain Muir cannot have been dumped after midnight, leaving a seven hour window (5pm – 12am) to have sex with, murder, cut up, mutilate, package and dump him.
Roles and McInerney have a theory they were working towards – that the time line was so thin they must have had a highly skilled surgeon do the cutting. Their suppositions regarding tides is deeply flawed.
The murder window is from 4pm (an hour after Muir’s last confirmed sighting) to 5am. That is thirteen hours.

Mutilation

Neil’s body was cut in 4 sections – just above the knees, immediately above the hips, and at the neck.
His internal organs had been removed. They were never found.
The scrotum had been cut open, the testicles cut off, the head of the penis cut off, and the penis shaft had been neatly cut down the mid-line. It is speculated this has aspects of a sex-change procedure.
A finger was dis-articulated up to the wrist joint
Disarticulation of the hip bones with no scoring on the bone ends which would have been difficult and showed significant surgical expertise
An aborted abdominal procedure to gain access to the genitals from inside

Required Surgical Skills

Dr Britten-Jones testified at committal hearing that surgical skills and anatomy knowledge were needed. A skilled person would need 4 hours, unskilled or semi skilled, 12 hours.
There is evidence of sub-standard surgery. Dr Britten-Jones suggests fatigue or blunt instruments were the cause.

Surgical Ability of Millhouse

Millhouse had 18 years experience as a doctor
A nurse based in Gladstone witnessed Millhouse assisting with surgery on many occasions
He worked 11 months as a treating physician in an emergency ward

Tools and Resources Needed

Solid steel slab
Sufficient lighting
Sufficient drainage
Someone with anatomical knowledge and surgery skills – a doctor, possible a butcher
Sharp instruments including a fine malleable saw
Water and amenities to clean up and dispose of blood and organs
Privacy for between 4 and 12 hours

Unresolved questions

Were those white head hairs found on the band-aid tested to see if they matched von Einem? Von Einem was arrested for the murder of Richard Kelvin four years later. If those fibres matched, surely we would know about it? If they weren’t compared, then why not?
Did Millhouse’s rug get tested for Bevan von Einem’s head hair?
Why could they not determine whether or not the clothesline came from the same manufacturer? Was this selective presentation by the prosecution? Was it sloppy work by the prosecution? Is it selective presentation by Roles and McInerney?
Why didn’t the prosecution at least get a model match with the bin bags? Is it sloppy case work, or desperation?
How accurate is Dr Britten-Jones’ testimony regarding an experienced surgeon being needed? I would love to hear the opinions of some other experts.
Where did the pine needle come from? What genus were they? How big were they? How many were there? How did they find their way into the package? What pine tree/s did they come from?
Blood would have spurted 2-5 feet from Muir’s anus. Between 2.5 and 4L of blood loss is needed to cause death. Why was their only a small trace of blood? Luminol would have shown investigators that there was a lot of blood, even if Neil was murdered in the bath.
If Muir was murdered in the bath then it’s highly likely investigators would have found blood in the plumbing, regardless of how much cleaning had taken place. It’s also highly unlikely the murderers took apart Millhouse’s plumbing and cleaned out the blood. This is either incompetent investigating, or investigators knew that a proper examination would not support their case.
Why did Millhouse clean his bathroom with bleach? What was he hiding?
There’s only a limited amount of locations that would be available to perform the mutilation and surgery. Where could have it been?
Where was Muir murdered?
How did von Einem get involved?
Who else was involved?
How did they do it so quickly? If this was pre-meditated, they needed;
• A doctor with good surgical skills who could be called and would be okay with cutting up a murder victim.
• A place to do it with all the said resources – at short notice.

Considerations

It is most likely that the band-aid in the package came from Muir’s leg and the fibres on the band-aid came from Millhouse’s rug. Given the general consensus von Einem murdered Neil Muir due to similar fact, it’s likely those head hairs come from von Einem.
The clothesline is unlikely to have come from Millhouse’s. It’s unlikely they would have not been able to determine that it came from the same manufacturer.
“Muir was packaged in plastic bin bags similar to 500,000 other people living in Adelaide including Millhouse” is not really valid evidence.
The most likely reason Stephen reneged on his claim that Millhouse made a confession is because it never happened and Stephen decided to do the right thing.
While Millhouse’s false statement about not knowing Muir doesn’t prove anything, it is suspicious.
Millhouse was clearly lying about his car running out of petrol. What was he hiding?
Their suppositions regarding tides is deeply flawed. The murder window is from 4pm (an hour after Muir’s last confirmed sighting) to 5am. That is thirteen hours.
Dr Britten Jones says the job would take a skilled surgeon 4 hours with full resources, 12 hours for a semi-skilled person. We can rule out an unskilled person. The murder window is 13 hours. That reduces because of travel time and incidental time. There is no one in von Einem’s social network that we know about who is a highly skilled surgeon. It is likely this work was done by a doctor (with a butcher being a rank outside chance) who is not a surgeon.
When does a surgeon ever go into surgery and dis-articulate a hip bone? There’s not going to be too many surgeons with that experience apart from a pathologist and maybe a butcher. Also take into account there was some below par work, then it’s more than likely Dr Britten-Jones’ assumptions are over stated.
It is more than likely that Millhouse would have had the surgical skills necessary to perform the surgery on Neil Muir
The blood evidence suggests Muir was not murdered at Millhouses

Summary

The band-aid – It’s likely Muir was at Millhouse’s at some stage while he had that same band-aid.
The clothesline and garbage bags – this is poor evidence. The prosecution didn’t show a match going from Roles and McInerney’s book.
The confession – it’s unlikely Millhouse confessed to Stephen.
The lie, the car, and the cleaning – these all suggest Millhouse was hiding something
The blood – the lack of blood trace suggests Muir was not murdered at Millhouse’s property
Similar fact – Stogneff was also cut up into 3 sections like Muir. This suggests Bevan von Einem was responsible for Muir’s murder
Continuing Murders – After his trial Millhouse moved back to Mt Gambier, a five hour drive away. He murders continued.

Verdict

Dr Millhouse almost had to be involved in some way. The lie, the car, and cleaning show he was hiding something. Could he have panicked knowing he was the last confirmed person to be seen with Muir alive and covered his innocent tracks? Possible, but that would be very unusual. Muir had most likely been to Millhouse’s on the afternoon or night of his death but he was killed, mutilated, and cut up elsewhere. It is unlikely Millhouse was the surgeon. My best guess is Muir left Millhouse’s property alive with Bevan Spencer von Einem. Von Eine, returned the next day to help Millhouse clean any trace of Muir being there – which essentially set Millhouse up for the fall.

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Robbery was considered as the motive. Derrance was known to keep a lot of cash in the house of which none was found.

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