Adelaide’s Crimes Are Unraveling. Vietnam Vet Spills the Beans

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

On October 23, 2015 I attended my first hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.  That led to my writing several reports for GumshoeNews, and eventually these formed part of my book, Deliverance, which is now in a revised edition.

Paedophilia is not a subject I wish to pursue further, but three “in the know” people have contacted me in the last month and are perhaps willing to talk about certain crimes after they get a promise of protection. This is about “members of the establishment” being involved in child murder.

My message to those members of the establishment is “Come out with your hands up.” You were crazy to think that your ability to suppress information would last forever.  You thought it was sufficient that you hired enough mafia types to bump off any witnesses or stickybeaks.

Oh dear, that was not smart. The families of those stickybeaks, as well as the families of victims, are now spread all over the map and are waiting for the chance to take revenge on you. Wow, that your arrogance so blinded you. You rode high on the thrill of having all state parliaments and all police commissioners and all university leaders in your pocket. Poor creeps.

OK, Stickybeaks, you can come out and claim the Reward money now. Many cold cases have had rewards of up to half-a million posted all these years, whilst the police knew the facts.

The Torrens River

In 1972, long before I enrolled in Adelaide Law School, there was a British-born law lecturer there named Dr George Duncan. He drowned in the not-very-deep river that runs past the university, the Torrens. Nobody seemed to care, as the lecturer apparently did not have a family. But Prof Horst Luecke of the Law School made a stink – thank you, Professor — and so the death was at least investigated.

According to the website of CrimeStoppersSA, there is still a Reward offered. It says:

“Case Date: May 10, 1972; Location: River Torrens, Adelaide “REWARD $200,000. George Duncan. Murdered

“George Duncan, aged 42 years drowned on 10 May 1972 after being thrown into the River Torrens adjacent the University foot bridge, by a group of men.

“On 5 February 1986 three former Vice Squad officers, Brian Hudson, Francis Cawley and Michael Clayton were charged with the manslaughter of Dr Duncan. Cawley and Clayton eventually went to trial in 1988 but were both acquitted of the charges after refusing to testify.

“Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1 800 333 000, on-line or email an investigator. Reference Number: MCIB”

By the way, as far as I know the George Duncan episode was not related to trafficking. It seems to have been an instance of the Adelaide police’s sport of throwing “poofta’s” into the Torrens. It was said at the time that police did this often, but without an expectation that the victim would drown. George Duncan apparently couldn’t swim, so became a fatality of this police “sport.”

Think about it.

The Family

There is a set of murders in Adelaide that have to do with a pedophile ring. As I said, the silence about this is coming to an end. The Royal Commission under the leadership of Justice Peter McClellan did not go the way of all flesh.  I mean it didn’t go the way of the Wood Royal Commission, the Fitzgerald Commission, or – if you recall Gumshoe’s recent article on Dunblane – the way of the Cullen Inquiry. It did not do fancy footwork.

I’ll grant that Commissioner McClellan did not yell from the rooftop that there was more to Cardinal Pell’s chicanery than actually came out. And the RC did not assist Fiona Barnett even to get witness protection, which it should have done, as the public looked on in fear. But never mind, after the RC none of the child-abuse victims had ever to put up with being called fantasisers again.

So it’s time we re-visited “The Family.”  That’s the name of a pedophile ring in SA, and as far as I know it is unrelated to the cult in Victoria that was run by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, probably on behalf of a British mind-control group. In the Victorian “Family” I believe Australia’s governor-general Lord Casey (1890-1976) had a hand.

What is a Lord doing in Australia? Well, he was Australia born and then invited to become a peer. It is amazing that he was also a member of the top group, the Order of the Garter. Did I say “top”? I meant top, top, top.

As far as the SA Family goes, the public thinks everything got squared away with the conviction of Bevan Spencer von Einem in 1984. He is still in Yatala Prison even though his sentence ended a few years ago.  It is rumoured (in earshot of my chambers in the Parklands) that von Einem was never the Main Man.

The fact that anyone got punished at all is probably down to the fact that one of the murdered children had a well-known father.  Namely, the 15-year-old boy Richard Kelvin, whom von Einem killed in 1983, was the son of the Nine Network news broadcaster Rob Kelvin. The boy was missing for a few weeks before being found in the woods.

The Beaumont Children

An odd story appeared in the ’Tiser yesterday – that’s The Adelaide Advertiser. The story which I will quote at length below, was written by Bryan Littlely and is amazingly carefully worded. It is about the most famous cold case, that of the Beaumont children, Jane, Arna, and Grant, who were abducted in 1966 and never heard from again. They had been sent to the shops near Glenelg Beach and did not return.

One of my contacts – I honestly forget who, as I have collected so many stories lately – told me that the “termination” of these three siblings was done for the purpose of shocking Australians, especially by making them feel the police were of no help. As we now know, and was openly stated by Tavistockians, the mind control of a whole population is a desired goal and one way to achieve it is by social “turbulence.”

Can you imagine.

I happen to know that a lot has come forward lately that definitively shows who killed the Beaumont kids. Apparently, the Powers That Be know they cannot keep it hidden. So, the ’Tiser a few hours ago decided to break a story about a new (or new-ish) witness, David Smith whom I will call “Soldier Smith” — who has now provided big clues.

Pardon me for being a bit sceptical about this new source. Maybe it is dinkum, maybe not, but that doesn’t matter.  The wonderful thing is that our city is hearing for the first time that POLICE were at the house where the kids’ bodies were. I don’t mean the police did the killing, I just mean THEY HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN ABOUT IT.

Note: There is a Facebook page called “In Memory of the Beaumont Children, Missing since 1966.” https://www.facebook.com/groups/484487801648819/

Soldier — Just Before He Left for Vietnam

The following is an excerpt from the July 8, 2018 ’Tiser piece by Bryan Littlely, much abridged.  It appeared under the heading “More True Crime Australia.”

“Mr Smith was days away from Army life and on a path to the horrors of Vietnam when he took a lunch break at the Glenelg foreshore on January 26, 1966. He had on his mind saying goodbye to girlfriends and mates at the time and took not much notice of the benign conversation he had with a young man with three children in tow at the foreshore.

“In February 2015, and after seeing a missing persons poster in a police station, Smith told police about that encounter, his chat with the man and the eldest child and also an old couple seated nearby. Smith, who says the horrors of Vietnam troubled him for decades, believes it was Jane Beaumont he spoke with, as well as the man responsible for the abduction.

“He has provided a statement to Major Crime which includes identifying the man he saw with the children. “I never gave it any thought before … I simply didn’t realise I had been a witness to something that could be important,” Mr Smith said.”

The author of that article is Bryan Littlely, who is listed at Linked-in as “Co-Owner and Managing Director of respected Adelaide Public Relations firm, The Press Gallery.”

He says the witness statement is “the latest among hundreds made as the 52-year-old cold-case mystery continues to baffle authorities.”

That last phrase is false. The authorities are not baffled. Yours Truly has been told that SA Police (“SAPOL”) and CrimestoppersSA have been given hard evidence and chose not only to ignore it but to harass people who wanted to tell the truth.

I am in possession of the names of many MPs, cops, and bureaucrats who resolutely turned stickybeakers away. I particularly look forward to interviewing Senator Derryn Hinch as to what he knew and when he knew it.

The Two Police Women Onsite

It’s good that Bryan Littlely’s article did more than bring Soldier Smith into the picture. He also brought in the comments of someone else, not named, let’s call him “Surprise,” who was a child at the time and is now 63.  (The Beaumont children disappeared in 1966, when this guy was 10 or 11.)

“The boldest of his claims, that two members of the Women’s Police Branch came to his rescue and took him from the home to their Angas St base in the city that night, will be critical in validating or eliminating the man’s claims. [I’ll say!]

Now 63, he says fear for his life and post-traumatic stress, for which he is now getting counselling, had stopped him from revealing his astonishing claims until now.

He claims that, after witnessing the harrowing crime, he was fed sleeping pills and left alone in the house to die. However, one of the attackers, a relative, called the women police to come to his aid.

Disturbingly, the man claims the bodies of the children were hidden in the garage overnight with plans to dispose of them the following day at a site the man has also revealed to police in detailed statements made during a number of lengthy interviews.

He details one of the women police searching the house for other people while another officer tended to him, covered in vomit. He was taken to the police station and given a shower and change of clothes before being taken to his single mother, who was staying with relatives due to the violent and abusive nature of the two men living in her home.” [Emphasis added]

Here is a bewdy. The story about Surprise, as we saw, includes, for the first time in 52 years, that police were at the death scene. The Advertiser article ended that bit with:

“Major Crime police have acknowledged they are examining the man’s claims.”

Dear God. They “acknowledge” they have evidence after 52 years of having it.

Numerous among them must be hoping there’s decent coffee served at Yatala.

— Mary Maxwell is the widow of Professor George Maxwell, founding professor of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Adelaide and former Chairman of the Board of Adelaide Children’s Hospital