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Banquet: A Marvelous Book about “The Family Murders” in Adelaide

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(L) John Bray and Don Dunstan, Photo: State Library of SA, Collections (C) Debi Marshall, Photo: podchasers.com (R) Richard Kelvin, abducted in North Adelaide, Photo: TheFamilyMurders.com(L) John Bray and Don Dunstan, Photo: State Library of SA, Collections (C) Debi Marshall, Photo: podchasers.com (R) Richard Kelvin, abducted in North Adelaide, Photo: TheFamilyMurders.com

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Dear Gumshoers, I’ve had to come out of Retirement to give you the goss. This is a review of a 430-page book, a page turner all the way, by Debi Marshall of Hobart.

I had not heard of her, but it seems she had already published 5 true-crime books. I have not seen them, but I am soo pleased with her coverage of the Family Murders from 1979 to 1983. The book, published by Penguin in 2021, is entitled: Banquet.

I am all excited that Debi Marshall will be the very one to break the impasse. How so? Because she is so determined to get to the bottom of it. And also because she has already had a Foxtel documentary on this subject that many Aussies saw, and many answered her call-out for more information.

Upfront here, I’ll list my negative comments (which have approximately the weight of gossamer). First, there is no index.  That’s a damned nuisance in a book that covers many names and places. Second, there are no photos of the principals (not that you want to see what Bevan von Einem looks like).

Third, it sprawls all over the place, to cover the murders of five young people. Fourth, but now I am splitting hairs, Debi Marshall sometimes uses the word “hitchhikers” to define the victims. I say there is no such type of person as a hitchhiker.  You can be a flautist, a senator, a pedophile, etc.  But you are only a hitchhiker at the moment you are hitchhiking. It’s not your career.

Here are the five cases, showing the date the body was found:

Alan Barnes (age 16) — 17 June 1979

Neil Muir (age 25) — 26 August 1979

Peter Stogneff (age 14) — 27 August 1979

Mark Langley (age 18) — 28 February 1982

Richard Kelvin (age 15) — 5 June 1983

Each boy was lured into a car, given drugs, and taken to a house (not always the same house), sexually abused, and after a few hours or days, murdered. The deaths are gory, I won’t go into it. The bodies were dumped in the woods or in the water.

I urge you to get the book (I saw a pdf of it today but can’t find it now), and share it around the traps. Rejoice that it is not a Mary Maxwell type book. It is not trying to change the world or even explain the world.  It is quite focused on “the Family murders” as they are rather inexplicably called.

Debi Marshall does not go into hysterics over the non-cooperation of police. And she never excoriates the mainstream media. (Come on, a little discretion is called for.) But she lets you know that justice has not been done and that coverup is the name of the game.

She straightforwardly gets around the problem of coverup by contacting the families of the deceased victims. She contacts — and usually gets some new facts from — peripheral semi-criminals. She is unhesitating in publishing the contemporary accusations made against SA Premier Don Dunstan and Justice John Bray (who was also the Chancellor of University of Adelaide when I was there).

The real knockout of the book is Debi Marshall’s sympathy with the deceased boys and their much-maligned parents and siblings. I am sure she is genuine here.  If she is not genuine, I will eat my hat.

Trust me, we at Gumshoe have been down this road — we know (from Rachel Vaughan, especially) that SAPOL protects everybody in the Inner Pedo Circle. We know, from Diane DeVere, that Biggie Biggie Tavistock has a leading role in Australia and will do anything, absolutely anything, to a child.

We know from the Maxwell/McLachlan files that courts are in on this stuff up to their eyeballs, sad as it is to say that.  We know, from the 2014-2017 Royal Commission, that Debi Marshall’s count of 150 disappeared boys in Adelaide is miniscule compared to the number — tens of thousands of victims — who stepped forward once they were invited by the RC.

(What a lovely country, Australia!)

Oh, that reminds me.  A not-so subtle message in the book Banquet, is that Adelaide ought to demand that its good reputation be restored. Marshall makes that city look like it is filled every night with child-chasers. She does interview many teens who hang out on the Beats and their lives are indeed sad.  Hey, SA, could you do better, please?  Huh?  Why the hell not?

I want to emphasize again: the author of Banquet knows right from wrong, and she knows that the reader knows right from wrong, and she more or less deduces that the killers know right from wrong — God knows they work hard at hiding their guilt. So, she just goes for everybody’s conscience.

Man alive, this approach is something I never thought of.  It’s so ORDINARY! The po will not be able to thwart her.  Moreover, the boys in blue (OK, OK, the boys and girls in blue) are on her list of recipients of the warm-heart treatment.

She even marched into Port Augusta Prison and sweet-talked Bevan von Einem. No one is safe from her love. No one is safe from her Two-plus-two-is-four mentality.

Von Einem is the only person “serving time” for any of the Family Murders. He was convicted, rightly or wrongly, of killing Richard Kelvin, the son of newsreader Rob Kelvin. It is extremely likely that von Einem answered to a higher power, if you know what I mean.

Folks, we used to say “Ho hum, we’ll never learn the truth; the guys in power have got everybody fooled and under control.”

OH YEAH?

Like really, what gave you that stupid idea?

— Mary W Maxwell lives in New Hampshire, USA, and is the author of “Keep the Republic, Kill the Takeover.” She can be reached at her website www.ConstitutionAndTruth.com. The above review of “Banquet” is public domain.

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  4. Geez Mary, (if it is actually you)

    Out of retirement after justa few days AND “all excited” too and wooaah Debi Marshall has already had a Foxtel documentary – Gee FOXTEL that’s trustworthy Mary.

    Yes Folks Mary’s ………. forecasts “I urge you to get the book – but she can’t find it now”, (Don’t worry ‘she’s’ the cATS MOTHER) Hope U have an edible hat, Mary’s ………..-

    U are being CONNED people by many you trust. and especially cunning online fake posing b.s. artists – please WAKE UP – U might want to revisit just HOW the FAKE HORSE with the cops inside was rolled out, AND PUT YOU IN THE SLAMMER.

    • Here’s a bit of “how did we get here, how did it get so messed up and how do we fix it” sleuthing that might help set you right for the day:

      • Thanks Berry,
        Wallace puts his case for Christianity very well, overcoming with his forensic detective background many popular excuses against the Gospels etc; and finishes with “I would rather be living in an inconvenient truth than in a convenient lie”

        I certainly would testify to that and that’s something we all need to consider because the truth of todays world is utterly bloody inconvenient !!!

  6. Dear Diane, Dee featured your interview on March 31, 2022 at Gumshoe, but I had the chance only today to watch it. I recommend busy readers start listening at 57 minutes, and the rest will take 19 minutes. That segment is all new to me, where you talk about purposeful breeding.

    In fact, it was the African interviewer who prompted you. She said she had previously thought of the breeding as intended only for “expendable children.” That is what I, too, have always assumed. But she said maybe it is more like selective breeding for certain characteristics.

    Hence, a supersmart person can be produced and slotted into a high position. We’re not talking about transhumanism here. Do you have any more data on this? I haven’t bought it hook, line, and sinker yet; just considering it as possible… (The interviewer thinks “breeding” was used in the old Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.)

  9. This book is riveting. Well written and I discovered information I didn’t have before. I purchased in Damocles bookshop in Australia.

      • It is unbelievably well written. Did you see the timeline on p 433? Author should have put it at front, as the intersecting chronology is hard to keep in mind.

        I am unable to endorse her accuracy, as I don’t know these 5 cases, but Debi Marshall certainly seems to be following the record. I don’t detect any laziness or exaggeration.

        It’s a puzzle to me that the media allow it (she was media as a career). Could there be a hidden agenda? I don’t care [for once!!] — it’s enough that she has produced a huge amount of info in readable form. Let the reader then make hay with it….

        Jenny, would you agree that it reads as smoothly and as excitingly as fiction? But it ain’t.

  11. Banquet is the strangest title for the Adelaide murders, and I am sure some SRA victims will reel on reading the title. In my filming and discussions with victims (incl. the courageous Rachel Vaughan) many of the disclosures were about ‘cannibalism’. We visited the butcher shop that some believed sold human meat; and this confirmed by another very nervous butcher in an alley with RV.

    As I said a strange double-edged title about the murders and dark going ons in Adelaide.
    Banquet — has many disturbing meanings. (MM is their any reference to this in the book?).

    • Dee, on page 1, Debi quotes Robert Louis Stevenson: “Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

      Dee, please place the Rachel Youtube video here.

  12. Debi’s minor references to the Beaumont children and the death of Louise Bell indicate that Debi is not aware of further complications. Or else she just can’t go there.

    But for purposes of her producing the Family-murder story, she need not be all things to all men. I have never seen a book that brought details together so well. There were 5 murders. She does hint often that the conviction of Von Einem is not sufficient — there must have been a boss.

    There is a suppresion order against one man. I am sure he does not deserve such protection after 40 years. Her book will have the effect of public indignation that he hasn’t been investigated.

    • Got to bring this to an end and get back to “Retirement.” Buy the Banquet book. Whatever the price, Chapter 29, an interview with retired SA pathologist Colin Manock, is worth it.

      It starts like this (Debi, page 226): “[Manock’s] wife runs a sado-masochistic bondage outfit in Adelaide and calls herself Cuntress-Gabrielle….”

      But where Chapter 29 goes from there is MUCH more amazing.

      Come on, you lazy bums in South Australia — not to be confused with lazy bums in Massachusetts re Marathon, or lazy bums in Connecticut re Sandy Hook. Do some work. Stop taking everything lying down.

      Quote unquote Solzhenitsyn: “We didn’t value our freedom enough. WE DESERVED EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED.”

  14. Can someone comment on this, please?

    Take it as fact (even if not proven) that within any society — let’s say SA — there is such a thing as child abduction. Now, cross out any part of that this has clearly got a profit motive (using the kids for prostitution, porn, body parts) or a blackmail motive.

    “Banquet” is about a small group of men (Colin Manock says they are lawyers and one judge) who oversee and/or participate in murder of adolescent boys. Take it as a fact (for this discussion) that the final fatal moment has something to do with the pleasure of dominating a boy.

    There must be many people who know the dirt and are unhappy about it, but they see others remaining silent, so they “accept it.” And if, perchance, one angry person is able to mount a court case, they will find that the prosecutor or judge will nevertheless defeat justice by use of legalese words. (Quote unquote the Tsarnaev case, which was recently defeated at SCOTUS.)

    (Ms Marshall points out how SA passed a law that makes “resembling similarity” a cause for declaring evidence inadmissible. Thus if two murders involved a glass bottle in the victim’s anus, the similarity should not be told to the jury.)

    OK, so what have we got here and why? I really mean: What is the connection between “those who run society” and those who are protected whilst doing snarky things to kids? Sure, the Family murderers may have a sexual addiction, and those in high office want it kept hush-hush. But don’t our political leaders have better things to do than run a Silence racket?

    Bottom line: I’m thinking that maybe Tavistock so wishes to insert “Turbulence” into society, that it makes sure to keep violent crime going — for turbulence’s sake. I guess the purpose of Port Arthur 1996 was as much done to upset society as it was for specific gun control. But why did Vickie Chapman shut up when she got the AG job? Is it part of her assignment to make sure turbulence continues? If so, isn’t that something we should be yelling about?

    I think I recall Rachel Vaughan saying that her father’s murderous habits may have stemmed from beliefs. He was into Rosicrucianism and other things. But maybe someone who wanted his murdering services instilled those beliefs into him???

    I don’t get it. But it’s defo NOT ENOUGH to say that Von Einem lusted after a good twirl around Jolleys Boathouse, ending in the thrill of a kill. That CANNOT explain Vickie’s withdrawing her Question-time desire to sort the case, once she got into power. Maybe Vickie will be kind enough to tell us how she underwent that change.

    P.S. If Gumshoe disappears tomorrow, I’ll know I hit on the right question!

    • Pushing the “monster” narrative would have to be THE classic detraction but that seems to be what most people want to hear – for obvious reasons

        • Berry, not only am I in agreement with you on that, I nearly declined to open the Banquet book when I saw, on the back cover, that Debi is Sky connected. Tucker Carlson is also Sky and I think he is a plant. (Five dollars, anyone?)

          But having read Banquet, I can’t fault it. She is on a personal mission, not someone else’s mission. (I think she said she also tracked down the killer of her partner, but I wasn’t paying attention.) Sure it’s a problem that Debi is not absorbing Gumshoe-type information about other secret stuff, but as I said, she has given us loads of new info.

          By the way, another guy who is ex-media, Andrew Urban, has published a very worthwhile book about many judicial problems, entitled “Murder by the Prosecution.” More than half that book is about the Sue Neil-Fraser case. It incorporates some of the careful work by Bob Moles. I respected Moles as my teacher at Adelaide Law; he is now a resarcher at Flinders.

  16. Psychopathic freemasons have unlimited influence and resources here. Calling themselves Zionists they are not Jews. They want to de-populate 90%, with Serco camps all over Oz. Our secret government is controlled by Khazar mafia, working together with krown, komunists and perpetraitors from all creeds and races. The judiciary, judges, lawyers and courts are all in. All wealth has been stolen from people and handed to banksters. Their corruption is global, through bribery, extortion, murder, drug trafficking, money laundering, weapons sales, mind control human trafficking, pedophilia and satanic blood sacrifice of children. These reptile serpents in office, are loaded on all positions of influence. They deceive, exploit, enslave and dominate.

    • OK, Ant. Make a hypothical of one man whom you have just described. John Doe. How did he get into Australia? How did he take up with the crowd he works with? Is he happy? Is he in any way susceptible to love or to the idea of social harmony?

      Surely there arn’t a million of them in Sydney, are there?

      Anyway, if they are trying to depopulate you, it is your right under the Law of Self Defense, and/or the Law of Outlawry to depopulate them. One Bozo at a time. (Note: Tassie repealed the Law of Outlawry, so stick to the mainland.)

  17. Everybody on the planet knows right from wrong and of the existence of God intrinsically.
    Romans 2:14 – They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

    And even the virtue signaling atheists:
    “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
    ― C.S. Lewis

    I grew up in northern Adelaide and was the same age as many of the victims. In fact I knew one of them as I played soccer against him. We used to hitch-hike (yes hitch-hike) around in those days and that’s how they chose their victims. I feel blessed to have avoided the clutches of those demons – because that’s what they were.

  18. NB: Debi Marshall was given carte blanche to interview a man who murdered via torture
    But there’s a blanket prohibition on interviewing the man who purportedly pulled the trigger re 35 head-shot deaths – the least painful way to die.

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  19. I wish to plea for Adelaide. In the three-plus decades that I resided there, I thought I was in heaven. Perfect weather all the time, clean streets, pleasant shops, lovely hills, beaches, vineyards, a wildlife reserve. On the downtown “culture street,” North Terrace: two research libraries, two universities, an art gallery, a museum of natural history, and a botanic garden.

    Can it all be wecked by a tiny group? I guess it could if the population does not stand up to object. It seems that this objection must entail de-legitimizing those who currently claim authority. After all, authority is something granted by a population in the first place.

    A friend has just sent me this video about a girl named Soli who is standing up. I am not proposing her line; I have listened only to the opening 3 minutes, but I offer it as an example of not worshipping the status quo:

    https://rumble.com/vy3l10-public-notice-to-the-elizabeth-magistrates-court.html

    • In a pre-Soli document, Jefferson said:

      ” …That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…. When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government. …”

  20. Flaunt your IQ. Virtually anyone can teach a short course at WEA in Adelaide. The student pays, say, $60 for the course and the teacher gets to keep half of that. I gave a course in Environmentalism and made a lifelong friend therefrom. It is acceptable to teach a craft, such as How To Spruce Up Your Verandah, or a controversial idea, such as “the origin of the Bible.”

    You could give a course in “The Ethics of Journalism.” OMG, what a scream — think of what you could include as “problem examples,” such as The Accuracy of Vaccine-Injury Reporting.

    Go on, do it.

    https://adelaideaz.com/articles/workers-educational-association–wea–a-major-success-with-middle-class-women-from-1914

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