The Family Murders (Part Two: The Family)
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
From the outside looking in, von Einem was incredibly average: a middle-aged accountant for a mid-level supplies company, who lived at home with his mother and regularly endeared himself to her older friends. But underneath the surface, a monster lingered, and police quickly tagged von Einem as the culprit in the latest of the five murders.
In the decades since, though, the other four crimes have gone non-prosecuted. Many believe that von Einem did not act alone in the murder that he was convicted of, and may have had help from some of the area's rich and powerful: individuals that have come to be known as "The Family"...
Part two of two
I originally covered this story back in 2017. The script has been completely re-written, and I have since added in some new/additional information.
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| 0:00.0 | In the years since pulling Roger James from the Torrance River back in 1972, Bevan Spencer |
| 0:13.3 | von Einham had lived a relatively mundane life, at least from the outside looking in. |
| 0:19.1 | He was now an accountant for a supplies company, was quickly approaching 40 years old, and |
| 0:24.8 | lived with his mother in a small house in Northeastern Adelaide. |
| 0:28.6 | Being about Bevan Spencer von Einham seemed to fit in with this persona that he had carefully |
| 0:32.9 | crafted over several years. |
| 0:35.2 | A polite man that endeared himself to his mother's older friends and constantly blended |
| 0:39.9 | into his surroundings at work. |
| 0:41.9 | However, underneath the surface, there was much more to von Einham than met the eye. |
| 0:47.3 | When one looked at Bevan Spencer von Einham, they did not see a monster. |
| 0:51.3 | They saw a man who looked average in almost every way. |
| 0:54.3 | His chin was quite large and he was slightly overweight, but that was about it. |
| 0:59.8 | His hair had been prematurely graying since he was 16 years old, but he managed that, |
| 1:04.9 | with frequent visits to a hairdresser named Dennis St. Dennis, who used dies to bring |
| 1:10.1 | it back to the darkened shade of von Einham's youth. |
| 1:13.2 | All in all, Bevan Spencer von Einham looked like a typical accountant from the 1980s. |
| 1:19.1 | Physically, he seemed to be average in every possible way, and his public behavior seemed |
| 1:24.0 | to verify that. |
| 1:25.4 | However, privately, he suffered from insomnia and other sleep issues, which forced him |
| 1:30.6 | to resort to late-night alcohol-fueled drives around Adelaide to comfort himself. |
| 1:35.8 | Later, it resulted in him being prescribed multiple sleep agents, including mandraks |
| 1:41.0 | and Rohitnaal. |
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