Bevan Spencer von Einem, perhaps Australia's most notorious convicted child murderer, has been rushed to a prison hospital and is now reported to be critically ill, extremely frail, and bedridden—someone who is caught on death's door. As death looms ever closer, attention is turning anew to the horrific crimes that once shocked the nation.
Von Einem is the only person ever convicted in connection with the so-called Family Murders — a string of horrifying child and young‑man killings that remain deeply traumatic more than four decades after his imprisonment.
