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Adelaide Murderers Art Feature
Andrew Cowen: Adelaide 1966-1999

I guess it's a little bit like slowing down to see a car crash on the side of the road. It's the mobid fascination, or more to the point our interest in mortality that draws us to death. It is with this that we are extremely interested in the worst kind of this death, the death inflicted from serial killers that humans want to know the most about.

Andrew Cowen must know this as he has an upcoming exhibition titled Adelaide 1966-1999. Adelaide 1966-1999 is an exhibition of photographs, taken in and around Adelaide. The photographs are of places relating to the abductions and murders which have contributed to Adelaide’s infamy. The project covers a period of time commencing with the abduction of the Beaument children in 1966 through to the discovery of barrels containing bodies in a bank vault in Snowtown in 1999.
 
The show opens on May 16 at Monster Children Gallery, and from what we can see it look fantastic.

Below are some descriptions of the scenes and the murders or abductions that took place there.

1. Colley Reserve, Glenelg, South Australia

On January 26, 1966, Jane, Arna and Grant Beaumont left their home in Somerton Park and caught the bus to nearby Glenelg Beach for a swim and never returned home. The disappearance of the Beaumont children resulted in the largest criminal investigation in Australia’s history and remains unsolved.

The children were observed by several witnesses in the company of a tall, blond man in Colley Reserve, next to Glenelg beach. Neither the children nor the man were seen again. In the following weeks a massive search took place without results.

A Dutch psychic Gerard Croiset was flown from the the Netherlands after stating that he would be able to locate the children but, inspite of huge publicity, no futher evidence was uncovered.

The huge amount of attention given to this case and the fact that their disappearance was never explained has resulted in this story being regularly revisited by the press. The Beaumont abduction is viewed by many social commentators as a significant event in the social evolution of Australian society, resulting in people changing the way they supervised their children.

3. Adelaide Oval, North Adelaide, South Australia

On August 25, 1973 two young girls were abducted during a South Australian National Football League game at Adelaide Oval. They were eleven year old Joanne Ratcliff who was at the match with her parents, and four year old Kirste Gordon who was with her grandmother.

Although they did not know each other, Gordon’s grandmother asked Joanne Ratcliff to take the younger girl with her to the toilet. They soon returned without incident and later when Gordon wanted to go to the toilet again, Ratcliff took her. This time they did not return. After fifteen minutes Mrs Ratcliff went looking for the girls but they were not at the toilets. Mr and Mrs Ratcliff and Gordon’s grandmother searched unsuccessfully for the rest of the game. The assistant curator of the oval observed the girls leaving the oval with a man. Over the next ninety minutes four different sightings of the man and the two girls were made. Then neither the girls nor the man were seen again.

The description of the man and the circumstances of the abduction were extremely similar to the Beaumont abduction in 1966 suggesting the same person was responsible for both.

4. Swamp Rd,  Near Truro, South Australia

On Anzac Day in 1978, the remains of a body were discovered by a man was picking mushrooms on Swamp Rd , near the town of Truro, approximately eighty kilometres north-east of Adelaide. The body was identified as missing eighteen year old Veronica Knight. A year later the remains of another missing girl, sixteen year old, Sylvia Pittman were discovered nearby. Investigating police linked these crimes to the 1977 disappearances of five other young women.

Police received information that a man named James Miller had incriminated himself and another man, Christopher Worrell, in the murders. Worrell, a convicted rapist and Miller’s homosexual partner, had been released fom Adelaides Yatala prison in October 1976, just weeks before Knight went missing and was killed in a car accident, one week after the disappearance of the last woman in 1977.

In April 1979, two more skeletons were found in a paddock near Truro and identified as two more of the missing women. Miller confessed to his involvement and showed police the locations of three other sets of remains. The deaths of seven young women were attributed to Miller and Worrell.

5. House at Greenhill Rd, Parkside, South Australia

In June 1979 the dead body of prominent criminal lawyer Derrance Stevenson was found in a freezer in his home and office with a gunhot wound to his head. The lid of the freezer had been glued closed.

Located on Greenhill Rd, a main road just south of the city centre ,the house was notable for it’s unusual design. The house almost completely occupied it’s triangular block and the roof rose in a parabolic curve. This distinctive shape will always be associated in Adelaide with bodies in freezers.

Derrance Stevenson’s homosexual lover, David Szach who was eighteen at the time of the murder, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. Szach has always maintaned his innocence and is thought by many to have been set up for the murder. He was later released from prison without fanfair. An alternate theory is that Stevenson’s death is connected to his knowledge of or involvement in Adelaide’s so called “Family “.

It is worth noting that Szach has stated that Derrance Stevenson was associated with Alan Barnes, a young man who was murdered at the end of the same month Stevenson was killed. Barnes’ murder is considered part of the “Family” murders, for which Bevan Spencer von Einem is thought responsible.

12. 3 Burdekin Ave, Murray Bridge, South Australia

Bunting’s second place of residence in South Australia was Burdekin Ave in Murray Bridge, eighty kilometres south east of Adelaide. It was at this address that victims began to be tortured before being murdered. The tortures included being beaten, having toes crushed with pliers and the use of electric shocks. The use of torture guaranteed confessions of homosexual or paedophilic behaviour, justifying the need for victims to be taken to the “clinic”.
It was here that Bunting began to keep victims in large barrels of acid.

13. Former State Bank of South Australia, Railway Tce, Snowtown, South Australia

Eight bodies were found in barrels on may 20, 1999 in the vault of the former State Bank of South Australia building. The bodies kept in barrels were stored in several locations before being moved to the disused bank vault at Railway Tce, Snowtown. These included the shed behind Bunting’s house in Murray Bridge and on Mark Haydon’s property in Smithfield Plains in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. The movement of unfamiliar vehicles to Snowtown and loading activity at the old bank opposite the town’s only hotel led to the building being searched.



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Andrew Cowen. 1.- Colley Reserve. On January 26, 1966, Jane, Arna and Grant Beaumont left their home in Somerton Park and caught the bus to nearby Glenelg Beach for a swim and never returned home.
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Andrew Cowen. 3.- Adelaide Oval, North Adelaide, South Australia. On August 25, 1973 two young girls were abducted during a South Australian National Football League game at Adelaide Oval.
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Andrew Cowen. 4.- Swamp Rd,  Near Truro, SA. On Anzac Day, 1978, the remains of a body were discovered by a man was picking mushrooms on Swamp Rd , near the town of Truro, approximately eighty kilometres north-east of Adelaide. The body was identified as missing eighteen year old Veronica Knight.
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Andrew Cowen. 5.- House at Greenhill Rd, Parkside, SA. In June 1979 the dead body of prominent criminal lawyer Derrance Stevenson was found in a freezer in his home and office with a gunhot wound to his head. The lid of the freezer had been glued closed.
ANDREW COWEN
Andrew Cowen. 5.- 3 Burdekin Ave, Murray Bridge, SA. It was at this address that victims began to be tortured before being murdered. The tortures included being beaten, having toes crushed with pliers and the use of electric shocks. The use of torture guaranteed confessions of homosexual or paedophilic behaviour, justifying the need for victims to be taken to the “clinic”.
ANDREW COWEN
Andrew Cowen. 13.- Former State Bank of South Australia, Railway Tce, Snowtown, SA. Eight bodies were found in barrels on may 20, 1999 in the vault of the former State Bank of South Australia building. The bodies kept in barrels were stored in several locations before being moved to the disused bank vault at Railway Tce, Snowtown.
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