Convict Goes Missing From Georgia Jail, Cops Realise Mistake 12 Hours Later
Authorities placed the jail under lockdown when they discovered a convicted murderer had disappeared from custody.
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A murder convicted shockingly disappeared from Clayton County jail in Jonesboro, Georgia, forcing the authorities to place the jail under lockdown.
The jail staff was in a panic when they failed to locate Julian Brooks Deloach, Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen said, per The Independent.
Authorities looked for Deloach and found the following morning that he was unintentionally put in the courthouse holding cell, Mr Allen said. He was missing for almost 12 hours after a “mix-up” among staff members about who would transport the man back to the prison. This left him in the courthouse holding cell longer than expected.
Although the holding cell is in a secure location and the courthouse is connected to the jail, they are not designed to retain inmates overnight.
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The holding cells only contain benches, sinks, and toilets, and no mattresses. Moreover, they are left unattended after court hours, which is approximately 6 pm, The Independent reported.
The guards apparently did not check the holding cell because prisoners were not intended to be placed there overnight. They looked for him in “every cell, every area of the jail.”
“In the end, we reviewed the cameras and were taken back into the courtroom where he was,” Sheriff Allen told the outlet.
Deloach reportedly spent 12 to 13 hours in the holding cell before being discovered the next morning, according to the sheriff.
Following the commotion, Mr Allen recommended that two deputies assigned to the court division be suspended, and two correctional sergeants be demoted.
Julian Brooks Deloach was found guilty of murder in 1984.
Child murderer Bevan Spencer von Einem has short time to live, ABC understands
By Jordanna Schriever and Eva Blandis
Tue 25 NovTuesday 25 November
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Bevan Spencer von Einem has been rushed from Port Augusta to the Yatala Labour Prison where he remains in a serious condition, the ABC understands.
The 79-year-old was convicted of the sexually motivated murder of 15-year-old Richard Kelvin in 1983.
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The ABC understands Von Einem only has a short time to live.
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Convicted child murderer Bevan Spencer von Einem has been transferred to Yatala Labour Prison where he only has a short time to live, the ABC understands.
Von Einem was transferred from Port Augusta Prison, where he has been held since 2007 to the labour prison in Adelaide on Monday.
The 79-year-old was convicted of the sexually-motivated murder of 15-year-old Richard Kelvin — the son of former Adelaide Nine News presenter Rob Kelvin — in 1984.
The teenager was last seen near his North Adelaide home in June 1983 after walking a friend to a nearby bus stop.
Police believe he was held at an unknown location for about five weeks before his body was found near an airstrip at Mount Crawford, in the Adelaide Hills on July 24, 1983.
Von Einem was arrested in November 1983.
He became eligible to seek release on parole in 2007 after serving 24 years, but never applied and has remained behind bars.
South Australia’s then premier, Mike Rann, said von Einem would never leave prison alive.
According to a 2020 Crime Stoppers report, investigators “are convinced that more than one person was involved in Richard’s murder”.
“Police believe this murder is associated with other high-profile murders commonly referred to in the media as the ‘Family Murders’,” the Crime Stoppers report said.
Deputy Premier Kyam Maher said he doesn’t “think any person would have any remorse at his death”.
“Quite frankly every day that person isn’t on this planet anymore is a good day,”
he said.
“I think South Australians are rightly, and have been for many many years, horrified by what that person has done.
“It must be an incredibly difficult time every time it’s brought up [for victims families].”
Death bed confession ‘unlikely’
The ‘Family Murders’ refers to a group of unsolved murders of young men and teenagers in Adelaide in the 1970s and 1980s, including Alan Barnes, Peter Stogneff, Neil Muir and Mark Langley.
Criminologist Associate Professor Xanthé Mallett told ABC Radio Adelaide on Tuesday morning it was unlikely Von Einem would confess to any other crimes.
“We know at least five individuals, teenage boys and young men, thought to have been potentially tortured and murdered by von Einem and his group colloquially known as The Family back in the 70s and 80s,” she said.
“He’s going to take, I imagine, his secrets to the grave.
“Those families are still waiting for answers, those cases remain unsolved.
“Unfortunately, somebody like von Einem who is a sadistic psychopath doesn’t feel thinks like guilt, or remorse or shame for the things he’s done.
“Somebody like von Einem, who would kidnap, torture and hold somebody hostage for five weeks before murdering them, as he was convicted of having done, then that person probably doesn’t have a conscience.”
In 2009, the convicted murderer was sentenced to an extra three months for having child abuse material in his cell.
At the time, the court heard police found three handwritten stories in his prison cell about sex between young boys and men, but that he did not write them and that he had kept them in a sealed envelope under his bed as insurance against the prisoner who wrote them.
