Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders by Debi Marshall

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Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Laminate coming away from cardboard at spine top, now covered with book tape. A few minor marks on half-title page.

In this definitive expose, Walkley-award-winning journalist Debi Marshall turns her investigative blowtorch to the shocking Adelaide Family murders and secrets long hidden in the City of Corpses.

This chilling account begins with the liberalisation of South Australia under the premiership of Don Dunstan and demands answers to decades-old questions. Who were the Family killers? Why are suppression orders still protecting suspects four decades later? Why do some of these serial killings remain unsolved? Only one suspect, Bevan Spencer Von Einem, has been charged and convicted.

With her combination of investigative skills and sensitivity, Marshall treads a harrowing path to find the truth, including confronting Von Einem in prison, pursuing sexual predators in Australia and overseas, taking a deep dive into the murky world of paedophiles, challenging police and judiciary, and talking to victims and their families. The outcome is shocking and tragic.

Following the broadcast of the Foxtel television and podcast series Debi Marshall Investigates Frozen Lies, numerous people came forward to courageously share new information with Marshall. Their stories are here.

Banquet takes aim at the public service, wealthy professionals and the judiciary and, for the first time, reveals hitherto unpublished details of the Family. And it demands a Royal Commission to break the silence that keeps the truth hidden. (back cover)