Debi Marshall Livres

In this definitive expose, Walkley-award winning journalist Debi Marshall turns her investigative blowtorch to the shocking Adelaide Family murders and to 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 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takes aim at the public service, wealthy professionals and the judiciary and for the first time reveals hitherto unpublished details of the Family.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.

July, 1969. Police discover the mutilated body of 12-year-old Yvonne Tuohy off a lonely bush track at Victoria's Westernport Bay.Within hours, they have charged Derek Ernest Percy, a highly intelligent 20-year-old Royal Australian Navy seaman, with the heinous crime.During the ensuing investigation, police link Percy's name to another eight unsolved child abductions and murders in different Australian states, including the three Beaumont children, the Wanda Beach murders and the abduction of Linda Stilwell. Is Percy, they ask, Australia's most prolific child serial killer?In this definitive, chilling and utterly compelling account of Derek Ernest Percy, a man dubbed by one prison officer as 'Australia's answer to Hannibal Lecter', award-winning true-crime author Debi Marshall applies her blowtorch investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of the crimes, the man and his modus operandi.Informed by exclusive material never before seen - insightful and poignant interviews with Percy's mother, victims’ families, psychiatrists, police officers and former colleagues - Marshall also takes us on her own harrowing personal journey as she seeks to unravel the truth about the monster whose disturbing, idiosyncratic character has confounded the best psychiatric minds for 40 years.

A disused bank vault holding eight dismembered bodies immersed in barrels of acid. Two bodies buried in a suburban backyard, a further two found in the bush. A tensely woven and microscopic examination of tawdry loves and tragic deaths.

Set against the backdrop of mid-1990s Claremont, Western Australia, the book delves into the unsettling disappearances of three young women after nightclub visits, sparking a massive and ongoing police investigation. As Australia's longest-running murder inquiry, it raises questions about the fate of other missing women in the region. Debi Marshall critically examines the police efforts and various suspects, incorporating insights from forensic experts, law enforcement, media, and the victims' families, revealing a complex and haunting narrative that demands attention.