Australia - Suspected Serial Killer Now Believed Responsible For Three Unsolved Sa Murders

[MRichards]

Suspected serial killer now believed responsible for three unsolved SA murders

South Australia
BY EUGENE BOISVERT, STAFFUPDATED YESTERDAY AT 1:38PM Tues 28 May


Police have revealed a suspected serial killer believed to be responsible for the murders of three people in South Australia lived close to each of them when they were killed, and is currently living freely in Victoria.

Suspected serial killer now believed responsible for three unsolved SA murders - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[Legally Bland]

The suspect has gone public. (From Thursday):

A VICTORIAN man who is the prime suspect in three separate cold-case murders in South Australia says he is innocent.

Steven Hainsworth, who now lives in Mildura, has admitted detectives have linked him to the murders of two grandmothers and a pensioner over a 13-year period through new forensic evidence, but has denied killing anyone.

“I’ve been told I’m a suspect in the crime, but I haven’t done anything. Nothing. I’m not a serial killer. I haven’t killed no one. I’ve had fights in my life and I’ve got hurt, as you can see now. I’m not responsible for no one’s murder,” Mr Hainsworth told the Nine Network this morning.

Steven Hainsworth swears he is not a murderer

 

[Legally Bland]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1974429175921061

7 News Adelaide


Victims:

Phyllis Harrison, 71
1988. Elizabeth South. Steven Hainsworth's next door neighbour.

Beverly Hanley, 69
2010. Elizabeth North. Steven Hainsworth's aunt.

Steve Newton, 55
2011. Mount Gambier. Steven Hainsworth was also residing in Mount Gambier at the time of the murder.

ETA: link for pics: How police identified three SA murders as a suspected serial killing

 

[PastTense]

A Victorian man has been charged over the cold case murder of Adelaide grandmother Beverley Hanley. Steven Leslie Hainsworth, 44, was arrested in Melbourne and extradited to Adelaide late on Thursday. Mr Hainsworth was still in the same clothes he was arrested in when he faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court this morning, charged with his aunt's murder.

Victorian man charged with Adelaide grandmother's cold case murder

 

[ctaylor]

A 45 year old man has been arrested for Phyllis Harrison's murder. Given that Steven Hainsworth was 44 last year when he was arrested for Beverley Hanley's murder, I would say it is likely him...

Arrest made over 1998 cold case murder of Adelaide grandmother

The children of a woman allegedly murdered in her Adelaide home more than two decades ago say they are relieved an arrest has been made.

The body of Phyllis Harrison, 71, was discovered with multiple stab wounds at her Elizabeth South home in March 1998.

The case has been unsolved for more than 22 years but police today arrested and charged a 45-year-old man.


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[dotr]

Identity of alleged Victorian serial killer revealed after Supreme Court lifts suppression order

The identity of Victorian man Steven Leslie Hainsworth — who is charged with murdering three South Australians between 1998 and 2011 — can be revealed for the first time.

www.abc.net.au

April 22 2024

Steven Leslie Hainsworth is accused of murdering three people across South Australia between 1998 and 2011

• ''In short: The Supreme Court lifted a suppression order on the identity of Victorian man Steven Hainsworth, who is charged with three counts of murder.
• Mr Hainsworth allegedly murdered Phyllis Harrison in 1998, Beverley Hanley in 2010 and Stephen Newton in 2011.
• What's next? Mr Hainsworth is due to face a single trial for all three alleged murders in August.

The identity of an accused serial killer charged with three cold case murders in South Australia can be revealed as Steven Leslie Hainsworth.

Mr Hainsworth, from the north-western Victorian town of MIldura, is accused of murdering his aunt, 64-year-old grandmother Beverley Hanley, 71-year-old grandmother Phyllis Harrison and 55-year-old Mount Gambier pensioner Stephen Newton.

Supreme Court Justice Anne Bampton on Monday revoked the suppression order on Mr Hainsworth's identity, allowing him to be revealed as the man charged with each of the three murders for the first time.''

Police have previously believed the alleged murders of Phyllis Harrison, Beverley Hanley and Stephen Newton are linked.(SA Police)

 

[dotr]

20 Aug '24

Accused triple murderer killed 'vulnerable' people and ransacked their homes, court hears

The long-awaited murder trial of Steven Leslie Hainsworth — who is accused of killing his aunt, a grandmother and a pensioner between 1998 and 2011 — has started in Adelaide.

www.abc.net.au

'The long-awaited trial of an alleged serial killer has begun in South Australia's Supreme Court — 26 years after a Victorian man allegedly murdered his first victim.'

ug 20, 2024 #BREAKINGNEWS #7NEWS
'A protective screen has been used on day one of a serial killing murder trial to protect a witness giving evidence against the accused. Steven Hainsworth’s alleged crimes spanned 13 years with the victims all pensioners - one of them was his own aunty.'

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Body found under rubbish, accused killer's trial told

A police officer searching the home of a missing man found his body under a pile of rubbish,...

www.mandurahmail.com.au

 

[dotr]

Aug 21, 2024 #7NEWS #BREAKINGNEWS
Distressing details have emerged about the cold case murder of a northern suburbs grandmother at the hands of an alleged serial killer.A triple murder trial has heard Steven Hainsworth's oldest alleged victim was found without any underwear.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Police grill alleged triple murderer in recorded interview

A five-hour police interview with accused serial killer Steven Hainsworth reveals his DNA was found at the scene of his aunt's murder and that he pawned some of her belongings within hours of her death.

www.abc.net.au

A police interview conducted eight days before alleged serial killer Steven Leslie Hainsworth was arrested for the murder of his aunt has revealed that his DNA was found at the scene of the crime.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Steven Hainsworth's lawyer says dog could have transferred DNA onto victim's body

Steven Hainsworth is standing trial accused of murdering three people in a "violent and deliberate" manner over the span of more than a decade. His defence lawyer tells the court a pet dog could have transferred his DNA onto one of his alleged victims.

www.abc.net.au

A lawyer for an alleged serial killer has told South Australia's Supreme Court that "contaminated" DNA evidence cannot implicate his client beyond reasonable doubt, saying a pet dog could have been responsible for secondary transference.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A 45 year old man has been arrested for Phyllis Harrison's murder. Given that Steven Hainsworth was 44 last year when he was arrested for Beverley Hanley's murder, I would say it is likely him...

Arrest made over 1998 cold case murder of Adelaide grandmother

Hours after beloved grandmother Phyllis Harrison was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death, Steven Leslie Hainsworth answered a knock at his door from detectives.

More than 26 years later, the Mildura man, 49, is on trial in the South Australian Supreme Court, accused of murdering his neighbour at Elizabeth South in March 1998.

Mrs Harrison, 71, was the first of three people allegedly killed by Hainsworth, who is the first accused serial killer to stand trial in SA since the 2003 convictions of John Bunting and Robert Wagner over the so-called "bodies in barrels" murders.

'Bury me in the pines': harrowing serial killing claims

A judge is considering his verdict after a marathon trial in South Australia's first alleged serial killing case in more than 20 years.

au.news.yahoo.com

 

[OnlyS]

I find this one really shocking. Rest in peace Phyllis Harrison, Beverley Hanley and Stephen Newton.