The Kinky Murders

By Jesse Stavros

When Sheila and Max Garvie married in 1955, they seemed like the perfect couple. She was intelligent and stunning, while he was attractive and wealthy – to everyone, they appeared to be a match made in heaven. No one was surprised when the debonair Max Garvie began courting his future bride in their small community of north-east Scotland – but no one could have anticipated the grisly end to this would-be fairy tale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trellis Publishing
• Release date: Jul 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201884369

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DEADLY BETRAYAL : THE TRUE STORY OF BELINDA VAN KREVEL

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SARA GRIFFITH

In June 1998, the residents of Wollongong, a small town on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, were left reeling from a brutal murder. In the coming weeks, they would discover that this senseless crime was just the beginning of a twisted saga what would leave three men dead. Australia would watch as a twisted tale of madness, violence, and revenge spewed forth from the normally sleepy town. Soon, the whole country would know the Van Krevel name. 

From the outside, Jack Van Krevel was a devoted father who gave everything he had to raise his children Mark and Belinda. His wife had left them when the children were toddlers and it had been just the three of them ever since. He visibly lavished his kids with gifts and residents of Wollongong would note that the children were always wearing the latest fashion. When Mark joined a motorcycle club Jack brought him the best motorcycle he could afford and insured that all of his safety gear was top of the line. It seemed that he was doing everything he could to create a peaceful and stable world for the children that he adored. But closed doors hide many sins. And, when his children had barely become adults, the whole world would stand as witness to the results. 

Belinda recounts life with her father as violent and cruel. She describes a sadist whose greatest joy came from inflicting pain and humiliation on his children. By her account, the beatings were a daily occurrence. He would savagely hit her until she could no longer stand, then proceed to kick her, only stopping when she lost control of her bowels. He would then leave, she had remembered, proud of what he had done. Belinda also accused him of sexually assaulting her since childhood. When Mark was on trial for multiple murder he would assert that he too had been a victim to his father’s lusts.

No-one disputes the claims of abuse and Jack himself admitted to it in open court, but he denied having ever sexually assaulted his son. Questions still remain to the legitimacy of Mark’s claims. The police, judge, and jury believed it to be nothing more than an attempt to garnish sympathy and hence leniency. But Belinda, despite at the time admitting that she had not ever suspected such abuse, didn’t hesitate to believe her brother. For her, it was all too easy to believe.

Fear had been the one constant of her childhood. In an interview with Candice DeLong, a retired profiler for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Belinda had said that each day held the threat that her father would kill her. DeLong had attempted to take her back, to a happy thought in her childhood or perhaps a time when she had held some love for her father. But each of her probing questions provoked only detached indifference. Even when asked what she had wanted for her future, before violence and death had been irrevocably tethered to her name, her only reply is that she had never had a chance to think about it. All her focus had been on surviving. But no matter how bad it was for her, Belinda insists that her brother had been subjected to the worst of their father’s rage. It is her strongest held belief that it is this rage, and not her brother, that is responsible for the horrific crimes her brother has been convicted