Daughter convicted of hiring father's murder
Belinda Van Krevel paid $2000 to have her father killed a decade after her brother murdered two other men.
Belinda Van Krevel hired a man named Keith Schreiber to murder her father, Jack Van Krevel, in 1998. Belinda Van Krevel paid $2000, left the house unlocked, and laid out murder weapons.
Schreiber killed him with an axe, knife and fire poker while Belinda was in the house. The motive was revenge for her brother Mark, who had been convicted of two murders ten days earlier.
Mark had claimed their father sexually abused him; the judge rejected that claim. After the killing, Belinda told others she hated her father enough to kill him herself.
She was arrested ten months later and charged with murder, with a later charge of soliciting a murder added.
- $2000
- Payment for murder
- 1998
- Year of killing
- 10 days after brother's conviction
- Days between events
- 10 months after the crime
- Time to arrest
Why it mattersThe case exposes the lethal consequences when unresolved family violence spills into the justice system and when warning signs of danger are not acted on.
AustraliaThe conviction closed a grim chapter in Illawarra's recent history and raised questions about mental health assessment and risk management.
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