WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH 2023 | INSTORE EVENT
6.00 for 6.30 start | 60mins
Join Megan Norris in conversation with Stefanie Hinrichs for the launch of The Messiah's Bride
ABOUT THE BOOK
In 1984, fourteen-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs was dreaming of owning a horse, leaving school, and marrying Keanu Reeves.
But God had other plans for the teenager.
Her family belonged to a controversial Doomsday cult led by self-proclaimed Messiah, William Kamm, also know as the ‘Little Pebble’, who was building a new promised land for his followers deep in the Australian bush.
Stefanie was forced to become the false prophet’s child bride – one of eighty-four mystical spouses chosen by the Lord to bear his children for his new heavenly dynasty.
Forbidden from telling anyone about the illicit sexual relationship she kept a diary.
Investigative journalist, Megan Norris, unravels the story of Stefanie’s lost childhood, her courageous escape with Kamm’s child, and how the scribblings of a teenage girl brought one of Australia’s most dangerous sex predators to justice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan Norris is a UK-trained journalist and award-winning true crime author who has covered some of Australia’s most infamous crimes for national and international media.
Her first book, Perfect Victim, co-authored with author, Elizabeth Southall, is now a movie starring Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, and Guy Pearce, while her exploration of revenge killings during marital breakdown - Look What You Made Me Do by Five Mile Press - won the 2017 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for best non-fiction.
The Messiah’s Bride is Megan’s eighth book.
ABOUT STEPHANIE HINRICHS
Born in the Bavarian Alps, Stefanie Hinrichs was eleven-years-old when she arrived in Australia with her family to become members of notorious Australian Doomsday cult – the Roman Catholic Order of St Charbel – run by self-proclaimed Prophet, William Kamm, aka Little Pebble.
In 2002, Stefanie fled the cult with Kamm’s son, and embarked on a legal battle to expose him as a serial paedophile that brought his Holy dynasty down.
She now 43 and lives on the Gold Coast with her son, Kilian and her elderly mother where she is helping other survivors of sexual abuse to rebuild their lives.
