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This episode contains references to child exploitation, grooming, sexual abuse, drugging, trauma, and strong language. Listener discretion is advised. Sleepers begins a new investigative line into The Family and the wider stories, allegations, witnesses, and unanswered questions surrounding Adelaide in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Max Marten introduces investigative journalist Bryan Littlely, conducting an interview with someone who grew up vulnerable in Adelaide, with fear, secrecy, survival, and terrifying encounters that left them believing they had escaped something far larger than one predator.Some claims made in this interview cannot be independently verified. They are presented as one person’s recollection and lived experience.Thank you to everyone who attended Sleepers Live at the Arkaba Hotel. Your support, your questions, and your willingness to listen help keep this investigation moving.This new direction into The Family doesn’t mean Sleepers will stop pursuing information connected to earlier episodes. If new witnesses come forward or new evidence appears, we’ll follow it.Part Two, coming next, continues the interview, moving deeper into Adelaide’s hidden social world, parks after dark, private houses, powerful men, and allegations that still cast a shadow over South Australia.Interview by Bryan Littlely.Hosted by Max Marten.Always remember, #fightlikejoBRYAN'S Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bryan.littlelyAll the info about the Whyalla show will be there first. Bryan is old school.Sleepers is an investigative podcast exploring the stories that refuse to stay buried.#TrueCrimeCommunitySupport Services🇦🇺 AustraliaLifeline Australia – Crisis Support & Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 (24/7)Kids Helpline – For young people aged 5–25: 1800 55 1800 (24/7)Beyond Blue – free, confidential telephone counselling 24/7: 1300 22 4636MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 781800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)🌍 InternationalUnited StatesRAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)United KingdomNSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331CanadaKids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)New ZealandSafe to Talk (Sexual harm helpline): 0800 044 334 or text 4334 (24/7)Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354Europe (general)116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)116 111 – Child Helpline EuropeGlobalChild Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplines

This episode contains confronting material, including references to abuse, trauma, and distressing personal experiences. Listener discretion is advised.What happens when memory doesn’t come back clean?In this episode of Sleepers, we hear from the grand nephew of the monster STAN HART, in an interview that is as fragmented as it is confronting. What unfolds is not a neat narrative, but something far more complex: a series of lived experiences shaped by major trauma, survival, and time.Some claims made in this interview cannot be independently verified. Where relevant, we have made that clear. This episode does not seek to confirm every detail, but it does recognise the weight and courage it takes to speak at all.This is not an easy listen.It wasn't easy for Bryan or Max to produce.But it is an important... very important!As Sleepers continues to dig into South Australia’s most confronting and unresolved stories, this episode marks a shift into territory where truth, memory, and perception don’t always align.And where the questions matter just as much as the answers.SLEEPERS LIVE — Wednesday, August 22 Adelaide, SOUTH AUSTRALIAJoin investigative journalist Brian Littlely for Sleepers Live at the Arkaba Hotel, Adelaide.📍 Arkaba Hotel,150 Glen Osmond Rd, Fullarton SA 5063Adelaide SA - https://www.arkabahotel.com.au/📅 Wednesday, August 227:00 pm for a 7:30 pm start.Book via HERE or The ArkHURRY - AT TIME OF POSTING, there were fewer than 100 Tix left!Sleepers is an investigative podcast exploring the stories that refuse to stay buried.

In this episode of SLEEPERS, two separate accounts, decades apart, begin to flesh out the pattern.The first comes from a man recalling an experience as a six-year-old boy living directly behind Stanley Arthur Hart's property in Yatina, Regional South Australia. He describes a room called a playroom, a space he was taken into and not allowed to leave.The second account comes from an adult witness who visited the same property years later. What he encountered appeared unusual, even at that time: a sick woman in bed, a floor strewn with wasted medication, a conversation about a caravan, and an attached room, known as a shed, containing jars described as animal specimens.Individually, these are fragments. Together, they raise questions.This episode does not present conclusions.It presents testimony, memory, and environment and examines how spaces can be normalised, explained away, and later understood differently.As Sleepers continues its investigation into cold cases, historical abuse, and unresolved questions in South Australia,Evil Play asks listeners to consider what was seen… and what was missed.If you have information relevant to this series, you can reach out confidentially.Listener discretion advised.🎤 Sleepers Live — True Crime EventJoin Bryan Littlely live as Sleepers steps off the podcast and into the room.📍 Arkaba Hotel, Adelaide🎟️ Tickets & details: https://www.arkabahotel.com.au/?bn_event=sleepers-live-true-crime-feat-bryan-littlely#SleepersPodcast#Playrooms#AustralianTrueCrime#ColdCasesAustralia#SouthAustralia#TrueCrimePodcast#UnsolvedCases#InvestigativePodcast#HistoricalAbuse#TrueCrimeCommunitySupport Services🇦🇺 AustraliaLifeline Australia – Crisis Support & Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 (24/7)Kids Helpline – For young people aged 5–25: 1800 55 1800 (24/7)Beyond Blue – free, confidential telephone counselling 24/7: 1300 22 4636MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 781800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)🌍 InternationalUnited StatesRAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)United KingdomNSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331CanadaKids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)New ZealandSafe to Talk (Sexual harm helpline): 0800 044 334 or text 4334 (24/7)Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354Europe (general)116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)116 111 – Child Helpline EuropeGlobalChild Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplines

Sleepers returns after a few weeks away, and it doesn’t ease back in.In Family Ties, brothers Mark and Stephen Marshall confront memories that have followed them since childhood. One recalls being lifted onto his brother’s shoulders and told to look inside what was called Poppa’s Jail. The other, decades later, faces that memory.Interviewed by Bryan Littlely, their accounts are raw, fragmented, and deeply unsettling, not because of what they claim, but because memory, denial, and family silence collide.This episode sets the tone for Season Two: quieter, darker, and driven by testimony that refuses to stay buried.We’ve been away over Christmas, but we haven’t been idle.More interviews.More voices.More threads are already pulling tight.This is only the beginning.⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses child sexual abuse and trauma. Listener discretion is advised.Support Services🇦🇺 AustraliaLifeline Australia – Crisis Support & Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 (24/7)Kids Helpline – For young people aged 5–25: 1800 55 1800 (24/7)Beyond Blue – free, confidential telephone counselling 24/7: 1300 22 4636MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 781800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)🌍 InternationalUnited StatesRAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)United KingdomNSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331CanadaKids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)New ZealandSafe to Talk (Sexual harm helpline): 0800 044 334 or text 4334 (24/7)Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354Europe (general)116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)116 111 – Child Helpline EuropeGlobalChild Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplines

In this final episode of 2025, Sleepers brings you one of the most significant witness accounts ever shared publicly about the disappearance of the Beaumont children.For nearly sixty years, she held her silence.She was a young mother on holiday at Glenelg on Australia Day 1966, sitting on the grass with her children, when a little boy played with her son on their picnic blanket.His name was Grant Beaumont.In this episode, she tells her story.She describes the man she saw with the children, the moment he rose and walked them toward the side shows, and the fear that drove her to flee South Australia the very next day. Her memories are clear, consistent, and unchanged across decades, and now, they become part of the public record.As we approach the 60th anniversary of the Beaumont disappearance on Australia Day 2026, this testimony raises new questions about old assumptions, long-dismissed leads, and the urgent need for renewed investigative action.Sleepers will continue in 2026, examining not only the Beaumont case but also cold cases across South Australia. The Adelaide Oval abductions, the 1980s Family murders, and the many stories still waiting in the shadows.If you know something… say something. - Your voice matters.

In Episode 10, we mentioned Hannah, a survivor whose childhood memories may hold a crucial piece of the Beaumont investigations.In this episode, you hear her voice for the first time.Hannah takes us inside the threats, the fear, and the world of Les Davis as she lived it from the age of six.She speaks about photographs, a white dress, digging in underground tanks, and the moments that shaped the trauma.Details she has carried, unchanged, for decades.Then, for the first time, her older sister Rachael steps forward as a second corroborating witness.Rachael independently confirms the fear in the household and the danger their father repeatedly tried to report to the police.She also brings new insight into Les’s behaviour, movements, and the patterns that now appear impossible to dismiss.Two sisters.Two perspectives, inside and outside.One story that aligns across time, memory, and lived experience.This is not rumour.This is not speculation.This is raw, consistent, and long overdue. testimony.⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses child sexual abuse and trauma. Listener discretion is advised.Support Services🇦🇺 AustraliaLifeline Australia – Crisis Support & Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 (24/7)Kids Helpline – For young people aged 5–25: 1800 55 1800 (24/7)Beyond Blue – free, confidential telephone counselling 24/7: 1300 22 4636MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 781800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)🌍 InternationalUnited StatesRAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)United KingdomNSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331CanadaKids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)New ZealandSafe to Talk (Sexual harm helpline): 0800 044 334 or text 4334 (24/7)Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354Europe (general)116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)116 111 – Child Helpline EuropeGlobalChild Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplinesInternational Suicide Hotlines Directory: findahelpline.com#SleepersPodcast #AustralianTrueCrime #ColdCases #BeaumontChildren #AdelaideOvalAbductions #SurvivorVoices #LesDavis #SouthAustraliaHistory #ChildProtection #InvestigativeJournalism

In this milestone episode, Sleepers uncovers the most confronting revelations yet about Les Davis, a man whose name has sat on the edge of South Australia’s darkest stories for sixty years.Through the voice of Kane Davis, Les’s own grand-nephew, we hear the first-ever family account of a figure long hidden from the public record. His movements, his crimes, his aliases, and his presence at Glenelg during the Beaumont Investigations all begin to form a pattern that can no longer be dismissed.Then Bryan and Brad break down the details that have never seen daylight:Confirmed multiple identitiesDirect overlap with known offendersNew locations, timelines and witness confirmationsA behaviour profile that matches historical suspectsEvidence and photographs that disappeared from public viewEpisode 10 also brings a significant breakthrough:The first known arrest photographs of Les Davis were taken in 1952 at just nineteen years old. These images, presented alongside the Beaumont identikit, reveal a likeness too strong to ignore.They are available on our Substack page.What emerges in this episode is not a coincidence.It is a network.And it is one South Australia has avoided confronting for decades.And this story is far from over.In Episode 11, we speak to Hannah, who lived under Les Davis’s control.What she reveals will change everything.#SleepersPodcast #TrueCrimeAustralia #BeaumontChildren #AdelaideOvalAbductions #LesDavis #SouthAustraliaCrime #ColdCaseInvestigation #ChildProtection #AustralianTrueCrime

Sleepers: The Adelaide Oval Abductions #9In 1973, seven-year-old Donna was at the Adelaide Oval the day Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon disappeared.She played with two little girls outside the toilets. Then they were gone.Police interviewed Donna soon after, took her statement, and promised to follow up on the matter. They never did.For fifty years, her memories sat alone until now.In this episode, Donna shares what she saw that day, what she later learned about her own father, and how her life became entangled with the family of the man long suspected of taking those girls — Stanley Arthur Hart.Her testimony reveals a chilling web of names, methods, and silences stretching across generations:A father who used hypnosis like Hart once did.A grandson who repeated the same violence.Families whose lives kept circling the same dark secret.It’s not coincidence. It’s connection.And as this web tightens, the pattern of South Australia’s hidden crimes begins to take its true shape.Hosted by Bryan Littlely. Narration by Max Marten.Music by Cody Martin.Produced by Bearslayer Media / Leave A Light On Inc.