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 #InvestigativeJournalismIt's time to rise - #fightlikejo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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beaumont abduction: Who is Les Davis?
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 #AustralianTrueCrimeIt's time to rise - #fightlikejo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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adelaide oval abduction: The Rings
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.It's time to rise - #fightlikejo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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adelaide oval abduction: Warrior Women #2
Episode 8 of Sleepers takes listeners back to Yatina, the remote mid-north town in South Australia, where truth and terror share the same ground.In conversations with journalist Bryan Littlely, the survivor of the 1966 assault that ultimately led to the only prison time that Stanley Arthur Hart ever served, they recall growing up in Stan Hart's orbit, a man they would both quickly realise was the monster hiding in plain sight.From their first memories of the terror to the police investigations and successive governments that failed them, their stories reveal the human cost of silence and the strength it takes to speak after so long.Max Marten’s narration traces how a 2013 call to police set off the SAPOL Major Crime dig, how other survivors’ voices converged, and how two adjoining properties in Yatina have become a symbol of everything South Australia still refuses to confront.As the final minutes unfold, one quiet statement from Amanda stops everything cold: ‘That wasn’t my shoe.’A phrase that reopens the questions the state never answered, and propels Sleepers toward its most unsettling chapter yet.⚠️ 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.comIt's time to rise - #fightlikejo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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adelaide oval abduction: Warrior Women #1
Warrior Women, #1In this episode of SLEEPERS, the silence is broken by voices that can no longer be ignored.Three Warrior Women, survivors, witnesses, and sisters, step forward to reveal what they saw, what they lived through, and what was covered up.Their accounts point deeper into the shadows of Stanley Arthur Hart and expose the cracks in systems that failed to protect the innocent.What they share is confronting, unsettling, and impossible to dismiss.And it is only the beginning. The revelations in this series are gathering momentum.What lies ahead will challenge everything you thought you knew about the Adelaide Oval abductions.SLEEPERS is not just unearthing the past. It is forcing the truth into the light.⚠️ 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)Blue Knot Foundation – Counselling for adult survivors of childhood trauma: 1300 657 380MensLine 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.comIt's time to rise - #fightlikejo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
sleepersJoin investigative journalist Bryan Littlely as he pulls back the curtain on Australia's most haunting cold cases. With compelling detail and chilling insights, Bryan is joined by a dedicated ground crew and unexpected allies as they pursue buried truths that authorities have long dismissed or hidden.Each gripping episode reveals never-before-heard details from key witnesses and confidential statements, shedding new light on decades-old evidence and disturbing revelations about police connections, suppressed leads, unsettling tunnels, and possible crime scenes.Featuring exclusive interviews, hidden recordings, and raw, confronting narratives, sleepers bravely challenges the official story and gives voice to the silent witnesses and forgotten victims who refuse to remain in the dark.This isn't just a podcast. It's a relentless quest for justice, a reckoning, and a promise to fight for answers.support 'Leave a Light On Inc.' here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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