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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.

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In this episiode Bryan Littlely speaks to a woman who knew Stan Hart inside the ordinary spaces of community life.
Stamp meetings, tennis courts, and coffee with family.

What she describes is not the public persona.

It is a locked room...
A dying wife living in dim light.
A warning whispered: ‘Please don’t come back… it’s bad here for you.’
And a man capable of charm in public and force in private.

Through lived experience, this witness reveals the duality she now recognises: a respected community figure who, in her words, was a ‘chameleon’.
This episode does not deal in speculation. It deals in memory, pattern, and behaviour and asks whether concealment allowed something darker to operate for decades.

If you have information relevant to the matters discussed in SLEEPERS, you can contact us confidentially.
Always remember — Fight Like Jo!

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⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses child sexual abuse and trauma. Listener discretion is advised.

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🇦🇺 Australia
Lifeline Australia – Crisis Support & Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 (24/7)
Kids Helpline – For young people aged 5–25: 1800 55 1800 (24/7)
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MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 78
1800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)

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United States
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)
United Kingdom
NSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000
Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)
NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331
Canada
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)
Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)
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Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354
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116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)
116 111 – Child Helpline Europe
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Child Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplines

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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

🇦🇺 Australia
Lifeline 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 4636
MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 78
1800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)

🌍 International
United States
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)
United Kingdom
NSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000
Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)
NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331
Canada
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)
Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)
New Zealand
Safe to Talk (Sexual harm helpline): 0800 044 334 or text 4334 (24/7)
Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354
Europe (general)
116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)
116 111 – Child Helpline Europe
Global
Child Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplines

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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.
It's time to rise - #fightlikejo

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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

🇦🇺 Australia
Lifeline 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 4636
MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 78
1800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)

🌍 International
United States
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)
United Kingdom
NSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000
Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)
NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331
Canada
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)
Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)
New Zealand
Safe to Talk (Sexual harm helpline): 0800 044 334 or text 4334 (24/7)
Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354
Europe (general)
116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)
116 111 – Child Helpline Europe
Global
Child Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplines
International Suicide Hotlines Directory: findahelpline.com

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