sleepers
by Bryan Littlely & Max Marten
sleepers Join 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 answer
Episodes
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adelaide oval abduction: The Barrels Speak
Sixteen years after two barrels were recovered from tunnels beneath a South Australian reservoir, the science is moving again. In this episode of Sleepers, Bryan Littlely speaks with forensic scientist, toxicologist, and criminologist Asha Walther from Exhuming the Truth about her independent...
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LOST
What if the witness you've been searching for was there all along? In this special episode of Sleepers, investigative journalist Bryan Littlely sits down with Nicole Morris, founder of the Australian Missing Persons Register, during National Missing Persons Week. For 21 years, Nicole has worked…
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The Hitchhiker and the Skull
What happens when someone decides, after years of silence, that it's finally time to tell their story? In this special episode of Sleepers, investigative journalist Bryan Littlely takes listeners behind the scenes of the investigative process itself. You'll hear how one witness's recollection of…
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Hidden Adelaide
This episode contains references to child exploitation, grooming, sexual abuse and trauma. Listener discretion is advised. What if some of the most important witnesses to South Australia's darkest mysteries were never suspects, police officers or investigators? What if they were simply there? In...
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the family case: The 'Other' Adelaide
This episode contains references to child exploitation, grooming, drugging allegations, sexual abuse, trauma, and strong language. Listener discretion is advised. This interview audio has been altered at the request of the Interviewee. In this episode, investigative journalist Brian Littlely…
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the family case: The Family No One Wants.
This episode contains references to child exploitation, grooming, drugging allegations, sexual abuse, trauma, and strong language. Listener discretion is advised. This interview audio has been altered at the request of the Interviewee. Sleepers begins a new investigative line into The Family and...
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Sowing the Seeds
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...
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adelaide oval abduction: Evil Play
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...
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adelaide oval abduction: The Chameleon
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:...
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adelaide oval abduction: Family Ties
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…
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beaumont abduction: The Woman on the Lawn
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...
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beaumont abduction : Hannah's Story
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.…
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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...
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adelaide oval abduction: The Rings
Sleepers: The Adelaide Oval Abductions #9 In 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...
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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...
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adelaide oval abduction: Warrior Women #1
Warrior Women, #1 In 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…
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snakes in the grass
In this episode of Sleepers, survivor Paul Cornelius speaks publicly for the first time about his abuse at the hands of disgraced magistrate Peter Liddy. His story shines a light on the hidden networks of power that thrived in South Australia through the 1970s and ’80s, linking surf clubs,...
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adelaide oval abduction: Forum #1 - the sleepers rise
In our first-ever Sleepers forum episode, the public steps forward, and the ripple effect is undeniable. From firsthand memories of the Adelaide parklands to lost police reports, overlooked sightings, and new connections to persons of interest, this is the episode where long-held silence begins…
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adelaide oval abduction: unknown Bones
For over 50 years, Alex Bone’s name was absent from the record, omitted from the inquest, ignored in official files, and unknown even to Joanne Ratcliffe’s own sister. But Alex was there. He went to the football with the Ratcliffes. He searched for Jo and Kirste that afternoon. And, in this...
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adelaide oval abduction: FRED
In this powerful episode of SLEEPERS, we bring you the harrowing story of Alfredo Paglia, known to all as FRED. A survivor who has spent more than a decade trying to make his voice heard. Fred's experience is not just personal; it’s deeply connected to the broader investigation into the Adelaide...
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adelaide oval abduction: back to ground zero
We had planned for this episode to focus on what is known about our prime suspect, Stan Hart. But two days after Sleepers Episode 1 dropped, everything changed. Out of nowhere came an extraordinary interview with Anthony Kilmartin, the then 13-year-old boy who stood just metres away from the man...
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adelaide oval abduction : how it started…
The Adelaide Oval Abduction - how it started... On August 25, 1973, 11-year-old Joanne Ratcliffe and 4-year-old Kirste Gordon left their seats during a football match at Adelaide Oval… and never came back. Despite thousands of witnesses, multiple sightings, and decades of investigation, their...
About this show
sleepers
Join 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 answer
Hosted by
Bryan Littlely & Max Marten