Episode 84 - The Adelaide Family Murders Part 1 of 2
Summary:
In part one of this two-part series, we delve into the chilling family murders in Adelaide between 1979 and 1983. In this episode we focus on the victims, the MO of the crimes linking them, witnesses and suspected perpetrator/s. We close out this episode on before the turning point in the case. Join us as we uncover the dark secrets behind these brutal crimes and discuss the broader implications of these crimes.
Keywords:
True Crime, Adelaide Murders, Family Murders, Cold Cases, Australian Crime, Forensic Evidence, Criminal Investigation, Unsolved Crimes, Crime Analysis, Justice System
Sources and other links
Young Blood: The Story of the Family Murders, by Bob O’Brien
Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders, by Debi Marshall
Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies, Documentary, Foxtel.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Celebrations
02:48 Easter Reflections and Family Dynamics
08:51 Artemis 2 Launch and Space Exploration
11:56 The Dish and Australian Contributions to Space
20:52 Merch Update and Listener Engagement
22:04 Introduction to the Family Murders
24:45 Context of Adelaide and Crime Rates
27:40 Overview of the Family Murders
32:43 The First Case: Alan Barnes
39:13 The Tragic Discovery
42:33 Neil Muir's Story
56:04 The Case of Peter Stognaff
01:03:59 Mark Langley's Mysterious Disappearance
01:12:23 Patterns of Violence and Investigation
0:15 Two crime besties we are ever so slowly pushing towards the 100
0:21 episodes we are in episode 84 today.
0:23 Crazy, crazy. I it's really blown my minds.
0:26 I know we were talking about it before.
0:28 I'm like. Sorry not I have more than no
0:30 wait. That wasn't a Freudian.
0:35 May have had wines before we started and that's maybe not a
0:38 good thing. Well.
0:39 Let's, let's put it out there. We are recording on the school
0:42 holidays, which we all know is difficult at the best of times.
0:47 We're recording at night. OK, Another element for, well,
0:51 for me in particular for you, you're a night person.
0:55 Yeah, I'm in my this. Is you're peaking right now?
0:57 Hours. Yeah, I'm not.
0:59 No, really not. And then also producer Pete made
1:03 us a really nice dinner. It was so.
1:04 Delicious. Really, really really.
1:06 Great, but delicious. I did tell him it had to be
1:10 ready at six and it was ready at 7 it.
1:12 Was worth it. Yeah, he did make multiple
1:14 dishes, Yeah, so I'll give him that.
1:16 Oh. As, as he said, was it.
1:18 Fast food, food court, basically.
1:19 Yeah. Like it was it was good.
1:21 It was good. Thank you.
1:22 Thank you, producer Pete. Thank you, producer Pete.
1:24 Appreciate it. It's.
1:25 Nicest we're gonna get. Yeah, yeah.
1:27 Don't expect anything more. And then, yeah, of course we had
1:31 some wines. I mean, be rude not to.
1:33 Well. It is Easter.
1:34 We're gonna celebrate. We've had some buy me a wines
1:37 from a couple of people this week, Sarah G and Jess.
1:40 They would have been disappointed if we didn't have
1:41 wines. Yeah, so we.
1:44 Need that. I know when you texted me this
1:45 afternoon and said shall I buy us a bottle of bubbly and I was
1:48 like, what is she even asking me for?
1:51 Yeah. I mean, you know, you know, you
1:55 know, I don't know why. I just wanted, I wanted you to
1:57 be like, yeah, yeah. Which is exactly what I got
2:00 back. I literally like that.
2:02 Do break my arm. Wouldn't dare.
2:05 Wouldn't dare, Yeah. How's your week been?
2:08 Yeah, it's been really very quiet and it's nice.
2:13 I needed it. I had a really crazy last few
2:15 days of like the term and the, it was mental, absolutely
2:19 mental. So yeah, the last few days, I
2:21 mean, you know, it's Easter and it's just different.
2:25 It's just, it's just the weirdest time of year, I reckon.
2:28 Nothing's open, nothing's happening, but there's literally
2:30 nothing happening. Yeah.
2:33 So it's been very quiet and really, really nice.
2:36 That's so lovely. We've had a really busy weekend,
2:39 yeah, a lot of socialising, but good, good socialising.
2:41 Yeah, it's been nice. But yeah, today we kind of had a
2:45 bit of a down day and it was really lovely to not have to be
2:49 doing anything. Yeah, because it is.
2:52 It is weird. I mean for us non Christians, I
2:55 mean I. Was.
2:57 Born and raised a Catholic, so my family, a lot of people in my
3:01 family still really celebrate what is I would what I would say
3:05 is probably the true meaning of Easter.
3:08 Us not so much in our family, but there's still like a lot of
3:14 family obligation around it and watching people who you need,
3:17 you feel like you need to go and see and it's being lovely, don't
3:20 get me wrong. It's just, it's almost like
3:22 another like a mini Christmas. Yeah, see it's like nonexistent
3:25 in my family in that like we're not religious at all and never
3:29 have been not any any part of my family are that like Easter's
3:33 like it's just chocolate and east and like cock cross buns.
3:36 Yeah, OK. I mean, and typically like,
3:38 yeah, Easter Sunday. We've always done an Easter egg
3:40 hunt thing. It's been massive as we were
3:42 kids and stuff. But my kids aren't around this
3:44 this year for Sunday. So that's my family just went
3:47 well, we'll just wait for them to be around.
3:49 Yeah. OK.
3:49 So it's just which like no one cares what what day of the week
3:52 we do that sort of stuff. Like it's not like that for us
3:55 at all of like it's got to be to be a certain day or something.
3:58 Yeah. So it's really been, it's like,
3:59 yeah, the shots were shut on Friday.
4:02 Yeah, they're like, hmm, OK, what do I do?
4:05 You know what I actually found? Yeah, it's it's and it is nice
4:08 to have the you have no choice but to do nothing, which is
4:11 actually quite nice. Yes, it's not the worst thing in
4:14 the world. Nice to sort of slow down,
4:16 especially at the end of the school term where school
4:18 holidays have fallen in Victoria, or at least this year.
4:21 Yeah, the start of the school holidays.
4:23 It's kind of a nice way to ease into the school holidays.
4:25 It is. I mean, we enjoy it, you know, 1
4:27 less day at work, like, you know, you finish on a Thursday
4:30 rather than the Friday. Yeah, that's always nice.
4:33 But yeah, it's just, oh, it's just different.
4:36 Oliver different. Oliver went on camp in that last
4:38 week of school, so he was absolute.
4:40 He couldn't even string a a sentence 2 words together.
4:44 No, you guys were walking out on Wednesday and I was standing at
4:46 near the gate kind of area and it's just caught out.
4:48 Oh, hey, you know, how was Kev? And you were like, Oh no.
4:50 He literally he can't, don't, don't even look at.
4:54 Him too late at all. Have hope.
4:56 You had fun. He did have exhaust.
4:59 He was just exhausted. I know another friend of ours
5:02 said to me that when she got home she just immediately had to
5:04 get her daughter in the shower 'cause she stayed.
5:08 I, I empathise with that. I absolutely empathise with
5:12 that. But they went somewhere where
5:14 they had showers. Oh.
5:15 Yeah, they absolutely had showers like.
5:17 'Cause I remember coming home from like we did a full week
5:19 camp like in about year nine I reckon, where there were no
5:22 showers. So when you got in that car, I
5:26 had no idea. I stank but I remember my mom
5:28 just going oh fuck like. Wind the window down in the
5:30 shower. Love it.
5:36 Yeah, I had to. As soon as you got home, I'm
5:39 like, OK, Straight in the shower.
5:41 Yeah. Everything he took with him,
5:43 bags included, all went through the washing machine.
5:46 Yeah, yeah. God, yeah, Yeah, kids.
5:51 And they would have had a great. Best time grade 6 camp?
5:53 Oh, I still remember my grade 6 camp and it was wonderful.
5:56 Give him a couple of months and then it'll be like, yeah, it was
5:59 awesome. Yeah, it was actually.
6:00 Great, they're still like. I'm, I'm processing this.
6:03 Yeah. Now they had it.
6:04 They really had a great time. And hats off to the teachers who
6:07 went, because what a what an undertaking.
6:09 Let's be honest, they had a lot of wine.
6:11 I hope they did. I really hope they did.
6:14 Yeah. It'd be very well deserved.
6:16 Oh. Camp as teachers is next level.
6:19 Yeah, they deserve everything. Anything they can get this
6:22 pleasurable of that. Week.
6:23 Yeah. Isn't it just a bag of M&M's or
6:25 something? It's more.
6:27 Than that going on. Oh God, if you get any sleep for
6:31 that week as a teacher, you're doing bloody well.
6:33 Yeah. Yeah, look, I think, yeah, it,
6:36 it was much appreciated. Very, very much appreciated.
6:39 They put themselves out there to do that.
6:41 Yeah. Now another thing that's
6:42 happened this week. So this will actually be coming
6:44 out a week after this has happened or a bit off, bit over
6:48 a week after this has happened. But something that has
6:50 absolutely captured me holus bolus, like I am just so
6:57 entrenched in this. And I'll give a bit of back
6:59 story in a second. Oh, I love it.
7:01 The Artemis 2 launch. Oh yeah, your family would be
7:04 well into that, Yeah. Oh my God.
7:06 So we watched it. Yeah, live.
7:08 Because of course, sweetie. Is.
7:11 Peter Yeah. So Lukey was at school, but I
7:15 kept Dolly home from school that day, and not because of the
7:18 Artemis launch, but because he just gotten back from camp.
7:20 We watched that and I was. It's just, to me, it is such a
7:26 massive thing for humanity. And the other thing that I
7:28 absolutely love about it. So one of the the female
7:31 astronaut who is on the spacecraft at the moment,
7:34 Christina, I have been following her on social media for years
7:37 and years and years. Yeah, she's amazing.
7:39 Yeah. She is incredible.
7:40 Yes. Not only is she the longest
7:42 person to have ever stayed on the International Space Station,
7:44 it's over 300 and 320 days, maybe.
7:48 God, yeah. She, she's just incredible.
7:52 And she is now the first woman to travel to the moon, one of
7:58 she's the, the first female to have gone as far as humans have
8:02 ever gone ever. Because now, like today,
8:05 actually today we're recording this, the astronauts reach the
8:09 far side of the moon, which is the furthest humans have ever
8:12 gone in space exploration. Massive.
8:15 It's massive. That is so cool.
8:17 And I, it just, it blows my mind and I'm so like proud of us as a
8:22 humanity that we're doing this again.
8:24 I. Mean just don't bring it down.
8:26 I guess a little bit just sucks balls.
8:28 But like, I hate that, like this whole launch and all of that
8:31 happening has been so overshadowed by the other shit
8:34 that's going on in this world at the moment because this should
8:37 be far more front and centre than it is.
8:40 Yeah. I mean, I've not been following
8:42 it and now hearing you kind of going fuck yes, I need to get on
8:45 on board for this more. Like, I knew it was happening
8:48 and all that sort of stuff and I'm, you know, I know about it,
8:50 but it's not what I'm glued to when I should be.
8:54 Instead I'm glued to this other shit and well, how much am I
8:56 going to pay for fuel tomorrow? Kind of stuff like it.
8:58 Which is so bullshit. I, I totally get that too,
9:00 because they're the things we have to be kind of a bit focused
9:03 on because that's our livelihoods and whatever.
9:07 But, you know, I mean, Artemis has had a bit of trouble with
9:10 their toilet. Oh really?
9:11 So what they think has happened and astronaut Christina has been
9:16 the one trying to fix it and sort it out and she's done.
9:19 She's actually done an amazing job.
9:20 However, it's, this is not her fault.
9:23 The lines are actually getting frozen.
9:25 So as they go around towards the dark side of the moon, obviously
9:27 temperatures are even colder, which maybe wasn't factored in.
9:34 But you think surely that is, you know, they've actually, I
9:36 know that they've been they've been having toileting.
9:39 Issues, I think since launch, yeah, right.
9:41 Not for number twos, just for number ones, just for liquids.
9:44 OK. Solid.
9:45 I'm assuming they're not. I mean, I guess you've got to
9:47 pass some, but like, like what you consume?
9:50 Eat. Yeah, I know.
9:51 They. Eat, but like what you're
9:52 consuming is probably a whole lot, not whole, you know?
9:55 What happens when you eat? Yeah, poo, I know, but like,
9:58 what you're consuming is surely a lot more liquid than it is.
10:01 No, I think they eat food I'm not gonna.
10:03 Sit and have a steak and veg they're eating.
10:06 But they're eating like dehydrated stuff that they're
10:08 rehydrating. They're eating food.
10:10 OK, alright. Yeah.
10:11 I thought they'd be like literally on a liquid diet
10:13 basically. Basically, look, I'm sure they
10:14 get a fair few of their calories from liquid.
10:16 Yeah, I would, I think like back on, you know, what do you call?
10:18 It sausage or something and stuff like that.
10:21 I think they actually have a slightly more varied diet than
10:23 that. Wow.
10:24 OK, cool. Yeah.
10:26 So yes, they do poo. Apparently the poos haven't been
10:29 as much of an issue because they can kind of pass through, but
10:31 it's the liquids that are kind of getting getting trapped.
10:36 Well, I guess. Are they freezing?
10:37 Yeah. Yeah, and then blocking tubes
10:39 and stuff. So OK, they're having to weigh
10:41 into bags. Yay.
10:44 Like that's great. Yeah, that would not be fun.
10:47 Well, again, another one going to the.
10:48 Toilet in space wouldn't be fun at the best of times, let alone
10:52 then. Having to feed it would be
10:53 probably easier. Oh yeah, 'cause you're just.
10:56 That put you, yeah. Put you put your thing in the.
10:59 Hole you'll be fine, whereas for women it's just not as
11:02 convenient. Not as easy.
11:03 It's not definitely not as easy, no.
11:05 I was reading a thing about the first woman, whoever went to
11:08 space and they, it was like a maybe a two or three day
11:14 mission. Don't quote me on that because I
11:16 can't remember off the top of my head, but they were like Oh my
11:19 God what if she gets her period up there and they sent?
11:21 There's a whole song that they wrote about that, about how many
11:23 tampons. She sent 100 tampons.
11:30 Have you heard that song? Does any?
11:31 No, I don't. I have to.
11:33 Find it. But I'm like, does anyone
11:35 actually understand how the female body?
11:38 Works like no literally these these rockets.
11:41 Scientists. Do not know how the female body
11:44 works. I've got to.
11:45 Find this song in one in one outing in one period.
11:51 You don't need 100 tampons. Like for the whole, you know,
11:56 the whole time. She was only going for a few
11:58 days. She certainly didn't need 100
12:00 tampons. Oh, God, no.
12:02 Yeah. God.
12:03 Oh God. I've gotta find the song.
12:04 It's really annoying me. I'll play it.
12:05 I'll put it on our socially if I find it.
12:06 Please do. It's.
12:08 Hilarious, yeah. Yeah, yes, man, man, oh man.
12:12 Anyway, just love it. I've been glued and I think
12:15 maybe by the time this comes out they'll almost be back.
12:18 Or they'll be back. So can't wait I.
12:21 Actually not somewhat related to this, I end up watching The Dish
12:25 with my oldest son the other day.
12:26 We were talking about this the other day 'cause we watched it
12:29 with our Oh, did you? So good at a good movie and
12:32 watch that. And I hadn't seen it in years.
12:34 Oh, and so I sat and 'cause he's into science, he loves his
12:37 science stuff that I like. The youngest one, of course,
12:39 like him. You know Australia had a had a
12:41 hand in this Artemis launch as. Well, they did.
12:43 That's so cool. That is so cool.
12:45 Yeah. Because yeah, Mason was just
12:46 blown away, but he now wants to go like.
12:48 Of course, yeah. To park parks.
12:50 I was like, OK, we'll put it on our bucket list of yeah, but
12:54 yeah, 'cause it's just, it was. It's such a cool movie.
12:56 That's so funny. That movie too, so.
12:58 Good typical Australian kind of star movie.
13:00 Well, don't you just wanna like, hug him?
13:02 Oh, I just love him. So good.
13:05 That movie's really good. It is, yeah.
13:07 Good timing for any any of our international listeners who
13:09 haven't watched watch the Dish. It is, yeah.
13:12 It really gives you an idea of what Australia was like back in
13:15 the, what was it, 60s? It was in the yeah, the, the
13:18 lunar landing. Yeah, yeah.
13:20 Late 60s yet. Very good.
13:22 Now, school holiday plans. I know you haven't had the boys,
13:25 but you're coming up for having them.
13:26 Where are you at with what you're gonna do some to?
13:29 Entertain. They're gonna do some go
13:31 karting, I think, if they've got fuel.
13:35 If they're not charging you $87.00 a lap.
13:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I will go do that most likely
13:40 because that's what they would love to do.
13:41 Every school holiday is my two. It's one of their obsessions.
13:44 So we was trying to do that in the school holidays, which I
13:46 figure I'm kind of doing myself a favour and doing it because I
13:48 figure I'm training them for when they're driving cars later.
13:51 So I always feel like it's a this is a good thing, this is a
13:53 good. Thing that they're racing.
13:57 They get the, the feel of being in control of a vehicle.
13:59 Yeah. And like, you know, look, I come
14:01 back from a bit of a rally car racing background.
14:03 So I'm kind of like, I kind of get that it's gonna be hairy no
14:06 matter what when I, when my kids are driving.
14:07 Yeah. But I'm I'm built for it I
14:09 think. And ask us in six or seven
14:13 years. Yeah.
14:14 Yeah, yeah, as long as I just want them to have us like keep
14:16 the car straight, like, you know, and I watch them do this
14:19 and I have can see over when they start to when they finish
14:21 doing their laps of how much better they are at cornering.
14:24 OK. You sort of can see that they
14:25 get the feel of the vehicle. Yeah, OK, well, that's and
14:28 understand a bit more. I remember when my dad was
14:30 teaching my brother how to drive.
14:32 Yeah. And they came home one day
14:35 screaming at each other because I.
14:37 Should do it every time you do it my.
14:39 Dad, my dad was like, this is not a video game.
14:42 It doesn't handle like GTA. I'll see your parents.
14:47 My friends have very different ideas of how you teach someone
14:49 to drive. So my dad, my first learning, my
14:52 first lesson in the car with my dad ever getting in the car was
14:55 we're going down the Geelong freeway, 100K an hour, and dad
14:59 was teaching me how to use the cruise control.
15:00 It was my first experience of being behind the wheel.
15:06 I love it. I mean, well, I say first
15:07 experience being because I grew up going to farms and stuff.
15:09 So yes, I had ridden motorbikes and all these sorts of things
15:12 and driven cars around paddocks. So it was, I guess, a little bit
15:15 different. But that's why I want my kids to
15:17 have that, yeah, as their first kind of experience for driving.
15:20 Then getting on the road with other cars.
15:22 Whereas my Rd. experience on the road with other cars on a bloody
15:26 big freeway learning how to use the cruise control.
15:28 Well, I remember my dad took me because my dad had a manual car
15:31 and I wanted to learn in a manual.
15:32 Yeah, and my dad took me to some factories.
15:36 It's not far from where we lived at the time.
15:37 Yeah. And then and it was peak hour
15:39 when we were coming back. And he's like, Oh no, you can
15:41 drive home. And I was like, oh, I don't
15:43 know. Oh, you know, brand new driver.
15:46 Yeah, manual car. Anyway, we were at a hill.
15:50 Oh, shit. And we got stopped at the
15:51 traffic light and I was like, fuck, I'd never done a handbrake
15:54 start on a hill. Like Dad had taught me how to do
15:57 it on a flat. Yeah, yeah, never done 1.
15:59 On a hill, so we're at and do you think I could fucking get
16:03 this car going? I could not get it going.
16:06 I reckon it was two or three changes.
16:08 I was crying immediately. I think it was two or three
16:12 changes of lights before I actually got the car going and
16:14 there were people beeping me. Yeah, and I was.
16:17 Like I'm brand new, or I mean it.
16:18 Was so stressful. It was so stressful.
16:22 I never remember. My dad's very patient.
16:24 Oh, your dad is? Yeah.
16:25 Whereas my, my mum was not. She was like teaching us to
16:28 drive. She was not patient.
16:29 Yeah, my dad like, yeah, he was like, yeah, cool.
16:31 Yeah, I remember that. Like dad showing me which
16:33 buttons to press and stuff for the cruise control, my mum in
16:35 the back going. Don't do that, Don't do that.
16:37 Don't teach her. She actually needs to learn how
16:39 to actually drive. My mum, I don't even know if she
16:43 knows this story. So Mum, if you're listening,
16:45 closure, he is on my L plates. We were coming home from the
16:50 country. So my dad grew up in the
16:51 country, like 3 1/2 hours away from where we lived.
16:54 Yeah. And we were coming and I'm
16:56 talking country roads, right? We never used to come home the
16:58 freeway because, I mean, that's bullshit.
17:01 Way to go. We go the back way and so and I
17:05 kind of knew the way I'd never driven it before.
17:09 I was on my elves and we were driving home.
17:12 My brother was in the back seat. So and then all of a sudden we
17:16 look over and Dad's just having a little Kip in the front seat.
17:21 Matthew and I managed to navigate ourselves the way all
17:24 the way home. And then it wasn't until after
17:27 that I was like, oh, Dad probably should have been awake
17:29 for that. Yeah, maybe, yeah.
17:32 But clearly he had trust in you. Clearly.
17:36 There's no, he wasn't worried, Obviously he wasn't worried, not
17:39 nervous. I am a good driver.
17:41 Well, just ask my kids. I'm a really good driver.
17:47 No Rd. people that you've no. Road rage at.
17:49 All never. Never.
17:51 Emma does not. Have have I told my work?
17:53 My work like this was actually an embarrassing road rage
17:56 incident. No, that you don't have
17:58 embarrassing road rage. I was.
18:00 No, I was driving home from work and I was.
18:03 I actually called my work colleague for some reason, I
18:08 can't remember why. Whatever, it doesn't actually
18:09 matter. And anyway I'm driving along and
18:12 I just sort of kind of turned maybe two or three streets away
18:15 from work and I'm going down a fairly main ish road and the
18:20 person in front of me was going in the right hand lane.
18:22 It was an 80 K zone. It's going 60 right?
18:26 Yep, Yep, Yep. So I'm like fuck this shit.
18:28 So I'm like beep, beep, beep. I'm so aggressive it's horrible.
18:32 It's actually horrible, but I'm like beep, beep, beep.
18:35 Anyway, I go around this person, I'm like, you know, screaming at
18:38 them, putting my finger up the window and I I look over, I look
18:43 over and it's a work colleague of my different, not the one I
18:46 was talking to on the phone. I don't.
18:49 Know them. It's like, I was like, oh.
18:53 Fuck, you're just saying hi. I was.
18:54 Like, oh fuck, oh, it's this person.
18:57 She's like, Oh my God. And then so I just kind of
19:03 pretended like everything was fine.
19:05 I was just driving. Hi, don't go 60 on the right
19:10 hand lane is an 80 K Rd. I always, I always say, have I
19:13 even spoken to Emma while she's driving?
19:15 If I don't hear her yell abuse, she's like, do you remember
19:18 that? Time I was coming out of a car
19:20 park which and someone was like yelling at me and I was like
19:24 stop it, I'm doing that and next and you were trying to yell at
19:29 the person too. There's been so many Yeah, yeah,
19:36 yeah, yeah, yeah. We have.
19:38 We have a yeah, long history of calling each other while
19:41 striving. And at some point, inevitably,
19:43 Emma's gonna yell at be. Yeah, I mean, just don't be a
19:47 fucking Dick head, No. Don't be a Dick, as I tell my
19:49 boys every day when they out of the car for school.
19:52 Just don't be a Dick. Have a great day, don't be a
19:53 Dick. That's my exit car.
19:55 Yeah, it's not hard. No, we were meant to be on a
19:59 road trip at the moment, but obviously given the fuel crises
20:03 and flooding, just flooding in deserts and stuff, we've
20:08 actually postponed our trip till probably this time next year.
20:10 So that's opened up the school holidays for us a lot.
20:13 A lot. Yeah, all of a.
20:15 Sudden you sort of go, oh, what are we going to do now?
20:17 Yeah. So that's where I'm at.
20:19 I'm in the planning stage of what we're going to do this
20:21 week. Yes, Yeah.
20:23 And then I'm back at work next week, so for the second week of
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21:06 Yeah, yes, I've got a couple of shout outs before we get started
21:09 for today. She's got M, who loves the fact
21:12 that we call all of these pieces of shit charismatic.
21:15 She's like every time you mention charismatic, she has a
21:17 little chuckle to herself. It's like an in joke for her.
21:21 Yeah. Erin, who's one of our patrons,
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21:29 She sent us a really lovely message over the week.
21:31 So thank you to everybody for reaching out, commenting.
21:34 We read them all, whether we can get back to them all, we try.
21:37 The other day I actually replied to something that was over maybe
21:41 a month old. God, have I missed one?
21:42 Yeah. No, yeah, no.
21:44 But I was like, oh, sorry to that person.
21:46 We do try. We really, really do.
21:48 Yeah, I I sort of sometimes I sort through and I start
21:51 replying and because when you reply that one then goes to the.
21:54 Top yes, exactly and then you can.
21:55 Actually, I can't work out where I was at the same issue that has
21:58 happened where I've then missed someone potentially and then I
22:00 go back later going, Oh my God, did I not do that one?
22:02 Yeah, yes, same. Yeah, yeah.
22:04 All good, we do get there eventually.
22:05 Yes, so today we are doing a 2 parter.
22:10 So today is Part 1 of A2 Parter about the family murders in
22:14 Adelaide in South. Spirit of Easter, Jesus Christ.
22:17 I, you know what we're both just saying before, we've both kind
22:20 of struggled this week. This has been hard.
22:23 And coming off the back of the Bernie's, I don't know, I feel
22:28 like this has been a really tough swing.
22:31 Or as I said to you, I needed to find light, you know, like
22:33 things to watch on TV and things in between.
22:35 Because, yeah, real heavy. Really, really heavy.
22:39 And I mean, I knew. I didn't think I knew as much as
22:42 I knew about this case. I think I didn't realize that
22:44 things that I knew were were considered the family.
22:49 I think that's because when I started getting into, I'm like,
22:50 oh, no, I have. I've read this before and I've
22:52 heard this before and like I pieced it all together.
22:54 I think it's one of those things where I've kind of gone, yeah,
22:56 I've heard this, but hadn't kept like, actually, yeah, just
23:00 consolidated it all into being under this bracket.
23:04 I have to admit, though, I remember when we were doing the
23:06 Beaumont Children and Bevan Spencer von Eimann came up in
23:10 that and I was like mortified when I was reading about him
23:14 then. And now we come back around and
23:16 get to sort of discuss him here that it's like.
23:20 And how he actually ended up. Yeah, it's it's.
23:23 Yeah. Yeah, I, I'm so, oh, there's a
23:28 lot. There's a lot there.
23:30 I don't. I mean, I don't even know if we
23:31 will. We'll cover everything.
23:33 And because there is so much of this that people connect.
23:36 To it. That's right.
23:37 And that's the thing, like a lot of there's a lot of things in
23:41 this case are unproven, unsubstantiated, untested in
23:44 court. Yes, a lot.
23:46 And so it is a really tough thing to kind of weed out what
23:51 we want to talk about in these episodes.
23:52 Definitely, you know, there's hundreds, hundreds of cases
23:55 potentially connected to these people, people who again, we
23:59 don't even know who all those people are.
24:01 No. So it's it's a really tough, I
24:03 found it really tough to. Research, it's really hard to
24:05 research because there's names that are suppressed to do with
24:08 it as well. So in looking at from different
24:11 perspectives or trying to find research on it, when you start
24:14 sort of getting into places where you go, well, I can't get
24:16 any further there because that name is, I don't know who that
24:18 name is. I'm looking for is really hard.
24:21 Yep. And then there's the whole Why
24:23 is that? What's going on, 100?
24:26 Percent for getting into that. Maybe next episode we'll be
24:29 talking about that. Yes.
24:31 But yeah. We will try and do this in a,
24:35 you know, a format that we can follow through of like what the
24:38 information is. Yeah, as much as we.
24:40 Can like when we were talking about how we were going to sort
24:43 of split this up even then there's some crossover but we're
24:47 going to do our best to kind of keep things in an order that
24:49 will make sense to people I'm. Not lying on Emma for that,
24:52 yeah. Don't worry, my brain.
24:54 Works in odd ways. Shit will pop in everywhere.
24:59 So let's first start by talking about the time.
25:03 Yep, OK, Yep. So we're talking about late
25:06 1970s, early 1980s in the very quiet or what was the very quiet
25:12 city of Adelaide. And I think, you know, the
25:16 perception out there is that Adelaide is a quite sleepy
25:20 little. Town with a class of churches.
25:22 Yeah, it's cool. Well, yeah, is.
25:25 It is it And why is it called that?
25:26 I mean, I know there's a lot of churches, but also it is
25:31 described as like a giant country town.
25:33 It is. Adelaide is the capital of South
25:35 Australia, one of our states, but not that many people live
25:39 there. I think in the state of SA, I
25:41 think there's only roughly 1,000,000 people.
25:43 Yeah, in the city of Melbourne, where we are, there's 3 million
25:45 people. I think there's 5 million in
25:47 Victoria. So yes, when we're talking about
25:50 the amount of people in the state, you know, it's a fifth of
25:53 the state that we live in. And so that kind of gives a
25:57 little bit of context for us especially and for those who
25:59 live in Victoria in terms of how small the city really is.
26:03 Size. Wise, though, it's.
26:05 In terms of yeah size, it's it is.
26:08 It's just as big as Vic in a different shape, you know.
26:12 Yeah, but the population is a lot smaller.
26:14 So it's a really, I mean, have you spent much time, you've
26:17 recently travelled through Adelaide, doing a through SA?
26:20 I've not spent a lot of time in South Australia.
26:23 I've sort of done Robe and Victor Harbour, those sorts of,
26:27 you know, beachside towns or sort of thing, extension from
26:29 the beautiful, from the Great Ocean Road sort of stuff.
26:32 That's yeah. But I haven't, I've actually
26:34 never been to Adelaide. OK.
26:36 Yeah. So I've not, I've sort of
26:38 skipped over it, yeah. So it's not somewhere I'm that
26:41 familiar with in that sense, but quite familiar with the number
26:46 of murder cases that come out of it.
26:48 Well. We just sort of, we've talked
26:49 about this before, like Adelaide comes up a lot when we're
26:53 looking at Australian true crimes.
26:55 Yeah, it's they've got a disproportionate amount of of
27:01 crimes and especially like really brutal crimes.
27:04 I mean, we've covered Snowtown. That's right.
27:06 The Beaumont children. Yeah.
27:08 What about the the girls who went missing from the the
27:10 Adelaide over? We haven't covered that.
27:13 That might be more a Patreon type episode.
27:15 There's not a huge amount in that case.
27:17 But when I say when I say that though, those girls are still
27:20 missing to this day. Yeah.
27:22 And I think most people would probably have a little bit of an
27:24 idea about what that case is about.
27:26 But, you know, those two little girls went missing from Adelaide
27:28 over one day, never to be seen again.
27:32 And there's a lot of cases like that.
27:35 Yeah. Come out of Adelaide.
27:37 Yeah, a lot. I mean, Ivan Milat, you know,
27:40 there's just so much there, isn't there?
27:42 Yeah, I mean, we said, you know, it's known as the City of
27:45 Churches, but it also sort of gets called called the City of
27:48 Corpses for that reason. So that's so fair.
27:51 Yeah, it's it is known, just that there's some real and what
27:55 I find interesting about the cases that come out of Adelaide,
27:57 it's not even how many cases that come out of Adelaide.
28:00 It's the bizarreness of them. Yeah.
28:02 And the complexity of it and that, yeah, there's some real,
28:05 real interesting people who choose to call Adelaide home.
28:08 Yeah. And you know, the other thing,
28:09 though, that I've found is that in a lot of cases it's people
28:13 immigrating or migrating to SA. It's not people who've naturally
28:17 been born there. So maybe it attracts, it's a
28:19 certain type of person, true, because it's quiet and it's
28:22 maybe a little unassuming and you can maybe hide out a bit
28:25 more there. I don't know.
28:26 Yeah, yeah, it's really it flies under the radar.
28:29 Yeah, it really does. So the family murders are a
28:34 series of murders. We don't actually even really
28:37 know exactly how many are attributed to this family.
28:41 And we will get into a lot more about why it's called that and
28:43 who's involved as we go along, but this happened.
28:49 Between 197978. 79. Yeah, 1983 is where we're sort
28:55 of plonking this that we're talking about.
28:58 Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're going to talk
29:00 about 5, I'm guessing. Yeah, of like murders that
29:05 occurred. But as we said, I mean I I could
29:09 find like numbers of about 150. Plus I read in places like could
29:14 be. 200, this is it. I mean, I was conservatively
29:17 like going like 150 would be. You know, I feel like easy
29:22 number to serve to say conservatively that there aren't
29:26 that many sort of people who could be said to be affected by
29:29 this. Yeah.
29:30 So we're not, we're not necessarily talking, that's
29:32 right. We're not talking about
29:33 necessarily that that led to murder.
29:35 No, I think what we can say is that this is a really typical
29:40 escalation that we can see because potentially, I mean,
29:43 again, no one's been convicted of all of this.
29:48 So well, not no, certainly haven't been convicted of all of
29:51 it. And so there's a lot that we
29:53 don't actually know. Preceding this 1979 case that
29:59 we're going to talk about in a moment were a lot of stories
30:04 that have slowly come out over time of men being targeted and
30:12 raped and kidnapped and then let go and then absolutely tortured.
30:19 And So what, I guess the first case we're talking about was
30:25 just the first murder. It wasn't actually the first
30:28 assault, the first kidnapping, the first, yeah, as you said,
30:31 torture of these young men. Well.
30:33 In that yeah, that the same demographic I guess and fit the
30:37 same Moi guess because there are some other murders that occur
30:43 prior to these that could be connected and have slightly
30:49 different reasonings around them.
30:51 I guess that involve different aged people to what we're going
30:56 to talk about all that sort of thing.
30:57 So it's but they seem to be from what people have come to with
31:01 now with information piercing things together.
31:03 They seem to be also linked to what's going on.
31:07 I think it's also probably like, I think we probably need to look
31:12 at some of the things with a bit of AI, don't know a hat on or
31:19 what. I don't know.
31:20 But to think of it as a lot of armchair detectives, yeah, have
31:24 their say in this. And I think it's muddied the
31:26 waters in a lot of these cases. And I'm not saying it's for the
31:29 better or for the worse. No, because The thing is, if
31:32 they if, if all these people hadn't come to this and bringing
31:34 this information and finding this out, what were the Hong
31:37 Kong police doing? Yeah.
31:38 Who was supposed to be like? I mean, we can get angry about
31:41 that as we go. Yeah, but there's a lot of stuff
31:44 that hasn't been looked into. And why is that and why then has
31:48 it been that it's been needed to be armchair detectives to come
31:51 in and find information out? Yeah.
31:53 I mean, I say armchair detectives, some of them have
31:55 been, you know, journalists, you know, so, you know, know what
31:58 they're doing. Like investigative,
31:59 investigative journalists have done a lot on this case.
32:02 Yeah. So it's definitely comes with
32:05 supported evidence. Yep.
32:07 But there's others that doesn't that don't as well.
32:09 So it's and it's trying to pick through the weeds of all of that
32:12 to try and find the information that we're going to bring you
32:13 today. Because yeah, that was kind of
32:15 tricky. I found, yeah, that you could
32:17 definitely find information all over the place about people
32:19 saying I know some, I know someone who knows someone, yeah,
32:22 who said this. And that's what I found.
32:24 When I was researching this, it's a lot of like, yes, someone
32:27 told me something, yeah, yeah, OK, but where's that person?
32:30 And that person's either not able to be found, is deceased or
32:34 is not willing to come forward. And then yeah, how do you
32:36 corroborate that? And.
32:37 Or even those that have come forward again, how do you
32:40 corroborate what they're saying too?
32:41 Because or are they just, are they exaggerating or jump or are
32:45 they? Yeah, Are they?
32:46 Yeah. So it's really tricky in places
32:48 to know what what is real and what's facts.
32:51 That is very, very, very true. So this is, we're going to be
32:56 talking specifically about these cases today of these young men
33:00 who were kidnapped, brutally assaulted, drugged and murdered
33:08 and how that all came about and what came after.
33:12 Yeah. They are known as the family
33:15 murders. And we will get to that.
33:17 Why they were called that in probably in next week's episode.
33:20 Yeah. So the first case occurred in on
33:24 the 17th of June in 1979. Now this is just absolutely
33:33 horrific. They are all absolutely
33:36 horrific. Yeah.
33:38 The first boy, now he was a boy. He was 16 years of age at the
33:43 time of his kidnapping and murder.
33:47 He was. His name was Ellen Barnes, and
33:50 he was a handsome, carefree, sarcastic, cheeky young man.
33:54 The surfer dude. Like, everything.
33:57 Like, have you seen his mum interviewed?
33:59 Yeah. Salt to the earth.
34:00 Absolutely. I was just like, oh, you poor
34:02 woman. You can see the pain in her
34:03 face. Yeah, and his sister too, who's
34:05 finally come forward. She wouldn't come forward for a
34:07 long time, but she she's been, she's come forward more recently
34:10 and again, like just feel for them.
34:13 Like they've gone for years now with no answers really, I guess,
34:15 which is awful. Yeah.
34:17 Yeah. So.
34:20 On this particular night, Ellen was loved the party scene, loved
34:24 going out in Adelaide and having a really good time with his
34:27 mates and he had this best mate named Darko, who hasn't had a
34:33 friend with a surname ending in a No Stevo Darko.
34:36 I don't know, it's very Australian.
34:40 The night. So the night before he went
34:43 missing, but the night before Ellen went missing.
34:47 Darko and Ellen had gone out for the night, and then they went to
34:50 stay at Darko's house for the night.
34:52 This was a very typical thing that they did.
34:54 They were besties. They would often stay at one
34:56 another's homes. Yeah.
34:59 The next. What was it around midday by the
35:00 time they woke up the next day and Ellen's like oh, I'd better
35:03 get home to mom. And they decided to.
35:08 So they've both actually walked down to the bus stop where Ellen
35:14 was going to, you know, try and grab a bus.
35:16 And it was, I don't know if it was a Sunday or something, but
35:19 it was going to be a while before the next bus came.
35:21 So, yeah, Ellen decided that maybe he'd try and hitchhike
35:25 home. It was something he'd done
35:26 multiple times before, and it was something that was done a
35:30 lot at that time. Yeah.
35:32 In the 70s, we, we've talked about this in so many other
35:35 cases, the Clermont killings, like, and not that that's in SA,
35:39 but kids around that era, yeah, would often bum a lift home with
35:43 someone hitchhiking, get a lift home with someone.
35:45 Yes. So the two boys were standing
35:48 there. They decided that Ellen was
35:50 going to hitchhike home, but they thought, oh, I don't know
35:54 if people are going to stop and pick up two boys.
35:56 So Darko's like, oh, you know what, I think I might just head
36:00 home. And that way you you've probably
36:01 got an easier time of being. Picked up that was that split up
36:05 just trying get one individually, get a car
36:07 individually rather than two guys at once.
36:09 Yeah, yeah. So what actually happened that
36:12 day was Ellen was seen by. So this was an acquaintance of
36:17 Ellen's. So this bloke, I think they'd
36:20 work together or something. And he kind of knew Ellen to
36:24 look at him anyway. And he was in his car driving
36:28 along, and he kind of noticed that Ellen was at the bus stop
36:31 hitchhiking. And he looked in his rearview
36:34 mirror and he was like, oh, someone's actually stopped to
36:37 pick Ellen up. And what he noticed was a, a
36:41 white HQ Holden, a sedan with three or four people in the car
36:45 already. And he kind of, he didn't
36:48 actually see Ellen get in the car, but by the time he pulled
36:52 off to go again, he looked back in his rearview mirror and Ellen
36:56 was no longer on the street. So he assumed he'd gotten into
37:00 that car and someone had, you know, picked him up hitchhiking
37:04 and was going to take him home. Yeah.
37:06 Now he didn't get home. Unfortunately, his mom that
37:13 night thought it was really strange that he hadn't come
37:15 home. She was definitely expecting him
37:17 to be there that night, had phoned his friend, had phoned
37:20 Daco's be like, where is he? What's going on?
37:23 And no one sort of knew where he was.
37:26 So she ended up reporting him missing to the local police that
37:31 night. Now, this poor woman, I, my
37:35 heart broke when she was sort of describing the realization of
37:40 what came of it because what she said was the next she kind of
37:44 knew. Obviously, she was just worried.
37:47 And it was horrific. But I think it was like less
37:51 than 48 hours later, his body was found in.
37:56 It was like at the bottom of a bridge.
37:58 Yeah, it's under a bridge. It's S power.
38:01 Sorry. Yeah, S power reservoir.
38:03 Yeah, so S power reservoir, if it was full, it would have
38:10 basically filled to for the water to go under the bridge.
38:13 Yeah, but it had been a very dry summer.
38:17 Yeah. And the bridge and sorry.
38:18 And the water had receded so far that it was actually just like a
38:21 muddy embankment under the bridge.
38:23 There's. Sort of a thought that he was
38:25 potentially thrown off the bridge thinking that the person
38:27 thinking that, that then his body would land in the water and
38:30 he'd be floated away and that'd be that.
38:32 Kind of like sinking into the mud.
38:34 Yeah, but that's. But there wasn't enough water
38:37 there for that to happen. And so his body was exposed, you
38:40 know, and not, not hidden by the water and that sort of thing.
38:42 Yeah, so his mum talks about watching the news and the news
38:47 reported that they'd found a 20 odd year old man's body at the,
38:54 what was it called? Through the S power reservoir.
38:56 Yeah. And she was, she, she said she
39:00 just knew immediately that that was him.
39:02 So she rang the police and she's like, he's not 20, he's 16 and
39:05 he's my son. Oh, that got me.
39:07 Odd 00. Just awful.
39:11 What they found is that he had died from massive blood loss due
39:17 to severe internal injuries, most specifically to his anal
39:23 cavity. Yeah, yeah, most likely due to
39:27 insertion of a large blunt object.
39:29 Yeah. So when they say a large blunt
39:31 object, it's really interesting. A lot of places I've seen have
39:35 have said it was probably like a beer bottle or something like
39:38 that. I've also heard other theories,
39:41 which we will get to later on down the track when we talk
39:43 about other victims in this circumstance.
39:45 But we don't know what that object was.
39:48 It's interesting, but it caused such trauma to that area that
39:53 the blood loss was enough to kill a person.
39:56 So that gives you an idea of just how severe that trauma was.
40:00 Absolutely. Now his body did also show that
40:03 he'd been beaten and tortured, so and there was a lot of other
40:07 marks on the body to suggest that there was more that went on
40:12 than just the obviously the rape.
40:18 There was also Noctech found in his blood, suggesting that he'd
40:23 been drugged. Other sedatives as well and he
40:27 had a blood alcohol concentration of .19.
40:31 Now. His mum was like, well, when he
40:33 left his friend on that day at midday, he wouldn't have had any
40:39 alcohol in the system. He wasn't a massive drinker
40:41 anyway. But you know, to have a blood
40:44 alcohol concentration of .19%, that's pretty significant.
40:50 Yeah, you'd be quite impaired by that.
40:52 Yeah, that's a, that's a big night out, Yeah.
40:54 Yeah. Now the police did receive.
40:57 So this was kind of at this time, it was a stand alone sort
41:01 of thing. It was definitely widely
41:03 reported within the media because I mean, when a body is
41:06 found in such a circumstance, it's, you know, it's it's an
41:11 anomaly really. And it's something that really
41:14 draws people's attention. So it was all over the news.
41:17 It was in newspapers to a certain extent.
41:20 It wasn't like it was in there for days.
41:22 It was a story for a day. The police got an anonymous call
41:28 saying that there was somebody they had a name of a person who
41:33 they thought may have been involved with this, with this
41:36 murder. And that person was Bevan
41:38 Spencer von Einem. So just keep that, keep that in
41:41 your, in your mind, the. Other thing, sorry, with the
41:44 body that we should probably should mention too, was that
41:46 there was a couple other things that were notable in that the
41:48 whole body had been washed and he had been redressed, but not
41:54 in his clothing. Yeah.
41:55 That he was seen in wearing that last scene, Yeah.
41:58 So yeah. So the police were doing what
42:03 they should have done, and they were looking at all of the
42:05 people closest to him to start with.
42:08 And so they were slowly eliminating, you know, as they
42:11 do, going in concentric circles out from the person.
42:14 And it took them a long time to sort of get to the point where
42:19 they were investigating the tips that came in through the Crime
42:22 Stopper type phone calls that had come in.
42:25 Yeah. So let's leave that one there
42:30 for now. Yeah.
42:32 So we're now in August of 1979. So yeah, not very far after
42:41 this. No, only a couple months really.
42:43 Yeah. A man by the name of Neil Muir,
42:47 who was 25 years of age at the time his body was found in a
42:55 garbage bag in the Port River in August of 1979.
43:02 Yeah, this one's pretty awful. This one's really, really awful.
43:08 So Neil had LED a fairly transient lifestyle.
43:12 Yeah, he was known. He was, he was a drug addict.
43:17 He was trying to recover. He was in at the time of his
43:20 death, he was actually in a methadone pro program that
43:23 wasn't working for him. He'd actually become addicted to
43:26 methadone, unfortunately, on top of the other drugs, he'd held
43:31 down sporadic jobs here and there.
43:33 He'd worked at the meatpacking farm.
43:36 Meatpacking factory, sorry, in SA.
43:42 And look, he was very well liked by people in general.
43:47 Yeah. And his family say that he was,
43:49 you know, he was just kind of a good country boy.
43:51 He was a bit of a loner, but not in that he was weird.
43:54 No, it was more that he liked his own company.
43:58 Yeah. He was just a really kind of
44:02 good down to earth person. And he just happened to get
44:05 involved with the wrong people in his teens, and it kind of put
44:09 him on a path that he probably wasn't otherwise destined for.
44:12 Yeah, yeah. But he's like disappearance at
44:15 first it didn't trigger the same alarm as like as Alan's did.
44:19 Was really looking for him. Yeah.
44:20 No one was looking for him in this.
44:22 It was unexpected for him to go sort of missing for a few days
44:25 here and there because of his his past with, you know, use of
44:29 drugs and things like that. So it wasn't Yeah, people
44:32 weren't kind of going, hey, he hasn't turned up today.
44:34 Yeah, well, that's that was kind of him, you know, that sort of
44:36 fitted, but there was unfortunately things to be
44:41 looked at here. So when his body did turn up, so
44:44 obviously no one was looking for him before his body turned up
44:46 sort of thing. Basically what I'm trying to
44:47 say, yes, Yeah, his body was just fans.
44:50 It was a. Couple of days after he was
44:52 murdered, yeah. Or last seen.
44:53 Alive. So he was seen coming out of a
44:56 hotel in Adelaide. That was the last known
45:00 sighting, sighting of him. But because he wasn't as, I
45:04 guess tracked as much as a kid like Alan was in that he was 16
45:08 and had a family to go home to like that, you know, that
45:10 someone was expecting him home. The one was expecting, you know,
45:13 for, for, for Neil to sort of appear or not appear on a
45:18 particular day, I guess. So, yeah, his body did turn up
45:21 in the garbage bag in the port, in Port Adelaide, in Port River.
45:27 And it was, this was, it was really off.
45:30 I mean, they had been his. His body had been dissected
45:34 neatly. It had been neatly cut up into
45:37 lots of different parts. Neil did have tattoos and those
45:41 parts of his, his skin that had tattoos on them had been
45:44 removed. So it was, it's almost like
45:46 trying to make him not identifiable.
45:48 I don't know. No.
45:50 Oh, sorry, because isn't that at all?
45:51 They cutting that in the bag. So.
45:53 That's what I couldn't work out. Yeah.
45:54 So they dissected his skin and his muscle from his bone.
46:00 Yeah, because a small intestine was missing.
46:02 Yeah, they then. There was a few thing, couple of
46:04 things missing him. So they then the person who
46:08 perpetrated this then actually put like skinned him.
46:12 They cut his tattoos out almost perfectly, put them into a bag
46:16 and placed that back. So they emptied all of his
46:18 organs out of his body. They oh, this is horrific.
46:22 They decapitated him and to secure his head to his body,
46:27 they put a yellow nylon rope through his mouth, out of his
46:33 neck and then tied that around his sternum.
46:37 Then in the like in his chest cavity, they there was a bag
46:42 that was full of there was his arm limbs, it was his skin with
46:47 the tattoos on it, muscle fingers were in a separate bag
46:52 and his testicles and his penis was in another bag.
46:57 One of his testicles was in the bag, the other one was never
47:01 found. So the investigators query
47:05 whether the perpetrator either ate it or kept it as a memento
47:10 or a trophy. He was also brutally tortured,
47:18 anally so, in a similar manner. Yeah, the autopsy sort of
47:24 suggested that the same as Alan, the cause of death was massive
47:30 blood loss from the anal injury. So even though all these other
47:34 things are being done to his body post mortem.
47:37 Yeah, that was all post mortem. That was all that the actual
47:39 what had killed him was the an anal injury injury again.
47:42 Yeah, there's and there was sort of a suggestion when I, when I
47:44 was reading something which would, this is so gross and I
47:47 apologize to people now before I say it, that the way the body
47:50 was put together like that was to make it easier for one person
47:55 to carry it, to make it almost like a bag.
47:58 Yeah, OK. Which I thought.
47:59 Was That's horrible. Disgusting.
48:01 But at the same time that OK, right?
48:03 Yeah. Yeah.
48:06 Oh, just awful. In one of the bags that were in
48:09 his chest cavity as well, there was a Band-Aid and on that
48:13 Band-Aid there were some fibers that they were able to that
48:17 forensics were able to kind of have a look at and try to match
48:21 to someone. So that was something that was,
48:24 you know, helpful in terms of the investigation.
48:28 When police started investigating this, obviously
48:31 they're trying to figure out his last movements, what happened,
48:34 who he was associated with. And they found that he'd been
48:37 associated with AGP by the name of Doctor Peter Milhouse.
48:42 Now he was AGP in the area. He was quite well respected in
48:54 his field and he was known to assist patients who are addicts,
49:00 in particular in terms of getting them on methadone
49:03 programs and prescribing medications that they needed in
49:07 order to assist them with their drug addiction and, and sort of
49:12 recovery from, from drug addiction.
49:16 Oh, this man, just what do you think about him?
49:20 Alarm bells. Alarm bells 100%.
49:22 Because there's so much of this particular one that that words
49:27 that kept being sort of mentioned as I was reading about
49:29 what how the body was treated were words like deliberate and
49:34 controlled, which to me suggests someone with a medical
49:39 background. Well, look it when the autopsy
49:41 in part of the autopsy report for this they the OR the coroner
49:45 actually wrote at the bare minimum basic medical
49:50 background. Yeah.
49:52 It's almost certain, yeah. I mean, you there had to be
49:56 knowledge there to be able to do what they did.
49:59 Human anatomy anyway, so it's not even like like, So what is?
50:03 Also, we haven't actually said none of his organs were ever
50:07 found. No, his organs weren't bagged up
50:09 and put inside his body. No, they were never found.
50:14 And So what happened to his organs?
50:16 Like whoa. And again, we should say his
50:18 body. There's what was in there, the
50:20 bag, though, all those body parts, they had all been very
50:23 thoroughly washed and cleaned again.
50:26 Yeah. Which, yeah.
50:28 So that to me is again indicating someone who has some
50:32 knowledge again of, I don't know of like forensics, you know, of
50:36 what could be found from a body. As well a basic understanding of
50:39 how evidence can be left behind or how to get rid of biological.
50:43 Evidence. Yeah, Yeah.
50:45 Yeah, hard agree. So the police are kind of now
50:50 investigating this. But they don't actually link the
50:52 two at this point, No. So we should say two.
50:55 Yeah. So these two bodies have turned
50:56 up within a couple of months of each other.
50:58 And I mean, I have to say immediately, just by the cause
51:00 of death, to be honest, that should have just gone.
51:03 These are connected, absolutely. But that's not what happened
51:06 here at all. So there's no connecting these
51:08 two deaths by the police in or you know, in 701979 these are
51:13 two separate murders to the police right now.
51:15 But also, Noctech was found in in Neil's system as well.
51:20 So the same drug was found, the same anal injury that caused
51:24 massive blood loss, which actually led to the death of
51:27 each of these. Yeah, young men.
51:29 Surely that would have been going well.
51:31 There's got to be something between these two, connecting
51:33 them, but. But no, no, no, not at this
51:35 point. So the police are honing in at
51:37 this stage on the relationship that they found that Peter
51:42 Milhouse had with Neil Muir. They were acquaintances, they'd
51:46 known each other for four years. There is a lot of speculation
51:51 about their relationship and what happened between the two of
51:53 them. When I say speculation, I'm
51:56 talking about things like the fact that maybe Neil was
52:00 performing sexual favours for Peter in exchange for drugs and
52:10 other narcotics that he couldn't get otherwise.
52:13 Because we're just going to throw it in there at the moment
52:15 at that. And this will come back to of
52:17 like the person doing this was getting access to drugs, where
52:22 from where from? Had to be a doctor somewhere.
52:27 Definitely, yeah. So in January of 1980.
52:33 So this was probably what, four or five months after the murder?
52:39 The Milhouse was actually charged for Neil's murder.
52:44 Now it was a 24 day trial. A lot of people get, I think
52:49 something like 94 or something. People get 98, something like
52:54 that gave evidence, and the prosecution really thought they
52:59 had a really good case, but it was definitely very
53:01 circumstantial. So what they had was they were
53:05 able to place Peter and Neil together on the day of Neil's
53:09 disappearance. They were able to show that Neil
53:15 had had and Peter had had a sexual relationship They'd been
53:19 in with each other's company. Did I say that for four years?
53:21 Yeah, at that point, there was a lot of stories that came out
53:27 during this trial, one of which was that Milhouse had asked Neil
53:30 to urinate on him in exchange for methadone when he was like
53:33 deep in the trenches in terms of his methadone addiction.
53:39 There's a lot of really sketchy shit that was going on there.
53:43 God, yeah. The other thing that was kind of
53:45 circumstantial, given the nature of their relationship is I
53:50 mentioned before that there was a Band-Aid found inside one of
53:53 the bags of the chest cavity that sorry, in Neil's chest
53:56 cavity. And there were fibers on that
53:59 particular Band-Aid and those fibers, when the police went and
54:02 did a raid and a search of Milhouses house, they found that
54:08 the fibers from the rug in his lounge room, I think it was,
54:12 could have potentially matched those that were found somewhat.
54:16 It was not conclusive whatsoever.
54:18 So we're talking like 7980, like, I mean, I mean, I'm
54:23 tipping today technology, technology would be that it may
54:25 be more definitively give an answer to that.
54:28 I mean, pretty impressive. I think at that point they're
54:30 just looking at the microscopes, kind of going like, Oh yeah, it
54:32 looks a bit similar. Yeah.
54:34 Yeah, so very hard to pinpoint, but.
54:37 Definitely. Yeah.
54:38 But the jury after the 24 day trial came back and found Peter
54:43 not guilty. He then went and worked in a
54:46 fairly remote part of SA and was doing some locum GP ING around
54:55 there. But we will probably get back to
54:57 him, will we? Yeah, maybe.
54:59 Yeah, yeah. I'm just trying to think if
55:04 there's anything else to talk about in terms of Neil's murder.
55:09 One of the things I've just written down here, actually, is
55:13 that there was a suggestion around the time from an again,
55:20 an anonymous. Anonymous.
55:23 It's late. I'm not used to being up this
55:25 late. From an anonymous tipster, yes,
55:29 who suggested that Peter Milhouse was involved in
55:33 securing boys for Bev and Spencer, one item and in
55:39 particular in securing boys and men who are on these sort of
55:45 methadone type programs because they were easy targets.
55:49 So which again, Bev and Spencer, one item's name comes up again.
55:54 Yet these two murders are still being looked at as very separate
55:58 cases from the police. Yeah, yeah.
56:03 The next murder happened in 1981.
56:07 Now this is tragic because it involves the death of 14 year
56:11 old 14 year. Old.
56:14 The youngest that we'll talk about here, Peter Stockneff.
56:17 Yeah, this was awful. So he was so young.
56:20 So young and so gorgeous. And his mum.
56:23 Jesus, did she break me? Oh my God.
56:26 Yes. She describes him as being
56:29 musical, a really good friend. Quiet.
56:33 Gentle. Really gentle boy and her
56:36 friend, like I, I just thought, oh, I kind of, I get that, you
56:40 know, he was just, yeah, a lovely, really nice boy.
56:46 Yeah, really, really nice boy. And at 14, just.
56:49 My God, yeah. So he disappeared on the 27th of
56:53 August in 1981. Now I feel like, I mean I've
56:58 never done this because I'm a bloody straighty 180, but he
57:02 decided to so in the week leading up to his disappearance.
57:07 So his uncle actually was the same age as him or pretty much
57:12 the same age as him. He was 15 years old.
57:13 His name is Daniel and they had planned to skip it.
57:19 They didn't. I don't think they went to the
57:20 same school. But they'd plan to skip a day of
57:23 school. Yeah.
57:24 And meet at Rundle Mall, which is like in the centre of
57:27 Adelaide. Yes.
57:28 And I don't know, just skive off for the day and have some fun
57:31 and not actually go to school. Yeah.
57:33 And according to his family, some of that wasn't something
57:35 typical of him. No.
57:36 No, like even his sister is like oh he wouldn't like it was.
57:40 Not what he did on. The not what he would do, but
57:42 no. So this is probably a big deal
57:43 for him. Yeah.
57:44 So much so that his cousin. Oh, sorry.
57:47 His uncle Daniel, he kind of pulled out the night before, I
57:51 think. And I'm pretty sure everyone
57:53 thinks that it's very, very likely that Peter knew that his
57:59 cousin wasn't sorry that his uncle was not going to be there.
58:02 Yeah, right. And So what?
58:04 But he's he was like, Nah, fuck it.
58:05 I've already decided. I've committed.
58:07 I'm going through with it. I'm doing it.
58:08 I'm doing it not. Going to school.
58:10 So he left for school in inverted commas the next morning
58:15 and and he waited for his mom and dad to go to work and his
58:18 sister to go to school, and he quickly snuck back and left his
58:22 school bag in the garage, got changed and went out for the
58:25 day. Yeah, Now, it's unlikely that he
58:28 made it to Rundle Mall because he was actually seen at their
58:32 local shopping center. Now, this is an unsubstantiated
58:37 report because there's no corroboration, but this witness
58:40 is pretty adamant that she saw what she saw and she knew Peter,
58:44 so she knew him. Yeah.
58:46 What she says is that she saw him getting into.
58:50 Sorry. She saw him having a chat with a
58:53 dark skinned or a tanned man who was dressed quite effeminately
58:59 with a bag like a women's handbag and at the local
59:04 shopping center. Yeah, she said that something
59:07 really seemed off about this whole situation, but she didn't
59:12 really do anything about it. It's hard.
59:16 It's really, really hard. I'm sure it's something she
59:18 regrets to this day. It was.
59:20 A different time too though, like.
59:21 It's time ten months later. So he goes missing and his mum
59:27 and dad like it's, it's horrible.
59:31 But they don't know anything that's happened.
59:34 So they figure out. So obviously he doesn't come
59:37 home that night. They ring everyone they know.
59:41 They eventually get on to the uncle, the 15 year old uncle
59:44 who's like, oh, we were actually meant to skip school today and I
59:48 didn't end up going. And so they've got a bit of an
59:51 idea that he's still gone on and done that.
59:53 It was months before they put together even this witness
59:56 statement from the local shops. It was way too late to actually
59:59 be doing anything to really action it.
1:00:02 Now, 10 months later, a farmer, I think it was about 50 KS from
1:00:09 where he disappeared. Yeah.
1:00:10 Middle Beach, 50 KS north of Adelaide.
1:00:13 Yeah. He, this farmer is, I think it's
1:00:18 now coming into what would it be into, into summer, in the
1:00:22 summer. So yeah.
1:00:22 So he's burning, burning to back burning.
1:00:25 And there was a lot of, I think, BlackBerry shrubs that he was
1:00:27 back burning this particular farmer.
1:00:30 And when he was kind of like, clearing what had been burned,
1:00:35 he noticed a body. Yeah.
1:00:38 Because at that point, yeah, obviously he had no idea that
1:00:40 that was there. And he wasn't buried.
1:00:43 He was kind of like. There, there was no hiding his
1:00:46 body other than the fact that it was dumped in the middle of this
1:00:50 paddock land where, you know, where it was.
1:00:53 A bit of coverage, but nothing, nothing major.
1:00:56 Yeah. So unfortunately, this farm has
1:00:57 then come across it. Yeah, his body, but it's not a
1:01:00 body. It's it's it's skeletal.
1:01:02 But but what we can tell from the body is that it was chopped
1:01:08 into pieces again. So there was a number of parts
1:01:13 to him. He had been sewn into different
1:01:15 sections similar to other the others, however, because we had
1:01:21 no, you know, soft tissue, we don't know about anal injuries
1:01:28 and we don't know about drugs, you know, being in the bit or
1:01:31 alcohol in the, in the blood. So we don't have that evidence.
1:01:35 But the the the way the body had been left, there were somewhat
1:01:41 similarities in how the body had been treated from that little
1:01:45 bit that we did have which. It's kind of a bit unfortunate
1:01:48 that the fire happened because I think it destroyed.
1:01:51 Destroyed any other evidence that put it right there.
1:01:53 Clothing that was potentially on and this.
1:01:57 This skeletal remains where unfortunately, I mean, look in
1:02:00 the farm, it's not his fault. No, by no means.
1:02:02 But unfortunately, yeah, there's a lot lost there that you could
1:02:05 then use to, you know, link these to the others, to the
1:02:09 other cases. We can make a fairly good
1:02:12 assumption from the little bit that we have from that, that I
1:02:16 think if that he would have been treated the same way,
1:02:19 unfortunately, as the others. I think, I think now sort of
1:02:23 knowing a little bit more because what then came of this
1:02:26 is that the so the person that he was identified with at the
1:02:31 local cafe by this particular woman, eventually it was found
1:02:36 that this person was an associate of Bevan Spencer von
1:02:41 Inem. His name was Noel Brooke.
1:02:43 He was an Aboriginal man who was known a known homosexual.
1:02:50 Now none of this has actually been confirmed or prosecuted in
1:02:54 a court of law. This is just speculation.
1:02:57 I think that's really worth noting.
1:02:59 This man's name is so the I think the nickname of this man
1:03:06 is Dee Dee. I've seen it, sort of.
1:03:08 Yeah, I believe he's dead now. I.
1:03:11 Believe so. I remember of my other notes,
1:03:13 I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's.
1:03:16 Dead. He was known to dress
1:03:18 effeminately, which is exactly what this witness had seen.
1:03:21 And yeah, there were a lot of, again, very circumstantial
1:03:25 things that potentially meant it could have been this person, the
1:03:28 fact that he's a known associate of Bevan Spencer.
1:03:30 One item will come into play more next episode next week when
1:03:34 we talk a little bit more about him.
1:03:36 Yes. Yeah, okay, so so we're up to.
1:03:40 Before we found the body. No, no, you're right.
1:03:42 Before we found the body of Peter Stoknoff, though in the
1:03:45 interim, because he's there was quite a lengthy period between
1:03:48 Peter going missing and the body being found.
1:03:51 There was actually another person who had gone missing.
1:03:53 So in the February of 1982, which yeah, it was, was October
1:03:57 82 when Peter's body was found. So.
1:04:01 February of that year. So February of that year, so
1:04:05 four or five months after Peter went missing, the another person
1:04:09 went missing. So this is Mark Langley.
1:04:10 So Mark was 18 years of age. He was last seen after having an
1:04:16 argument with friends, which it was such a silly argument that
1:04:20 they had. And now looking back at sort of
1:04:23 one of those things where you kind of go, you know, I'm sure
1:04:25 they all wish they didn't have that argument.
1:04:27 But you know what? You had no idea this is what
1:04:29 would go on. But he basically cracked it a
1:04:31 bit and said, I'm going, you know, like, and took off.
1:04:34 And that was the last they saw of him.
1:04:36 Yeah, so he'd been, they'd been at A at a family friend's 18th
1:04:40 birthday party. Yeah, on this particular night.
1:04:43 And he'd gone home. So his mum and dad were at that
1:04:45 birthday party too. Yeah, but he'd decided to go
1:04:48 home with some friends and there was an argument over cigarettes.
1:04:52 That's right. How 1980s of ya.
1:04:55 And I'm not exactly sure what. Maybe you wanted to bum one.
1:04:58 And they were like, Nah, fuck off, get your own cigarettes.
1:05:02 And so he cracked the shit so much that he got out of the car.
1:05:05 Yeah. And what happened was his
1:05:08 friends were like, oh, fuck him, we're going to leave him, but
1:05:10 we're just going to do a blocky. Yeah.
1:05:12 And we'll come back and pick him up.
1:05:13 Like, it'll be fine. It'll be fine.
1:05:15 You know, We'll show him. We'll show him.
1:05:17 Yeah. Well, in that 5 minutes, or less
1:05:20 than 5 minutes that it took them to do a blocky, he was gone.
1:05:24 He completely disappeared. Yeah, you just can't even
1:05:28 imagine that. No, not at all.
1:05:30 I mean, it's not what you. Yeah, so.
1:05:32 Did this happen at like 4:00 in the morning?
1:05:35 I think it was pretty. It was like wee hours of the.
1:05:37 Morning, The wee, wee hours of the morning.
1:05:39 Yeah. Because he was seen by a witness
1:05:41 at that time hitchhiking along the road that his friends had
1:05:44 dropped him on. Yes.
1:05:45 And getting into a white HHQ Holden.
1:05:50 Yeah. Sedan.
1:05:52 So the friends obviously have gone back around.
1:05:55 They can't find him. They're like, oh, he's obviously
1:05:57 figured out how to get himself home.
1:05:59 Or he's. I think they assumed it would
1:06:01 have just bombed a lift, like hitchhiking home.
1:06:03 Yeah. So the next afternoon, I think
1:06:06 it was, they called the Langley home and they spoke to Mark's,
1:06:12 Mark's dad, I believe, and said, oh, you know, is Mark OK?
1:06:16 You know, we had a bit of a tiff last night, just ringing to make
1:06:18 sure everything's OK. And they were like, oh, let me
1:06:21 go and get the phone. Let me go and get him, bring him
1:06:23 to the phone and they opened his bedroom door and he wasn't there
1:06:26 and his bed hadn't been slept in.
1:06:28 So that obviously, obviously immediately raised alarm bells.
1:06:33 Now his parents had the foresight and the wherewithal to
1:06:36 know that boys had been going missing in the area and this was
1:06:41 not something that they were going to rest on.
1:06:44 So they immediately contacted the police and reported him as a
1:06:47 missing person. Now they describe Mark as
1:06:51 someone who really liked girls, was into motor cars and
1:06:54 motorbikes and had a real zest for life.
1:06:57 They also say he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, Like
1:06:59 he wasn't academic at all, but he was really good at the things
1:07:03 he was good at. You know, that kind of a that
1:07:05 kind of a guy. His friends to this day, I think
1:07:09 they'd be in there what, 50s now, But they basically the
1:07:14 trauma of this still lingers with them to this day.
1:07:18 And how could it not? Oh.
1:07:19 Absolutely. Obviously for them, because it's
1:07:21 not. Oh my God, yes.
1:07:23 Hey, that that broke me. I mean, his dad's quoted sort of
1:07:26 saying, you know, like, what do you call these people that have
1:07:29 done this to my son? You know, like you can't call
1:07:31 them animals. Like they're not even that.
1:07:33 Like they're just not. Animals are too good.
1:07:35 Animals would be too good for them, like, oh, he just broke
1:07:38 me. Yeah.
1:07:39 Yeah. Beautiful family, you know, I
1:07:42 really, really feel for them, all the friends and family of
1:07:45 all these victims. But yeah, this one, this ones
1:07:47 tough. It was a couple of weeks later
1:07:49 that they found. Nine days after he disappeared.
1:07:52 Yeah, yeah. Again, his body.
1:07:56 Was this one again? It's where there was an element
1:07:59 of someone who is some sort of surgical skill involved.
1:08:02 Absolutely. So there was a cut and it's
1:08:05 surgical. He would, he'd been shaved as if
1:08:07 he was like going in for surgery that all this, the hair had been
1:08:10 shaved away from the area of where he'd been where the
1:08:13 incisions were. Yep, he was cut with a surgical
1:08:17 instrument is what the the autopsy revealed.
1:08:19 They said that it went from the navel to the pubic region and
1:08:24 part of his small bowel was missing.
1:08:27 Yeah, there was. So, yeah, all the hair had been
1:08:29 shaved off. He.
1:08:32 But again, he had died from massive blood loss from gross
1:08:37 injuries to his anus. So what the coroner inferred was
1:08:44 that the reason that this surgical incision had been made
1:08:47 from his navel to his pubic region was because whatever
1:08:51 they, whatever blunt object they'd used to rape him anally
1:08:58 had gotten stuck and they needed to remove it for some reason.
1:09:02 So whether they made there was like fingerprint on it or
1:09:05 something. Or they could have.
1:09:06 There could have been drugs, there could have been anything
1:09:08 in there that would have potentially given them away.
1:09:12 When the toxicology report came back on Mark, it found that he
1:09:17 had mandrax in his system. And now this is a really, really
1:09:21 interesting drug. So this drug was actually
1:09:24 originally used after World War 2, and it was used in soldiers
1:09:30 who were shell shocked and needed to kind of forget what
1:09:35 they'd witnessed on the frontline.
1:09:37 They called it like a sedative. Hypnotic drug, yeah, it was in,
1:09:40 in significant doses. It was used to kind of almost
1:09:44 erase memory. Yeah.
1:09:45 And it was something that by the time these murders took place,
1:09:50 so in the late 70s and early 80s, it wasn't really prescribed
1:09:54 very much in Australia anymore. The reason for that was because
1:09:58 we had better barbiturates that came on the market that was
1:10:02 safer and easier to control and didn't have these sort of like
1:10:08 blackout side effects necessarily, especially if
1:10:10 you're taking them at the prescribed doses.
1:10:13 And so the police started sort of looking more and more into,
1:10:19 well, actually, they didn't do a lot yet.
1:10:21 Point no again. They're still not really putting
1:10:25 together that, you know, these three bodies that we've got so
1:10:28 far. Yeah, you've got three bodies
1:10:30 with very consistent causes of death.
1:10:34 I mean, yeah, as we said, Peters, we can't say what the
1:10:36 cause of death was necessarily and link it to that.
1:10:38 Yeah, but there's other elements of that body that you would
1:10:40 still say could be connected to it.
1:10:43 Even just the positioning of his bodies, that's what I reckon,
1:10:46 yeah, I think they could have taken something from that.
1:10:49 As much as these bodies were being dumped in very different
1:10:52 areas, like I know it's a quite vast wait, like they distance
1:10:55 apart from each other. It's not like they're going to a
1:10:57 same area to dump these bodies. But the way that they're being
1:11:00 dumped is very similar. They're not being hidden,
1:11:02 they're just being plonked really.
1:11:04 They weren't buried. They weren't.
1:11:05 No, no, there was none of that though.
1:11:07 And again, we should say with Mark's body, he was washed.
1:11:11 Yep. And and also dressed in clothes
1:11:14 that were not his when his body was found.
1:11:17 So it's there are so many elements to each of these that
1:11:21 are so similar that I even believe that Peters, you could
1:11:25 connect enough to say I fully agree.
1:11:27 I get it. In terms of the court in sort of
1:11:29 like convicting someone, I can fully understand maybe saying
1:11:32 let's leave that one alone 'cause we can't get as much on
1:11:34 it. But you would as a police
1:11:36 officer, you'd have to be saying, really, let's look at
1:11:38 this, we've got 4 bodies, not not one.
1:11:40 Yeah. But even like, looking at the
1:11:42 circumstances in the lead up to his disappearance, you've got to
1:11:44 like take something from that. I completely agree.
1:11:47 I can just, I can, I can understand it from a legal
1:11:49 stance going too much, too much, you know, there's too much area
1:11:52 of grey there that we could get stuck.
1:11:54 Yeah, like, yeah, I can understand it in that sense.
1:11:57 But in terms of investigative thing, Yep, yes, link it and put
1:12:02 it in the pile of the same. They all fit together to me.
1:12:05 Yes, I fully agree with you. But that's not what happened
1:12:08 here, no. And I, I will come back again, I
1:12:11 reckon next week about why not? Why was that?
1:12:14 Where are we being the case? Where are we at?
1:12:16 Because I'm, I'm not, I'm not a trained detective as.
1:12:20 Much as we'd like to feel we are.
1:12:23 Yeah, and I feel like that's fairly obvious.
1:12:24 Yeah, I, I fully agree with you. I fully, fully agree.
1:12:28 So let's just recap a little bit.
1:12:30 We've got a pattern forming, yes, we've got young male
1:12:33 victims. There's signs of a very
1:12:37 controlled, deliberate, deliberate action.
1:12:42 Yes, that is evident with honestly with all of.
1:12:46 Them. All of them, yeah.
1:12:48 The planning's there, the remote body disposal is there, the fact
1:12:52 they're not buried is there. Drugs in the system.
1:12:55 In the. System.
1:12:56 System. All of it.
1:12:57 The fact that they're kidnapped off the side of a Rd.
1:13:00 Transported to a second location, they're all being
1:13:02 picked up off of 1 location, taken to another.
1:13:05 Yeah, the sexual abuse, extreme torture.
1:13:09 Tick tick. They're all being linked.
1:13:11 Same. Ticked.
1:13:13 Yeah, and they're all leading towards the family.
1:13:18 Bodies being washed, redressed. Yeah, all of it.
1:13:23 So we're going to come back next week, guys.
1:13:25 We're going to leave it here for for this week.
1:13:27 Yeah, we're going to come back next week and talk a lot more
1:13:31 about who they are. Yeah, who the Primo person is or
1:13:37 who we think the Primo person is.
1:13:39 We've got one more victim that we'll come to that sort of is
1:13:42 the. Turning point.
1:13:42 The turning point? Absolutely.
1:13:44 So please, please, please join us again next week for the
1:13:49 conclusion of this episode. Thank you for joining us this
1:13:51 week. We really, really appreciate it.
1:13:53 We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.
1:13:56 Yes, how Whatever that looks like for you.
1:13:58 I know we've had Passover as well.
1:14:01 Yeah. So there's, you know, been a lot
1:14:03 of celebrations going on. However you do this this time of
1:14:06 the year great star in a bit late but have.
1:14:08 Orthodox Easter. Started all that, yet?
1:14:09 I think it's. Well, by the time this comes
1:14:11 out, Orthodox Easter will happen so.
1:14:13 Yes. You know what to however you
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1:14:18 Absolutely. All right, stay tuned next week
1:14:21 for Part 2 of the family murders in Adelaide.
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