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sleepers

Bryan Littlely & Max Marten

sleepersJoin investigative journalistBryan Littlelyas 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

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adelaide oval abduction: The Rings

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2025/11/02

Sleepers: The Adelaide Oval Abductions #9In 1973, seven-year-old Donna was at the Adelaide Oval the day Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon disappeared.She played with two little girls outside the toilets. Then they were gone.Police interviewed Donna soon after, took her statement, and promised to follow up on the matter. They never did.For fifty years, her memories sat alone until now.In this episode, Donna shares what she saw that day, what she later learned about her own father, and how her life

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1:06:54

adelaide oval abduction: Warrior Women #2

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2025/10/18

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 journalistBryan Littlely, the survivor of the 1966 assault that ultimately led to the only prison time that Stanley Arthur Hart ever served, they recall growing up in Stan Hart's orbit, a man they would both quickly realise was the monster hiding in plain sight.From their first memories of the terror to the police investigations and

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57:02

adelaide oval abduction: Warrior Women #1

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2025/09/26

Warrior Women, #1In this episode of SLEEPERS, the silence is broken by voices that can no longer be ignored.Three Warrior Women, survivors, witnesses, and sisters, step forward to reveal what they saw, what they lived through, and what was covered up.Their accounts point deeper into the shadows of Stanley Arthur Hart and expose the cracks in systems that failed to protect the innocent.What they share is confronting, unsettling, and impossible to dismiss.And it is only the beginning. The revelations

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49:39

snakes in the grass

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2025/09/12

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, politics, and the dark underbelly of Adelaide’s so-called establishment.Cornelius’s testimony doesn’t just revisit Liddy’s crimes; it connects to Stan Hart’s network, our prime suspect in the abduction and murder

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1:27:34

adelaide oval abduction: Forum #1 - the sleepers rise

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2025/08/30

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 to crack.You’ll hear directly from listeners, ordinary people with extraordinary insight, who may hold the missing pieces that were never pursued, never filed, and never followed up on.As new witness names

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55:19

adelaide oval abduction: unknown Bones

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2025/08/22

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 episode, he finally tells his story.This is not just a recollection, it’s a revelation that challenges everything we thought we knew about the Adelaide Oval abduction. From a timeline that no longer holds to

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45:15

adelaide oval abduction: FRED

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2025/08/15

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 Oval abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon. He names names, maps connections, and details an alleged network of abuse that, until now, has remained mainly in the shadows.With raw honesty and

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31:53

Back To Ground Zero

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2025/08/08

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 who abducted Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon from Adelaide Oval in 1973.Anthony isn’t just a witness. He’s the witness. The only person to see the abductor’s face up close and give the description that

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1:05:42

adelaide oval abduction

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2025/08/03

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 disappearance remains one of South Australia’s darkest mysteries.In this opening episode of sleepers, investigative journalist Bryan Littlely and producer Max Marten take you back to that spring afternoon — the

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