In this episiode Bryan Littlely speaks to a woman who knew Stan Hart inside the ordinary spaces of community life.

Stamp meetings, tennis courts, and coffee with family.

What she describes is not the public persona.

It is a locked room...

A dying wife living in dim light.

A warning whispered: ‘Please don’t come back… it’s bad here for you.’

And a man capable of charm in public and force in private.

Through lived experience, this witness reveals the duality she now recognises: a respected community figure who, in her words, was a ‘chameleon’.

This episode does not deal in speculation. It deals in memory, pattern, and behaviour and asks whether concealment allowed something darker to operate for decades.

If you have information relevant to the matters discussed in SLEEPERS, you can contact us confidentially.

Always remember — Fight Like Jo!

#SleepersPodcast, #TheChameleon, #StanHart, #SouthAustralia, #TrueCrimeAustralia, #ColdCase

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

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Sleepers returns after a few weeks away, and it doesn’t ease back in.

In Family Ties, brothers Mark and Stephen Marshall confront memories that have followed them since childhood. One recalls being lifted onto his brother’s shoulders and told to look inside what was called Poppa’s Jail. The other, decades later, faces that memory

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Interviewed by Bryan Littlely, their accounts are raw, fragmented, and deeply unsettling, not because of what they claim, but because memory, denial, and family silence collide.

This episode sets the tone for Season Two: quieter, darker, and driven by testimony that refuses to stay buried.

We’ve been away over Christmas, but we haven’t been idle.

More interviews.

More voices.

More threads are already pulling tight.

This is only the beginning.

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

• Lifeline Australia – Crisis Support & Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 (24/7)
• Kids Helpline – For young people aged 5–25: 1800 55 1800 (24/7)
• Beyond Blue – free, confidential telephone counselling 24/7: 1300 22 4636
• MensLine Australia – Counselling for men: 1300 78 99 78
• 1800RESPECT – National Sexual Assault, Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800 737 732 (24/7)

United States

• RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7)
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Dial 988 (24/7)

United Kingdom

• NSPCC (for children & young people): 0808 800 5000
• Samaritans UK: 116 123 (24/7)
• NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood): 0808 801 0331

Canada

• Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)
• Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7)

New Zealand

• Safe to Talk (Sexual harm helpline): 0800 044 334 or text 4334 (24/7)
• Lifeline New Zealand: 0800 543 354

Europe (general)

• 116 123 – European standard suicide helpline (works in many EU countries)
• 116 111 – Child Helpline Europe

Global

• Child Helpline International: childhelplineinternational.org/child-helplines

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In this final episode of 2025, Sleepers brings you one of the most significant witness accounts ever shared publicly about the disappearance of the Beaumont children.

For nearly sixty years, she held her silence.

She was a young mother on holiday at Glenelg on Australia Day 1966, sitting on the grass with her children, when a little boy played with her son on their picnic blanket.

His name was Grant Beaumont.

In this episode, she tells her story.

She describes the man she saw with the children, the moment he rose and walked them toward the side shows, and the fear that drove her to flee South Australia the very next day. Her memories are clear, consistent, and unchanged across decades, and now, they become part of the public record.

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the Beaumont disappearance on Australia Day 2026, this testimony raises new questions about old assumptions, long-dismissed leads, and the urgent need for renewed investigative action.

Sleepers will continue in 2026, examining not only the Beaumont case but also cold cases across South Australia. The Adelaide Oval abductions, the 1980s Family murders, and the many stories still waiting in the shadows.

If you know something… say something. - Your voice matters.

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