364: Warning: Absolutely BARBARIC! | Sex Ring Cult & Murder Scheme? The “Family” Murders
Serialously with Annie Elise
Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios
4.7 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In Adelaide, South Australia, a shadowy group preyed on teenage boys and young men during the late 1970s and early 1980s, leaving a trail of mutilated bodies and unanswered questions. They came to be known as "The Family", a loosely connected network suspected of abduction, abuse, and murder. Five young men, some barely teenagers, were killed in ways so brutal and calculated that the city still remembers them in horror. Despite decades passing, DNA reviews, and multi-million-dollar rewards, the truth about who was involved and why may never be fully uncovered…
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| 0:00.0 | From the early 70s to the mid-80s, up to 150 boys and young men were abducted, drugged and raped. |
| 0:09.0 | They're hitchhiking or they're just lured into the car or thrown into the car forcibly. |
| 0:14.0 | They're held captive. They are sexually tortured. |
| 0:17.0 | And that's what we're dealing with with the family murders in Adelaide. I said, what do you want to happen? |
| 0:22.2 | She said, what I've been wanting all the way through. |
| 0:25.1 | I need to be able to find out who else killed my brother? |
| 0:29.6 | Who else killed these other boys? |
| 0:31.3 | And that's what I'm putting the call out for now. |
| 0:36.4 | Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all-new episode episode of serialistly with me, |
| 1:04.8 | your host, Annie E. Lease, here to go into another deep dive of a case with you today. And this is a wild one. So |
| 1:13.3 | whatever you're doing, whether you're driving to work, cleaning your house, working out, |
| 1:17.8 | just, you know, listening at your house while you're sitting on a chair wherever you're at, |
| 1:22.3 | get ready. Because this one is definitely going to take us on a whirlwind of a roller coaster. |
| 1:28.9 | I don't even know if that makes sense, but that's where it's going to take us. |
| 1:32.0 | Because today's case is one that is pretty well known across all of Australia, |
| 1:36.7 | but it isn't really talked about much in the United States. |
| 1:40.2 | And that's really wild, given how truly shocking it is. |
| 1:43.9 | Now, for decades, it has haunted the city of Adelaide, South Australia, a place that is really known for its beauty, its sunny beach town vibes, but also for this very dark history of horrifying murders. And we're talking multiple victims, okay? Layers of mystery, whispers about |
| 2:03.8 | corruption, kidnapping, torture, even surgical mutilation, okay? All tied to this secret circle of |
| 2:11.7 | very wealthy, very well-connected men. I want you to just for a moment think Diddy meets Epstein. Like, |
| 2:18.6 | worst nightmare ever, right? What nightmares are truly made from. Maybe even throw in a little |
| 2:23.3 | eyes-wide shut kind of vibe, but powerful men, dark secrets, and horrors that most people |
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