The Family Murders

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Family Murders is a well known and notorious series of crimes that occurred in Adelaide, Australia. This case includes mysterious attacks, brutal murders, and a dark conspiracy surrounding a secret group of elites that preyed on the young in the city.
Five young men were mysteriously abducted in different areas of Adelaide in a span from the late 1970s into the 80s. Disturbingly, after going missing their bodies would soon turn up, often horribly mutilated. Who was behind these attacks and what their motives were was unknown to the families, police, and the entire community.
As the crimes went on, rumors began to circulate of an insidious conspiracy. Some members of the police, as well as the local media, began to talk about a group dubbed “The Family.” This secretive group was made up of important members of society, who all shared the same sick and twisted violent desires. This murderous collective was rumored to be responsible for kidnapping and torturing these young men, as well as shielding all of its members from police investigations.
Did the Family actually exists? Was it possible that this secret group of high profile men successfully orchestrated this brutal crimes and get away with it? Or was it all the work of one psychopathic killer? Listen to this disturbing episode and hear all about the Family Murders.

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0:00.0	And the Hello everyone and welcome to the Strange Matters podcast.
0:19.0	Here at Strange Matters we discuss everything and anything that is just outside the norm.
0:25.3	I am Sean and I will be the host for this discussion.
0:30.3	In this episode we will be discussing one of the darkest and most disturbing crimes we have ever covered so far in this podcast.
0:37.0	These series of murders would claim the lives of five young men, leaving a dark hole in the lives of their families and
0:44.8	spreading fear through the community. What makes this story even more disturbing is
0:49.4	the implication that these five deaths as horrendous as they were are just the tip of the iceberg.
0:56.2	There are many who believe that the cases I will be discussing in this episode are not
1:00.3	the only ones, just the ones that we know about.
1:04.0	This discussion will involve brutal attacks, unsolved murders,
1:08.0	but perhaps most disturbingly of all a potential conspiracy
1:12.0	that could be involved with dozens and perhaps even
1:14.1	hundreds of other victims. I want to give a warning to our listeners that the content
1:19.9	in this discussion may upset or disturb you. I know it certainly had an effect on me.
1:26.1	With all that said in this episode I will be talking about the family murders of Adelaide, Australia.
1:35.0	Before we begin, I would like to thank our listener Natasha for writing us in and suggesting this topic to us.
1:40.0	The family murders was the name given to a series of abductions, tortures, and murders in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.
1:50.0	Adelaide has the unsavory reputation of being dubbed Australia's murder capital.
1:56.0	These attacks known as the family murders occurred through the late 1970s and into the mid-80s.
2:03.1	The family itself was a term used for the proposed secret group of high-profile men that
2:09.4	formed an underground circle of crime which involved kidnapping young men, drugging and torturing them, and sometimes brutally killing them.
2:18.0	Now who was actually involved with this so-called family is unknown to the public, as is the answer whether it actually exist at all.
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