The Family Murders (Part One: The Murders)

Between 1979 and 1983, a series of heinous murders shocked Adelaide.

The victims were all young men, who had gone missing in or near the northern section of town. The victims ranged in age from 14 to 25, and most were found to have suffered brutal violence, sexual assaults, and/or body mutilation before their death. Some showed signs of prolonged captivity, while death came quick to others.

These were connections that were hard to overlook, as police began to theorize that a single offender (or, rather, a group of offenders) had been behind all of these crimes...



Part one of two

I originally covered this story back in 2017. The script has been completely re-written, and I have since added in some new/additional information.



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