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(suspenseful uneasy music) (camera zoom whirring)

- This isn't the movie I set out to make.

I was trying to tell the story

about what we thought was an urban legend,

but it became more about us, the people investigating it.

You'll see what started out as a somewhat polished movie

start to deteriorate over the course of it.

Towards the end, I was just trying to get anything

that might be helpful in here.

I've kept some identities hidden.

By the end, you should start to understand why.

At some point, you'll probably be wondering

why I even continued to make this movie.

I kept thinking back to this punk band that I used to like,

A real political type.

People used to ask them,

why do they spend their time writing songs

instead of doing something with more impact?

Well, if you're trying to start a revolution,

it's better to have a catchy chant

than to hand out pamphlets that no one's gonna read.

Give people something that'll really stay with them.

So let's rewind about eight months,

and start at the beginning. (uneasy expectant music)

- [Reporter] The search for missing teenager

Bradley Dawes continues.

Questions are being raised around the connection

to Jason Heartwell and Robert Dubrel,

two other Adelaide teens

that were found murdered earlier in the year.

Investigators are seeking assistance from the-

- [Reporter] Pennington teen, Arnold Brown,

was found dead in Port Adelaide this morning.

Police now believe there was a link

between the six other bodies found in surrounding-

- [Reporter] Online forums are a ablaze

with chilling conspiracy theories,

as amateur detectives speculate

that the nine confirmed victims

may only be the be beginning.

Dark whispers of secret societies

orchestrating ritualistic murders-

- [Reporter]Suspects, people like judges, politicians.

- [Reporter]prominent Business owners are rumoured to be involved.

It sounds like there's something very fishy

about the whole thing, if you do a bit of digging.

- [Reporter] Earlier this week,

one of Australia's most infamous murderers, Max Lammasche,

was denied parole for the second time.

Lammasche was charged with murder as the sole perpetrator

of nine male victims from 1991 to 2002,

but many suspect he had accomplices,

and that others were involved.

Numerous attempts to reinvestigate these murders

have fallen on deaf ears.

Rumours still persist about police.

(uneasy expectant music)

- [Patrick] All right, for fuck's sake.

That's what I got so far, you know,

just editing with what we've got.

A lot of it's just Googled shit.

We've gotta drop in more of our, you know, actual interviews

and the rest of the shots from the animators.

-I thought we were making a movie with good stuff.

- Yeah, we'll use, that one's falling apart.

We'll use the good camera.

This is for like B roll and, you know,

because these are from the '90s and 2000s.

So it'll fit the aesthetic, it just-

- The aesthetic. - The aesthetic.

It can just be like extra shit that goes in the,

you know, while someone's talking,

we cut to shaky handycam footage.

(soft uneasy music)

- What are we doing?

- [Patrick] So we're doing like interview parts

and talking about the movie, explaining things we’ve filmed.

So as the movie goes on we'll do these like, you know,

like Big Brother-style cams

where we talk about things we've seen

and people we've talked to and stuff.

- (chuckling) Like a confessional?

- [Patrick] Yeah, kinda like a confessional cam.

- What do I talk about? - I'll prompt you.

- Okay. - I'll prompt you.

It's a documentary, you've gotta tell the truth.

- Okay. - Don't be led by me.

- So I just answer the questions?

- Yes. - Okay.

(clapboard clacking)

Hi dolls, I'm Sarah Stewart,

I'm executive producer of "The Household" documentary.

- [Patrick] All right, can you take it seriously now please,

do a proper one? - Seriously.

So where did you get the idea to make this movie?

- Well I mean, if you take it back a bit, um,

so I got into filmmaking through skateboarding.

Me and my friends would go out and film each other

doing tricks and stuff.

And we all lived around Port Adelaide,

so that's where we'd go skateboarding, um,

and that's where a lotta the Household stuff happened,

you know, happened years before we were hanging out there.

But you know, our parents would tell us to be careful,

and we'd meet all kinds of characters

hanging out around there.

- [Bystander] 'Cause the police come around here

all the time, so be really careful.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Okay? Where do you live? - Eh?

- Where do you live? - So I've kind of always

known about it since I was a kid.

- I don't have time for this, I gotta get ready.

-Fucking

After high school, "Oh what am I gonna,

what am I gonna do?"

So I went to film school, did that whole thing, you know,

shot a few weddings, did some photography gigs.

But you know, it’s a hard industry to get into,

especially if you don't know the right people,

and life moves on, need money.

So the last few years I've been working

as a air conditioning repair technician.

- Pat just, like wasn't happy.

He was just in a rut, just floating through life.

You know, I could just tell it was horrible.

It was just miserable.

So I encouraged him to maybe, I don't know,

think about giving filmmaking another go.

And he was always talking about the Household,

so I said, why don't you make a documentary about that?

- So the basic story of the Household

is over the span of about a decade, nine kids were taken.

There was a guy called Max Lammasche who was arrested

and charged with the murders.

You think, well end of story, right?

But people can't really agree

on what's fact or fiction.

There's a lotta rumours out there,

and some people think he's actually innocent.

Some people think he was a patsy,

and that there was a, you know police,

police were covering up for them,

whoever you think they are.

So no one's really sure what happened,

and that's why we're making this movie.

And we'll figure it out, hopefully.

(soft uneasy music)

- What are you doing? - Testing the camera,

and making sure it still worked.

If it can put up with our bullshit friends,

it can put up whoever,

whoever we're gonna end up talking to on camera.

- Yeah, that's very true.

- There's a short clip out there, floating around online,

that's apparently made by the Household.

The story goes that someone before us

was making a documentary about the Household,

and they dug it up from somewhere.

I can't find any evidence about

whoever was making a documentary before us,

whoever apparently found the Howard tape.

You don't learn much, but it's, it's unnerving.

(uneasy expectant music)

(static crackling)

(static hissing)

- Once Pat saw that, there was no stopping him.

I think Lammasche did it, and I don't know how much weight

I put to those secret society ritual killing

kind of rumours and stories that just go along with it.

(possums stomping)

- Shut the fuck up. - My god, fucking possums.

- [Patrick] Fucking piece of shit house

in this piece of shit city.

I cannot wait to get out of here.

- Well, good thing we are,

'cause you are burning our bridges in this town,

and I'm glad that we'll be an ocean away

when this comes out, 'cause I know how it's gonna go.

- We'll have cops after us and famous actors

and politicians and whoever else,

but we'll be in sunny London, so I do not give a shit.

- Sunny London.

- [Patrick] Sunny, it's always sunny in London.

- It's always sunny in London.

- Yeah.

Kind of over living in Adelaide.

So I figured, you know, put this movie together,

use it as a bit of a, a show reel,

try and get some work in the UK.

The industry there's just so much bigger,

it's a lot more opportunity for someone like me.

- I just want a pint of Guinness and some fish and chips.

- Wait, isn't Guinness Irish?

- They have it, it's still closer.

The closer to Dublin that you get, the better the beer.

- I can't wait to go to New Zealand

and see some kangaroos. (laughing)

You just mixed them up completely.

- They have sheep in New Zealand.

They have Guinness in the UK somewhere, yeah.

- Well, (chuckling) you better not say that kinda shit

when we're, when we're there.

I don't think, you know, the Irish and Scottish

like getting mixed up for the English.

- I would never ever mix them up.

(Patrick laughing)

Like, I just thought why not, fuck it.

I'm up for anything and I can work anywhere,

so it's no issue to me.

So if it doesn't work out, we can just come back.

- So we've given ourselves a year

for production on the movie to get all that finished.

You know, do interviews, visit locations,

investigate things while we're in Adelaide

where everything happened.

In, in that time we can get our visas sorted,

save up some money, get a plan together,

um, and get out of here. (upbeat music)

♪ Boys up back ♪

♪ Front for the baddies ♪

♪ Boys up back ♪

(friends chattering)

- (chuckling) I can hear them already.

- [Patrick] Yeah, they're gonna get

a noise complaint tonight. (Sarah laughing)

(doorbell ringing) - Hello.

- [Patrick] Open the door.

- Hey. - More energy.

- More energy. - We made it.

(friends cheering)

- What’s going on? - We're here.

- We've arrived.

So we've been making a real effort

to hang out with our friends before we go,

spend as much time as possible with them,

'cause who knows how long we're gonna go for?

We might fall in love with the place,

and just don't come back.

And it's been good having them involved

'cause our budget is.

- [Patrick] Jesus, close the door why don't you?

- Make sure you lock it,

There’s a lot of fucking weirdos around.

(friends chattering)

- Yeah, someone spilled booze on the-

- I'm excited. - So exciting.

- Everybody going? - Everybody's way too excited.

- Bros? (friend shouting)

- Okay, no glass in the pool area.

No glass in the pool area. No glass.

- You guys are so lucky, moving to the UK.

We've been friends with Sarah and Pat for years.

Those two are always up to some kind of weird project,

like their band, or that time when Sarah

tried to do standup comedy.

So when they said they were making a movie

and moving overseas, we really weren't that surprised.

Growing up in Adelaide, you hear all kinds of things

about the Household.

Everyone has a story about it,

or knew somebody who knew a victim, or has a theory,

or something that they think really happened.

- Yeah, I remember that.

And I remember I thought they also had

like these weird rituals,

like rich people killing parties and stuff like that.

I think I remember (beep) were involved or something.

- Drink again. - Yeah.

That'll make you feel better, mate.

- Damo has been my best friend since primary school.

We've known each other for years and years and years.

I love him to death, but he's into some dodgy stuff,

which I won't go into detail on camera for obvious reasons.

(engine revving) - Good.

- But turns out he's actually a pretty good actor,

who would've thought?

So, been doing some dramatic recreations

of some of the Household stuff,

what we think might have happened where there's, you know,

when there's no photos or videos available.

And yeah, he looks 15 years younger than he is.

So you just put him in the shadows,

he looks like a teenager, it works.

- I'm happy helping with whatever.

Acting, second camera, anything else you need to do,

that camping thing in a few months.

Pat's always got cameras around and he's always filming,

so we're all kinda used to it.

(friend coughing)

- Let's party, whoo!

♪ Last week I was banned ♪

♪ Well shit, what's the backup plan ♪

♪ I walk in the front door, a drink in my hand ♪

♪ No queue, no cover, like I'm in the band ♪

♪ No security telling me that I'm banned ♪

♪ We're bringing house parties back from the dead, man ♪

♪ Well, I'm never gonna buy my own house ♪

♪ 'Cause they cost too much ♪

♪ My minimum wage job fucking sucks ♪

♪ And it wouldn’t pay enough ♪

♪ But drinking and partying is our passion ♪

♪ So I declare that house parties are back in fashion ♪

♪ Housemate station, share house sitch’ ♪

♪ Time to make these beers my bitch ♪

♪ Home bar, get in the car, we don’t have to go far ♪

- Ooh, ooh.

- [Sarah] Shut up, check this out.

I just found something interesting.

- [Patrick] What? I'm too hung over.

What do you want?

- Oh, I was just reading that AFL, that footy thread.

Info online about the case is pretty hard to come by,

but there's like an AFL football forum, of all things,

where there's actually quite a bit

of information posted about random mysteries.

It's hardly peak journalism,

but a few leads came from there.

There's people on there talking about the Household,

they've found this guy's YouTube video,

and he's talking about it.

- [Patrick] That's brave. Who is it, do you know?

- I don't know, just some guy.

And he's just, he's made a YouTube video about it.

Here this is, this is the video.

- Hi, I'm Dan and I make videos.

Join me and my crew, the Dan Pack, on our adventures,

and check out my videos.

I play games, make music,

and get up to all kinds of other things.

Okay guys, what's up? It's Dan here.

I'm doing something a little bit different today.

This video, it's just me.

No Dan Pack, no crazy challenges, no adventures.

I wanna talk about something pretty serious.

There's something that's been bothering me,

something on my mind.

I really wanna talk to you guys about this one.

I don't usually talk about this kinda thing on my channel,

um, but I really think my fans should know about this.

Before I get started today,

I just wanted to let you guys know,

my parents have told me not to put this out.

Apparently most of the time when videos

are put up about this, they get taken down,

and so they say, people go missing afterwards.

- Look, I know what that guy's saying is heavy

and I don't mean to make light of it,

but it's hard to take serious.

He's just so melodramatic and over the top.

You can see his eyes like reading, reading a script.

He's almost got, like perfect unintentional comedic timing.

- Some of you guys might remember

during my hundred subscriber party

that me and the Dan Pack, we all took a shot for Jim.

(camera clicking) (soft sombre music)

(camera clicking) (soft sombre music)

(camera clicking) (soft sombre music)

Jim was my brother, and he was murdered as a kid.

If you're from Adelaide,

you might've heard of the Household murders.

Jim was the last victim.

(soft sombre music continues)

Even at six years old, I knew it was weird

the way the cops were acting with my parents.

So a few months after they found Jim's body,

this Max Lammasche guy was arrested.

But even before that, I remember the cops

were just really hammering in

that he was the one who did it, it was only him,

even though he wasn't on their radar at the time.

So anyway, there was this one cop, Detective Dandy.

He seemed to be on our side,

and he just didn't buy the story either.

Now recently, I contacted that very cop.

I remembered his name, so I looked him up on Facebook

and he told me some very interesting things.

He didn't wanna give away too many details,

or he couldn't, but he wanted me to know

that I wasn't crazy, there's definitely more

than meets the eye with this case.

He almost seemed sorry

that he couldn't do more for my brother.

So this is my appeal to the world for any more info.

We can solve this, guys.

Stick around for part two, where we hear more

of what the detective had to tell me,

and we can hear what I personally think happened.

- This guy's using his own brother's murder

to shill his YouTube channel.

But in saying that, you know, he does feel

like a bit of a kindred spirit,

he's into making music and filming stuff.

The one thing I can confirm that is legit in that video

is him talking about Detective Dandy.

That name pops up a lot, and he seems to be the only cop

that's ever really made any noise about what happened.

- I've been calling and emailing Dandy for weeks.

If I had his address, I would drop him off a letter myself.

That's how desperate we are to talk to this guy.

- [Patrick] Dandy must have felt sorry for him,

he talked to him, he won't talk to us.

- Yeah, we need to see if he’ll talk to us, ASAP.

'Cause he was mentioning, you know, getting disappeared.

But that's what I was worried about too,

and he said it as well.

- [Patrick] Yeah we joked about that, I'm not worried.

He's just been playing it up for YouTube,

and you know, he's got his dozens of followers

looking out for him. (laughing)

What has that got, like 17 views?

- No one else has gotten back to us yet,

so hopefully we can interview him.

Stop laughing about it, and we're gonna have to bleep that out too

Making fun of his YouTube channel.

- [Patrick] Hey, he won't see it till the movie comes out.

Imagine at the premiere, he's sitting next to us,

and we leave this bit in.

- This is serious. - Anyway.

- All right, I'll email him now,

and I'll see if I can find a phone number or something.

I'll follow up with that detective

who won't talk to us either.

He might be more keen to talk to us,

now that he's talked to this guy.

- Yeah, sweet. All right, you do that.

I'm going back to bed, hoo, hoo, hoo.

(Patrick and Sarah laughing)

(soft thoughtful music)

Hi, thanks so much for meeting with me today.

It's nice to meet you.

- Hi yeah, no worries at all.

Um yeah, I saw your Reddit post,

and I thought I had to reach out.

- I'm glad you did.

Just for some context, so I made a Reddit post

about Household victim Collin Bauman, 'cause you know,

I was looking, looking online for some info,

and there, there wasn't a whole lot about him,

but Jane here reached out to me,

'cause your, your grandpa thinks he saw Collin

act-actually being taken.

So I'm, I'm really glad that you, you got back to me.

- So Grandpa isn't with us anymore,

but I remember hearing the story that he had told

about how he was working in Ottoway,

he was a council worker,

and he was meant to be fixing some cricket nets.

And yeah so, and the story goes

that there was a group of kids

mucking around at the cricket nets,

and he obviously wanted to get on with fixing the nets.

So knowing him, he probably, you know,

told them to F off, so he could get on with his work.

Yeah, and fix the net.

- And so one of those kids, your grandpa thinks was Collin.

- Yeah, that's right.

So after he'd had a word to them,

Grandpa heard the kids talking and,

and they were just saying, "Oh, we may as well,

may as well go home."

And one went one way and the other one headed off who,

who we think is probably Collin, was probably Collin,

went the other way heading towards Port Adelaide.

As Collin walked off, he had to cross

the Eastern Parade drains, and Grandpa looked back.

And when he was on the bridge, apparently he stopped

and he was talking to someone below.

Grandpa didn't think much of it,

but when he looked back the kid was gone.

And in that, in that time period,

there's not really anywhere that he could have gone,

apart from into the drain.

- It was a lead, at least.

We went to the drain entrance that Pat's informant,

for lack of a better word,

had told him about, and had a look.

It was full of water, but Pat knew another entrance.

- I'd actually done a photo shoot

and skated at the drains

Jane was talking about a few years ago.

I knew that there was another entrance

just a few hundred metres away, and they, they connected up.

So not all hope was lost, and we could still get in there.

- It's fucked. - What?

- [Sarah] That, that's heaps scary.

- So did your grandpa, did he tell the police?

Did he report this?

- Yeah, so he did.

He, a few days later he saw that Collin was missing on,

on the news, and he did contact the police

to try to make a statement, and the police said,

they'd get back to him to take his statement,

and they didn't get back to him.

And then he tried a few weeks later again,

and yeah they, same thing again.

They'll get back to him, they never came back to him.

So yeah, so he just kind of stopped bothering.

He figured the um, information mustn't have been important.

- [Patrick] That's pretty spooky looking.

- [Sarah] Mm, I don't know if I wanna go in here.

- [Patrick] Here, turn your torch on.

- How do I do that?

- [Patrick] It's on the top, there's a switch.

- Ooh. - There you go.

(sirens wailing)

- Ready? - All right.

- [Sarah] Oh, this is creepy.

Where do you think these actually go? Like how far?

- I have no idea.

I mean, I guess we're gonna find out.

Did I tell you about the lady who,

the lady that I interviewed about this,

she was so fucking weird about like when we're gonna,

"When are you gonna go? When are you gonna go?"

I was like, "I don't know."

We've all heard the stories

about the mysterious Adelaide tunnels,

which apparently go to Parliament House,

and Port Adelaide, and the army barracks up north.

So it's just kind of interesting that, you know,

he might've disappeared into them.

- Um yeah, I haven't heard about that.

Um, do you think you'll investigate the drains?

- Yeah, for sure. We'll, we'll go check that out.

- When? - When will we go?

Ah, I'll have to check our, our schedule and the calendar.

I've got, you know, plenty of stuff booked in for filming.

I'm gonna go to Port Pirie soon.

So we've gotta wait for a couple of days

when it's not raining, so we don't get,

you know, washed away.

- Okay, well it, it's warm this week.

Do you think you'll go this week, or?

- Maybe. Like I said, I've gotta check my schedule.

But I might have Thursday free,

so might head down there on Thursday.

- Okay Thursday, so what time?

Yeah, I was just curious what your plan was,

and if you could let me know when you,

once you've been down,

if you find anything, that would be really awesome.

- I thought she was kinda strange,

but what do you expect when you reach out to people

on the internet about decades-old murder mysteries?

- [Sarah] She probably thought you were the nutter,

talking about fucking secret tunnels and shit.

- Yeah, maybe. (uneasy ambient music)

- We walked for ages, and then that's when we found it.

(uneasy ambient music continues)

Oh where are we?

- What the fuck?

- [Sarah] What's that say?

- [Patrick] All right, we've been walking for about an hour,

we were about to turn back, 'cause we haven't seen anything

and we just found this, what the fuck?

- [Sarah] Garden Island, have you heard of that place?

- [Patrick] I vaguely remember something in the,

the court case, a mention of something about Garden Island.

But no, no one's really talking about that.

Oh that's creepy.

(distant noise)

- Well. - What the?

- What was that? - I don't know.

Let's just get out of here.

- [Sarah] This is all we're gonna find, so let's go.

- Let's go. - We're leaving.

(footsteps pattering) (soft uneasy music)

(Sarah gasping) - What the fuck?

Who is that, come back? - Can he see us?

- What the fuck? Of course he can see us.

Just, is that like a crack head

that lives down here or something?

- Or a cop? - I don't think it's a cop.

Fuck off.

- [Sarah] We need to get the fuck out of here.

- Oh, should we go this way?

- I’m not going in there. - No, just wait him out.

Who knows where he went?

Just wait, 'cause they could be just outside.

- [Sarah] Are they fucking out there waiting for us?

- What? - Are they out there

fucking waiting for us? - That's what I'm saying.

We can't just go. Oh, fuck. (soft uneasy music)

- [Sarah] Who the is fuck is that?

- [Patrick] Fuck it, let's just, just run.

Just run straight to the car.

We'll just run down to that fence we jumped.

Come on, let's go.

(footsteps pattering) (soft uneasy music)

Oh God. - You think it's okay?

What the fuck was that?

(soft uneasy music continues)

- I was just thinking, it might have been,

like graffiti guys in the tunnel.

- [Sarah] Yeah, maybe.

I don't know, it was pretty spooky though.

- Yeah.

I wasn't worried about ghost or ghouls

or Household members getting us down there.

It was homeless people and junkies and crack heads

and graffiti artists that worried me.

You know, if I was hanging out in the drains

up to no good doing things I didn't want people to see,

I'd do my best to scare off, you know,

a film crew coming around as well.

- [Sarah] That's weird.

- [Patrick] Did you leave your door open?

- No. - Well,

I fucking locked it before I left.

- [Sarah] Yeah, I didn't leave it open.

Did you open it when you put the skateboard in?

- No, I put the skateboard in the boot.

Fuck, the camera gear.

- [Sarah] Oh, everything looks like it's there.

- [Patrick] Yeah, what the fuck?

What the fuck? These cords are fucked,

well, they've unplugged this.

- [Sarah] So someone's been in the car.

- [Patrick] Yeah, but why didn't they take anything?

- I don’t know.

- Yeah, everything’s here.

- That's fucking weird. - Yeah, it is weird.

When we got home I checked the dash cam,

and I didn't think there'd be anything on it,

but there was this.

(tense uneasy music)

(soft uneasy music)

What are we doing out here?

Why have you dragged me outside on this beautiful day?

- It's too loud inside with the possums.

They're going nuts in the ceiling.

- [Patrick] Oh, I guess the plane's a lot better

than the possum noises in the ceiling.

- Yes it is.

Have you heard back from the landlord about it yet?

- So he's saying he's not gonna do anything about it.

So like, I'm just gonna film it at night

when they're going crazy, so you know, we've got evidence.

We can go to fair housing SA or whoever we need to,

'cause you know I want our bond back.

We could use that money in the UK.

- Yeah, exactly.

- [Patrick] It's fucked, I can't live like this,

and be woken up at 4:00 every morning.

- Yeah, I know it's trash.

- Anyway, what are we watching?

- We're not watching anything.

We've got something to listen to.

So this is the real audio of Karl Roberts,

who was the sixth victim of the Household.

And in 2000 he escaped from somewhere,

wherever he was being held.

I don't exactly know where.

And he called the police from a phone box in Rosewater.

But unfortunately he died of blood loss

before an ambulance and the police could get there.

So we've got his last recorded moments.

- Right, so that's the thing

we did a recreation of with Damo for.

So like, we can just set this

to the stuff we've already filmed.

- Yeah, we've got the real call now to listen to.

- Shit, okay.

Well, I guess we better put headphones on, and-

- Give it a listen.

Are you ready? - Yep.

(soft uneasy music) (phone ringing)

(sombre poignant music)

- [Operator] Triple zero, police, fire, or ambulance?

- Help me. - Okay sir,

what's your address please?

- [Karl] My hand, my eye.

- [Operator] You've injured your hand and your eye?

Okay, where are you located?

Can you tell me what road you're on?

- [Karl] They took my hand and my eye.

- [Operator] They took your hand and your eye?

Where are you located? We'll send help.

- [Karl] Premium products at port.

- [Operator] You're in a port, which port?

(Karl groaning)

Okay, stay with me, are you there? Are you there?

- Low prices. - Hello?

- [Karl] Premium products, low prices at the port.

- [Operator] Hello, can you hear me?

(phone beeping) (sombre poignant music)

- Shit, that's pretty full-on,

that's pretty grizzly stuff.

- Yeah, it makes it so much more real,

hearing his voice like that, like-

- Yeah, it's like reading the footy thread

or the Wikipedia article about it’s one thing,

but actually hearing his voice,

and that was a real person that died.

- Yeah I know, it's like ooh, like,

"My hand and my eye," like oh,

I just can't even imagine what it must be,

how scary it must be in that moment.

- Well, what was that bit though,

I couldn't even understand what he was actually saying

at first, he was like, “Low prices in the port,"

or something, I don't know what,

what he was on about there.

- I know like, where he was found was near the port,

like maybe, I don't know,

maybe that's what he was talking about or something,

I don't know.

- I don't know, it just,

it seemed like he kept repeating it.

- I guess like, he might've been in shock,

or you know, brain does weird things,

like misfiring neurons and stuff that goes on.

- Yeah, I don't know, that, "Low prices in the port,

low products, premium price in the port,"

seems really familiar.

I know that from somewhere,

and it's gonna drive me mental trying to remember where.

(uneasy expectant music)

- [Sarah] So I just have some release forms

for you guys to sign.

It's just the legal stuff to say

you agree to be in our film.

Nothing crazy or anything like that.

- Okay.

- I got in touch with the Heartwells through a friend

of a friend of another friend who knew them.

I mean, everyone kind of knows everyone in Adelaide,

it's like a, you know, glorified country town.

I could tell over the phone that they were a little bit

apprehensive to talk to us,

but it really felt like the mum was the one

who kind of wanted to, to chat about it.

(clapboard clacking) (soft uneasy music)

- Um, could you please say your names

and spell them for me please?

- Bev Heartwell.

- Roger Heartwell. - Great.

So could you tell me about your son?

- Okay yeah, our son Jason, he was 16 when he was taken.

He looked young for his age.

- Those sick bastards.

Lammasche was granted anonymity,

however you say the bloody word.

When has that ever happened before?

- This wasn't the first we'd heard

about Lammasche being granted anonymity,

and to why we haven't really talked about him a whole lot,

there's just nothing to go on at this point.

And Roger was right, I looked it up after.

I can't find any other case in Australia

where someone that's over the age of 18

has been convicted of a crime,

and has had their name and image suppressed.

It's crazy, more fuel for the conspiracy fire.

- It is very strange.

I've looked, I've asked, I've called around,

I can't even get a picture of the guy

- I'm starting to wonder whether this bloke

ever exists, his boss’s are covering for him.

These are the blokes, I'd really like to meet them

in a dark alley one day.

- You said blokes, plural.

You don't believe Jason was killed solely by Lammasche?

- If you believe that, I've got a bridge for sale.

- Okay so who, who else do you think

was really involved then?

There's all the rumours about politicians,

and celebrities, and surgeons.

There's never really been any evidence of that though.

- Mr. Dandy seemed to think that.

He didn't come out and say it, but you could just tell.

The other cops were all such rude pigs.

They didn't treat us very well.

- We've actually been trying to get ahold of Dandy

to interview him for this movie.

You know, we've been sending emails and calling,

but he, he hasn't got back to us.

So what was he like?

You know could you, what, what kind of person was he?

- He's just as bad as the rest of them,

as far as I'm concerned.

They know what's happened, and it's just such

an old boys club, that they're all looking after each other.

Yeah look, I don't think this is a good idea from the start.

The cops told us not to talk to people like you,

not that I think that they're any better.

- [Patrick] Look, if someone has threatened you,

there's avenues we could follow.

You know, we just wanna know the truth too,

so yeah, if someone's threatening you-

- [Roger] Yeah, we're done here,

so you might as well turn the cameras off.

That's it, I don't wanna talk about it anymore.

(soft sombre music) (equipment clattering)

- Well, that was a fucking waste of time.

What do we got, about five minutes of footage?

I don't even know if any of it's gonna be usable.

- Yeah, yeah. They, they seem really scared of the cops.

I mean, not so much Dandy, but they seem a bit worried.

I don't know, at least we kinda got done

a little bit earlier,

'cause you've got a long drive tomorrow.

- Mm, I know. What are you gonna do while I'm gone?

- I'm just gonna call the prison again,

and see if I can find a way around this media embargo

and see if I can get an interview with Lammasche somehow,

or get a photo or something.

I don't know, I'm gonna just harass them

and I'm gonna harass Dandy some more as well,

and see if he'll finally answer

any of my emails or calls, but-

- How many times a day you're calling him,

double it.

- Yeah, I'm going to, like that's what I'm saying.

Like, someone's gonna have to talk eventually.

They're not really letting me in right now,

but there's gotta be a crack somewhere.

Are you sure you'll be all right going by yourself?

I don't know, I'm kinda worried about it.

Some weird stuff started to happen already.

- Mm, nothing’s been that weird.

Oh what are you worried, oh you think,

you think Max Lammasche is gonna get me?

- [Sarah] It's not Max I'm worried about,

but no one's ever picked this up before.

Like, maybe there's a reason for that.

Maybe it does deeper than we think.

- Well, I hope it does.

Otherwise it's gonna be a very boring movie.

"Oh, you're investigating these murders and,

and who did it?"

"Well, he got caught years ago and he's in jail."

"Yeah well, what's the twist?"

"No it's nothing, he did it, that's it."

He, he just did it. That, that's the movie.

- [Sarah] That's the twist, he just did it.

- Yeah. (Sarah laughing)

I've been working pretty much 9:00 to 5:00

for my day job, squeezing in filming for the movie.

But an opportunity came up for some remote work

installing aircons in a whole block of apartments

in a place called Port Pirie.

It's good money, you know, we could use that for the move.

But there's also a Port Pirie connection with the Household.

(traffic whooshing)

So I stopped on the side of the road here,

on my way to Port Pirie,

because July 19th, 1993,

this is where third victim Bradley Dawe was found.

His body was found by a retired couple,

and they were caravanning around the country

and pulled over, just stopped here on the side of the road,

just like these assholes.

Fuck off, I'm trying to make a movie.

I'm not sure of where exactly, it was somewhere here

in this little car park, rest stop thing.

But it's changed a lot in the last 30 years.

Somewhere here is where he was discovered.

He was dumped in some plastic tarping,

it’s like they didn't really care if he was found or not.

There was no attempt at hiding, or concealing the body.

It might seem like I'm kinda stalling here and, and I am.

Because where we have to go next is pretty full-on.

I mean, it's not that bad,

but I have to do it alone, which is creepy.

If I had someone with me, it'd be a lot better.

(energetic expectant music)

What are you fucking doing? Move.

(energetic expectant music continues)

(soft uneasy music)

So I've driven two and a half, three hours

north of Adelaide to Port Pirie,

and I managed to book the exact room

where Bradley Dawes was tortured,

and held for five days before his murder.

So, it's kind of eerie in here.

Yes, I'm speaking very quietly,

'cause these rooms are paper thin.

And so looking through the old crime scene photos,

I managed to find out which motel it was.

This is really kinda creepy,

and it's not like I get to just pack up and leave

once I'm done filming.

I've gotta sleep in this room tonight,

which I'm not looking forward to.

And just to make things creepier,

I've waited till 2:00 in the morning,

just, you know, to get the right mindset.

And I don't know, that just felt right to me.

(uneasy ambient music)

It is believed Bradley was held captive

for five days in this very room,

tortured in horrific ways by Max Lammasche

or the Household, depending on who you ask.

His limbs were amputated in a surgical fashion,

almost as if done by a doctor.

The really horrifying thing is, the coroners believe

that he was still alive for two days

after his arms and legs were cut off, which is fucked.

What makes this even more unusual, is there's no way

Max Lammasche could've done those amputations.

(uneasy ambient music continues)

He was a concreter that dropped outta school in year 10,

yet he was the only person charged.

The official story is he committed

all these murders himself, just doesn't add up to me.

I'm gonna turn on the black light, see if we see anything.

Now this is a hotel room,

so I doubt anything will be here from the murder.

Like thousands of people would've stayed

in this room in the last 30 years.

(uneasy ambient music continues)

No, nothing.

Now it looks like the room has been renovated

since Bradley's murder, going by how these fittings look.

What I wanna know is why such high profile rich people,

sorry, allegedly such high profile rich people, you know,

if you, if you're gonna buy into the conspiracy theory,

why would they use this place, why would they come here?

I guess it's, you know, it's a small place

away from the big city with less people around.

I don't know.

I thought they’d have

some kind of secret bunker or dungeon or something.

Nothing with this case really makes a lotta sense, though.

(knock on door)

Fuck.

- [Motel Guest] Hey, can you stop flashing

whatever those lights are?

It's flickering right in my fucking window,

you fucking asshole.

- Oh shit, yeah sorry, I didn't realise.

Sorry, yeah, I'll turn them off.

That scared the shit outta me.

(uneasy expectant music)

All right, we good? - Yep.

- Marker.

(clapboard clacking)

All right, is that camera good?

- Yeah. - All right.

So we're now standing in front of a business

that used to be owned by a Mr. C,

who was involved in the Household murders.

Now we're gonna refer to him as Mr. C.

That's not his real name, but just for legal reasons,

just to cover our asses.

So I was kinda lying there.

Honestly, we just haven't figured out who he is yet.

All that's been released is the name Mr. C,

not his real name.

- We knew when Mr. C owned the pub,

just not like who he actually was.

I've done a freedom of information request on it,

but it hasn't come through yet.

These things usually don't take this long,

but it's taking a really long time.

- And it's believed that five outta the nine

confirmed Household victims were held here.

Definitely things went on here that, they were investigated,

but never, never done properly.

So Mr. C himself was investigated,

but was cleared of all charges and you know, no wrongdoing.

But the interesting thing is, his brother,

who was also investigated,

was a well-known surgeon in Adelaide.

- What are you doing here? - What the fuck I’m filming.

What are you doing? - You can't do this here,

this is private property.

- What the fuck is this?

What do you think, you're FBI or something?

- This is private property. - No it's not,

it's the fucking footpath.

- [Antagonist] Get those cameras out of here.

- I can fucking film here. - Show some respect.

- [Patrick] Respect for, it's on the side of road.

- Side of the- - Get that out of here.

- [Patrick] Don't fucking touch it, dude.

- [Antagonist] All right, what are you gonna do?

What are you gonna do about it?

- Call the fucking cops, we're on the-

- [Security] Go ahead, call the cops.

- Yeah I will call the cops, and they'll be like,

"Yeah, you're allowed to film on the fucking footpath."

- [Antagonist] Who do you think you are?

Have you got a permit for this?

- Okay, I don't feel good about this.

I think we need to get the stuff and go.

- No fuck them, we're not doing anything wrong.

- [Sarah] Ah, get out of my way.

- Wait around, tough guy. - We're going, we're going.

- [Patrick] Get outta the fucking way, dickhead.

Yeah fuck you, I'm taking photos of you too, dickhead.

- What the fuck was that? (tense uneasy music)

- [Patrick] Are you still getting them?

- [Sarah] Yeah, I'm still recording them.

- Yeah, good. - They're recording us.

They're still there.

We're not a hundred percent sure

on the legalities of showing their faces,

so we're just gonna blur them out for now,

just to be safe, until we figure out who they are

and what they wanted.

I don't know though, I don't know about this.

- These people are gonna try and tell me

I can't film on the footpath, get fucked.

So let's assume that those were

some Household members we ran into.

Why are they playing these little mind games?

Why if, if they're as all-powerful

as everyone's making them out to be,

do something serious, do something interesting.

Like yeah, it might be, it'd be scary,

but, make me believe it's you,

it'll make for a good movie.

- So we just went to one of the rumoured locations

that the Household used to use, and all of a sudden

these fucking people appeared out of nowhere.

They started telling us we need to leave,

taking photos of us, pushed the camera out the way.

- They were like on us straightaway,

we'd barely set up.

- I know, like we weren't fucking trying

trying to break in or anything.

I can understand if we were like,

damaging property or something,

but we're trying to like, take some photos

and film out the front from the other side of the road.

- But they must have been watching us,

like from one of those other buildings

that are right near it, so it's an older,

(phone buzzing)

Hang on my phone's ringing, what the fuck?

That's my number.

How is it my number calling me?

- Maybe it's one of those scams, I don't know.

They can like, mirror them now.

- [Recorded Caller] Patrick Hamish Jones, 15 December, 1991,

Casterton Memorial Hospital.

04186 (beep) 9 Ivey Street, Woodville 5011,

Adelaide, South Australia.

Sarah Windsor Stewart, 10, October, 1991.

- That's us, how did they get my middle name?

No one knows my middle name.

That's my phone number, and your phone number,

and our address. - Adelaide, South Australia.

- Is that a warning or something?

- Fucking feels like it. - Patrick Hamish Jones.

- You know, five- - I feel sick.

- Five minutes after we run into those assholes.

- Casterton Memorial Hospital. - This is, this is fucked.

- 9 Ivey Street, Woodville. - Okay.

- [Recorded Caller] 5011 Adelaide, South Australia.

(phone buzzing) Patrick Hamish Jones,

15 December 1991, Casterton Memorial hospital, 041867.

(door creaking)

- [Patrick] What are you doing, it's the middle of the night?

- (sighing) Oh, I couldn't sleep after that phone call,

and the possums.

- [Patrick] Yeah what is this, where are these from?

- Well, I dug them up again when you were in Pirie.

I was trying to clean some stuff out for London,

and then, I got them from the bin at our old house.

- [Patrick] What?

- [Sarah] I think they belonged to the old people

that lived there before we moved in.

- Oh. - At the Ridgehaven House.

- Yeah, those ones. - Yeah and I saw them,

and I was like, "Aw."

We could make like a, do a reenactment or, I don't know.

- [Patrick] Yeah, that's a good idea.

- [Sarah] I thought they were cool anyway.

- Yeah.

(phone buzzing)

Who is that, this time of night?

Is that them again? What the fuck?

- Hello? Ah, hi.

Thanks for calling.

That's actually what we wanted to talk to you about.

Yeah, yeah, we'd definitely be,

yeah, we definitely wanna meet.

Perfect, great, all right. I'll wait to hear from you then.

Okay, thank you. Have a good night.

- [Patrick] Who was that? Who's calling this late?

- Dan. - Dan who, who's Dan?

- The YouTube guy. - Oh, the brother?

- Yeah. - Oh, shit.

- I know.

- We'd watched a few more of Dan's videos

since finding his YouTube channel.

We're still on the fence

about whether he was the real deal or not.

But the photo he had was of who he claims to be his brother,

and we couldn't find that exact photo anywhere else.

So if this is fake or a prank or, whatever,

he's doing a good job of it.

- So I said, "Just text me the time and address,"

so we'll just-

- [Patrick] Yeah, whatever works for him.

We'll figure it out. - We'll figure it out.

But I fucking thought it was the same people

that were calling you.

- [Patrick] Yeah, I thought it was them again.

I was like, "Who's calling this late?"

- I know, I'm like, "They're calling me now."

- Yeah. All right.

- Do you wanna help me pack this stuff up?

- [Patrick] No you, you set it all up.

I don't wanna pack it all up.

- (laughing) All right, I'll meet you in bed.

I'll clean it up.

- [Patrick] Oh, I'll help you clean it up.

- Just go to bed. - No, it's all right.

It's my shit anyway.

- Ours, what's yours is mine.

(uneasy expectant music) (traffic whooshing)

- [Dan] (laughing) I was like, "That's not gonna work."

Oh, very excite.

- [Sarah] Thanks so much for meeting with us.

- Yeah, no worries.

- If you could just spell your full name for me.

- So that's D-A-N, Dan the Man,

kicking off this interview tonight.

Yeah, what's up?

Oh, I almost forgot. I need my camera.

I can post this on my channel, collab video.

- First of all, thanks for meeting with us.

When we saw your YouTube video,

we knew we just had to reach out.

A lot of the victims' families don't wanna speak

about this at all, let alone to us.

They are very closed up about it.

And there's a lot of rumours connected to the Household name.

You know, from your perspective,

why do you think they did it?

- Blood pacts, endocrine drinking, I don't know.

High-end escorts just don't cut it anymore, who knows?

You guys are the ones making the film, what do you think?

- I find it hard to believe

that there's some sort of cult involved in it.

I mean, I kind of feel like it was just some sort of,

you know, sickos that just got off on it really.

But I don't know, some strange things

have started happening to us, to be honest.

- So have you guys been getting the strange phone calls?

Knocks at the door, just random cars following you around?

- Well yeah, some of that stuff.

- It's gonna get worse.

I swear I'm starting to see people in the yard,

people lurking around the house.

Dandy did warn me that this was gonna happen.

I kinda saw it coming.

- Okay yes, he's weird.

He's weirder in real life than he is in his videos.

But after meeting him and talking to him, I think,

I think he's, it's authentic.

I think he's telling the truth.

- What exactly did Dandy tell you?

- He doesn't usually talk to anyone about this,

but he made an exception for me, 'cause of my brother Jim.

So he gave me a rundown on the Household.

Do you know why they called themselves that?

It's some kind of fucked-up joke,

'cause they're household names, do you get it?

Dandy overheard them talking about it at some gala event.

Like, of course they're friendly with the cops.

- That's interesting.

- Personally, I think he's doing his own snooping.

He didn't actually say this, but I think he might be

trying to take them down himself.

He wants everyone to stay the fuck away from this.

He said that they're gonna make anyone's life a living hell

if they start poking their nose around in it.

He said they'll start out with, you know, the warnings,

phone calls, knocks at the door,

following you around, that sort of thing.

But if you don't stop poking your nose around, you know.

- That was worrying, Dan saying that it'll get worse.

But Dandy is doing his own investigation,

what's going on with that?

I mean, it's a bit farfetched, don't you think?

Some prank calls and some door knocks is one thing,

but getting murdered.

- Oh yeah, and these guys, they wouldn't murder anybody?

I guess my brother just tripped and fell on a knife, did he?

I know what I'm getting into.

I think you guys are being a bit naive.

- I didn't mean it like that, I'm sorry.

I know this must be a touchy subject for you,

and I didn't mean to insinuate anything like that.

Can I ask about. (thoughtful expectant music)

(Patrick sighing)

(door clattering) - Are you ready?

- I was, but then I got some emails

and I have good news and I have bad news.

Which, what do you want first?

- Bad news I guess, always bad first.

- The animator’s out.

- He’s out?

- Yeah, he said he wants-

- What do you fucking mean, he's out?

- Well, he said he wants nothing to do with the project,

and you know, that's it, don't contact him.

- We already paid him.

- Yeah well that's, I thought it was weird.

He sent the money back, and we've got half the shots,

but we might have to use your, you know, X-ray idea you had,

and do some more real-life recreations.

So I'd found an animator, this guy from Indonesia,

had a really cool style.

We commissioned him to do some shots of stuff

where we don't have photos, don't have videos,

'cause there's hardly any out there,

so we can at least, you know,

instead of me sitting here talking to the camera,

explaining what happened, I can show you something,

that is probably what it looked like.

- [Sarah] Why do you think he's out, then?

Like, you don't think he got a phone call

or something like we did, surely not.

- He's in, where was he from?

He's like Indonesian or something.

They're not gonna, you know,

bother messing with someone overseas

for our dinky little movie, I don't think so.

- Well, what's the good news then?

- I forgot about the good news.

I was too worried about that.

All right, you take this one.

Let’s go.

- Go?

- [Patrick] Yeah, get in the car, we're going.

(soft expectant music) (traffic whooshing)

(knuckles pounding) (garage door clattering)

- Hey. - Yo, what's going on?

Good to see you, Gus. - Yeah.

- This is Sarah. - Hey.

- Ah, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.

Cameras already?

- [Patrick] It's a documentary, man.

You gotta, you gotta film everything.

- Yeah, yeah I guess so. It's, it's been a long time.

- Yeah, a few years now.

We are, we went to film school together.

- [Sarah] Oh okay, oh nice. Yeah, a little while ago then.

- Yeah, yeah.

Hey, I hear you guys are moving to the UK, huh?

- [Patrick] Yeah, yeah, not long to go now.

- Yeah hectic, come on in. - Cheers yeah, lead the way.

- Mind the mess. - All good.

- Welcome, try not to touch anything, all right?

- Yeah, sure. - So, what do you actually do?

- Ah, I guess you could say I'm a, a collector,

a collector of sorts.

- [Patrick] Yeah it's like it's, it's art stuff.

- [Sarah] What do you collect?

- Yeah, yeah it's- - What is it, though?

- [Patrick] It's just for art stuff,

it's just old videos.

That's like why I came to him,

'cause I knew he had a bunch of these old, old tapes.

- [Gus] Let's just say, I like to watch.

- [Patrick] Yeah.

- I got a weird vibe from Gus.

I mean, he seemed harmless enough, but just odd.

I don't know where Pat gets these people from.

- I don't really understand what Gus is into.

I know, I don't see the appeal of it.

Some would call it art. I'm, I'm pretty open-minded.

I would call it art.

Anyway, so you found it? - Yeah.

- Yeah, can we see?

I knew like, if anyone was gonna have it, it'd be you.

I asked Gus if he, you know, knew what I was talking about,

if he'd stumbled across it in his collection,

and the dude's got piles of old VHS tapes.

Just random movies you've never heard of.

And you know, hours of someone that's just recorded the TV.

- [Gus] I mean, it doesn't seem that interesting.

So why are you looking for this guy, anyway?

- Well just, just play it.

Let's see if it's actually the one

I was talking about first. - Okay.

(bright upbeat music)

- Are you looking for a deal?

I'm Ben Campbell, and Benny's Bargains have got you covered.

Premium products, low prices, at the port.

It's our closing down sale.

Yeah, we've been saying that one for years,

but this time we mean it.

"Guinness World Records", 2002 edition, only $10, $10.

You're gonna find our prices in here.

Eight metres of rope, get you out of a sticky situation.

Soft and supple, $2, $2.

(blowing) Oh, you could do better than that.

Two whistles, $2, get the attention

of the old ball and chain.

Mi Goreng, 40 cents a pack.

We've got hot and spicy, and spicy and hot, 40 cents.

You could feed yourself for weeks.

You can't even make a phone call for 40 cents these days.

Now as you know, I own a pub, so I love a good drink.

And when I have a good drink, I need a good stubby holder.

$2, $2, $2.

No matter where you are, we've got a location for you.

Be it Port Adelaide, Port Pirie, or Port Augusta.

Premium products, low prices at the port.

Step into Benny's Bargains. (whistling)

(static crackling)

- [Patrick] That's it, that's exactly what,

what we were looking for. - Great, great.

- [Patrick] Cool, so we've gotta go.

I hate to do this and run, but like you can email me,

email me that can't you, send a link?

- Yeah, yeah, sure.

I mean I've, I've got plenty of other stuff.

I can get the good stuff outta the back, if you want.

- [Patrick] No, no, that's all right.

This is just the one that we need.

- I reckon you'd enjoy it. - Not with Sarah here, you know?

- Okay, yeah. - Another day.

We've got so much stuff to do tonight,

I'd really appreciate it-

- Suit yourself, suit yourself.

Yeah I'll, I'll send you an email.

- [Patrick] All right great, thank you.

See you. - All right.

Nice to meet you. - See you, nice to meet you.

Thank you so much.

- I wasn't trying to be rude to Gus.

Yeah, it came across as a bit rude and abrupt.

I just thought it better for everyones sake to,

don't involve anyone that doesn't need to be at this point.

(footsteps clattering) (door creaking)

You caught that?

- [Sarah] Yeah, I remember that from when I was a kid.

- All right we gotta, we gotta do some comparisons here.

I've got what he sent through, let's just see.

- Premium products, low prices at the port.

- [Karl] Premium products, low prices at the port.

- I knew I knew that phrase from somewhere.

I said it before.

I hadn't stopped thinking about it

since Sarah played that phone call for me,

and then it just clicked.

- That was it, as soon as I saw that ad,

I remembered it too.

I felt like it was on TV every, like 15 minutes

when I was a kid.

- 40 cents, you could feed yourself for weeks.

You can't even make a phone call for 40 cents these days.

Now as you know, I-

- "You can't even make a phone call

for 40 cents these days."

'Cause that's how much, payphones, they were 40 cents.

Like Karl Roberts, I mean that's a-

- [Both] It's a bit of a stretch.

- But you know with him saying-

- [Karl] Premium products, low prices at the port.

- I don't know, it's not that much of a stretch, but-

- [Ben] Now as you know, I own a pub, so I love a-

- Own a pub? - Own.

- Hang on, what was his last name again?

- What was his, I can't even remember his first name.

Where did he say it, right at the start?

- Well, his first name was Ben.

- Are you looking for a deal? I'm Ben Campbell and-

- Campbell, C, Mr. C owned a pub.

And then one of the other Household victims

is saying his catchphrase over and over again as he's dying.

- That's pretty wild. - Where were we?

- No matter where you are, we've got a location for you,

be it Port Adelaide, Port Pirie, or Port-

- Port Pirie? - Port Pirie.

'Cause what was his, Bradley- - Bradley Dawe.

He was held in Pirie, and dumped

on the way back to Adelaide.

- Okay, so we got a- - Surely old mate

was going back and forth.

- So we've got Ben C, A Mr. C owns a pub.

The little hint about a public payphone,

and we've got a very loose Bradley Dawe connection-

- Yeah. - to Port Pirie.

We've got his surname is C, Campbell, he owns a pub,

and one of the other victims was repeating

his fucking catchphrase over and over again,

just after he escaped from the area where his pub is.

I mean, if I didn't know the dude's name,

I would remember the catchphrase, I would just say that,

and people would know who I'm talking about.

- He doesn't know his name, but he's like saying

his catchphrase over and over again,

like it's the only thing that obviously stood out.

- Yeah, that- - And that was

so recognisable in that time period.

Every time I drive past the old place

that used to be there, still like,

"Premium products”, it was everywhere.

- Um, We’ve got to talk to this dude.

'Cause the shops are gone now, aren't they?

- Yeah, they're not there anymore.

I don't know if he'll talk to us, though.

Especially if we're asking him questions like-

- Well he's dead, so. - He's dead.

- [Patrick] He's dead, so we won't be talking to him.

- Oh. - It's another lead to follow

and at least, you know, if he's dead,

he's not gonna sue us.

- This is finally starting to feel worth it,

like we're getting some actual answers.

We're getting somewhere.

I feel like we're just like, on a roll now,

and now we have time to go to Garden Island.

♪ Think that it's just a phase ♪

♪ And that I'll go away ♪

(lively electronic music)

- So we're at Garden Island tonight, near Port Adelaide,

'cause a little while ago, we found some clues

that suggested Household victim Collin Bauman

might be buried out here.

- [Sarah] Let's go have a look and see what we can see.

(uneasy ambient music)

(camera clicking)

- [Patrick] Just think he could be anywhere out here.

- [Sarah] I know. You'd never find him.

- [Patrick] No, there's just nothing around

for miles and miles. - And like, with the scrub

and the mangroves like, where would you even, like start?

- [Patrick] Well, and who comes out here,

apart from like, people servicing the power lines?

- [Sarah] (groaning) I hate it out here, it's so creepy.

(ambient uneasy music)

- Lammasche. (Sarah exclaiming)

(laughing) You are the, oh that scared the fuck out of me.

(laughing) You’re a dick, oh my God.

- [Patrick] That noise, that electricity noise.

(camera clicking)

(camera clicking)

(ambient uneasy music continues)

(camera clicking)

(camera clicking)

- We're allowed to be out here, aren't we?

- [Patrick] I mean, there's no signs saying not to.

What is that light?

Must be like a safety thing like.

- [Sarah] I don't know it’s the only one

that's lit up, though.

- [Patrick] Yeah, it looks kinda cool. I like it.

- It's kinda creepy. - No it’s good.

Yeah just think he could be anywhere, just out there.

What the fuck? There's people over there.

- Patrick. - There's people over there.

- Patrick, Patrick, Patrick. - What the fuck?

Can you see that? Can you zoom in?

You've got a longer zoom than I do.

- [Sarah] Yeah, I'm zooming, I'm zooming.

What the fuck is, (gasping). - Okay.

- [Sarah] Oh my God.

- [Patrick] Fucking hell what is that?

- [Sarah] They saw the flash.

Go, go, go.

- [Patrick] Yeah, we're almost at the car.

- You got the keys? - Yeah.

(tense uneasy music)

- Get in, get in, get in.

Go, go, go.

What the fuck was that?

- I don't know, let's get out of here.

(tense uneasy music)

- What was that? - I don't know.

Why would you fucking take a flash photo of them?

- [Sarah] I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to.

- [Patrick] It's all right, it's Port Adelaide,

it's probably just weirdos.

- [Sarah] It didn't look like just weirdos.

- [Patrick] It's fine.

- [Sarah] Something fucked-up's going on here.

- [Patrick] It's fine.

- What if it's not fine, then what?

- [Patrick] Well we're in the car, we're gone now.

It doesn't matter.

- [Sarah] All right, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to use a flash. - It's fine.

It's okay, you didn't mean to.

(siren wailing)

Are you fucking joking?

- [Sarah] Are we really fucking

getting pulled over right now?

- [Patrick] Yep, put the camera down.

Keep, keep filming, but don't let him see it.

Just keep filming. - Yeah, okay.

- Fuck. (Sarah groaning)

(Patrick sighing) - This is fucked.

- Shh. (boots crunching)

- [Officer] You were going pretty fast there, Mr. Jones.

- Oh, was I? Sorry, I just wasn't paying attention.

Bit tired, it's my bad.

- [Officer] What are you guys doing here this time of night?

- Oh, we're just like, ah, looking at the stars, you know?

It's a, it's a nice night,

and there's not much light pollution out here, so yeah.

- Right, licence? - Yeah, sure.

- Wait here. (boots crunching)

- Okay.

- [Sarah] Stars, you couldn't come up with better

than fucking stars?

- Oh I don't know, I fucking panicked.

I couldn't think of anything else.

- [Sarah] It doesn't sound real, it sounds like a lie.

- It doesn't matter, it's not illegal. We'll be fine.

- He knew your fucking name

when we pulled up. - Yeah.

- How did he know your name?

- He probably ran the plates, he's a fucking cop.

He just looked it up on the computer.

He probably thinks we're out here just hooning,

I mean- - Hooning?

- Yeah, me and Damo used to come out here

in his Supra all the time, and-

- We're in a fucking hatchback.

We're in a fucking hatchback,

he doesn't think we're fucking hooning.

- Shush, he's coming. Shush.

(boots crunching)

- [Officer] So, your mate Dan went missing

a few days ago.

I guess you didn't have anything to do with that?

- Dan, Dan Schwartz, is he missing?

- [Officer] You were one of the last people

to see him, alive.

Anything you can tell me about that?

- Nothing, no nothing. This is news to me.

- [Officer] Well, expect a visit from us.

Oh, and you're driving with a disqualified licence.

- What, disqualified? No, I'm not.

- [Officer] Disqualified for drink driving, two weeks ago.

- No I wasn't, what are you talking about?

- [Officer] You can get outta the car now.

- What the fuck?

- [Officer] I'll be taking this,

and you'll be getting a court date in the mail.

- [Sarah] What the fuck is going on?

What's going on?

- You know, I've got a common name.

They just fucking mixed me up with someone else,

some hood rat that's got the same name as me.

- A mix up, you can't seriously still think

that this is a mix up, or a mistake, or something like that.

How can you think it's still a mix up?

- Well I haven't been caught drink driving,

so it's obviously not me.

- This is crazy, this is exactly what Dan said would happen,

he said that people go missing, and get disappeared,

and now he's missing too,

and that's exactly what the cop said, and then what?

We're gonna be next, we need to leave this alone.

- We're not gonna be next.

It's like, maybe if you had your fucking licence,

you could've driven the car home.

Now we're just stuck here on the side of the road.

- Yeah, beau-beautiful, brilliant.

Way to pick a fight and make this my fault.

It's my fault, because I don't have a licence.

- Well, just call us an Uber.

I'm not gonna fucking stand here all night.

- [Sarah] Yeah, we're fucking stuck here now, aren't we?

- Yeah.

And whose fault's that?

- [Sarah] Yeah, whose fucking fault's that? Fuck off.

Keep filming when we get in the car.

- Why? - I don't trust

anyone anymore. - Okay.

- I'm serious. - All right.

I'll keep filming, just get in the Uber.

- Uber for Sarah? - Yep.

- Hey.

- Hey, to Woodville? - Yes, please.

- Yeah. (lively rock music)

- [Sarah] Oh my God, Patrick.

- [Patrick] What are you doing?

I thought you wanted us to keep filming.

- It's Dan. - I can't see it.

- That's Dan. - You can't tell

that that's Dan. - Yes you can,

don't you see- - Shush, shush.

Listen, listen. - There are reports

that human remains have been discovered

at Garden Island in Port Adelaide.

They are believed to be that of Dan Schwartz,

a 29-year-old man from the northern suburbs of Adelaide.

- What the fuck. - But police say,

it will take some time for-

- [Sarah] I'm gonna be sick, I'm gonna be sick.

- Is she gonna be sick? - No, no, it's fine.

- I'm gonna throw up. - Get out.

- [Reporter] Where he was last seen walking

through Parafield Gardens-

- Sorry. - In the city's north.

- Oh my God. - Weather tomorrow,

slight chance of rain in the morning-

- I'm sorry, I'm sorry. - But by lunch time,

22 degrees, 25 at (drowned out by clatter).

(Sarah retching and coughing)

(Sarah retching and coughing)

- [Patrick] Sarah, come on.

(Sarah retching and coughing)

Come on, let's go.

We’re almost at the port, we can get a taxi from there.

- [Sarah] I just wanna go home.

- You all right?

- No.

- All right. - I wanna go home.

What are we doing?

- Walking to the port, we can get a taxi.

- [Sarah] Okay.

- Oh, another fucking private number calling?

Yeah, what? Yeah.

- Who is it?

- Yeh.

- Who is it?

- Yeh.

Yeah, I mean nice to fucking hear from you.

Only been trying for months.

Yeah, yeah, I know where it is.

I can see it almost from here.

Yeah, like 15 minutes?

Yeah just, just hang up.

- Who was that? - It's Dandy.

- You're kidding. - He wants to meet up,

just over there. - Over there?

Should have told him to get fucked.

- No, I want some fucking answers.

I wanna know what the fuck is going on.

If anyone is gonna know it's him, so let's go.

He wants to meet us at the South Road underpass,

which is just over there.

Dan, the cops, what is happening?

I wanna fucking talk to him.

- [Sarah] So we're gonna go meet him?

- Gonna go meet him right now, I'm not scared of these cunts.

He said no cameras, yeh, get fucked.

We've got the GoPros in the backpack, don't we?

- [Sarah] Yeah, I think so.

- Yeah, not on camera, yeh, fuck you dickhead.

Tell me what's going on.

- [Sarah] I just wanna go home.

(soft thoughtful music)

Oh my God, are you cutting into that? My God.

(soft thoughtful music continues)

What if he sees it?

- Now how would you notice that, once I tape it in?

Here, you take that.

A bit of black tape,

I'll sit it in there a bit better.

Just put it in, like just down here.

- [Sarah] If we take the light off.

- [Patrick] Yeah, just take the light off,

and like from a distance-

- Yeah, he won't even notice. - Nah.

- [Sarah] He won't be looking for it.

- [Patrick] No, and this is so far away. We'll zoom in.

Is your camera. All right it's looking good.

(soft thoughtful music continues)

The fuck is he?

- Oi. - Oh, it's gotta be him.

- [Sarah] Has to be.

- [Dandy] Stay where you are, don't get any closer.

- [Patrick] Chill out dude, Dandy I presume.

You know, nice to meet you, after all this time.

- [Sarah] Yeah, it only took someone dying

for you to finally reply.

- [Dandy] Oh, don't get fucking smart with me.

You're lucky I'm here at all.

- [Patrick] What the fuck is going on with,

Dan's dead now because he made some YouTube videos?

- Yeah, that's um, that's my fault.

I should never have spoken to him.

But you two have stirred up enough trouble.

You've had your fun, you need to fuck off.

These people will take out anyone they feel is a threat.

This is bigger than you can possibly imagine.

You need to get the hell out of here.

You need to forget this whole thing, you need to stop.

Do you have any idea of the consequences

of what you're doing?

Do you have any idea of who you're involved with?

They take dozens of people every year.

You've just been focused on the ones you know about.

- [Patrick] Yeah but

Lammasche has been in jail for years,

so who else is involved, and like, what else is going on?

Where, where does this lead to?

- Lammasche? Lammasche?

There's no such person, he doesn't exist.

He's a fiction, he's a ghost, they created him.

He's a piece of paperwork that allows them

to get away with the things,

so that nobody worries about having to chase anybody else,

because they've got him.

He does not exist, there is no one.

(soft uneasy music) - Holy shit.

- [Dandy] Yeah, holy fucking shit.

Now, I'm guessing you're just the curious type, right?

So I'm gonna do you a little favour.

I've got something for you, and I guarantee,

once you see, once you see what's on it,

you won't even (inaudible). - What is it?

- You know, before your mate Dan

started running his mouth off,

they thought they'd got away with it.

I'm dealing with them, I'm gonna take care of it.

I've got it under control,

I just need you to back off, right?

Back off. - All right, okay.

- Yeah, right. - We’ll stop.

- So don't be using this on a computer

that's connected to the internet.

I'm only giving it to you, because you're in deep enough

as it is, and nothing is gonna make it any worse for you.

Stop looking, stop asking questions,

stop this video, stop all of it.

Hell, once you've seen what's on here,

you'll wanna stop poking around anyway.

- [Patrick] Yeah, okay, I promise.

- I can keep them away from you for a bit longer,

but you need to get on your plane to London,

fuck off outta here, never speak of this to anyone,

forget this whole thing ever happened, understood?

- Yeah, I promise. - Okay, yeah. We promise.

(soft sombre music)

- [Patrick] The fuck, my heart's racing.

- [Sarah] Are we done with this fucking nightmare?

- [Patrick] Let's just fucking go home, all right?

(soft uneasy music) (door creaking)

(Patrick exhaling)

- [Sarah] What the fuck just happened?

- [Patrick] I don't know, I don't know?

- What, Dan's dead, and you were the last one

to see him alive, according to the cops?

- Well, and then- - And then Dandy

fucking calls out of nowhere?

- [Patrick] Well, that's not how I expected to meet him.

- What's going on? - I don't know.

Like, I'll call them tomorrow, and I'll tell them

about what I know about Dan,

you know it might help figure out what-

- [Sarah] I wouldn't say fucking shit to the cops,

especially not after what happened tonight.

This is getting bad.

- We've come too far, we've filmed too much, and yeah,

we haven't got much left to do, like-

- Well, take this. What is this shit?

Here USB, plug that in.

- [Patrick] I'm not plugging that in.

You heard what he said.

- What? - Well just in case,

you know, we'll get one of those laptops

that Damo's always hocking off cheap, just in case,

'cause we don't know what's on it.

What is this stuff?

- This might be more useless shit.

- Well it could be anything, but it could be something.

I don't now. - Yeah, it could be

Dandy's fucking holiday photos.

This is, I just wanna drop it. I just, I'm scared.

This is getting outrageous.

We need to stop the movie,

we need to listen to what Dandy said, this is too much.

- We're not stopping the movie.

- Well I just, I'm, I'm scared, I'm over it.

- Well, fine. Let's put this away for safekeeping.

We're going camping, we'll just forget about this shit

for a couple of days.

I don't, you know, know what's on it, but we’ll be careful.

- [Sarah] I just don't like any of this.

- (sighing) Well, neither do I.

But you know, we're out of here,

so soon, you don't have to stress.

- [Sarah] Not fucking soon enough.

- Look, we've gotta finish filming.

We can finish filming and I can edit in the UK.

We'll film up to the day we go, then it'll be good.

We haven't got much left to do.

- How much is there, then?

Look at the shot list, let's see,

realistically, how much more we have to do,

because something's gonna happen.

- Look green's done, yellow's not done.

Pink is notes, we've got fuck all,

and some of this we can tick off now anyway.

So not a whole lot.

- [Sarah] All right.

- The fuck? The fuck.

- What? - My visa's been revoked.

It's saying substantial criminal charges

have been found against me.

Yeah, I'm banned for the next 10 years.

If I show up, I'll be denied entry at the border.

What the fuck?

- Are you fucking kidding me right now?

- This was all- - What are we

supposed to do now?

- This was all sorted, it was fine yesterday,

it's gonna be another mix up,

like the thing with the cop, but-

- Well, it's a pretty big fucking coincidence, Patrick.

- Well, it's you know, some hood rat's

got the same name as me.

It's not a very uncommon name.

- Mm yeah, just another mix up.

Couldn't possibly be a coincidence to do with the licence,

or the phone calls, and now the visa.

- Well you know, speaking of licences,

maybe, can you get onto Ronnie and see if he can

pick us up on the way tomorrow,

seeing neither of us have a fucking licence now?

- [Sarah] Yeah, well I'm gonna have to, aren't I?

- Yeah, well maybe if you had your licence,

you could've driven us.

- Well, you can't blame this on me,

I've asked to stop, I said stop the movie-

- All right, all right, I'll get onto these fucking idiots,

and you get onto Ronnie then, just get us a lift.

- Fine.

- I'll figure it out tomorrow.

I'll talk to them, we'll figure it out.

- [Sarah] We gotta figure something out.

(ceiling banging)

- Shut the fuck up. - Why are you awake?

- [Patrick] How are you not awake? The fucking possums.

- [Sarah] Why are you filming?

- [Patrick] It's the, how long we been

emailing the landlord, he won't fucking do anything

about it, useless cheap cunt.

I'm gonna show this to, you know,

housing SA or someone, so we get our bond back.

- Okay. - Well, what?

You wanna throw away $1500?

We can use that in the UK. - I'm asleep.

Why are you yelling at me when I'm sleeping?

- [Patrick] Shut the fuck up.

- Oh my God. - I'm gonna fucking kill it.

I'm gonna fucking find it and murder it.

- [Sarah] You can't kill them, they're endangered.

You have to catch them.

- [Patrick] I don't give a fuck.

They're in my ceiling, they're on my property.

I'm gonna fucking murder them- - Yeah, okay.

- Every single night. - I’m sleeping.

- [Patrick] Fucking, look at this fucking shit.

Chewing holes in my fucking house.

Look at this, you think this is acceptable to live in?

(uneasy rhythmic music)

Fuck are you cunts?

Come on, you were out here last night,

running around on the roof, running into the ceiling.

Oh, you don't want to now?

(uneasy rhythmic music continues)

(tense dramatic music)

What the fuck? What the fuck?

What the fuck? (panting)

- What are you running around yelling about?

You're gonna wake up the whole neighbourhood.

- [Patrick] Nothing, it's just the possums.

- I think you need to just come back to bed.

- Yeh all right.

it's just that we're going camping tomorrow.

Couple of days, we're gonna be out of here.

Nothing to worry about except Damo’s snoring.

I think you should just come inside.

- [Patrick] Okay.

(birds chattering)

Yo. - Hey, what's up man?

What's going on? - Thank you so much.

- Yeah, that's all right, you're fine. It's all good.

Sucks about your licence. - You’re a life saver.

I'll figure it out, it's some bullshit.

- Yeah, there was a bit shit of rolling around the back,

like your tripod, so I was trying to fix them up.

So I opened the boot, but um, I found this,

kind of like underneath the boot, I don't-

- This was in the boot? - Yeah.

- The fuck? - I don't know.

Maybe, maybe it was the previous owner or something.

- [Patrick] Yeah, yeah, maybe it's like one of those things

if it gets stolen, so they can find it.

But that's, yeah that's weird.

I'm gonna look that model number up. Thanks for that, cool.

Anyway, what's your plan for camping?

Ronnie's picking us up in about two hours.

- I've actually got some stuff to do, so-

- Cool, we'll just- - Gonna fly off.

- Meet you up in a while. - Cheers.

- All right, see you man.

- See you, bye.

I got thinking about this thing

that Damo found in the car.

No, I don't think it was the previous owner.

Then I got thinking about that day we were at the drains,

and someone broke into the car, and nothing was taken.

But, what if they left something?

(soft uneasy music)

- Ah, thanks heaps for picking us up.

This is such a fucking nightmare of a week, and-

- Ah, that's all good, man. I don't mind driving.

You reckon you can send me the money for the campsite?

- [Patrick] Oh yeah, shit. I forgot that you paid for that.

- [Ronnie] Yeah, we're gonna lose reception

at some point.

- What the fuck?

- What?

- It's saying my balance is zero,

and it's been locked for suspicious activity.

But I can see the balance, and there's nothing in there.

- [Sarah] Well have you bought anything weird, or-

- [Patrick] No, I'm with you, you know I haven't.

- I know- - Yeah, that's what

I thought, but they don't take your money when they do that.

- [Patrick] No- - They just lock it.

That's the weird part.

- [Sarah] They should like, notify you or something.

- Yeh.

- I don't know. I'll just worry about it on Monday.

- Okay. - Just enjoy camping.

- Yeah, its good weather- - We've got the food,

and everything, I guess we really don't need

any extra money, but-

- Yeah, we don't need to spend anything.

- I don't know what the fuck's going on.

(tense uneasy music)

- They're here. - Hey guys.

- Yo. - Hey guys.

- [Patrick] What's going on?

Yo Damo, I forgot to ask this morning.

I need one of those laptops

you're always hocking off cheap.

The fuck happened to your eye? Look at that shiner.

- I don't wanna talk about it.

Can you just stop filming? Like, can you not?

- [Patrick] Well no, that's why we're doing this,

so I can film. - Oh, fuck.

I told you I don't wanna be part

of your dumb movie shit, all right?

- [Patrick] No you didn't.

You've been quite happy to be part of it.

What are you talking about? - Dude, don't.

If I knew you were filming,

I wouldn't have come man, fucking hell.

- [Operator] What the fuck?

What the, what's that about?

- He said the cops came around this morning.

- [Patrick] What, the cops gave him a shiner?

I thought, I thought you know,

all that dodgy shit he's been doing caught up with him.

- That's what I thought too, but no.

He's, he's been really upset all afternoon.

I'm not sure what's going on.

- [Patrick] Okay, that's fucking strange.

- What do you have to film today?

- [Patrick] It's just some B roll.

Like one of the, one of the bodies was found

not far from here.

Anyway, I'd better start setting some shit up.

- Yeah, sounds good. Need a hand?

- [Patrick] Yes, cheers.

The fuck's his problem, did you see that?

- I thought you weren't filming anymore. What the fuck?

- I told you I was filming,

that was the whole point of this.

Well what, you just want me,

to just give up on the whole movie?

- Well I don't know, I just, it's fucking weird.

It's getting weird.

- [Patrick] It's fine, we're just out here in,

it's the middle of nowhere.

We're just getting B-roll and some drone stuff

of the forest and shit.

- Well, if you say so. - It'll be fine.

- Do you promise? - Yes, look.

Come, just have fun. Don't sit over here by yourself.

- Oh, all right. - Have fun with everyone.

- All right.

(uneasy tense music)

- I ended up having a few too many drinks last night.

Didn't really get any filming done,

apart from some of the drone stuff, but whatever.

I was almost starting to feel a bit relaxed.

You know, the time away from Adelaide was helping,

almost starting to forget all this madness.

Starting to feel like a bad dream.

Then this morning I noticed

one of my cameras had been fucked with.

It wasn't where I left it, and the torch had been left on.

And normally I'd think it's Damo,

but he left just after we got here.

He sure as shit didn't film this.

(static crackling)

(footsteps crunching)

(zipper scraping)

(footsteps crunching)

(tense uneasy music)

(dramatic flourish music)

(soft uneasy music)

What the fuck?

- What is this? - What the fuck?

Get the other camera.

Get the other camera.

- [Sarah] Yeah, I'm getting it,

I'm getting it, I'm getting it.

What is this? Oh my God. - Oh, what the fuck?

The whole house.

- Oh my God. - Be careful.

- What is this? - I don't know.

- Oh, fuck. (tense uneasy music)

No. - What?

We’ve just been robbed.

- [Sarah] Nah, nah, I'm done, I'm done.

I fucking told you.

I told you to stop playing with this shit.

- [Patrick] We've just been robbed.

- [Sarah] I'm done, I'm done.

Oh my God, they've been in here as well.

- [Patrick] What the fuck?

Well, have you noticed anything missing?

- [Sarah] I don't know, can you see anything missing?

- [Patrick] Did you have money? Has any cash been taken?

- No, I didn't have any fucking money,

because it's all wrapped up in all this shit

that you keep making me do.

No, I don't have any money.

All I have is this stuff, and it's fucked.

It's trashed, it's everywhere.

I'm done. - What are you doing?

- I'm gone. - Going where?

- [Sarah] I'm going to Jamie and Alecia's house,

I'm not staying here.

- [Patrick] We've just been robbed.

They, they just looked through for stuff.

- You making excuses,

ignoring what's actually happening, insane.

This shit's been ramping up, and now this.

Now they've been in our house, they know where we live.

I'm gone, I'm done.

I told you this was gonna happen,

I told you that they were getting close to us,

and now look at this, look at this.

All our stuff, fucking trashed, our house, done.

Go away for two nights, "Oh, it'll be fine

when we go camping," nah.

See you later, I'm done. I'm out, goodbye.

You can take my name off everything, I'm done.

(tense uneasy music)

(footsteps clattering)

(tense uneasy music)

(equipment clattering)

(tense uneasy music continues)

- Fuck it.

(tense uneasy music continues) (keyboard clacking)

"Patrick and Sarah, these are all of the files

I've collected over the years,

plus what could be recovered from the last documentary crew

investigating the Household.

The reporter and her camera man are still missing.

I hope this is enough to satisfy your curiosity, Dandy."

(tense uneasy music)

(test pattern beeping) (static hissing)

- Hello, my name is Alexandra Wells,

and I'll be your host this evening.

I'm a documentary filmmaker from Adelaide, Australia.

This place has been called the City of Churches,

but locals know it by another name,

the Murder Capital of Australia.

I've always been fascinated by Adelaide's dark secrets.

So now in 2004, we're going to investigate over five decades

of this sleepy little city's most infamous murders.

(soft thoughtful music)

(test pattern beeping)

W-was that all right? Do we need another take?

(test pattern beeping)

- My name is Mark Ackerman.

I worked for the Perth Police Force in WA for 25 years.

After I retired, I studied criminology

and criminal justice at the University of Northbridge,

and have been teaching as a professor ever since.

I'm not one for flights of fancy,

but I will tell you what has been established as fact

regarding secret societies.

So these type of clubs do exist all over the world.

Most are harmless, just rich people

mingling amongst themselves away from the public eye.

More sinister groups have been documented, but are rare.

There was one of these organisations

disguised as a hunting club in France

that was disbanded in the 1930s.

A few members were arrested, but many fled.

It was a lot easier to disappear back then,

especially if you had money.

All of the members were from the upper echelons of society.

Heads of industry, ministers.

We know one of the members was involved

in the writing of the Treaty of Versailles.

This group passed themselves off as a hunting club,

which technically they were,

but they weren't hunting foxes, they were hunting people.

They stripped their victims naked,

gave them a five-minute head start,

pursued them on horseback with shotguns.

- My name is Robert Dandy.

I've been a detective for the Adelaide Police Force

since 1991, so about 13 years now.

I was one of the investigators

on the infamous Household murders.

I haven't figured out exactly where all this began,

most likely in Europe, but the nine murders

we know of aren't the first or the last.

I've managed to trace various iterations of the Household

back to the early settlement days.

You might have heard about the press gangs,

and the practise of crimping in Port Adelaide.

In the early days of Australia,

sailors in pubs would be drugged, they would then be taken

through elaborate tunnel and drainage systems.

The lucky ones woke up at sea

and were told they could work or swim.

The unlucky ones were sold

to earlier iterations of the Household.

Some of these tunnels were later found

to go all the way into the CBD,

a major one ending at Parliament House.

- Now, this isn't my area of expertise,

but there can be an occult element to their activities.

Organisations such as the Veiled Serpent Society,

they worship an ancient pagan deity

called Taphaet, I believe it's pronounced.

But from what I recall, they were interested in immortality

and by performing violent rituals,

and sacrifices to Taphaet,

they believed they would prolong life.

They would prey on young men in particular,

as they were seen as strong and virile.

- I know there's been talk about some kind of occult worship

and sacrificing boys to Taphaet or whatever,

but that's not anything I ever heard or saw firsthand.

It's nonsense, if you ask me.

- I'm sure not all of them believe in the woohoo

and religious aspects but have grown up

around this type of thing,

and have realised they just like killing.

You'd have to find someone that specialises

more in the occult to learn about Taphaet.

What I can tell you is,

these are old families and old money.

(test pattern beeping)

- My name is Jane Recard, and I'm an expert in the occult

and all things mystical and paranormal.

So I am a medium- - Wait a minute.

- And I have been in contact

with those who have passed over since I was a child.

- That's that fucking lady who told us to go to the drains.

That's her, they've known since day one.

- [Alexandra] We'd like some footage discovered

by one of the detectives investigating the Household.

(tense uneasy music)

(metal clanking)

(boards clattering) (victim screaming)

(whistle blaring)

(tense uneasy music continues)

(test pattern beeping)

- Yes, I believe this might be related

to the worship of Taphaet.

Note the mask, this is done to mock old age, death, God.

They are missing the traditional robes,

and usually it is performed

in a more reverent place, not a shed.

It looks like the victim

has been conditioned with a whistle.

This is usually done with a more ceremonial animal horn,

but it does feel like someone

who has at least some knowledge of Taphaet,

but maybe is a bit uneducated about him.

Yeah, so Taphaet isn't a pagan god, as many believe.

It's hard to say where fact ends and myth begins,

but rituals were devised around amputation and mutilation.

They believed by performing these acts,

they could cure sickness, heal wounds,

return hearing and eyesight, et cetera.

More secretive sects even thought

it was the key to immortality.

- They would perform amputations, torture,

sacrifices to Taphaet, inflicting pain

until the victim's eventual death.

This was done to appease Taphaet,

who they thought would grant them longer life,

if not immortality.

They see dying as below them, something for common people.

- [Alexandra] Could you tell us how all of this

relates to the Household?

Is there a correlation with all of this?

- Your producer didn't mention that this would be

a topic of discussion in this interview.

I won't be commenting on this topic,

and I feel like you've brought me into this interview

under false pretences, so you can leave, please.

- The rumours are mostly correct.

In fact, some of the members

actively flaunted their involvement.

Ben Campbell, AKA Mr. C, mid-level Household member.

They took him out themselves.

He was almost advertising his involvement.

They kept him around for the various

SA properties he owned and let them use,

but after his little slipup letting Karl Roberts escape,

they tied up that loose end.

These people filmed lots of their crimes.

I don't know why, so they could enjoy it

again and again maybe.

They've learned to be smarter and quieter now.

- [Alexandra] Thanks so much for your time.

That ties in with what we've been hearing.

We'll got outta your hair now.

- [Jane] Oh yeah no, no problem.

Yeah, so you're from Adelaide?

- [Alexandra] I was, not anymore.

I moved to Melbourne a few years back.

That's where the action is.

- [Jane] Oh, interesting. Yeah, so you're in town tonight?

- [Alexandra] Yeah, the producers put us up

at the Sunset Lodges, so glamorous.

We have some B roll to film in the morning,

then fly out tomorrow night.

- [Jane] Oh, that's lovely.

- [Alexandra] Anyway, I'm gonna give John a hand

moving the van, I'll be back in a minute

and we'll get these lights and tripods

outta here for you.

(Jane sighing)

- They're in Adelaide tonight.

Yep, Sunset Lodges, yeah.

Yeah, They’ve got that tape that idiot Campbell did.

(groaning) Oh yeah, so disrespectful,

and completely clueless.

Yeah. Look, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter, I told them what they want to hear

so I could get them to open up and find out what they know.

If you do your job right, they'll be taken care of,

and this will never come out.

(tense uneasy music)

- The fuck.

(door banging)

(tense dramatic music)

- [Officer] Patrick Jones.

Patrick Jones. - What.

- You are under arrest. - For what? The fuck-

- You are under arrest. - For what?

- [Officer] For the murder of Dan Schwartz.

Before I ask you any questions, I must tell you

that you have the right to remain silent.

This means you do not have to say anything,

answer any question or make any statement

unless you wish to do so.

However, if you do say something or make a statement,

it later may be used as evidence, do you understand?

- [Patrick] Fuck you.

- [Officer] Is, is that a mic? You snitch.

- Fuck off.

(tense uneasy music) (objects clattering)

This isn't the movie I set out to make,

but I'm putting it out there.

Hopefully someone can finish what I started.

I kept some people's identities anonymous,

so there's a bit of bargaining power if it's ever needed.

Sarah never made it to our friend's house.

No one's heard from Damo since.

They tried to pin Dan's murder on me.

They can't use Lammasche anymore, obviously.

Dandy caused one hell of a commotion

and managed to get that charge dropped at least.

I'm thankful to him for that.

What they did get me for was a bit of weed and coke.

Who's ever heard of anyone getting eight months for that?

But funnily enough, I felt safer in prison.

I'm hoping someone can pick up where I left off

and finish what I couldn't.

I hope Sarah's out there somewhere.

(tense uneasy music) (camera zoom whirring)

(lively heavy music)

♪ The sharksfin on the windshield where ♪

♪ The wipers don't even dare ♪

♪ To leave their mark or show themselves ♪

♪ Shines blue and red, the cops are here ♪

♪ I'm not being nostalgic if I'm not mistaken ♪

♪ Everything is actually worse now ♪

♪ If I have to suffer through this ♪

♪ So does everyone else in this godforsaken house ♪

(heavy lively music)

♪ The sharksfin on the windshield where ♪

♪ The wipers don't even dare ♪

♪ To leave their mark or show themselves ♪

♪ Shines blue and red, the cops are here ♪

♪ Be economic with your words ♪

♪ Efficient with my time, and not so goddamn loud ♪

♪ We're the kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix ♪

♪ Body's here, but my spirit's on it's way out ♪

(heavy lively music)

♪ The sharksfin on the windshield where ♪

♪ The wipers don't even dare ♪

♪ To leave their mark or show themselves ♪

♪ Shines blue and red, the cops are here ♪

(heavy lively music)

♪ The sharksfin on the windshield where ♪

♪ The wipers don't even dare ♪

♪ To leave their mark or show themselves ♪

♪ Shines blue and red, the cops are here ♪

(heavy lively music)

(soft eerie music)