Brisbane, 2014. A young couple move into a Teneriffe apartment for what’s meant to be a fresh start: new city, new lease, same old money problems. Three weeks later, one of them is dead and the other is about to become a headline.

In this episode we meet 27-year-old Indonesian woman Mayang Prasetyo and her husband, chef Marcus Volke. We follow them through Melbourne’s adult industry, a quick marriage in Denmark, years of drifting between Europe and Asia, and finally into a riverside unit where migration stress, sex work stigma and domestic tension quietly build.

This episode focuses on who they were before the crime — Mayang as a daughter and breadwinner, Marcus as a drifting chef and sex worker — and the hidden dynamics of domestic violence in LGBTI relationships. We end the story on the night neighbours hear a violent argument and a woman’s screams… and then silence.

Content note: Domestic and family violence, transphobia, sex work stigma, dismemberment and suicide.

For support on domestic violence, we have listed some helpful links below:

https://www.dvconnect.org/

https://fullstop.org.au/

https://www.vic.gov.au/family-violence-statewide-support-services?

https://whiteribbon.org.au/helplines/?

In 1822, eight convicts escaped from Sarah Island — the most brutal prison in Van Diemen’s Land. Only one came back alive.
His name was Alexander Pearce… and he’d eaten the rest.

In this episode, Shawnee dives deep into one of Australia’s most disturbing true stories — the brutal escapes, the descent into madness, and the hunger that turned a man into a legend.
From starvation in the Tasmanian wilderness to murder, confession, and execution — this is the true story of the Cannibal Convict.

Dark, atmospheric, and laced with understated humour — this is survival stripped bare.

Eight bodies. Six plastic barrels. One abandoned bank vault in the middle of nowhere.

By the end of the 1990s, John Bunting’s murderous “cleansing” campaign had escalated beyond backyard interrogations into full-scale slaughter — and Snowtown became the silent storage facility for the group’s dead.

In Part Two of this two-hour deep dive, we follow the Snowtown killers as their crimes spiral out of control:

the betrayal of close associates, the murders of family members, the filling of the barrels, the final victim lured to his death — and the moment the smell finally leads police to the bank vault that would shock Australia.

This episode traces:

• The late-stage murders from 1997–1999

• The group’s move to Snowtown and use of the abandoned bank

• The final victims — including family betrayals

• The police discovery inside the vault

• The longest murder trial in South Australian history

• The devastating impact on a town forever tied to the killings

Twelve victims.

Four men.

And a country town that became synonymous with horror through no fault of its own.

Listener discretion advised.

🎧 This is Part Two of a two-part series.