Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.
Jordan Fraser-Trumble
Detective Lex De Man (young)
Anne Hamilton-Byrne
Herself (archive footage)
Bill Hamilton-Byrne
Himself (archive footage)
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July 30, 2016
1h 38m
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Rosie Jones
Rosie Jones
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Big Stories
AU
Film Victoria
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Screen Australia
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BBC
GB
Lex De Man
Himself (interview)
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