Shane Madej
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210 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Shane Madej’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And someone comes and fills it up every week. That beautiful, strange woman.
Now Helen, of course, had begun rebuilding her menagerie of strays as soon as she got out of the hospital. And the smell and the noise were causing the neighbors to once again complain. So to avoid another visit from the RSPCA, Helen bought a farm outside of the Tasmanian town of Copping, not too far from Port Arthur.
Once Martin and Helen moved on to their new land, they soon acquired three donkeys, nine ponies, three dogs, and an untold number of cats, in addition to 30 canaries and quite a few budgies. What's a budgie? It's a boudregar. It's like a canary. It's a small bird.
But you remember, I think that bird, remember the bird whose head fell off in Dumb and Dumber? Yes.
But once Martin became, and man, this sounds like the dream. Three donkeys?
And three dogs and three donkeys? I mean, I can, you know, the cats, let's have like maybe four walking around.
Yeah, and nine ponies is too much.
For them it is. Yeah, just a couple, just one horse.
I have, yeah, several times. Once. Yeah, I ordered horse once. Yeah, of course you order horse. Like, you didn't go to the fucking supermarket and buy horse. Eat it. Eat it.
Once Martin became more isolated on the farm, the meager social skills that he developed over the years began to regress. He became more irritable, more erratic, and extremely quick to anger. But since the only person who saw him on a regular basis was Helen, nobody noticed that his behavior was getting darker.
But perhaps what was most harmful when it came to Martin's eventual actions was Helen's insistence that Martin be made the exclusive trustee of her estate.
She wrote up a new will explicitly forbidding any of her money from going to her blood relatives upon her death, which meant that when Helen died, Martin Bryant was all set to become a multimillionaire who could pretty much buy and do whatever he wanted.
Yeah. But concerning Martin's darkening moods, there were some red flags. A few weeks after Martin and Helen moved to their farm, a neighbor came by for tea. But before the neighbor finished her cuppa, Martin shooed her out the door and told her that if she ever came back, he'd shoot her.
Well, Martin also began skulking through his neighbor's properties at night, where he would use his trusty air rifle to shoot dogs. But for most of the people in the town of Copping, Martin and Helen were merely the local eccentric couple.
Every day, Martin and Helen would wake up late, then wander the local town aimlessly, shopping, eating long lunches, and driving around in a continuous stream of new cars filled with animals.
Well, actually, I mean, I don't know. They were happy, though. They were. I mean, they'd drive around with their dogs, their cats. Sometimes they'd stuff a pony in the backseat, which greatly disturbed the locals, as it should. Ponies don't belong in the backseat of a sedan.
It is true. Now, naturally, Helen would do all the driving, but Martin had never given up on his old habit of suddenly grabbing the steering wheel to try and make them crash because he thought it was funny. To avoid accidents, Helen started driving slower and slower, but Martin still caused three accidents by jerking the wheel.
It was only a matter of time, of course, before Martin's steering mill shenanigans would have real consequences. In October of 1992, Martin and Helen loaded three of their dogs into a brand new Mazda and drove north to do some shopping. Martin later told police that at one point during this drive, Helen had become distracted by the dogs, and she let the car drift into the other lane.
It's far more likely, however, that Martin reached over and jerked the wheel, because according to the person they hit that day, Helen's Mazda very suddenly swerved across the line and crashed into their sedan head-on. Helen's neck snapped upon impact, killing her instantly, in addition to two of the dogs.
Martin, meanwhile, suffered a fractured vertebrae, while the third dog survived, ran back to the farm.
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