{"id":4172,"date":"2025-04-07T09:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4172\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:47:17","slug":"i-visited-worlds-most-incestuous-town-to-track-down-infamous-family-where-inbred-siblings-faced-unimaginable-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4172\/","title":{"rendered":"I visited \u2018world\u2019s most incestuous town\u2019 to track down infamous family where inbred siblings faced unimaginable horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Colt family name sends shivers down the spines of locals in a remote Australian town – and anyone asking questions faces their wrath.<\/p>\n

Australian influencer<\/a> Jamie Zhu found out for himself after visiting Boorawa in New South Wales to hunt for the world’s most inbred family.<\/p>\n

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The Colt family had four generations of inbreedingCredit: NEWS.COM.AU\"Man<\/a><\/p>\n

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Australian influencer Jamie Zhu visited Boorowa, New South WalesCredit: YouTube @Jamie Zhu\"Interior<\/a><\/p>\n

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The family lived in squalor without running waterCredit: News Corp Australia\"Brick<\/a><\/p>\n

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He was visiting the town to look for the world’s most inbred familyCredit: YouTube @Jamie Zhu<\/p>\n

Within minutes of arriving in the town, which has a population of 1,800, the social media star was chased out by furious locals after being reported to the police.<\/p>\n

Jamie, who has almost 900,000 subscribers to his YouTube page<\/a>, told The Sun: “It was a very small town, so it’s almost like everyone knows each other.”<\/p>\n

Four generations of twisted inbreeding went unnoticed for decades until authorities busted the clan’s isolated camp in 2012.<\/p>\n

Unimaginable horrors were uncovered, and the sickening stories of the 38-strong brood’s life of incest, neglect, and paedophilia\u00a0shocked the world.<\/p>\n

Images showed paper-thin mattresses inside tents and old sheds, and caravans where the Colt family lived.<\/p>\n

Their names have all been changed to protect the identity of the victims.<\/p>\n

The children – found filthy, malnourished, and barely able to speak – did not know how to brush their teeth or use toilet paper.<\/p>\n

Perverted patriarch\u00a0Tim Colt<\/a>\u00a0ran an “incest” farm where\u00a0he raped his daughters<\/a>, fathered their children and encouraged his sons to do the same.<\/p>\n

He and his sister June, also a product of incest, shared seven kids – Martha, Frank, Paula, Cherry, Rhonda, Betty, and Charlie.<\/p>\n

The women gave birth to their own children – likely\u00a0fathered by their dad and brothers<\/a> – adding more members to the barbarous brood.<\/p>\n

Brother and sister \u2018had five children together\u2019 in \u2018world\u2019s most inbred family\u2019 with four generations of inbreeding<\/p>\n

Tim allegedly parented his daughter Betty’s 13 children, four of Rhonda’s offspring, and even his granddaughter Raylene’s child, Kimberly.<\/p>\n

Dark roots <\/p>\n

The monster moved to\u00a0Australia<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0in 1970 after marrying sister June.<\/p>\n

It was here that he headed up the clan, who were\u00a0forced to live in squalor<\/a> and poverty. <\/p>\n

The campsite spread out into the outback, with sheds and caravans, and no running water or toilets.<\/p>\n

By the time the family’s revolting and remote camp was busted in 2012, Tim and June were long dead, and the family was headed by their daughter Betty.<\/p>\n

To avoid detection, the clan had moved several times – but had been settled just outside of Boorowa for several years when their depraved way of life was uncovered.<\/p>\n

Eight family members faced various\u00a0charges of incest, child sex abuse and aggravated assault, with several trials taking place.<\/p>\n

Content creator Jamie, 31, decided to visit the town to see if he could find out more about the family.<\/p>\n

He said: “What the team and I like to do is investigate certain situations, especially in Australia, ranging from social issues to just news stories that we see.<\/p>\n

“So we decided to go down and just kind of investigate what actually happened. <\/p>\n

“We wanted to see if there were still victims there from that particular family and what impact it may have had on them.<\/p>\n

“I think this sort of issue may happen to more people than we think which never gets spoken about.<\/p>\n

“So we sort of wanted to raise some awareness for the people down there.”<\/p>\n

The ten-minute video shared with Jamie’s 892,000 subscribers on YouTube<\/a> shows the influencer stopping people in the street to ask them about the Colt brood.<\/p>\n

Most had little to say to Jamie and his videographer Nick – but one woman in a cafe revealed her children went to school with some of the clan.<\/p>\n

“They just lived in caravans,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Another woman in the neighbouring shop then agreed to lead Jamie to the “Colt house”.<\/p>\n

But in an apparent misunderstanding, she walked the influencer to the local courthouse instead.<\/p>\n

She then claimed she was taking Jamie and Nick to the local police station to speak to an officer about the family.<\/p>\n

Jamie said what happened next was “something out of a horror movie” as after more than an hour of waiting outside the station, the woman became incensed. <\/p>\n

“Turn the camera off now, just f***ing turn it off,” she warned.<\/p>\n

“I’m p***ed off. What do you know about the family?”<\/p>\n

Jamie told her he didn’t know much and didn’t know where the children were now but asked if she knew where any Colt family members could be. <\/p>\n

She fumed: “F**k me. Do you think I would honestly tell you if I knew where they were?<\/p>\n

“Do you think I would be that f**king stupid, decrepit to tell you?<\/p>\n

The woman then demanded the cops be called before the pair jumped into their car and fled.<\/p>\n

But when Nick and Jamie made a stop, Jamie’s mum called to warn them she’d been contacted by the police as they were using her car.<\/p>\n

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A local claimed she was taking Jamie and Nick to the local police station to speak to an officer about the familyCredit: YouTube @Jamie Zhu\"Person<\/a><\/p>\n

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The woman then demanded a man in a nearby council building “call the cops to get these a***oles out of here” before trying to punch NickCredit: YouTube @Jamie Zhu\"Blurry<\/a><\/p>\n

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The angry man also warns Nick he’ll sue him for filmingCredit: YouTube @Jamie Zhu\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

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The pair were forced to flee the townCredit: YouTube @Jamie Zhu<\/p>\n

Panicked-looking Jamie later got a call from the police, but was relieved when the officer said he hadn’t done anything wrong.<\/p>\n

Jamie told The Sun most people he encountered in the town were friendly – and believes the woman who became furious misunderstood why he was there.<\/p>\n

He said: “She started telling all the people in the town that we were doing something bad, which we weren’t.<\/p>\n

“And then one thing led to another, and we had to drive off and leave.”<\/p>\n

While most people Jamie spoke to claimed not to have heard of the Colt family, he sensed the town carried the weight of its history.<\/p>\n

“It was a mixed bag. I think everyone sort of knew about it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But I did sort of realise after some time that they did carry a bit of shame around the subject as well.”<\/p>\n

After the clan was busted, the name “Colt” was given to them as a pseudonym by the courts and government agencies.<\/p>\n

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Charlie Colt who is said to have shared a marital bed’ with his sisterCredit: NEWS.COM.AU\"Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tim Colt allegedly raped his own daughters and encouraged his sons to do the sameCredit: news.com.au\"Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

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The children were taken into careCredit: news.com.au<\/p>\n

Their first names have also been changed.<\/p>\n

Police launched an investigation after a descendant of the Colt clan was\u00a0overheard by a fellow pupil<\/a>\u00a0discussing the fact her sister was\u00a0pregnant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The girl, who rarely went to school like the other Colt children, revealed she did not know which of her brothers was the father.<\/p>\n

Cops raided their camp and found the family living in squalor without running water or toilets inside run-down caravans and shabby tents.<\/p>\n

They were ridden with chronic hearing, sight and dental issues, while one of the young girls was described as\u00a0having “dysmorphic” features<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Psychological assessments disturbingly revealed the kids engaged in “inappropriate sexual conduct” with one another.<\/p>\n

Many of them have now reached adulthood and have shown marked improvement in personal hygiene and\u00a0health<\/a>\u00a0– but they are still overshadowed by deprivations from their childhood.<\/p>\n

Some have low-slung ears or misaligned eyes as a result of inbreeding and they look decades older than their calendar age.<\/p>\n

Jamie believes the locals are protective of the victims, especially the younger ones who have been placed in care.<\/p>\n

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The clan lived in tents and caravansCredit: News Corp Australia\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grisly images and details of their life emerged after their secret was uncoveredCredit: News Corp Australia\"Wooden<\/a><\/p>\n

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At least 38 members of the family lived togetherCredit: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n

But he said anyone visiting the area would not realise its secret.<\/p>\n

“It was a little bit eerie for us just from that knowledge of what happened,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But all in all, if you look at the town itself without having any kind of background history of it, you’d think it was just a normal country town where normal people would just live every day as the rest of us do.<\/p>\n

“It was disappointing [when we were forced to leave] because we didn’t come to the town with any bad intent.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t mean to offend anyone.”<\/p>\n

Brother and sister Martha and\u00a0Charlie, who openly shared a “marital bed”, were the first to be detained after authorities found out about the Colts.<\/p>\n

Their siblings Rhonda and\u00a0Frank, Betty’s children Derek and Raylene, as well as Frank’s son Cliff were then arrested.<\/p>\n

All of the Colt children were removed and placed in care, as a horrified court ruled there was “no realistic possibility of restoration of any of the children to their biological family”.<\/p>\n

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I realised they [the locals] carry a bit of shame around the subject.<\/p>\n

Jamie Zhu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Three of the late Tim Colt\u2019s daughters have been dragged through court trials, assaulted in prison, and ostracised in communities due to their inbred children.<\/p>\n

In one Colt trial, Tim Colt’s son Roderick was found guilty of raping his niece, who was also his half-sister.<\/p>\n

The victim, Petra, was the biological child of Tim and Betty and was also attacked by her uncle Frank\u00a0in the back seat of his car during a visit to the family farm in February 2010, for which he was convicted.<\/p>\n

Betty was given 14 months in jail after being convicted of four counts of perjury, one of lying under oath and perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n

She later received another 12-month sentence after trying to kidnap two of her sons from their foster parents.<\/p>\n

Betty was also forbidden from contacting other Colt family members after she attempted to get in touch with them via Facebook.<\/p>\n

Rhonda received a 14-month intensive corrections order which expired in August 2021, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Raylene was sentenced to a 16-month ICO for perjury while her brother Derek received a maximum of three years and ten months for incest in 2020.<\/p>\n

Charlie Colt – who originally faced 27 charges \u2013 was found not guilty on two charges and acquitted, with the balance being withdrawn.<\/p>\n

Of the original 80 charges originally levelled against eight Colts \u2013 including incest, child sexual abuse, indecency against a child and perjury \u2013 many were dropped.<\/p>\n

The Law on Incest in the UK<\/p>\n

INCEST refers to sexual activity between close family members, such as siblings, parents and children, or grandparents and grandchildren.<\/p>\n