00:00 As much as the male relative wanted in connection with 18-year-old Hannah Matura's disappearance and death,
00:07 tried evading authorities, he was captured and taken into police custody on Wednesday night.
00:13 ASP Richard Smith of the Central Division confirmed at half past nine on Wednesday
00:18 that the man was found seeking asylum at an apartment in El Dorado.
00:23 Hunter's search and rescue team members say they were instrumental in pinning down the man's location.
00:29 Police had been searching for the man since exhuming the 18-year-old's skeletal remains on Tuesday.
00:35 Preliminary forensic investigations suggest her death was unnatural and that she died in 2017.
00:43 The 65-year-old man reportedly fled the Butu Road Val Sain home in a red Ford vehicle
00:50 when police were called to the scene on Tuesday.
00:53 The vehicle was found abandoned and was returned to the home reportedly by a close female relative of the man,
01:00 causing police to make another sweep of the site on Wednesday.
01:04 We spoke with a close relative of Hannah who said that all eight siblings in the house on Butu Road lived a life of abuse.
01:13 There are few, if any, photos of Hannah, who the relative described as a beautiful, beautiful girl.
01:19 He said the father would do something called the "clearing" of the house when he was enraged.
01:25 The relatives also said Hannah would throw away photos.
01:29 "Maybe," he explained, "she was trying to communicate something or some type of message.
01:34 She would just throw them away."
01:37 Hannah was the fourth of Alana Giroux's and Andrew Matura's eight children.
01:42 She was not disabled, the relative explains, but she was definitely slow.
01:48 He said he believed she had a form of autism, learning to walk at the age of three.
01:55 Most of the Matura children were homeschooled until a certain point.
02:00 Hannah, however, was never allowed to attend physical school.
02:04 But because she was very creative, she learned to play the piano without being taught.
02:10 She also loved solving puzzles and would pull out the mazes and crosswords from newspapers
02:16 and solve them without having any formal form of education.
02:21 The relative says, "Keeping the children home was always an option at the back of the parents' head."
02:27 Hannah's closest sibling passed for St. Mary's College.
02:31 He attended classes sporadically before the head of the household had him transferred to Hillview College.
02:38 The relative tells us, "He would beat that boy when he passed for St. Mary's.
02:43 He did not let him go to school. He would lock him up.
02:46 He beat him with a cable for taking $5 to buy a doubles."
02:51 Hannah, we were told, could speak and she was literate.
02:55 Her experiences matched those of his seven siblings, we learned,
03:00 leaving them to question why it wasn't any of them in the shallow grave instead.
03:06 They are all victims, but there were some who were subject to more abuse than others, the relative says.
03:13 Hannah's death, we learn, happened in July of 2017 during the vacation period.
03:20 When the other siblings were not in school, they were all confined to their separate rooms,
03:25 away from the sporadic rage of the abuser.
03:28 But the abuse was so regular, we learn, hearing a sibling bawl out in pain was not unusual.
03:34 It was Hannah, it was her brother or any of the girls, the relative said, adding,
03:40 they would try to talk to him but he would turn his anger on them, shout and use horrific language.
03:47 One son, we learn, were blamed for the incident, with a suspect saying,
03:52 "If you were not born, Hannah would not be dead.
03:55 The man is good at brainwashing. He gaslighted them so much, especially the mother," the relative said.
04:03 Why did the family never report the incident?
04:06 Well, the relative explains, there were threats, there were attempts, cries for help.
04:12 One police officer who was approached said they needed facts before being able to execute a search warrant
04:18 to have the property dug up.
04:20 But there were no photos of Hannah, and all their birth certificates were locked up by the abuser.
04:26 The pained relative says on social media, persons are suggesting the entire family be charged.
04:32 He calls it distasteful because he explains the whole family lived in captivity.
04:38 He says, "They were experiencing their own trauma, many saying they wish they were dead too.
04:44 They feel that level of injustice. Nobody wanted this to happen to Hannah."
04:51 He says the children's authority was at the household many times, before Hannah died, after Hannah died.
04:59 They said they were fed up of authorities coming to the house and finding nothing.
05:04 But despite the circumstances of the mature children, four of the seven surviving siblings attained scholarships.
05:12 On Sunday, after a heated argument, one relative told police all he knew and witnessed
05:18 as the final straw to remove the abuser from the home once and for all.
05:23 The relative commended the TTPS for its professionalism and diligence,
05:29 for not only ensuring the family received counselling, but ensuring justice.
05:34 The relative says, "The family is grieving. Her closest brother is grieving beyond measure.
05:40 They are all victims. We just want the public to respect us."
05:46 The property where the Maturas are housed is reportedly subject of discord between the four Jiro siblings occupying different portions.
05:55 The patriarch, Aldwyn Jiro, nearing 100 years old, still lives at the Butu Road house.
06:02 For Hannah Matura, she never had a fair life, unable to tell her own story.
06:09 Seven years after she was killed and buried, her name has become a household one.
06:15 Synonymous with everything that should not happen to a child.
06:20 Hers will be called along with Akhil Chambers, Amy Anna Matudo, Hope Arizmandez and Sean Luke.
06:28 The very least relatives wish for is to give her a proper send-off.
06:33 Urvashi Timwari, Rupner Rain, TV6 News.
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