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00:05Kia ora, my name is Toby Buchanan, and you're listening to Small Town Scandal, a true crime
00:12podcast where I try and solve the mystery of who killed my Uncle Mitch.
00:17This is episode four.
00:20My hunt for my Uncle Mitch's killer had taught me a lot about my hometown of Tohoiho, specifically
00:26that there was an underground swingers collective that was also at the heart of the local ketamine
00:30ring.
00:31Oh, here comes the kale.
00:32Uncle Mitch's second wife, Auntie Janine, was occupied by another lover at the time of his
00:37death.
00:38But that raises the question, what about his first wife?
00:42Auntie Andrea certainly is a woman scorned.
00:45Could she be suspect numero uno?
00:48But before we delve into all of that, it was time to say goodbye to Uncle Mitch.
01:00I'm seated at Uncle Mitch's funeral.
01:04It's a veritable who's who of Tohoiho.
01:07But looking around, the faces aren't necessarily upset.
01:11I'll say they're more curious.
01:26The star of the show has arrived.
01:29I hadn't seen Auntie Andrea in a couple of years.
01:32She clearly had a major makeover.
01:34Her short shag haircut rarely suited her.
01:37The cosmetic surgeries were also quite subtle.
01:40How's that restraining order going now?
01:43You loathsome bastard!
01:46Move!
01:47I hope you rot in hell, bitch, Buchanan!
01:55Mum!
02:05Hi, Toby.
02:08Dwayne McKees.
02:09Hi!
02:11Hi, Toby.
02:14Dwayne McKees and I used to be best friends at school.
02:22He used to consume a lot of PVA glue.
02:25That was until I sneakily ditched him by running away from him at lunchtime.
02:30He was really weird.
02:32His family was also really weird.
02:34Especially his brother.
02:38This is our church.
02:39We didn't realise people would be here.
02:42Yeah, it's my Uncle Mitch's funeral.
02:45Hey, do you guys want to sit together?
02:47This is okay.
02:49Okay.
02:51I like your suit.
02:52Oh, yeah.
02:53It was the last one at the suit horage place.
02:55That was a bit ill-fitting.
02:58How have you been, Toby?
03:01Ah, yeah.
03:02Not bad.
03:02We haven't seen you for ages.
03:05Yeah.
03:06Well, how have you guys been?
03:08We've been doing a lot of praying lately.
03:10Really?
03:11There's a lot of evil in the world.
03:21Please stand for the hymn of sacred remembrance.
03:37I'm sorry.
03:40Mitch would have just been so heartened to see you all here today.
03:46To celebrate and what a kind, gentle, giving man he was.
04:00To say a few words about the darling father, Mitch's children.
04:07Conan and Sophia, over to you now, my darlings.
04:14At five, my cousins, Sophia and Conan, were sent to a boarding school famous for tuning out CEOs.
04:21I always wondered if that put a strain on their family, though.
04:25Our father, Mitch Buchanan, has been described as a pioneer of the lawn mowing engineering community.
04:32The meteoric success of the Buchananizer meant that work always came first for our dad.
04:41Hard work to our father and to us is the only important thing there is.
04:47Nothing else matters.
04:48And indeed, that's the greatest lesson that he left us.
04:51Well, at least he left you something.
04:54Shut up, Mum!
04:57Aunty Andrea's guilt and motive were practically pouring off her.
05:00It was time to turn on the charm and get a recorded confession for my podcast.
05:05I don't think you're allowed to smoke in here.
05:08Oh, Ian, who's going to stop me?
05:11Oh, my God.
05:14It's open.
05:15Oh, Mr. West, nice and with all the extra ways.
05:18What is with the suit?
05:21Why's it glued?
05:21It was the only suit available at the suit hiring store.
05:27Anyway, Aunty Andrea, I'm so sorry for your loss.
05:32No skin off my nose.
05:34Well, skin off my nose, to be honest.
05:38And I am not talking about my last trip to Turkey.
05:43Just between you and I, Tobias,
05:45I was talking to a lawyer about going at him again
05:48or half the mowing business.
05:51It was all settled.
05:53Now it's too late.
05:55I've begun to fall into the pockets of that cow face.
05:59Wait.
06:00You were planning on suing Uncle Mitch.
06:02I know, it was just a pipe dream, Toby,
06:05but it was all I had.
06:08And when I heard he died, wow,
06:10I took a gold club to my precious porcelain corgi.
06:15The piglets would be happy, though.
06:18They came over here asking for money and he wasn't going to give it.
06:21Wait, the twins were here before he died.
06:23I know.
06:26Rumour has it,
06:27they were asking him to invest in a little tech company
06:31and he's an on-call.
06:33But apparently it's gone to it, sir.
06:38I mean, they try and kick me out of the loop,
06:41but a mother knows.
06:45Toby, you sure you don't want a cigarette
06:47because it does suppress your appetite?
06:54OK, yes.
06:55You're all right.
06:58With Aunty Andrea all but cleared,
07:00I'd set my sights on Uncle Mitch's twins,
07:03who were conveniently in town when he died.
07:08What's the ones?
07:09Well, well, well.
07:11It isn't Tubby Tobes.
07:12Ha!
07:13Fancy seeing you here.
07:14Nah, I'm just joking.
07:15Of course you'd be here.
07:16You're the bloody nephew, after all.
07:18Sorry, Matt, I'm just going to go...
07:19OK, just before you run off, mate,
07:20I just want to check something.
07:21I was talking to Katie.
07:22She said she saw you down at the mowing stall.
07:25Acting all sneaky.
07:27Asking questions and stuff.
07:29She said something about a podcast.
07:30Is that right?
07:31What's your one about, Mum?
07:32Men's mental health.
07:34Katie told you about that.
07:35Yeah, don't worry about the Katie of it all.
07:37Is it true you're doing a podcast
07:39about your uncle's heart attack?
07:40No, it's not about his heart attack.
07:42Oh.
07:43See, Sergeant Brown said you were
07:45sniffing around your auntie to me.
07:48Then she could have murdered you.
07:54No, I don't think it's her.
07:56No.
07:57Because it wasn't anybody.
07:58Because your uncle wasn't murdered.
08:00Yeah?
08:02Sure.
08:03Look, I'm just trying to look out for you, big fella.
08:06I don't want you to have another one of your, um...
08:08What was it?
08:09Um...
08:10Pet food scandal.
08:15Sounds like your career was rinsed.
08:20Anyway.
08:22I'll leave you to it, eh?
08:24Katie.
08:25Let's check.
08:29Oh, hey.
08:30Sophia, Conan.
08:32Hi, cousin.
08:33Hey.
08:33I was coming over to see you guys.
08:35Yeah, we were just shooting, so...
08:37Are you going back to Hong Kong already?
08:38Oh, my gosh.
08:39Tobias, no.
08:39We're not going back to Hong Kong right now.
08:42We're going to the mansion.
08:43We're going to give Dad our own little stand-off.
08:45Ah, awesome.
08:47Can I come along?
08:49With their mum letting slip about their financial woes,
08:53could I be looking at two murderers?
08:56God, yeah.
08:59So how long are you guys in town for?
09:03Uh, two weeks.
09:04Eleven days.
09:05Oh, cool.
09:09It was a lovely service, wasn't it?
09:13Your dad would have loved that service.
09:15It's actually great that you guys were actually here in town to attend,
09:19because at the time I was like,
09:20oh, my God, he's died.
09:21His kids aren't in town.
09:22It's going to be so sad,
09:23because I know you guys are really busy ever in Hong Kong's,
09:25but then I found out that you guys were actually in town when it happened.
09:31Yeah.
09:31What were you doing when he passed?
09:34I was on a call with London.
09:36I actually just got off the call when I heard from Janine.
09:40Huh.
09:45And what about you, Sophia?
09:48Well, I was with Conan.
09:52And have you guys been staying at the mansion with your dad?
09:56No, we were staying at a hotel.
09:59Why weren't you staying at the mansion?
10:01I mean, it's not like there's not plenty of bedrooms.
10:03Because a hotel was more convenient.
10:06Oh.
10:15Just got to grab something for the send-off.
10:28If Conan was telling the truth,
10:31there should be a record of a phone call
10:33at the time of the murder.
10:36And I found it.
10:39Buckingham Tech Solutions Bracket London.
10:41And Aunty Janine called him straight after.
10:43So that probably meant Conan didn't kill Uncle Mitch,
10:46unless he was great at multitasking.
10:48So let's assume he didn't kill Uncle Mitch.
10:51But what about her?
10:53There's nothing to say Sophia wasn't here,
10:55at her childhood home,
10:56brutally killing her father for the inheritance.
11:01These are few.
11:12Where's this?
11:16I think that's mine.
11:19How did it end up up here?
11:22Oh, it must have fallen out.
11:23I was just checking that water
11:25to see if it was faux or real.
11:27And I just...
11:28Shit.
11:29I'm an idiot.
11:30Won't be a tip.
11:31Yeah, yeah.
11:41So, um...
11:44Conan, Conan, Conan, I...
11:46Just go...
11:52Is...
11:53With the, um...
11:57Is, um...
12:00Hey!
12:01Let's go piss off the poppers.
12:05Paul!
12:06Look, surely there's a better way of doing this.
12:08I said...
12:10Paul!
12:12Oh, okay.
12:18Can you aim it a bit higher, Tobias?
12:20Yes, sorry.
12:22Yes.
12:26Paul!
12:30Hey, so, um...
12:33What was it like when you saw him?
12:36Dead.
12:37Letters.
12:37Paul!
12:38Oh, ah.
12:40Ah, it was pretty hard, to be honest.
12:46You don't want the details, right?
12:48We're not kids, Tobias.
12:50Paul!
12:53Well, you know, it was kind of quite horrific, actually.
12:57Like, when I got there, like, he bled all over the lawn,
13:00and there were little bits of him that the mower had kind of shaved off,
13:02and they were picking them up and putting them into a bucket.
13:04Look at my papa.
13:07Oh, my God.
13:08Oh, we should have been there for him.
13:11We should have been there for him.
13:12What's wrong with you?
13:13Why'd you have to make my sister cry?
13:15I know he was an asshole, but...
13:17He was our father.
13:18Yeah, he was our asshole?
13:20Well, you asked what it was like.
13:21I meant emotionally, Tobias, not physically.
13:26Sorry.
13:29Who, Tobias?
13:30This one's the dead.
13:30Okay.
13:35Oh.
13:36Shit, the food.
13:38Sorry.
13:43Sorry, Sophia.
13:44Stupid bro.
13:46Why don't you go fish there?
13:50Are you sure?
13:51Brick it up!
13:57Go on.
14:18Sorry, there was just a rabbit behind you.
14:20Hey, Tobias, did you piss yourself?
14:33He did!
14:36No, as if.
14:43Sure, my cousins were walking red flags with a history of recreational cruelty, but Sophia's
14:49reaction to her dad dying actually seemed genuine.
14:56What the heck?
14:57What the heck?
15:01Toby?
15:02What are you doing here?
15:04I...
15:04I'm not...
15:05Sorry?
15:06Yeah, why are you at the mansion?
15:08Here?
15:09Yeah.
15:09At the mansion?
15:11Oh.
15:12Oh.
15:13Because I...
15:13Oh, because I was like, well...
15:15And then I thought, oh.
15:18Your Auntie Janine is like so wrapped up with all the funeral business and I just thought
15:24that I should come here and I'll walk the horse.
15:27Petal?
15:29Petal.
15:30Yeah.
15:31That's so kind of you.
15:33Did you know that Petal's actually my childhood horse?
15:36Stop.
15:38Yes.
15:38If you give me, like, five minutes, I can come with you.
15:41I just need to clean up this, um, this lemonade.
15:45Oh, that's not actually too bad.
15:47I'll come with you if you...
15:49Oh, no, maybe I won't.
15:50I'm just here with my cousins.
15:52I haven't seen them in, like...
15:53And I should probably, um...
15:55So did they...
15:59They must have, um...
16:01Maybe they forgot I was here.
16:04Anyway, I'm free now to come with you and walk Petal.
16:07I'll show you where the reins are.
16:09Come on, we didn't get a chance to talk at the wake.
16:12Come round.
16:14Are you going to come?
16:15Yeah.
16:18Come on, Petal, darling.
16:19She is very cute.
16:22Actually, Uncle Mitch got her for me when, um...
16:25When Dad went to prison, so...
16:27Oh, sweet of him.
16:29Yeah.
16:32Hey, Matt says you're stopping doing the podcast.
16:35Uh, yeah.
16:37Oh, that's a shame.
16:40I mean, you're just such a good writer.
16:41I'm sure you'll find your next big scoop sometime soon.
16:44Katie, Jerem, what are you talking about?
16:46You've never read anything I've written.
16:48Um, Sydney Council Water Miss Management 2017.
16:52That was your first big story in Oz.
16:54Oh, come on.
16:54The whole town was talking about it.
16:58I mean, yeah, I get.
16:59I mean, that one took me months to do, but I did really luck out with the people I managed
17:03to interview.
17:04You could tell.
17:07Oh, I'd love that.
17:10Going overseas.
17:12Making a name for yourself overseas.
17:14I've never even been overseas.
17:17Oh, Toby, I'm jealous.
17:20Kind of feel like I miss the boat on that one sometimes.
17:24Well, why don't you move overseas and make a go of it?
17:26No, I can't now.
17:28Not with the boys.
17:29And Matt just loves his job.
17:34But if you're not happy, I'm sure he'd understand.
17:37I'm happy.
17:37I'm so happy.
17:39Love it.
17:43Maybe I could come and visit you for a weekend or something.
17:49I'd love that.
17:50Yeah, that'd be amazing.
17:52Yeah.
17:52There's so much I can show you.
17:54There's some great...
17:55Do you like dumplings?
17:56No.
17:59Okay, well, do you want us turn around a bit before we turn around now?
18:04Yeah, let's...
18:05Wait a second.
18:08Is this road no exit?
18:10Yeah.
18:11Come on, you know that.
18:14Uncle Mitch's road was a no exit with just one way in and out.
18:19And to Hoyos' most notorious hotel, O'Reilly sat right on the corner.
18:24Maybe Lady Luck was on my side that day.
18:34Are you sure that this is okay?
18:35Because you know I can drop you at your actual house.
18:37Yeah, nah, I've just texted my mum.
18:39She's coming to pick me up from here and we're going to go shopping for shoes.
18:44Okay.
18:45Oh, anyway.
18:46Well, thank you so much.
18:47I thought you were even dropping me this far.
18:48It's great.
18:50Are we still on for tomorrow night?
18:52Yeah.
18:53I just love that we get to spend more time together.
18:56Yeah, I've been loving it.
18:57I mean, yeah, it's good.
18:59So, okay, yeah, bye.
19:04Early in my investigation, I had learned that O'Reilly's manager, Trent, had CCTV cameras everywhere for his own twisted
19:11reasons.
19:13Hey, do you want to see the local MP asphyxiate himself?
19:16What?
19:16No.
19:17I was hoping against hope that one of those cameras might be facing the roadside.
19:21I have discovered that Uncle Mitch's road, Damihana Road, is no exit.
19:26It's a dead end.
19:27So his murderer would have to come in and go out from the same exit.
19:32So I just need to find the CCTV footage of the road outside the hotel on the afternoon of Uncle
19:38Mitch's murder.
19:40And then I might find his murderer.
19:44Albeit their car.
19:47Oh, thanks, Trent.
19:50Trent, look at this.
19:53An hour before he died.
19:54Yes.
19:55And that.
19:5738 minutes after.
19:59Exactly.
19:59So I just need to see the license plate.
20:01The angle wasn't right to see the number plate.
20:03Wait, what's this?
20:05On the side of the window.
20:06But we could see another defining feature.
20:09A weird cartoon family sticker on the window.
20:11Am I looking at Uncle Mitch's murderer?
20:14Albeit his vehicle.
20:17It wasn't a perfect lead.
20:18But I finally felt I was on the right track to find Uncle Mitch's brutal murderer.
20:26And little did I know then, but I actually knew this person quite well.
20:32No way.
20:33I feel we got this one.
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