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00:00Kia ora, my name is Toby Buchanan and you're listening to episode 6 of my true crime podcast,
00:07Small Town Scandal. Now, before I get into anything, I think I need to explain to you
00:13listeners a little bit about my family history. So there's me, Toby, and then my parents,
00:19Bruce Buchanan and Sue Buchanan, need Watkins. But who we're interested in is Bruce's brother,
00:25my uncle Mitch. Mitch was good at school, good at sports, popular with the boys and very popular
00:31with the girls and later very savvy at business. My dad, Bruce, on the other hand, liked to escape
00:38the realities of life with substances of varying degrees. And then everything came to a head
00:43when my father, highly intoxicated, accidentally set a block of shops and town on fire. The town
00:50absolutely hated him. He went to prison for seven years and after that, my mum left him
00:57and dad went to Cairns to avoid his reputation. But like Cain and Abel, did he come back to town
01:03and brutally murder the star of said town and his brother, Uncle Mitch?
01:13But now I've just been tipped off that dad was lurking in the park commemorating the very fire
01:18he started. And here I was thinking he was still in Australia, like some chump.
01:25Dad! Dad! Dad!
01:28Where is he? Dad!
01:31Dad!
01:35This chick who's not some crannies, Constable,
01:37because he's a slip-brick.
01:39Oh.
01:42What are you doing here?
01:45Just, uh, some fitness.
01:48Well, we're looking for your dad.
01:51Apparently he was spotted around here and we want to talk to him.
01:54Wow, really?
01:58You weren't looking for him as well, by chance?
02:03Dad?
02:05No.
02:07Nah, I thought it was my dad.
02:08No, no.
02:09Um, he's over in Cairns anyway.
02:11So, we're looking for your dad, in a park, you just happen to be doing fitnessin'?
02:21Uh, yeah. I do fitness here all the time.
02:24Oh, what kind of fitness?
02:26Power walking.
02:27Power walking. That's old school.
02:30Good on you.
02:31Yeah.
02:31You look great.
02:33Anyway, Sarge, listen, I better keep going, keep the heart rate up.
02:36You have to, don't you?
02:37Yeah, yeah.
02:37It's really effective that way, isn't it?
02:39Yeah, good luck with your man heart.
02:49Oh, Dad.
02:51Oh, Todd.
02:52Oh, it's so good to see you.
02:54Yeah, yeah.
02:55It's good to see you too, Dad.
02:58The pigs are after me.
02:59Yeah.
03:00Okay, first things first.
03:02Did you kill Uncle Mitch?
03:03No.
03:05No, I didn't.
03:06Oh, thank Christ.
03:08Then why are you in the country?
03:09Well, I got in a bit of trouble over in Oz.
03:12I thought Mitch might be able to help me out.
03:14I'm a bit of a pickle.
03:17Shit.
03:17Can you help me get out of here, son?
03:19Please.
03:19Look, if you didn't kill Uncle Mitch,
03:21then we should go and tell the pigs.
03:22I didn't kill him.
03:24But I was there when he died.
03:28Come on, come on, come on.
03:30Let's get out of here.
03:31Jeez.
03:32Shit.
03:34There you are.
03:35I don't have to chew up, Dad.
03:38Just keep the seal.
03:38You end up like Mitchie.
03:42I don't even know where to go.
03:44I've been staying at the town dump.
03:46Why?
03:47It's cheap.
03:47Actually, it's free.
03:49It's perfectly sound mattresses people have just thrown away.
03:52Okay, yeah, okay.
03:57Shit.
03:59You're still dead.
04:01Hi.
04:02Hi.
04:03It's me, Anna.
04:04Katie was trying to see us up at dinner.
04:06Yeah, that's all right.
04:11Shut up.
04:11What's all that fabric?
04:13Oh, that's, um, chill.
04:15Chill?
04:16Yeah.
04:16What do you need that for?
04:17Uh, my mum's a seamstress.
04:19Really?
04:20Wow.
04:21What does she make?
04:22Listen, I've actually got to go.
04:23I'm so sorry.
04:24Wait, how's your podcast going?
04:26Oh, yeah, good.
04:28Yeah?
04:30Hey, have you listened to the latest episode of The Real Mrs Moth?
04:33Please stand up.
04:34No, I haven't.
04:35Oh, it's so good.
04:36It goes into intense detail about the moth pattern she carves on her victims.
04:40And it's been confirmed she is in tech wheel.
04:42I'm sorry.
04:43I'm so sorry.
04:43I've got to get going.
04:53She seemed nice.
04:56I don't even know where to begin, Dad.
04:58What happened at Oz?
05:00Well, one of my mates died.
05:03We were having a great party.
05:05We were completely maggoted.
05:06Suddenly, he just slipped and fell to his death.
05:10Oh, I didn't stick around, because I didn't think I had the emotional capacity to deal with
05:14any kind of investigation.
05:17Cops found out I was there, wanting to talk a lot.
05:20I didn't want to talk to them.
05:22I thought Mitch might be able to get me one of them top lois.
05:25Why?
05:26He owed me, Tobes, big time.
05:28If I didn't worship the ground he walked on, I would have murdered Mitch years ago.
05:44Home sweet, huh?
05:46Yeah.
05:50Mattress got a bit wet.
05:51It's a bit mouldy, but apart from that, everything's fine.
05:54Yeah.
05:55It's a good set-up.
05:57You think so?
05:58Yeah.
06:00I might sit outside.
06:01It's just...
06:02Grab a fuse, huh?
06:03Yeah.
06:16In any way, Dad, just...
06:17Look, just tell me everything, okay?
06:20And then we can come up with a plan.
06:21So you were at the mansion when Mitch died?
06:25Mitch didn't know I was coming.
06:27I was feeling a bit bloody nervous about it all.
06:33Mitch was a busy man, so I had to pick my moment carefully.
06:57Yeah.
06:58Yeah, Toby, I was hoping to get hold of you.
07:00Come round to the mansion this afternoon, will you?
07:03I want to talk to you about something.
07:05See you, too.
07:08Hang on.
07:10What are you doing here?
07:14Missy.
07:16Listen, Bruce.
07:17Whatever you want, I can't help you.
07:20It's not that I want something, but...
07:23Lord, the timing.
07:26Wait here.
07:36Oh, God!
07:38No!
07:39No!
07:40No!
07:41No!
07:42Oh!
07:43Oh!
07:44Oh!
07:45Oh!
07:45Oh!
07:46Oh!
07:47Oh!
07:47mh!
07:49Oh!
07:51Oh!
07:53Thank you!
07:54Oh!
08:00So whoever was driving the vehicle with the trailer, that's who killed Uncle Mitch.
08:05I didn't get much more than a glimpse of him.
08:07It's pretty bloody obvious who it would be.
08:13Who?
08:20Jed Jamison.
08:24Who?
08:24Jed Jamison.
08:26I've never heard of this person.
08:27Oh, he's your uncle's rival back in the day.
08:30Bumped into him in town all along after I got back.
08:35It was just before Mitchie died.
08:38Jed Jamison.
08:41I just want to apologize.
08:44You know, because when that old building was...
08:46Remember that big fire in Tohoiho?
08:49One-year-old man started.
08:54It wasn't an accident.
08:57Me and Mitch did it on purpose.
08:59He agreed to pay off my debts if I took all the blame.
09:04Why?
09:05Jed was edging Mitch out of the motor mowing business.
09:08He developed a prototype of his own automated mower.
09:12Mitchie was going to have none of that.
09:15We decided to burn the whole block down so it wouldn't seem so targeted.
09:20Jed out of the picture.
09:22Mitchie could patent his own automated mower.
09:25They use millions that way.
09:28So, there you go.
09:29Big family secret for you, son.
09:33Wait.
09:34Jed Jamison.
09:36There was that note on Uncle Mitch's desk.
09:39Jay!
09:40Okay.
09:41Okay, so I had a new lead suspect.
09:43Jed Jamison.
09:46I've done a little bit of online sleuthing and I found a registered address for Jed's Gardening Services Limited business.
09:52Right?
09:53And it's about an hour south of Tohoiho.
09:55So, that's where I'm heading.
09:57No thank you.
09:58Good day, Tubbs.
09:59It's Matty.
10:00Yeah, I've just been talking with Sergeant Brown.
10:02He said you were down at the park where your dad was spotted.
10:04Um, no.
10:05Well, no.
10:06Well, you told me he was down there.
10:07I was just hoping to help.
10:09Oh, yeah.
10:10Was it a nice father-son reunion?
10:11Well, no, it wasn't because I didn't run into it.
10:13I didn't see him there.
10:14So, no, it wasn't.
10:15Oh, cut the crap, Tubbs.
10:17Listen, if you're helping a criminal on the run, you're not just playing with fire, mate.
10:20You're practically juggling...
10:24chainsaws.
10:24Yeah, okay.
10:25Well, thanks for your concern, but I think I'll be fine.
10:28Okay, bye, Matt.
10:29See ya.
10:30Phew.
10:31Okay, so Jed's address is about an hour south of Tohoiho in the middle.
10:36Jay?
10:37You're still making that flaming podcast?
10:40Tubbs!
10:42Ah!
10:44Ah!
10:46Oh, my God.
10:47Oh, shit.
10:48Oh, shit.
10:51What?
10:52Um...
10:55Are you all right?
10:56I am so sorry, sir.
10:58I did not...
10:59I...
10:59I...
11:00Why are you Jed from Jed's Moeing Services Limited?
11:03Please ask.
11:04My name is Toby, and I'm an invest...
11:06Well, I'm a journalist.
11:09And I was hoping to talk to you, actually, about your former business, and...
11:13Well, what happened to it?
11:23Was that a yes?
11:28As a journalist, you sometimes forget safety in the chase of a scoop.
11:39You're still there?
11:41Yes!
11:43That's how I ended up in a stranger's cabin in the middle of nowhere.
11:52The interior of Jed Jemison's cabin is a little bit spooky.
11:58Did you tell anyone you were coming to see me?
12:02No, I didn't.
12:06I mean, yes, I did.
12:08Um, I've told loads of people...
12:28What a, um, few animal skins around the place.
12:32It's me passion, killing pests.
12:36There.
12:37Lots of possums and, uh, other things.
12:43Right.
12:45So...
12:46You used to have a business, yeah?
12:49Yes.
12:51Until the great Ta-Holy-Ho birthing.
12:55That's right.
12:56Yeah.
12:58That must have been so upsetting for you when that happens.
13:03That fire...
13:05was the best thing that ever happened to me.
13:08It was?
13:09Well...
13:10My business had never burned down.
13:13I'd have never ended up here.
13:15Paradise.
13:19Do you have any thoughts on Mitch Buchanan?
13:27What was that?
13:28A weasel in one of me traps.
13:33What did you say you were here for again?
13:36I am, uh, sorry, yeah.
13:39I'm doing some research because I'm writing Mitch Buchanan's obituary.
13:45Mitch Buchanan was a dirty weasel.
13:50Whoever killed him was a hero.
13:52He did the world a favor.
13:55Wait, how did you know he was killed?
13:59It's only a matter of time.
14:02Those Buchanans are a bad bunch.
14:05Every last one of them.
14:08Yeah, well, I don't know.
14:11The only good Buchanan is a dead Buchanan.
14:17What did you say your name was again?
14:20Me?
14:21I'm Toby.
14:23Toby.
14:25Jedson.
14:26Jed.
14:27I'm Toby Jedson.
14:31Jedson.
14:43Jed Jedson was clearly guilty, revenging Uncle Mitch for the Great Fire of 96, which my father started for him.
14:50And two of those little puddles of tartia sauce.
14:52Before I went public with this bombshell though, I stopped to get some food because Dad was probably starving.
14:58But, as I was driving to him, I spied my old friends, the Popo.
15:03It didn't take long to realise they were tailing me.
15:06With the delicious smell of fish and chips filling the car, I knew I had to start thinking smarter if
15:11I was to protect Dad.
15:13I tried to throw them off the scent, but they were like a goddamn dog with a bone, always sniffing,
15:20circling and seemingly one step ahead.
15:23But they weren't going to trap this little weasel if I had anything to do with it.
15:45Matt, just the person I was hoping to run into.
15:48Listen, I think I've worked out who killed Uncle Mitch.
15:50His name is Jed Jamison.
15:52Right.
15:52And he was an ex-business rival of his.
15:54And basically I've got a tape confession out of him.
15:56So, it's not Jed.
15:57No, it is.
15:58Jed hated Mitch, he loves killing things and basically he's...
16:01Tubbs, Jed's as blind as a mole.
16:03Is he?
16:06He's still here.
16:11Paradise.
16:12Oh my God, he is blind.
16:15Look, uh, I think I'm going to ask you one last time.
16:18Where's your dad?
16:19I don't know where he is.
16:22Jeez.
16:22No?
16:23Okay.
16:24Where are you toddling off to then with this big bag of greases?
16:28I'm visiting my friend.
16:30Bringing where they live here.
16:33They live here?
16:34Yes.
16:35It's your mate's house?
16:35Yes.
16:36So you didn't just turn into a random driveway because you saw me following you?
16:40No.
16:41Don't let me stop you.
16:43I beg your pardon?
16:45Well, go on.
16:46They'll be waiting, won't they?
16:47Yeah, they will.
16:48Okay.
16:49Well, it was good to see.
16:54It's...
17:05Oh, they mustn't be home.
17:06I must have got the wrong date or something, I think.
17:12Toby Buchanan?
17:14Mrs Pettigrew?
17:16And is that, uh, Matt McKenzie?
17:20My goodness, what a surprise.
17:22Yeah.
17:23Have you come to arrest me?
17:25Well, that depends, Mrs Pettigrew.
17:27From what I remember, you're a bit of a grammar gangster.
17:31Come and see our old English teacher, have you?
17:35I thought you'd show up here eventually, Buchanan.
17:40After all these years, you've finally come to apologise.
17:52I'll have two sugar cubes, please.
18:03Right.
18:05I'm ready.
18:07For my apology.
18:10Yes.
18:11Um, okay.
18:15I am so sorry for what, for what I did.
18:25You should be embarrassed.
18:27I am.
18:29A 13-year-old should know better.
18:32Where was your self-control, your self-respect?
18:35I don't know where it was.
18:36That jar of lollipops was for the whole class, Toby.
18:41You didn't leave any for the other students.
18:44Oh, I didn't.
18:45In fact, I think you should apologise to Matt as well.
18:49Matt?
18:51What's that?
18:55Matt, I'm so sorry for the pain I caused you
18:58by eating all the lollipops in the jar in third form English.
19:02Actually, you were repeating that here, weren't you, Matt?
19:05Matt, you know what?
19:06Thanks for the tea, Mrs P.
19:08I think I'd better shoot off.
19:10Wait, where are you going?
19:11I've got police business, mate.
19:12Police business till 10-2.
19:13So, yeah.
19:17Historical apologies aside,
19:19I was sick with worry about Matt and his texting.
19:21Something fishy was going on,
19:23and I'm not talking about the second batch of fish and chips
19:25I had to buy.
19:26And then two of those little puddles of tartare sauce.
19:29And would you like to add the seven spring rolls?
19:32Again?
19:34Yeah, I would.
19:44I assumed they'd found Dad at the landfill and we were about to arrest him.
19:49I followed them feebly with no real plan.
19:53Maybe I could talk them out of it.
19:55Maybe I could steal a gun, bust Dad out, hijack a boat and then flee to a Pacific island.
20:01But then, to my surprise, they weren't headed to the landfill at all.
20:05Or anywhere near Dad's hideout.
20:09Instead, they were heading to Mrs Pettigrew's house.
20:17Yeah, hard to say, mate, yeah.
20:19I think just bag it all up.
20:20We'll take it down the station.
20:22Oh, don't miss this if there's a few bits in there.
20:24You had a look in the freezer?
20:26You did an effort.
20:27We'll bag it all up.
20:27Right, chuck it in this one.
20:28Just didn't look up easy, Mrs P.
20:30You.
20:31Watch your head, Mrs P.
20:32Wait.
20:34I'll get you.
20:36Tubbs.
20:37What are you doing here?
20:39Why's your silver lice?
20:40What's happening?
20:40Mate.
20:42I got her.
20:43Mrs Moth.
20:45Mrs Pettigrew, our old English teacher, is Mrs Moth.
20:50You know, like from a podcast.
20:52Yeah.
20:53Killed an estimated 25 people around New Zealand since the 80s.
20:56I don't understand.
20:58Well, I've kind of got you to thank for it, don't I?
20:59I mean, you led me right to her.
21:01See, when we were sitting in there earlier, something caught my eye.
21:04It was the tea sun in the sugar bowl.
21:07That's when I remembered.
21:08Mrs Moth liked to carve that very insignia into her victims.
21:12So, thank God you're in the habit of getting that extra sugar, eh, Tubbs?
21:16So that's it then?
21:17It was her that killed Uncle Mitch?
21:19Oh, no, no, no.
21:20No, that was definitely your dad.
21:24How's it, Tubbs?
21:25Dad.
21:25Easy, easy, mate.
21:26Easy.
21:27We picked him up about an hour ago down the pub.
21:30But Dad's innocent.
21:31But Tubbs, um, we found your dad's bloody fingerprints on the mower.
21:36The one he used to kill Mitch.
21:39Sorry, mate.
21:42Anyway, let's, uh, let's roll out.
21:44Good day.
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22:15You
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