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00:04Kia 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. This is episode four.
00:20My hunt for my Uncle Mitch's killer had taught me a lot about my hometown of Tohoiho.
00:25Specifically that there was an underground swingers collective that was also at the heart
00:30of the local ketamine ring. Oh, here comes the KO. Uncle Mitch's second wife, Auntie Janine,
00:36was occupied by another lover at the time of his death. But that raises the question,
00:41what about his first wife? Auntie Andrea certainly is a woman scorned. Could she be suspect numero uno?
00:48You know? But before we delve into all of that, it was time to say goodbye to Uncle Mitch.
01:02I'm seated at Uncle Mitch's funeral. It's a veritable who's who of Tohoiho.
01:10But looking around, the faces aren't necessarily upset. I'll say they're more curious.
01:29The star of the show has arrived. I hadn't seen Auntie Andrea in a couple of years. She clearly
01:36had a major makeover. Her short shag haircut rarely suited her. The cosmetic surgeries were
01:42also quite subtle. How's that restraining order going now? You loathsome bastard!
01:50No! I hope you rot in hell, bitch! Buchanan!
02:00Mum!
02:13Dwayne McKeith and I used to be best friends at school. He used to consume a lot of PVA glue.
02:31That was until I sneakily ditched him by running away from him at lunchtime. He was really weird.
02:38His family was also really weird. Especially his brother.
02:44This is our church. We didn't realise people would be here.
02:48Yeah, it's my Uncle Mitch's funeral.
02:51Hey, do you guys want to sit together?
02:55This is okay.
02:56Okay.
02:58I like your suit.
03:00Oh, yeah. It was the last one at the Suit Horwich place, so it was a bit ill-fitting.
03:06How have you been, Toby?
03:09Ah, yeah. I'm not bad.
03:11We haven't seen you for ages.
03:13Yeah.
03:15Well, how have you guys been?
03:16We've been doing a lot of praying lately.
03:18Really?
03:19There's a lot of evil in the world.
03:30Please stand for the hymn of sacred remembrance.
03:47I'm sorry.
03:50Mitch would have just been so heartened to see you all here today.
03:57To celebrate.
03:59And what a kind, gentle, giving man he was.
04:11To say a few words about the darling father, Mitch's children.
04:18Conan and Sophia, over to you now, my darlings.
04:26At five, my cousins Sophia and Conan were sent to a boarding school famous for tuning out CEOs.
04:33I always wondered if that put a strain on their family, though.
04:37Our father, Mitch Buchanan, has been described as a pioneer of the lawn mowing engineering community.
04:45The meteoric success of the Buchananiser meant that work always came first for our dad.
04:54Hard work to our father and to us is the only important thing there is.
05:00Nothing else matters.
05:02And indeed, that's the greatest lesson that he left us.
05:05Well, at least he left you something.
05:07Shut up, Mum!
05:09Oh!
05:10Aunty Andrea's guilt and motive were practically pouring off her.
05:14It was time to turn on the charm and get a recorded confession for my podcast.
05:19I don't think you're allowed to smoke in here.
05:22Oh, Ian, who's going to stop me?
05:26Oh, my God.
05:28It's open.
05:30Oh, Mr. West, nice and with all the extra weight.
05:33What is with this suit?
05:35Why's it glued?
05:37It was the only suit available at the suit hiring store.
05:41Anyway, Aunty Andrea, I'm so sorry for your loss.
05:47Hmm.
05:48Skin off my nose.
05:50Well, skin off my nose, to be honest.
05:53And I am not talking about my last trip to Turkey.
05:59Just between you and I, Tobias, I was talking to a lawyer about going at him again for half the
06:06mowing business.
06:07It was all settled.
06:09Now it's too late.
06:11Going to fall into the pockets of that cow base.
06:15Wait.
06:17You were planning on suing Uncle Mitch.
06:20And I was just a pipe dream, Toby.
06:23It was all I had.
06:25And when I heard he died, wow.
06:28I took a gold clump to my precious porcelain corgi.
06:33The piglets will be happy though.
06:36They came over here asking for money and he wasn't going to give it.
06:39Wait, the twins were here before he died?
06:41I know.
06:44Rumour has it.
06:46Now we're asking him to invest in a little tech company if he's in Hong Kong.
06:51And apparently it's gone titsa.
06:57I mean, they try and take me out of the loop.
07:00But her mother knows.
07:04Toby, are you sure you don't want a cigarette because it does suppress your appetite?
07:13Okay.
07:15You're alright.
07:17With Aunty Andrea all but clared, I'd set my sights on Uncle Mitch's twins, who were conveniently in town when
07:25he died.
07:28Muslims.
07:29Well, well, well.
07:31It isn't Tubby Tubes.
07:33Ha!
07:33Fancy seeing you here.
07:35Nah, just joking.
07:36Of course you'd be here.
07:37You're the bloody nephew after all.
07:38Sorry, Mel, I'm just going to go.
07:40Hey, just before you run off, mate.
07:41I just want to check something.
07:42I was talking to Katie.
07:43She said she saw you down at the mowing stall.
07:46Acting all sneaky.
07:48Asking questions and stuff.
07:50She said something about a podcast.
07:52Is that right?
07:52What's your one about?
07:53Oh, men's mental health.
07:56Katie told you about that.
07:57Yeah, don't worry about the Katie of it all.
07:59Is it true you're doing a podcast about your uncle's heart attack?
08:02No, it's not about his heart attack.
08:04Oh.
08:06Sergeant Brown said you were sniffing around your Aunty Jeanine.
08:10Saying she could have murdered him.
08:17No, I don't think it's her.
08:19No.
08:20Because it wasn't anybody.
08:21Because your uncle wasn't murdered.
08:23Yeah?
08:25Sure.
08:26Look, I'm just trying to look out for you, big fella.
08:29I don't want you to have another one of your, um,
08:32what was it, um, uh, pet food scandal.
08:39Sounds like your career was rinsed.
08:44Anyway.
08:46I'll leave you to it, eh?
08:48Katie.
08:53Oh, hey.
08:54Sophia, come in.
08:56Hi, cousin.
08:57Hey.
08:57How's coming over to see you guys?
08:59Yeah, we were just shooting, so...
09:01Are you going back to Hong Kong already?
09:03Oh, my gosh.
09:04Tobias, no.
09:04We're not going back to Hong Kong right now.
09:07We're going to the mansion.
09:08We're going to give Dad our own little standoff.
09:10Oh, awesome.
09:12Can I come along?
09:15With their mum letting slip about their financial woes,
09:18could I be looking at two murderers?
09:21Oh, yeah.
09:23Oh, yeah.
09:25So how long are you guys in town for?
09:29Uh, two weeks.
09:30Eleven days.
09:31Oh, cool.
09:36It was a lovely service, wasn't it?
09:39Your dad would have loved that service.
09:42It's actually great that you guys were actually here in town to attend,
09:45because at the time I was like,
09:47oh, my God, he's died.
09:48His kids aren't in town.
09:49It's going to be so sad,
09:50because I know you guys are really busy ever in Hong Kong,
09:53but then I found out that you guys were actually in town when it happened.
09:58Yeah.
09:59What were you doing when he passed?
10:01I was on a call with London.
10:04I actually just got off the call when I heard from Janine.
10:08Huh.
10:13And what about you, Sophia?
10:17Well, I was with Conan.
10:21And have you guys been staying at the mansion with your dad?
10:24No, we were staying at a hotel.
10:28Why weren't you staying at the mansion?
10:30I mean, it's not like there's not plenty of bedrooms.
10:32Because a hotel was more convenient.
10:36Huh.
10:45Just got to grab something for the send off.
10:48You sit tight.
10:49I'll just be a minute.
10:50Yeah.
10:51No worries.
10:59If Conan was telling the truth,
11:01there should be a record of a phone call
11:03at the time of the murder.
11:07And...
11:08I found it.
11:09Buckingham Tech Solutions Bracket London,
11:11and Aunty Janine called him straight after.
11:14So that probably meant Conan didn't kill Uncle Mitch
11:17unless he was great at multitasking.
11:19So let's assume he didn't kill Uncle Mitch.
11:22But what about her?
11:24There's nothing to say Sophia wasn't here
11:27at her childhood home,
11:28brutally killing her father for the inheritance.
11:33There's a few.
11:45Whose is this?
11:46Oh.
11:49I think that's mine.
11:51What?
11:52How did it end up up here?
11:55Oh, it must have fallen out.
11:56I was just checking that water
11:58to see if it was faux or real,
12:00and I just...
12:01Shit.
12:02I'm an idiot.
12:04Won't be a take.
12:04Yeah, yeah.
12:17So, um...
12:18Conan, Conan, Conan, eh?
12:22So...
12:27Is...
12:29Is...
12:29Is he, um...
12:34Is, um...
12:35Hey!
12:36Let's go piss off the poppers.
12:40Who?
12:41Look, surely there's a better way of doing this.
12:44I said...
12:46Who?
12:48Oh, okay.
12:54Can you aim it a bit higher, Tobias?
12:56Yes, sorry.
12:58Uh, yes.
13:02Paul!
13:07Hey, so, um...
13:10What's it like?
13:11We saw him.
13:13Dad.
13:13Letters.
13:14Paul!
13:14Oh, ah.
13:19Ah, it was pretty hard, to be honest.
13:24You don't want the details, right?
13:25We're not kids, Tobias.
13:28Paul!
13:31Well, you know,
13:32it was kind of quite horrific, actually.
13:35Like, when I got there, like,
13:36he bled all over the lawn,
13:38and there were little bits of him
13:39that the mower had kind of shaved off,
13:40and they were picking them up
13:41and putting them into a bucket.
13:42And his face was...
13:45My God.
13:47Oh, we should have been there for him.
13:49We should have been there for him.
13:51Hey, what's wrong with you?
13:52Why'd you have to make my sister cry?
13:54I know he was an asshole, but...
13:56he was our father.
13:57Yeah, he was our asshole?
13:59Well, you asked what it was like.
14:00I meant emotionally, Tobias, not...
14:04physically.
14:05Sorry.
14:08Who, Tobias?
14:09This one's for Dad.
14:10Okay.
14:14Oh!
14:16Shit!
14:17The feed!
14:17Sorry.
14:23Sorry, Sophia.
14:24Stupid bro.
14:26Why don't you go fish there?
14:30Are you sure?
14:31Quick it up!
14:38Go on.
14:59Sorry, there was just a...
15:01a rabbit behind you.
15:03Hey, Tobias?
15:05Did you piss yourself?
15:15Huh?
15:16He did!
15:18No, as if.
15:22You'd still be a povo cousin!
15:26Sure, my cousins were walking red flags
15:29with a history of recreational cruelty,
15:31but Sophia's reaction to her dad dying
15:34actually seemed genuine.
15:39What the heck?
15:41Katie?
15:45Toby!
15:46What are you doing here?
15:48I...
15:49I'm not...
15:50Sorry?
15:50Yeah, why are you at the mansion?
15:53Here?
15:53Yeah.
15:54At the mansion?
15:55Ah!
15:57Because I...
15:58Because I was like...
15:59Well...
15:59And then I thought...
16:03Your Auntie Janine is like so wrapped up
16:06with all the...
16:08funeral business.
16:08And I just thought that I should come here
16:10and I'll...
16:11I'll walk the horse.
16:13Petal?
16:14Petal?
16:15Yeah.
16:16That's so kind of you.
16:19Did you know that Petal's actually my childhood horse?
16:22Stop!
16:23What?
16:23Yes.
16:24If you give me, like, five minutes, I can come with you.
16:27I just need to clean up this, um...
16:29This lemonade.
16:31Uh...
16:31Well, that's not actually too bad.
16:33I'll come with you if...
16:35You...
16:35Oh, no.
16:36Maybe I won't.
16:37I'm just here with my cousins.
16:38I haven't seen them on, like...
16:40And I should probably, um...
16:42So what did they...
16:46They must've, um...
16:48Maybe they forgot I was here.
16:51Anyway, I'm free now to come with you and walk Petal.
16:54I'll show you where the reins are.
16:57Come on.
16:57We didn't get a chance to talk at the wake.
16:59Come round.
17:01Are you gonna come?
17:02Yeah.
17:06Come on, Petal, darling.
17:07She is very cute.
17:10Actually, Uncle Mitch got her for me when, um...
17:13When Dad went to prison, so...
17:15Oh.
17:16Sweet of him.
17:17Yeah.
17:21Hey, Matt, since you're stopping doing the podcast?
17:24Uh, yeah.
17:25Aw, that's a shame.
17:29I mean, you're just such a good writer.
17:30I'm sure you'll find your next big scoop sometime soon.
17:33Katie, Jerram.
17:34What are you talking about?
17:35You've never read anything I've written.
17:38Um...
17:38Sydney Council Water Miss Management 2017.
17:41That was your first big story in Oz.
17:43Oh, come on.
17:44The whole town was talking about it.
17:48I mean, yeah, I get.
17:49I mean, that one took me months to do.
17:51But I did really luck out with the people I managed to interview.
17:54You could tell.
17:57Oh, I'd love that.
18:00Going overseas.
18:02Making a name for yourself overseas.
18:05I've never even been overseas.
18:08Oh, Toby, I'm jealous.
18:11Kind of feel like I missed the boat on that one sometimes.
18:15Well, why don't you move overseas and make a goal then?
18:18No, I can't now.
18:19Not with the boys.
18:21And Matt just loves his job.
18:26But if you're not happy, I'm sure he'd understand.
18:28I'm happy.
18:29I'm so happy.
18:31Love it.
18:36Maybe I could come and visit you for a weekend or something.
18:41I'd love that.
18:43Yeah, that would be amazing.
18:44Yeah.
18:45There's so much I can show you.
18:47I'd love it.
18:47There's some great...
18:47Do you like dumplings?
18:49No.
18:52Okay, well, do you want to turn around?
18:54If it's before we turn around now.
18:57Yeah, let's...
18:59Wait a sec.
19:01Is this road no exit?
19:03Yeah.
19:05Come on.
19:06You know that.
19:08Uncle Mitch's road was a no exit?
19:10With just one way in and out?
19:13And to Hoyos' most notorious hotel, O'Reilly sat right on the corner.
19:18Maybe Lady Luck was on my side that day.
19:29Are you sure that this is okay because you know I can drop you at your actual house?
19:32Yeah, nah.
19:33I've just texted my mum.
19:34She's coming to pick me up from here and we're going to go shopping for shoes.
19:39Okay.
19:40Oh, anyway.
19:41Um.
19:41But thank you so much.
19:42I thought you've been dropping me this far.
19:44It's great.
19:45Are we still on for tomorrow night?
19:48Yeah.
19:48I just love that we get to spend more time together.
19:51Yeah.
19:52I've been loving it.
19:53I mean, it's...
19:54Yeah, it's good.
19:55So...
19:56Okay.
19:57Yeah, bye.
20:00Early in my investigation, I had learned that O'Reilly's manager, Trent, had CCTV cameras everywhere for his own twisted
20:07reasons.
20:09Hey, do you want to see the local MPX fixiate himself?
20:13What? No.
20:13I was hoping against hope that one of those cameras might be facing the roadside.
20:18I have discovered that Uncle Mitch's road, Tamihana Road, is no exit. It's a dead end.
20:25So his murderer would have to come in and go out from the same exit.
20:30So I just need to find the CCTV footage of the road outside the hotel on the afternoon of Uncle
20:36Mitch's murder.
20:38And then, I might find his murderer.
20:42Albeit, be a car.
20:45Oh, thanks, Trent.
20:48Trent, look at this.
20:51An hour before he died.
20:53Yes.
20:54And that.
20:5538 minutes after.
20:58Exactly.
20:58So I just need to see the licence plate.
21:00The angle wasn't right to see the number plate.
21:02Wait, what's this?
21:04And the side of the window.
21:06And we could see another defining feature.
21:08A weird cartoon family sticker on the window.
21:10Am I looking at Uncle Mitch's murderer?
21:13Albeit, his vehicle?
21:15It wasn't a perfect lead, but I finally felt I was on the right track to find Uncle Mitch's brutal
21:25murderer.
21:26And little did I know then, but I actually knew this person quite well.
21:43But you're all trying to findable speaking of another man's
21:43Who...
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