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00:15Okay, let's give this a go. Yeah, welcome. G'day. My name is Toby Buchanan, and welcome to...
00:24Yeah, uh, g'day. My name is, uh, welcome, welcome. Should I say welcome? Or should I, uh, welcome, g'day, and
00:44welcome. Right.
00:51Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, brace yourself, use your knees, he's a big boy.
00:54Kia ora. My name is Toby Buchanan, and this is my true crime podcast, Small Town Scandal, where I try
01:02and solve the mystery of...
01:04Actually, we'll get to that later.
01:07It all began two days ago, I guess. There I was, in between jobs, and crashing at my mum's place.
01:18Arch, who are these dresses for anyway?
01:21They're for frocks in the fields. Oh, I don't know why I agreed to do it again this year. I
01:26must be a sucker for punishment.
01:28We've gone for a native bird theme, which is actually very creatively stimulating.
01:34Surely I'm too big to model them.
01:36Well, not for some of the women around here. I, uh, I want you to try on this fascinator.
01:42This is the tree.
01:44It's beautiful, Mum.
01:46Mm-hmm. Anyway, uh, how's your CV going? Have you managed to send it to the Tehoyo Times yet?
01:53Mum, the Tehoyo Times is full of fluff pieces and bridal reviews. I'm an investigative journalist, remember?
01:59I'll have you know, there was a very, very interesting article about how to make toys out of cat fur
02:05yesterday.
02:11Why would Uncle Wish be calling me?
02:13Oh, um, maybe there's some good news. Go on, answer it.
02:19That was very rude.
02:22Mum, what is going on?
02:24Well, I've had a... I had a little word with him about your situation.
02:29What situation?
02:31The fact that you've been lying around your mother's house for three months after things went tits up in Australia.
02:37Mum, I'm not going to work at a motor mowing store.
02:40It's a hyper-mega store. It's prestigious.
02:43And what else are you going to do?
02:45I can't keep on paying for your cheesy snacks forever.
02:49Mum, I am an investigative... I am an investigative journalist, remember?
02:55He won't make you work in the store. You can write things for the ads.
03:00Mum, I don't want to go. I don't want to go.
03:02I decided to do the mature thing and take Mum's car and go and talk to my Uncle Mitch.
03:08Uncle Mitch lives on the other side of the small New Zealand town of Tohoiho,
03:13a town completely obsessed with horses.
03:17This is where I grew up, but recently spent a year working in Australia for a prestigious newspaper,
03:22until I wrongly exposed a pet food company for using cat and dog meat in their food for cats and
03:27dolls.
03:29The newspaper promptly went tits up,
03:32and I was left looking for any opportunity to resurrect my career.
03:37Anyway, that all led me here to the beginning of an emotional and an invested-titude.
03:45An investor-gut-ive rollercoaster.
04:13Well, well, well, if it isn't tubby-tobes!
04:16It's Matt McKenzie.
04:18So, back in the day I went to Tohoiho College, and that was where I met Matt McKenzie.
04:25He'd moved here from Broome, Australia, and we became fast friends.
04:29Yeah. I didn't know you were back in town.
04:32Uh, yeah, I'm just back for a couple of days, just visiting.
04:34Hey, last I heard you were Mr Big Shot Journalist over in Sydney.
04:37How's all that going?
04:38It's great. It's great.
04:40Yeah? What newspaper you write for?
04:42Mission, what's going on? Like, who's that on the lawn?
04:45Is that an Australian accent I can detect there, mate?
04:47No? Such a big fan you want to talk like me, do you?
04:49Oh, I picked it up in Austin, haven't been able to shake it.
04:52So, who's that body on the lawn?
04:54Oh!
04:57Yes, mate, yeah, that's, um, that's your Uncle Mitch.
05:01Dead as a doorknob.
05:02What?
05:02What?
05:27Oh, shit.
05:29Oh, God.
05:30Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, brace yourself. Use your knees. He's a big boy.
05:32Oh, oh, what's, uh, what happened to him?
05:36He had a heart attack.
05:38Heart attack? But all that blood.
05:41Use your brain, you clown.
05:43He had a heart attack, fell onto the lawn,
05:46and those bloody robots ran all over him, cutting him up.
05:54Pull yourself to get a top seat.
06:01My Uncle Mitch is the richest man in Tohoiho.
06:05He made us mega millions designing an automated lawnmower
06:08that doesn't require anyone to operate it.
06:11Get out!
06:12He even went so far as to call this automated mower the Buchananizer.
06:17After our family name, Buchanan.
06:21And now he's dead.
06:24Apparently he had a heart attack,
06:26and then he got run over by his automated lawnmowers.
06:28Oh, gosh.
06:29What a shame.
06:30But I guess it was only a matter of time
06:32with all that pork he put away.
06:34Mum.
06:34No, I'm only being matter of fact.
06:36That's my curse.
06:37I'm honest to a fault.
06:41Oh, I guess there goes your job at the hyper-mega store.
06:45So this is back to the drawing board
06:47vis-a-vis your future employment.
06:52Mitchie!
06:54Oh, Mum, Auntie Janine's showing up.
06:56I'd better go.
06:56And I'll start ringing everyone in town
06:58and letting them know.
07:00Bye, Petrie.
07:01Bye.
07:04Get out!
07:05I'm not Janine!
07:06I'm just going...
07:07Hey, easy.
07:08No, no, come on.
07:08Leave her to her.
07:09Just get her.
07:10Easy.
07:10Easy now.
07:12I know, I know.
07:14Put her down, you big bloody gorilla.
07:17Just right there.
07:17Just right there.
07:18Just get out of it, would you?
07:20I know.
07:21I know.
07:24Petrie.
07:27I can't believe you're still alive, old girl.
07:34You must have seen everything.
07:36I know.
07:37Oh, shit.
07:38It's so sweet.
07:40Oh, she's playing.
07:41Oh, she's playing.
07:44It's such a...
07:44Oh, she?
07:46Oh, don't you.
07:46She shouldn't be.
07:47She's a bitchy.
07:48Oh, bitchy.
07:51She's...
07:52Oh, bitchy.
07:53Oh, bitchy.
07:54Oh, bitchy.
07:55Oh, bitchy.
07:56Oh, it was a heart attack.
07:59Hardly surprising, really,
08:02given the stressful life he led.
08:04Oh, his majesty is back.
08:08I'll pay that invoice soon, Lynn.
08:11Bye for now.
08:13Did you know that Petal was still alive?
08:15What are you talking about?
08:17Petal, the horse that Uncle Mitch got me, she's still alive.
08:20Oh, for God's sake, Toby, who cares about Petal?
08:23How was your Auntie Janine?
08:25She was sobbing so much.
08:26That doesn't surprise me.
08:28She does like to be dramatic.
08:30She's a big part in the Royal Amateur Dramatic Society.
08:35Mind you, I will grant.
08:36She did a great job as Evita.
08:39I did her costumes, of course.
08:42So, go on.
08:43What did she do next after the sobbing?
08:46Uh, I can't remember.
08:48Mm.
08:50No doubt she sorted the will before all this went down.
08:54Mum, it's too early to be thinking about the will.
08:56Oh, Janine will be thinking about the will.
08:58They will all be thinking about the will.
09:00Ha, ha, ha.
09:01Most certainly.
09:02Janine, his twins, Andrea.
09:05Oh, you can bet your bottom dollar.
09:08Make sure you put some vegetables in that pasta, please.
09:12The fiber will stave off your cravings.
09:14I wonder if your father's been left anything.
09:17Well, if so, in a doubt it'll go straight on the booze.
09:20Mum.
09:21You know I'm right.
09:25Actually, have you called her?
09:26No, no, I'll do that now.
09:28That night, I couldn't get the images of Uncle Mitch's face out of my head.
09:35That, and the cheesy tomatoey pasta causing acid reflux, meant that sleep was an impossibility.
09:40So I did what I always do in insomnia hits.
09:43I listened to my favorite serial killer podcast.
09:47So how would Mrs. Moth communicate with you?
09:50She would call me.
09:52But then suddenly, there it was, staring at me from my phone screen.
09:58I wanted to hear his voice one last time.
10:01Not be spun off into a murder investigation.
10:04Yeah, Toby, I was hoping to get hold of you.
10:07Come round to the mansion tomorrow afternoon, would you?
10:10Something I want to talk to you about.
10:11Yeah, see you two.
10:14Hang on.
10:15What are you doing here?
10:16To hear the message again.
10:29Hang on.
10:31Hang on.
10:31What are you doing here?
10:34Hang on.
10:36What are you doing here?
10:37So?
10:38Okay, he left a message for me, then said to someone else, hang on, what are you doing here?
10:43And then an hour later, he was found dead.
10:47I am probably talking to a fantail that flew into the room.
10:51Oh, talking of fantails.
10:53You don't say to a fantail, hang on, what are you doing here?
10:56Well, I would.
10:58Anyway, could we do that conversation again, Mum?
11:00I'm going to record it.
11:02What?
11:02Why?
11:04I'm going to turn this into a podcast.
11:06No, I don't want to be on the internet.
11:08And you don't either.
11:09You fail speech and drama.
11:11Yeah, but Mum, something's going on here.
11:13And in the best true crime podcasts, the mystery unfolds in real time.
11:19And who knows?
11:20If I play my cards right, maybe this will lead to some legitimate investigative...
11:29Legitimate investigative journalist work.
11:33If I play my cards right, this might lead to some legitimate investigative journalist work.
11:39And, as an effective investigative journalist, I decided to go right back to the beginning.
11:45The crime scene.
11:47The stain from where Uncle Mitchard lay in his dark cred from all the bleeding he did.
11:53Don't get me wrong, I'm not an idiot that doesn't realise all the bleeding happened after he was torn up
11:57by the Buchananisers, aka the automated lawnmowers.
12:01But maybe the bleeding happened after he was killed.
12:06Toby!
12:07Toby!
12:10Oh!
12:10Oh!
12:11Oh!
12:11Janine, I'm so sorry.
12:12I didn't really ask anyone was home.
12:14Oh!
12:15I understand, Derek.
12:17No.
12:18I've been talking to Mitchie as well.
12:21I just...
12:23I can't believe he's gone!
12:29Huh?
12:42Big in a blanket.
12:44Excuse me?
12:46Oh.
12:48Shh.
12:49I just wish I'd been there when it had happened, and I guess it was just a matter of time
12:55before
12:55his heart gave out, you know, with all those saturated fats he was putting away.
13:01And now we're not going to go on the cheese tour through the south of France.
13:05He was just so excited about experiencing all those bris and gruyere.
13:12Where were you?
13:17I beg your pardon?
13:19Well, you said you wished you were here to help when he passed away.
13:22I was just wondering where you were.
13:31And I was sadly at the nail salon.
13:36But there are many pedis.
13:40Which sounds so pedi.
13:47So what exactly are you trying to say, Toby?
13:50That Janine killed your Uncle Mitch?
13:53I'm just saying that I can imagine a scenario in which that was a possibility.
13:57And you're the one that said that she probably got his will sorted before he died.
14:02Where's the Coco Pops?
14:03They're empty calories.
14:05Have some cornflakes.
14:06How are you suggesting she killed him?
14:09Can't make someone have a heart attack, can you?
14:13Or can you?
14:15I mean, we always thought that she was solely after him for his money.
14:19Oh my God.
14:22What are you making me say?
14:24You're only saying it because it makes sense, Mum.
14:26And I'm not saying that he did have a heart attack.
14:28I'm just saying that maybe he was murdered and she covered it up by putting a lawnmower on his face.
14:33Oh, don't be stupid.
14:34She'd be covered in blood.
14:36Or maybe she was covered in blood but she went away, wiped herself down and then came back with all
14:40the theatrics.
14:41Or maybe she got someone else to do it.
14:46Hmm?
14:47A hired killer, if you will, or a friend or an acquaintance.
14:52Hmm.
14:53Oh, this is stupid.
14:54Look what you're making me say.
14:55I feel I'm in murder, she wrote.
14:58That show always did baffle me.
15:00I mean, if there's that many murders in your town, surely you'd just leave.
15:08With Aunty Janine as my number one suspect, I was going undercover detective mode to check her alibi.
15:15Brenda's Beauty Boutique in Nails is kind of goth.
15:19It's kind of purple meets black.
15:21Um, small town beauty boutique.
15:24Can I help you, love?
15:25Yes.
15:26Hold your door.
15:27Uh, my name is Gerald and I couldn't help but notice one of your clients too.
15:33I had my toenails the other day and I thought, I must get my hands on that colour for my
15:38life partner.
15:39Her name is Janine Crozier Buchanan.
15:42That was your client.
15:43My life partner's called Bren.
15:45Bren.
15:46She's called Brenda.
15:47That's my name.
15:49That's my name.
15:49I didn't know there was another Brenda in town.
15:52Oh, there it is and she's fantastic.
15:55Anyway, so Aunty Janine's toenail, um, polished.
16:00Janine is wearing time of the month red at the moment.
16:05Right.
16:06And is that the colour that she got last time she came in on Wednesday?
16:09She didn't come in on Wednesday, but yes, time of the month red.
16:14So she didn't come in on Wednesday?
16:16She hasn't come in in a month, ironically.
16:19That'll be $14, please.
16:23Oh, yes, um, I, oh, I just realised I've left my wallet in my car.
16:30I'm just going to go.
16:31If you just hold that there, I'll just go and grab for my car.
16:34I'm just around the corner.
16:36Bingo.
16:37I had a strong suspect and now it was time to make this official.
16:43The Tohoyo Police Station has a blast from the 90 past.
16:47It's got a pastel pink trim and a foam lavender floral display.
16:55The receptionist is a stern looking woman who's at one with the chair.
17:00Who are you talking to?
17:01Oh, I'm doing a podcast.
17:05Is that an Australian accent?
17:07Yeah.
17:08Um, I've just got this big job over in Sydney and, um, I picked up the accent there and
17:12I've been unable to kick it.
17:14That's weird.
17:16Yeah.
17:18Uh, anyway, um, I'm Toby Buchanan.
17:21I'm an investigative journalist and my uncle, Midge, died the other day.
17:26I know.
17:27No matter of time with the amount of booze he put away.
17:30Yeah.
17:31I was wondering if there was a policeman that I could, or woman, or person, police person
17:38that I could talk to about it.
17:43Sergeant Brown, there's a joker here who wants to talk to you.
17:45Tell them I'm not here.
17:47Righto.
17:50He says come on through.
17:52Great.
17:53Thank you so much.
17:55But Mitch had a heart attack.
17:57But how are you sure about the heart attack?
18:00That's what the coroner's report said, okay?
18:03And then he tragically fell in line with his automated lawnmowers.
18:09Could I see this report?
18:11Why?
18:12I just told you what the findings were.
18:15He had a heart attack.
18:17So you don't need to see the report.
18:19Is there any chance we could open up an investigation into foul play?
18:23Just cause I...
18:24I think that maybe Uncle Mitch was murdered.
18:28Just hear me.
18:29I've got certain pieces of evidence that lead me to believe that maybe he was killed by his wife.
18:51Janine Crozier Buchanan did not kill her husband.
18:58Okay.
19:02It's just that she said she was at the beauticians when he died.
19:05You're being absolutely stupid.
19:07What a stupid thing to assert.
19:11And I'm too busy to deal with this.
19:17I'd check into grief counselling if I were you.
19:21I think your loss has made you a bit wonko.
19:27Anywho, I'd better get back to actual work.
19:30Luke.
19:30Okay, yeah.
19:31Sorry.
19:32Here.
19:32Okay.
19:55I just saw you in there.
19:57I got something I need to tell you.
20:14The reason Sergeant Brown doesn't think it was Janine is because you know.
20:27Do you catch my drift?
20:29What drift?
20:32Sergeant Brown and Janine Crozier Buchanan are having it off.
20:40What?
20:42What?
20:42Shush!
20:43Be quiet.
20:45But yes, they meet at O'Reilly's Hotel.
20:48I have seen their perspective cars parked outside on several lunch bricks.
20:54Do you think they were there two days ago?
20:57Couldn't be certain.
20:59But they probably were.
21:01Their clandestine meetings have been becoming obsessively regular.
21:07But you let anyone know I told you and your nooks are mine, mate.
21:10Okay.
21:11So, there you go.
21:12Aunty Janine was having it off with another man.
21:15Could Aunty Janine and Sergeant Brown have conspired to have Uncle Mitch taken out to get his money?
21:20Or was Sergeant Brown a jealous lover not wanting to share?
21:27Toby!
21:28I need you to model again for having McPherson's dress.
21:32I'm coming!
21:33Toby!
21:37Toby!
21:39Huh?
21:57What's going on?
22:03We need help.
22:03You
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