September 7, 2025 • 22 mins
At a low-key hangout in Rupertswood Park, Kane sits among friends; minutes later he’s gone—his esky and a half-finished drink still on the ground.
Calls to his phone begin at 10:11 pm and go unanswered as the night wears on.
By morning, police swarm the scene, but one question hangs in the air, how was he lying only metres away—and nobody saw him
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Approche production.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The ambulance just went past, Yeah the lights on but
no sirens and turned into that street down there, like
it's a bit of a walk, but it's not that bad,
it says Ring Road. And then yeah, this ride up
(00:34):
here is Progress Road, so this is yeah, the only
road in. But as we come up closer, there is yeah,
a lot of easement areas that you can drive through.
So like through here is all this bush land and
that all comes out onto other roads.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
That's Kane Moore's sister, Mikhayla. She was only twenty three
when she found a brother dead in a park in
the outskirts of Townsville and North Queensland.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I was driving along here and I actually didn't see
him at the end of the road here until I've
gone around that building over there, the community hall.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We're driving back to the park with Mikayla. It's a
park that used to hold fond memories of teenage hangouts,
but now it just holds a lot of sadness.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, past the playground and I knew that, you know,
over there in that little shack area near the tennis
court was where they normally drink. I've gone right here
and at this point, I didn't actually see him over there.
I don't know how I didn't, but God, So you
(02:13):
can see the marks here of where people used to
drive in, like along here, and then they would just
drive to there and park. Yeah, just around that shack area.
So someone coming in from all the way over there
where the tennis court is is not usual. Yea. So
there's an easement going, a little easement going down there
(02:35):
and comes out on a road. So, as I said,
there are so many different easements that come out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So that night came and his mates would be hanging
out around that little heart over there and drinking and
listening to music. The next morning when you got here,
where did you drive up to?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So yeah, I drove through here and it was about
i'd probably say year where this patch of green grass is,
maybe just after it that I've stopped. So I've obviously
noticed him as I've come around the corner, because his
(03:18):
red hair is really not that hard to miss.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
As Mikayla's walking us through the park, she tells us
that Cain would have been hard to miss. There was
his bright red hair, but there was also no small
bushes or shrubs in the place where Caine was found.
It's quite open. His eskie was still at the park.
It's the eski on the front cover of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Weird because I didn't notice him coming down this road.
I've come around here thinking I could drive closer because
I knew that they were over there, and yeah, and
I've come to probably about here. Yeah, so like roughly fifteen.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Maybe he's twenty meters.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Honestly, it's really hard to save the meters back to it,
but yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It was about here. While mcat is talking to our
producer about where she found Cain, I walk away to
see if I can notice anything else.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Because there was a dirt patch here that was there
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I noticed there's mounds of dirt like about knee high.
They look like makeshift speed bumps or bumps for motorbikes
or quad bikes that drive through this park.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, so he was about here, and the tire marks
had gone from here over there to like that mound
over there like that, and about where Jay is now
is where the marks were. Someone had stopped.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I had a lot of questions, and so did Makayla.
But one of my key ones was why would Caine
get up and leave his mates and walk over to
a dirt mound and then just lay down away for
the party.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I did think that, but I think maybe he
was just going somewhere. Maybe that was dark and out
of the light that was coming from the park through
there is that maybe he was like, you know, embarrassed,
or maybe he was on his way and he was
going to start walking down the road and he was
going to go home, like I don't know, but yeah,
(05:35):
like all these mates were just here, and you'd think
like if someone drove past there and seen him, they
would yell out and say, hey, you've got a friend
over here on the grass.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It was very dark.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So we've come down here multiple times at night and
it is dark, Like I cannot even walk here, Like
I would run straight into that table, like it's dark,
and I think the light from the playground it glares,
so it takes your vision away from the rest of
you know, the park, because it's just shining in your eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Back at the house with Mikayla, she told us what
that day felt like. As police started to arrive.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Obviously I was in shock, so I was just like
not you know, and then they were like, can you
please stand behind this and I'm like, I literally just
found him.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What do you think, Like I've already.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Been in there. What's the urgency, you know? And then
that's when all of the detectives and cop cars showed up.
I reckon that was about yeah, fifteen fifteen cars that
rocked up there, and that's when they started taking our statements.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The detectives that turned.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Up like were lovely, like really really good. So my
auntie sent her husband, my uncle he was there too,
straight to mum's house to let her know in person
and sort of over the phone. Before you know, everything
was on the news and it was, you know, the
whole of town's all new. And then my dad was
actually driving back from Mackay at the time and was
(07:19):
a couple a few hours off being home. And that's
when my uncle then drove to his work to meet
him at the yard because he was driving a truck.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And yeah, he basically told.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Him there and then drove him home. When I first
when we found him and we had realized that he
was dead, my my a really good family friend, was
actually walking past at that time, which was such a
crazy coincidence because it was like I found him, then
(07:54):
I run Katie and Jason. They turned up and then
we just look, we're all in panic, and we just
look over and her name's Deb Deb Stevens. She was
walking past and we yelled out to her for help.
I don't know what she was meant to help with,
but we were just like, you know, And she lived
just over behind the park, so not even twenty minutes
(08:17):
twenty or probably about thirty meters away was her house.
So she had actually walked past there to go to
the corner shop and was on her way walking back
and she was panicking saying she didn't even notice him
there and she had walked straight past that spot.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
We're going to speak to Mikayla's cousin shortly. She was
at the park that night. Mikayla told us that when
they went to the park to find Kane that same night,
no one could get hold of him on his phone.
They yelled out, tried to find him, but there was
no sign of him.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So they were there walking around all the areas around
the tennis court over to the horse club and they
couldn't find him. And yeah, it turns out that where
they were walking was so they were walking along the
tennis court and from the tennis court fence. He was
(09:19):
probably about like five six meters back from there, maybe
a little bit more, and they've just walked past him.
And because it was so dark, and the playground just
over the road had a big light, so it sort
of took away your vision, if that makes sense, Like
your eyes are so focused on the light over at
(09:42):
the playground that you can't really see much else. This
is where he was found here, so there's a garden
and rocks here, and then this is where he was found.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The tennis court's there.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
They were partying over here, and then when you come
down the road, you actually go around this little dirt
road around the community hall, and they were parked over here,
but there was one person seam driving in that way.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Caitlyn is Kane's cousin. She was eighteen when we spoke
to her last year, and she was there in the
park that night with Kin and her friend Kayla, who's
a year younger than her. Caitlyn and Kin were pretty close,
they were almost like brother and sister.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Me and Cain are around the same age where and
he was the only really person that I had. All
of my siblings, I had four and the second youngest,
which is Chloe. She's we're six years apart. So Cain was.
Me and Cain always stuck at the kids table together
when we used to go out to lunch or dinner.
(10:44):
So yeah, we were just always close. When we moved
here two and a half years ago and we became
a lot closer. He was one of my best friends.
He was like a brother to me. We fought like siblings. Yeah,
he was always there for me when I pretty much
had no one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Cain was.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
It's very important to me. I would always look after
him like I was younger, So I wasn't. I didn't,
you know, drink like he did or anything. So I
was always you know, when he had drunk too much
and he was in his bed or you know, he
greened out, I was always there with a cup of
water and everything, trying to help him, make like checking
on him, make sure he's okay.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
You heard Caitlin say that sometimes Kane greened out, and
I wanted to explain what this means. Greened out is
slang for someone that's had too much cannabis. Means the
person might have nausea and maybe vomit or maybe go pale,
which also has its own nickname. It might cause a
racing heart, anxiety, panic and confusion, or make someone super
(11:51):
sleepy or seen out of it. From the police report
on Caine's death, this was noted. There were interviews with
others that were in the park that night. These are
the police words from the report, but not their voice.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Through the statements, it was established Cain had consumed alcohol
and had smoked cannabis on the evening of the twenty
first of April twenty twenty three. He had been observed
to be heavily intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I think talking with Caitlin, I'll get a better picture
of what Cain was about. Because of their closeness in age,
she knew exactly what he was like.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
His friends were really good. There are really good people.
Cain was sort of a follower. So Cain did what
everyone else did. And that's when, like, you know, some
of us would have to step in and say, that's
not really like, you know, it's not a good choice
to make, whereas some of those boys didn't really care
about consequences where you know what I mean, because they
(12:49):
were also younger. So Cain was the oldest of the group,
so he was an adult when everyone else was like,
you know, still a teenager, still a child. So I
would always have to remind Cain, like, you're eighteen, they're seventeen.
You have bigger consequences than what they do. And yeah,
but all over, they were a really good friends to him,
and he loved them. He loved spending every day with
(13:10):
them and you know, doing that stupid stuff that they did.
So it was a Friday. I was at school for
the day and I had finished, obviously at two forty five.
When school finished, Caine's best mate, me and him were
(13:34):
talking like you know, getting together, and he picked me
up from school and we drove back out here, but
his car broke down, and then we've got someone pick
us up, and we made our way to the park,
sat at the park for a little bit, and then
I went home and another person that drove us home,
and Caine was at the front. He had walked in
(13:56):
with a ten pack of drinks or was it I
think it was the double Ones.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They're like the golden stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And I had kind of said to him, like, because
we weren't really allowed to have drink cups here anymore.
We used to like every single weekend, but Uncle Gary,
he used. We used to wake him up every single
every single night, he come out, what are he's doing?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Like?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
So we started to go to the park. Kan jumped
in the car with us, and this girl that was driving.
She dropped us off there and it was around roughly
five o'clock in the afternoon, maybe five point thirty. It
wasn't really a party. It was just more so that's like,
you know, where we went and seen our friends. It
wasn't like any everyone else that was there was just
that all lift out here. The park felt like a
(14:40):
very safe place at that time, if I'm being honest,
It literally felt like I was drinking in my own backyard.
It felt like the safest place ever. Me and Kane
used to sneak out every night without my mum knowing everything.
We used to go there and we just used to
just run them up, just sit there, you know, talking.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It just felt so safe.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And yeah, we were there that night and a couple
of people had come. Kayla was right about ten fifteen
people We were there drinking. Cain was smoking weed along
with the rest of his friends.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I was only drinking alcohol.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I had me and Calvin and Kayla and another one
of our friends had gone to Hungry Jacks and Kine
did not come with us. We were at Hungry Jack's
I think at nine thirty, and I think we got
back around like ten. I don't think we were there long.
When we had gotten back, I went up to Cain
(15:37):
and I just I was drunk. I was admitting how
much I love him and how much she means to me.
That was our last conversation. I had started to feel
a little bit sick, so I went and laid in
the car to you don't know, maybe I needed to vomit.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
About ten minutes of me sitting in the car, Kayla
come up to me and said that Kine was no
longer there. I went from being drunk and sick and
you know, couldn't even move, to jumping straight up and
acting like I didn't even have a sip of alcohol
that night, like like I was sober the whole night.
And I jumped up and my stomach had dropped, And
(16:18):
as I said before, I was I was very very like.
I used to always watch over Kane, what he was doing,
how much he had had, like but because myself I
didn't normally drink, so how much I had that night,
I wasn't able to, you know, look after both of us.
So I had jumped up and I had gone to
the group of friends and I asked them where Kane,
if anyone had seen where Cain was. And you know,
(16:41):
a lot of them, they do make jokes. And I
know that a lot of them are sorry now and
they have apologized, but a lot of them joked with
me saying that he's old enough, or that he's.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Dead in an alley, or.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You know, just made jokes like that. Like you know
that they were harmless jokes at the end of the day,
Like I know, none of them had meant that, like
they were just trying to, like, you know, stuff with me.
But I basically begged all of them to stand up
and come and help me. Look, just because I just
had a feeling, like I just I had knew something
was wrong Kine had. We have gone to the park
(17:16):
hundreds and hundreds of time and Kane has felt sick
and he has come and told me that he needs
to go home and I need to help him. And
every time I would help him get his eski and
everything together, and we would he would go sit in
the car and he'd wait until you know me and
Calvin ready to leave, like he wouldn't like just walk
off without anybody. And that's what kind of made me
feel ten times worse that no one knew and if
(17:38):
he was going to feel sick, he normally you know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I just yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Just that he was like there one minute and he
was like sitting like where he was sitting it was
like to of his friends and then him, so he's
like directly in the middle of them. And then I
don't know what I was doing. I must have got up,
walked off and then come back and he just wasn't there,
like his esk he was left there. Yeah, And I
come back and his squ was left there, one of
(18:07):
his like half drink and drinks was left there, and
I was just looking around. I was like, I said,
where's Cane. And they're like, oh, that's how they do.
So I don't know, not really worried.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I went looking for him. I called him about ten times,
I think, because I know for a fact that I
was calling his phone at ten eleven. That's really weird
that I remember that, But I remember that's when I'm
looking at my phone and for a couple months, my
phone history didn't delete, so I always I had that
on my phone.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I actually think it.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Was one of the first calls that I made to
him at ten eleven, when I went back to the
group the second time to ask him to help me,
and they kind of brushed me off again and told
me to sit down, and I took their advice, which
I deeply regret. Around ten thirty, we went to one
of our friend's house that was there that night. Everyone
(19:01):
left and I stayed there for about an hour by
just didn't feel like one hundred percent, like just not
knowing where he was. So we left and we dropped
everyone home, like three others, two others, three and I
came back here and I went straight into Cayne's room
and he wasn't here. And that's what kind of like
(19:24):
made my stomach like it was it wasn't right. So
I went and woke my mom up and got Mum
out of bed, and at this point it was I
don't know, maybe one o'clock in the morning, Me, Mum, Kayla,
and our other friend of center drove us down to
the park and we looked for him at the park everywhere,
(19:44):
and that was the point where Mum had Mikayla had
called Mum to tell us that his location where his
location was, and I went looking everywhere in that arena.
I looked in people's caravans, that the horse stable things
that maybe he'd you know, crawled into one of them,
thinking he did lack you know, I was screaming out
to him, kine you're being and stop fucking around, get up,
(20:07):
like all of that. And I think we looked until
about two thirty in the morning, and then it was
there was no sign of him. I think I had
called his phone twenty times that night until I think
it went out of I think it went flat, did it. Yeah,
(20:28):
I think I had called it enough for it to
go flat.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
The person you are calling is not available, but short message.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I Mum was sick that night with the flu, and
it was a very it was really cold. It wasn't
like cold, but it was like and it was a
really dark just night, and we had come home and
I said to the girls, we're going to set an
alarm at five o'clock in the morning to look for him.
And then by the time that alarm went off, it
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was we were all just so bugged that, you know,
I just thought he's fine, like he's gonna be AKA.
He's probably just at a girl, because he did have
a I wouldn't say a girlfriend at the time. He
had someone out and here that he was kind of
had his eyes on, so I thought maybe he just
went to her house. Yeah, and then that's when Mum
(21:18):
walked in I think eight o'clock, yeah, around that time frame,
and came and woke us up.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
In the next episode of More to the Story, sometimes
seeing you just to let it go, but.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I don't want to regret that later that I did nothing, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I just my fear is that nothing's going to come
over it. But I have to try and prepare myself
that that might be the case.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But it's hard. It's hard.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
I was pretty sure that, you know, it was would
have been an accident because of how dark the.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Park was that police said.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
I just thought that they would have found who it
was with confiscating all the cars and everything and interviewing
all the kids. I just thought it would be within
that few days to a week tops tops.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And the police is saying he might not know he
ran over anyone. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, And that's what we
were upset about.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
We weren't just we weren't told anything about what's happening.
That's why I was just always wondering, like, what are
they doing. I know that they would be investigating it,
but what are they doing?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
We're just never told anything.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
So recently I had a friend admit to me that
he heard some kids from up Petlso bragging about running
over the Rupertswood
Approche production.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The ambulance just went past, Yeah the lights on but
no sirens and turned into that street down there, like
it's a bit of a walk, but it's not that bad,
it says Ring Road. And then yeah, this ride up
(00:34):
here is Progress Road, so this is yeah, the only
road in. But as we come up closer, there is yeah,
a lot of easement areas that you can drive through.
So like through here is all this bush land and
that all comes out onto other roads.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
That's Kane Moore's sister, Mikhayla. She was only twenty three
when she found a brother dead in a park in
the outskirts of Townsville and North Queensland.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I was driving along here and I actually didn't see
him at the end of the road here until I've
gone around that building over there, the community hall.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We're driving back to the park with Mikayla. It's a
park that used to hold fond memories of teenage hangouts,
but now it just holds a lot of sadness.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, past the playground and I knew that, you know,
over there in that little shack area near the tennis
court was where they normally drink. I've gone right here
and at this point, I didn't actually see him over there.
I don't know how I didn't, but God, So you
(02:13):
can see the marks here of where people used to
drive in, like along here, and then they would just
drive to there and park. Yeah, just around that shack area.
So someone coming in from all the way over there
where the tennis court is is not usual. Yea. So
there's an easement going, a little easement going down there
(02:35):
and comes out on a road. So, as I said,
there are so many different easements that come out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So that night came and his mates would be hanging
out around that little heart over there and drinking and
listening to music. The next morning when you got here,
where did you drive up to?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So yeah, I drove through here and it was about
i'd probably say year where this patch of green grass is,
maybe just after it that I've stopped. So I've obviously
noticed him as I've come around the corner, because his
(03:18):
red hair is really not that hard to miss.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
As Mikayla's walking us through the park, she tells us
that Cain would have been hard to miss. There was
his bright red hair, but there was also no small
bushes or shrubs in the place where Caine was found.
It's quite open. His eskie was still at the park.
It's the eski on the front cover of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Weird because I didn't notice him coming down this road.
I've come around here thinking I could drive closer because
I knew that they were over there, and yeah, and
I've come to probably about here. Yeah, so like roughly fifteen.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Maybe he's twenty meters.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Honestly, it's really hard to save the meters back to it,
but yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It was about here. While mcat is talking to our
producer about where she found Cain, I walk away to
see if I can notice anything else.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Because there was a dirt patch here that was there
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I noticed there's mounds of dirt like about knee high.
They look like makeshift speed bumps or bumps for motorbikes
or quad bikes that drive through this park.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, so he was about here, and the tire marks
had gone from here over there to like that mound
over there like that, and about where Jay is now
is where the marks were. Someone had stopped.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I had a lot of questions, and so did Makayla.
But one of my key ones was why would Caine
get up and leave his mates and walk over to
a dirt mound and then just lay down away for
the party.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I did think that, but I think maybe he
was just going somewhere. Maybe that was dark and out
of the light that was coming from the park through
there is that maybe he was like, you know, embarrassed,
or maybe he was on his way and he was
going to start walking down the road and he was
going to go home, like I don't know, but yeah,
(05:35):
like all these mates were just here, and you'd think
like if someone drove past there and seen him, they
would yell out and say, hey, you've got a friend
over here on the grass.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It was very dark.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So we've come down here multiple times at night and
it is dark, Like I cannot even walk here, Like
I would run straight into that table, like it's dark,
and I think the light from the playground it glares,
so it takes your vision away from the rest of
you know, the park, because it's just shining in your eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Back at the house with Mikayla, she told us what
that day felt like. As police started to arrive.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Obviously I was in shock, so I was just like
not you know, and then they were like, can you
please stand behind this and I'm like, I literally just
found him.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What do you think, Like I've already.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Been in there. What's the urgency, you know? And then
that's when all of the detectives and cop cars showed up.
I reckon that was about yeah, fifteen fifteen cars that
rocked up there, and that's when they started taking our statements.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The detectives that turned.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Up like were lovely, like really really good. So my
auntie sent her husband, my uncle he was there too,
straight to mum's house to let her know in person
and sort of over the phone. Before you know, everything
was on the news and it was, you know, the
whole of town's all new. And then my dad was
actually driving back from Mackay at the time and was
(07:19):
a couple a few hours off being home. And that's
when my uncle then drove to his work to meet
him at the yard because he was driving a truck.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And yeah, he basically told.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Him there and then drove him home. When I first
when we found him and we had realized that he
was dead, my my a really good family friend, was
actually walking past at that time, which was such a
crazy coincidence because it was like I found him, then
(07:54):
I run Katie and Jason. They turned up and then
we just look, we're all in panic, and we just
look over and her name's Deb Deb Stevens. She was
walking past and we yelled out to her for help.
I don't know what she was meant to help with,
but we were just like, you know, And she lived
just over behind the park, so not even twenty minutes
(08:17):
twenty or probably about thirty meters away was her house.
So she had actually walked past there to go to
the corner shop and was on her way walking back
and she was panicking saying she didn't even notice him
there and she had walked straight past that spot.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
We're going to speak to Mikayla's cousin shortly. She was
at the park that night. Mikayla told us that when
they went to the park to find Kane that same night,
no one could get hold of him on his phone.
They yelled out, tried to find him, but there was
no sign of him.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So they were there walking around all the areas around
the tennis court over to the horse club and they
couldn't find him. And yeah, it turns out that where
they were walking was so they were walking along the
tennis court and from the tennis court fence. He was
(09:19):
probably about like five six meters back from there, maybe
a little bit more, and they've just walked past him.
And because it was so dark, and the playground just
over the road had a big light, so it sort
of took away your vision, if that makes sense, Like
your eyes are so focused on the light over at
(09:42):
the playground that you can't really see much else. This
is where he was found here, so there's a garden
and rocks here, and then this is where he was found.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The tennis court's there.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
They were partying over here, and then when you come
down the road, you actually go around this little dirt
road around the community hall, and they were parked over here,
but there was one person seam driving in that way.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Caitlyn is Kane's cousin. She was eighteen when we spoke
to her last year, and she was there in the
park that night with Kin and her friend Kayla, who's
a year younger than her. Caitlyn and Kin were pretty close,
they were almost like brother and sister.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Me and Cain are around the same age where and
he was the only really person that I had. All
of my siblings, I had four and the second youngest,
which is Chloe. She's we're six years apart. So Cain was.
Me and Cain always stuck at the kids table together
when we used to go out to lunch or dinner.
(10:44):
So yeah, we were just always close. When we moved
here two and a half years ago and we became
a lot closer. He was one of my best friends.
He was like a brother to me. We fought like siblings. Yeah,
he was always there for me when I pretty much
had no one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Cain was.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
It's very important to me. I would always look after
him like I was younger, So I wasn't. I didn't,
you know, drink like he did or anything. So I
was always you know, when he had drunk too much
and he was in his bed or you know, he
greened out, I was always there with a cup of
water and everything, trying to help him, make like checking
on him, make sure he's okay.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
You heard Caitlin say that sometimes Kane greened out, and
I wanted to explain what this means. Greened out is
slang for someone that's had too much cannabis. Means the
person might have nausea and maybe vomit or maybe go pale,
which also has its own nickname. It might cause a
racing heart, anxiety, panic and confusion, or make someone super
(11:51):
sleepy or seen out of it. From the police report
on Caine's death, this was noted. There were interviews with
others that were in the park that night. These are
the police words from the report, but not their voice.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Through the statements, it was established Cain had consumed alcohol
and had smoked cannabis on the evening of the twenty
first of April twenty twenty three. He had been observed
to be heavily intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I think talking with Caitlin, I'll get a better picture
of what Cain was about. Because of their closeness in age,
she knew exactly what he was like.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
His friends were really good. There are really good people.
Cain was sort of a follower. So Cain did what
everyone else did. And that's when, like, you know, some
of us would have to step in and say, that's
not really like, you know, it's not a good choice
to make, whereas some of those boys didn't really care
about consequences where you know what I mean, because they
(12:49):
were also younger. So Cain was the oldest of the group,
so he was an adult when everyone else was like,
you know, still a teenager, still a child. So I
would always have to remind Cain, like, you're eighteen, they're seventeen.
You have bigger consequences than what they do. And yeah,
but all over, they were a really good friends to him,
and he loved them. He loved spending every day with
(13:10):
them and you know, doing that stupid stuff that they did.
So it was a Friday. I was at school for
the day and I had finished, obviously at two forty five.
When school finished, Caine's best mate, me and him were
(13:34):
talking like you know, getting together, and he picked me
up from school and we drove back out here, but
his car broke down, and then we've got someone pick
us up, and we made our way to the park,
sat at the park for a little bit, and then
I went home and another person that drove us home,
and Caine was at the front. He had walked in
(13:56):
with a ten pack of drinks or was it I
think it was the double Ones.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They're like the golden stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And I had kind of said to him, like, because
we weren't really allowed to have drink cups here anymore.
We used to like every single weekend, but Uncle Gary,
he used. We used to wake him up every single
every single night, he come out, what are he's doing?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Like?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
So we started to go to the park. Kan jumped
in the car with us, and this girl that was driving.
She dropped us off there and it was around roughly
five o'clock in the afternoon, maybe five point thirty. It
wasn't really a party. It was just more so that's like,
you know, where we went and seen our friends. It
wasn't like any everyone else that was there was just
that all lift out here. The park felt like a
(14:40):
very safe place at that time, if I'm being honest,
It literally felt like I was drinking in my own backyard.
It felt like the safest place ever. Me and Kane
used to sneak out every night without my mum knowing everything.
We used to go there and we just used to
just run them up, just sit there, you know, talking.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It just felt so safe.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And yeah, we were there that night and a couple
of people had come. Kayla was right about ten fifteen
people We were there drinking. Cain was smoking weed along
with the rest of his friends.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I was only drinking alcohol.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I had me and Calvin and Kayla and another one
of our friends had gone to Hungry Jacks and Kine
did not come with us. We were at Hungry Jack's
I think at nine thirty, and I think we got
back around like ten. I don't think we were there long.
When we had gotten back, I went up to Cain
(15:37):
and I just I was drunk. I was admitting how
much I love him and how much she means to me.
That was our last conversation. I had started to feel
a little bit sick, so I went and laid in
the car to you don't know, maybe I needed to vomit.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
About ten minutes of me sitting in the car, Kayla
come up to me and said that Kine was no
longer there. I went from being drunk and sick and
you know, couldn't even move, to jumping straight up and
acting like I didn't even have a sip of alcohol
that night, like like I was sober the whole night.
And I jumped up and my stomach had dropped, And
(16:18):
as I said before, I was I was very very like.
I used to always watch over Kane, what he was doing,
how much he had had, like but because myself I
didn't normally drink, so how much I had that night,
I wasn't able to, you know, look after both of us.
So I had jumped up and I had gone to
the group of friends and I asked them where Kane,
if anyone had seen where Cain was. And you know,
(16:41):
a lot of them, they do make jokes. And I
know that a lot of them are sorry now and
they have apologized, but a lot of them joked with
me saying that he's old enough, or that he's.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Dead in an alley, or.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You know, just made jokes like that. Like you know
that they were harmless jokes at the end of the day,
Like I know, none of them had meant that, like
they were just trying to, like, you know, stuff with me.
But I basically begged all of them to stand up
and come and help me. Look, just because I just
had a feeling, like I just I had knew something
was wrong Kine had. We have gone to the park
(17:16):
hundreds and hundreds of time and Kane has felt sick
and he has come and told me that he needs
to go home and I need to help him. And
every time I would help him get his eski and
everything together, and we would he would go sit in
the car and he'd wait until you know me and
Calvin ready to leave, like he wouldn't like just walk
off without anybody. And that's what kind of made me
feel ten times worse that no one knew and if
(17:38):
he was going to feel sick, he normally you know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I just yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Just that he was like there one minute and he
was like sitting like where he was sitting it was
like to of his friends and then him, so he's
like directly in the middle of them. And then I
don't know what I was doing. I must have got up,
walked off and then come back and he just wasn't there,
like his esk he was left there. Yeah, And I
come back and his squ was left there, one of
(18:07):
his like half drink and drinks was left there, and
I was just looking around. I was like, I said,
where's Cane. And they're like, oh, that's how they do.
So I don't know, not really worried.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I went looking for him. I called him about ten times,
I think, because I know for a fact that I
was calling his phone at ten eleven. That's really weird
that I remember that, But I remember that's when I'm
looking at my phone and for a couple months, my
phone history didn't delete, so I always I had that
on my phone.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I actually think it.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Was one of the first calls that I made to
him at ten eleven, when I went back to the
group the second time to ask him to help me,
and they kind of brushed me off again and told
me to sit down, and I took their advice, which
I deeply regret. Around ten thirty, we went to one
of our friend's house that was there that night. Everyone
(19:01):
left and I stayed there for about an hour by
just didn't feel like one hundred percent, like just not
knowing where he was. So we left and we dropped
everyone home, like three others, two others, three and I
came back here and I went straight into Cayne's room
and he wasn't here. And that's what kind of like
(19:24):
made my stomach like it was it wasn't right. So
I went and woke my mom up and got Mum
out of bed, and at this point it was I
don't know, maybe one o'clock in the morning, Me, Mum, Kayla,
and our other friend of center drove us down to
the park and we looked for him at the park everywhere,
(19:44):
and that was the point where Mum had Mikayla had
called Mum to tell us that his location where his
location was, and I went looking everywhere in that arena.
I looked in people's caravans, that the horse stable things
that maybe he'd you know, crawled into one of them,
thinking he did lack you know, I was screaming out
to him, kine you're being and stop fucking around, get up,
(20:07):
like all of that. And I think we looked until
about two thirty in the morning, and then it was
there was no sign of him. I think I had
called his phone twenty times that night until I think
it went out of I think it went flat, did it. Yeah,
(20:28):
I think I had called it enough for it to
go flat.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
The person you are calling is not available, but short message.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I Mum was sick that night with the flu, and
it was a very it was really cold. It wasn't
like cold, but it was like and it was a
really dark just night, and we had come home and
I said to the girls, we're going to set an
alarm at five o'clock in the morning to look for him.
And then by the time that alarm went off, it
(20:57):
was we were all just so bugged that, you know,
I just thought he's fine, like he's gonna be AKA.
He's probably just at a girl, because he did have
a I wouldn't say a girlfriend at the time. He
had someone out and here that he was kind of
had his eyes on, so I thought maybe he just
went to her house. Yeah, and then that's when Mum
(21:18):
walked in I think eight o'clock, yeah, around that time frame,
and came and woke us up.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
In the next episode of More to the Story, sometimes
seeing you just to let it go, but.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I don't want to regret that later that I did nothing, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I just my fear is that nothing's going to come
over it. But I have to try and prepare myself
that that might be the case.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But it's hard. It's hard.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
I was pretty sure that, you know, it was would
have been an accident because of how dark the.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Park was that police said.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
I just thought that they would have found who it
was with confiscating all the cars and everything and interviewing
all the kids. I just thought it would be within
that few days to a week tops tops.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And the police is saying he might not know he
ran over anyone. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, And that's what we
were upset about.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
We weren't just we weren't told anything about what's happening.
That's why I was just always wondering, like, what are
they doing. I know that they would be investigating it,
but what are they doing?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
We're just never told anything.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
So recently I had a friend admit to me that
he heard some kids from up Petlso bragging about running
over the Rupertswood
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