Introducing 'Inside the Tribe'

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, it's Allison. We have received numerous requests as to
the next episode of The Lady Vanishers, but while we're
on a break for the next little while, the team
and I wanted to point you to another investigative true
crime series produced by some of the same team behind
The Lady Vanishers. Inside the Tribe is based on the
story of a couple searching for a new beginning before

(00:22):
they fall into a world of bizarre rituals and extreme
beliefs under the influence of a charismatic leader. So who
are the Twelve Tribes and how has their leader managed
to build a global following unchecked for fifty years. Here's
a bit of a taste of what's to come.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Said.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
They know what they're doing is wrong, and that's why
they keep it a secret.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's why they hide it. It's hidden.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
They were five hours grilling and grilling and grilling. I
was exhausted, emotionally, spiritually, and I was thinking about my
dear baby.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
So you would have said, oh, to listen to them.
So I'm talking to you, is trying to take you
away from the community from gone.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
And yes you are. Wow, I lots everything. My daughter
was in the community, my dad's friends where they're in prison.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Her dad, I said, stop lying to me, and I
actually grabbed his shirt, held me fist up and said,
where is she?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Where is my wife?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
My only way to survive was going out and handing
free peoples want to evangelize people and trying to recruit them.
There prices change their hearts. So we have to run
away from sin and walk and righteousness. And all I
want to do is scream. These people just run, get
the fuck out of here.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
If they construct a coffin for him, the chad in life.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
Mark didn't have a lot of time, but it was
the most important job he'd ever been given, and he
had to get it right.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I don't know, it's weird, you know, psychologically depressed.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Once it was finished, they put the coffin in the
back of the car and then they sat out that
night to look for a place to bury the body.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
So Hahn, he drove me. He's one of the leaders.
He drove me out.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
They headed west for two and a half hours down
Highway thirty one, past Yandera and yerinbul over Long Swamp Creek,
through Binda and Crooked Corner, and finally onto Bigger They
turned down an unpaved road, then stopped, turned off the
lights and got out of the car. They grabbed a
shovel and carried the coffin into the bush.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well. We went out, located a spot which was quite
away from the dwellings and things, in the middle of
the bush because they got like a thousand acre provin
So I'm in the middle of this forest type bush
and basically dug a shallow grave because we couldn't dig

(03:51):
very deep. Was it all very rocky and arch is.
I know it'll be fine, you know, you don't dig
it too deep.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, listen the boxing and put a rock over the box.
There was no markings or anything, a grave site or anything.
So that's how it was.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
Mark was exhausted.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
It was a terrible time. I felt so struelty. Were
really there, like, I don't know, my heart, it's something right.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Down and he parked his shovel in the ground, looked
over at harm. Both men were silent, then.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Made a prayer. I had a prayer, yeah, just proking
for creating it. At that time, you know, I believe
I was really whole hearted.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
They were quiet. On the drive home. Mark was still
in shock, but even in that moment, he knew what
they'd done was against the law, but it all happened
so fast. Everything was moving too quickly. Within forty eight hours,
he and his wife, Rose, and their three children were
on the run.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
You you just sent somewhere as I said, you have
to go, We have to go. They sent us away,
the whole family. Why, well, the story was to protect us?

Speaker 5 (05:15):
What or who were they running from? And how did
Mark and Rose, a perfectly normal couple from Sydney end
up here. Mark thought that being a dad would be
about teaching the kids how to surf and play music,
about how to look after one another and be there
for the people you love. At what point did his
life take a turn down a rough country road in

(05:37):
the middle of the night with a body in the
back seat.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
This is Inside the

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Tribe, available now wherever you get your podcasts.