Speaker 1: Hi, it's Allison. We have received numerous requests as to
Speaker 1: the next episode of The Lady Vanishers, but while we're
Speaker 1: on a break for the next little while, the team
Speaker 1: and I wanted to point you to another investigative true
Speaker 1: crime series produced by some of the same team behind
Speaker 1: The Lady Vanishers. Inside the Tribe is based on the
Speaker 1: story of a couple searching for a new beginning before
Speaker 1: they fall into a world of bizarre rituals and extreme
Speaker 1: beliefs under the influence of a charismatic leader. So who
Speaker 1: are the Twelve Tribes and how has their leader managed
Speaker 1: to build a global following unchecked for fifty years. Here's
Speaker 1: a bit of a taste of what's to come.
Speaker 2: Said.
Speaker 3: They know what they're doing is wrong, and that's why
Speaker 3: they keep it a secret.
Speaker 1: That's why they hide it. It's hidden.
Speaker 2: They were five hours grilling and grilling and grilling. I
Speaker 2: was exhausted, emotionally, spiritually, and I was thinking about my
Speaker 2: dear baby.
Speaker 3: So you would have said, oh, to listen to them.
Speaker 3: So I'm talking to you, is trying to take you
Speaker 3: away from the community from gone.
Speaker 4: And yes you are. Wow, I lots everything. My daughter
Speaker 4: was in the community, my dad's friends where they're in prison.
Speaker 5: Her dad, I said, stop lying to me, and I
Speaker 5: actually grabbed his shirt, held me fist up and said,
Speaker 5: where is she?
Speaker 3: Where is my wife?
Speaker 4: My only way to survive was going out and handing
Speaker 4: free peoples want to evangelize people and trying to recruit them.
Speaker 4: There prices change their hearts. So we have to run
Speaker 4: away from sin and walk and righteousness. And all I
Speaker 4: want to do is scream. These people just run, get
Speaker 4: the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2: If they construct a coffin for him, the chad in life.
Speaker 6: Mark didn't have a lot of time, but it was
Speaker 6: the most important job he'd ever been given, and he
Speaker 6: had to get it right.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's weird, you know, psychologically depressed.
Speaker 6: Once it was finished, they put the coffin in the
Speaker 6: back of the car and then they sat out that
Speaker 6: night to look for a place to bury the body.
Speaker 2: So Hahn, he drove me. He's one of the leaders.
Speaker 2: He drove me out.
Speaker 6: They headed west for two and a half hours down
Speaker 6: Highway thirty one, past Yandera and yerinbul over Long Swamp Creek,
Speaker 6: through Binda and Crooked Corner, and finally onto Bigger They
Speaker 6: turned down an unpaved road, then stopped, turned off the
Speaker 6: lights and got out of the car. They grabbed a
Speaker 6: shovel and carried the coffin into the bush.
Speaker 2: Well. We went out, located a spot which was quite
Speaker 2: away from the dwellings and things, in the middle of
Speaker 2: the bush because they got like a thousand acre provin
Speaker 2: So I'm in the middle of this forest type bush
Speaker 2: and basically dug a shallow grave because we couldn't dig
Speaker 2: very deep. Was it all very rocky and arch is.
Speaker 2: I know it'll be fine, you know, you don't dig
Speaker 2: it too deep.
Speaker 3: It's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen the boxing and put a rock over the box.
Speaker 2: There was no markings or anything, a grave site or anything.
Speaker 2: So that's how it was.
Speaker 6: Mark was exhausted.
Speaker 2: It was a terrible time. I felt so struelty. Were
Speaker 2: really there, like, I don't know, my heart, it's something right.
Speaker 6: Down and he parked his shovel in the ground, looked
Speaker 6: over at harm. Both men were silent, then.
Speaker 2: Made a prayer. I had a prayer, yeah, just proking
Speaker 2: for creating it. At that time, you know, I believe
Speaker 2: I was really whole hearted.
Speaker 6: They were quiet. On the drive home. Mark was still
Speaker 6: in shock, but even in that moment, he knew what
Speaker 6: they'd done was against the law, but it all happened
Speaker 6: so fast. Everything was moving too quickly. Within forty eight hours,
Speaker 6: he and his wife, Rose, and their three children were
Speaker 6: on the run.
Speaker 3: You you just sent somewhere as I said, you have
Speaker 3: to go, We have to go. They sent us away,
Speaker 3: the whole family. Why, well, the story was to protect us?
Speaker 5: What or who were they running from? And how did
Speaker 5: Mark and Rose, a perfectly normal couple from Sydney end
Speaker 5: up here. Mark thought that being a dad would be
Speaker 5: about teaching the kids how to surf and play music,
Speaker 5: about how to look after one another and be there
Speaker 5: for the people you love. At what point did his
Speaker 5: life take a turn down a rough country road in
Speaker 5: the middle of the night with a body in the
Speaker 5: back seat.
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