01 | Belinda
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Belinda Peisley's life descended into chaos after her 18th birthday when she received a big inheritance and bought her own place in Katoomba. Her family hoped the house would set her up for life but, instead, her new address became a magnet for a world of drugs and crowd of people who’d turn up at all hours.
Six months later, Belinda disappeared. In the months before she vanished, Belinda told her family she was scared — even that she wanted to change her identity and leave town — but they couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to hurt her.
Join reporter Gina McKeon as she travels to Katoomba to begin to understand what happened to Belinda Peisley.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Just a warning before we start. |
| 0:06.7 | This podcast contains some strong language and themes. |
| 0:10.0 | Blinder Peasley was 19 when she disappeared from a small town in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. |
| 0:18.0 | 20 years later, in December 2018, her dad, Mark Wern, got a phone call. |
| 0:24.0 | It was the police, asking Mark to meet at his missing daughter's house. |
| 0:28.0 | I met up with him on his way there. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you. Thanks. How's it going? Yeah. Bloody phone hasn't stopped. I'm sure. Pretty major announcements that I wasn't expecting. Yes, it surprised me. |
| 0:48.0 | Are you nervous? Are you feeling hopeful? How are you feeling? |
| 0:53.0 | Oh, pessimistically optimistic. |
| 0:56.4 | We've been down this path before, all the hopes and all the rest of it. |
| 1:00.6 | So we're just called into Bond Street. Here we go, television reporters everywhere right from the start. |
| 1:06.0 | So there's a big police squad car. |
| 1:19.0 | You seem, um, a bit agitated all of a sudden. Is that taking you by surprise? |
| 1:20.4 | Yes, the amount of people, the uh, particularly reporters that you see on television. |
| 1:25.0 | Okay. I'm just walking about the |
| 1:38.0 | how you're going to get home. How you doing for us? |
| 1:42.0 | Just walking about the front of Belinda's house. |
| 1:47.0 | There's a helicopter just above us that keeps circling around. There's trucks piled all up and down the street. |
| 1:51.0 | It's 20 years since Belinda vanished. |
| 1:53.8 | New South Wales police have been walking in and out of the house all morning. |
| 1:57.0 | Chief Inspector from the Homicide Squad. |
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