03 | The Hunting Ground
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A chilling visit to bushland where abducted hitch-hikers are taken. In the days and weeks after Trudie’s disappearance, a series of women come forward to the police telling similar, terrible stories about being targeted by two men on the northern beaches.
At least 14 women have been abducted while hitchhiking or walking home. They are taken out to bushland, sexually assaulted and warned not to tell anyone. They don’t... until Trudie disappears. Many wonder if what happened to them had also happened to Trudie.
The shadows of the bush are about to give up secret horrors... gunshots, a grave and an assault so depraved it could only have been committed by a criminal monster.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Trudy Adams disappeared in June 1978 and her disappearance set something in motion because in the days and the weeks afterwards |
| 0:18.4 | other women began to come forward. One by one they approached police, all telling a similar terrible story. |
| 0:32.0 | It turns out for years young women on the northern beaches had been targeted. |
| 0:38.8 | They were kidnapped while hitchhiking or walking home, driven to a hidden spot of bushland, blindfolded and raped. |
| 0:51.7 | The place they were taken is a half hour drive away from the coast, into a national park, |
| 0:57.0 | an isolated spot where they could hear the sound of high voltage power lines in the distance. |
| 1:07.0 | Just you can kind of hear them humming. |
| 1:12.0 | I mean on one hand it's you know a beautiful peaceful woodland on a balmy night but |
| 1:19.0 | the second that you start to think about the sorts of things that happened here, you get a completely different feeling. |
| 1:26.0 | Even the drive here was a bit scary. You go down these little bumpy dirt tracks, you're very quickly out of street lamps, out of houses, there's nothing around. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, you go from the main road to feeling really isolated really quickly and that's pretty scary |
| 1:49.1 | It's really sick to think about the way that they saw this area as a hunting ground to pick up young girls who |
| 1:57.0 | were just trying to get home. |
| 1:58.0 | You know, it's a really calculated way of attacking women and it doesn't happen that often but it was happening often around here you know it was happening |
| 2:12.1 | regularity it was happening to lots of women. |
| 2:15.0 | It's exactly what you're taught to be scared of as a girl that |
| 2:20.0 | men who you don't know can spring out of nowhere and abduct you and rape you and you know that's |
| 2:26.6 | what you're scared of that's exactly what you're scared of when you're a teenage girl or |
| 2:30.9 | you know any age woman that's the nightmare that's the total fear. Oh, This is Unravelled. Our season 2 story is Baron Joey Road. |
| 3:11.3 | I'm Ruby Jones and I've been trying to find out what happened to Trudy Adams. |
| 3:16.0 | She was 18 when she went missing. |
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