01x06 - Were She No Longer True

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(banging)

Farid: Jo!

(banging)

Jo, it's me!

(banging)

(doorbell ringing)

(banging)

jo, can you let me in?!

Jo, I know you're in there;

I see the lights.

Come on, jo!

Jo!

Jo, I just wanna know

that you're okay, please.

f*ck.

Officer:

Sir?

Farid:

Is everything okay?

- Is she hurt?

- Officer tisdale: Sir?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is jo okay?

- Stay back.

- Is she all right?

- Hey, sir!

This is private property.

No, this is my

girlfriend's house.

I'm just checking in on her.

I'm going to have to ask you

to vacate the premises.

You're not listening to me,

okay? She might be in danger.

She's not--

Listen to me, okay?

Somebody threatened her.

Okay? She could be hurt.

Okay? She could be--

Look, I got to talk to her.

- (banging on door)

- she's fine, mr. Matar.

What?

Ms. Quarry called us.

She told us

that her ex-boyfriend

Was outside the home,

threatening her,

Trying to get inside.

Would that be you?

(police radio chattering)

This is ridiculous.

Okay? I'm not leaving

until I talk to her.

Jo! Jo, please

This is officer tisdale

requesting backup

At 116 mcarthur road.

Jo! f*ck!

Tisdale: I'm going to

give you one last chance.

Jo, come on, jo!

Jo, it's me!

- Tisdale: Leave now!

- Jo!

Jo, come out! Please!

Tisdale: Hey!

I f*cking warned you.

(handcuffs clicking)

♪

(siren sounding in distance)

(traffic noises blaring)

Hey, it is

Wednesday, February 3rd.

My name is tom power.

My guest is farid matar,

who is the co-creator

And voice behind the hit

true crime podcast unsettled.

The first episode of

the second season, "briddus",

Debuts a week from today,

And it tells the story

of the chaffey murders,

Which took place in small-town

newfoundland in 1989.

Farid, thanks

for being here.

Thanks so much

for having me, tom.

I am very much not a fan

of true crime,

But I absolutely loved the first

season of your podcast.

Your storytelling is

beautiful, through soundscapes.

I couldn't stop listening.

Well, thank you.

That's so great to hear.

Um, my co-creator, jo, she does

all the foley work herself.

She's incredible.

You picked an

interesting story here,

The chaffey family - a couple

and their three children

Found brutally

m*rder*d at their home.

What happens to you when you

deal with a story like that?

Uh, it was challenging.

It was, uh

Hard fieldwork,

that's for sure.

Yeah, newfoundland

winters are not easy.

You never really know

what you're gonna get.

No, no. Yeah, but I'm really

happy we pushed through.

It was an important story

I really wanted to tell.

Why?

Why the chaffeys?

Well, initially, we were

interested in this phenomenon

That was spreading

throughout canada in the '80s.

- Oh yeah, satanic panic.

- Yeah,

And how it had the power

to ignite the average,

Rational thinking

person's imagination

So vividly that they would start

to believe in the occult,

In the devil.

Tom: Yeah,

I actually remember this

From when I was

growing up in st. John's,

There were people

who really believed

The devil was at work.

Farid:

Yeah, yeah.

And so, ordinary people are

suddenly finding

These spiritual reasons

for these different occurrences

That are happening

all over canada.

You know, they're treating

each other suspiciously,

They're scared.

And what we wanted to know

was, was this particular m*rder

That ruined a once

prosperous little town

Really the product

of satanism?

Tom:

And?

And

(sighing)

I think,

at the end of the day,

This is a story of a man,

Matthew chaffey,

Who k*lled his entire family

and then himself.

And we were way

more intrigued by this than

Superstition

and fantasy.

What drives a man to

annihilate his entire world?

To go against the very nature of

his being,

And end his own life?

It's the more

important conversation.

You know, it may have been 1989,

but this is relevant now,

And it's imperative that we

continue this discussion.

Tom:

Of mental health?

Yeah.

Mental health ignored.

Tom: Well, farid,

thank you so much for coming in.

Farid matar

is the co-creator and voice

Of the hit

true crime podcast.

It's called unsettled.

Farid matar

was my guest in studio.

(sobbing)

♪

(house phone ringing)

Martha (recorded:)

you've reached martha quarry.

- Leave a message.

- (phone beeping)

(classical piano playing)

♪

(classical piano playing)

♪

(classical piano

continues playing)

(phone vibrating)

Hello?

Jo:

I'm sorry.

Jo?

I overreacted.

You were only

trying to help.

I f*cked up.

Do you forgive me?

Jo, I

Jo:

I'm sorry.

I love you.

Farid:

I love you, too.

God, I miss you.

Oh my god, I miss you.

I have so much to tell you.

Farid:

How are you feeling?

Good. Better, I think.

(sighing)

I mean, I feel sad

for what happened to her.

Farid:

Your mom?

And rose.

Who's rose?

Farid:

She's my grandmother, farid.

She's my mother's real mother.

I figured it all out.

She was r*ped and it

triggered her schizophrenia,

And then she got pregnant,

And my family

didn't know what to do,

So they just put her in

a room upstairs in the attic,

And I found it. And then, they

took her baby away

And they gave it to her sister,

and they replaced it

With a f*cking doll,

and that baby

She was my mom.

And she was sick because

her parents were sick.

That guy,

that r*pist was sick, too.

And my poor mom

spent her entire life

Not knowing why

this was happening to her,

And her family

could have helped her.

They could have

given her some sort of peace,

But instead they just--

they just rejected her,

They just called

her crazy.

My god, she was so alone,

farid, just like rose.

And they both

k*lled themselves

Because they were sick

and they had no one.

- Farid: Jesus

- I know.

How do you know

all this?

My mom told me.

And rose.

My mom left me those tapes.

She could hear rose, too.

Farid:

Jo

I heard rose

hang herself.

I can show you the mark.

Can I come there?

Jo: Yeah.

Yes, come. Oh my god.

I can show you

my mom's tapes,

Everything that she put

together, and the room--

My god, farid,

I can show you the room.

I think that this

could be our next season -

My family, their crime,

the secret.

What do you think?

Farid:

I will

Be there

in the morning, okay?

Jo:

No, don't be silly.

Just finish up in

newfoundland and then come.

Hello?

I'm not in newfoundland, jo.

I'm back.

No, you're not.

I just spoke to you.

Farid:

We haven't spoken in a month.

Wait.

What are you talking about?

(farid inhaling sharply,

sighing)

Farid?

Farid: I came to the house

two weeks ago.

I knocked on the door

for ages.

You wouldn't come out.

You-you called the cops on me.

Wait.

What are you doing?

Farid: You told them

I was your ex-boyfriend

And that you were

scared for your life.

They said, if I didn't leave,

that they'd arrest me.

Jo, I didn't know

what else to do.

Jo, you still there.

♪

Jo?

(sighing)

♪

(door squeaking)

(breathing unsteadily)

(banging)

No!

No!

(breathing heavily)

(light buzzing)

(breathing shakily)

(crying)

(stairs squeaking)

(light buzzing)

- (buzzing stops)

- (gasping)

(footsteps approaching)

(breathing)

Rose?

- (gasping)

- (light buzzing)

- (bulb smashing)

- (jo crying out)

(banging)

(baby crying)

- (banging)

- (baby crying)

(jo hyperventilating)

(banging, door knob jiggling)

(banging)

(tape recorder clicking)

Martha (recorded:)

rose?

Mom?

I'm ready.

They took me from you.

A mother should be

with her child.

A mother should be

with her child.

(sobbing)

I love you, jo.

Goodbye.

(tape recorder clicking)

(pills rattling)

(soft music playing)

far in the valley shade ♪

I met a quiet maid ♪

flower of the hazel glade ♪

eil-- ♪

(music stops)

(footsteps approaching)

(door creaking)

Jo?

Jo?

Jo?

(stairs squeaking)

Hey, jo?

Jo, you here?

Jo, it's me.

Jo!

Jo!

Jo:

It's poison

These pills

they want me to take.

Medicine?

Poison.

It's them. I know it.

They want the house.

I saw them last night

and the night before.

They wait in the woods,

watching.

(fast forwarding tape

and stopping)

It's slipping from me.

I've lost control.

I go and I come back

I'm scared.

It's starting

to sink in -

My mother's sadness.

She gave me it,

Her hurt.

I was born

with her inside me.

I was destined

to repeat.

(floor squeaking)

Jo:

I had no choice.

(tape recorder clicking)

(birds singing)

You're going

to be okay, jo.

when, like

the early rose ♪

(car door shutting)

eileen ♪

aroon ♪

beauty in childhood grows ♪

eileen ♪

aroon ♪

when like a diadem ♪

(door shutting)

We set out tonight,

together,

On this mission,

And whatever the outcome,

Whatever we may

or may not find,

I would like us all

to remember

The strength that

always walks with us,

Strength that derives

from our faith,

And strength that,

If we allow it,

May conquer

all our fears.

Hold fast

to your faith.

♪

"I will not doubt,

though all my ships at sea

"come drifting home with

broken masts and sails;

"I shall believe

the hand that never fails

"from seeming evil

worketh good for me"

Search party:

Beth?

- Man: Beth?

- Woman: Beth?

Search party:

Beth?

- Man: Beth?

- Women: Beth?

"And though I weep

"because those

sails are battered,

"still will I cry,

"while my dearest hopes

lie shattered,

"I trust in thee."

♪

♪

Child: I love you, mommy.