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The ambulance just went past, Yeah the lights on but no sirens and turned into that street down there, like it's a bit of a walk, but it's not that bad, it says Ring Road.

And then yeah, this ride up here is Progress Road, so this is yeah, the only road in.

But as we come up closer, there is yeah, a lot of easement areas that you can drive through.

So like through here is all this bush land and that all comes out onto other roads.

That's Kane Moore's sister, Mikhayla.

She was only twenty three when she found a brother dead in a park in the outskirts of Townsville and North Queensland.

I was driving along here and I actually didn't see him at the end of the road here until I've gone around that building over there, the community hall.

We're driving back to the park with Mikayla.

It's a park that used to hold fond memories of teenage hangouts, but now it just holds a lot of sadness.

Yeah, past the playground and I knew that, you know, over there in that little shack area near the tennis court was where they normally drink.

I've gone right here and at this point, I didn't actually see him over there.

I don't know how I didn't, but God, So you can see the marks here of where people used to drive in, like along here, and then they would just drive to there and park.

Yeah, just around that shack area.

So someone coming in from all the way over there where the tennis court is is not usual.

Yea.

So there's an easement going, a little easement going down there and comes out on a road.

So, as I said, there are so many different easements that come out.

So that night came and his mates would be hanging out around that little heart over there and drinking and listening to music.

The next morning when you got here, where did you drive up to?

So yeah, I drove through here and it was about i'd probably say year where this patch of green grass is, maybe just after it that I've stopped.

So I've obviously noticed him as I've come around the corner, because his red hair is really not that hard to miss.

As Mikayla's walking us through the park, she tells us that Cain would have been hard to miss.

There was his bright red hair, but there was also no small bushes or shrubs in the place where Caine was found.

It's quite open.

His eskie was still at the park.

It's the eski on the front cover of the podcast.

Weird because I didn't notice him coming down this road.

I've come around here thinking I could drive closer because I knew that they were over there, and yeah, and I've come to probably about here.

Yeah, so like roughly fifteen.

Maybe he's twenty meters.

Honestly, it's really hard to save the meters back to it, but yeah.

It was about here.

While mcat is talking to our producer about where she found Cain, I walk away to see if I can notice anything else.

Because there was a dirt patch here that was there for a long time.

I noticed there's mounds of dirt like about knee high.

They look like makeshift speed bumps or bumps for motorbikes or quad bikes that drive through this park.

Yeah, so he was about here, and the tire marks had gone from here over there to like that mound over there like that, and about where Jay is now is where the marks were.

Someone had stopped.

I had a lot of questions, and so did Makayla.

But one of my key ones was why would Caine get up and leave his mates and walk over to a dirt mound and then just lay down away for the party.

Yeah, I did think that, but I think maybe he was just going somewhere.

Maybe that was dark and out of the light that was coming from the park through there is that maybe he was like, you know, embarrassed, or maybe he was on his way and he was going to start walking down the road and he was going to go home, like I don't know, but yeah, like all these mates were just here, and you'd think like if someone drove past there and seen him, they would yell out and say, hey, you've got a friend over here on the grass.

It was very dark.

So we've come down here multiple times at night and it is dark, Like I cannot even walk here, Like I would run straight into that table, like it's dark, and I think the light from the playground it glares, so it takes your vision away from the rest of you know, the park, because it's just shining in your eyes.

Back at the house with Mikayla, she told us what that day felt like.

As police started to arrive.

Obviously I was in shock, so I was just like not you know, and then they were like, can you please stand behind this and I'm like, I literally just found him.

What do you think, Like I've already.

Been in there.

What's the urgency, you know?

And then that's when all of the detectives and cop cars showed up.

I reckon that was about yeah, fifteen fifteen cars that rocked up there, and that's when they started taking our statements.

The detectives that turned.

Up like were lovely, like really really good.

So my auntie sent her husband, my uncle he was there too, straight to mum's house to let her know in person and sort of over the phone.

Before you know, everything was on the news and it was, you know, the whole of town's all new.

And then my dad was actually driving back from Mackay at the time and was a couple a few hours off being home.

And that's when my uncle then drove to his work to meet him at the yard because he was driving a truck.

And yeah, he basically told.

Him there and then drove him home.

When I first when we found him and we had realized that he was dead, my my a really good family friend, was actually walking past at that time, which was such a crazy coincidence because it was like I found him, then I run Katie and Jason.

They turned up and then we just look, we're all in panic, and we just look over and her name's Deb Deb Stevens.

She was walking past and we yelled out to her for help.

I don't know what she was meant to help with, but we were just like, you know, And she lived just over behind the park, so not even twenty minutes twenty or probably about thirty meters away was her house.

So she had actually walked past there to go to the corner shop and was on her way walking back and she was panicking saying she didn't even notice him there and she had walked straight past that spot.

We're going to speak to Mikayla's cousin shortly.

She was at the park that night.

Mikayla told us that when they went to the park to find Kane that same night, no one could get hold of him on his phone.

They yelled out, tried to find him, but there was no sign of him.

So they were there walking around all the areas around the tennis court over to the horse club and they couldn't find him.

And yeah, it turns out that where they were walking was so they were walking along the tennis court and from the tennis court fence.

He was probably about like five six meters back from there, maybe a little bit more, and they've just walked past him.

And because it was so dark, and the playground just over the road had a big light, so it sort of took away your vision, if that makes sense, Like your eyes are so focused on the light over at the playground that you can't really see much else.

This is where he was found here, so there's a garden and rocks here, and then this is where he was found.

The tennis court's there.

They were partying over here, and then when you come down the road, you actually go around this little dirt road around the community hall, and they were parked over here, but there was one person seam driving in that way.

Caitlyn is Kane's cousin.

She was eighteen when we spoke to her last year, and she was there in the park that night with Kin and her friend Kayla, who's a year younger than her.

Caitlyn and Kin were pretty close, they were almost like brother and sister.

Me and Cain are around the same age where and he was the only really person that I had.

All of my siblings, I had four and the second youngest, which is Chloe.

She's we're six years apart.

So Cain was.

Me and Cain always stuck at the kids table together when we used to go out to lunch or dinner.

So yeah, we were just always close.

When we moved here two and a half years ago and we became a lot closer.

He was one of my best friends.

He was like a brother to me.

We fought like siblings.

Yeah, he was always there for me when I pretty much had no one.

Cain was.

It's very important to me.

I would always look after him like I was younger, So I wasn't.

I didn't, you know, drink like he did or anything.

So I was always you know, when he had drunk too much and he was in his bed or you know, he greened out, I was always there with a cup of water and everything, trying to help him, make like checking on him, make sure he's okay.

You heard Caitlin say that sometimes Kane greened out, and I wanted to explain what this means.

Greened out is slang for someone that's had too much cannabis.

Means the person might have nausea and maybe vomit or maybe go pale, which also has its own nickname.

It might cause a racing heart, anxiety, panic and confusion, or make someone super sleepy or seen out of it.

From the police report on Caine's death, this was noted.

There were interviews with others that were in the park that night.

These are the police words from the report, but not their voice.

Through the statements, it was established Cain had consumed alcohol and had smoked cannabis on the evening of the twenty first of April twenty twenty three.

He had been observed to be heavily intoxicated.

I think talking with Caitlin, I'll get a better picture of what Cain was about.

Because of their closeness in age, she knew exactly what he was like.

His friends were really good.

There are really good people.

Cain was sort of a follower.

So Cain did what everyone else did.

And that's when, like, you know, some of us would have to step in and say, that's not really like, you know, it's not a good choice to make, whereas some of those boys didn't really care about consequences where you know what I mean, because they were also younger.

So Cain was the oldest of the group, so he was an adult when everyone else was like, you know, still a teenager, still a child.

So I would always have to remind Cain, like, you're eighteen, they're seventeen.

You have bigger consequences than what they do.

And yeah, but all over, they were a really good friends to him, and he loved them.

He loved spending every day with them and you know, doing that stupid stuff that they did.

So it was a Friday.

I was at school for the day and I had finished, obviously at two forty five.

When school finished, Caine's best mate, me and him were talking like you know, getting together, and he picked me up from school and we drove back out here, but his car broke down, and then we've got someone pick us up, and we made our way to the park, sat at the park for a little bit, and then I went home and another person that drove us home, and Caine was at the front.

He had walked in with a ten pack of drinks or was it I think it was the double Ones.

They're like the golden stuff.

And I had kind of said to him, like, because we weren't really allowed to have drink cups here anymore.

We used to like every single weekend, but Uncle Gary, he used.

We used to wake him up every single every single night, he come out, what are he's doing?

Like?

So we started to go to the park.

Kan jumped in the car with us, and this girl that was driving.

She dropped us off there and it was around roughly five o'clock in the afternoon, maybe five point thirty.

It wasn't really a party.

It was just more so that's like, you know, where we went and seen our friends.

It wasn't like any everyone else that was there was just that all lift out here.

The park felt like a very safe place at that time, if I'm being honest, It literally felt like I was drinking in my own backyard.

It felt like the safest place ever.

Me and Kane used to sneak out every night without my mum knowing everything.

We used to go there and we just used to just run them up, just sit there, you know, talking.

It just felt so safe.

And yeah, we were there that night and a couple of people had come.

Kayla was right about ten fifteen people We were there drinking.

Cain was smoking weed along with the rest of his friends.

I was only drinking alcohol.

I had me and Calvin and Kayla and another one of our friends had gone to Hungry Jacks and Kine did not come with us.

We were at Hungry Jack's I think at nine thirty, and I think we got back around like ten.

I don't think we were there long.

When we had gotten back, I went up to Cain and I just I was drunk.

I was admitting how much I love him and how much she means to me.

That was our last conversation.

I had started to feel a little bit sick, so I went and laid in the car to you don't know, maybe I needed to vomit.

I don't know.

About ten minutes of me sitting in the car, Kayla come up to me and said that Kine was no longer there.

I went from being drunk and sick and you know, couldn't even move, to jumping straight up and acting like I didn't even have a sip of alcohol that night, like like I was sober the whole night.

And I jumped up and my stomach had dropped, And as I said before, I was I was very very like.

I used to always watch over Kane, what he was doing, how much he had had, like but because myself I didn't normally drink, so how much I had that night, I wasn't able to, you know, look after both of us.

So I had jumped up and I had gone to the group of friends and I asked them where Kane, if anyone had seen where Cain was.

And you know, a lot of them, they do make jokes.

And I know that a lot of them are sorry now and they have apologized, but a lot of them joked with me saying that he's old enough, or that he's.

Dead in an alley, or.

You know, just made jokes like that.

Like you know that they were harmless jokes at the end of the day, Like I know, none of them had meant that, like they were just trying to, like, you know, stuff with me.

But I basically begged all of them to stand up and come and help me.

Look, just because I just had a feeling, like I just I had knew something was wrong Kine had.

We have gone to the park hundreds and hundreds of time and Kane has felt sick and he has come and told me that he needs to go home and I need to help him.

And every time I would help him get his eski and everything together, and we would he would go sit in the car and he'd wait until you know me and Calvin ready to leave, like he wouldn't like just walk off without anybody.

And that's what kind of made me feel ten times worse that no one knew and if he was going to feel sick, he normally you know.

I just yeah, it was.

Just that he was like there one minute and he was like sitting like where he was sitting it was like to of his friends and then him, so he's like directly in the middle of them.

And then I don't know what I was doing.

I must have got up, walked off and then come back and he just wasn't there, like his esk he was left there.

Yeah, And I come back and his squ was left there, one of his like half drink and drinks was left there, and I was just looking around.

I was like, I said, where's Cane.

And they're like, oh, that's how they do.

So I don't know, not really worried.

I went looking for him.

I called him about ten times, I think, because I know for a fact that I was calling his phone at ten eleven.

That's really weird that I remember that, But I remember that's when I'm looking at my phone and for a couple months, my phone history didn't delete, so I always I had that on my phone.

I actually think it.

Was one of the first calls that I made to him at ten eleven, when I went back to the group the second time to ask him to help me, and they kind of brushed me off again and told me to sit down, and I took their advice, which I deeply regret.

Around ten thirty, we went to one of our friend's house that was there that night.

Everyone left and I stayed there for about an hour by just didn't feel like one hundred percent, like just not knowing where he was.

So we left and we dropped everyone home, like three others, two others, three and I came back here and I went straight into Cayne's room and he wasn't here.

And that's what kind of like made my stomach like it was it wasn't right.

So I went and woke my mom up and got Mum out of bed, and at this point it was I don't know, maybe one o'clock in the morning, Me, Mum, Kayla, and our other friend of center drove us down to the park and we looked for him at the park everywhere, and that was the point where Mum had Mikayla had called Mum to tell us that his location where his location was, and I went looking everywhere in that arena.

I looked in people's caravans, that the horse stable things that maybe he'd you know, crawled into one of them, thinking he did lack you know, I was screaming out to him, kine you're being and stop fucking around, get up, like all of that.

And I think we looked until about two thirty in the morning, and then it was there was no sign of him.

I think I had called his phone twenty times that night until I think it went out of I think it went flat, did it.

Yeah, I think I had called it enough for it to go flat.

The person you are calling is not available, but short message.

I Mum was sick that night with the flu, and it was a very it was really cold.

It wasn't like cold, but it was like and it was a really dark just night, and we had come home and I said to the girls, we're going to set an alarm at five o'clock in the morning to look for him.

And then by the time that alarm went off, it was we were all just so bugged that, you know, I just thought he's fine, like he's gonna be AKA.

He's probably just at a girl, because he did have a I wouldn't say a girlfriend at the time.

He had someone out and here that he was kind of had his eyes on, so I thought maybe he just went to her house.

Yeah, and then that's when Mum walked in I think eight o'clock, yeah, around that time frame, and came and woke us up.

In the next episode of More to the Story, sometimes seeing you just to let it go, but.

I don't want to regret that later that I did nothing, nothing, nothing.

I just my fear is that nothing's going to come over it.

But I have to try and prepare myself that that might be the case.

But it's hard.

It's hard.

I was pretty sure that, you know, it was would have been an accident because of how dark the.

Park was that police said.

I just thought that they would have found who it was with confiscating all the cars and everything and interviewing all the kids.

I just thought it would be within that few days to a week tops tops.

And the police is saying he might not know he ran over anyone.

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, And that's what we were upset about.

We weren't just we weren't told anything about what's happening.

That's why I was just always wondering, like, what are they doing.

I know that they would be investigating it, but what are they doing?

We're just never told anything.

So recently I had a friend admit to me that he heard some kids from up Petlso bragging about running over the Rupertswood