Georgia Hardstark
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4,112 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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You weren't her first rodeo. She was like, I know how this goes.
Yeah, that's right. The family searches the whole stadium and then they call the police. They the police are about 10 minutes after the game ends. But at that point, almost all the spectators leave. and potential witnesses have left.
Just all the missed opportunities to actually get ahead of this. Yeah. But the police do, thankfully, take it seriously. Immediately, they set up roadblocks in the areas surrounding the stadium. You know, everyone's pretty much left. And they begin an extensive search for the girls. Yeah.
Meanwhile, Rita, the grandmother of Kirstie, now has to call Kirstie's parents, who are out of town, along with their two-year-old daughter, Catherine, and say, like, your daughter, your four-year-old daughter's missing from me taking her to the game. Like, how... Horrible. Horrible.
So Kirstie's parents, Greg and Christine Gordon, immediately head back to Adelaide, which is about a three-hour drive. All night, searchers comb Adelaide and boats pass on the nearby river torrents with searchlights, and they turn up absolutely nothing. The next morning, the search continues. Police search the riverbank, divers search the river, and the river is even partially drained.
Meanwhile, as he aids in the search for his daughter, Joanne's father, Les, breaks down and passes out from grief. And no trace of the girls is found. The story becomes national news unless Joanne's father, he's really big and the whole family's like really big about getting the word out, public statements. They're just like devastated, obviously, and like don't ever give up.
And the story becomes national news. Descriptions of the girls are widely circulated throughout Australia. Police put out a call for information. And that's when a horrible narrative begins to emerge. So... A 13-year-old boy named Anthony Kilmartin had been working at the stadium on the day the girls were there. He was selling concessions in the crowd.
At the beginning of the third quarter, he saw what he sure was the girls come down the grandstand steps toward the ground level. Anthony then went into the concourse under the grandstands and saw the girls again on their way to the bathroom. This time, he thinks he saw them being followed by a man. Now, why would he remember this, you know, ordinary moment? It's because of what happens next.
He sees the man bend down and pick up four-year-old Kirstie. And then Joanne, 11-year-old Joanne, immediately reacts badly to this. He says Joanne starts chasing the man, grabbing at his coat and kicking him in the shins, just fighting him. The man calls Joanne a bitch and tells her to go away. And they scuffle. And while he's still holding Kirstie, the man's glasses get knocked off.
And when he bends down to pick them up, he also grabs Joanne by the arm and pulls her along as well. They all exit through the stadium's southern gate with Joanne still trying to fight this man off. And Anthony, it's 1973. Anthony's 13 years old. He thinks he just saw a father trying to get his daughters to leave when they don't want to.
And this is one of the things we talk about all the time is like, don't mind your own business. Now we know. Don't mind your business. Go figure out what's going on. If you're wrong, then you apologize and walk away. If you're not, great.
I know you feel so awkward, like, butting into people's business, especially when there's an angry person in the mix, you know? Not you, people in general. But, like, you'll never regret.
Yeah. That's so funny. I'm a butt-in person as well. You're not going to be surprised, but Janet, my mom, is a butt-in person.
But I definitely have made Vince uncomfortable before by being a butt-in person. Sure. That's not how you act. That's not what you do. Right. But you never know.
When you get told don't get involved, it's like you're already involved. Yeah. So see it out to the end. I mean. Carry pepper spray everywhere you go.
Can we have best friends necklaces that say confrontation friend on it? You're my best confrontation friend.
You need to be my wingman for the confrontation. Right. So this kid for the rest of his life, you know, has to live with knowing this. He witnessed. Yeah. He was traumatized by what he witnessed. But he didn't know. Yeah. So he yeah.
So he believes he had just seen a father whom he describes as a lanky man wearing glasses and a wide brimmed hat arguing with his two daughters who like maybe just didn't want to leave the game early. And he just goes about his day. He forgets about the whole thing until he hears about the girl's disappearance.
And once this kid Anthony reports this to the police, Joanne's family confirms that this is exactly how their 11-year-old daughter would react. She is known to be protective of other kids. She once hit another kid with a wooden plank because he was bullying her brother.
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