Episode 10: Families must go on after loss. For Mark and Faye Leveson, the journey to find Matt and give him a proper funeral was long and heartbreaking. Loren and the Levesons talk about how they both coped on their respective journeys.

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Episode 9: Court watchers, fair-weather friends, and dealing with the media, the Levesons experienced it all. When tragedies like Matt’s disappearance strike families, most are ill-equipped to deal with the aftermath. What have they learnt about justice?

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Episode 8: When Atkins revealed Matt’s burial site, Mark & Faye Leveson joined the search for their son’s remains in the Royal National Park in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire. In a dramatic moment right at the end of the third and final excavation, a bone was found.

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Episode 7: Under the protection of a Section 61 Certificate, which meant any evidence he gave couldn’t be used against him, Atkins told the court his version of the events the night Matt died. The most important question for the Levesons was: where’s Matt?

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Episode 6: Gary Jubelin took over the case, but the wheels of justice turn slowly; Matt had been gone for over eight years by the time the inquest began. It was then that the Levesons were offered a ‘deal with the devil’.: find Matt but Atkins goes free.

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Episode 5: When Michael Atkins walked away from court a free man, the Levesons were left in limbo because Matt was still missing. They kept up the search themselves, even buying a mattock like Atkins did, and digging in areas he could have buried Matt.

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Episode 4: Mark and Faye Leveson became disillusioned with the police, but finally Atkins was charged with Matt’s disappearance. 

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Episode 3: When police found Matt’s abandoned car and a Bunnings receipt for duct tape and a mattock purchased on the day Matt went missing, suspicion fell on Atkins. A search of his home was videotaped which meant important evidence was captured on film. 

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Episode 2: On Saturday 22 September 2007, Matt and his much older partner Michael Atkins went clubbing. After that night, Matt vanished, and his family began a frantic search. Atkins was strangely unhelpful until Mark and Faye forced him to go to the police. 

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Episode 10: It took five years for Halliwell’s trials to finish. By then, Steve Fulcher had left the police force, leaving behind the biggest question of all: When a killer confesses, do you listen?

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