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Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

110. The Doe Roberts Disappearance

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

True Crime, Comedy

4.3922 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A strange kidnapping case in Tennessee leaves the FBI scrambling for answers.

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at lauraandiain@bbc.co.uk

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:06.7

A group of men ran in with machetes.

0:09.8

I'm Livy Haydock, and from BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 live, this is gangster.

0:16.7

The story of Georgie Pye.

0:19.2

The scene of the killing near a Chinese bookshop is being flooded with detectives.

0:23.1

Welcome to the world of the triads.

0:25.6

If the triads are coming out of you, you're done.

0:27.5

Where loyalty is sworn in blood.

0:30.9

Gangster.

0:31.8

The Story of Georgie Pye.

0:33.6

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.5

We're in a small town called Eads, which can be found on the outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee.

0:41.5

It's the evening of the 7th of August 1992, and 65-year-old Alan Roberts is arriving home from work.

0:48.4

He parks his car in the garage next to his wife's, as usual.

0:51.2

As he steps out of the car, something catches his eye.

0:53.7

There's a stack of

0:54.3

post on a shelf next to the cars. That's weird he thinks. His wife must have got distracted while

0:59.1

bringing it from the post box. He grabs it and takes it inside. Closing the door behind him,

1:04.1

he calls out for his wife. Her name is Martha Yudora, but friends and family call her Doe

1:09.0

for short. Doe, he shouts, I'm home.

1:12.0

There's no response.

1:13.4

He walks further into the house, calling for Doe.

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