136: Dark Water 2: John Halford

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

John Halford, a married man of 25 years with 3 kids, goes on an expensive Egyptian cruise all by himself. When the ship docked at the port, John never came off the boat. Extensive searches couldn't locate him anywhere, but evidence shows he did return to his room late that night/early in the morning. So what would have made him leave again? And where did he go?
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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-44416338
https://www.cruiselawnews.com/tags/john-halford/
https://www.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/blog/2018/11/13/missing-husband-presumed-dead-in-egypt/
https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/2011/04/06/john-halford-passenger-cruise-ship-death-overboard-thomson-spirit-egypt/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2040248/Why-165-people-gone-missing-cruise-ships-recent-years.html

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jets.
0:07.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.8	And welcome to Corpus Delecti, the much anticipated return of dark water.
0:33.8	Ooh, dark water.
0:35.0	I'm excited.
0:36.0	Here we come.
0:36.9	So I hope y'all are excited.
0:38.1	I know we are.
0:39.5	The first story that we have, it is slightly short, but it's really interesting, and there's
0:45.5	lots to discuss about what could have happened.
0:48.6	So I think it's a good one to start off with.
0:50.8	I'm excited about this.
0:52.5	Yeah, we start our revisit with the disappearance
0:55.1	of a 63-year-old John Hoffford, and this happened back in 2011. John was a husband to Ruth, who
1:03.4	was 46. Now, he did father three children with Ruth, Lucy who was 20, Sophie who was 18, and
1:10.6	Connor, who was 17.
1:12.4	Now, John and his family lived in Buckinghamshire, where he was a bookseller full-time for
1:19.0	several years while Ruth was a medical secretary.
1:22.9	So he had just recently had an important job change. So he went from having this full-time salary
1:31.3	to just a commission-based salary. And that's really hard because if you have one off month
1:37.9	or, you know, an off-quarter, you're not getting paid as much. It's not a consistent source of
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