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Corpus Delicti

181: Foreign Fatalities: Gareth Williams

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.4608 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A man is found dead inside of a duffel bag. They say he took his own life, but he was locked inside the bag, from the outside, with the key inside the bag with him. No fingerprints were found on any of them. How is this possible?

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57448396
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56158160
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/20/gareth-williams-spy-mi6
https://www.the-sun.comI/news/3134754/clues-spy-in-bag-gareth-williams-dna/
‘Body-in-a-bag’ MI6 spy: Was he killed by secret service after uncovering money laundering? — RT UK News

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone is Jen and this is Lindsay.

0:26.5

And this is Corpus Delicti the podcast. Welcome back. We are still chuging along with our foreign fatalities.

0:33.5

Yeah. And we have a very intriguing one this week. Jen sent this one early on and was like, oh my gosh, we have to do this because it's just so wild.

0:43.5

So we're really looking forward to discussing this one with you guys.

0:47.6

So you want to kick us off, Jen?

0:49.3

Absolutely.

0:50.0

This week's story is sold by the police to the public as a suicide.

0:55.5

It is a story of a bright young man at the peak of his health and about how his job

1:00.8

could have been contributing to his death.

1:04.4

So it definitely might have played a factor.

1:07.9

The media and law enforcement, they were really kind of at odds with each other

1:13.0

to control the narrative around the victim, which is Gareth Williams. At the end of the day,

1:19.9

this part is non-disputable. Gareth was found naked, folded in a north Face bag with the two zippers on the outside,

1:30.3

padlocked, and placed inside of a bathtub.

1:34.0

Do we have your attention yet?

1:36.4

Hope that we do, because that is very interesting, especially since Jen said that it is sold

1:42.8

as him taking his own life. So Gareth Williams

1:46.5

was a Welsh mathematician born on September 26th of 1978. His parents were Ian and Ellen Williams

1:55.5

and they also had a daughter, Sari, who would become a physiotherapist, and they raised their children to speak

2:03.8

Welsh as their first language. Gareth attended primary school between Valley and Holyhead in Wales,

2:11.6

and his teachers remembered that he was a really good student. He had a tendency towards math,

2:17.4

and there are reports that when he was first really good student. He had a tendency towards math. And there are reports that when

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