Hey there, Binders! Welcome back to another week, another serving of Bingeed. And yeah,

I know our podcast is called Binge, but we like to ration things and give you the option of

either pacing yourself or gorging, you know. We're all about conscious indulgence over here.

If you're coming straight out of the water from last week's episode, don't towel off just yet,

because we're jumping back into the sea yet again with one more seawater drenched crime case

from the European coastline. This time, off the coast of England in the waters between the UK

and France. So it was July 28, 1996, a beautiful summer day off the coast of Bricsham with a

nearly cloudless sky above the English Channel. John Copic was a commercial fisherman by trade,

and he was out on the water in his fishing boat that afternoon, together with his son.

They began reeling in their trawling net, and they could feel by the weight of it that they

were bringing in a lucrative bounty. As the net drew closer, they began to see how productive this

trawl had been. The net was full of bass, and even what was apparently a much larger catch.

Maybe a dolphin they thought? They pulled the net into the boat eager to inspect their catch,

but the large animal they expected would be a creature of the sea, turned out to be a creature

of the land. It was a human being, a dead man. For a moment, they considered throwing the body

back into the water because they knew that if they brought the body back to the mainland and reported

it, they'd also have to discard the entire catch along with it and lose a day's worth of wages.

But they ultimately decided to do the right thing. They returned to shore and summoned the police.

By this point, it was early evening. The first to arrive at the port was Detective Constable

Ian Clenahan, who was working a late shift and was the only on-duty officer working the criminal

investigation department, or CID at the time. Clenahan followed the fisherman and his son down to

their boat to look at the body. The dead man was fully clothed, but he had no wallet and no

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