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I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. In July 28th, 1996, John Copic, a fisherman who regularly took his rig off the coast of South

Devon, was having a particularly bad day on the water.

His rig had been out for 10 hours and he had no luck with a good catch.

So Copic decided to go to a choppy, somewhat dangerous area of the English Channel,

an area locals called the ruffs.

They lowered their nets and waited, hoping to scoop up any fish they could from the murky

sea floor. But what they pulled up would not be fish. It was still compact and heavy. The body of a man with a long-sleeved shirt, brown shoes and pants with the pockets turned inside out.

Shocked, Copic and his men looked for any kind of wallet or identifying factor, but there was nothing.

Well, nothing but a small maple leaf tattoo on the victim's hand

and a near pristine Rolex watch on his wrist,

a gold Rolex oyster perpetual, to be exact.

Today we're talking about a confounding case, one that involves murder, incest, conspiracy, and Canada.

I know what you're thinking, don't you dare bring Canada into this? Well, we had to. I'm sorry.

Today in Ghost Town, we're talking about Albert Johnson Walker, known to history as the Rolex Killer.

Many fishermen are superstitious, thinking that hauling in a dead body could bring bad luck to

their boat.

More concretely, it would mean for fishermen John Koppec that he'd contaminate the meaker fish they'd caught, a full day's work lost.

But Koppek called the Coast Guard and informed them that they'd caught a dead man and they were

bringing him to the nearest station. At first examination authorities

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