You are listening to the evidence locker.

Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.

It deals with true crimes and real people.

Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and

loved ones. July 28, 1996.

Fisherman John Koppick and his crew weren't having a great day of fishing off the south coast of Devon England.

They had already been going for 10 hours when they decided to go to an area where they rarely fish, known to locals as the roughs.

They waited their nets down to scoop up fish from the sea floor, but they had found much more than they had bargained for. From the onset, they felt that whatever they were pulling up was not a shoal of fish. They knew the tugs and pulls of a Shull of fish.

They knew the tugs and pulls of a captured shoal.

Instead, there was the weight of a single heavy item,

perhaps a porpoise.

As they hauled the nets up to the side of the boat, they were stunned.

What they had pulled out of the English channel was indeed the body of a man.

He was fully dressed in trousers and a long sleeve shirt and was wearing brown shoes.

His pockets had been turned inside out. If he did have a wallet or identification on him,

someone had made sure it had been removed.

The fishermen were hesitant to haul in the dead body as it could bring bad luck to their

boat.

Seaman are notoriously superstitious and even those who aren't won't gamble the fate of their livelihood.

The crew had to decide.

They released him back into his watery grave and drag him along until they were done for the day or should they take him into the harbor?

This meant their fish would be condemned and the crew would lose a day's wages.

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