4. He Upped and Vanished

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4.7 • 797 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As Gibney’s new life in the UK begins, a groundbreaking news article starts to take shape. The public are still unaware of Gibney’s past but this story could change that forever.

Credits

Reporter: Mark Horgan Produced and written by: Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy Co-Producer: Maria Horgan Research and fact checking: Killian Down Editing: Ciarán Cassidy Composer: Michael Fleming Sound mixing: Ger McDonnell

Theme tune by Aaron Dessner

Executive Producer for BBC: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Editor: Jason Phipps

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.2	This podcast refers to child sexual abuse
0:07.5	and contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting,
0:10.8	as well as some occasional strong language.
0:13.4	Episode 4, he upped and vanished.
0:17.6	Test, this is me talking, I'll be talking around this sort of level.
0:20.0	How you doing, Jennifer?
0:21.3	Blah. Yeah, it's all. It sounded really good, yeah.
0:23.3	Would we give it a go? Yeah. Okay.
0:28.6	Hello? So you did, used to work with him. You used to know him from one of the hotels.
0:36.6	Yes, I actually worked for one of the resorts.
0:40.4	He actually wanted the managers. If I'm not mistaken, they hired him as like a front desk manager, I guess.
0:48.0	Okay, well, listen, I've got so much that I'd like to talk to you about. So that's brilliant.
0:51.6	It might be best for us to talk about it when you meet up in the flesh. What do you think?
0:56.1	Yeah, that sounds great, hon. I love your accent, by the way.
0:59.3	Oh, well, thank you very much, Jennifer. Cheers. Thank you.
1:04.2	He had told me personally, because I had gone to the resort and he said, yeah, that he was planning this vacation, that he was going to
1:10.8	Puerto Rico for a few days, and he was planning on having fun and all this and that, you know,
1:15.5	we spoke a little bit about it. And then the time came, you know, my friend told me, hey,
1:23.4	you know, John never came back. He was supposed to come back yesterday or the day before or something.
1:29.0	And I was like, really? And she's like, yeah, they haven't been able to get a hold of him.
1:34.6	I don't know why I'm whispering, but, you know, that's how she was like, you know, they haven't been able to get a hold of him.
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