This is a Global Player Original podcast.

A quick note, this episode contains some strong language.

You know when you have a problem and it's just ricocheting around your brain.

You're turning it over and over, but it's eating at you and you just can't get rid of it,

no matter what you do, especially when you know that there's an answer, it's just that you can't

quite grasp it. This is exactly where Detective Zane Ulhuk found himself at the start of 2018,

with the unlikely pair of James Parker and Stephen Boys.

I entered the hotel lobby, look around, look at the bar, there's Mr Parker.

I knew what you were saying was absolute nonsense.

He'd padded around.

He'd managed to meet them.

Heard James' baffling claims of having 500 Bitcoin.

Parker had said his Bitcoin was legit.

Zane knew he was lying.

But more than that, nothing.

And as the months went on, it was still rolling around his head.

It was such an intriguing case, and I was so frustrated,

not kind of getting to the bottom of it.

I was still trying to unpick exactly what happened.

And you know, I can sympathise here because being a copper is a little bit like being a journalist,

a lot like it, actually. You can hang around asking asking questions you can stick your nose as far as you can into

where people don't want it and at the end of the day you can still find nothing but if i have learned

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