63: Mystery in the Sounds (Ben Smart & Olivia Hope) | New Zealand (Part 2)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 8 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Marlborough Sounds hold one of New Zealand’s biggest mysteries: what happened to Ben Smart and Olivia Hope in the early hours of new year’s day 1998? Scott Watson, was behind bars for two counts of murder. He was convicted, even though no bodies were ever recovered, there was no crime scene and no murder weapon. Watson always proclaimed his innocence. Twenty years after that fateful morning, the mystery man might have been identified, as the final piece in this haunting puzzle. Or was it?

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0:00.0	Welcome to a world of Christmas celebration at Aldi. Six-pack deep-filled minced pies only £1. Good housekeeping taste approved winners too. Scallop Gratans only $3.99 and a large whole frozen British turkey from just 3.5 a kilo.
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0:18.2	Share the love this Christmas. You are listening to the evidence locker.
0:29.0	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials. It deals with true crimes and real people.
0:36.0	Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.
0:44.0	Please note. This is the second episode of a two-part case.
0:47.0	We recommend you listening to our episode, New Zealand Mystery and the Sounds Part 1,
0:52.0	before listening to Part 2.
0:54.0	The Marlboro Sounds hold one of New Zealand's biggest mysteries.
1:00.0	What happened to Ben Smart and Olivia Hope in the early hours of New Year's Day, 1998?
1:07.0	Picton Man, 27-year-old Scott Watson, was behind bars for two counts of murder. He was convicted, even though no bodies were ever recovered,
1:16.3	there was no crime scene and no murder weapon. But the presence of Olivia's hair on a blanket
1:22.0	from his yacht and some scratch marks on the hatch
1:24.8	of his cabin was enough evidence to get him locked up for life.
1:30.2	Watson always proclaimed his innocence.
1:32.6	Many people supported him and believed that his case is a huge miscarriage of justice.
1:38.1	Over the years, more and more people came to believe that he was innocent, and that police simply went after him because they needed
1:44.8	to close the case. But there was so much more to this case that solely counted on eyewitness testimony.
1:56.3	Memories faded, sometimes memories resurfaced. Twenty years after that fateful New Year's morning, new evidence came to light that
2:01.8	might have been the final piece in this haunting puzzle.
2:05.7	Or was it? And then Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Scott's father, is now in his 80s and in ill health.
2:47.6	He has dedicated the past 20 years of his life as an advocate for his son's innocence.
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