A Messy Divorce - June 17 2025

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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June 17th: Simon Dale Born (1919) Divorce can be messy. But, as we hear time and time again, it can also sometimes be deadly. On June 17th 1919 a man was born who would find himself in the midst of a very messy divorce. One that, if police are to be believed, may have cost him his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the 90s, my friend and fellow journalist Tom Phillips
0:04.0	was at the center of the UK's dance music explosion.
0:07.0	By 2022, he had mysteriously disappeared
0:12.0	in one of the remotest parts of the Amazon jungle,
0:15.0	with his friend Bruno Pereira.
0:17.0	In 2025, so many questions remain. I'm Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.
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1:02.7	There were two more murders, 15 miles away. When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
1:06.1	We have a weird homicide.
1:08.9	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
1:12.6	A cup of murder...
1:14.6	Divorce can be messy, but as we hear time and time again, it can also sometimes be deadly.
1:22.1	On June 17, 1919, a man was born who would find himself in the midst of a very messy divorce, one that, if police are to be believed, may have cost him his life.
1:36.2	So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
1:43.5	Simon Dale was born on June 17, 1919, as Thomas Simon Savage Dale.
1:49.7	Raised in Richmond, Surrey, in a middle-class family,
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