Cathryn Holdsworth

The Missing

Darrell Brown

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we examine the strange case of Cathryn Holdsworth, a 72 year old woman from Illingford, Halifax, who was last seen in her local supermarket on September 9th, 2017 and has been missing ever since.

Cathryn’s disappearance was reported by her neighbour Martina, who after speaking with the police, used the spare key Cathryn had left with her to enter her home. Martina and her husband searched it from top to bottom and soon realised that not only was Martina there, no one had been for some time.

This episode hears from Martina, as well as Holly Lynch, former MP for Halifax, who was Cathryn’s local representative back in 2017. Holly took a personal interest in Cathryn’s case and the issue of older, vulnerable people in her community in general. In 2023, Holly brought Cathryn’s story to Westminster, highlighting her disappearance during a debate in Westminster Hall.

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0:00.0	More than 170,000 people go missing in the United Kingdom every year.
0:16.0	The vast majority will turn up safe and sound within 24 hours.
0:21.6	Those that don't, the ones who become the long-term missing,
0:26.6	rely on their families and loved ones to keep the search alive.
0:32.6	But what if you're in a situation where close relationships, familial or otherwise, are in
0:40.4	short supply? An elderly person, for example, whose spouse has passed away or who lives alone?
0:49.2	If you don't have people in your life who you connect with on a regular basis. Who's going to look for you when
0:56.4	you're gone? That was the case for Catherine Holdsworth, who was 72 years old when she went missing
1:03.8	from her home in the village of Illingworth, Halifax, in 2017. Or so you might have thought. Because despite Catherine's reclusive nature,
1:16.7	or the fact that she lived alone, she'd made an impression on the people in her local community,
1:23.9	a greater one than perhaps she ever realised.
1:28.3	When Catherine suddenly stopped appearing in her usual spot,
1:32.3	sitting in her favourite armchair, in the front window of her home,
1:37.3	her neighbour, Martina, took notice, and she immediately raised the alarm.
1:45.0	Martina's telephone call to the police was the first in a series of events that triggered
1:51.0	the investigation into Catherine's disappearance, culminating with her case being highlighted
1:58.0	on the national stage by her local MP.
2:03.2	I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to The Missing,
2:07.4	a What's the Story, original podcast series, brought to you with the help of the charities
2:13.3	missing people and locate international. They believe that all the cases in this series could still be solved.
2:24.0	This is The Missing, Catherine Holdsworth.
2:31.4	I'm Holly Lynch and until the recent general election, I was the member of Parliament for Halifax.
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