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48 Hours

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True Crime, News Commentary, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 2005, aspiring actress Ashley Barnett took a cruise vacation with friends and her boyfriend to celebrate her upcoming 25th birthday. By the time the ship returned to its home port, Ashley was dead, and the questions of what happened were only multiplying. “48 Hours" Correspondent Bill Lagattuta reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 6/9/2007. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I was a teenager, a girl went missing from my hometown, Blackpool. Her name was Charlene
0:07.0	Downs. And the story of what happened to her is not what it seems. 22 years after Charlene
0:13.9	went missing, I want to try and uncover not just the truth about what happened to her, but the
0:19.5	lies too. I'm Nicola Thorpe and this is Charlene.
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0:59.0	She was just one of these kinds of people that literally the minute she walked into the room,
1:13.6	she filled the room up.
1:16.6	You know what was wonderful about her was that she was refreshingly unaware of how pretty she was.
1:25.6	She was a gorgeous, gorgeous young woman. of how pretty she was.
1:32.3	She was a gorgeous, gorgeous young woman. My name is Jamie Barnett.
1:34.3	I'm the mother of Ashley Barnett.
1:41.3	She wanted to be an actress.
1:48.0	She didn't want to just make a living being an actress. She wanted to be a very successful actress.
1:52.0	She wanted to be on that red carpet one time.
1:58.0	That girl had talent, and she had the looks, she had the personality.
2:02.6	My name's Ali Tweest and I'm Ashley's best friend.
2:06.6	She had the professionalism.
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