EP3: What Happened to Kirsty Maxwell?
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Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
With no communication from the the Spanish police, Kirsty's family and friends turn detective and return to Spain to carry out their own investigation. They also get a call from one of Scotland's most experienced homicide detectives, who tells them he wants to help.
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This podcast is a factual exploration of the events surrounding the death of Kirsty Maxwell. The information presented is based on publicly available sources, official records and interviews. No accusations or assumptions are made about any individual or party. The intent is to inform and appeal for information. All individuals are considered innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:05.5 | Please use discretion. |
| 0:07.4 | Just a note before we get started. |
| 0:10.1 | This podcast is a factual exploration of the events surrounding the death of Kirsty Maxwell. |
| 0:17.1 | The information presented is based on publicly available sources, official records and interviews. |
| 0:24.5 | No accusations or assumptions are made about any individual or party. |
| 0:30.4 | The intent is to inform and appeal for information. |
| 0:35.6 | All individuals are considered innocent and less proven otherwise in a |
| 0:40.4 | court of law. In July 2017, three months after Kirsty Maxwell fell to her death in Benadorm, |
| 0:48.6 | Spain, her family travelled to the country to start an investigation of their own after hitting a wall of |
| 0:55.5 | silence from the Spanish police. They were also there to track someone down. Someone who had taken a |
| 1:04.6 | photo of Kirsty's uncovered body and sold it to the Spanish press. I'm Naomi Channel and this is episode three of |
| 1:15.2 | what happened to Kirsty Maxwell. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm the I'm I'm I'm I'm The Can you imagine your daughter has fallen from a 10th floor balcony in suspicious circumstances |
| 2:11.3 | and someone's first thought was to take a picture of her body and sell it |
| 2:16.9 | and for an editor to agree to publish it. |
| 2:21.9 | Last year, when One Direction Starly and Payne fell from his hotel balcony, his family were also |
| 2:28.4 | subjected to the same pain. The English press, thankfully, didn't print the image, but of course it was circulated online. |
| 2:38.7 | It's difficult to comprehend why anyone would do this, but Kirsty's family wanted to speak to this person, |
| 2:46.4 | not to berate them for the callous thing that they did, but to find out what else they had seen, |
| 2:53.0 | could this person be a significant witness? So they travelled to Benadour, still consumed by grief, |
| 3:01.5 | they found the strength to go on and start an investigation of their own. No parent should ever have to investigate their own child's death. |
| 3:10.8 | But the Spanish police weren't telling them much. |
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