Episode 1 - Welcome to Paradise

Paradise

BBC

Unknown

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In 1978 the bodies of a young male and female couple were found hogtied and drowned off Guatemala’s Caribbean coast. Nine months later they were identified as British graduates Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer. Police in Manchester, England quickly focused in on an American called Silas Duane Boston who had offered to sail Chris and Peta from Belize to Costa Rica on board his boat, the Justin B. Boston’s boat never reached Costa Rica and he fled back to California with his two young sons soon after the murders. So why did it take 38 years to arrest him – and how could he maintain his innocence when both his boys were telling the FBI they saw him do it? As 5 live journalist Dan Maudsley and BBC presenter Stephen Nolan investigate, this open and shut case only becomes more complicated. Find out more about the case here: www.bbc.co.uk/paradise

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Just to warn you, Paradise contains strong language and some upsetting scenes.
0:05.6	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:12.1	It's the 10th of April 1979.
0:15.0	Dental surgeon Gustavo Burgra-Reis is 180 miles from home
0:20.0	in a hot, humid cemetery in Porto Barrios Guatemala.
0:24.0	At 65 he's seen many teeth in his long career
0:28.0	but today he has a grim task to perform.
0:32.0	He's here in this quiet, shaded task to
0:35.0	identify the bodies of a young white couple
0:40.0	buried nine months before in two unmarked graves.
0:44.7	Gustavo observes the partially erupted right third molar on the man's lower jaw
0:51.5	and carefully notes it on his chart along with 16 amalgam fillings.
0:58.1	As the breeze picks up, he charts the woman's four missing molars and can't help but notice her abundant black hair.
1:06.0	Within ours, the police, 5,000 miles away in Manchester, England, will get the confirmation they expect.
1:15.2	Chris Farmer and Peter Frampton are no longer missing.
1:19.5	They've been murdered.
1:21.7	And there's only one suspect, Silas Duane, Boston.
1:27.0	To him, you know, it's no big deal to kill people.
1:32.0	Now that we're free to talk I would like to put the story out there.
1:36.0	He's bragged about it. Everybody in her family knew about it.
1:41.0	Dad was on the run. Next thing we knew, we had passports and we were on
1:47.2	our way to Belize. Chris and Peter, they wanted passage to a place called Royitan so they stayed on our boat for quite a lot longer than any of the other tourists.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.