Episode 6 - Dear Mr. Boston

Paradise

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dan travels to Oxfordshire to meet Penny and her mother, Audrey, who by now is in her nineties. He hears how Audrey and her late husband, Charles, painstakingly tracked down information about Chris and Peta's whereabouts and made appeals on radio and TV. Back in Greater Manchester, the now retired detective, David Sacks, talks about the investigation he conducted, with the help of Charles Farmer, that centred in on Silas Duane Boston. It's his file, sent to the US in 1979, that Boston's lawyer, Lexi Negin, says contained all the details necessary to frame her client. But were details in that file ever leaked? Dan tracks down the officer in the US who received it, Jim Kelly, to find out. It's in speaking to Jim Kelly that Dan learns a startling revelation that explains why the case went cold for so long. And it appears Vince and Russell's former step mum, Kathe, may hold the key to closing out Lexi's defence - or maybe there's another way of solving this case. Find out more about the case here: www.bbc.co.uk/paradise

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0:00.0	Episode 6 of Paradise contains strong language and some upsetting scenes.
0:05.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:10.0	Dear Mr Boston, it is perhaps useless to go over old ground, but both Peter's family and
0:17.0	ours have suffered a great deal as a consequence of some callous and cold-blooded killer. We can only hope that whoever is
0:26.1	responsible suffers in a similar manner and if he has children it is to be wondered what he would feel if such a monstrous fate
0:37.1	should befall his son or daughter.
0:40.3	I'm sure you will be as appalled as we are and will join in wishing that whoever is responsible
0:48.0	receives the torment of the damned.
0:51.0	We hope most fervently that he never has a moment of peace from his conscience
0:56.1	until he too comes to a violent and cruel death as his victims.
1:03.8	I suppose it's a bit of a threatening letter to have written.
1:07.4	I certainly don't feel very kindly towards Boston,
1:10.6	so I hope he took it as such. No matter where you go you go
1:29.0	You'll never have control
1:32.0	No one may. have control.
1:33.0	No one makes it out of life.
1:37.0	No one makes it out of life in paradise.
1:42.0	Since Stephen and I had come back from the US in May, we'd been busily contacting others involved in the case and chasing down leads.
1:50.0	We'd met the original Greater Manchester Detective David Sachs and spoken to the now retired officer at
1:55.7	San Rafael PD who interviewed Boston about the murders in 81, that's Jim Kelly.
2:01.5	But it wasn't until Penny's book, Dead in the Water, had finally come out in the
2:05.8	August that we could make arrangements to see her.
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