Episode 8 – You Better Belize It

Paradise

BBC

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As Dan heads to Belize, hopes of finding Chris and Peta’s graves in Guatemala fade with new information about the lengths the FBI went to in their attempts to find them. We meet Orlando, Dan’s Belizean fixer, who seems to know everybody in Belize by name as we begin to follow Chris and Peta’s steps. Peta’s letters start to come to life as we trace people and places she mentioned in her letters 40 years before. Very few locals seem to remember Boston – but a visit to the factory Peta write about in her letters leads to a breakthrough in the investigation and Orlando’s experience as a mechanic proves pivotal. Penny joins us in Belize to see some of the places her brother experienced on his travels with Peta in ’78 – before a memorable meeting in Belize City with Vince – the first time they have met. On board a near replica of the Justin B, Vince reconstructs the entire attack. The episode ends with a conclusion to one of the podcast’s biggest questions – but a possibly bigger one remains.

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0:00.0	Episode 8 of Paradise has strong language and some upsetting scenes.
0:05.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:09.0	B.
0:10.0	Hey speaking.
0:14.3	Hello there, Dan Woodley here.
0:16.0	Oh hi, how are you?
0:17.0	Hello, very well, very well.
0:18.8	I just wanted to update you because Penny's book, you may or may not have got to this part, but there's an
0:24.8	account in here in terms of the FBI search for the graves. So essentially
0:29.8	although it does seem that the FBI didn't call the pastor Gary they did though have the
0:36.1	letter so it's still some bit odd that they didn't actually call him however it does seem
0:41.5	they went to quite some lengths to try and locate the gravestones.
0:45.7	I'll sort of paraphrase here, but it says knowing the approximate barrier location,
0:50.5	the FBI offered a thousand dollar award to any cemetery worker willing to join in the
0:55.0	search.
0:56.6	The consultant with the head of the cemetery.
0:59.4	They used that very rough map, which I showed you.
1:03.2	It says the task of finding them was to prove extremely difficult because the crosses it says here
1:07.9	had long gone.
1:08.9	Either blown away with the impacts of the frequent hurricanes or removed by human hand.
1:14.0	Now it says the search was greatly hampered by the fact that many additional bodies have been buried
1:18.6	at the site since 78th and essentially it's saying it's very chaotic, it's in swampy ground,
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