Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jay Slater (Archive Episode)

Hell and Gone

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday June 17, 2024, Jay Slater, a 19-year-old bricklayer’s apprentice who lived in Lancashire, England was on his first ever foreign holiday. And he seemed to be having a blast.

He had gone to the island of Tenerife in Spain with a female friend named Lucy and a guy named Brad. That night he and Lucy went out to a music festival called New Rave Generation. It was held at Papagayo Beach Club, along a strip called Veronica’s Strip that has a ton of nightclubs and neon signs.

It was there he met two British men and somehow they made a plan to go on to their Airbnb.

The next morning, Lucy got one last frantic call from Jay just after 8 am, saying he was lost, didn’t know where he was, and was panicked. He never showed up again.

So was Jay kidnapped and murdered, did he wander off into the wilderness or did something else happen to him?

This case is wild. It has exposed the seedy underside of this island and the criminal underworld that are operating there, including drug lords and mobsters dubbed the timeshare killers. And everyone from police detectives to psychics and TikTok stars have descended on this tiny island in the Canaries to find a young man who was partying and vanished without a trace right in the middle of an island full of tourists.

If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you can reach out to the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:06.8	School of Humans.
0:09.9	Helen God Murder Line actively investigates cold case murders.
0:13.4	In an effort to raise public awareness, invite witnesses to come forward, and present evidence
0:18.6	that could potentially be further investigated by law enforcement.
0:22.4	While we value insights from family and community members, their statements should not be
0:26.9	considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts inherent in cold cases.
0:33.0	We remind listeners that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
0:38.7	Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted
0:43.6	of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. Thanks for listening.
0:49.0	On Sunday, June 17, 2004, Jay Slater, a 19-year-old bricklayers apprentice who lived in Lancashire,
0:57.4	England, was on his first ever foreign holiday.
1:01.0	And he seemed to be having a blast.
1:03.3	He had gone to the island of Tenerife in Spain with a female friend named Lucy and another
1:07.6	guy named Brad.
1:09.3	That night, he and Lucy went out to a music festival called
1:12.1	NRG, New Raid Generation. It was held at Papagayo Beach Club in an area called Veronica's Strip.
1:20.2	It's an area that has a ton of nightclubs and neon signs. It's very popular with British tourists.
1:26.6	According to the information that Lucy posted later on a GoFund meet,
1:30.3	they had a great time that night.
1:32.3	Jay had just finished his course at technical school back in the UK.
1:36.3	He was getting ready to take his exams when he got home, so they were blowing off some steam.
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