Introducing… Answers For Claudia
Carrie Jade Does Not Exist
Audio Always
4.4 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Introducing… Answers for Claudia, a new true crime podcast from the producers of Carrie Jade Does Not Exist. Listen to the first six episodes of Answers for Claudia for free, wherever you get your podcasts.
15 years ago chef Claudia Lawrence went missing. Multiple men have been arrested - then released. Several lakes near her home were emptied in the search for her body. Claudia has never been found. Now her mother has asked for help.
Tom McDermott is the journalist who 80 year old Joan Lawrence asked to help her, saying this might be her last chance for answers. Tom has spent the past year immersed in Claudia’s friendship group, speaking to people in Malton and Heworth where Claudia and her family lived, but something isn’t right - even now people are frightened. Why?
Now Tom looks for answers - speaking to the people who knew Claudia best, exploring the persistent rumours surrounding the case and asking why, 15 years after Claudia’s disappearance, are the people of Malton still so scared of the truth?
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| 0:00.0 | 15 years ago a British woman vanished without trace. |
| 0:04.0 | Claudia Lawrence was a seemingly happy and thriving 35 year old chef who disappeared in March 2009. |
| 0:10.0 | There was no crime scene, no footage ever been taken, and crucially, no body was ever found. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Tom McDermott and in this new podcast I worked with Claudia's mom, Joan Lawrence, now 80 years old, and what she describes as her |
| 0:25.5 | last chance to find answers. We'll ask, why are the people of Claudia's hometown still so afraid |
| 0:31.2 | to talk about it? Explore the theories that haunt the case and |
| 0:35.1 | hear some of the secrets surrounding Claudia's life. Join me as I embark on my |
| 0:39.6 | mission to help Joan finances on a journey that took me to some very unexpected places. |
| 0:45.0 | Here's a preview of episode one. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Tom McDermott, a journalist from North Yorkshire born and raised in York. |
| 0:53.0 | Wherever you're from in the world there's a few things you might know about York. |
| 0:58.0 | It's an ancient city with Viking and Roman roots. |
| 1:01.0 | It has a cathedral and picturesque cobble streets and quirky |
| 1:04.9 | shops which make it really popular with Harry Potter fans. Even a chocolate |
| 1:09.1 | factory and ancient city walls. If you're from the UK there's something else that jumps to mind |
| 1:14.8 | when you mention York. Claudia Lawrence. It's now been 43 days since |
| 1:20.3 | Claudia Lawrence, the 35-year-old chef from York, vanished without trace. |
| 1:25.0 | But on this fifth anniversary, the investigation is still active. |
| 1:29.0 | It is exactly 10 years to the day since Claudia, a chef at the University of York, |
| 1:34.0 | disappeared on her way to work. |
| 1:36.0 | Claudia's disappearance is a pivotal story around here. |
| 1:40.0 | She went missing 15 years ago on the 18th of March 2009, failing to report for her 6 a.m. shift as a chef for the University of York. |
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