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🗓️ 21 November 2025
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When Julie Ward vanishes mysteriously in the Masai Mara in 1988, her father begins a hunt for answers that stretches from a safari lodge in Kenya to MI6’s headquarters in London. The case was never solved.
Nearly four decades on, The Telegraph Deputy Investigations Editor Katherine Rushton pours over classified documents, interviews the people tangled in the case, and travels to Kenya to try to understand who tried to stop her murder being solved.
What happened to Julie Ward, why did the Kenyan authorities try to cover it up, and why were MI6 agents involved?
Murder in the Masai Mara: Coming Thursday 27th November.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Karamagugan here. I wanted to let you know about a new series I've been working on for most of this year. |
| 0:07.0 | It's called Murder in the Masaymara and I'm the executive producer. |
| 0:11.0 | I'll let my colleague Catherine Rushden tell you more about the story. |
| 0:18.0 | In the late 80s, a young Englishwoman called Julie Ward travelled to the Masaymara in Kenya and never came back. |
| 0:26.7 | The question of what happened to her has dominated her family's lives ever since. |
| 0:33.4 | What they initially thought was a tragic accident quickly unraveled into something much more menacing. |
| 0:40.3 | There's a murderer out, there somebody brutally murdered my sister. |
| 0:44.3 | Something's going on out there to make this not look like a murder. |
| 0:48.3 | Julie's father spent the rest of his life trying to find her killers. |
| 0:53.3 | And for the first time, I've got access to his entire investigation. |
| 0:58.9 | He, unusually for a family member, became really the lead investigator as well. |
| 1:06.1 | Murder in the Masaymara. |
| 1:08.4 | My search for what really happened to Julie Ward, why the Kenyan authorities |
| 1:13.2 | tried to cover it up, and what it had to do with Britain's secret service. |
| 1:19.0 | We had to make sure that we told the line. |
| 1:22.7 | This is a detectable crime. I mean, clearly there was a cover-up. |
| 1:30.0 | Murder in the Masai Mara. |
| 1:32.8 | Coming soon. |
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