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Kidnap for ransom: The search for Muriel McKay (Pt 2)

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1969, 55-year-old Muriel McKay, the wife of a Sun newspaper executive, was abducted for a million-pound ransom. She was killed, but her body was never found, and two men were jailed for her murder in the country’s first conviction without a body. 


But more than fifty years on, what happened to Muriel remains a mystery, and the McKay family have been desperate for answers. Their quest for the truth brings them face to face with Muriel’s killer.


This is the second part of a two-part investigation into the case. Listen to Part 1


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0:33.0

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1:10.0

So we're here in a really idyllic corner of Hertfordshire. This is the farm where we think

1:21.2

Muriel is buried. This is where she was held when she'd been kidnapped. Muriel Mackay was kidnapped in 1969 in a case of mistaken identity.

1:41.0

Before we get back to that farm and the search for Muriel 55 years later, here's a quick

1:48.2

reminder of part one of this podcast, although if you haven't heard it, then do go back and listen.

1:54.1

We heard how Muriel's husband had come home one day in late December to find his wife gone.

2:09.0

For the next six weeks he and his children were frantically manning the phone, waiting to hear from her

2:17.2

kidnappers. On the slender chance that somebody who was responsible for removing your mother from this house might be watching.

2:24.8

What would you want to say to them now?

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