Mark Palmer

The Missing

Darrell Brown

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we cover the unusual case of Mark Palmer, a construction worker from Bedfordshire, who vanished in 2019 whilst working overseas in the town of Ontinyent, Spain.

Mark was last seen by his colleagues at 10:30am on the morning of April 27th, a Saturday. Mark had a history of going AWOL for up to 24 hours at a time, so when he failed to return on Sunday, they weren’t immediately concerned. By the time Monday rolled round, there was still no sign of him, so they called the police.

This episode hears from Mark’s sister Claire, who explains her brother’s long history of mental health issues and how they may have played a factor in his disappearance. She talks about travelling to Spain with her husband and the rest of Mark’s family and how within a matter of hours she went from studying for a PHD, to coordinating a sprawling search effort with dozens of volunteers.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	A word of warning before we begin.
0:03.4	This episode of The Missing features references to drugs as well as drug addiction.
0:08.8	If you or anyone you know is currently battling drug addiction, you can find some helpful someone in our lives who, although they're physically present, feel mentally a hundred miles away, almost like they're adrift.
0:35.6	When you can see them, touch them, have long conversations with them even,
0:41.3	but you can't shake the feeling that they're waging a private war inside themselves,
0:47.3	the depths of which will never truly be able to comprehend.
0:51.3	Claire often felt that way about her little brother Mark. Growing up, Mark always felt
0:58.2	like he was different. He had always had trouble with focus and containing his emotions,
1:03.8	so it's perhaps unsurprising that he was eventually diagnosed with ADHD. When he entered adulthood, Mark seemed unmoored, perennially
1:14.4	unsure of what was next for him. His family did their best to help him navigate the often
1:20.5	choppy waters of life, hoping that with each and every conversation, dinner or phone call,
1:26.6	they'd help him to remember that there were people
1:29.3	who cared about what happened to him,
1:31.5	who wanted nothing more than for him to be happy.
1:36.1	And then one day, in April 2019,
1:39.6	when he was working abroad in Spain,
1:42.1	Mark stopped picking up the phone, and he's been missing ever since.
1:49.0	I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to The Missing, a What's the Story original podcast
1:55.0	series brought to you with the help of the charities missing people and locate international.
2:06.7	They believe that all of the cases in this series could still be solved.
2:10.9	This is the missing, Mark Palmer.
2:20.5	Mark grew up one of four siblings in Bedfordshire.
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