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Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

Missing in the Amazon: the ambush – episode four

Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

The Guardian

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, recalls the moment that he and others on the search team found Dom and Bruno’s belongings in a hidden area of flooded forest. The team finally discover what has happened to the men

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:05.2

Hey, this is Michael Safi, host of The Guardians today in Focus podcast. This is a new feed where

0:10.6

you'll find all of the Guardian's award-winning investigative podcast series. Today, we're

0:15.1

bringing you episode four of missing in the Amazon. From now on, new episodes will appear in this

0:20.3

feed every Monday morning

0:21.8

for the rest of June. And just a warning, this episode includes swearing and descriptions of

0:26.8

violence. Hey, it's Babberton de Ileshi here. I've just got back from an epic road trip

0:34.8

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Best of all, you don't have to pick between the Causeway coastal routes and the Wild Atlantic Way.

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Explore everything Ireland has to offer at the Guardian.com forward slash tourism island.

1:00.0

This message was paid for by Tourism Island.

1:07.8

Previously on missing in the Amazon.

1:13.2

It became clear that Pilado had become a kind of a major poacher

1:20.8

who had gradually built up a business.

1:25.4

And then he said, he said, I saw Don and Bruno passing by. gradually built up a business.

1:35.2

This guy, he says, I saw Don Bruno passing by, and right behind them, he said there were these two men going after them.

1:38.0

Men I didn't recognize in a black speedboat.

1:44.4

There were these scratches on the trees,

1:47.5

these very specific marks.

1:51.0

The boat must have come crashing into the river bank

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