Murder in the Masai Mara, Ep 2: Go Home
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The Telegraph
4.1 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The authorities insist Julie killed herself, but father John refuses to believe it. An altered post-mortem prompts him to take matters into his own hands. When a team of British cops is dispatched to Kenya, hopes are high that they can solve the riddle of Julie’s murder/death. How did her jeep end up nine miles from her body? What are those strange marks on her leg? And who forged her signature in a nearby guesthouse?
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:07.1 | Hi Daily Tea listeners, Tim and Camilla here. |
| 0:10.2 | Throughout this week, we're bringing you a series from our investigations team, |
| 0:14.0 | the result of months of work by our colleague Catherine Rushden, |
| 0:17.4 | who has been revisiting the cold case of the murder of Julie Ward. If you missed episode |
| 0:22.7 | one, make sure to go back and listen to that first. It details how 28-year-old Julie was murdered |
| 0:28.8 | while on a trip of a lifetime to Kenya in 1988. In today's episode, Catherine begins to uncover |
| 0:35.2 | some of the bizarre explanations that were offered up after |
| 0:38.9 | Julie's murder and the shocking cover-up that tried to stop her father John from getting to the |
| 0:44.3 | truth of what had happened. This is episode two of that some listeners may find distressing. |
| 1:19.6 | Sometimes when someone dies, you know what's happened straight away. |
| 1:23.9 | Other times, the story has to be pieced together. |
| 1:31.5 | Fragments of evidence collected and inspected from different angles. They're held up to the light like grim gemstones until their rough-hewn plains point towards the truth. This was the |
| 1:40.8 | task facing Julie Ward's father, John. |
| 1:50.1 | Almost as soon as he discovered his daughter's remains, |
| 1:53.5 | strange narratives started to take hold. |
| 1:57.6 | Like that she'd taken her own life. |
| 2:00.3 | That got mum's hackles up straight away. |
| 2:02.2 | She wouldn't commit suicide. Julie loved being out there. That got mum's hackles up straight away. She wouldn't commit suicide. |
| 2:04.2 | Julie loved being out there. |
| 2:05.7 | That hasn't happened. |
| 2:11.3 | But the seed had been sown and the suicide story continued to spread. |
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