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Murder in the Masai Mara, Ep 3: The Search Party

The Daily T

The Telegraph

Society & Culture, News

4.1709 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

With Julie’s murderer still at large, attention focuses on the last man to see her alive and the head ranger of the Masai Mara game reserve. Reporter Katherine goes to Kenya herself to track them down and see if their recollections can help unlock the decades-old cold case. A previously unknown tip from a Masai elder emerges. Could this be the breakthrough the Ward family has been waiting for? 


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0:00.0

The Telegraph.

0:06.9

Hi Daily Tea listeners, Camilla and Tim here.

0:09.9

Throughout this week, we're bringing you a series from our investigations team,

0:13.5

the result of months of work by our colleague, Catherine Rushden,

0:16.9

who has been revisiting the cold case of the murder of Julie Ward.

0:20.9

Make sure to go back and listen to episodes one and two if you haven't already.

0:25.3

We've heard how 28-year-old Julie Ward was brutally murdered in Kenya's Masai Mara in 1988,

0:31.8

and how her father John faced years of obstruction in his attempts to uncover the killer.

0:37.2

Today, Catherine goes to Kenya herself to track down the last man to see Julie alive

0:42.2

and uncovers a previously unknown tip from a Masai elder.

0:46.9

This is episode three of Murder in the Masai Mara, the search party.

0:51.1

Music The Search Party.

1:10.0

Before we begin, I want to warn you that this series contains details that some listeners may find distressing.

1:17.5

As I've been working on this story, I've been drawing up a list of names.

1:26.2

People who knew Julie, who met her in Kenya, or who became involved with the investigation into her murder.

1:28.5

Then I try and track them down.

1:35.9

Please hang up and try again. That didn't sound good. Let me call her from this.

1:43.4

Sometimes it's just a matter of making a phone call. Hi Lucy. How are you? I'm very well, thank. Good.

1:44.8

So I'm part of the Telegraph's Investigations team and I'm looking at Julie's case.

1:50.6

But if they're not expecting me, I prefer to knock on their door.

1:54.7

It's all pretty standard fair in my job as an investigative journalist.

1:58.8

I spend hours, sometimes days,

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