Murder of Ronald Platt - 479

The Generation Why Podcast

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True Crime, Case, Trial, Conspiracies, 855520, Government, Unsolved, Society & Culture, Missing Person, Controversy, Exhibit C, Serial Killer, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Conspiracy

4.6 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

July 28th, 1996. Devon, England. A fisherman discovered a body in the English Channel near Devon, England. The man had no identification, but he was wearing a Rolex watch. Rolex records identified the man as Ronald Platt. The police discovered that his cause of death was drowning, but had no idea how he ended up in the water in the first place. After further investigation the police learned there was another man calling himself Ronald Platt, who had stolen Ronald’s identity and likely murdered him to keep him from going to the authorities.

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0:30.0	Hi, Junson.
0:37.0	Hi, Dan.
0:40.0	Oh, man.
0:41.0	I'm feeling a lot better now, Justin.
0:43.0	What happened?
0:44.0	Oh, I just opened a little something from Wondry.
0:47.0	We're still celebrating our 10 years of podcasting.
0:50.0	They sent us some beer.
0:52.0	I don't drink beer, but that's okay.
0:54.0	Oh, man.
0:55.0	I'm feeling a lot better now, Justin.
0:57.0	What happened?
0:58.0	I don't drink beer, but that's okay.
1:00.0	I'll give it to somebody who will appreciate it more than I will.
1:03.0	Good stuff.
1:04.0	What are you drinking?
1:05.0	A dark logger.
1:06.0	But shout out to Wondry and all who work there.
1:10.0	Everyone on the ad-op steam, because they're the ones that have to deal with me all the time.
1:16.0	And we're going to celebrate our 10-year anniversary with an event in our own hometown of Kansas City, right?
1:24.0	And one of the things we could have done is we could have just done a show where you and I go out and we talk and do highlights of the years.
1:31.0	And we're still planning to do that.
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