You're listening to the second and final part of unexplained season 9 episode 15, red dust. Red Dust.

A haze of smoke filled the harshly lit air of the interrogation room.

Harold Pinfold sat alone as he chained-smoked one three-five after another.

He fidgeted with the packet. He picked at a scab on his arm. He bit at his

nails. The man was clearly nervous and quite possibly in the early stages of opium withdrawal.

19-year-old Pamela Werner had been dead for over a week and Pin pinfold was the first real suspect, Inspector's

Han Xer Jung and Richard Dennis had had to work with. Having made little progress up till then,

Inspector Hahn's sweep of Beijing's infamous den of iniquity, the ominous bad land zone, had

finally borne fruit.

During door-to-door inquiries, a Russian landlady,

clearly rattled by the discovery of Pamela's body,

wasted little time in informing the attending officer that she just recently found a blood-stained dagger,

shoes and cloth in the room of a tenant of hers. The man was on further

investigation, revealed to be a Canadian called Harold Pinfeld. Pinfoldt was a deserter from the

Canadian army who'd acquired a criminal record in the United States before fleeing to China, where he

scratched a living working various

low-paid jobs. He was quickly apprehended and taken into custody for questioning. One officer at the

Beijing police station recognised him immediately as one of the rubberneckers that he'd seen at the crime

scene the day they found the body.

For hours, Pinfold refused to answer inspectors Hahn and Dennis's questions.

What was he doing at the crime scene, they asked?

What did number 27 on a street in the badlands named Tran Ban mean to him. The place was a known brothel. They'd found a

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