Steven Clark

The Missing

Darrell Brown

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if the police knocked on your door one day and told you they had just arrested your parents for your brother’s murder? That was the nightmare scenario facing Victoria Orr, whose beloved mother and father were taken into custody in September 2020, suspected of killing their own son. Steven Clark had vanished during a walk in the seaside village of Saltburn almost two decades earlier, when he was twenty-three years old. The media frenzy that followed is a textbook example of the modern true crime machine, as the authorities pushed, the media pulled and the Clark family found themselves at the centre of a story that threatened to swallow them whole.

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0:00.0	This season we're launching a new episode of The Missing every week, but if you don't want to wait, all episodes are currently available completely ad-free on what's the story crime. Signing up is really easy.
0:15.0	Just follow the link in our show notes.
0:17.0	You're guaranteed to find your new favorite true crime listen.
0:21.0	From con men to missing people, forensic investigations to miscarriages of justice,
0:27.0	what's the story crime is the home for all true crime fans who want bingeable, addictive, crime-based content. Most of us are brought up to trust the police.
0:55.2	We're told us children that if we're ever in distress and that our parents aren't around we should look for a policeman. But if
1:00.7	we find ourselves in a dangerous situation, the sound of sirens and the sight of blue flashing lights means help is at hand.
1:09.0	Don't ever talk to strangers, but you can always speak to the police.
1:15.0	That's how Stephen and Victoria Clark were raised.
1:19.0	In fact, they had more cause to place their faith in the authorities than most,
1:23.6	given that their parents, Charles and Doris, were former police officers themselves.
1:29.2	But one morning in September 2020, something, something happened, which forever changed the family's relationship with the authorities.
1:38.0	Victoria, now grown up in living in Northumberland with her husband and two young children,
1:44.4	heard a knock at the door. She excused herself from the conference call she was on,
1:50.1	and was greeted by the sight of two solemn-faced officers.
1:55.0	They asked her if she was Victoria or the daughter of Charles and Doris Clark.
2:01.0	She nodded, and the next words out of their mouths knocked her world off its
2:06.2	axis. They informed Victoria that her parents had been arrested. The reason they were suspects in her brother Stephen's
2:17.7	murder. The same brother who had vanished without a trace during a seaside walk with his mother almost three decades earlier.
2:30.0	I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to The Missing, a podcast series produced by What's the Story Sounds,
2:36.9	and brought to you with help from the charities Missing People and Locate International.
2:48.0	They believe that all of the cases in this series could still be solved. This is the missing. Stephen Clark.
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