The Jessie Earl story: The family pain of an unsolved murder
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Features writer for The Sunday Times Rosie Kinchen examines what it's like to live through the ordeal of losing your daughter and never getting the recognition of what exactly happened.
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Guest:
Rosie Kinchen, Features writer for The Sunday Times.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Clips used: ITV news, Police Scotland.
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| 0:00.0 | I sometimes used to wonder, what would I do if one day one of my daughters just disappeared? |
| 0:13.7 | It happens. |
| 0:15.5 | I asked them if they did public appeals and things like that and they said that in those days |
| 0:19.5 | that just didn't really happen. |
| 0:21.4 | And then, what would I do if it took nine years to find her? |
| 0:25.5 | Their first instinct was something very strange has happened here. |
| 0:28.4 | This is not a normal death. |
| 0:30.2 | And then, when her poor body's been found, the police appear to not want to acknowledge |
| 0:35.9 | that she may have been murdered. |
| 0:37.5 | They felt this was the one thing that should have been done for their daughter, that her |
| 0:41.0 | death should at least reflect the actual circumstances. |
| 0:46.6 | And then, over 40 years later, there's still no recognition of what happened to my daughter. |
| 0:52.0 | I don't know what I'd do. |
| 0:55.6 | For listening to stories of our times and the times and the Sunday times, I'm David Ronovich. |
| 1:00.6 | Today, the family pain of an unsolved murder. |
| 1:10.4 | This is a story about a couple whose daughter died 40 years ago and they've spent 40 years |
| 1:16.4 | trying to find out what exactly happened to her and to get the answers that they need. |
| 1:21.9 | That's the voice of Sunday Times features writer Rosie Kinchin. |
| 1:25.4 | She's been looking at our obsession with the true crime genre in a Sunday Times series |
| 1:30.0 | called Criminal Minds. |
| 1:32.5 | Through it, Rosie wants to get a better understanding of what it's like for those whose real lives |
| 1:37.2 | are affected by our interest in the gory and that's face it often guiltfully titillating |
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