The Murder of Ronald Platt
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In 1996, a body washed up in a fishing net off the south coast of Devon in the UK. Through intrepid detective work, English police would link it back to a diabolical Canadian criminal who left an unbelievable trail of destruction behind in Southwestern Ontario.
This is the story of the crimes of Albert Johnson Walker. If you recognize the name and think you know this case, stay tuned until the end. There has been an update from 2021...
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| 0:00.0 | Canadian True Crime is a completely independent production, funded mainly through advertising. |
| 0:04.9 | The podcast often has coarse language and disturbing content, and it's not for everyone. |
| 0:09.9 | This episode carries an additional content warning for themes of grooming and sexual assault |
| 0:15.9 | of a minor. Some names have been changed out of respect for survivors. |
| 0:22.1 | This case spills over into the UK, and that's where we'll start today's episode in the summer of 1996. |
| 0:32.3 | On July 28, a commercial fishing trawler was preparing to pull up in the English Channel, |
| 0:38.3 | off the south coast of Devon, a county in southwest England. |
| 0:43.3 | As the net was pulled in, the fishermen noticed that something much bigger than a fish was coming in. |
| 0:50.8 | Entangled in the net was a human body. |
| 1:01.0 | The Coast Guard was contacted immediately and the information was relayed to the Devon and Cornwall Police. There were no matching missing persons reports for the area, so originally the authorities thought the person must have either suffered an accident or had taken their own life. |
| 1:12.6 | It was a coastal area and these things were not out of the ordinary. |
| 1:17.6 | At autopsy, the forensic pathologist determined that the body belonged to a man aged between 40 to 50 years old. |
| 1:25.6 | And from the level of decomposition, the body had likely been in the |
| 1:30.3 | water for around a week. The man was wearing a blue and white check shirt, a leather belt and green |
| 1:37.7 | pants with the pockets pulled inside out, but there was no identification on him. As for his cause of death, there were injuries on the |
| 1:47.5 | body, including bruises on his left hip and lower leg and a large gash on the back of his head, |
| 1:54.5 | which indicated he'd been hit with something heavy. But this wasn't what killed him. His lungs were full of water. It was determined that |
| 2:04.9 | he had been beaten and then thrown in the ocean where he drowned. Despite the man having no |
| 2:11.8 | identification, there were several things that were potential clues. On the back of one of his hands was a unique |
| 2:19.6 | tattoo of what looked like a cluster of stars, and on one of his wrists was a Rolex watch. |
| 2:27.5 | One of the officers involved in the investigation knew a little bit about the luxury Rolex watch |
| 2:33.5 | brand. |
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