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January 18th, 1976.

Calwin Bay, Wales. The family of 15-year-old Peter Watts returns to the residence and discovers he

has left behind a note to say that he has gone to see a friend. Ten hours later, Peter's unconscious

body is discovered on the Euston Road underpass in London over 250 miles away and he dies after

being rushed to the hospital. While Peter's injuries are consistent with a fall from a great height,

his body and clothing appeared to have been washed, suggesting that he was injured at another

location before someone placed his body on the underpass. While an inquest jury rules that

Peter's death was murder, there are no answers about who killed him or how he wound up in London

to begin with. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold. I'm your host Robin

Warner and we've got a pretty odd mystery to cover from the United Kingdom. The unexplained

1976 death of Peter Watts. As you might know, this coming weekend I'm going to be appearing on

podcast row at CrimeCon UK in London and per tradition whenever I attend a podcasting event.

I always like to do an episode about an unsolved case from the host city on the very same week.

And what's unique about this particular story is that the victim originally hailed from a town in

Wales but somehow wound up dead in London. One of this podcast's most highly requested cases

is the 2007 disappearance of 14 year old Andrew Gawston which may be the most heavily

discussed British mystery of the modern era. In case you're not familiar with the case,

Andrew Gawston left his home in Donkaster and purchased a train ticket to London for reasons

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