The Trail Went Cold - Episode 280 - Peter Watts

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

January 18, 1976. Colwyn Bay, Wales. The family of 15-year old Peter Watts returns to their residence and discovers he has left behind a note to say that he went 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 appear to have been washed, suggesting that he was seriously 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 conclusive answers about who killed him or why he made a lengthy trip to London to begin with. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a truly baffling mystery from the United Kingdom about a victim who wound up dead at a location they had no known connection to. Thanks Ana Luisa. Get 10% off at shop.analuisa.com/cold by using the promo code “cold”. Additional Reading: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/how-mysterious-death-teenager-peter-10758183 https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/london-police-car-kill-colwyn-10759848 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-35350080 https://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-01-18/the-40-year-mystery-of-the-murder-of-15-year-old-peter-watts https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/i-dont-think-ill-ever-10755834 https://www.newspapers.com/image/805476984/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/805446833/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/805445872/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/303725746/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 11-12, 2022. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD22”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/ “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	We would like to send out a special thanks to Anna Louisa for supporting the trail and cold.
0:04.4	Anna Louisa makes beautiful sustainable jewelry at fair prices.
0:08.2	For 10% off, go to shop.analuisa.com slash coal. dot A N A L U I S A dot com slash cold and use the promo code cold.
0:17.0	Enjoy the show.
0:19.7	January 18th, 1976.
0:23.2	Kalwen Bay, Wales.
0:25.6	The family of 15-year-old Peter Watts returns to the residents and discovers he has left
0:30.1	behind a note to say that he has gone to see a friend. 10 hours later, Peter's unconscious
0:35.2	body is discovered on the Houston Road underpass in London over 250 miles away and he dies
0:40.7	after being rushed to the hospital.
0:43.0	While Peter's injuries are consistent with a fall from a great height,
0:46.0	his body and clothing appeared to have been washed,
0:49.0	suggesting that he was injured at another location
0:51.0	before someone placed his body on the underpass.
0:54.2	While an inquest jury rules that Peter's death was murder, there are no answers about who killed
0:58.7	him or how he wound up in London to begin with. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, right, uh, uh, and uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:24.0	so, uh,
1:25.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:28.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold. I'm your
1:44.0	host Robin Warder and we've got a pretty odd mystery to cover from the United
1:48.0	Kingdom, the unexplained 1976 death of Peter Watts.
1:53.0	As you might know, this coming weekend I'm going to be appearing on Podcast Row at CrimeCon UK in London,
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