The Trail Went Cold - Episode 397 - Gareth Williams

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

August 23, 2010. London, England. After he is not heard from for a week, the nude decomposed body of 31-year old Gareth Williams, a junior analyst who had been working with MI6, is found inside a padlocked holdall bag in the bathtub of his flat. While his cause of death cannot be determined, there are differing opinions about whether Gareth could have locked himself in the bag on his own and suffocated, or if he was murdered by an unknown third party. A number of different theories are pushed forward, such as Gareth being killed by Russian agents or becoming the victim of a sex game gone wrong, but there are no conclusive answers about how he died. Did Gareth Williams somehow manage to trap himself inside the bag and die in a tragic accident, or did something else take place? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore of the most bizarre unexplained deaths in the history of the United Kingdom. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/sep/06/mi6-death-gareth-williams-cctv https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-11095158 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/20/gareth-williams-spy-mi6 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12059910 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/02/gareth-williams-key-unanswered-questions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/23/spy-in-bag-death-coroners-inquest https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/02/gareth-williams-death-mi6 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/02/gareth-williams-coroner-never-solved https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24927078 https://www.businessinsider.com/kgb-defector-russia-killed-the-british-spy-found-in-a-duffel-bag-2015-9 https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/murder-the-likely-story-of-gareth-williams https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/secrets-of-the-spy-in-the-bag https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gareth-williams-mi6-bag-bath-b2490768.html https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68202900 “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” in London on September 21-22, 2024. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD24”, by visiting Crimecon.com or Crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the Berkshire Podcast Festival, taking place in North Adams, Massachusetts on October 18-20, 2024. To get a 30 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD2024”, by visiting https://www.berkshirepodcastfestival.com/. 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	August 23rd, 2010 London, England
0:05.0	The new decomposed body of 31-year-old Gareth Williams,
0:09.0	a junior analyst who have been working with MI6,
0:12.0	is found inside a padlocked hold-all bag in the bathtub of his flat.
0:15.8	While his cause of death cannot be determined, there are differing opinions about whether
0:20.6	Gareth could have locked himself in the bag on his own and suffocated or if he was murdered by an unknown third party.
0:27.0	A number of different theories are pushed forward, including Gareth being killed by Russian agents or becoming the victim of a sex game gone wrong,
0:35.0	but there are no conclusive answers about how he died.
0:38.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
0:55.0	uh, and uh, and uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, and uh, uh, and uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, care.
1:07.0	Oh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:21.7	I'm your host Robin Warder and on this episode we're going to be
1:25.2	traveling to the United Kingdom to explore what has become one of the most
1:28.5	bizarre mysteries of the 21st century, the unexplained 2010 death of Gareth Williams.
1:35.2	As you probably know, the Trail went cool will be appearing on Podcast Row at CrimeCon UK
1:40.2	in London this coming weekend, and per tradition, whenever I attend one of these
1:44.7	podcasting events, I always like to cover a case from the Host City that very same week.
1:50.7	And I think it's safe to say that since I launched this podcast, I probably received more requests to cover the Gareth Williams case than any other mystery from London.
1:59.0	After working many years at the government communications headquarters, Gareth went on
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