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Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

The Wimbledon Kidnapping

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

I wanted to let you know about a fascinating documentary that's coming to Sky Documentaries and NOW on 21 August - 'The Wimbledon Kidnapping'. *I haven't been paid in any way to promote this. I just wanted to let you know about it! **Don't forget, I'm on a mid-season break on 25 August, so there won't be an episode then. See yo on 1 September! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Please enjoy responsibly.

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The Wimbledon Kidnapping is a 90 minute feature documentary coming to Sky documentaries and now on the 21st of August.

0:37.2

I was lucky enough to catch an early release of this and it really is a fascinating, multifaceted tale that takes you into the very heart of Britain's first

0:46.2

kidnap and ransom case. In Leafy Suburban Wimbledon, Muriel Mackay was kidnapped by mistake. The real target was the wife of

0:55.8

media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. In an era that spawned Britain's modern tabloid newspapers,

1:02.0

Mackay's mysterious disappearance

1:04.2

confounded the police, Fleet Street and hundreds of Clairvoyance in their

1:08.6

search for this respectable 55-year-old housewife. The story takes us back to the 1960s, a decade defined by the

1:18.0

increasing influence of the tabloid press, the arrival of the Windrush generation, and challenges to the established social order.

1:26.7

Now, 50 years on, the search for the truth continues, as the Wimbledon kidnapping explores

1:32.4

an extraordinary case that permeates through a period of profound change in British society.

1:39.0

For the first time in 50 years and this is what makes the documentary so fascinating. Key members of

1:45.8

the Mackay family give their account with Muriel's two daughters detailing

1:50.1

how they dealt with ransom calls in an effort to free their mother.

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