The Wimbledon Kidnapping
Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast
Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One two three shake your body down. |
| 0:03.0 | Shig your own name. |
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| 0:29.0 | Please enjoy responsibly. |
| 0:30.0 | 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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