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Dead Man Running

BBC

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A missing tourist, a US-wide manhunt and the story of how a local celebrity, Kim Avis, became a fugitive after his dark past begins to catch up with him.

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0:00.0	9-1-1, what is your emergency?
0:04.0	Hello?
0:05.0	Most towns have a local celebrity.
0:07.0	Who is it that's missing?
0:09.0	It's my dad.
0:10.0	He went out into the water.
0:12.0	He went into the water.
0:14.0	An eccentric known throughout the community.
0:17.0	Inverness market trader Kim Avis.
0:19.0	Kim Avis.
0:20.0	Kim Avis. Inverness revolved around Kim in. Kim Avis. Kim Avis.
0:23.7	Inverness revolved around Kim in a way.
0:27.1	He was a good guy doing good things for good people.
0:32.7	Difference is, the local eccentric from my hometown made international headlines.
0:35.7	The man's son reported he disappeared in treacherous waters.
0:39.3	A beautiful setting that has lowered many to their deaths. The nickname is Mortuary Beach.
0:41.3	Search and rescue teams thought they had yet another drowning on their hands.
0:45.3	Or did they?
0:47.3	Okay, so this is being recorded as an interview for the BBC.
0:52.3	Are you happy to proceed with this interview?
0:54.9	Yes.
0:55.5	After the disappearance of the man I once knew,
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