What Happened to Gary Shearer?
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On the 16th of March 2023, 53-year-old Gary Shearer flew to Lanzarote to celebrate St Patrick's Day. But after just a few hours on the resort, Gary went missing.
Today, Gary's niece Darcie lays out the facts and explains why she thinks there has been foul play in her uncles case.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. |
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| 0:07.9 | Just a quick note to let you know that real lives is still going strong. |
| 0:13.0 | It's my new podcast and it features stories from incredible people who have lived through |
| 0:20.4 | incredible experiences. Recently, I've had |
| 0:24.7 | Eugene Scardifield, who came on to talk about the murder of his brother Michael and how his life |
| 0:31.2 | has been shaped and changed forever and the work he's doing in his name. I've also had John Comerford, an incredible man from Australia, |
| 0:41.2 | who is now working in the men's mental health space after he was abused by his teacher. |
| 0:47.7 | When he was a teenager, he went back to the school with a loaded shotgun to try to kill him. |
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| 1:19.4 | wonderful thriving community over there and there's some extra content for you to catch up on as well. |
| 1:25.5 | As ever, any form of support is so appreciated, whether it's |
| 1:29.8 | a rating, review, joining the Patreon, or simply coming to listen to these cases. Thank you so much. |
| 1:37.4 | Now, back to the show. Imagine someone you love has gone on holiday. You've wished them well, maybe even drop them off at the airport. |
| 1:48.1 | You're keeping an eye out for photos of them lounging by the pool, cocktail in hand, on their social media, probably secretly wishing that you were there too. And then nothing. Texts don't deliver. Messages go unread. Phone calls go straight to |
| 2:05.7 | voicemail. Suddenly, it seems they have vanished and there's no sign of them. This is the position |
| 2:14.5 | my guest who's on today's episode is in. |
| 2:19.5 | She and her family are doing everything they can to find out where her missing uncle is. |
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